KillCastro
11-11-2004, 09:17 AM
Not nearly enough!
Maybe some kinescopes of Castro's "paredon" in 1959 would bring some fresh
ideas to the yanks.
"S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote in message
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> cor wrote:
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: Institute for Public Accuracy <dcinstitute@igc.org>
>> Subject: Is the U.S. Committing War Crimes in Iraq?
>>
>> Institute for Public Accuracy
>> 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
>> (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
>> __________________________________________________ _
>>
>> Tuesday, November 9, 2004
>>
>> Is the U.S. Committing War Crimes in Iraq?
>>
>> MARJORIE COHN, libertad48@san.rr.com,
>> http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110904A.shtml
>> Professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and
>> author of the
>> article "Aggressive War: Supreme International Crime," Cohn
>> said today: "Between 10,000 and 15,000 U.S. troops with
>> warplanes and artillery have
>> begun to invade the Iraqi city of Fallujah. To 'soften up'
>> the rebels,
>> American forces dropped five 500-pound bombs on 'insurgent
>> targets.' The
>> Americans destroyed the Nazzal Emergency Hospital in the
>> center of town.
>> They stormed and occupied the Fallujah General Hospital,
>> and have not
>> agreed to allow doctors and ambulances to go inside the
>> main part of the
>> city to help the wounded, in direct violation of the Geneva
>> Conventions...."
>>
>> MICHAEL MANDEL, mmandel@osgoode.yorku.ca,
>> http://osgoode.yorku.ca/osgmedia.nsf/Faculty3/58A423F79AD0352C85256AED007470B6?OpenDocument
>> Mandel is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School in
>> Canada and
>> author of the book "How America Gets Away With Murder:
>> Illegal Wars,
>> Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity." He said
>> today: "According
>> to international law, America's war on Iraq constitutes the
>> supreme
>> international crime. If the Nuremberg Tribunal were
>> reconstituted tomorrow,
>> the president and his whole administration would stand
>> charged. ... The
>> full-scale assault on a major population center like
>> Fallujah, coming more
>> than a year and a half into the war, only proves its
>> madness and criminality."
>>
>> CONN HALLINAN, connm@cats.ucsc.edu,
>> http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0411warcrimes.html
>> Hallinan is a policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus
>> and a lecturer in
>> journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He
>> said today: "On
>> Oct. 8, U.S. fighter bombers carried out what the Pentagon
>> called a 'precision strike' against 'terrorist leaders' in
>> Fallujah, a sprawling
>> city of 300,000 west of Baghdad. For the past two months
>> Fallujah has been
>> the target of a bombing campaign. According to the New York
>> Times, the
>> attack wounded 17 people, nine of whom were women and
>> children. The victims
>> were apparently from a wedding party that had just
>> dispersed. The Times
>> went on to quote a 'senior Pentagon official' who said, 'We
>> know what the
>> strike was supposed to hit and we hit it. If a wedding
>> party was going on,
>> well, it was in concert with a meeting of a top Zarqawi
>> lieutenant.' ...
>> But according to Article 50 of the [Geneva] Conventions,
>> 'The presence
>> within the civilian population of individuals who do not
>> come within the
>> definition of civilians does not deprive the population of
>> its civilian
>> character.' In short, the attack violated the [Geneva]
>> Conventions. ... A 'Pentagon official' also told the Times:
>> 'If there are civilians dying in
>> connection with these attacks, and with the destruction,
>> the locals at some
>> point have to make a decision. Do they want to harbor the
>> insurgents and
>> suffer the consequences that come with that?' In other
>> words, terrify the
>> civilian population into cooperating, a strategy that
>> Article 51 [of the
>> Geneva Conventions] explicitly forbids: 'Acts or threats of
>> violence, the
>> primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the
>> civilian population,
>> are prohibited.'"
>>
>> For more information, contact at the Institute for Public
>> Accuracy:
>> Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
>>
>> __________________________________________________ _______________
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Maybe some kinescopes of Castro's "paredon" in 1959 would bring some fresh
ideas to the yanks.
