This paper documents the numerous occasions
that international laws were
broken and disregarded during
the Gulf War.
Introduction
1. For the past year I have been working
with the International Commission of Inquiry into United States war
crimes that were committed during the Persian Gulf War. This Commission
has conducted the largest independent world-wide investigation of war
crimes in history. Since last May [1991], the Commission has held thirty
hearings across the United States and in twenty countries across five
continents to expose the war crimes that the United States government
inflicted upon the People and State of Iraq.
2. On Saturday, February 29, 1992 in New
York City, at the Martin Luther, Jr. Auditorium, the Commission will
publicly present its evidence before an International War Crimes Tribunal
consisting of distinguished jurists and human rights activists drawn
from around the world. In the brief space that has been allotted to
me, I would like to present the basic gist of the charges that will
be brought before the Tribunal against President George Bush, Vice President
Dan Quayle, Secretary of State Jim Baker, Secretary of Defense Dick
Cheney, National Security Assistant Brent Scowcroft, CIA Director William
Webster, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell,
General Norman Schwarzkopf, and other members of the High Command of
the United States military establishment who launched and waged this
brutal, inhumane, and criminal war. Hereinafter, these individuals will
be collectively referred to as the Defendants.
The Charges
3. The international crimes that have
been charged and will be proven against these Defendants consist principally
of the three Nuremberg Offences: the Nuremberg Crime Against Peace,
that is waging an aggressive war and a war in violation of international
treaties and agreements; Nuremberg Crimes Against Humanity; and Nuremberg
War Crimes.
In addition, these Defendants also committed
grievous war crimes by wantonly violating the Hague Regulations on Land
Warfare of 1907; the Declaration of London on Sea Warfare of 1909; the
Hague Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare of 1923; the Four Geneva Conventions
of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977; and the international
crimes of Genocide against the People of Iraq as defined by the International
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crimes of Genocide
of 1948 as well as by the United States' own Genocide Convention Implementation
Act of 1987, 18 U.S.C. 1901.
Finally, and most heinously of all, these Defendants
actually perpetrated a Nuremberg Crime against their own troops when
they forced them to take experimental biological weapons vaccines without
their informed consent in gross violation of the Nuremberg Code on Medical
Experimentation that has been fully subscribed to by the United States
government.
Universal Jurisdiction
4. These international crimes create personal
criminal responsibility on the part of all these Defendants that warrant
their prosecution under basic norms of customary international law,
treaties, and statutes in any state of the world community that obtains
jurisdiction over them for the rest of their lives. We believe that
the International War Crimes Tribunal will produce a Judgment that can
be put into the hands of every government in the world with no injunction
that should any of these Defendants ever appear within their territorial
jurisdiction, they must be apprehended and prosecuted for the commission
of the specified international crimes. Like unto pirates, these Defendants
are hostes humani generis - the enemies of all humankind!
The Historical Origins of the War
5. I do not have the time in this brief
presentation to analyse the entire history of illegal U.S. military
interventionism into the Middle East - especially the Persian Gulf region
- and in particular its divide-and-conquer (divida et impera)
policies. Suffice it to say here that the "immediate cause"
of the United States war to destroy Iraq and take over
the Arab oil fields in the Persian Gulf goes back to the 1973 Arab oil
boycott of Europe. The Arab oil states imposed the boycott in solidarity
with those Arab states that were then attempting to reclaim their Lands
that had been illegally stolen from them by Israel in 1967.
The Arab oil boycott brought Europe to its knees.
Subsequently, Arab oil states were able to increase the price of oil
to a point of economic fairness that would enable them to provide for
the basic human needs of their own Peoples.
6. But the success of the Arab oil boycott
led several prominent U.S. government officials in the Nixon administration,
and especially Henry Kissinger, to publicly threaten that the United
States government would prepare itself to seize the Arab oil fields
in order to prevent something like the boycott from ever happening again.
This illegal governmental threat was stated openly, publicly, and repeatedly
during the course of the Nixon administration, the Ford administration,
the Carter administration, and the Reagan administration. The Bush administration
would finally be the ones to carry this threat out. But only after a
decade of active preparations.
The Rapid Deployment Force
7. During the course of the Carter administration,
the United States government obtained authorisation from Congress to
set up, arm, equip, and supply the so-called Rapid Deployment Force
(RDF), whose primary mission was to seize and steal the Arab oil-fields
of the Persian Gulf region. So the planning and preparations for the
U.S. war against Iraq go all the way back to the so-called "liberal"
Carter administration - at the very least.
