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>From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 07:46:44 +0300 >Subject: Iraq. 8 million dead already. > > >From: John Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >SHOCKED & HORRIFIED -STOP THE IRAQ WAR. 8 million dead already > >AT LEAST 8,000,000 DEAD ALREADY. >http://www.world-action.co.uk/horrified.html > >WHY NOT PRINT ALL THIS OUT AND PUT IT ON YOUR FRIDGE, AND UNDERTAKE TO >DO ALL YOU CAN TO STOP THE PRESENT MADNESS RAGING OVER ALL THE EARTH. >Please. > >----------------------- >"THE HIGH OFFICE OF PRESIDENT HAS BEEN USED TO FOMENT A PLOT TO DESTROY >THE AMERICAN'S FREEDOM, AND BEFORE I LEAVE OFFICE I MUST INFORM THE >CITIZEN OF HIS PLIGHT." >John F. Kennedy at Columbia University,12th November, 1963 - 10 days >before his murder on November 22, 1963. > >"MY GOVERNMENT IS THE WORLD'S LEADING PURVEYOR OF VIOLENCE." >Martin Luther King, Jnr., 1967. > >-------------------------- >SHOCKED AND HORRIFIED BY LARRY MOSQUEDA, PH.D., >The Evergreen State College >15 SEPTEMBER, 2001 > >Like all Americans, on Tuesday, 9-11, I was shocked and horrified to >watch the WTC Twin Towers attacked by hijacked planes and collapse, > resulting in the deaths of perhaps up to 10,000 innocent people. > >I had not been that shocked and horrified since January 16, 1991, when >then President Bush attacked Baghdad, and the rest of Iraq and began > killing 200,000 people during that "war" (slaughter). > >This includes the infamous "highway of death" in the last days of the >slaughter when U.S. pilots literally shot in the back retreating Iraqi >civilians and soldiers. > >I continue to be horrified by the sanctions on Iraq, which have >resulted in the death of over 1,000,000 Iraqis, including over 500,000 >children, about whom former Secretary of State Madeline Allbright has > stated, their deaths "are worth the cost". Over the course of my >life I have been shocked and horrified by a variety of U.S. >governmental actions, such as the U.S. sponsored coup against >democracy in Guatemala in 1954 which resulted in the deaths of over >120,000 Guatemalan peasants by U.S. installed dictatorships over the >course of four decades. > >Last Tuesday's events reminded me of the horror I felt when the U.S. >overthrew the government of the Dominican Republic in 1965 and helped >to murder 3,000 people. And it reminded me of the shock I felt in >1973, when the U.S. sponsored a coup in Chile against the democratic >government of Salvador Allende and helped to murder another 30,000 >people, including U.S. citizens. > >Last Tuesday's events reminded me of the shock and horror I felt in >1965 when the U.S. sponsored a coup in Indonesia that resulted in the >murder of over 800,000 people, and the subsequent slaughter in 1975 of >over 250,000 innocent people in East Timor by the Indonesian regime, >with the direct complicity of President Ford and Secretary of State >Henry Kissinger. > >I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt during the U.S. >sponsored terrorist contra war (the World Court declared the U.S. >government a war criminal in 1984 for the mining of the harbors) >against Nicaragua in the 1980s which resulted in the deaths of over >30,000 innocent people (or as the U.S. government used to call them > before the term "collateral damage" was invented -- "soft targets"). > >I was reminded of being horrified by the U. S. war against the people >of El Salvador in the 1980s, which resulted in the brutal deaths of >over 80,000 people, or "soft targets". > >I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt during the U.S. >sponsored terror war against the peoples of southern Africa >(especially Angola) that began in the 1970's and continues to this >day, and has resulted in the deaths and mutilations of over >1,000,000. > >I was reminded of the shock and horror I felt as the U.S. invaded >Panama over the Christmas season of 1989 and killed over 8,000 in an >attempt to capture George H. Bush's CIA partner, now turned enemy, > Manual Noriega. > >I was reminded of the horror I felt when I learned about how the Shah >of Iran was installed in a U.S. sponsored brutal coup that resulted >in the deaths of over 70,000 Iranians from 1952-1979. And the >continuing shock as I learned that the Ayatollah Khomani, who >overthrew the Shah in 1979, and who was the U.S. public enemy for > decade of the 1980s, was also on the CIA payroll, while he was in >exile in Paris in the 1970s. > >I was reminded of the shock and horror that I felt as I learned about >the how the U.S. has "manufactured consent" since 1948 for its >support of Israel, to the exclusion of virtually any rights for the >Palestinians in their native lands resulting in ever worsening day- >to-day conditions for the people of Palestine. > >I was shocked as I learned about the hundreds of towns and villages >that were literally wiped off the face of the earth in the early days >of Israeli colonization. > >I was horrified in 1982 as the villagers of Sabra and Shatila were >massacred by Israeli allies with direct Israeli complicity and >direction. The untold thousands who died on that day match the scene >of horror that we saw last Tuesday. But those scenes were not > repeated over and over again on the national media to inflame the >American public. > >The events and images of last Tuesday have been appropriately compared >to the horrific events and images of Lebanon in the 1980s with >resulted in the deaths of tens of thousand of people, with no >reference to the fact that the country that inflicted the terror on >Lebanon was Israel, with U.S. backing. I still continue to be >shocked at how mainstream commentators refer to "Israeli settlers" in >the "occupied territories" with no sense of irony as they report on >who are the aggressors in the region. Of course, the largest and >most shocking war crime of the second half of the 20th century was the >U.S. assault on Indochina from 1954-1975, especially Vietnam, where >over 4,000,000 people were bombed, napalmed, crushed, shot and >individually "hands on" murdered in the "Phoenix Program" (this is >where Oliver North got his start). > >Many U.S. Vietnam veterans were also victimized by this war and had >the best of intentions, but the policy makers themselves knew the >criminality of their actions and policies as revealed in their own >words in "The Pentagon Papers," released by Daniel Ellsberg of the > RAND Corporation. In 1974 Ellsberg noted that our Presidents from >Truman to Nixon continually lied to the U.S. public about the purpose >and conduct of the war. He has stated that, "It is a tribute to the >American people that our leaders perceived that they had to lie to > us, it is not a tribute to us that we were so easily misled." I >was continually shocked and horrified as the U.S. attacked and bombed >with impunity the nation of Libya in the 1980s, including killing the >infant daughter of Khadafi. I was shocked as the U.S. bombed and >invaded Grenada in 1983. I was horrified by U.S. military and CIA > actions in Somalia, Haiti, Afghanistan, Sudan, Brazil, Argentina, and >Yugoslavia. The deaths in these actions ran into the hundreds of >thousands. > >The above list is by no means complete or comprehensive. It is merely >a list that is easily accessible and not unknown, especially to the >economic and intellectual elites. It has just been conveniently >eliminated from the public discourse and public consciousness. > >And for the most part, the analysis that the U.S. actions have >resulted in the deaths of primarily civilians (over 90%) is not >unknown to these elites and policy makers. > >A conservative number for those who have been killed by U.S. terror >and military action since World War II is 8,000,000 people. Repeat >-- 8,000,000 people. This does not include the wounded, the >imprisoned, the displaced, the refugees, etc. Martin Luther King, Jr. > stated in 1967, during the Vietnam War, "My government is the world's >leading purveyor of violence." Shocking and horrifying. Nothing >that I have written is meant to disparage or disrespect those who were >victims and those who suffered death or the loss of a loved one during >this week's events. It is not meant to "justify" any action by those >who bombed the Twin Towers or the Pentagon. It is meant to put it in a >context. > > [A HUGE AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE IS NOW SHOWING THAT IT IS PEOPLE IN THE >HIGHEST ECHELONS OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT WHO PLANNED AND EXECUTED >THE ATTACKS OF SEPT 11, 2001.] > >If we believe that the actions were those of "madmen", they are >"madmen" who are able to keep a secret for 2 years or more among over >100 people, as they trained to execute a complex plan. While not the >acts of madmen, they are apparently the acts of "fanatics" who, >depending on who they really are, can