From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 8,  Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy 
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords:  Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 22:11:55 GMT

    From former Attorney-General of the United States Ramsey Clark:
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     The destruction of civilian facilities left the entire
civilian population without heat, cooking fuel, refrigeration,
potable water, telephones, power for radio or TV reception, public
transportation, fuel for private automobiles, limited food
supplies, closed schools, created massive unemployment, severely
limited economic activity and caused hospitals and medical services
to shut down.  In addition, residential areas of every major city
and most towns and villages were targeted and destroyed. Bedouin
camps were attacked by U.S. aircraft. In addition to deaths and
injuries, the aerial assault destroyed 10-20,000 homes, apartments
and other dwellings.  Commercial centers with shops, retail stores,
offices, hotels, restaurants and other public accommodations were
targeted and  thousands were destroyed.  Scores of schools,
hospitals, mosques and churches were damaged, or destroyed. 
Thousands of civilian vehicles on highways, roads and parked on
streets and in garages were targeted and destroyed.  These included
public buses, private vans and mini-buses, trucks, tractor
trailers, lorries,  taxi cabs and private cars.  The purpose of
this bombing was to terrorize the entire country, kill people,
destroy property, prevent movement, demoralize the people and force
the overthrow of the government.

     As a result of the bombing of facilities essential to civilian
life, residential and other civilian buildings and areas at least
25,000 men, women and children were killed.  The Red Crescent
Society of Jordan estimated 113,000 civilian dead, 60% children,
the week before the end of the war.

     The conduct violated the U.N. Charter, the Hague and Geneva
Conventions, the Nuremberg Charter and the laws of armed conflict.


     5.   The United States intentionally bombed indiscriminately
          throughout Iraq.
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     In aerial attacks, including strafing, over cities, towns, the
countryside and highways, United States aircraft bombed and strafed
indiscriminately.  In every city and town bombs fell by chance far
from any conceivable target, whether a civilian facility, military
installation or military target.  In the countryside random attacks
were made on travellers, villagers, even Bedouins.  The purpose of
the attacks was to destroy life, property and terrorize the
civilian population.  On the highways, private vehicles including
public buses, taxicabs and passenger cars were bombed and strafed
at random to frighten civilians from flight, from seeking food,
medical care, finding relatives or other uses of highways.  The
effect was summary execution and corporal punishment
indiscriminately of men, women and children, young and old, rich
and poor, all nationalities including the large immigrant
populations, even Americans, all ethnic groups, including many
Kurds and Assyrians, all religions including Shia and Sunni
Moslems, Chaldeans and other Christians and Jews.  U.S. deliberate
indifference to civilian and military casualties in Iraq, or their
nature, is exemplified by General Colin Powell's response to a
press inquiry about the number dead from the air and ground
campaigns "It's really not a number I'm terribly interested in."

     The conduct violates Protocol I additional, Article 51.4 to
the Geneva Convention of 1977.

     6.   The United States intentionally bombed and destroyed
          defenseless Iraqi military personnel, used excessive
          force, killed soldiers seeking to surrender and in
          disorganized individual flight, often unarmed and far
          from any combat zones and randomly and wantonly killed
          Iraqi soldiers and destroyed material after the cease
          fire.
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     In the first hours of the aerial and missile bombardment, the
United States destroyed most military communications and began the
systematic killing of soldiers who were incapable of defense or
escape and the destruction of military equipment.  Over a period of
42 days, U.S. bombing killed tens of thousands of defenseless
soldiers, cut off most of their food, water and other supplies and
left them in desperate and helpless disarray.  Without significant
risk to its own personnel, the U.S. lead in the killing of at least
100,000 Iraqi soldiers at a cost of fewer than 120 U.S. combat
casualties according to the U.S. government.  When it was
determined that the civilian economy and the military were
sufficiently destroyed, the U.S. ground forces moved into Kuwait
and Iraq attacking disoriented, disorganized, fleeing Iraqi forces
wherever they could be found killing thousands more and destroying
any equipment found. The slaughter continued after the cease fire. 
For example, on March 2, the U.S. 24th Division forces engaged in
a four-hour assault against Iraqis just west of Basra.  More than
750 vehicles were destroyed, thousands killed without U.S.
casualties.  A U.S. Commander said "We really waxed them."  It was
called a "Turkey Shoot",  One Apache helicopter crew member yelled
"Say hello to Allah" as he launched a laser guided Hellfire
missile.

     The intention was not to remove Iraq's presence from Kuwait. 
It was to destroy Iraq.  In the process there was great destruction
of property in Kuwait.  The disproportion in death and destruction
inflicted on a defenseless enemy exceeded 1000 to one.

     General Thomas Kelly commented on February 23 that by the time
the ground war begins "there won't be many of them left."  General
Norman Schwarzkopf placed Iraqi military casualties at over
100,000.  The intention was to destroy all military facilities and
equipment wherever located and to so decimate the military age male
population so that Iraq could not raise a substantial force for
half a generation.

     The conduct violated the Charter of the United Nations, the
Hague and Geneva Conventions, the Nuremberg Charter and the laws of
armed conflict.


     7.   The United States used prohibited weapons capable of mass
          destruction and inflicting indiscriminate death and
          unnecessary suffering against both  military and civilian
          targets.
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     Among the known illegal weapons and illegal uses of weapons
employed by the United States are the following:

          --   fuel air explosives capable of wide spread
               incineration and death,

          --   napalm


          --   cluster and anti-personnel fragmentation bombs.


          --   "superbombs", 2 1/2 ton devices, intended for
               assassination of government leaders


     Fuel air explosives were used against troops in place,
civilian areas, oil fields and fleeing civilians and soldiers on
two stretches of highway between Kuwait and Iraq.  Included in fuel
air weapons used was the BLU-82, a 15,000 pound device capable of
disintegrating everything within hundreds of yards.

     One seven mile stretch called the "Highway of Death" was
littered with hundreds of vehicles and thousands of dead.  All were
fleeing to Iraq for their lives.  Thousands were civilians of all
ages, including Kuwaitis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Jordanians and
other nationalities.  Another 60-mile stretch of road to the east
was strewn with the remnants of tanks, armored cars, trucks,
ambulances and thousands of bodies following an attack on convoys
on the night of February 25.  The press reported no survivors are
known or likely.  One flat bed truck contained nine bodies, their
hair and clothes were burned off, skin incinerated by heat so
intense it melted the windshield onto the dashboard.

     [JD: You can help Ramsey Clark in his struggle for justice
      by calling his International Action Center in New York City
      at (212) 633-6646.]
                         (to be continued)
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        The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, 
        for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies in place of the 
        bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People,
        then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism.

        So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to 
        computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
        both on and off campus. The need for concerned people alerting
        their neighbors to overshadowing dangers still exists, as it 
        did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as
        society itself.
      
             John DiNardo