The Security Council must direct the United States that it may not attack Iraq

http://www.iacenter.org ^ | December 11, 2001 | Ramsey Clark

[ATOMIC_PUNK]

On December 11, 2001 the following letter was sent from  former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark to the ambassador and foreign minister of each member of the UN  Security Council and the UN General Assembly.

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December 11, 2001

Dear Ambassador,

            The Security Council must direct the United States that  it may not attack Iraq and must cease threatening to do so. Nor can it train, aid, or finance other forces  seeking the violent overthrow of the Iraqi government.   Any such acts would violate the obligations of nations  under the Charter of the United Nations and constitute crimes under international law.

            U.S. military and economic assaults on Iraq in the past  dozen years are a continuing crime against peace and  humanity.   They violate the Genocide Convention.

            The Pentagon admits it conducted 110,000 aerial sorties  against a defenseless Iraq dropping 88,500 tons of bombs  equivalent to 7 1/2 Hiroshima bombs in 42 days from  January 17 to February 28, 1991.  The bombs targeted every  type of structure and facility necessary to support  civilian life.  Family dwellings, water and food systems  and supplies, industry, commerce, business, education,  religion all across Iraq were the direct object of U.S.  bombs punishing a whole population.

            More than 150,000 thousands defenseless people died in  Iraq as a result of this military assault, which included  thousands of individual war crimes.

            From August 6, 1990 to date the most severe economic  sanctions and forced impoverishment have deliberately  inflicted hunger, malnourishment, sickness and death  generously among the people of Iraq killing and crippling  infants, children, the elderly, pregnant women, nursing  mothers, persons with chronic illnesses, and emergency  medical cases fist and most frequently.   

            More than 1 1/2 million people have died as a direct  result of these sanctions.  More than half have been  children under five years of age.  The sanctions, coerced  from the Security Council by the U.S., have violated the  Genocide Convention because they have deliberately created  conditions of life intended to destroy the Iraqi  population in whole, or in part, because of the  nationality, race, religion and ethnic origin of its  people.   The sanctions have had their intended effect.

            Every U.N. agency dealing with food, health and children  has confirmed the human horror of the sanctions.  They  include the FAO, UNICEF, WFP, WHO.  The most courageous  and honorable of the U.N. employee's directly involved  with enforcement of the sanctions and inspections under  them have resigned their positions and publicly protested  the sanctions and inspections policies.  The food for oil  program approved only in late 1996, and used thereafter  primarily as a devise for delay, frustration and  accusation, was initiated only when international protest  against the savagery of the sanctions overwhelmed the fear  in which Security Council members held the threat of U.S.  reprisal if they did not support U.S. policies.

            The U.S. has bombed Iraq whenever it chose to do so at  any time for the past twelve years.  Missiles and bombs  have targeted Saddam Hussin for assassination.  Many  hundreds have been killed, including as an illustration of  the meaning of such bombing, Leila al Attar, the  internationally famous artist, museum director, wife,  mother, human being.  The sound of U.S. jets over Iraq is  omnipresent, keeping constant the terrifying memory of the  continuous aerial and missile assault of February-March  1991 which averaged an aerial sortie every 30 seconds.

            In the face of these staggering crimes against Iraq, the  U.S. has conducted a constant campaign of vilification in  the international media it controls.  While claims Saddam  Hussein is the evil it seeks to destroy its broad brush  paints all of Iraq as a symbol of evil.  The U.S.  propaganda is racist, anti Muslim, hate engendering and  false.  

            The U.S. has corrupted and seriously compromised the  United Nations by appearing to act in its name, tragically  diminishing humanities best hope for peace, dignity and  decent conditions of life for all by its decade of brutish  and criminal assaults on the people of Iraq.  Though  coerced, the Security Council is  complicit in these  crimes against peace and humanity, war crimes and genocide  because it has at the least allowed its name and moral  authority to be usurped by the United States.

            The United States time and time again has acted on the  advice of Plato's Athenian Stranger, who fearing the  judgment of history remains anonymous by waging "...war  for the sake of peace".  Consider how victims of U.S.  wars, surrogate and direct, since World War II have fared:  Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Nicaragua, the Domenican  Republic, the Philippines, Liberia, Cuba, Guatemala,  Grenada, Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Haiti,  El Salvador, Honduras, Angola, Croatia, Bosnia,  Yugoslavia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iran, Indonesia,  Afghanistan.  Yet where is the promised peace?

