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White
House war-makers masquerading as peacemakers
A
message from Ramsey Clark
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Dear Paul,
Once again President Bush has deceived the American
people to open the way for a war of aggression, this
time against Lebanon. Had it been successful,
regime change in Syria and Iran were next on his agenda.
It is now clear that the assault on Lebanon was agreed
on and planned by the U.S. and Israel long before
Hezbollah, reacting to Israel’s brutal assault against
Palestine, captured two Israeli soldiers on July 12 of
this year which was claimed to justify bombing all of
Lebanon. After his tragically criminal war in Iraq
and the emerging failure of the U.S. invasion of
Afghanistan, President Bush apparently believes he can
fool most of the people all of the time.
While Europe and the Arab world overwhelmingly called
for an immediate cease fire, President Bush and his
administration declared Israel "has the right to
defend itself," supported the invasion and rejected
a cease fire. The world watched in anguish as
Israeli aircraft destroyed villages, towns and civilian
facilities throughout Lebanon. Hezbollah fighters
stopped a massive Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon
and rained thousands of missiles into northern Israel.
Every belligerent utterance of George W. Bush, our
“War President,” and his war seeking assistants, referenced
Hezbollah, Syria and Iran in the same breath. All
received their special insults, as did the Muslim world,
called “Islamic Fascists” by the President of the
United States.
After it became clear that Israel had failed to
achieve any of its proclaimed military objectives and
U.S. officials had acknowledged that Israel was losing
the war, the U.S. reversed its position and contributed
to a negotiated cease fire to protect Israel. President
Bush praised Israel as the Victor and claimed credit for
the cease fire. The Lebanese people, Hezbollah,
Syria, Iran and the world that watched the month of
mayhem knew better. Israel did not even obtain the
release of its two captured soldiers. Israel is
withdrawing from Lebanon. People are returning to
their villages. Hezbollah is leading the
rebuilding of Lebanon, its prestige at an all time high
in Lebanon, the Muslim world and beyond.
Israel is in turmoil. Former Israel Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has decried the
“mismanagement of the War” in the Knesset, and vowed
that Israel will learn from its mistakes.
The fear and hatred generated by this brutal war of
aggression makes peace more remote.
Probably 1200 Lebanese were killed, 75 percent
civilian, and 140 Israelis, 80 percent military, with
thousands injured, and an estimated $10 billion in
property damage in Lebanon, 99 percent civilian.
How long can the American people accept a President
who places himself above the law, who repeatedly wages
wars of aggression, authorizes excessive force, the
targeting of civilians, indiscriminate destruction,
collective punishment, torture, disappearance,
unlimited, illegal detention and dismisses them all with
lies? How long will our nation endure this war by
and against terrorism that he is creating?
Lebanon had hurt no one. It will be decades
before it recovers if let alone. Like Palestine and
Iraq it is a land of diverse and wonderful peoples of
ancient and modern cultures. Beirut is one of the
most glorious cities of the Mediterranean with snow
capped mountains an hour's drive away. There are
still stands of virgin cedars from which Solomon’s
Temple in Jerusalem was built in peaceful
commerce. Two thousand six hundred years ago, the
prophet Ezekiel wrote of Tyre as a place “of perfect
beauty... Thy borders are in the midst of the sea... Thy
builders have perfected thy beauty...” truth
that millions of people have observed over the
millenniums. Today Tyre lays in ruin once again
from Israeli assault as the world has witnessed by
television.
Can we doubt that President Bush will attack yet
another country, if We, the People, fail to do our duty?
Can he learn that you make more friends by helping feed
children than by killing them?
We must act to Impeach George W. Bush and his
criminal cohorts now.
We've placed ads in the New York Times, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the Boston Globe, USA Today
and other papers, and each time we do we bring thousands
of new people into the impeachment movement who become a
growing force putting pressure on their
Congressional representatives to introduce articles of impeachment.
Help finance
a fall nationwide newspaper campaign for impeachment,
including your local paper.
Sincerely,
Ramsey Clark
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