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Pastimes : Kosovo -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D. Long who wrote (10177)	5/27/1999 10:30:00 PM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 17770

Yeah, next time, maybe we'll make our own deals with the bad guys, and they can fend for themselves...

To: D. Long who wrote (10177)	5/28/1999 7:01:00 AM
From: Enigma	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17770

Subject: Fw: NUREMBERG PROSECUTOR CONDEMNS U.S. AGGRESSION (fwd) Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:40:56 -0400 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal ========================================================================== > > CHICAGO TRIBUNE, Monday, May 10, 1999 > > "NUREMBERG PROSECUTOR CONDEMNS U.S. AGGRESSION ON YUGOSLAVIA" > > WASHINGTON-As the bombs, smart and dumb, fall ceaselessly on Serbia, > Montenegrins and sometimes Albanians, on bridges, waterworks, electric > generation plants and factories, and on trains, trucks and homes, the > remorseless crusade for "humanitarianism" presses forward to the applause > of journalistic and academic shills. To paraphrase the Roman historian > Tacitus, we are busy creating a desert, which we can then call peace. > > For the United States, alias "NATO," the planning and launching of this > war by the president heightens the abuse and undermining of warmaking > authority under the Constitution. (It seems to be accepted that the > president can order his personal army to attack any country he pleases). > The bombing war also violates and shreds the basic provisions of the > United Nations Charter and other conventions and treaties; the attack on > Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the > Nazis attacked Poland to prevent "Polish atrocities" against Germans. The > United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and > decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok. > > Our alleged concern with human rights borders on the ludicrous. We dropped > twice as many bombs on Vietnam as all the countries involved in World War > II dropped on each other. We killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in > the course of that war. Very recently, in Central America, we sponsored, > trained and endorsed the local armies - Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and > Nicaraguan Contras - in the killing of at least 200,000 people. > > We encouraged the Pinochet coup in Chile with the resulting killing of > another few thousand or so people, including the democratically elected > president. We saw nothing wrong with the Croat slaughter and expulsion of > 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina area. We have taken very little stand on > the monumental slaughters of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of > people in Africa. We have restrained the Iraqis from attacking Kurds but > see nothing amiss in Turks attacking Kurds. We cannot even agree to > abandon the use of land mines. > > In reality when we, the self-anointed rulers of the planet, issue an > ultimatum to another country, it is "surrender or die." To maintain our > "credibility," we must crush any semblance of resistance to our dictates > to that country. > > WALTER J. ROCKLER > Former prosecutor, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials > > > ****************************************************** > AD HOC COMMITTEE TO STOP CANADA'S PARTICIPATION IN > THE WAR AGAINST YUGOSLAVIA > Citizens Concerned About Free Trade/Campaign for Canada > #202-9 Bloor Street E., Toronto, Ontario, M4W 1A9 > Toronto: (416)922-7867 Fax: (416)922-7883 > Saskatoon: (306)244-5757 Fax: (306)244-3790 > Vancouver: (604)683-3733 Fax: (604)683-3749 > e-mail: ccafttor@sympatico.ca website: web.idirect.com > ****************************************************** > > >