"S. O. Damocles" <so@damocl.es> wrote in message
news:7gbkd.56$gE3.48282@news.uswest.net...
> cor wrote:
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> From: Institute for Public Accuracy <dcinstitute@igc.org>
>> Subject: Is the U.S. Committing War Crimes in Iraq?
>>
>> Institute for Public Accuracy
>> 915 National Press Building, Washington, D.C. 20045
>> (202) 347-0020 * http://www.accuracy.org * ipa@accuracy.org
>> __________________________________________________ _
>>
>> Tuesday, November 9, 2004
>>
>> Is the U.S. Committing War Crimes in Iraq?
>>
>> MARJORIE COHN, libertad48@san.rr.com,
>> http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/110904A.shtml
>> Professor of law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and
>> author of the
>> article "Aggressive War: Supreme International Crime," Cohn
>> said today: "Between 10,000 and 15,000 U.S. troops with
>> warplanes and artillery have
>> begun to invade the Iraqi city of Fallujah. To 'soften up'
>> the rebels,
>> American forces dropped five 500-pound bombs on 'insurgent
>> targets.' The
>> Americans destroyed the Nazzal Emergency Hospital in the
>> center of town.
>> They stormed and occupied the Fallujah General Hospital,
>> and have not
>> agreed to allow doctors and ambulances to go inside the
>> main part of the
>> city to help the wounded, in direct violation of the Geneva
>> Conventions...."
>>
>> MICHAEL MANDEL, mmandel@osgoode.yorku.ca,
>> http://osgoode.yorku.ca/osgmedia.nsf/Faculty3/58A423F79AD0352C85256AED007470B6?OpenDocument
>> Mandel is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School in
>> Canada and
>> author of the book "How America Gets Away With Murder:
>> Illegal Wars,
>> Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity." He said
>> today: "According
>> to international law, America's war on Iraq constitutes the
>> supreme
>> international crime. If the Nuremberg Tribunal were
>> reconstituted tomorrow,
>> the president and his whole administration would stand
>> charged. ... The
>> full-scale assault on a major population center like
>> Fallujah, coming more
>> than a year and a half into the war, only proves its
>> madness and criminality."
>>
>> CONN HALLINAN, connm@cats.ucsc.edu,
>> http://www.fpif.org/commentary/2004/0411warcrimes.html
>> Hallinan is a policy analyst for Foreign Policy in Focus
>> and a lecturer in
>> journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He
>> said today: "On
>> Oct. 8, U.S. fighter bombers carried out what the Pentagon
>> called a 'precision strike' against 'terrorist leaders' in
>> Fallujah, a sprawling
>> city of 300,000 west of Baghdad. For the past two months
>> Fallujah has been
>> the target of a bombing campaign. According to the New York
>> Times, the
>> attack wounded 17 people, nine of whom were women and
>> children. The victims
>> were apparently from a wedding party that had just
>> dispersed. The Times
>> went on to quote a 'senior Pentagon official' who said, 'We
>> know what the
>> strike was supposed to hit and we hit it. If a wedding
>> party was going on,
>> well, it was in concert with a meeting of a top Zarqawi
>> lieutenant.' ...
>> But according to Article 50 of the [Geneva] Conventions,
>> 'The presence
>> within the civilian population of individuals who do not
>> come within the
>> definition of civilians does not deprive the population of
>> its civilian
>> character.' In short, the attack violated the [Geneva]
>> Conventions. ... A 'Pentagon official' also told the Times:
>> 'If there are civilians dying in
>> connection with these attacks, and with the destruction,
>> the locals at some
>> point have to make a decision. Do they want to harbor the
>> insurgents and
>> suffer the consequences that come with that?' In other
>> words, terrify the
>> civilian population into cooperating, a strategy that
>> Article 51 [of the
>> Geneva Conventions] explicitly forbids: 'Acts or threats of
>> violence, the
>> primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the
>> civilian population,
>> are prohibited.'"
>>
>> For more information, contact at the Institute for Public
>> Accuracy:
>> Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167
>>
>> __________________________________________________ _______________
>> You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
>> public@lists.accuracy.org
>> To be removed from the list, send any message to:
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