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September 2, 2002
Flashback

US War Crimes During the Gulf War

by Francis Boyle

The following paper was presented to a symposium held by the Albany Law
School. The symposium, held on February 27, 1992, was titled:
International War Crimes: The Search for Justice. This paper documents
the numerous occasions that international laws were broken and
disregarded during the Gulf War.
Introduction
1. For the past year I have been working with the International
Commission of Inquiry into United States war crimes that were committed
during the Persian Gulf War. This Commission has conducted the largest
independent world-wide investigation of war crimes in history. Since
last May [1991], the Commission has held thirty hearings across the
United States and in twenty countries across five continents to expose
the war crimes that the United States government inflicted upon the
People and State of Iraq.
2. On Saturday, February 29, 1992 in New York City, at the Martin
Luther, Jr. Auditorium, the Commission will publicly present its
evidence before an International War Crimes Tribunal consisting of
distinguished jurists and human rights activists drawn from around the
world. In the brief space that has been allotted to me, I would like to
present the basic gist of the charges that will be brought before the
Tribunal against President George Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle,
Secretary of State Jim Baker, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, National
Security Assistant Brent Scowcroft, CIA Director William Webster,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, General
Norman Schwarzkopf, and other members of the High Command of the United
States military establishment who launched and waged this brutal,
inhumane, and criminal war. Hereinafter, these individuals will be
collectively referred to as the Defendants.
The Charges
3. The international crimes that have been charged and will be proven
against these Defendants consist principally of the three Nuremberg
Offences: the Nuremberg Crime Against Peace, that is waging an
aggressive war and a war in violation of international treaties and
agreements; Nuremberg Crimes Against Humanity; and Nuremberg War Crimes.
In addition, these Defendants also committed grievous war crimes by
wantonly violating the Hague Regulations on Land Warfare of 1907; the
Declaration of London on Sea Warfare of 1909; the Hague Draft Rules of
Aerial Warfare of 1923; the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their
two Additional Protocols of 1977; and the international crimes of
Genocide against the People of Iraq as defined by the International
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide of
1948 as well as by the United States' own Genocide Convention
Implementation Act of 1987, 18 <U.S.C>. 1901. Finally, and most
heinously of all, these Defendants actually perpetrated a Nuremberg
Crime against their own troops when they forced them to take
experimental biological weapons vaccines without their informed consent
in gross violation of the Nuremberg Code on Medical Experimentation that
has been fully subscribed to by the United States government.
Universal Jurisdiction
4. These international crimes create personal criminal responsibility on
the part of all these Defendants that warrant their prosecution under
basic norms of customary international law, treaties, and statutes in
any state of the world community that obtains jurisdiction over them for
the rest of their lives. We believe that the International War Crimes
Tribunal will produce a Judgment that can be put into the hands of every
government in the world with no injunction that should any of these
Defendants ever appear within their territorial jurisdiction, they must
be apprehended and prosecuted for the commission of the specified
international crimes. Like unto pirates, these Defendants are hostes
humani generis - the enemies of all humankind!
The Historical Origins of the War
5. I do not have the time in this brief presentation to analyse the
entire history of illegal U.S. military interventionism into the Middle
East - especially the Persian Gulf region - and in particular its
divide-and-conquer (divida et impera) policies. Suffice it to say here
that the "immediate cause" of the United States war to destroy Iraq and
take over the Arab oil fields in the Persian Gulf goes back to the 1973
Arab oil boycott of Europe. The Arab oil states imposed the boycott in
solidarity with those Arab states that were then attempting to reclaim
their Lands that had been illegally stolen from Them by Israel in 1967.
The Arab oil boycott brought Europe to its knees. Subsequently, Arab oil
states were able to increase the price of oil to a point of economic
fairness that would enable them to provide for the basic human needs of
their own Peoples.
6. But the success of the Arab oil boycott led several prominent U.S.
government officials in the Nixon administration, and especially Henry
Kissinger, to publicly threaten that the United States government would
prepare itself to seize the Arab oil fields in order to prevent
something like the boycott from ever happening again. This illegal
governmental threat was stated openly, publicly, and repeatedly during
the course of the Nixon administration, the Ford administration, the
Carter administration, and the Reagan administration. The Bush
administration would finally be the ones to carry this threat out. But
only after a decade of active preparations.
