Attack on Fallujah can't be justified Helen Thomas (excellent)

Friday, November 12, 2004

Attack on Fallujah can't be justified

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/199290_thomas12.html

By HELEN THOMAS
HEARST NEWSPAPERS



From day one, the U.S. government has been hard-pressed to find legal justification for being in Iraq by force. U.S. military moves were contrary to the U.N. Charter and the laws that came from the Nuremberg Tribunal after World War II.

Under the U.N. Charter, armed force by a state against the sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence of another state is a violation of international law.


By now everyone in this country must know that every reason Bush gave to attack Iraq has turned out to be a false. No weapons of mass destruction were found after two task forces took months and spent millions to hunt for them. There was no imminent threat by Iraq against the United States. And virtually nothing has been found to connect al-Qaida with deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.

Presidential credibility used to have some meaning in this country. The president visited the soldiers wounded in Iraq at Walter Reed Hospital Army Medical Center on Tuesday for the first time since March. He told reporters that the U.S. soldiers in Fallujah were doing "the hard work necessary" for a free Iraq to emerge.And he said the coalition forces were moving into Fallujah "to bring to justice those who are willing to kill the innocent, those who are trying to terrorize the Iraqi people and our coalition (and) those who want to stop democracy."

She never misses, that is why bush kicked her out of the white house.

I thought the one area Psycho Killer Chimp was honest was when he concedes that even if reasons fail for invading Iraq "it will be free" in the end. We never thought it would be free, but I thought maybe he thought it would be.

It's the "Clear Sky" and "Healthy Forest" thing. Bush knows Iraq will not be free and he sees it merely as clearing Iraqis for privatization of it's resources.

Free means Free to takeover.