While the US peddles propaganda concerning freedom and democracy, justice and God, it is the worlds most prolific criminal with human rights abuses and heinous crimes against humanity stacked under it's name that make the likes of Middle Eastern terrorism look pale in comparison. The despicable and most horrific attack on September 11 was certainly not about people hating our freedoms. It was purely in response to America's foreign policy; and it was primarily about the monetary and military support of Israel and other mass killings of civilians in Iraq. America is seen as a terrorist nation for having supported the Israeli ethnic cleansing of 700,000 Palestinians from their land and homes and the stripping them of their most basic human rights, even depriving them of the right to live where they were born! America is accused of supporting terrorism for backing Israel, even America is aware that Israel tortures 500 to 600 Palestinians in its jails each month. America is also called a terrorist state for causing the death of up to a million Iraqi women and children. It is difficult for us to act morally superior to our enemies when U.S. Secretary of State, Madeline Albright, told Leslie Stahl of CBS that America's causing the death of 500,000 Iraqi children was "worth it." What would you say, Mr. President, of someone who thinks it is worth killing 500,000 children in order to punish one man? America has always been at war with someone..It is a culture of killers and in a good number of its wars it has actively targeted civilian population to fulfil it's military objectives. The United States did not adhere to this principle in World War II (where the direct intention was often to kill civilians) and it still does not adhere to it, as when it hit the civilian infrastructure in Iraq or Serbia and now Afganistane, knowing that the result would be civilian deaths (from lack of electricity in hospitals, lack of drinking water, sewage treatment plants, and so on), while the military benefits would be slight. Here is a list of a century of US military interventions from Wounded Knee to Afghanistan. Since 1990 the US has exported $152 billion worth of weapons to states around the world. Many of these sales going to repressive and unstable Govt. http://www.fas.org/asmp/profiles/index.html US defence spending statistics compared to the rest of the world. http://infomanage.com/nonproliferation/usvsworld.html USA still NO1 weapons dealer in the world. http://www.peace-action.org/stillno1.html US market share for arms sales from 1984 and 1996. Clinton administration just another trader in human misery and death. http://motherjones.com/arms/index.html The US supplies of arms to the third world in 1993 was 73%. It has increased since then. Pie chart of total US weapons supply to the third world. http://infomanage.com/nonproliferation/weaponsales/armsales.gif US makes a killing on weapons sales to the destitute...and more damning statistics. http://www.commondreams.org/views01/0215-06.htm An arms sales code of conduct prohibits the export of arms to any Govt that does NOT meet a code of criteria set out in the law. The conditions a country must meet in order to be eligible for weapons are: 1/democratic form of Govt, 2/ respect for basic human rights for citizens, 3/ non aggression against other states, 4/ full participation in the UN Register of conventional arms. Nevertheless 90% of the record $14.8 billion in US arms sales to the Third World in 1993 went to states that did NOT meet the Codes criteria. http://www.fas.org/asmp/atwg/code/talking.html USA targets and incinerates up to 240,000 innocent civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The atom bomb on Japan was NOT necessary because the Japanese had all but signed the surrender papers. It went ahead for much the same reasons as the present attack on Afghanistan which was to fulfil the blood lust and revenge of the American people. And to pound the chest in victory while sending a strong macho signal to the Soviets. http://www.doug-long.com/hiroshim.htm Summary of the above article..Was Hiroshima necessary? http://www.doug-long.com/summary.htm Today, fifty years after the two bombings, with the advantage of historical hindsight and the advantage of new evidence, a third view, free of obscuring bias and passion, can be presented. First, the dropping of the bomb was born out a complex myriad of military, domestic and diplomatic pressures and concerns. Second, many potentially viable alternatives to dropping the bombs were not explored by Truman and other men in power, as they probably should have been. Lastly, because these alternatives were never explored, we can only conjecture over whether or not Truman's decision to drop atomic bombs was a saviour of lives. http://users.erols.com/goodmank/#N_1_ VIETNAM war: 2 million dead..More than 50,000 Americans and over 60,000 civilians dead...And still no one knows what place we had being there. The Vietnam war was a classic human rights abuse by the US Govt on it's own people and the Vietnamese people. ___________________________________________________ USA and Britain murderd up to a million innocent Iraq civilians, whose only crime was that they were born in Iraq. In the last ten years, the US has bombed Iraq an average of eight days out of every month. Much of this bombing occurs in the name of protecting "no fly zones." These zones are designated as such by the US and Great Britain and violate international law. The US bombings of Iraq constitute the longest sustained air campaign since the Vietnam War. While US bombings have caused casualties and have devastated Iraq's civilian infrastructure, the economic sanctions imposed by the US and the United Nations have caused the deaths of over a million people. Hit on link Facts and Myths to view UNICEF statistics on the numbers of murdered Iraq civilians. http://www.peace-action.org/iraqfs.html CIA assassinations in the Americas in the 1970's and 80's. http://www.hrw.org/worldreport99/americas/americas3.html CIA beast in South America. http://www.hrw.org/worldreport/Americas.htm CIA and Assassinations: The Guatemala 1954 documents: http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/47/156.html CIA overturns democratically elected Govt in Chile and installs Pinochet. http://www.hrw.org/reports/1999/chile/Patrick.htm USA Military aid to Latin America linked to Human Rights abuses. Few Americans know it, but the United States is currently embroiled in the biggest guerrilla war since Vietnam. Hundreds of American troops, spies and civilian contract employees are on the ground in Colombia and neighbouring lands, helping to coordinate a $1.3 billion counterdrug program that will probably continue for many years. It is a bigger U.S. commitment-in personnel, cash and risk-than the previous leading post-Vietnam counterinsurgency campaign, the 1980s war in El Salvador http://www.public-i.org/story_01_071201.htm When Osama bin Laden Met the Taliban.. Who introduced them? Our intelligence "allies," Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence Agency.. http://slate.msn.com/pol/01-10-09/pol.asp Northern Alliance Afghanistan atrocities. The guerrillas of the Northern Alliance are up in arms against the Taliban. But are they a suitable ally for America? LUCY MORGAN EDWARDS reports: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=222581&thesection=news&th USA trained forces linked to Human Rights abuses in Mexico. By The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists* During a 1997 training exercise, candidates for an elite Mexican military unit, the Air-Mobile Special Forces Groups, were divided into two teams. Team A was packed into a truck and ambushed by Team B, which took prisoners. The methods used by Team B members to extract information from their captured rivals were not exactly in line with international law. "They were beaten," said one former officer who observed the training. "They were smothered by putting a plastic bag on their heads; they were hit with sticks on the soles of their feet." The interrogation went on, he told ICIJ, "until they managed to escape." http://www.public-i.org/story_04_071201.ht Chemical and biological weapons links. The US continues to secretly research and develop bio weapons. Even given the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention outlaws the development, production, stockpiling, and use of biological weapons. Negotiations continue on a protocol to verify compliance with this treaty. The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention imposes a complete ban on the development, production, stockpiling, and use of chemical weapons, provides for their destruction, and establishes inspection mechanisms to monitor compliance. http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_10/bwoct01.asp Bush rejects germ treaty protocol. http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=digest&conten tId=A29273-2001Jul20 http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_09/bwcsept01.asp Bush rejects arms controls. http://www.armscontrol.org/act/2001_10/korboct01.asp USA does not support legislation for a War Crimes court. While the US is forging a global coalition against terrorism it is also threatening sanctions against a dozen countries simply they want to bring to justice the perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Given US military history I wonder why the US with China, Iraq and Israel do not support such a court? http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/icc/ http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/10/icc1005.htm PeterT October 2001
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