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Iraq-Jordan
‘US caused more deaths in Iraq than Saddam’
2005-06-25
More trash from your favorite NGOs. Get ready.
ISTANBUL - The World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI), a grouping of NGOs and intellectuals opposed to the war in Iraq, on Friday accused the United States of causing more deaths in Iraq than ousted president Saddam Hussein. “With two wars and 13 years of criminal sanctions, the United States have been responsible for more deaths in Iraq than Saddam Hussein,” Larry Everest, a journalist, told hundreds of anti-war activists gathered in Istanbul.

Founded in 2003, the WTI is modelled on the 1960s Russell Tribunal, created by the British philosopher Bertrand Russell to denounce the war in Vietnam. It has held about 20 sessions so far in different locations around the world.
Great food, lovely weather, comely women, yup, being a protester is hard work ...
A symbolic verdict was to be handed down on Monday by the 14 ”jurors of conscience” -- including the Indian novelist Arundhati Roy, winner of the 1997 Booker Prize for “The God of Small Things.”
I can't imagine what they'll say ...
The tribunal has for the past two years been gathering what it says is evidence that the war launched in March 2003 to oust Saddam was illegal, and it has also been gathering evidence of exactions allegedly committed by coalition troops. Its verdict on Monday after its final session is expected to condemn both the United States and Britain.

On Fiday Arundhati Roy told the gathering here: “”The evidence collated in this tribunal should ... be used by the International Criminal Court -- whose jurisdiction the United States does not recognize -- to try as war criminals George Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard, Silvio Berlusconi, and all those government officials, army generals, and corporate CEOs who participated in this war and now benefit from it.” She added that the tribunal was “an act of resistance,” ”a defense mounted against one of the most cowardly wars ever fought in history.”
She hasn't yet condemned what Saddam did to his people, has she.
Some 200 non-governmental organsiations -- including the environmentalist group Greenpeace, the anti-globalization ATTAC and Vietnam Veterans Against the War -- as well as a number of prominent intellectuals such as US linguist Noam Chomsky and Egyptian sociologist Samir Amin are involved in the WTI.
Makes me proud to stand against them.
Posted by:Steve White

#16  NGOs and "intellectuals" could have phoned it in.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-06-25 13:55  

#15  Reading the headline I thought "Ted Kennedy's at at again!"....
Posted by: CrazyFool   2005-06-25 11:45  

#14  I find it interesting that the argument being shaped by grom is about the number of deaths casued by Americans. While it is factually accurate that in 2 wars we have killed a lot of Iraqis in uniform, fighting a declared military action with justification, grom avoids discussion of either the Iranian war, or the internal security service murders or untold numbers of Iraqi by their government.
So, the question is, is grom only reasoning about the deaths of Iraqi by the hands of infidels? Curious demonstration of selective memory/reasoning!

Posted by: Just About Enough!   2005-06-25 11:23  

#13   President Saddam has been arrested and deposed..........................round up the usual suspects
Posted by: Cheaderhead   2005-06-25 10:58  

#12  The WTI website domain name is registered from Belgium. Why does that not surprise me?
Posted by: Tom   2005-06-25 10:50  

#11  Here is a list of the WTI "Endorsers":
http://www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=12

Anybody with an e-mail address can sign up.

Sampling:
Action Indict Bush-Blair / Japan
BushMustGo! / Ithaca, NY
Greenpeace
Indymedia Belgium
Sisters Arab Forum for Human Rights (SAF) / Yemen
Posted by: Tom   2005-06-25 10:45  

#10  how about they hold the next meeting in Kirkuk?
Posted by: Frank G   2005-06-25 10:27  

#9  JosephMendiola, I don't know what any of that means but I just got a chubby.

Thanks for the gumball, Mickey!
Posted by: Scott R   2005-06-25 09:48  

#8  Dear WTI members:
In view of the known Saddam-produced mass graves in Iraq and Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, you may at best expect flight delays and visa problems in the near future. At worst, rendering to middle-eastern countries that will hang you by your feet and treat you shockingly. Have a nice day.
Posted by: Tom   2005-06-25 09:36  

#7  Here's an idea - we can pull our troops out of the country, put Suddam back in charge, and apologize to everyone. Why don't you WTI members go ask the Iraqi's, in person, whether we should do that?
Posted by: DMFD   2005-06-25 09:16  

#6  Not really Grom, more like Americans, Gawds own banker, farmer and truck driver. One luxury we have that you don't is that we can't laugh at our enemies, because they are small and need decent nourishment.
Posted by: Shipman   2005-06-25 08:55  

#5  Its interesting in their hysteria that they even don't believe in what they are saying cause if the US was as 'evil' as they shout, then numerous 'accidents' would be befalling these lunatics. Strange how they seem so public when the environment they describe would mean they'd the in conversation with their ancestors.
Posted by: Glaick Whailet9991   2005-06-25 08:12  

#4  Don't you Americans beggin to feel, just a little bit, Jewish?
Posted by: gromgoru   2005-06-25 06:53  

#3  Wolf! Wolf!
Posted by: 2b   2005-06-25 06:40  

#2  Can anyone tell me where I can find any of it's members. I think they all deserver a personal visit by persons who refuses to put up with their stupidity and treason.
Posted by: Sock Puppet 0’ Doom   2005-06-25 01:17  

#1  Maybe like the character PEG BUNDY frm "MARRIED WITH CHILDREN" the anti-politics political, anti-PC PC US DemoLeft will promise to cook for whomever is the winner of the Global WOT - you know, RUSSIA-CHINA or Clintonian Commie-/Asian-controlled "Fascist" America, but then again bosomy Peggy doesn't cook or does dishes or clean!
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2005-06-25 00:25  

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