Testimony: Illegality of Preventive Attack and Unilateral Use of Force

[G_j]

World Tribunal Iraq:

Testimony: Illegality of Preventive Attack and Unilateral Use of Force

http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=251240

(sorry, site will not let me cut and paste)

[G_j]

1. Testimonials of Resistance

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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[Auntie Bush]

2. Let's hear it for the US

... ... ... I'm listening.......I can't heeeeeeear you!

[walldude]

3. If I remember correctly didn't the Shrub get

most other countries to sign something before the war saying that the U.S. could not be tried in international court for actions taken in Iraq? I seem to recall that there were only a few countries who refused to sign. I think Belgium was one and they were considering bringing the U.S. up on charges. This was all awhile ago so I may have my facts screwed up...

[G_j]

7. not sure

good question

I know of course that the US refused to join the International Criminal Court (ICC) or acknowledge it as legitimate.

[Just Me]

4. I am,...just,...so sorry.

I swear that I did everything in my power to inform others about what this BushCO/neoCON cabal were REALLY doing. Millions of us busted our butts trying to use the power of information and non-violent protest and opposition to block/prevent/expose this cabal.

Although our work is clearly evolving into a power that enacts change, we all feel sad and sick that we were unable to stop the human suffering before it was inflicted. :cry: But, here we are, a developing and strengthened force for humanity. I wish we could have gathered and united our forces more quickly but the vast majority of us had NO IDEA that anyone in our government was capable of such betrayal.

I feel sad about the unnecessary suffering. I feel a powerful force gathering against the exploitation of humanity.

:hug:

[G_j]

5. never before had

millions of people around the world taken to the streets to plead against a war before it began. In America we certainly let our "leaders" know. To date, the corporate media and the idiots in Congress have not acknowledged us. They insist on claiming "nobody knew"! We begged them to bring Scott Ritter to testify before Congress. We begged them to to let the UN inspectors finish their work.
Of course if they had listened it would have saved ten of thousands of lives.
The horror and poison of this war will effect generations of Iraqis and Americans.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. The politicians don't need your advice, just your money!

What we the people want and what we the people get, are two different things! WHY? Because the corporations who fund most of these politicians, OWN and OPERATE most of these politicians! The politicians no longer respect anything but the corporations, because the politicians can simply throw our ballots in the trash if they don't like the tone of our political voices. "Freedom" really ain't free, ask Kenny Boy or Allen Greedspin...