On behalf of one from among a growing number of open letters invoking the conscience of humanity to call upon the American state to cease immediately its plans to launch a full-scale military assault on the overwhelmingly civilian population trapped within the Iraqi city of Фаллуях (and other Iraqi urban centers too), I am posting here the following petition, as well as the invitation for all of you to add your signatures to it.
Тытулаваны STOP THE ESCALATION!, the petition takes it start from the important—and willfully ignored within official U.S. political circles—report posted to the website of the British medical journal The Lancet on October 29: “Смяротнасць да і пасля ўварвання ў Ірак у 2003 годзе: кластарнае выбарачнае даследаванне”, Лес Робертс і інш.
Namely: The roughly 100,000 Iraqis killed-to-date during the criminal American war over their country, close to 50 percent of whom have been women and children.
Drafted by the Belgian physicist Jean Bricmont (co-author, along with Alan Sokal, of Модная лухта—or, variously, Impostures Intellectuelles/Інтэлектуальныя падманы), everyone is invited to add their signatures to this petition.
Potential signatories are requested to confirm their willingness to sign on by sending an email to:
Please be sure to include the message “I SIGN” in both your Subject bar as well as the text of your message itself.
Note also that mentioning your place of residence and profession would be helpful. (But esp. your residence.)
Anyone seeking additional information should visit the websites of the Сусветны трыбунал па Іраку, А таксама BRussells Tribunal Committee.
Thanks.—
(At the very bottom, I’ve posted additional links to relevant information.)
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STOP THE ESCALATION!
“Excluding information from Falluja, a Ланцэт report of October 29 estimates that 100,000 more Iraqis died than would have been expected had the invasion not occurred. Eighty-four percent of the deaths were reported to be caused by the actions of Coalition forces and 95 percent of those deaths were due to air strikes and artillery.” (Reuters, 28 кастрычніка 2004 г.)
Far from being over, the war in Iraq has only begun. The United States do not seem to be able to defeat the Iraqi resistance with the means they have been using. But neither can they accept their setbacks. The very arrogance with which the war was declared and waged has put all their prestige at stake in Iraq and, thereby, decades of efforts to assure their world domination. The stakes are even greater than in the Vietnam war. The United States cannot get out of Iraq unless they leave behind a friendly government, but today they have so few friends in that part of the world that no democratic election can produce such a government.
As a result, one must seriously anticipate a military escalation after the elections — immediately in case Bush is returned to office, perhaps more gradually should Kerry win. But the Democratic candidate has no more intention than Bush of withdrawing from Iraq.
The U.S. government will seek to defeat the resistance by all possible means. The effort is already underway to demonize the resistance in world opinion by associating it with abductions and murders condemned by virtually the whole spectrum of political organizations in the Arab world.
We demand that the United States face up to reality, unconditionally withdraw their troops from Iraq, and draw the necessary conclusions as to the unacceptable nature of preventive war. It is an illusion to ask that the U.S. forces remain until Iraq is pacified or stabilized, because their very presence is so hated that it constitutes the main obstacle to any sort of pacification.
Meanwhile, we affirm that we shall oppose by all peaceful and legal methods every attempt to crush the Iraqi resistance by a military escalation such as was attempted during the Vietnam war. We call on all governments to grant asylum to American military personnel refusing to serve in Iraq. We shall do our best to spread all available information to counter the war propaganda, and we shall try to mobilize world public opinion, as in 2002, to demand that the United States abandon their efforts to impose a military solution on Iraq.
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Jean Bricmont, professor of theoretical physics and political publicist, writer of this petition, Belgium
The BRussells Tribunal Committee
The World Tribunal on Iraq Committee
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"100,000 XNUMX мірных жыхароў загінулі падчас вайны ў Іраку і пасля яе: Lancet”, Agence France Presse (Daily Times, 29 кастрычніка 2004 г.)
"Апытанне хатніх гаспадарак паказвае 100,000 XNUMX смерцяў у Іраку”, Эма Рос, Associated Press, 28 кастрычніка 2004 г
"Даследаванне: 100,000 XNUMX лішніх смерцяў мірнага насельніцтва Ірака пасля вайны”, Патрыцыя Рэні, Reuters, 28 кастрычніка 2004 г
"Апытанне: колькасць смерцяў у Іраку вышэй; Распрацаванае Хопкінсам даследаванне кажа, што загінула 100,000 10,000 мірных жыхароў; Па папярэдніх ацэнках, ад 30,000 XNUMX да XNUMX XNUMX; Эксперт па абароне Brookings назваў дадзеныя «недарэчнымі»», Джонатан Бор і Том Боўман, Baltimore Sun, Кастрычнік 29, 2004
"100,000 XNUMX мірных жыхароў Ірака загінулі, гаворыцца ў даследаванні", Сара Бозлі, The Guardian, Кастрычнік 29, 2004
"Вайна прывяла да павелічэння колькасці загінулых сярод грамадзянскага насельніцтва на 100,000 XNUMX чалавек", Білі Брыгс, Вестнік (Глазга), 29 кастрычніка 2004 г
"Выяўлена: вайна каштавала жыццяў 100,000 XNUMX іракцаў”, Джэрэмі Лоранс і Колін Браўн, The Independent, Кастрычнік 29, 2004
"Паводле дасьледаваньня, у Іраку загінула 100,000 XNUMX мірных жыхароўЭлізабэт Розенталь, Нью-Ёрк Таймс, Кастрычнік 29, 2004
"Даследчыкі сцвярджаюць, што 100,000 XNUMX мірных жыхароў Ірака загінулі ў вайне», Сэм Лістэр і Майкл Эванс, The Times (Лондан), 29 кастрычніка 2004 г
"Паводле ацэнак, у Іраку загінула 100,000 XNUMX грамадзянскіх асоб", Роб Стайн, Washington Post,, Кастрычнік 29, 2004
"Няма 10 выклікаў колькасці загінулых сярод грамадзянскага насельніцтва,” Patrick Wintour and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, Кастрычнік 30, 2004
"Pentagon Collects Local Casualty Body Counts But Figures Are Kept Secret,” Raymond Whitaker, The Independent, Кастрычнік 31, 2004
"The War in Iraq Has Made Moral Cowards of US All", Скот Рытэр, The Guardian, Лістапад 1, 2004"An appeal from Fallujah to Kofi Anan and the UN,” Kassim Abdullsattar al-Jumaily, President, Center for the Study of Human Rights and Democracy, Fallujah, Socialist Worker, October 30, 2004
Ірак, ахвяры грамадзянскага насельніцтва і амерыканская моц I, ZNet Blogs, 15 жніўня 2004 г
Колькі смерцяў занадта шмат? Блогі ZNet, 13 верасня 2004 г
Ірак, ахвяры грамадзянскага насельніцтва і амерыканская сіла II, ZNet Blogs, 28 кастрычніка 2004 г
Ірак, ахвяры грамадзянскага насельніцтва і амерыканская моц III, ZNet Blogs, 29 кастрычніка 2004 г
Ірак, ахвяры грамадзянскага насельніцтва і амерыканскае маўчанне, ZNet Blogs, 30 кастрычніка 2004 г
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