find real grievances, but whose > actions are illegitimate. Osama Bin Laden at this point has been >accused by the media and the government of being the mastermind of >Tuesday's bombings. > >Given the government's track record on lying to the America people, >that should not be accepted as fact at this time. If indeed Bin Laden >is the mastermind of this action, he is responsible for the deaths of >perhaps 10,000 people - a shocking and horrible crime. Ed Herman >in his book The Real Terror Network: Terrorism in Fact and Propaganda >does not justify any terrorism but points out that states often engage > in "wholesale" terror, while those whom governments define as >"terrorist" engage is "retail" terrorism. While qualitatively the >results are the same for the individual victims of terrorism, there is >a clear quantitative difference. > >And as Herman and others point out, the seeds, the roots, of much of >the "retail" terror are in fact found in the "wholesale" terror of >states. Again this is not to justify, in any way, the actions of > last Tuesday, but to put them in a context and suggest an >explanation. Perhaps most shocking and horrific, if indeed Bin Laden >is the mastermind of Tuesday's actions; he has clearly had significant >training in logistics, armaments, and military training, etc. by >competent and expert military personnel. And indeed he has. During the > 1980s, he was recruited, trained and funded by the CIA in Afghanistan >to fight against the Russians. As long as he visited his terror on >Russians and his enemies in Afghanistan, he was "our man" in that >country. > >The same is true of Saddam Hussein of Iraq, who was a CIA asset in >Iraq during the 1980s. Hussein could gas his own people, repress the >population, and invade his neighbor (Iran) as long as he did it with >U.S. approval. > >The same was true of Manuel Noriega of Panama, who was a contemporary >and CIA partner of George H. Bush in the 1980s. Noriega's main crime >for Bush, the father, was not that he dealt drugs (he did, but the >U.S. and Bush knew this before 1989), but that Noriega was no longer > going to cooperate in the ongoing U.S. terrorist contra war against >Nicaragua. This information is not unknown or really controversial >among elite policy makers. To repeat, this not to justify any of the >actions of last Tuesday, but to put it in its horrifying context. > As shocking as the events of last Tuesday were, they are likely to >generate even more horrific actions by the U.S. government that will >add significantly to the 8,000,000 figure stated above. > >This response may well be qualitatively and quantitatively worse than >the events of Tuesday. The New York Times headline of 9/14/01 states >that, "Bush And Top Aides Proclaim Policy Of Ending States That Back >Terror" as if that was a rationale, measured, or even sane option. >States that have been identified for possible elimination are "a >number of Asian and African countries, like Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan, >and even Pakistan." This is beyond shocking and horrific - it is >just as potentially suicidal, homicidal, and more insane than the >hijackers themselves. > > [MUCH EVIDENCE HAS COME OUT THAT THE WTC AND PENTAGON ATTACKS WERE >VERY 'HIGH TECH', AND THE PLANES WERE TAKEN OVER BY >SOPHISTICATED REMOTE CONTROL. DO A SEARCH ON THE INTERNET AND FIND THE >DATA - IT IS ALL ON THE NET: 'WTC/911'; '9-11'; '9/11'; 'WORLD TRADE >CENTER ATTACKS', ETC.] > >Also, qualitatively, these actions will be even worse than the >original bombers if one accepts the mainstream premise that those >involved are "madmen", "religious fanatics", or a "terrorist group." >If so, they are acting as either individuals or as a small group. > >The U.S. actions may continue the homicidal policies of a few thousand >elites for the past 50 years, involving both political parties. The >retail terror is that of desperate and sometime fanatical small groups >and individuals who often have legitimate grievances, but engage in > individual criminal and illegitimate activities; the wholesale terror >is that of "rational" educated men where the pain, suffering, and >deaths of millions of people are contemplated, planned, and too often, >executed, for the purpose of furthering a nebulous concept called the >"national interest". Space does not allow a full explanation of the >elites' Orwellian concept of the "national interest", but it can be >summarized