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http://truthout.org/docs_03/031703A.shtml
Massive Human Slaughter
By Marc Ash
Sunday 16 March 2003
What George W. Bush and Tony Blair are planning is the
greatest act of human slaughter since Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
orchestrated the Cambodian genocide in the mid 1970s. That act
killing some 1.5 to 2 million largely defenseless and quite
peaceful Cambodians.
Civilian Iraq is utterly defenseless and totally unprepared
for the carnage that is about to be visited upon them. It is murder
plain and simple, murder on an unimaginable scale.
There is no "war" looming, no "conflict" with Iraq, and no
"standoff." What exists is a vast military force poised to inflict
death and destruction on a major population center. Those who live
there will attempt to defend themselves, but they will fail, and
the dead will cover the ground like a fallen forest.
Should this act of insanity proceed, it will stand as one of
the greatest crimes against humanity ever recorded.
Know now, it can be stopped.
This deadly drama now playing out on the United Nations stage
is not for diplomacy or disarmament or for some vague resolution.
They joust for one thing: the hearts of common men. All that stands
between Baghdad and unprecedented destruction is our favor, and
nothing more.
The world does not oppose America; it opposes unbridled
aggression. While their leaders disagree on what course to take,
the people of France, England, Spain and the United States do not.
It is not the collective will of these nations that Baghdad be
destroyed and it's sons and daughters slain. We are tolerant and
reasonable; we will allow the process of inspections to proceed.
Men like Bush and Blair, small in numbers and spirit, beat the drum
for invasion in the hopes that many will follow. If those many
stand firm, their call will go unanswered.
The blood of innocents once shed cannot be unshed. Should the
US military set about killing these people, the deed remains our
doing for all time. We are given now a precious moment for
reflection. Let us use it wisely. The voices of true American
friends all over the world are clearly calling to us: Be
patient... work as a group... you are not alone. Let us not taint
the American experience for all time by answering, instead, a
drumbeat to madness.
We hear day after day that "Time is running out." Running out
on what, on who? On Saddam Hussein? On a five thousand year old
city? On 24 million men, women and children? Or is time running out
on the spirit of America? On the soul of our people? Why is it that
the world no longer cherishes American values? Could it be because
we no longer cherish them ourselves?
The right way is the American way. America's great gift to the
world is fair play and due process. Democracy is not a sales
slogan. It is a commitment to tolerating dissent and yielding to
consensus. Genocide, on the other hand, is true anarchy.
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