<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><HR>Originalt postet af dankdawg: Hahaha, så USA dræber slet ingen civile??? Hvor lidt ved du egentlig om hvordan et missil virker? Ligyldig om de prøer på det eller ej (og jeg tror da også at de prøver på at begrænse det, så godt de nu kan, på trods af at det er masseødelæggelsesvåben de bruger)
I øvrigt talte jeg ikke om en specifik hændelse sådan som du tror, men om alle angreb på Bagdad. Bare så du ved det.
Hvis jeg var uvenner med en eller anden, og havde en god grund til at skyde ham, men desværre kom til at skyde dig, som bare var uskyldig og stod på gaden, ville det så ikke være mord?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
Du skulle nærmere stille problemstillingen sådan her op...
En person havde taget mig og nogen andre som gidsler og dræbte flere af dem og jeg vidste ikke om jeg var den næste som stod for tur, så ville jeg ihvertfald værdsætte ethvert forsøg på at en redning eftersom mit liv aligevel var i en tilstand af uvished...
Det Irakiske folk er gidslerne, Saddam Hussein og hans regime og mindretal som støtter ham er gidseltagerne og terroristerne
Du ser jo Sadda Hussein's inderste kerne af elite soldater er religiøse fanatikere...
De klæder sig i civilt og skyder igennem mængder af mennesker med kvinder og børn.
Der er ikke andre måder at løse konflikten på end ved en væbnet konflikt, nu har man jo givet ham 12 år, synes du ikke det er rigelig med tid han har haft?
Nu går den ikke længere
Men lad mig lige vende tilbage til det link jeg sendte i den første post og så poste et uddrag:
œThere was a machine designed for shredding plastic. Men were dropped into it and we were again made to watch. Sometimes they went in head first and died quickly. Sometimes they went in feet first and died screaming. It was horrible. I saw 30 people die like this. Their remains would be plac ed in plastic bags and we were told they would be used as fish food . . . on one occasion, I saw Qusay [President Saddam Husseins youngest son] personally supervise these murders.
This is one of the many witness statements that were taken by researchers from Indict — the organisation I chair to provide evidence for legal cases against specific Iraqi individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. This account was taken in the past two weeks .
Another witness told us about practices of the security services towards women: “Women were suspended by their hair as their families watched; men were forced to watch as their wives were raped . . . women were suspended by their legs while they were menstruating until their periods were ove r, a procedure designed to cause humiliation.
The accounts Indict has heard over the past six years are disgusting and horrifying. Our task is not merely passively to record what we are told but to challenge it as well, so that the evidence we produce is of the highest quality. All witnesses swear that their statements are true and sign them.
For these humanitarian reasons alone, it is essential to liberate the people of Iraq from the regime of Saddam. The 17 UN resolutions passed since 1991 on Iraq include Resolution 688, which calls for an end to repression of Iraqi civilians. It has been ignored. Torture, execution and ethnic-cleansin g are everyday life in Saddam’s Iraq.
Were it not for the no-fly zones in the south and north of Iraq — which some people still claim are illegal — the Kurds and the Shia would no doubt still be attacked by Iraqi helicopter gunships.
For more than 20 years, senior Iraqi officials have committed genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. This list includes far more than the gassing of 5,000 in Halabja and other villages in 1988. It includes serial war crimes during the Iran-Iraq war; the genocidal Anfal campaign against th e Iraqi Kurds in 1987-88; the invasion of Kuwait and the killing of more than 1,000 Kuwaiti civilians; the violent suppression, which I witnessed, of the 1991 Kurdish uprising that led to 30,000 or more civilian deaths; the draining of the Southern Marshes during the 1990s, which ethnically cleansed thousands of Shias; and the summary executions of thousands of political opponents.
Many Iraqis wonder why the world applauded the military intervention that eventually rescued the Cambodians from Pol Pot and the Ugandans from Idi Amin when these took place without UN help. They ask why the world has ignored the crimes against them?
All these crimes have been recorded in detail by the UN, the US, Kuwaiti, British, Iranian and other Governments and groups such as Human Rights Watch, Amnesty and Indict. Yet the Security Council has failed to set up a war crimes tribunal on Iraq because of opposition from France, China and Russia. As a result, no Iraqi official has ever been indicted for some of the worst crimes of the 20th century. I have said incessantly that I would have preferred such a tribunal to war. But the time for offering Saddam incentives and more time is over.
I do not have a monopoly on wisdom or morality. But I know one thing. This evil, fascist regime must come to an end. With or without the help of the Security Council, and with or without the backing of the Labour Party in the House of Commons tonight.
[ 31 Marts 2003: Besked ændret af: Anima ]
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