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Iraq Isn’t A Threat! "Two of the highest U.N. officials responsible for U.N. weapons inspection within Iraq and a principle U.S. citizen participating in the inspections have resigned, denounced the sanctions and denied that there is a threat that Iraq will develop weapons of mass destruction." Said Mr. Ramsey clark, Former US Attorney General and chairman of the New-York based International Action Center (IAC).Rolf Ekeus, head of United Nations weapons inspections in Iraq from 1991-1997, accused the US and other Security Council members of manipulating the UN inspection teams as to create a ‘ crisis situation’, saying ‘’ they pressed the inspection leadership to carry out inspections which were controversial from the Iraqis’ view, and thereby created a blockage that could be used as a justification for a direct military action. Ekeus disclosed to the Swedish Newspaper, Svenska Dagbladet, that he had learnt after he left his position that the US had placed two of its own agents in the group of inspetcors. In a recent letter to UN Security council members, the President of the General Assembly; and President Bush, Mr. Clark said: " The U.S. has more nuclear weapons than all other nations combined as well as the most sophisticated and numerous systems for the delivery of nuclear weapons, including the Trident II submarine fleet. It possesses the greatest stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and the most advanced and extensive research in mass destruction weaponry in the world. Military spending by the U.S. exceeds that of the nine next largest budgets for war combined. President Bush has repeatedly declared the right to strike first. The U.S. attacked Hiroshima and Nagasaki with atomic bombs and continues to justify those acts." Mr. Clark underlined that any attack by the States against Iraq will be "the most notorious, arrogant and contemptuous violation of the Charter of the United Nations, the Nuremberg Charter and international law yet experienced, or likely hereafter. Only absolute power unrestrained by any rule of law or standard of human decency openly taunts an intended victim as President Bush has taunted Iraq. Because the U.S. has committed historic injustices against Iraq, most during his father's presidency, and still seeks dominion in the region, President Bush, his Vice President and others in his administration hate Iraq and want finally to destroy it," ‘’If twelve years after its devastating aerial assault and after twelve years of genocidal sanctions, the omnipresent risk and frequent fact of random attack with the ever present stalking by U.S. aircraft and endless threats against its helpless victim, the U.S. commits its coup d'grace on the people of Iraq to the silence of the U.N. and wealthy nations of the world, human shame and impotence will doom us to ever greater violence. ‘’ The letter urged the UN to immediately activate the United Nations, the General Assembly, the Security Council and all its agencies to denounce the continuing threats by the United States against Iraq, to demand immediate cessation of the threats and to warn the United States that an attack by it on Iraq will violate the Charter of the United Nations, international law and the friendship of all who seek peace and respect the dignity of humanity. "An attack on Iraq by the United States would also violate the Constitution and laws of the United States and expose President Bush to impeachment by the House of Representatives under the Constitution of the United States for the highest of crimes, those against peace and humanity, to judgment by the United States Senate and trial in federal court for crimes charged. Unfortunately in recent years our Constitution has been more honored in the breach than in faithful observance of the rights it is intended to protect for all. But the effort to hold accountable any U.S. authority who participates in an assault against Iraq will be made here by those who love their country and for that reason insist that its acts be just. The former Attorney General cited some examples of the US unbalanced double standard policy including its renunciation of treaties controlling nuclear weapons and their proliferation; vote against the protocol enabling enforcement of the Biological Weapons Conventions; and rejection of the treaty banning land mines, the International Criminal Court and virtually every other international effort to control and limit war. The U.S. wants to overthrow the government of Iraq and many others in violation of law. Unless restrained the chance for peace and global equality of economic, social, cultural and political opportunity among nations will be lost. Which government presents the greater threat to peace globally or for Mesopotamia and its neighbors--the U.S. or Iraq? Concluded the letter. It is definitely the United States with its double standard unbalanced foreign policy in support of the Israeli ongoing blitz and threats. It is for sure the Israeli armed to teeth nuclear garrison.
BY Mohammad Abdo Al-Ibrahim
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