Not that I agree with everything he says but this Norwegian fellow is sincere. I believe it with my heart.
Sabri +++++ http://istanbul.indymedia.org/news/2003/03/608.php To the citizens of the world by Sjur CP • Tuesday March 11, 2003 at 01:37 PM If we don't do it this time, it might be to late. Do it when you still can, to wait now would be a collective suicide Hello. I am a norwegian. I have just arrived to Amman from Baghdad where I have been one month as a human shield. Before that I was one month on the road, mobilising and trying to get more shields with me to Iraq. In Iraq we have demonstrated in the streets, kept press conferences and showed the world what we stand for. We are against a unjust war led by the US against Iraq. If we can call this a war at all, and not only a slaughter of the iraqi population. The most hospital people I have ever met, even after I have been in a dozen of countries in both Europe, Africa and Asia. We have seen people cry, sending their children as soldiers against the US, what a waste. The iraqi soldiers are sent out to die, and everybody should know that. We have seen a couple of sand bags, weapon from the fifties and people in green clothes which looks like have been baught on the marked. If someone think Iraq has well equiped soldiers and weapons of mass destruction, they have to think twice. When I walk on the street in Baghdad,look at children, women and men, sitting on a restaurant, playing on the streets, selling sigarettes or pas by I think about the crazy bastards who want to kill this people. The iraqi people want to have peace, and have tried as best as they can. Mostly of them don't like their political system at all, but long for freedom and justice. Still they don't believe the US want them or is able to bring to them anything good. It is foremost the sanctions that ruins the civil society and keep people dependent on Saddam. If the sanctions got lifted people could afford to do and think, and oppose their government. 1.5 million people has died because of sanctions the last ten years, and all people in Iraq suffer because of it. The US have bombed Iraq regularly the last twelwe years and led sanctions against Iraq, supported Saddams regime, shown Saddam green light when it comes to attacking Kuwait, helped Saddam to get rid of all kinds of opposition etc. They don't believe the US are up to anything good this time either. Their experiences tell them. The US has bombed schools, hospitals and shelters. Iraqi people don't believe the US only want to take their oil and get rid of Saddam. The US can get their oil and support Turkmenistan, which is even a worse case concerning democracy. But as it was said when it comes to Suharto, he was a bastard, but our bastard. If Saddam is a dictator, and I will not argue that he is not, the dictator in Turkmenistans is ultra. No, the iraqi people believe, and I will not argue against them, that the US want to kill them - because they are iraqis. It looks like a kind of global racism rule the world, and that iraqis doesn't count. Kissinger said one time that the arabic people couldn't take care of their own oil. That this man has got nobel peace price is a shame. At the same time the US attack Iraq, Sharon and Israel attack allready suffering and supressed palestinians. Sharon has started allready before the war has started in Iraq. The plan is to move palestinians to Iraq and make a Great Israel. Iraq should be divided in three. The plans about the war the US now plan against Iraq was first meant for Israel, but since Israel were afraid of loosing this battle they rejected it. The lobby then went to the US which has accepted it, and one thing is very clear - some people will earn a lot of money on this war. The US has fought hundreds of wars in the last centuries. Non of them, I think, has helped civilians to gain freedom and democracy. They have all been done to occupy land or to gain controll, power and ressources. It should be enough to look at the US society to understand this. As the americans themslves knows better than all others there is both a lack of democracy and a lack of freedom, specially after the Sept 11. The US even control Norway in a lot of different ways. Norwegian politicians are afraid of being black cheaps or the bad pupil in the class. This is not only because of organisations like WTO, IMF, GATS etc, but also more directly pressure form the US it self. Not long time after Sept 11 there was a radio program in Norway about how it would have been under an american invation. That was not only a joke. In Norway we have a joke about the norwegian prime minister. He meet Bush and says My name is Pettersen, if it is ok for you. He says so because he is afraid. He knows how it is to be blacklisted. Norway is a little country, very important for the US because of its geographic position and because Norway has a lot of oil. Even if the US try to bribe many countries around the world, or to pressure them by f ex by frightning them with new wars, many countries oppose a war against Iraq. When it comes to Turky their new government might support the war, something that might lead to civil war. In Turky, as in nearly all other countries in the whole world, the people won't let this war become true. Both France, Germany, Russia and China, all in the Security Coucil, are among these countries. They understand that if a war like this can happen, there will be no safe place and there will no longer, if there have ever existed, be international laws telling when a country has the right to go to war and not. It will be possible to fight any country in the whole world. The US has fought the UN for fifty years, trying to implement what didn't get implemented when the UN first started. The US has tried to misuse the UN, disrespected the UN and produced own organisations which has taken the responsibility away from the UN and in that way diminised the function of the UN. The US has not followed international laws and has broken with the international community. Europe is getting tired of the US. The US has since the Second World War, both indirectly and directly, tried to rule Europe. The have broken agreements on a lot of topics, not at least when it comes to international laws. For two months ago the US administration proclaimed the death of the old Europe. In many ways this must be seen as a proclamation for war. For nearly a year ago a spy airplane crashed with a chinese airplane on Chinese territory. The Chinese wanted to look at the american airplane. The US told them to give it to them straight away or China would have to leave the WTO. Before this quincedence China had used nearly nothing to military expences, from then on China, with the best economy in the world, has spent a lot on their army. They learned by heart. The war against terrorism is something else than war against poverty. Even if the last one was far away from being a war against poverty. Since calvinism, protestantism, marked economy and colonialism there has been one system, one force, who has led us to develop the world as we know it today, capitalism. Mary Wollenstonecraft wrote the book about Frankenstein. Analysts has seen it as a book about modern science. I see it rather as a book about the system we all are slaves of, capitalism. Capitalism is an economy which has been inplanted in our life in all different kinds of ways and have come to rule western people, both on how to live and how to think. Even the richest people are slaves of the system, they by the time have created. This text are meant as a plea to the american population to force a change in their political system. The only reason, as I see it, why the americans still hasn't done this is because they think they can't. But it is unvoidable and soon they will find out that they can't let it be. In the book Frankenstein hunt the one who created him to take revange and in the end the scientist get killed. This should be a warning to all of us. We have to stop while we still have a possiblity, reflect on what we are doing and correct our mistakes. The World Watch Istitute wrote in their last raport, the one for 2003, that we have one, maybe two, to force through this change. If not it might be to late. If the americans won't or can't change their political system which supress the whole world, not at least the americans themselves, other people has to do it instead of them. That might not look as nice. For a year ago the big question for the americans was why the whole world hates them. The whole world hates the american government, love the american people, even in Iraq the people treat the americans with hospitality. I therefor hope the americans awake before it is to late. Americans - awake, look around, it is a beautiful world and too good to be destroyed. Do not be afraid of strangers, they are your friends. Remember the golden days and stand up for the American Dream - freedom and democracy. I beg you on my knee.
