WAR CRIMES & IMPEACHMENT Up to December 2003


THIS WAR ON TERRORISM IS BOGUS	by Michael Meacher	September 6, 2003
The 9/11 attacks gave the US an ideal pretext to use force to secure its global domination. Massive attention has now been given - and rightly so - to the reasons why Britain went to war against Iraq. But far too little attention has focused on why the US went to war, and that throws light on British motives too.

PM's office exaggerated Iraq threat, inquiry hears.	From ABC News	August, 2003
A former intelligence analyst has accused the Prime Minister's office of exaggerating the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The claim has been made to a federal parliamentary inquiry investigating the accuracy of intelligence about Iraq's banned weapons. Andrew Wilkie quit the Office of National Assessments in March because he believed the Government was deliberately misleading the public about the case for war.

IRAQI CITIES "HOT" WITH DEPLETED URANIUM	by Sara Flounders	August 16, 2003
Letter to Helen Clark and other MPs from Bill Watson - *send yours!* Has U.S. use of depleted-uranium weapons turned Iraq into a radioactive danger area for both Iraqis and occupation troops? This question has already had serious consequences. In hot spots in downtown Baghdad, reporters have measured radiation levels that are 1,000 to 1,900 times higher than normal background radiation levels.

	Sleepwalking To Extinction		by George Monbiot	August 11, 2003
	Comment by Larry Ross Something about the human mind appears to prevent us from grasping the reality of climate change. We live in a dreamworld. With a small, rational part of the brain, we recognise that our existence is governed by material realities, and that, as those realities change, so will our lives.

	Bush's Impeachable Offenses: Lying & Racketeering		June 15, 2003
	Republicans Vs. The United States Armed Forces: The Sequel. American-led teams have not located either WMD weapons or the "re-built factories" that allegedly produced them.

'They impeach murderers, don't they?'	by Ted Rall	June 13, 2003
Topic: Commander-In-Thief Bush Must Step Down George W. Bush told us that Iraq and Al Qaeda were working together. They weren't. He repeatedly implied that Iraq had had something to do with 9/11. It hadn't. He claimed to have proof that Saddam Hussein possessed banned weapons of mass destruction. He didn't. As our allies watched in horror and disgust, Bush conned us into a one-sided war of aggression that killed and maimed thousands of innocent people, destroyed billions of dollars in Iraqi infrastructure, cost tens of billions of dollars, cost the lives of American soldiers, and transformed our international image as the world's shining beacon of freedom into that of a marauding police state. Presidents Nixon and Clinton rightly faced impeachment for comparatively trivial offenses; if we hope to restore our nation's honor, George W. Bush too must face a president's gravest political sanction.

Playwright Pinter blasts 'Nazi America' and 'deluded idiot' Blair	The Guardian	June 11, 2003
The playwright Harold Pinter last night likened George W Bush's administration to Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany, saying the US was charging towards world domination while the American public and Britain's "mass-murdering" prime minister sat back and watched.

DU Info Bulletin no. 72 and News		April 23, 2003
One of the enduring mysteries of the last gulf war	Susan Spencer, CBS	April 9, 2003
Scientists reject line on depleted uranium	Paul Brown, The Guardian	April 19 2003
Depleted uranium casts shadow over peace in Iraq	Duncan Graham-Rowe	April 15, 2003
Long-Term Damage from a Short-Term War Leaving a Mess in Mesopotamia	Solana Pyne	April 16-22, 2003
U.S. should end its use of depleted-uranium weapons	Ginger Perlman	April 16, 2003
Nuclear "bunker busters" sought: Move signals big shift in U.S. weapon strategy	Dan Stober, Mercury News	April 23, 2003
Death by DU Depleted uranium: A deadly tool in the U.S. arsenal	Beth Hawkins Minneapolis City Pages	April 23, 2003
Scientists debate depleted uranium weapons' possible contamination of Iraqi civilians	Joseph B. Verrengia Associated Press	April 21, 2003
Depleted-uranium weapons should be banned	Glen Milner
"Depleted uranium will affect Iraq for generations to come"	Prof Doug Rokke, Aljazeera	April 15, 2003

	WHY ARE AMERICANS KILLING JOURNALISTS		by Robert Fisk	April 9 & 10, 2003
	First the Americans killed the correspondent of al-Jazeera yesterday and wounded his cameraman. Then, within four hours, they attacked the Reuters television bureau in Baghdad, killing one of its cameramen and a cameraman for Spain's Tele 5 channel and wounding four other members of the Reuters staff.

