From jad@ckuxb.att.com Ukn Jan 8 12:06:27 1993 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA17185; Fri, 8 Jan 93 12:06:24 -0500 Message-Id: <9301081706.AA17185@css.itd.umich.edu> To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Date: Fri, 8 Jan 93 11:55:40 EST From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Status: RO X-Status: Article 18918 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive Subject: Part 8, Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious Message-ID: <1993Jan7.221155.18749@mont.cs.missouri.edu> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Keywords: Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Lines: 178 From former Attorney-General of the United States Ramsey Clark: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) The destruction of civilian facilities left the entire civilian population without heat, cooking fuel, refrigeration, potable water, telephones, power for radio or TV reception, public transportation, fuel for private automobiles, limited food supplies, closed schools, created massive unemployment, severely limited economic activity and caused hospitals and medical services to shut down. In addition, residential areas of every major city and most towns and villages were targeted and destroyed. Bedouin camps were attacked by U.S. aircraft. In addition to deaths and injuries, the aerial assault destroyed 10-20,000 homes, apartments and other dwellings. Commercial centers with shops, retail stores, offices, hotels, restaurants and other public accommodations were targeted and thousands were destroyed. Scores of schools, hospitals, mosques and churches were damaged, or destroyed. Thousands of civilian vehicles on highways, roads and parked on streets and in garages were targeted and destroyed. These included public buses, private vans and mini-buses, trucks, tractor trailers, lorries, taxi cabs and private cars. The purpose of this bombing was to terrorize the entire country, kill people, destroy property, prevent movement, demoralize the people and force the overthrow of the government. As a result of the bombing of facilities essential to civilian life, residential and other civilian buildings and areas at least 25,000 men, women and children were killed. The Red Crescent Society of Jordan estimated 113,000 civilian dead, 60% children, the week before the end of the war. The conduct violated the U.N. Charter, the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the Nuremberg Charter and the laws of armed conflict. 5. The United States intentionally bombed indiscriminately throughout Iraq. ______________________________________ In aerial attacks, including strafing, over cities, towns, the countryside and highways, United States aircraft bombed and strafed indiscriminately. In every city and town bombs fell by chance far from any conceivable target, whether a civilian facility, military installation or military target. In the countryside random attacks were made on travellers, villagers, even Bedouins. The purpose of the attacks was to destroy life, property and terrorize the civilian population. On the highways, private vehicles including public buses, taxicabs and passenger cars were bombed and strafed at random to frighten civilians from flight, from seeking food, medical care, finding relatives or other uses of highways. The effect was summary execution and corporal punishment indiscriminately of men, women and children, young and old, rich and poor, all nationalities including the large immigrant populations, even Americans, all ethnic groups, including many Kurds and Assyrians, all religions including Shia and Sunni Moslems, Chaldeans and other Christians and Jews. U.S. deliberate indifference to civilian and military casualties in Iraq, or their nature, is exemplified by General Colin Powell's response to a press inquiry about the number dead from the air and ground campaigns "It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in." The conduct violates Protocol I additional, Article 51.4 to the Geneva Convention of 1977. 6. The United States intentionally bombed and destroyed defenseless Iraqi military personnel, used excessive force, killed soldiers seeking to surrender and in disorganized individual flight, often unarmed and far from any combat zones and randomly and wantonly killed Iraqi soldiers and destroyed material after the cease fire. ______________________________________________ In the first hours of the aerial and missile bombardment, the United States destroyed most military communications and began the systematic killing of soldiers who were incapable of defense or escape and the destruction of military equipment. Over a period of 42 days, U.S. bombing killed tens of thousands of defenseless soldiers, cut off most of their food, water and other supplies and left them in desperate and helpless disarray. Without significant risk to its own personnel, the U.S. lead in the killing of at least 100,000 Iraqi soldiers at a cost of fewer than 120 U.S. combat casualties according to the U.S. government. When it was determined that the civilian economy and the military were sufficiently destroyed, the U.S. ground forces moved into Kuwait and Iraq attacking disoriented, disorganized, fleeing Iraqi forces wherever they could be found killing thousands more and destroying any equipment found. The slaughter continued after the cease fire. For example, on March 2, the U.S. 24th Division forces engaged in a four-hour assault against Iraqis just west of Basra. More than 750 vehicles were destroyed, thousands killed without U.S. casualties. A U.S. Commander said "We really waxed them." It was called a "Turkey Shoot", One Apache helicopter crew member yelled "Say hello to Allah" as he launched a laser guided Hellfire missile. The intention was not to remove Iraq's presence from Kuwait. It was to destroy Iraq. In the process there was great destruction of property in Kuwait. The disproportion in death and destruction inflicted on a defenseless enemy exceeded 1000 to one. General Thomas Kelly commented on February 23 that by the time the ground war begins "there won't be many of them left." General Norman Schwarzkopf placed Iraqi military casualties at over 100,000. The intention was to destroy all military facilities and equipment wherever located and to so decimate the military age male population so that Iraq could not raise a substantial force for half a generation. The conduct violated the Charter of the United Nations, the Hague and Geneva Conventions, the Nuremberg Charter and the laws of armed conflict. 7. The United States used prohibited weapons capable of mass destruction and inflicting indiscriminate death and unnecessary suffering against both military and civilian targets. ___________________________________________________ Among the known illegal weapons and illegal uses of weapons employed by the United States are the following: -- fuel air explosives capable of wide spread incineration and death, -- napalm -- cluster and anti-personnel fragmentation bombs. -- "superbombs", 2 1/2 ton devices, intended for assassination of government leaders Fuel air explosives were used against troops in place, civilian areas, oil fields and fleeing civilians and soldiers on two stretches of highway between Kuwait and Iraq. Included in fuel air weapons used was the BLU-82, a 15,000 pound device capable of disintegrating everything within hundreds of yards. One seven mile stretch called the "Highway of Death" was littered with hundreds of vehicles and thousands of dead. All were fleeing to Iraq for their lives. Thousands were civilians of all ages, including Kuwaitis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Jordanians and other nationalities. Another 60-mile stretch of road to the east was strewn with the remnants of tanks, armored cars, trucks, ambulances and thousands of bodies following an attack on convoys on the night of February 25. The press reported no survivors are known or likely. One flat bed truck contained nine bodies, their hair and clothes were burned off, skin incinerated by heat so intense it melted the windshield onto the dashboard. [JD: You can help Ramsey Clark in his struggle for justice by calling his International Action Center in New York City at (212) 633-6646.] (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies in place of the bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People, then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism. So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. The need for concerned people alerting their neighbors to overshadowing dangers still exists, as it did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as society itself. John DiNardo