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Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 00:07:12 +0100 To: PeaceBrowser <TFF@transnational.org> From: T F F PeaceBrowser <TFF@transnational.org> Subject: Iraq: 12 years of economic + 4 of military destruction Lund, Sweden, March 19-20, 2007
Map of our home, all sections About 30 years of hell in
Iraq
Tonight it is four years since the Bush administration, supported
by other states, commenced the bombing, invasion and occupation of
Iraq. We think of the 650.000 Iraqis who have died during these four
years of occupation. This war proved to be the predictable fiasco TFF
and several of its Associates said it would be.
Tonight we also try hard to think of the 1 million people who
perished in the Western genocide called economic sanctions from
1991-2003. And before that there was the mass-killing war with
Iran and Saddam's terror.
Tonight we think of TFF's Iraqi friends who have died so
meaninglessly.
Sources to help you understand
and empathize:
The TFF Middle East section
Our Middle East Features Collection
The TFF Middle East Theme and Action Group, TAG
TFF Board member, former UN humanitarian coordinator in
Iraq,
Hans von Sponeck's authoritative study of the
sanctions
Our unique photo series from Iraq - Iraqi Faces and
Surfaces
The historic 2002-2005 collection of analyses
The 53 War Diary articles that pointed out the major media
distortions while they happened
A new Iraqi-born TFF
Associate
and a new article about
peacebuilding in Iraq
Our new Associate, Yusra Moshtat
And read Moshtat's and Oberg's feature of March 19-20, 2007
Support peaceful plan so that the U.S. can leave
Iraq
Letıs stop shouting only ³The US out of
Iraq². Unless combined with a vision of a decent, respectful and
helpful international mission in Iraq and a better policy plan for the
Middle East, that slogan plays into the hand of those who advocate
ongoing occupation. Itıs not a matter of leaving Iraq, itıs a
matter of being there in a completely different way.
Dennis Kucinich's plan deserves worldwide
support.
Iraq now means more than 5 times the deaths of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki combined.
Let's remind ourselves tonight that people die and suffer in Iraq
and elsewhere because of the symbiosis between the failed U.S. empire,
its occupation and the terrorists.
The madness continues now into its fifth year because others who
could effectively prevent it - such as the friends and allies of the
United States and the Bush administration - lack the understanding and
civil courage to do so.
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