The Rapid Deployment Force
7. During the course of the Carter administration, the United States
government obtained authorisation from Congress to set up, arm, equip,
and supply the so-called Rapid Deployment Force (RDF), whose primary
mission was to seize and steal the Arab oil-fields of the Persian Gulf
region. So the planning and preparations for the U.S. war against Iraq
go all the way back to the so-called "liberal" Carter administration -
at the very least. The United States Foreign Policy Establishment
consists of liberal imperialists, reactionary imperialists, and
middle-of-the-road imperialists. But they all share in common a firm
belief in America's "Manifest Destiny" to rule the world.
8. For the next decade, the Pentagon obtained a new generation of
high-technology conventional weapons possessing massive destructive
power and lethality; the logistical support network necessary to convey
a force of 500,000 soldiers over to the Persian Gulf region within six
months; and base access rights and facilities for that purpose
throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia. Working in
conjunction with its de facto allies in the region such as Egypt and
Israel, the Pentagon stockpiled enormous quantities of weapons,
equipment, and supplies in the immediate vicinity of the Persian Gulf as
a prelude to military intervention. Hence, the United States government
had been planning, preparing, and conspiring to seize and steal the
Persian Gulf oil fields for over a decade.
United States War Plans Against Iraq
9. Sometime after the termination of the Iraq-Iran War in the Summer of
1988, the Pentagon proceeded to revise its outstanding war plans for
U.S. military intervention into the Persian Gulf region in order to
destroy Iraq. Defendant Schwarzkopf was put in charge of this revision.
For example, in early 1990, Defendant Schwarzkopf informed the Senate
Armed Services Committee of this new military strategy in the Gulf
allegedly designed to protect U.S. access to and control over Gulf oil
in the event of regional conflicts. In October 1990, Defendant Powell
referred to the new military plan developed in 1989. After the war,
Defendant Schwarzkopf referred to eighteen months of planning for the
campaign.
10. Sometime in late 1989 or early 1990, the Pentagon's war plan for
destroying Iraq and stealing Persian Gulf oil fields was put into
motion. At that time, Defendant Schwarzkopf was named the Commander of
the so-called U.S. Central Command - which was the renamed version of
the Rapid Deployment Force - for the purpose of carrying out the war
plan that he had personally developed and supervised. During January of
1990, massive quantities of United States weapons, equipment, and
supplies were sent to Saudi Arabia in order to prepare for the war
against Iraq.
11. Pursuant to this war plan, Defendant Webster and the CIA assisted
and directed Kuwait in its actions of violating OPEC oil production
agreements to undercut the price of oil for the purpose of debilitating
Iraq's economy; in extracting excessive and illegal amounts of oil from
pools it shared with Iraq; in demanding immediate repayment of loans
Kuwait had made to Iraq during the Iraq-Iran War; and in breaking off
negotiations with Iraq over these disputes. The Defendants intended to
provoke Iraq into aggressive military actions against Kuwait that they
knew could be used to justify U.S. military intervention into the
Persian Gulf for the purpose of destroying Iraq and taking over Arab oil
fields.
The U.S. "Green Light" to Invade Kuwait
12. The Defendants showed absolutely no opposition to Iraq's increasing
threats against Iraq. Indeed, when Saddam Hussein requested U.S.
Ambassador April Glaspie to explain State Department testimony in
Congress about Iraq's threats against Kuwait, she assured him that the
United States considered the dispute to be a regional concern, and that
it would not intervene militarily. In other words, the United States
government gave Saddam Hussein what amounted to a "green light" to
invade Kuwait.
13. This reprehensible behaviour was similar to that of the Carter
administration during September of 1980, when United States government
officials gave Saddam Hussein the "green light" to invade Iran and thus
commence the tragic Iraq-Iran War. A decade later, Saddam Hussein simply
surmised that he had been given yet another "green light" by the United
States government to commit overt aggression against surrounding states.
Only this time, the Defendants knowingly intended to lead Iraq into a
provocation that could be used to justify intervention and warfare by
United States military forces for the real purpose of destroying Iraq as
a military power and seizing Arab oil fields in the Persian Gulf.
Bush Is the Bigger War Criminal
14. On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait without
significant resistance. The Kuwaiti government itself estimated that
approximately 300 people were killed as a result of Iraq's invasion of
Kuwait, and a few hundred more as a result of the military occupation.
