U.S. AGGRESSION - Letter by Walter J. Rockler (former prosecutor Nuremberg war crimes)

[ernie yacub (by way of Arie Dirkzwager <aried@xs4all.nl>)]

From: "Rene Bilodeau" <rbil at island.net>
To: cdsmail at island.net (CDS Peace List Mailing List)
Subject: CDS Peace List: U.S. AGGRESSION - Letter by Walter J. Rockler
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 16:28:04 -0700


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U.S. AGGRESSION

Letter by Walter J. Rockler,
Former prosecutor,
Nuremberg war crimes trials



As the bombs, smart and dumb, fall ceaselessly on Serbs, Montenegrins and
sometimes Albanians, on bridges, waterworks, electric generation plants and
factories, and on trains, trucks and homes, the remorseless crusade for
"humanitarianism" presses forward to the applause of journalistic and
academic
shills. To paraphrase the Roman historian Tacitus, we are busy creating a
desert, which we can then call peace.

For the United States, alias "NATO," the planning and launching of this war
by
the president heightens the abuse and undermining of warmaking authority
under
the Constitution. (It seems to be accepted that the president can order his
personal army to attack any country he pleases.) The bombing war also
violates
and shreds the basic provisions of the United Nations Charter and other
conventions and treaties; the attack on Yugoslavia constitutes the most
brazen
international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent "Polish
atrocities" against Germans. The United States has discarded pretensions to
international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw
imperialism
run amok.

Our alleged concern with human rights borders on the ludicrous. We dropped
twice as many bombs on Vietnam as all the countries involved in World War II
dropped on each other. We killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in the
course of that war. Very recently, in Central America, we sponsored, trained
and endorsed the local armies--Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Nicaraguan
Contras--in the killing of at least 200,000 people. We encouraged the
Pinochet
coup in Chile with the resulting killing of another few thousand or so
people,
including the democratically elected president. We saw nothing wrong with the
Croat slaughter and expulsion of 200,000 Serbs from the Krajina area. We have
taken very little stand on the monumental slaughters of hundreds of
thousands,
if not millions, of people in Africa. We have restrained the Iraqis from
attacking Kurds but see nothing amiss in Turks attacking Kurds. We cannot
even
agree to abandon the use of land mines.

In reality when we, the self-anointed rulers of this planet, issue an
ultimatum
to another country, it is "surrender or die." To maintain our "credibility,"
we
must crush any semblance of resistance to our dictates to that country.

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