The United States Foreign Policy Establishment
consists of liberal imperialists, reactionary imperialists, and middle-of-the-road
imperialists. But they all share in common a firm belief in America's
"Manifest Destiny" to rule the world.
8. For the next decade, the Pentagon obtained
a new generation of high-technology conventional weapons possessing
massive destructive power and lethality; the logistical support network
necessary to convey a force of 500,000 soldiers over to the Persian
Gulf region within six months; and base access rights and facilities
for that purpose throughout Africa, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
Working in conjunction with its de facto allies in the region such as
Egypt and Israel, the Pentagon stockpiled enormous quantities of weapons,
equipment, and supplies in the immediate
vicinity of the Persian Gulf as a prelude to military intervention.
Hence, the United States government had been planning, preparing, and
conspiring to seize and steal the Persian Gulf oil fields for over a
decade.
United States War Plans Against Iraq
9. Sometime after the termination of the
Iraq-Iran War in the Summer of 1988, the Pentagon proceeded to revise
its outstanding war plans for U.S. military intervention into the Persian
Gulf region in order to destroy Iraq. Defendant Schwarzkopf was put
in charge of this revision. For example, in early 1990, Defendant Schwarzkopf
informed the Senate Armed Services Committee of this new military strategy
in the Gulf allegedly designed to protect U.S. access to and control
over Gulf oil in the event of regional conflicts. In October 1990, Defendant
Powell referred to the new
military plan developed in 1989. After the war, Defendant Schwarzkopf
referred to eighteen months of planning for the campaign.
10. Sometime in late 1989 or early 1990,
the Pentagon's war plan for destroying Iraq and stealing Persian Gulf
oil fields was put into motion. At that time, Defendant Schwarzkopf
was named the Commander of the so-called U.S. Central Command - which
was the renamed version of the Rapid Deployment Force - for the purpose
of carrying out the war plan that he had personally developed and supervised.
During January of 1990, massive quantities of United States weapons,
equipment, and supplies were sent to Saudi Arabia in order to prepare
for the war against Iraq.
11. Pursuant to this war plan, Defendant
Webster and the CIA assisted and directed Kuwait in its actions of violating
OPEC oil production agreements to undercut the price of oil for the
purpose of debilitating Iraq's economy; in extracting excessive and
illegal amounts of oil from pools it shared with Iraq; in demanding
immediate repayment of loans Kuwait had made to Iraq during the Iraq-Iran
War; and in breaking off negotiations with Iraq over these disputes.
The Defendants intended to provoke Iraq into aggressive military actions
against Kuwait that they knew could be used to justify U.S. military
intervention into the Persian Gulf for the purpose of destroying Iraq
and taking over Arab oil fields.
The U.S. "Green Light" to Invade
Kuwait
12. The Defendants showed absolutely no
opposition to Iraq's increasing threats against Iraq. Indeed, when Saddam
Hussein requested U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie to explain State Department
testimony in Congress about Iraq's threats against Kuwait, she assured
him that the United States considered the dispute to be a regional concern,
and that it would not intervene militarily. In other words, the United
States government gave Saddam Hussein what amounted to a "green
light" to invade Kuwait.
13. This reprehensible behaviour was similar
to that of the Carter administration during September of 1980, when
United States government officials gave Saddam Hussein the "green
light" to invade Iran and thus commence the tragic Iraq-Iran War.
A decade later, Saddam Hussein simply surmised that he had been given
yet another "green light" by the United States government
to commit overt aggression against surrounding states. Only this time,
the Defendants knowingly intended to lead Iraq into a provocation that
could be used to justify intervention and warfare by United States military
forces for the real purpose of destroying Iraq as a military power and
seizing Arab oil fields in the Persian Gulf.
Bush Is the Bigger War Criminal
14. On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and
occupied Kuwait without significant resistance. The Kuwaiti government
itself estimated that approximately 300 people were killed as a result
of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and a few hundred more as a result of
the military occupation. By comparison, Defendant Bush's invasion of
Panama in December of 1989 took between 2,000 and 4,000 Panamanian lives,
and the United States government is still covering up the actual death
toll. Defendant Bush killed more innocent people in Panama than Saddam
Hussein did in Kuwait.
