Shirin Ebadi: US war in Iraq 'cowardly, barbaric'

Iranmania ^ | 7/05/04 | Iranmania

[freedom44]

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 5 (AFP) - The US war in Iraq is "lawless, cowardly and barbaric" 2003 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi, said in an interview published Monday.

"The Iraqis have no water nor electricity in the cities," she told Brazil's O Globo newspaper."But oil continues to flow as never before.

"If the United States really had the goal of protecting Iraq's democracy, it would have done something else," the Iranian lawyer said.

The human rights defender recalled that Iraq had launched a seven-year war on Iran."At that time, Saddam (Hussein, the ousted Iraqi leader) was a great friend of the United States. He purchased chemical weapons from the United States," she said.

"The most interesting thing is that the United States attacked Iraq on the pretext of searching for the arsenal, as though they had nothing to do with it.

"They have not found chemical weapons. They have begun to justify the invasion with the desire to bring democracy.""The United States forgot that it is impossible to send the message of democracy at the same time as a bomb," she told the Rio de Janeiro daily.

She also recalled that the first Gulf war, after Iraq invaded Kuwait, was with the authorization of the United Nations."But not now. This is a lawless war that is cowardly and barbaric."

"If the United States invested not even one percent of what it has spent on the war, the Iraqi people themselves would have toppled Saddam Hussein," she said.

Saddam was arraigned on war crimes charges last week and could face the death penalty.However, Ebadi said she is "radically opposed to the death penalty."

"Killing a criminal does not reveal the truth," she said.Ebadi said that the current situation in Iraq will have a chilling effect on democratic movements in the region.

"Now, anytime someone talks about change and the democratic process in Iraq, people will ask: 'Oh, of course, they want to do what the United States has done in Iraq?'"

[freedom44]

-Her anti-American fundamenalism makes Iran's Mullahs look like American patriots. She spends about 95% of her time in speeches condemning the United States, while spending about 5% condemning the dictatorship at home. Also, interesting that she speaks of peace and progress while at the same time throwing around her violent and hateful speeches towards The United States. But, what can one expect from someone who said President Khatami deserves the nobel prize, glorified his failed movement to the world and praised Iran's human rights record as one significally improved since the 1970's. Of course, the Nobel Prize wasn't given to the true Iranian Freedom Fighters dwelling in the pits of the Evin Prison, but to this bloodsucking mouthpiece to the Europeans and the IRI.

[freedom44]

US war in Iraq is "lawless, cowardly and barbaric".
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[Just Lori]

When I read this kind of nonsense, I am so at a loss for words. What can you say to a complete idiot who has lost touch with reality? Hmmmm.... maybe ask her if she would like a peanut-butter and jelly sammich?

[bayourod]

Well, isn't that nice.

[saquin]

Wow, they must be giving Nobel Peace Prizes out like candy these days.

Or maybe they just hand them out to the person who screams "America is evil!!" the loudest.

[ApesForEvolution]

If a train ran her over tonight, the world would be a better place...

[ApesForEvolution]

The minute ANYONE says "Nobel Peace..." I just laugh for a minute.

[risk]

Thanks for the ping. Is she buying her own mobility by giving up opportunties to talk about the real dangers her own Iranian leaders pose to the Iraqi people and the world?

[Dallas59]

*SQUAWK*...."The United States is bad" ....*SQUAWK*....."It's Bushes fault"....*SQUAWK*...."Polly want a cracker"...

[jeffers]

Barbaric? She's really going be upset when the 82nd and the Marines meet up with 1AD and 1CAV. In Tehran.

[nuconvert]

What a disappointment.

[Shermy]

sounds like she rather be invited to West European cocktail parties than meetings to free her own people.

[Billthedrill]

Another idiot who invokes U.S. sales of chemical weapons to Saddam in one breath and then smirks that they haven't been found with the next. Others claiming that the U.S. was "cowardly" for invading were running their mouths incessantly that the Americans were too cowardly to invade before it happened. These folks always want to have it both ways and end up having neither.

[jpl]

"The Iraqis have no water nor electricity in the cities."

I'm smelling bullcrap here. If the people had no water in the cities, then pretty soon there wouldn't be many people left in the cities because they'd all be leaving or dying of thirst and disease.

[litehaus]

Nobel prize winners, Pulitzer prize winners (Walt Duranty i.e.), Palm D'or(sp)etc etc...have no necessity for telling the truth ...........obviously!