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April 27, 2003 Dear Attila and list, I too hope that Hungary will resist becoming another lackey of the U.S. demand for lots of foreign flags to cloak its gross violations of International Law. Let Hungary also quit NATO in favor of neutrality like Ireland and Austria. Hungarians never contemplated being "invited" to join in sanitizing such gross war crimes as the violation of Article 54, paragraph 2 of Protocol One (1977) of the Geneva Convention which explicitly prohibits, under any circumstance or pretense, the destruction or rendering useless of objects indispensable to the survival of civilians such as water treatment plants. Every day that the U.S. postpones full electric power ,deployment of necessary parts and payment of salaries to the staff of all of Iraq's water treatment plants is another attack on all infants (first "theirs" then our own via the inevitable blowback generated by such crimes that they " violated the mute earth"). Perhaps Hungarians feared such shameful "invitations" when it had been coerced into the Warsaw Pact. Surely Hungarians would have never agreed to joining NATO had they contemplated an "invitation" to participated in normalizing mass slaughter of the innocents-- see www.iraqbodycount.org for a tally of just the directly Iraqi victims of U.S/UK bombs -- the collateral damage. A full decade after the first George the First's Desert Slaughter, U.S. citizens were finally told by the U.S. Air Force publication "Air and Space Power Chronicles" that the collateral damage = directly blown-apart Iraq civilians numbered "only" 3,000 dead -- a "triumph" of precision weapons. . The toll of Iraqi civilians the U.S. and its allies killed indirectly (but predictably and even inevitably as any first year public health or medical student would understand immediately) is estimated at 100,000 by the U.S.A.F.. These 100,000 civilians died in short order because of massive water contamination due to coalition targeting electrical power and resulting in floods of human waste entering the drinking water which led inevitablyly to epidemics. In addition, attacking and rendering useless the water system doubled the Iraqi infant mortality rate, (see p1, paragraph 2 of the "Contributor's Corner" the May, 2001 issue of "Air and Space Power Chronicles", available on the internet. Amazingly, the A.F. author reassures us of the legality, ethics and conformity to A.F. policy of this strategy on ground of "double effect" -- casuistry not permitted by Article 54 though trumpeted as an example of "Elements of Effect Operations" in the current USAF doctrine document "Strategic Attack" "2-1.2", signed off by the Major General in charge of doctrine. See for yourself on the internet. It might be persuasive to any vacillating Hungarians to point out the large number of countries (including Iraq) which began by jointing U.S. alliances (the Baghdad pack in the case of Iraq, if memory serves), got lots of $$$ and intelligence and weapons, then bleed on behalf of U.S. interests (the horrific war against Iran) and and finally were treated to slow genocide by sanctions and two slaughters by the U.S., which reduced Iraq to little mere than a a series of "killing boxes" to showcase the latest U.S. weapons and as a place to plunder and to "demonstrate American credibility" to any country that dared not grovel to the Leader of Western Civilization. Perhaps those better versed in history than I can enumerate the list of countries which have also performed the dance of Yankee death (or a minor variant): The D. of Y. D 3-step: 1) Join a U.S. "defensive" alliance. 2) Do Uncle Sam's "wet" work (internally or externally). 3) Get slaughtered whenever it's expedient for Uncle Sam to demo and market its newest weapons, distract its own citizenry from the shredding of its own Bill of Rights and the looting of its stock marker by George's chums or whatever... Sincerely, Tom, who hopes to take pride again in being born Hungarian. p.s. to Attila and other Hungarians on CASI, if you think it will be helpful, please feel free to send this to any Hungarian newspaper, etc. as a letter to the editor. ===================================== Boros Attila wrote: > Dear Friends, > > Hungarian parliament is scheduled to vote on Monday about the US request for Hungary to send >peacekeeping troops to Iraq. Authorizing the government to grant the request requires a two thirds >majority. The coalition propose to say yes. _______________________________________________ Sent via the discussion list of the Campaign Against Sanctions on Iraq. To unsubscribe, visit http://lists.casi.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/casi-discuss To contact the list manager, email casi-discuss-admin@lists.casi.org.uk All postings are archived on CASI's website: http://www.casi.org.uk