Int. Red Cross: 'Utter Contempt' for Humanity Amid Iraq Fighting

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Published on Friday, November 19, 2004 by the Agence France Presse

ICRC Slams 'Utter Contempt' for Humanity Amid Fierce Fighting in Iraq


GENEVA - The International Committee of the Red Cross sharply criticized the "utter contempt" for humanity shown by all sides in Iraq amid fierce fighting between US forces and insurgents for control of the city of Fallujah.

"We are deeply concerned by the devastating impact that the fighting in Iraq is having on the people of that country," said Pierre Kraehenbuehl, the ICRC's director of operations.

"As hostilities continue in Fallujah and elsewhere, every day seems to bring news of yet another act of utter contempt for the most basic tenet of humanity: the obligation to protect human life and dignity," he added.

"For the parties to this conflict, complying with international humanitarian law is an obligation, not an option," Kraehenbuehl said in an unusually tough statement by the relief agency.

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the way I FEEL... GOOD... not that the freepers will care, but this is exactly the problem. NOBODY IS INNOCENT or without guilt here

Damn the ICRC, they'd say.
In Bushworld, the only obligations are between man and God.
The United States, being so divine of course in neocon estimation, can curse anyone, and can snap other nations like twigs underfoot.
I want to beat the people who say they govern us and all their supporters to a pulp when I hear a story like this.

This is awful.

I can't imagine how Iraq can possibly emerge out of this mess with any real stability for years and years.

After a year and a half, I'm still in shock that my country actually invaded another.