15. Defendant Bush's invasion of Panama
was even more illegal, reprehensible, and criminal than Saddam Hussein's
invasion of Kuwait. The world must never forget that the first step
in the construction of Bush's "New World Order" was his illegal
invasion of Panama and the murder of thousands of completely innocent
Panamanian civilians. America's self-anointed policeman in the Persian
Gulf had the blood of the Panamanian People on his hands.
Bush's Perversion of the Constitution
16. Pursuant to the Pentagon's war plan
for destroying Iraq and stealing Persian Gulf oil fields - and without
consultation or communication with Congress - Defendant Bush initially
ordered 40,000 U.S. military personnel into the Persian Gulf region
during the first week of August 1990. He lied to the American People
and Congress when he stated that his acts were purely defensive. Right
from the very outset of this crisis - and even beforehand - Defendant
Bush fully intended to go to war against Iraq and to seize the Arab
oil fields in the Persian Gulf. Defendant Bush deliberately misled,
deceived, concealed and made false representations to the Congress to
prevent its free deliberation and informed exercise of legislative power.
17. Defendant Bush intentionally usurped
Congressional power, ignored its authority, and failed and refused to
consult with the Congress. He individually ordered a naval blockade
against Iraq - itself an act of war - without approval by Congress or
the U.N. Security Council. Defendant Bush waited until after the November
1990 elections to publicly announce his earlier order sending more than
200,000 additional military personnel to the Persian Gulf for offensive
purposes without seeking the approval of Congress. Pursuant to the Pentagon's
war plan, Defendant Bush switched U.S. forces from a defensive position
and capability to an offensive capacity for aggression against Iraq
without consultation with, and contrary to assurances given to, Congress
and the American People.
18. On the very eve of the war, Defendant
Bush then strong-armed legislation through Congress that approved enforcement
of U.N. resolutions vesting absolute discretion in any nation, providing
no guidelines, and requiring no
reporting to the United Nations. Defendant Bush knew full well that
he intended to destroy the armed forces and civilian infrastructure
of Iraq. Those acts were undertaken to
enable him to commit a Nuremberg Crime Against Peace and war crimes.
This conduct violated the Constitution and Laws of the United States
and especially the War Powers Clause found in Article 1, Section 8 of
the Constitution, the U.S. War Powers Act of 1973, 87 Stat. 555, and
the United Nations Charter, which is the "Supreme Law of the Land"
under Article 6 of the Constitution. For this reason alone, Defendant
Bush and his co-conspirators committed "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"
that warrant their impeachment, conviction, removal from office, and
criminal prosecution.
Bush's Mad Rush to War
19. While concealing his true intentions,
Bush continued the military buildup of U.S. forces from August into
January 1991 for the purpose of attacking and destroying Iraq. Bush
pressed the military to expedite preparations and to commence the war
against Iraq before military conditions were optimum for domestic political
purposes so that the war would not interfere with his presidential re-election
campaign. Indeed, the entire timing, conduct and duration of the war
were planned so as to promote Defendant Bush's re-election prospects.
But as a direct result of Defendant Bush's mad rush to war, United States
military personnel suffered needless casualties. Defendant Bush has
still lied and covered up to the American People and Congress the true
nature and extent of U.S. casualties during the Persian Gulf War.
Bush Corrupted the United Nations
20. Defendant Bush repeatedly coerced
the members of the United Nations Security Council into adopting an
unprecedented series of resolutions that culminated in his securing
authority for any nation to use "all
necessary means" to enforce these resolutions. To secure these
votes in the Security Council, Defendant Bush paid multi-billion-dollar
bribes; offered arms for regional wars; threatened and carried out economic
retaliation;
illegally forgave multi-billion-dollar loans; offered diplomatic relations
despite human rights violations; and in other ways corruptly exacted
votes. This illegal activity subverted and perverted the very Purposes
and Principles of the United Nations Charter itself found in articles
1 and 2 thereof.
Bush Circumvented and Violated Chapter VI
of the United Nations Charter
21. In his mad rush to war, Defendant
Bush caused the United Nations to completely bypass Chapter VI of the
U.N. Charter that mandates the specific settlement of international
disputes. Defendant Bush consistently rejected
and ridiculed all of Iraq's efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution
of the dispute. Defendant Bush proudly boasted that there would be no
negotiation, no compromise, no face-saving, etc.
