Has The Whole World Gone Crazy?

Reading the page after page after page after page of euphoric triumphalism in the U.S. mainstream media, one could certainly be forgiven for thinking so. Is no person capable of recalling that the U.S. invasion (let alone many of its specific processes) of Iraq was itself a blatant violation of International Law? The case for invasion was made before the world -- and found wanting. The United States withdrew its barbarist's resolution in the face of resounding opposition. Does nobody, one month later, remember this?

Well, yes, some people do. A quick search of Google News for "war crimes Iraq", expected to return endless calls for prosecution of Iraqi war criminals, instead returned precisely the opposite: an array of calls for investigation of "coalition" crimes, including the underlying, fundamental crime of unprovoked aggression. "A good deal of informed opinion worldwide regards the Anglo-American invasion and conquest of Iraq as an illegal act of aggression, in the course of which it is coalition forces that have perpetrated numerous war crimes while pulverising Iraqi resistance," it says here. The Brooklyn-based Center for Economic and Social Rights has laid out the case in full.

So maybe there's hope.

What You Can Do: But it will take a great deal of popular outcry to even allow the issue to blip onto the radar. There's no time like the present. First, write to the Washington, DC Police Department and Mayor's Office, asking for the apprehension of George W. Bush and friends. Second, contact your representatives, urging the same. Third, contact media outlets, asking them to give coverage to this issue. Fourth, urge your friends and family to take these same steps.

Posted by Eddie Tews at April 15, 2003 12:54 PM