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(Forwarding this as a courtesy) From: Edward Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> As Mussolini aggressively invaded Ethiopia; Hitler, Czechoslovakia, Poland, France, et al; Japan, Korea, China, etc. and struck us at Pearl Harbor 12/7/41, so the United States has violated international and natural law and human rights standards by attacking Iraq. Ours is by any stretch manifestly an unjust and unjustified (i.e. aggressive) war. We must now remember the deaths at Falluja and Najaf as OUR war crimes. To hear Rumsfeld, our military commanders, commentators, and others including Bush, pontificating about the violations by Iraqis(!) striking back at our invasion and occupation is to experience something strictly out of Wonderland. I assume that the rest of the civilized world sees things this way. Our excuses for killing games there have evaporated. We are war criminals and compound our guilt with each new killing and maiming. One must be ashamed to be an American. Our flag has been defiled. Incidentally, the citation below of Livy was taken from Machiavelli's The Prince, the handbook of wars and how to fight them -- and how not. We are now violating a number of his strategic and tactical advisories -- most important of which is to not make ourselves hated! -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy) -- Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies] http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CollegeConversation http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PeaceEfforts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EndingPoverty --- / o o \ PNEWS Topic Specific Portals (Vortals) ===OO=====OO================================================= http://pnews.org/vortal/ New World disOrder and Myth Busters http://g0lem.net/vortal/ Insane Planet and Wacko World http://g0lem.net/portal/ Bad-Ass Truth and TheGolemsPortal http://pnews.org/portal/ Naked Truth and PNEWS Portal ============================================================= \_/ \_/