22. Defendant Bush's successful attempt
to subvert every effort for negotiating a peaceful resolution of this
dispute violated the solemn obligation mandating the peaceful resolution
of international disputes found in article 2, paragraph 3 of the United
Nations Charter; in article 33, paragraph 1 of the United Nations Charter;
and in article 2 of the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928.
Just like the Nazi war criminals before him,
Defendant Bush pursued recourse to war as an instrument of his national
policy and for the solution of international controversies in violation
of article 1 of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Just as the Nazi war criminals
did by invading Poland in September of 1939, these Defendants perpetrated
a Nuremberg Crime Against Peace in their decision to got to war against
Iraq and to seize and steal the oil resources of the Persian Gulf.
The Conduct of the War Itself
23. Obviously, in the brief space that
has been allotted to me, there is no way that I could adequately describe
all of the atrocities and war crimes that were committed by these Defendants
and their Agents during the course of their actual conduct of military
hostilities against the People and State of Iraq. These matters have
been covered in great detail during the course of the public investigations
and hearings conducted around the world by the Commission during the
past year. Nonetheless, I will provide you here with a succinct account
of the major categories of war crimes committed by these Defendants
during the course of their criminal war against Iraq.
Bush Ordered the Destruction of Facilities
Essential to Civilian Life and Economic Productivity Throughout Iraq
24. Systematic aerial and missile bombardment
of Iraq was ordered to begin at 6:30 p.m. E.S.T. January 16, 1991, in
order to be reported on prime time TV. The bombing continued for 42
days. It met no resistance from Iraqi aircraft and no effective anti-aircraft
or anti-missile ground fire. Iraq was basically defenceless.
25. Most of the targets were civilian
facilities. The United States intentionally bombed and destroyed centres
for civilian life, commercial and business districts, schools, hospitals,
mosques, churches, shelters, residential areas, historical sites, private
vehicles and civilian government offices. In aerial attacks, including
strafing, over
cities, towns, the countryside and highways, United States aircraft
bombed and strafed indiscriminately. The purpose of these attacks was
to destroy life and property, and generally to terrorise the civilian
population of Iraq. The net effect was the summary execution and corporal
punishment indiscriminately of men, women and children, young and old,
rich and poor, of all nationalities and religions.
26. As a direct result of this bombing
campaign against civilian life, at least 25,000 men, women and children
were killed. The Red Crescent Society of Jordan estimated 113,000 civilian
dead, 60% of them children, the week before the end of the war. According
to the Nuremberg Charter, this "wanton destruction of cities, towns,
or villages" is a Nuremberg War Crime.
27. The intention and effort of this bombing
campaign against civilian life and facilities was to systematically
destroy Iraq's infrastructure leaving it in a pre-industrial condition.
The U.S. assault left Iraq in near apocalyptic conditions as reported
by the first United Nations observers after the war. As a direct, intentional
and foreseeable result of this
anti-civilian destruction, over one hundred thousand people have died
after the war from dehydration, dysentery, diseases, and malnutrition
caused by impure water, inability to obtain effective medical assistance
and debilitation from hunger, cold, shock and distress. More will die
until potable water, sanitary living conditions, adequate food supplies
and other necessities are provided. Yet Defendant Bush continues to
impose punitive economic sanctions against the People of Iraq in order
to prevent this from happening.
The United States Intentionally Bombed and Destroyed
Defenceless Iraqi Military Personnel; Used Excessive Force; Killed Soldiers
Seeking to Surrender and in Disorganised Individual Flight, Often Unarmed
and Far from Any Combat Zones; Randomly and Wantonly Killed Iraqi Soldiers;
and Destroyed Material After the Cease-Fire
28. In the first hours of the aerial and
missile bombardment, the United States destroyed most military communications
and began the systematic killing of Iraqi soldiers who were incapable
of defence or escape, and
the destruction of military equipment. The U.S. bombing campaign killed
tens of thousands of defenceless soldiers, cut off from most of their
food, water and other supplies, and left them in desperate and helpless
disarray. Defendant Schwarzkopf placed Iraqi military casualties at
over 100,000. Large numbers of these soldiers were "out of combat"
and therefore not legitimate targets for military attack.
29. When it was determined that the civilian
economy and the military were sufficiently destroyed, the U.S. ground
forces moved into Kuwait and Iraq attacking disorientated, disorganised,
fleeing Iraqi forces wherever they could be found, killing thousands
more and destroying any equipment found.
