[Peace] US War Crimes During 1991 Gulf War

[Ra Ravishankar]

By Francis Boyle

The following paper was presented by FRANCIS A. BOYLE, Professor of
International Law at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, to a
symposium held by the Albany Law School. The symposium, held on February 27,
1992, was titled: International War Crimes: The Search for Justice. This
paper documents the numerous occasions that international laws were broken
and disregarded during the Gulf War.

Introduction

1. For the past year I have been working with the International Commission
of Inquiry into United States war crimes that were committed during the
Persian Gulf War. This Commission has conducted the largest independent
world-wide investigation of war crimes in history. Since last May [1991],
the Commission has held thirty hearings across the United States and in
twenty countries across five continents to expose the war crimes that the
United States government inflicted upon the People and State of Iraq.

2. On Saturday, February 29, 1992 in New York City, at the Martin Luther,
Jr. Auditorium, the Commission will publicly present its evidence before an
International War Crimes Tribunal consisting of distinguished jurists and
human rights activists drawn from around the world. In the brief space that
has been allotted to me, I would like to present the basic gist of the
charges that will be brought before the Tribunal against President George
Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle, Secretary of State Jim Baker, Secretary of
Defense Dick Cheney, National Security Assistant Brent Scowcroft, CIA
Director William Webster, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General
Colin Powell, General Norman Schwarzkopf, and other members of the High
Command of the United States military establishment who launched and waged
this brutal, inhumane, and criminal war. Hereinafter, these individuals will
be collectively referred to as the Defendants.

The Charges

3. The international crimes that have been charged and will be proven
against these Defendants consist principally of the three Nuremberg
Offences: the Nuremberg Crime Against Peace, that is waging an aggressive
war and a war in violation of international treaties and agreements;
Nuremberg Crimes Against Humanity; and Nuremberg War Crimes. In addition,
these Defendants also committed grievous war crimes by wantonly violating
the Hague Regulations on Land Warfare of 1907; the Declaration of London on
Sea Warfare of 1909; the Hague Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare of 1923; the
Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977;
and the international crimes of Genocide against the People of Iraq as
defined by the International Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of
the Crimes of Genocide of 1948 as well as by the United States' own Genocide
Convention Implementation Act of 1987, 18 U.S.C. 1901. Finally, and most
heinously of all, these Defendants actually perpetrated a Nuremberg Crime
against their own troops when they forced them to take experimental
biological weapons vaccines without their informed consent in gross
violation of the Nuremberg Code on Medical Experimentation that has been
fully subscribed to by the United States government.

Universal Jurisdiction

4. These international crimes create personal criminal responsibility on the
part of all these Defendants that warrant their prosecution under basic
norms of customary international law, treaties, and statutes in any state of
the world community that obtains jurisdiction over them for the rest of
their lives. We believe that the International War Crimes Tribunal will
produce a Judgment that can be put into the hands of every government in the
world with no injunction that should any of these Defendants ever appear
within their territorial jurisdiction, they must be apprehended and
prosecuted for the commission of the specified international crimes. Like
unto pirates, these Defendants are hostes humani generis - the enemies of
all humankind!

The Historical Origins of the War

5. I do not have the time in this brief presentation to analyse the entire
history of illegal U.S. military interventionism into the Middle East -
especially the Persian Gulf region - and in particular its
divide-and-conquer (divida et impera) policies. Suffice it to say here that
the "immediate cause" of the United States war to destroy Iraq and take over
the Arab oil fields in the Persian Gulf goes back to the 1973 Arab oil
boycott of Europe. The Arab oil states imposed the boycott in solidarity
with those Arab states that were then attempting to reclaim their Lands that
had been illegally stolen from Them by Israel in 1967. The Arab oil boycott
brought Europe to its knees. Subsequently, Arab oil states were able to
increase the price of oil to a point of economic fairness that would enable
them to provide for the basic human needs of their own Peoples.

6. But the success of the Arab oil boycott led several prominent U.S.
government officials in the Nixon administration, and especially Henry
Kissinger, to publicly threaten that the United States government would
prepare itself to seize the Arab oil fields in order to prevent something
like the boycott from ever happening again. This illegal governmental threat
was stated openly, publicly, and repeatedly during the course of the Nixon
administration, the Ford administration, the Carter administration, and the
Reagan administration. The Bush administration would finally be the ones to
carry this threat out. But only after a decade of active preparations.