By comparison, Defendant Bush's invasion of Panama in December of 1989
took between 2,000 and 4,000 Panamanian lives, and the United States
government is still covering up the actual death toll. Defendant Bush
killed more innocent people in Panama than Saddam Hussein did in Kuwait.
15. Defendant Bush's invasion of Panama was even more illegal,
reprehensible, and criminal than Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.
The world must never forget that the first step in the construction of
Bush's "New World Order" was his illegal invasion of Panama and the
murder of thousands of completely innocent Panamanian civilians.
America's self-anointed policeman in the Persian Gulf had the blood of
the Panamanian People on his hands.
Bush's Perversion of the Constitution
16. Pursuant to the Pentagon's war plan for destroying Iraq and stealing
Persian Gulf oil fields - and without consultation or communication with
Congress - Defendant Bush initially ordered 40,000 U.S. military
personnel into the Persian Gulf region during the first week of August
1990. He lied to the American People and Congress when he stated that
his acts were purely defensive. Right from the very outset of this
crisis - and even beforehand - Defendant Bush fully intended to go to
war against Iraq and to seize the Arab oil fields in the Persian Gulf.
Defendant Bush deliberately misled, deceived, concealed and made false
representations to the Congress to prevent its free deliberation and
informed exercise of legislative power.
17. Defendant Bush intentionally usurped Congressional power, ignored
its authority, and failed and refused to consult with the Congress. He
individually ordered a naval blockade against Iraq - itself an act of
war - without approval by Congress or the U.N. Security Council.
Defendant Bush waited until after the November 1990 elections to
publicly announce his earlier order sending more than 200,000 additional
military personnel to the Persian Gulf for offensive purposes without
seeking the approval of Congress. Pursuant to the Pentagon's war plan,
Defendant Bush switched U.S. forces from a defensive position and
capability to an offensive capacity for aggression against Iraq without
consultation with, and contrary to assurances given to, Congress and the
American People.
18. On the very eve of the war, Defendant Bush then strong-armed
legislation through Congress that approved enforcement of U.N.
resolutions vesting absolute discretion in any nation, providing no
guidelines, and requiring no reporting to the United Nations. Defendant
Bush knew full well that he intended to destroy the armed forces and
civilian infrastructure of Iraq. Those acts were undertaken to enable
him to commit a Nuremberg Crime Against Peace and war crimes. This
conduct violated the Constitution and Laws of the United States and
especially the War Powers Clause found in Article 1, Section 8 of the
Constitution, the U.S. War Powers Act of 1973, 87 Stat. 555, and the
United Nations Charter, which is the "Supreme Law of the Land" under
Article 6 of the Constitution. For this reason alone, Defendant Bush and
his co-conspirators committed "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" that
warrant their impeachment, conviction, removal from office, and criminal
prosecution.
Bush's Mad Rush to War
19. While concealing his true intentions, Bush continued the military
buildup of U.S. forces from August into January 1991 for the purpose of
attacking and destroying Iraq. Bush pressed the military to expedite
preparations and to commence the war against Iraq before military
conditions were optimum for domestic political purposes so that the war
would not interfere with his presidential re-election campaign. Indeed,
the entire timing, conduct and duration of the war were planned so as to
promote Defendant Bush's re-election prospects. But as a direct result
of Defendant Bush's mad rush to war, United States military personnel
suffered needless casualties. Defendant Bush has still lied and covered
up to the American People and Congress the true nature and extent of
U.S. casualties during the Persian Gulf War.
Bush Corrupted the United Nations
20. Defendant Bush repeatedly coerced the members of the United Nations
Security Council into adopting an unprecedented series of resolutions
that culminated in his securing authority for any nation to use "all
necessary means" to enforce these resolutions. To secure these votes in
the Security Council, Defendant Bush paid multi-billion-dollar bribes;
offered arms for regional wars; threatened and carried out economic
retaliation; illegally forgave multi-billion-dollar loans; offered
diplomatic relations despite human rights violations; and in other ways
corruptly exacted votes. This illegal activity subverted and perverted
the very Purposes and Principles of the United Nations Charter itself
found in articles 1 and 2 thereof.
