Orgasmic Vancouver: Mass Murder in Falluja |
Category: Articles 3 comments 14 Nov 2004 @ 04:16 by ov : CASIThe Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq ({link:www.casi.org.uk/about.html|CASI}) is a registered society at the University of Cambridge. It was founded in 1997 by students concerned about the humanitarian crisis created in Iraq by the economic sanctions imposed after Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait. CASI's exclusive concern is humanitarian: it campaigns only for the lifting of the non-military sanctions. CASI neither supports nor seeks to topple the Iraqi regime; it does not take a position on the ongoing US/UK bombing of Iraq or on human rights abuses committed by the Iraqi government. This group continues to monitor conditions even though the people have been 'liberated' and the economic sanctions have ended. They confirm the shock and awe tacticts that Naomi Klein talks about in this topic, and in the Pillage of Baghdad topic that a blogged a few days ago. The US and UK are using siege tactics that would be expected in medieval times but not in modern warfare. To deny water and food to civilians is an international crime. These are tactics that could be expected by Joe Stalin but aren't we supposed to be so much better than that? The following introduction is from {link:www.casi.org.uk/briefing/041110denialofwater.pdf|this report} which contains the details to this latest crime. "Water supplies to Tall Afar, Samarra and Fallujah have been cut off during US attacks in the past two months, affecting up to 750,000 civilians. This appears to form part of a deliberate US policy of denying water to the residents of cities under attack. If so, it has been adopted without a public debate, and without consulting Coalition partners. It is a serious breach of international humanitarian law, and is deepening Iraqi opposition to the United States, other coalition members, and the Iraqi government." 14 Nov 2004 @ 04:46 by ov : Fallujah In North America there is a news lock down on what is happening in Iraq. Even on the usual not so blatant propaganda station of the CBC the news that does come through is loaded with the term of "insurgents" at an average of about twice per sentence, but at least they are providing some news. This article from the {link:www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/FK10Ak04.html|Asian Times} reports on what is happening. I've clipped a few excerpts, and there are lots more articles in the sidebars, worth checking back on a regular basis if you want to keep informed. "The enemy has a face. It is Satan's. He is in Fallujah, and we are going to destroy him." - Colonel Gary Brandl, US Marines "President George W Bush is "reaching out" to Fallujah - the first major foreign policy initiative of the second Bush administration. The name: Operation Phantom Fury. The strategy: precision-strike democracy. The message: kill them all, and let God sort them out. Former US intelligence asset turned prime minister without a parliament Iyad Allawi - widely known in Baghdad as "Saddam without a moustache" - has got himself another title: the Butcher of Fallujah. On Sunday, before co-launching with the Pentagon the biggest urban war since the storming of Hue in 1968 Vietnam, Allawi installed de facto martial law in Iraq for 60 days. Historians and political scientists are breathlessly trying to explain to the world that no democratic election can possibly be preceded by a state of siege. To add insult to injury, Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld is saying that Allawi is responsible for all major military decisions regarding Fallujah: only the Bible Belt may be gullible enough to believe that an Iraqi civilian without an army rules over the Pentagon." And then while all this shit is going on the big preoccupation is Cheney's chest pains, and how a few percent of the votes affected the election. It's becoming clearer all the time that now that the elections are out of the way that BushCo doesn't have to play Mr. Nice Guy anymore. 14 Nov 2004 @ 08:44 by vaxen : No fair... commenting, TWICE, on your own stuff! Thanks bro...you're getting quite good at this you know. ;) ``````````````````````````` Thanks Vaxen. I've come across quite a bit more but I thought I'd wait and see how they played out. ov Other entries in Articles 28 Mar 2007 @ 05:36: The Tyee - Vancouver's Online Newspaper 22 Feb 2007 @ 18:11: Tips for a Powerful Chinese New Year 21 Feb 2007 @ 05:19: Back Online 18 Aug 2005 @ 20:01: Gazan Gulag 21 Jan 2005 @ 23:26: Bush Deconstructed 14 Nov 2004 @ 08:40: The PNAC Opposition 9 Nov 2004 @ 08:48: Ruppert's Economic War 7 Nov 2004 @ 20:27: The Vote Was Hacked 2 Nov 2004 @ 08:13: Pillage of Baghdad 1 Nov 2004 @ 00:10: Halliburton & Cheney
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