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Politics : DON'T START THE WAR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Steeny who wrote (12804)	2/25/2003 6:03:48 PM
From: Rock_nj	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25898

The U.S. is the only nation-state to have been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism. (from Alternative Press Review) The U.S. vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling on governments to observe international law. After deliberately targeting the civilian public health infrastructure, the U.S. military imposes a continuing economic blockade on Iraq which has directly resulted in the deaths of hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of children. The U.S. government is the primary financier and arms supplier for the decades-long Israeli war against the entire Palestinian people. The U.S. armed forces and U.S. organized and/or financed ally or proxy forces have killed millions upon millions of civilians since the end of World War II. This is the not-so-hidden meaning of the Stars and Stripes as the vast majority of people around the world understand it. Now the U.S. government has begun what it bills as an open-ended “War on Terrorism,” which conveniently ignores the fact that in the late Twentieth Century and the beginning of the Twenty-first Century it is the United States of America that, by its own definition, is the most prolific terrorist force in the world. While at the same time U.S. leaders are choosing to target whichever individuals, organizations, regimes and/or nation-states—among the wide array of opponents of U.S. policies—are deemed most convenient this week, leaving the rest for next week, next year or the next decade. This is, of course, a recipe for perpetual war, which is as well understood by President Bush and the other architects of the “New World Order,” as it was by the architects of a similar project of world empire that was proudly proclaimed the Third Reich, under a flag with a similarly not-so-hidden meaning. altpr.org

To: Steeny who wrote (12804)	2/25/2003 8:43:50 PM
From: James Calladine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25898

"Was the liberation of Europe in WW2 unjust?" Absolutely, in the MINDS of the people who want to see it that way. You are talking about the CONTENTS OF THE MIND. At the level of human everday experience for the participants, I feel it was a HORROR STORY on both sides. Read the accounts of the participants. See if they talk very much about "just" and "unjust" except to assuage their guilt for the actions that their role called on them to perform. Namaste! Jim