Bush Circumvented and Violated Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter
21. In his mad rush to war, Defendant Bush caused the United Nations to
completely bypass Chapter VI of the U.N. Charter that mandates the
specific settlement of international disputes. Defendant Bush
consistently rejected and ridiculed all of Iraq's efforts to negotiate a
peaceful resolution of the dispute. Defendant Bush proudly boasted that
there would be no negotiation, no compromise, no face-saving, etc.
22. Defendant Bush's successful attempt to subvert every effort for
negotiating a peaceful resolution of this dispute violated the solemn
obligation mandating the peaceful resolution of international disputes
found in article 2, paragraph 3 of the United Nations Charter; in
article 33, paragraph 1 of the United Nations Charter; and in article 2
of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Just like the Nazi war criminals
before him, Defendant Bush pursued recourse to war as an instrument of
his national policy and for the solution of international controversies
in violation of article 1 of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Just as the Nazi
war criminals did by invading Poland in September of 1939, these
Defendants perpetrated a Nuremberg Crime Against Peace in their decision
to got to war against Iraq and to seize and steal the oil resources of
the Persian Gulf.
The Conduct of the War Itself
23. Obviously, in the brief space that has been allotted to me, there is
no way that I could adequately describe all of the atrocities and war
crimes that were committed by these Defendants and their Agents during
the course of their actual conduct of military hostilities against the
People and State of Iraq. These matters have been covered in great
detail during the course of the public investigations and hearings
conducted around the world by the Commission during the past year.
Nonetheless, I will provide you here with a succinct account of the
major categories of war crimes committed by these Defendants during the
course of their criminal war against Iraq.
Bush Ordered the Destruction of Facilities Essential to Civilian Life
and Economic Productivity Throughout Iraq
24. Systematic aerial and missile bombardment of Iraq was ordered to
begin at 6:30 p.m. <E.S.T>. January 16, 1991, in order to be reported on
prime time TV. The bombing continued for 42 days. It met no resistance
from Iraqi aircraft and no effective anti-aircraft or anti-missile
ground fire. Iraq was basically defenceless.
25. Most of the targets were civilian facilities. The United States
intentionally bombed and destroyed centres for civilian life, commercial
and business districts, schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, shelters,
residential areas, historical sites, private vehicles and civilian
government offices. In aerial attacks, including strafing, over cities,
towns, the countryside and highways, United States aircraft bombed and
strafed indiscriminately. The purpose of these attacks was to destroy
life and property, and generally to terrorise the civilian population of
Iraq. The net effect was the summary execution and corporal punishment
indiscriminately of men, women and children, young and old, rich and
poor, of all nationalities and religions.
26. As a direct result of this bombing campaign against civilian life,
at least 25,000 men, women and children were killed. The Red Crescent
Society of Jordan estimated 113,000 civilian dead, 60% of them children,
the week before the end of the war. According to the Nuremberg Charter,
this "wanton destruction of cities, towns, or villages" is a Nuremberg
War Crime.
27. The intention and effort of this bombing campaign against civilian
life and facilities was to systematically destroy Iraq's infrastructure
leaving it in a pre-industrial condition. The U.S. assault left Iraq in
near apocalyptic conditions as reported by the first United Nations
observers after the war. As a direct, intentional and foreseeable result
of this anti-civilian destruction, over one hundred thousand people have
died after the war from dehydration, dysentery, diseases, and
malnutrition caused by impure water, inability to obtain effective
medical assistance and debilitation from hunger, cold, shock and
distress. More will die until potable water, sanitary living conditions,
adequate food supplies and other necessities are provided. Yet Defendant
Bush continues to impose punitive economic sanctions against the People
of Iraq in order to prevent this from happening.
The United States Intentionally Bombed and Destroyed Defenceless Iraqi
Military Personnel; Used Excessive Force; Killed Soldiers Seeking to
Surrender and in Disorganised Individual Flight, Often Unarmed and Far
from Any Combat Zones; Randomly and Wantonly Killed Iraqi Soldiers; and
Destroyed Material After the Cease-Fire
28. In the first hours of the aerial and missile bombardment, the United
States destroyed most military communications and began the systematic
killing of Iraqi soldiers who were incapable of defence or escape, and
the destruction of military equipment. The U.S. bombing campaign killed
tens of thousands of defenceless soldiers, cut off from most of their
food, water and other supplies, and left them in desperate and helpless
disarray. Defendant Schwarzkopf placed Iraqi military casualties at over
100,000. Large numbers of these soldiers were "out of combat" and
therefore not legitimate targets for military attack.