The Rapid Deployment Force

7. During the course of the Carter administration, the United States
government obtained authorisation from Congress to set up, arm, equip, and
supply the so-called Rapid Deployment Force (RDF), whose primary mission was
to seize and steal the Arab oil-fields of the Persian Gulf region. So the
planning and preparations for the U.S. war against Iraq go all the way back
to the so-called "liberal" Carter administration - at the very least. The
United States Foreign Policy Establishment consists of liberal imperialists,
reactionary imperialists, and middle-of-the-road imperialists. But they all
share in common a firm belief in America's "Manifest Destiny" to rule the
world.

8. For the next decade, the Pentagon obtained a new generation of
high-technology conventional weapons possessing massive destructive power
and lethality; the logistical support network necessary to convey a force of
500,000 soldiers over to the Persian Gulf region within six months; and base
access rights and facilities for that purpose throughout Africa, the Middle
East, and Southeast Asia. Working in conjunction with its de facto allies in
the region such as Egypt and Israel, the Pentagon stockpiled enormous
quantities of weapons, equipment, and supplies in the immediate vicinity of
the Persian Gulf as a prelude to military intervention. Hence, the United
States government had been planning, preparing, and conspiring to seize and
steal the Persian Gulf oil fields for over a decade.

United States War Plans Against Iraq

9. Sometime after the termination of the Iraq-Iran War in the Summer of
1988, the Pentagon proceeded to revise its outstanding war plans for U.S.
military intervention into the Persian Gulf region in order to destroy Iraq.
Defendant Schwarzkopf was put in charge of this revision. For example, in
early 1990, Defendant Schwarzkopf informed the Senate Armed Services
Committee of this new military strategy in the Gulf allegedly designed to
protect U.S. access to and control over Gulf oil in the event of regional
conflicts. In October 1990, Defendant Powell referred to the new military
plan developed in 1989. After the war, Defendant Schwarzkopf referred to
eighteen months of planning for the campaign.

10. Sometime in late 1989 or early 1990, the Pentagon's war plan for
destroying Iraq and stealing Persian Gulf oil fields was put into motion. At
that time, Defendant Schwarzkopf was named the Commander of the so-called
U.S. Central Command - which was the renamed version of the Rapid Deployment
Force - for the purpose of carrying out the war plan that he had personally
developed and supervised. During January of 1990, massive quantities of
United States weapons, equipment, and supplies were sent to Saudi Arabia in
order to prepare for the war against Iraq.

11. Pursuant to this war plan, Defendant Webster and the CIA assisted and
directed Kuwait in its actions of violating OPEC oil production agreements
to undercut the price of oil for the purpose of debilitating Iraq's economy;
in extracting excessive and illegal amounts of oil from pools it shared with
Iraq; in demanding immediate repayment of loans Kuwait had made to Iraq
during the Iraq-Iran War; and in breaking off negotiations with Iraq over
these disputes. The Defendants intended to provoke Iraq into aggressive
military actions against Kuwait that they knew could be used to justify U.S.
military intervention into the Persian Gulf for the purpose of destroying
Iraq and taking over Arab oil fields.

The U.S. "Green Light" to Invade Kuwait

12. The Defendants showed absolutely no opposition to Iraq's increasing
threats against Iraq. Indeed, when Saddam Hussein requested U.S. Ambassador
April Glaspie to explain State Department testimony in Congress about Iraq's
threats against Kuwait, she assured him that the United States considered
the dispute to be a regional concern, and that it would not intervene
militarily. In other words, the United States government gave Saddam Hussein
what amounted to a "green light" to invade Kuwait.

13. This reprehensible behaviour was similar to that of the Carter
administration during September of 1980, when United States government
officials gave Saddam Hussein the "green light" to invade Iran and thus
commence the tragic Iraq-Iran War. A decade later, Saddam Hussein simply
surmised that he had been given yet another "green light" by the United
States government to commit overt aggression against surrounding states.
Only this time, the Defendants knowingly intended to lead Iraq into a
provocation that could be used to justify intervention and warfare by United
States military forces for the real purpose of destroying Iraq as a military
power and seizing Arab oil fields in the Persian Gulf.

Bush Is the Bigger War Criminal

14. On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait without significant
resistance. The Kuwaiti government itself estimated that approximately 300
people were killed as a result of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and a few
hundred more as a result of the military occupation. By comparison,
Defendant Bush's invasion of Panama in December of 1989 took between 2,000
and 4,000 Panamanian lives, and the United States government is still
covering up the actual death toll. Defendant Bush killed more innocent
people in Panama than Saddam Hussein did in Kuwait.

15. Defendant Bush's invasion of Panama was even more illegal,
reprehensible, and criminal than Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait. The
world must never forget that the first step in the construction of Bush's
"New World Order" was his illegal invasion of Panama and the murder of
thousands of completely innocent Panamanian civilians. America's
self-anointed policeman in the Persian Gulf had the blood of the Panamanian
People on his hands.

