[Peace-discuss] Letter to N-G

[David Johnson]

Very good concise editing Carl.

" (In 2001, the US refused to show evidence to the
government of Afghanistan that Osama was responsible for 9/11 - as the 
director
of the FBI admitted, because they didn't have any.) "

Be careful Carl, some may pigeon hole you and Chomsky as  " conspiracy 
theorists " for the above factual statement.
That at least seems to be the knee jerk trend these days whenever anyone 
shows facts that disprove propoganda and /or reveals collusion and secrecy 
amongst the corporate ruling class.

David J.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at illinois.edu>
To: "Peace-discuss" <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2011 7:45 PM
Subject: [Peace-discuss] Letter to N-G


Although the News-Gazette hosts one of the few local examples of political
conversation - its letters page - they refuse for reasons of penury or
timorousness to post the letters on their website.

The following advisory to their editor ran in today's edition. Constant 
readers
will notice that it is an edited version of Chomsky's remarks, posted here
earlier.  --CGE

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To the editor, News-Gazette:


The Obama administration clearly planned to assassinate Osama bin Laden,
contrary to the most elementary principles of international law - as the 
rest of
the world recognizes.

What would we say if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound,
assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic? Without a doubt, his
crimes vastly exceed bin Laden’s. Bush was the self-proclaimed “decider” who
gave the orders to commit the “supreme international crime, differing only 
from
other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of 
the
whole” (quoting the Nuremberg Tribunal), for which Nazi criminals were 
hanged.
Bush is responsible for the hundreds of thousands of deaths, millions of
refugees, destruction of much of the country, and the bitter sectarian 
conflict
that has now spread to the rest of the region.

The Obama administration obviously had no plan to apprehend the unarmed 
Osama
bin Laden - easily done by 80 commandos facing virtually no opposition. In
societies that profess some respect for law, suspects are apprehended and
brought to fair trial. (In 2001, the US refused to show evidence to the
government of Afghanistan that Osama was responsible for 9/11 - as the 
director
of the FBI admitted, because they didn't have any.) Thus Obama was simply 
lying
when he said, in his White House statement, that “we quickly learned that 
the
9/11 attacks were carried out by al Qaeda.”

Not for the first time, Obama ordered an illegal extra-judicial execution.


Sincerely,

Carl G. Estabrook
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