	IPPNW Warns of Nuclear Bunker Busters Radiation Victims		by David Crary	March 28, 2003
	The IPPNW study concludes that even a very low-yield nuclear EPW exploded in or near an urban environment such as Baghdad will inevitably disperse radioactive dirt and debris over several square kilometers and could result in fatal doses of radiation to tens of thousands of victims.

	THE NUCLEAR DANGERS FROM THE WAR ON IRAQ	by Larry Ross	March 15, 2003
	Instead of deterrence and last resort, the Bush doctrines call for integrating nuclear weapons with conventional weapons as one more military option, thus greatly lowering the threshold for actual use. The US is also making new nuclear weapons called "bunker-busters" as well as micro nuclear weapons. Iraq may be only be the first of seven named nations..

	What About the Iraqi Children?		By Charlotte Aldebron	March 3, 2003
	If I am lucky, I will be killed instantly, like the three hundred children murdered by your "smart" bombs in a Baghdad bomb shelter on February 16, 1991. The blast caused a fire so intense that it flash-burned outlines of those children and their mothers on the walls; you can still peel strips of blackened skin - souvenirs of your victory - from the stones.

	Coalition of the willing? Make that war criminals	Sydney Morning Herald	February 26, 2003
	A pre-emptive strike on Iraq would constitute a crime against humanity, write 43 experts on international law and human rights. The initiation of a war against Iraq by the self-styled "coalition of the willing" would be a fundamental violation of international law. International law recognises two bases for the use of force.

LIGHTING THE FUSE - Freeing the Iraqi People to Death

by Peter Matthiessen

February 23, 2003

"One can only pray that strategic bluster is at work when a Bush Team
official boasts on television of planned "shock and awe" armadas of bombs and rockets --nearly eight hundred in the first two days -- that will effectively remove any impulse to resist, especially in those who have been killed."

ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS OF IRAQ WAR

Peter Drekmeier

February 22, 2003

If nuclear weapons are used in Iraq, Medact fears that 3.9 million
people would die. The radioactive fallout would eventually circle the planet, dooming even more people to an early death.

The Lie Factory

by Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest

Jan/Feb Issue, 04

	Late last year, a special Mother Jones investigation detailed how, only weeks after 9/11, the Bush administration set up a secret Pentagon unit to create the case for invading Iraq. Here is the inside story of how they pushed disinformation and bogus intelligence and led the nation to war.

The Nuclear Option in Iraq	by William M. Arkin	January 25, 2003
The U.S. has lowered the bar for using the ultimate weapon.
WASHINGTON -- One year after President Bush labeled Iraq, Iran and North Korea the "axis of evil," the United States is thinking about the unthinkable: It is preparing for the possible use of nuclear weapons against Iraq.

	IRAQI CHILDREN SACRIFICE	by Emma Macdonald	December 16, 2002
	"Demonstration that war involves a bloody sacrifice of Iraq's children. A dramatic demonstration to the Australian people and government that Australian approval of war with Iraq makes them complicit with the murder of thousands of Iraq's children. Is toadying to George Bush worth this?"

Comment	by Larry Ross	October 26, 2003
QUESTIONS THAT WON'T BE ASKED ABOUT IRAQ	by Ron Paul	September 10, 2002
Soon we hope to have hearings on the pending war with Iraq. I am concerned there are some questions that won¡t be asked - and maybe will not even be allowed to be asked. Here are some questions I would like answered by those who are urging us to start this war. Project Freedom

Lets Not Forget:
Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President	by Neil Mackay	September 15, 2002

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	The Meaning of Victory		by David Krieger	March 31, 2003
	“Day by day we are moving closer to Baghdad. Day by day we are moving closer to victory.” George W. Bush Day by day we are killing more Iraqi civilians. One day US forces bomb a marketplace, killing 62 civilians.

SPEECH TO THE NATION	by Geoge W. Bush	March 18, 2003
JUSTIFYING US WAR ON IRAQ

	Pull the Plug on Armageddon	by B.Z. Botani	March 6, 2003
	Millions of Lives on the Line.................... This isn't warfare. This is mass destruction, holocaust, aggressive and murderous imperialism.