as the protection and expansion of hegemony and an imperial >empire. The American public is being prepared for war while being >fed a continuous stream of shocking and horrific repeated images of >Tuesday's events and heartfelt stories from the survivors and the >loved ones of those who lost family members. These stories are real >and should not be diminished. In fact, those who lost family members >can be considered a representative sample of humanity of the 8,000,000 >who have been lost previously. > >If we multiply by 800 -1000 times the amount of pain, angst, and anger >being currently felt by the American public, we might begin to >understand how much of the rest of the world feels as they are >continually victimized. Some particularly poignant images are the >heart wrenching public stories that we are seeing and hearing of >family members with pictures and flyers searching for their loved >ones. These images are virtually the same as those of the "Mothers of >the Disappeared" who searched for their (primarily) adult children in >places such as Argentina, where over 11,000 were "disappeared" in >1976-1982, again with U.S. approval. Just as the mothers of Argentina > deserved our respect and compassion, so do the relatives of those who >are searching for their relatives now. However we should not allow >ourselves to be manipulated by the media and U.S. government into >turning real grief and anger into a national policy of wholesale >terror and genocide against innocent civilians in Asia and Africa. > >What we are seeing in military terms is called "softening the target." >The target here is the American public and we are being ideologically >and emotionally prepared for the slaughter that may commence soon. > >None of the previously identified Asian and African countries are >democracies, which means that the people of these countries have >virtually no impact on developing the policies of their governments, >even if we assume that these governments are complicit in Tuesday's >actions. > >When one examines the recent history of these countries, one will find >that the American government had direct and indirect influences on >creating the conditions for the existence of some of these >governments. > >This is especially true of the Taliban government of Afghanistan >itself. The New York Metropolitan Area has about 21,000,000 people >or about 8 % of the U.S. population. Almost everyone in America knows >someone who has been killed, injured or traumatized by the events of >Tuesday. I know that I do. Many people are calling for "revenge" or >"vengeance" and comments such as "kill them all" have been circulated >on the TV, radio, and email. > >A few more potentially benign comments have called for "justice." This >is only potentially benign since that term may be defined by people >such as Bush and Colin Powell. Powell is an unrepentant participant in >the Vietnam War, the terrorist contra war against Nicaragua, and the >Gulf war, at each level becoming more responsible for the planning and >execution of the policies. > >Those affected, all of us, must do everything in our power to prevent >a wider war and even greater atrocity, do everything possible to stop >the genocide if it starts, and hold those responsible for their >potential war crimes during and after the war. If there is a great war >in 2001 and it is not catastrophic (a real possibility), the crimes > of that war will be revisited upon the U.S. over the next generation. >That is not some kind of religious prophecy or threat, it is merely a >straightforward political analysis. > >If indeed it is Bin Laden, the world must not deal only with him as an >individual criminal, but eliminate the conditions that create the >injustices and war crimes that will inevitably lead to more of these >types of attacks in the future. The phrase "No Justice, No Peace" is >more than a slogan used in a march, it is an observable historical >fact. It is time to end the horror. > >BY LARRY MOSQUEDA, PH.D., >The Evergreen State College >15 SEPTEMBER, 2001 >--------------------------------------------------- > >http://www.world-action.co.uk/horrified.html >http://www.world-action.co.uk/eastman.html > >WORLD-ACTION http://www.world-action.co.uk >PLEASE FORWARD - FAR & WIDE. >WHILE WE STILL HAVE A CHANCE. > >Thank you. > >_________________________________________________ > >KOMINFORM >P.O. 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