"To initiate a war of aggression," said the judges in the Nuremberg
trial of the Nazi leadership, "is not only an international crime; it
is the supreme international crime differing only from other war
crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the
whole." In stating this guiding principle of international law, the
judges specifically rejected German arguments of the "necessity" for
pre-emptive attacks against other countries.

Nothing Bush and Blair, their cluster-bombing boys and their media
court do now will change the truth of their great crime in Iraq. It is
a matter of record, understood by the majority of humanity, if not by
those who claim to speak for "us". As Denis Halliday said of the
Anglo-American embargo against Iraq, it will "slaughter them in the
history books". It was Halliday who, as assistant secretary general of
the United Nations, set up the "oil for food" programme in Iraq in
1996 and quickly realised that the UN had become an instrument of "a
genocidal attack on a whole society". He resigned in protest, as did
his successor, Hans von Sponeck, who described "the wanton and shaming
punishment of a nation".

I have mentioned these two men often in these pages, partly because
their names and their witness have been airbrushed from most of the
media. I well remember Jeremy Paxman bellowing at Halliday on
Newsnight shortly after his resignation: "So are you an apologist for
Saddam Hussein?" That helped set the tone for the travesty of
journalism that now daily, almost gleefully, treats criminal war as
sport. In a leaked e-mail Roger Mosey, the head of BBC Television
News, described the BBC's war coverage as "extraordinary - it almost
feels like World Cup football when you go from Um Qasr to another
theatre of war somewhere else and you're switching between battles".

He is talking about murder. That is what the Americans do, and no one
will say so, even when they are murdering journalists. They bring to
this one-sided attack on a weak and mostly defenceless people the same
racist, homicidal intent I witnessed in Vietnam, where they had a
whole programme of murder called Operation Phoenix. This runs through
all their foreign wars, as it does through their own divided society.
Take your pick of the current onslaught. Last weekend, a column of
their tanks swept heroically into Baghdad and out again. They murdered
people along the way.

They blew off the limbs of women and the scalps of children. Hear
their voices on the unedited and unbroadcast videotape: "We shot the
***** out of it." Their victims overwhelm the morgues and hospitals -
hospitals already denuded of drugs and painkillers by America's
deliberate withholding of $5.4bn in humanitarian goods, approved by
the Security Council and paid for by Iraq. The screams of children
undergoing amputation with minimal anaesthetic qualify as the BBC
man's "sound of freedom".

Excerpted from:
Crime against humanity by John Pilger
http://www.stopwar.ca/articles/crime.html

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We Americans share a responsibility for all the misery caused by those
in power with our tax dollars including the murders of more than 8,000
women & children in the last 12 months. So, please do what you can for
the cause of getting some decent world class politicians who really
care about truth and justice in the white house.

here's a good one:
http://www.kucinich.us/

We Americans share a responsibility for all the misery caused by those
in power with our tax dollars including the murders of more than 8,000
women & children in the last 12 months. So, please do what you can for
the cause of getting some decent world class politicians who really
care about truth and justice in the white house.