as to this war and how it was carried out we thought that it is about most importance for the sake of the people of the middle east for the sake of humanity that this episode should not be burdened pages of history know this atrocities that has been committed it's a little difficult war it was such an unbalanced in terms of it was more like some people call it a slaughter a turkey shoot some of these terms that were used by some of the people celebrating the  defenseless basically it was the best in this country in light of the kind of armament and weapons of destruction that was used against them we used everything that we had and the u s arsenal short of nuclear weapons y know the president of the united states and even the head of state of israel were openly at that level not not obliquely but we're talking about the use of tactical nuclear weapons which made my blood run cold that the people in doubt with such tremendous military advantage and technological you know advantage and the possession of these terrible weapons were actually would use them  and for the st time we hear the president of the united states there israelis members of congress advocating the use of nuclear weapons against the people of iraq when there was absolutely no need this war that was carried against iraq was not for the liberation of kuwait and was not for the destruction of the iraqi military or the destruction of the iraqi government and the stabilization of the iraqi government  because of that was the case prior to the war in iraq made several offers to withdraw from kuwait and the us refused to negotiate on any of these terms they always put new conditions in order to humiliate the iraq as to occasions in order to prevent it from ever being rebuilt and the other facility was basra both were destroyed frozen meat storage and distribution center we saw the civilian transportation and civilian movement is absolutely essential for it to have these bridges were knocked out and they were all destroyed in a way that they cannot be repaired a bridge will be hit both ends and sometimes both ends and in the middle make it impossible to rebuild we people in iraq with gasoline shortages this isn't a country that's an oil producing country and expecting countries all made their major refineries were destroyed medical was not the liberation of kuwait was not the destruction of the iraqi military but the destruction of iraq as a civilization as a culture as a nation to break its will so it will not be an independent nation that's able to stand up for what are and add up to war crimes by any definition of the term absolutely the target from the civilian population is a war crime the thought of getting withdrawing troops billion dollars effect on the palestinians the palestinian community in kuwait number three hundred and twenty thousand strong community that has both kuwait out of  accordance with u s and israeli interest and u s and israeli plan to empty to liquidate the palestinian national question they're trying to  part of the reason which which continues to address now you will have some photos that we're going to show the people in the audience here ready and one of them is that you and some of the people were made a fact finding investigative tour and that's the st piece we're going to take take up here the people through the hearings that we have set up in various parts of the country and various parts of the world ok that's that's going on but let's go with a bit of the tape now and if you would set up the studio we have this tape i have some footage of he and some of the people who were the investigation of iraq back in early april of this year just recently so that tape set up in the studio will run that will come back we'll talk about the tribunals right so let's run that tape now and please thank you me every day every day i met with many many cases like this believe many cases we have to engineer it's great injustice people fear in a certain sense important power is very concentrated and if they get a chance to feel some sort of positive something in their lives they're really jump at it because there's so little on crimes tribunals and the gathering of the kind of information you did other people in the international community that are gathering this kind of information is an international national that is in a certain sense in keeping with the spirit of  i'm a lawyer therefore never very far from evil i don't happen to share his philosophy of is involved in the greatest tragedy that affleck's our species or seeks to do something that has never been done before that is imperative to survival of life on the planet and that is the whole governments of conquests against others accountable to the people for their conduct all government as one in which the powerful do if they will and the weak suffer as they must that is a policy permissible by old human standards people demanded that their leader and not ravage major parts of europe and north africa and the middle east they might have been peace at the time mongolians contain the cond so that they could grade in their own after hundreds of thousands of people who met that at their hands could raise their children but exists today for this reason that belief commission hearings gave me one of the largest investigations of criminal conduct in history a process that will take many months and thousands and the charges bring played any prosecutor dies i'm a lawyer and therefore never very far from evil beginning a gran all during the course of the day in the days ahead but we must never lose our focus on the charges the st two have to do with the most tragic crime every war crime is a crime against peace and we charge and we have substantial evidence and we're seeking more evidence george bush and others beginning sometime in and eighty eight or before deliberately began a course of conduct intending to provoke actions by iraq in the persian that would justify a military attack and the destruction of the military are the rock and its civilian economic support system we charted between august the  negotiation any intent toward peace any intent of compromise or face saving as the president said so many times will be no reward for aggression panamanians ought to pay attention but it takes only the most casual investigation of what happened over there to see that none of them did that nation any chance to really defend itself it was destroyed  systematic way without any capability of protecting the lives of its citizens civilian or military or we have to do to recognize this is look at the casualties united states is responsible for the deaths of at least one hundred and twenty five thousand perhaps more than three hundred thousand and five now human beings living in iraq between august and mar many other parts of the world are going to be going on in the states and other parts of the world because many other countries in the world were affected by this aggression against the people of the middle east that against iraq sudden there is no water there is no there is no electricity and if there are people who are accustomed to living closer to the land and that's a peasant society or people close to the land perhaps devastating this imaginary urban without transportation subways buses all of it's not work and the communications you can't make a simple telephone call and while we were in baghdad the only communication outside of the country was on i may say so but it's also there's a great deal of the women had an interest in this because once we get over perhaps as a nation the initial almost childlike kind of or teen i scored places where that arrogance has been demonstrated but now most decidedly most pointedly in this case of iraq and it's a focal issue for all of the world the future of the way in which the world is to be operated not only iraq and i congratulate you all tremendously on the work  the card is the international well crimes tribunals commission of inquiry into u s war crimes in the middle east and it's been your pleasure to have some bringing being brought up to date on these every relevant activities that are going to become ever more so as we move into let's hopefully a more peacefully oriented and world order that is characterized more by justice and by brute force military power than your pleasure to be able to have his perceptions we have conversations