Comment   Democracy on the wings of tomahawks  I do not know if these days people can live their life peacefully not thinking, at least once a day, of the “democratic offensive” of the allied forces happening to the citizens of Iraq. Really hard. I believe that no one can remain immune to the TV pictures or the ones from the newspapers’ front pages. Even more irritating is the information on the number of missiles used for “democratic cause” especially if we take into consideration the fact that each of them costs a fortune. For example, one of the “tomahawk” bombs popularly called “a carrier of democracy and benefit to the population of Iraq” costs $1 million. When you read the information that by 1995, 567,00 children to the age of five died in Iraq as a result of the sanctions imposed by the international community, don’t you fly off the handle? (this information is from the UN FAO preliminary research report from 1995). The statement of the then foreign secretary Madeleine Albright is well-known, when she was asked to answer if the objectives are worth the death of 500,000 Iraqi children, a figure larger than the children who died in Hiroshima and she answered positively without thinking. We have seen similar attempts for “democratization” in some other countries, too, some of them farther in the east, some in the immediate neighborhood. The results of such offensives are not “a blooming democratic state”, but ruined homes, destroyed families, people incapable of healing the traumas from the war for a long time, because it is the real name for such “offensives”, war. The famous expression “collateral damage” is not only the damaged buildings which were not targets of the attack, but were destroyed however, but also the people, men, women and children, their extinguished lives, the hole which remains after them, the future they will never have...Collateral damage is the corpses which are shown on TV these days, and which lifelessly lie on the streets of Baghdad for “democratic cause”. Can a war impel anything good? It is hard to believe! However, the great number of united citizens who diligently protest against the war in Iraq is something good happening to the world. Every day citizens persistently show that together with the citizens of Iraq, they are actually citizens of the world, which someone wants to rearrange without asking them. Look at this grand civic initiative, this resistance that happens to such extent for the first time. It is incredible; it leaves you breathless. This initiative is against all “fleets commanders” and similar to them, which would like to write some new pages in the history of Iraq, but they are not Iraqis, against all generals which raise their thumb up and approve of military attacks, against all politicians which look at the citizens’ death as a “collateral damage”, against all these who think the means justify the end, against “the tomahawks” which do not bring democracy but keep in fear 13 million children, against everyone who has broken the citizens’ rights... The citizens of Skopje also had the chance to join these global protests against the war. Unfortunately, these protests turned into a participants’ discussion whether our President and Prime Minister are good, partly chanting against them, there was a division between the protests’ organizers themselves, the participants were disoriented where to start the protest march from...For some of the participants it was really hard to believe that they had come there to express their revolt against the possible war in Iraq, it more seemed that they were there to express their personal frustrations against the head of the state.  However, the citizens who took part in the protesting march and whose objectives were the building of the Government of the Republic of Macedonia, the American Embassy in Skopje and which ended at the “Macedonia” square, with dignity conveyed the messages to the war organizers: “Stop the war in Iraq, we want peace and work”; “War = killing for profit”; “We know it is all about the oil”; “Stop the American imperialism, stop the bloodshed for oil”!