From: georgekspam@humboldt1.com   
      
   OPEN LETTER FROM RAMSEY CLARK   
   to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, members of the UN Security Council   
   and President George W. Bush   
      
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   January, 29, 2004   
      
   Dear Secretary General Annan,   
      
   U.S. President George W. Bush again confirmed his intention to   
   continue waging wars of aggression in his State of the Union message   
   on January 20, 2004.   
      
   He began his address:   
   “ As we gather tonight, hundreds of thousands of American service men   
   and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By   
   bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent,   
   they are making America more secure.”   
      
   He proclaimed:   
   “ Our greatest responsibility is the active defense of the American   
   people... America is on the offensive against the terrorists...”   
      
   Continuing, he said:   
   “ ...our coalition is leading aggressive raids against the surviving   
   members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.... Men who ran away from our   
   troops in battle are now dispersed and attack from the shadows.”   
      
   In Iraq, he reported:   
   “ Of the top 55 officials of the former regime, we have captured or   
   killed 45. Our forces are on the offensive, leading over 1,600 patrols   
   a day, and conducting an average of 180 raids a week....”   
      
   Explaining his aggression, President Bush stated:   
   “ ...After the chaos and carnage of September the 11th, it is not   
   enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. The terrorists and   
   their supporters declared war on the United States and war is what   
   they got.”   
      
   Forget law. No more legal papers, or rights. Forget truth. The claim   
   that either Afghanistan, or Iraq declared war on the U.S. is absurd.   
   The U.S. chose to attack both nations, from one end to the other,   
   violating their sovereignty and changing their "regimes", summarily   
   executing thousands of men, women and children in the process. At   
   least 40,000 defenseless people in Iraq have been killed by U.S.   
   violence since the latest aggression began in earnest in March 2003   
   starting with its celebrated, high tech, terrorist "Shock and Awe" and   
   continuing until now with 25, or more, U.S. raids daily causing   
   mounting deaths and injuries.   
      
   All this death-dealing aggression has occurred during a period, Mr.   
   Bush boasts, of "over two years without an attack on American soil".   
   The U.S. is guilty of pure aggression, arbitrary repression and false   
   portrayal of the nature and purpose of its violence.   
      
   President Bush's brutish mentality is revealed in his condemnations of   
   the "killers" and "thugs in Iraq" "who ran away from our troops in   
   battle". U.S. military expenditures and technology threaten and   
   impoverish life on the planet. Any army that sought to stand up   
   against U.S. air power and weapons of mass destruction in open battle   
   would be annihilated. This is what President Bush seeks when he says   
   "Bring 'em on."   
      
   President Bush declared his intention to change the "Middle East" by   
   force.   
   “ As long as the Middle East remains a place of tyranny and despair   
   and anger, it will continue to produce men and movements that threaten   
   the safety of America and our friends. So America is pursuing a   
   forward strategy of freedom in the greater Middle East. We will   
   challenge the enemies of reform, confront the allies of terror, and   
   expect a higher standard from our friends.”   
      
   “...America is a nation with a mission... we understand our special   
   calling: This great republic will lead the cause of freedom.”   
      
   He extended his threat to any nation he may choose:   
   “ As part of the offensive against terror, we are also confronting the   
   regimes that harbor and support terrorists, and could supply them with   
   nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. The United States and our   
   allies are determined: We refuse to live in the shadow of this   
   ultimate danger.”   
      
   President Bush's utter contempt for the United Nations is revealed in   
   his assertion that the United States and other countries "have   
   enforced the demands of the United Nations", ignoring the refusal of   
   the U.N. to approve a war of aggression against Iraq and implying the   
   U.N. had neither the courage nor the capacity to pursue its own   
   "demands".   
      
   His total commitment to unilateral U.S. action, was asserted by   
   President Bush when he sarcastically referred to the "permission slip"   
   a school child needs to leave a classroom:   
   " America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of   
   our people".   
      
   President Bush intends to go it alone, because his interest is   
   American power and wealth alone, though he prefers to use the youth of   
   NATO countries and others as cannon folder in his wars.   
      
   President Bush believes might makes right and that the end justifies   
   the means. He declares:   
   “ ...the world without Saddam Husseins regime is a better and safer   
   place".   
      
   So U.S. military technology which is omnicidal- capable of destroying   
   all life on the planet-will be ordered by President Bush to make the   
   world "a better and safer place" by destroying nations and individuals   
   he designates.   
      
   President Bush presided over 152 executions in Texas, far more than   
   any other U.S. governor since World War II. Included were women,   
   minors, retarded persons, aliens in violation of the Vienna Convention   
   on Diplomatic Relations and innocent persons. He never acted to   
   prevent a single execution. He has publicly proclaimed the right to   
   assassinate foreign leaders and repeatedly boasted of summary   
   executions and indiscriminate killing in State of the Union messages   
   and elsewhere.   
      
   The danger of Bush unilateralism is further revealed when he states:   
   “ Colonel Qaddafi correctly judged that his country would be better   
   off, and far more secure without weapons of mass murder. Nine months   
   of intense negotiations involving the United States and Great Britain   
   succeeded with Libya, while 12 years of diplomacy with Iraq did not.”   
      
   Forget diplomacy, use "intense negotiations". If President Bush   
   believed it was "diplomacy", which maintained genocidal sanctions   
   against Iraq for twelve years that failed, rather than an effort to   
   crush Iraq to submission, then why didn't he use "nine months of   
   intense negotiations" to avoid a war of aggression against Iraq? He   
   was President for nearly twenty seven months before the criminal   
   assault on Iraq, he apparently intended all along. Iraq was no threat   
   to anyone.   
      
   What President Bush means by "intense negotiations" includes a threat   
   of military aggression with the example of Iraq to show this in no   
      
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