[Peace-discuss] President's speech in Saudi Arabia
C. G. Estabrook
cge at shout.net
Mon May 22 16:14:04 UTC 2017
To the editor, Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette:
The US launched an aggressive war against Iraq in 2003 and killed
perhaps a million people - but then lost the war to the Iraqi Shia,
allied with Iran.
The US has been torturing Iran since the CIA overthrew a democratic
government there in 1953, but Iran has now largely freed itself of US
control. On his visit to Saudi Arabia, President Trump announced a new
crusade against Iran - a second round of the Iraq debacle - but the
matter is complicated now (as it wasn't in 2003) by the Mideast presence
of Russia (and China).
Of course US war-making is illegal under the UN charter (and the US
Constitution), while Russia's presence - at the invitation of the
legitimate governments of Syria and Iran - is legal. But that doesn't
stop the US from fomenting war by means of its clients in the KSA and
the GCC, in order to continue its generations-long control of oil from
the region - to the profits on the US 1%.
American leaders of this and earlier administrations are liable for
prosecution as the German leaders were at Nuremberg, for initiating “a
war of aggression ... the supreme international crime...”
The Clinton administration admitted its sanctions killed a half million
children in Iraq in the 1990s; the Obama and Trump administrations have
placed similar sanctions on Iran.
We must demand that the government for which we are responsible stop
killing men, women, and children in the Mideast and bring all US troops
(and weapons) home.
--C. G. Estabrook
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