the world tribunal on iraq

[EVERETT813 at aol.com]

Funda, et. al.,

And when, pray tell, might we see a similar "world tribunal" on Darfur, Saudi 
Arabia, Iran, Cambodia, Rwanda, North Ireland, Georgia, Chechnya, Haiti, 
Tibet, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Myanmar (Burma) etc., etc.   All places where people 
are sorely oppressed every day.   Many where deaths are occurring in far 
greater numbers than Iraq.   Where the Iraqi terrorists are slaughtering their own 
people.   Where people are murdered with impunity (just happened again in N. 
Ireland).   Many where people are starving to death by the tens of thousands, 
and that is no exaggeration.   Where rape is routinely used to defile women.   
When do we see World Tribunals on these outrages against humanity??

 I'm very sorry, I just don't get it that it is almost always the West, 
especially the United States, that is being pilloried.   Why isn't this Tribunal in 
full cry after the above countries and people?   Where was the Tribunal when 
Saddam invaded Kuwait?   Not to mention Iran?   When will they get the Nobel 
winner in Burma freed?   When will they investigate Islamic terrorism?   They 
were nowhere then and equally nowhere now because they would be told to shut up 
and mind your own business (or worse---maybe assassinated by some Mullah's 
fatwa) and we should do the same---politely tell them to shut up and drop dead!! 
  I'm sure there is diplomatic language to accomplish that feat.

btw, I was and still am strongly against the Iraq war, wrote an extensive 
paper on that with an alternative strategy that could have worked (George 
Kennan's containment strategy, basically, with updates) while we paid attention to 
the real issues, like the worldwide Islamic terrorist cabal that doesn't care 
who they kill---civilians, children, non-combatant men; who turn airplanes into 
flying bombs, etc.; all in the name of bringing 14th century Islam to life in 
the 21st century.   Which has resulted in reduced personal freedoms, world 
wide.   The Patriot Act is one such abomination.   People dying of starvation is 
another because the food can't get to them by acts of indigenous terrorism or 
government terrorism.

I don't make policy.   Neither does this Tribunal.   We each have equal power 
to change things (which is zero) except they have a forum to make mischief 
supported by world taxes.   I predict their efforts will be for naught and will 
sink like a stone.   May it be ever so for unbalanced and scurrilous work.

Double, double, toil and trouble, 
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Paul Everett  

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