Former prosecutor from Nuremberg war crimes trials accuses.

U.S. aggression

Chicago Tribune, June 21, 1999

Opinion of the people

WASHINGTON - As the bombs, smart and dumb, fall ceaselessly on Serbia, Montenegrins and sometimes Albanians, on bridges, waterworks, electric generation plants and factories, and on trains, trucks and homes, the remorseless crusade for "humanitariansm" presses forward to the applause of journalistic and academic shills. To paraphrase the Roman historian Tacitus, we are busy creating a desert, which we can then call peace.

For the United States, alias "NATO," the planning and launching of this war by the president heightens the abuse and undermining of warmaking authority under the Constitution. (It seems to be accepted that the president can order his personal army to attack any country he pleases). The bombing war also violates and shreds the basic provisions of the United Nations Charter and other conventions and treaties; the attack on Yugoslavia constitutes the most brazen international aggression since the Nazis attacked Poland to prevent "Polish atrocities" against Germans. The United States has discarded pretensions to international legality and decency, and embarked on a course of raw imperialism run amok.

Our alleged concern with human rights borders on the ludicrous. We dropped twice as many bombs on Vietnam as all the countries involved in World War II dropped on each other. We killed hundreds of thousands of civilians in the course of that war. Very recently, in Central America, we sponsored, trained and endorsed the local armies - Guatemalan, Salvadoran, and Nicaraguan Contras - in the killing of at least 2OO,OOO people.

We encouraged the Pinochet coup in Chile with the resulting killing of another few thousand or so people, including the democratically elected president. We saw nothing wrong with the Croat slaughter and expulsion of 200,OOO [actually at least 400,000] Serbs from the Krajina area. We have taken very little stand on the monumental slaughters of hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of people in Africa. We have restrained the Iraqis from attacking Kurds but see nothing amiss in Turks attacking Kurds. We cannot even agree to abondon the use of land mines.

In reality when we, the self-anointed rulers of the planet, issue an ultimatum to another country, it is "surrender or die." To maintain our "credibillty," we must crush any semblance of resistance to our dictates to that country.

Our contribution to the above text:
This is the list of countries that United States have bombed recently (after WWII). Of course, all of these bombings were done to achieve higher goals and to prove higher moral values. Original Nazis simply called themselves - higher race...

But then they had a lot to learn from American "Manifest Destiny" and "Only dead Indian is a good Indian." Now, those formulae date well before Hitler's grandfather was born.

American Endless War For Endless Peace (The second half of 20th cetury)
Country:	When bombed:
China	1945-46
Korea	1950-53
China	1950-53
Guatemala	1954
Indonesia	1958
Cuba	1959-60
Guatemala	1960
Congo	1964
Peru	1965
Laos	1964-73
Vietnam	1961-73
Cambodia	1969-70
Guatemala	1967-69
Grenada	1983
Libya	1986
China	1945-46
El Salvador	1980s
Nicaragua	1980s
Panama	1989
Iraq	1991-1999
Yugoslavia (Bosnia)	1995
Sudan	1998
Afghanistan	1998
Yugoslavia (Kosovo)	1999

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