            Consider the havoc direct U.S. military violence has  wreaked in the past decade on the people of Iraq, all the  Republics of the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia  created to make peace possible in the Balkans, Nicaragua,  Haiti, Somalia, Sudan, North Korea, Kosovo, Afghanistan.   And who will be next?  The media  reports daily on the  candidates.

            Is there anything Iraq has done in the past decade which   threatened peace, endangered life, or caused violence   that could possibly compare with the violence and calumny  the U.S. has visited on Iraq.  There is no legal basis, or  moral justification for a U.S. attack on Iraq, or for U.S.  financing and assisting in the overthrow of its  government.  For the U.S. to do so is an international  crime and prohibited by the Constitution and laws of the  United States.  Prevailing power in the U.S. and its  government intends to attack Iraq when the current assault  of Afghanistan has accomplished its purpose to consolidate  U.S. domination over the Middle East, the Gulf region and  central Asia.

            Act immediately to end the shame of the Security Councils  abject failure to assert the independence and sovereignty  of the United Nations under its Charter and to end this  scourge of war.  Prohibit the United States from  attacking Iraq.

Sincerely,
Ramsey Clark

[counterrevolutionary]

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

[Constantine XIII]

I think this is an offense worthy of treason charges, or at least a public humiliation/firing. Can he be courtmarshalled? GRRRRRR

[dighton]

What you said.

[Jewels1091]

It's for sure now...this man has completely lost his mind, he needs someone to help him find it.

[Russ]

Ramsey should be kicked out of the U.S and the United Nations right behind him! Screw them both!!

[counterrevolutionary]

The traitorous jackass Clark apparently doesn't know that the US is a permanent member of the Security Council, and would therefore simply veto any such resolution.

But when have lefties ever let their abysmal ignorance of reality get in the way of their lunatic ravings?

It's kind of unfortunate, too, because if the Security Council were to start giving us orders, that might just be the impetus this nation needs to get out of the UN, which I've always considered a good idea, but too unlikely in the short term to merit serious discussion.

[Argus]

Many hundreds have been killed, including as an illustration of the meaning of such bombing, Leila al Attar, the internationally famous artist, museum director, wife, mother, human being.

You think Ramsey was dating her? This screed is so hysterical and over the top, it's gotta be a personal thing.

[SKempis]

The sad thing is that the Security Council will give this trash serious consideration.

[TaxPayer2000]

I guess anyone can send a letter to the ambassador and foreign minister of each member of the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.

[Jen]

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[Centurion2000]

The Security Council must direct the United States that it may not attack Iraq and must cease threatening to do so.

Try and stop us.

[Moose4]

The Pentagon admits it conducted 110,000 aerial sorties against a defenseless Iraq dropping 88,500 tons of bombs equivalent to 7 1/2 Hiroshima bombs in 42 days from January 17 to February 28, 1991.

DEFENSELESS?!? Gee, I guess all those tracers flying over Baghdad on the night of 17 January were just, um, Muslim festival fireworks! Yeah, that's the ticket! Never mind that the airspace over Iraq was one of the most heavily defended, in terms of AAA and SAMs, in the world!

Will somebody kindly get this senile old man away from a computer before he hurts himself? Dear Lord in Heaven, how a man like this ever held an Executive-branch office in this great country's government, I will never know...

}:-)4

[counterrevolutionary]

The sad thing is that the Security Council will give this trash serious consideration.

This was sent on December 11, 2001, and this is the first I've heard of it. I don't think anyone gave it serious consideration--at least not in public.

[Adrastus]

Dear Ramsey: I would have written sooner but I couldn't spell PPPPPPPHHHHHUUUUTTTTTT.

Regards, Adrastus.

[meyer]

I don't think that the political climate would allow the "security council" to act on this in the manner consistent with their leftist, redistributionist, thievin', sorry, ill-mannered, disgusting ways. The general public in the US would then agree with FR in saying:

Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN!

[Nitro]

Here is an old friend of ours talking SH*T again!!

I guess our journey into the belly of the beast didn't do anything except give them agitta!!

[No Truce With Kings]

Let's see if I have this right:

Ramsey Clark believes that unless the Security Council passes a resolution barring the United States from attacking Iraq, that the United States can legally do so.

The U.S. is a permanent member of the Security Council, and can veto any resolutions before that body.

And the problem is? Sounds like we have Iraq right where we want them.

Thanks Ramsey!

[Pushi]

Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN!

Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN!

Get the UN out of the US and the US out of the UN!

etc., etc., etc.