[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: War

[Jonathan Lawson]

this is a starter to be added onto by whomever. It's strongly worded but I
think appropriately "editorial" under the completely fucked circumstances.
-jl

subtitle: WAR
title: A War of Lies – and of American Shame

The new US war on Iraq has begun, arguably the greatest moral tragedy of a
generation, an unprecedented failure of diplomacy and international order,
and a profound crime against the principles of democracy. Tens of
thousands of people may lose their lives as a result of US attacks. Hardly
any of them will be Americans; most of them will be civilians. They will
add to the already huge death toll of Iraqis killed by a decade of
sanctions and years of missile attacks raining down from American planes
patrolling the no-fly zones with ever-expanding target lists and “rules of
engagement." People in many areas of the world - perhaps especially in the
Occupied Territories, but also in Europe and North America – have new
reasons to fear terrorism, as a result of this great act of American
aggression. The Bush administration pushed relentlessly towards this war
with a long series of incredible lies about virtually every aspect of the
current conflict--US intentions, international law, weapons inspections,
Iraq's likely military status and the amount of international support for
Bush administration aims. Applauded by American corporate interests and
cheered on by media institutions, the Bush administration’s unilateral
drive to war has been actively opposed by most of the world’s people,
governments and international institutions. Nobody on Earth will wake up
safer tomorrow than they did today.