[Seattle-editorial] Re: [Fwd: FEATURE PROPOSAL: War]

[Jason Reep]

approve

Jonathan Lawson wrote:

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>Subject: FEATURE PROPOSAL: War
>From:    "Jonathan Lawson" <jonathan at indymedia.org>
>Date:    Wed, March 19, 2003 7:48 pm
>To:      editorial at seattle.indymedia.org
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>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
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>subtitle: WAR
>title: A War of Lies – and of American Shame
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>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.
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