From: David.Rice@ofa123.fidonet.org
Newsgroups: alt.atheism
Subject: Iraq Murders
X-Sender: newtout 0.02 Nov  5 1992
Date: 06 Nov 92  15:23:14

Who: keith@cco.caltech.edu (Keith Allan Schneider)
ID: 1d8s4uINNcv3@gap.caltech.edu
And: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
 
M> "You know, I have an awful lot of trouble sorting out this
M> 'inhumane act' business.  Was the US Military's murder of
M> several hundred thousand innocent Iraqi civilians an 
M> 'inhumane act?' If not, why not?  And if so, are you
M> suggesting that the military should all be sent to the
M> electric chair?
 
KAS> "Iraq was given every possibility to back down. Also,
KAS> the US made every attempt not to kill any civilians."
 
Sorry, you are wrong and Mathew is right. The US went out of its' way
to encourace, and make inevitable, the war against the citizens of
Iraq; the US also went out of its way to kill every Iraqi non-combatant
it could get in its gun sights.
 
The Washington Post published detailed minutes of meetings, in mid-
August, between Baker's designated ambassator and Hussen. The US
position was to let Hussen know that the US had "NO INTERESTS" in
the comming war.
 
There are also detailed records of US actions that blocked Soviet
efforts to end the crisis peacefully. There are also records that
showed Bush ignored Hussen when the latter wanted to discuss terms
of his withdrawl. TERMS FAVORABLE to the US.
 
BUSH WANTED THE WAR. There is massive evidence that proves this
assertion, some reciently published in Los Angeles Times (the day
before the Presidential election).
 
"Damnation Highway," the freeway leading out of Kuwait, was bombed
by US forces, and every civilian vehicle on it was destroyed. Many
hundreds of families, fleeing the city in station wagons, vans, and
sedans, were straifed and bombed by US forces. The BBC showed a
closeup of a blackened little child, burnt bones protruding from
the sizzled fat, clutching a burned doll---- complements of the
US air force. Just one of THOUSANDS.
 
Just like the US invasion of Panama, the civilian dead outnumbers
the combatant dead by an order of magnatude. The Harvard University
study said 300,000 civilians, mostly children, women, and elderly,
were killed out-right, and over one million are expected to die in
the two years after the war.
 
The deaths that are occuring now, as we speak, are related to
diseases brought on by foul water, destroyed sewage plants,
lack of electricity, starvation, and lack of shelter. ALL
are a result of US forces bombing civilian support structures.
 
The US Department of Defense claims that less than 20% of its
"smart bombs" actually hit their targets. The ones we all got to
watch on TV were the exceptions, not the rules.
 
The British BBC covered the war to a MUCH greater degree than the
US media was allowed to show. A great many British commentators
have shown BUSH to be the evil despot, a twin to Hussen. The BBC
showed the bombing, by American airforces, of a school. The bombs
were meant for the power plant next to the school, and it took
US forces half a dozen trys before hitting the target. Regreatably,
the school and surrounding neighborhood, was destroyed.
 
There was a War Crimes Tribunal held in Los Angeles after the
war, where many people from all over the Earth came to give
testimony AGAINST the US. Japan was outraged that US forced
them, against the threat of economic hardship, to send a token
force "in support" WHICH IS AGAINST THEIR CONSTITUTION.
 
George Bush has shown us which prayer he used when it was all over
[Persian Gulf 'War'], but what did he use to get it started and make
it go? here's an example of an inciteful [no pun intended] prayer:
 
"O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with 
our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms
of their partriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with
the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste
their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts
of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them
out roofless with their children to wander unfriended the wastes of
their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun
flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn
with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied
it..."

--- Maximus 2.00