the world tribunal on iraq

[Funda Oral]

Dear Paul,

I wish there is a world tribunal  wherever people suffer for any reason...meaning that any suffering becomes world business. 

Talking about this one; they know that they won't change anything now, there are many articles about that on the web page. 
They do it to present a document to the history, to the future generations. 

Funda
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  From: EVERETT813 at aol.com 
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  Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 6:46 AM
  Subject: Re: the world tribunal on iraq


  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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