29. 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 disorientated, disorganised, fleeing Iraqi forces
wherever they could be found, killing thousands more and destroying any
equipment found. In one particularly shocking manoeuvre, thousands of
Iraqi soldiers were needlessly and illegally buried alive. This
wholesale slaughter of Iraqi soldiers continued even after and in
violation of the so-called cease-fire.
30. The Defendants' intention was not to remove Iraq's presence from
Kuwait. Rather, their intention was to destroy Iraq. The disproportion
in death and destruction inflicted on a defenceless enemy exceeded 100
to one. The Defendants conducted this genocidal war against the Male
Population of Iraq for the express purpose of making sure that Iraq
could not raise a substantial military force for at least another
generation.
The United States Used Prohibited Weapons Capable of Mass Destruction
and Inflicting Indiscriminate Death and Unnecessary Suffering Against
Both Military and Civilian Targets
31. 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. 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.
32. Napalm was used against civilians and military personnel, as well as
to start fires. Oil well fires in both Iraq and Kuwait were
intentionally started by U.S. aircraft dropping napalm and other heat
intensive devices.
33. Cluster bombs and anti-personnel fragmentation bombs were used in
Basra, and other cities and towns, against the civilian convoys of
fleeing vehicles and against military units.
34. "Superbombs" were dropped on hardened shelters with the intention of
assassinating Iraqi President Saddam Hussein - a war crime in its own
right.
The United States Intentionally Attacked Installations in Iraq
Containing Dangerous Substances and Forces in Violation of Article 56 of
Geneva Protocol I of 1977
35. The U.S. intentionally bombed alleged nuclear sites, chemical
plants, dams and other dangerous forces. The U.S. knew such attacks
could cause the release of dangerous forces from such installations and
consequently severe losses among the civilian population. While some
civilians were killed in such attacks, there are no reported cases of
consequent severe losses. Presumably, lethal nuclear materials, and
dangerous chemical and biological warfare substances, were not present
at the sites bombed.
The United States Waged War on the Environment
36. Before the war started, the Pentagon had developed computer models
that accurately predicted the environmental catastrophe that would occur
should the United States go to war against Iraq. These Defendants went
to war anyway knowing full well what the consequences of such an
environmental disaster would be. Attacks by U.S. aircraft caused much if
not all of the worst oil spills in the Gulf. Aircraft and helicopters
dropped napalm and fuel-air explosives on oil wells throughout Iraq and
many, if not most, of the oil well fires in Iraq and Kuwait.
Defendant Bush Encouraged and Aided Shiite Muslims and Kurds to Rebel
Against the Government of Iraq Causing Fratricidal Violence, Emigration,
Exposure, Hunger and Sickness and Thousands of Deaths. After the
Rebellion Failed, the U.S. Invaded and Occupied Parts of Iraq Without
Lawful Authority in Order to Increase Division and Hostilities Within
Iraq
37. Without authority from the U.S. Congress or the United Nations,
Defendant Bush encouraged and aided rebellion against Iraq, failed to
protect the warring parties, encouraged mass migration of whole
populations placing them in jeopardy from the elements, hunger and
disease. After much suffering and many deaths, Defendant Bush then
without authority used U.S. military forces to distribute aid at and
near the Turkish border, ignoring the often greater suffering among
refugees in Iran. He then arbitrarily set up bantu-like settlements for
Kurds in Iraq and demanded for Iraq to pay for U.S. costs. When Kurds
chose to return to their homes in Iraq, he moved U.S. troops further
into northern Iraq against the will of the government and without any
legal authority to do so. As Defendant Baker correctly put it when he
visited the area, these atrocities constituted a Nuremberg "crime
against humanity."
Defendant Bush Intentionally Deprived the Iraqi People of Essential
Medicines, Potable Water, Food and Other Necessities
38. A major component of the assault on Iraq was the systematic
deprivation of essential human needs and services, to terrorise and
break the will of the Iraqi People, to destroy their economic
capability, and to reduce their numbers and weaken their health. Towards
those ends, the Defendants:
- imposed and enforced embargoes preventing the shipment of needed
medicines, water purifiers, infant milk formula, food and other
supplies; - froze funds of Iraq and forced other nations to do so,
depriving Iraq of the ability to purchase needed medicines, food and
other supplies; - preventing international organisations, governments
and relief agencies from providing needed supplies and obtaining
information concerning such needs; - failed to assist or meet urgent
needs of huge refugee populations and interfered with efforts of others
to do so, etc.