In one particularly shocking manoeuvre, thousands
of Iraqi soldiers were needlessly and illegally buried alive. This wholesale
slaughter of Iraqi soldiers continued even after and in violation of
the so-called cease-fire.
30. The Defendants' intention was not
to remove Iraq's presence from Kuwait. Rather, their intention was to
destroy Iraq. The disproportion in death and destruction inflicted on
a defenceless enemy exceeded 100 to one. The Defendants conducted this
genocidal war against the Male Population of Iraq for the express purpose
of making sure that Iraq could not raise a substantial military force
for at least another generation. The United States Used Prohibited Weapons
Capable of Mass Destruction and Inflicting Indiscriminate Death and
Unnecessary Suffering Against Both Military and Civilian Targets
31. Fuel air explosives were used against
troops in place, civilian areas, oil fields and fleeing civilians and
soldiers on two stretches of highway between Kuwait and Iraq. One seven
mile stretch called the "Highway of Death" was littered with
hundreds of vehicles and thousands of dead. All were fleeing to Iraq
for their lives. Thousands were civilians of all ages, including Kuwaitis,
Iraqis, Palestinians, Jordanians and other nationalities.
32. Napalm was used against civilians
and military personnel, as well as to start fires. Oil well fires in
both Iraq and Kuwait were intentionally started by U.S. aircraft dropping
napalm and other heat intensive devices.
33. Cluster bombs and anti-personnel fragmentation
bombs were used in Basra, and other cities and towns, against the civilian
convoys of fleeing vehicles and against military units.
34. "Superbombs" were dropped
on hardened shelters with the intention of assassinating Iraqi President
Saddam Hussein - a war crime in its own right. The United States Intentionally
Attacked Installations in Iraq Containing Dangerous Substances and Forces
in Violation of Article 56 of Geneva Protocol I of 1977
35. The U.S. intentionally bombed alleged
nuclear sites, chemical plants, dams and other dangerous forces. The
U.S. knew such attacks could cause the release of dangerous forces from
such installations and consequently severe losses among the civilian
population. While some civilians were killed in such attacks, there
are no reported cases of consequent severe losses. Presumably, lethal
nuclear materials, and dangerous chemical and biological warfare substances,
were not present at the sites bombed.
The United States Waged War on the Environment
36. Before the war started, the Pentagon
had developed computer models that accurately predicted the environmental
catastrophe that would occur should the United States go to war against
Iraq. These Defendants went to war anyway knowing full well what the
consequences of such an environmental disaster would be. Attacks by
U.S. aircraft caused much if not all of the worst oil spills in the
Gulf. Aircraft and helicopters dropped napalm and fuel-air explosives
on oil wells throughout Iraq and many, if not most, of the oil well
fires in Iraq and Kuwait.
Defendant Bush Encouraged and Aided Shiite
Muslims and Kurds to Rebel Against the Government of Iraq Causing Fratricidal
Violence, Emigration, Exposure, Hunger and Sickness and Thousands of
Deaths. After the Rebellion Failed, the U.S. Invaded and Occupied Parts
of Iraq Without Lawful Authority in Order to Increase Division and Hostilities
Within Iraq
37. Without authority from the U.S. Congress
or the United Nations, Defendant Bush encouraged and aided rebellion
against Iraq, failed to protect the warring parties, encouraged mass
migration of whole populations placing them in jeopardy from the elements,
hunger and disease. After much suffering and many deaths, Defendant
Bush then without authority used U.S. military forces to distribute
aid at and near the Turkish border, ignoring the often greater suffering
among refugees in Iran. He then arbitrarily set up bantu-like settlements
for Kurds in Iraq and demanded for Iraq to
pay for U.S. costs. When Kurds chose to return to their homes in Iraq,
he moved U.S. troops further into northern Iraq against the will of
the government and without any legal authority to do so. As Defendant
Baker correctly put
it when he visited the area, these atrocities constituted a Nuremberg
"crime against humanity."
Defendant Bush Intentionally Deprived the
Iraqi People of Essential Medicines, Potable Water, Food and Other Necessities
38. A major component of the assault on
Iraq was the systematic deprivation of essential human needs and services,
to terrorise and break the will of the Iraqi People, to destroy their
economic capability, and to reduce their numbers and weaken their health.
