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13 Myths About the Case for War Against Iraq


New flyer under development by the guys from www.13myths.org:

Myth 1: Removing Saddam Will Prevent 9/11 Repeat
Myth 2: Powell Presented Strong Evidence
Myth 3: Saddam May Soon Threaten US
Myth 4: Experts 'Discover' Prohibited Missile
Myth 5: Bin Laden Tape Proves Iraq Connection
Myth 6: Iraq Still Has Large Nuclear Program
Myth 7: If US Pulls Out Now, It Looks Bad
Myth 8: A Cheap, Easy War
Myth 9: Wartime Press is Free and Unbiased
Myth 10: Goal is to Free Iraqis, Not to Grab Oil
Myth 11: War Solves the Energy Crisis
Myth 12: UN Commitments Don't Really Matter
Myth 13: Protesting a War is Unpatriotic


posted by wenz at 11:03:00 PM |

 
Millions March Against War in Iraq


The biggest demonstrations worldwide since the Vietnam War; and in Switzerland the biggest in two decades






The biggest demonstration since the Cold War; 40'000 protestors gathered in the Swiss Capital Bern.

Millions of demonstrators all over the world yesterday showed the U.S. government and its UK lapdog their opposition to the planned war in Iraq and exposed the US Administration's real motive behind the war (no blood for oil) to the TV cameras of the world.

The Washington Post was caught spinning the millions of demonstrators (up to 11.5 million people by independent reports) into a "thousands worldwide". The figure of "millions of people" was however mentioned in most US mass media as it was impossible to ignore. Some right-wing websites showed their true colors labeling peace protesters in Germany "Hitlers children".

A small group of people, however, can't or won't distinguish between opposition to Bush's policies or the war in Iraq and anti-Americanism. People burning flags obviously don't understand the finer points, and often are the same ones discrediting legitimate peace protests with violence (see the WEF '03 after-demo in Bern that ended with somebody getting shot with a flare gun). It is the same kind of infantile behaviour currently being displayed by US talk show hosts, etc., taking cheap shots at the French being wussies in war, because they have different ideas about the war in Iraq. It doesn't help at all insulting someones national pride, by for example burning their flag. This is primarily what US commentators find to criticize the pro-peace demonstrations, disregarding the few cranks who call all those demonstrators "hippie communists" or "Hitler's children".

These demonstrations show that the world is longing for peace and in effect portray an unwillingess by large part of the world population to accept Bush's declared decade-long "War on Terrorism", especially now as in the case of Iraq there have been no proven links to international terrorism and the suspected mastermind of the first WTC bombing was offered by the Iraqis for extradition but the US declined. And the supposed links to al-Qaeida mentioned by Blair and the Bush Administration just don't hold up to scrutiny. The issue of WMD I won't touch here, let it be suffice to say that if Iraq really has WMDs, a war is no way to disarm those weapons without them being used. After all, that has been and still is the purpose of such weapons, i.e., they are a deterrence, such as in MAD (mutually assured destruction in the cold war).

The overall game-plan for Iraq and Saudi-Arabia and US policy for expansion of the US hegemony over the Middle East, as a stepping-stone to totall world dominance has already been defined in 1992 by then undersecretary of defense for policy Paul Wolfowitz and Dick Cheney, and the new strategy followed by President Bush is based on their recommendations for US world domination. The peace demonstrations can hardly change this reality, and threfore, can't stop the war. But public opinion against war does make it necessary to gain approval by the populace through new evidence presented (the new "Bin Laden" tape didn't help much telling the Iraqi people to revolt against Saddam, neither do the missiles reaching over the mandated maximum range of 150 km) or some kind of terror event that will scare people into the war.

Berne, Switzerland: 40'000 say no blood for oil!
switzerland.indymedia.org

Some pictures from F-15 in Bern can be found here:
F-15 in Bern

Thousands join anti-war protest in Bern:
www.swissinfo.org


posted by wenz at 7:22:00 PM |