As a direct result of these cruel and inhuman acts, thousands of people
died, many more suffered illnesses and permanent injury. For these
actions, the Defendants are guilty of Nuremberg Crimes Against Humanity
and the Crime of Genocide as recognised by international law and U.S.
domestic law.
Defendant Bush, Having Destroyed Iraq's Economic Base, Demands
Reparations Which Will Permanently Impoverish Iraq and Threaten Its
People with Famine and Epidemic
39. Defendant Bush seeks to force Iraq to pay for damages to Kuwait
largely caused by the U.S. and even to pay U.S. costs for its violation
of Iraqi sovereignty in occupying northern Iraq to further manipulate
the Kurdish population there. Such reparations are neo-colonial means of
expropriating Iraq's oil, natural resources, and human labour.
Meanwhile, the United States government dominates and controls the
respective governments and oil resources of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia,
Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
40. The United States government has successfully carried out its
long-standing threat and war plan to seize and steal the oil resources
of the Persian Gulf for its own benefit. The United States now directly
controls the natural energy resources that fuel the economies of Europe
and Japan. Acting with their de facto allies in Israel and Great
Britain, the Defendants are today consolidating their control over the
entire Middle East in a blatant bid to establish worldwide hegemony.
Bush's "New World Order"
41. Today, the government in the United States of America constitutes an
international criminal conspiracy under the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment
and Principles, that is legally identical to the Nazi government in
World War II Germany. The Defendants' wanton extermination of
approximately 250,000 People in Iraq provides definite proof of the
validity of this Nuremberg Proposition for the entire world to see.
Indeed, Defendant Bush's so-called New World Order sounds and looks
strikingly similar to the New Order proclaimed by Adolph Hitler over
fifty years ago. You do not build a real New World Order with stealth
bombers, Abrams tanks, and tomahawk cruise missiles. For their own good
and the good of all humanity, the American People must condemn and
repudiate Defendant Bush and his grotesque vision of a New World Order
that is constructed upon warfare, bloodshed, violence and criminality.
Impeachment
42. All of these aforementioned international crimes constitute "High
Crimes and Misdemeanors" as defined by the Article 2, Section 4 of the
United States Constitution and therefore warrant the impeachment,
conviction, and removal from office of Defendants Bush, Quayle, Baker,
Cheney, Powell, and Scowcroft. In regard to this matter, Congressman
Henry Gonzalez of Texas has already introduced an Impeachment Resolution
into the House of Representatives, that is numbered House Resolution 86,
calling for the impeachment and removal from office of these Defendants
because they have committed these international crimes and also because
they have subverted and perverted constitutional government in America
"to the manifest injury of the people of the United States."
A Special Prosecutor
43. These Defendants must be impeached by the House, tried and convicted
by the Senate, and removed from office. Thereafter, we believe that the
Commission of Inquiry and the International War Crimes Tribunal will
have produced sufficient evidence to trigger the application of the
Ethics in Government Act, 28 <U.S.C>. 591 et seq., that would lead to
the appointment of an Independent Counsel (i.e., Special Prosecutor) to
investigate and prosecute these high-ranking officials for the wholesale
violation of federal criminal laws in their decision to launch and wage
this criminal war against the People and State of Iraq. We fully intend
to see Bush, Baker, Cheney, Quayle, Scowcroft, Webster, Powell,
Schwarzkopf and the rest of the U.S. High Command sitting in jail for
the rest of their natural lives.
44. Make no mistake about it: The very nature, future and existence of
the American Republic depends upon the success of these endeavours.
Today, the battle begins for the hearts and minds of the American People
between the Warmongers and the Peacemakers. We ask all of you to join us
in this legal campaign and moral crusade to restore to the United States
of America a democratic government with a commitment to the Rule of Law
and the Constitution both at home and abroad. 
Francis A. Boyle, Professor of Law, University of Illinois, is author of
Foundations of World Order, Duke University Press, and The Criminality
of Nuclear Deterrence, Clarity Press. He can be reached at:
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