Towards those ends, the Defendants: - imposed and enforced embargoes
preventing the shipment of needed medicines, water purifiers, infant
milk formula, food and other supplies;
- froze funds of Iraq and forced other nations
to do so, depriving Iraq of the ability to purchase needed medicines,
food and other supplies;
- preventing international organisations, governments
and relief agencies from providing needed supplies and obtaining information
concerning such needs;
- failed to assist or meet urgent needs of huge
refugee populations and interfered with efforts of others to do so,
etc.
As a direct result of these cruel and inhuman
acts, thousands of people died, many more suffered illnesses and permanent
injury. For these actions, the Defendants are guilty of Nuremberg Crimes
Against Humanity and the
Crime of Genocide as recognised by international law and U.S. domestic
law.
Defendant Bush, Having Destroyed Iraq's Economic
Base, Demands Reparations Which Will Permanently Impoverish Iraq and
Threaten Its People with Famine and Epidemic
39. Defendant Bush seeks to force Iraq
to pay for damages to Kuwait largely caused by the U.S. and even to
pay U.S. costs for its violation of Iraqi sovereignty in occupying northern
Iraq to further manipulate the Kurdish population there. Such reparations
are neo-colonial means of expropriating Iraq's oil, natural resources,
and human labour. Meanwhile, the United States government dominates
and controls the respective governments and oil resources of Kuwait,
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.
40. The United States government has successfully
carried out its long-standing threat and war plan to seize and steal
the oil resources of the Persian Gulf for its own benefit. The United
States now directly controls the natural energy resources that fuel
the economies of Europe and Japan. Acting with their de facto allies
in Israel and Great Britain,
the Defendants are today consolidating their control over the entire
Middle East in a blatant bid to establish worldwide hegemony. Bush's
"New World Order"
41. Today, the government in the United
States of America constitutes an international criminal conspiracy under
the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment and Principles, that is legally identical
to the Nazi government in World War II Germany. The Defendants' wanton
extermination of approximately 250,000 People in Iraq provides definite
proof of the validity of this Nuremberg Proposition for the entire world
to see.
Indeed, Defendant Bush's so-called New World
Order sounds and looks strikingly similar to the New Order proclaimed
by Adolph Hitler over fifty years ago. You do not build a real New World
Order with stealth bombers, Abrams tanks, and tomahawk cruise missiles.
For their own good and the good of all humanity,
the American People must condemn and repudiate Defendant Bush and his
grotesque vision of a New World Order that is constructed upon warfare,
bloodshed, violence and criminality.
Impeachment
42. All of these aforementioned international
crimes constitute "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" as defined
by the Article 2, Section 4 of the United States Constitution and therefore
warrant the impeachment, conviction,
and removal from office of Defendants Bush, Quayle, Baker, Cheney, Powell,
and Scowcroft. In regard to this matter, Congressman Henry Gonzalez
of Texas has already introduced an Impeachment Resolution into the House
of
Representatives, that is numbered House Resolution 86, calling for the
impeachment and removal from office of these Defendants because they
have committed these international crimes and also because they have
subverted and perverted constitutional government in America "to
the manifest injury of the people of the United States."
A Special Prosecutor
43. These Defendants must be impeached
by the House, tried and convicted by the Senate, and removed from office.
Thereafter, we believe that the Commission of Inquiry and the International
War Crimes Tribunal will have produced sufficient evidence to trigger
the application of the Ethics in Government Act, 28 U.S.C. 591 et seq.,
that would lead to the appointment of an Independent Counsel (i.e.,
Special Prosecutor) to investigate and prosecute these high-ranking
officials for the wholesale violation of federal criminal laws in their
decision to launch and wage this criminal war against the People and
State of Iraq. We fully intend to see Bush, Baker, Cheney, Quayle, Scowcroft,
Webster, Powell, Schwarzkopf and the rest of the U.S. High Command sitting
in jail for the rest of their natural lives.
44. Make no mistake about it: The very
nature, future and existence of the American Republic depends upon the
success of these endeavours. Today, the battle begins for the hearts
and minds of the American People between the
Warmongers and the Peacemakers. We ask all of you to join us in this
legal campaign and moral crusade to restore to the United States of
America a democratic government with a commitment to the Rule of Law
and the Constitution both at home and abroad.
Extracted from New Dawn No.15 (September-October,
1992)
© 1992 by Francis Boyle