Testimonials at the World Tribunal on Iraq prove illegal, immoral war

[G_j]

Testimonials at the World Tribunal on Iraq prove over and over again that the US and the UK are guilty of waging an illegal, immoral and unjust war.

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/22308/

Testimonials of Resistance

By Jodie Evans, AlterNet. Posted June 26, 2005.


The hall is abuzz with the thrill of full-page spreads on the front page of every newspaper in Istanbul, and the woman next to me says with a smile that we are also on the BBC. The bank of cameras and the swarm of photographers have filled the room again this morning. Still absent at the World Tribunal on Iraq is any sign of the US media, except the cameras of Deep Dish TV. The website got 15,000 hits from more than 100 countries.

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The mood quickly changed from the thrills of approval as Dahr Jamail began his stories of torture in Iraq by the US military. The hall was in deep grief within moments. He showed photo after photo of the tragedies in Iraq. Photographs of torture and of families that have been left without aid, and of the appalling conditions in the hospitals and the streets if Iraq.

A group from Japan indicated their opposition against the use of overpowering weapons by listing the number of illegal weapons dropped on Iraq by the US/UK, and their anger with the Japanese government for agreeing to join Bush in invading Iraq. The act violated Article 9 of the Japanese constitution -- to never invade another country.

Dr. Thomas Fasy of Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York led us through a report with charts and graphs describing the rise in cancer in Iraq since the use of depleted uranium during the first Gulf War, the new nuclear weapon of choice that has horrific consequences. Leukemia had risen 450 percent in children under the age of 5 since 1990.

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[leesa]

1. 450%!! I have asked the hematologist I work with if they ever discuss

this at the conferences he goes to all the time. He had never heard of it.

[katinmn]

2. Thanks, GJ. Buried from view by corp media again

Long may the alternative media grow and prosper.

AlterNet is one of my favorites, BTW. I read it every day, before NYT or WaPo or any of that shit.

[Karenina]

3. One sentence snip...

"What do you do with an administration that has degraded the rule of law?"

[Karenina]

4. Here's more

lifted from Jmatthan's LBN post:

What is not going to be covered by US Mainstream Media:

Just released is the Jury Statement:

PRESS RELEASE about JURY STATEMENT
27 Jun 2005

‘The attack on Iraq is an attack on justice, on liberty, on our safety, on our future, on us all’ – The Jury of Conscience

Istanbul, 27 June, 2005 - With a Jury of Conscience from 10 different countries hearing the testimonies of 54 members of the Panel of Advocates who came from across the world, including Iraq, the United States and the United Kingdom, this global civil initiative came to an end with a press conference at the Hotel Armada where the chair of the Jury of Conscience, Arundathi Roy, announced the Jury’s conclusions.

The Jury defined this war as one of the most unjust in history: ‘The Bush and Blair administrations blatantly ignored the massive opposition to the war expressed by millions of people around the world. They embarked upon one of the most unjust, immoral, and cowardly wars in history. The Anglo-American occupation of Iraq of the last 27 months has led to the destruction and devastation of the Iraqi state and society. Law and order have broken down completely, resulting in a pervasive lack of human security; the physical infrastructure is in shambles; the health care delivery system is a mess; the education system has ceased to function; there is massive environmental and ecological devastation; and, the cultural and archeological heritage of the Iraqi people has been desecrated.’

more....

http://www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=93

[G_j]

6. this is what is less 'important'

than Rove's asinine comments or endless blather about Durbin apologizing. So much less 'important' that it doesn't get reported at all.

Of course we know it is not being reported precisely because it IS so important. Corporate media does not like the issue of illegal war and war crimes. ..their third rail..

[whatever4]

5. I'm glad they spoke about the Depleted Uranuim

There are theories about the reason doctors are being targeted in Iraq; it's to stop them from telling the world about the damage done by depleted uranium. It could also be the reason their hospitals and virtually their entire medical system has been destroyed, previously the best in the middle east, leveled by the US. Why?

I have to wonder if there's any truth to it. I have to believe our government is not above those types of actions, since they have poisoned the middle east, and probably the world, with depleted uranium. If they were willing to do that, certainly they'd be willing to kill thousands to cover it up. I'm of the opinion they are. All they have to do is wait this out, and soon, no one will be able to do a thing about it. Those affected will be permanently affected.

Depleted uranium in microscopic oxidized particles. A heavy metal, airborn, and radioactive. Lord. Lord, save me from your followers?

[G_j]

7. well it has

become pretty clear that they have targeted journalists.
It is terrible to say, but they all too are capable of such things.

[G_j]

8. Arundhati Roy, Democracy Now!

CONSCIENCE OF A JUROR
Arundhati Roy, Democracy Now!

To ask why there is a World Tribunal on Iraq is like asking
someone who stops at the site of an accident where people
are dying, why did you stop?

http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/23191/