Bush's Perversion of the Constitution

16. Pursuant to the Pentagon's war plan for destroying Iraq and stealing
Persian Gulf oil fields - and without consultation or communication with
Congress - Defendant Bush initially ordered 40,000 U.S. military personnel
into the Persian Gulf region during the first week of August 1990. He lied
to the American People and Congress when he stated that his acts were purely
defensive. Right from the very outset of this crisis - and even beforehand -
Defendant Bush fully intended to go to war against Iraq and to seize the
Arab oil fields in the Persian Gulf. Defendant Bush deliberately misled,
deceived, concealed and made false representations to the Congress to
prevent its free deliberation and informed exercise of legislative power.

17. Defendant Bush intentionally usurped Congressional power, ignored its
authority, and failed and refused to consult with the Congress. He
individually ordered a naval blockade against Iraq - itself an act of war -
without approval by Congress or the U.N. Security Council. Defendant Bush
waited until after the November 1990 elections to publicly announce his
earlier order sending more than 200,000 additional military personnel to the
Persian Gulf for offensive purposes without seeking the approval of
Congress. Pursuant to the Pentagon's war plan, Defendant Bush switched U.S.
forces from a defensive position and capability to an offensive capacity for
aggression against Iraq without consultation with, and contrary to
assurances given to, Congress and the American People.

18. On the very eve of the war, Defendant Bush then strong-armed legislation
through Congress that approved enforcement of U.N. resolutions vesting
absolute discretion in any nation, providing no guidelines, and requiring no
reporting to the United Nations. Defendant Bush knew full well that he
intended to destroy the armed forces and civilian infrastructure of Iraq.
Those acts were undertaken to enable him to commit a Nuremberg Crime Against
Peace and war crimes. This conduct violated the Constitution and Laws of the
United States and especially the War Powers Clause found in Article 1,
Section 8 of the Constitution, the U.S. War Powers Act of 1973, 87 Stat.
555, and the United Nations Charter, which is the "Supreme Law of the Land"
under Article 6 of the Constitution. For this reason alone, Defendant Bush
and his co-conspirators committed "High Crimes and Misdemeanors" that
warrant their impeachment, conviction, removal from office, and criminal
prosecution.

Bush's Mad Rush to War

19. While concealing his true intentions, Bush continued the military
buildup of U.S. forces from August into January 1991 for the purpose of
attacking and destroying Iraq. Bush pressed the military to expedite
preparations and to commence the war against Iraq before military conditions
were optimum for domestic political purposes so that the war would not
interfere with his presidential re-election campaign. Indeed, the entire
timing, conduct and duration of the war were planned so as to promote
Defendant Bush's re-election prospects. But as a direct result of Defendant
Bush's mad rush to war, United States military personnel suffered needless
casualties. Defendant Bush has still lied and covered up to the American
People and Congress the true nature and extent of U.S. casualties during the
Persian Gulf War.

Bush Corrupted the United Nations

20. Defendant Bush repeatedly coerced the members of the United Nations
Security Council into adopting an unprecedented series of resolutions that
culminated in his securing authority for any nation to use "all necessary
means" to enforce these resolutions. To secure these votes in the Security
Council, Defendant Bush paid multi-billion-dollar bribes; offered arms for
regional wars; threatened and carried out economic retaliation; illegally
forgave multi-billion-dollar loans; offered diplomatic relations despite
human rights violations; and in other ways corruptly exacted votes. This
illegal activity subverted and perverted the very Purposes and Principles of
the United Nations Charter itself found in articles 1 and 2 thereof.

Bush Circumvented and Violated Chapter VI of the United Nations Charter

21. In his mad rush to war, Defendant Bush caused the United Nations to
completely bypass Chapter VI of the U.N. Charter that mandates the specific
settlement of international disputes. Defendant Bush consistently rejected
and ridiculed all of Iraq's efforts to negotiate a peaceful resolution of
the dispute. Defendant Bush proudly boasted that there would be no
negotiation, no compromise, no face-saving, etc.

22. Defendant Bush's successful attempt to subvert every effort for
negotiating a peaceful resolution of this dispute violated the solemn
obligation mandating the peaceful resolution of international disputes found
in article 2, paragraph 3 of the United Nations Charter; in article 33,
paragraph 1 of the United Nations Charter; and in article 2 of the
Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Just like the Nazi war criminals before him,
Defendant Bush pursued recourse to war as an instrument of his national
policy and for the solution of international controversies in violation of
article 1 of the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Just as the Nazi war criminals did by
invading Poland in September of 1939, these Defendants perpetrated a
Nuremberg Crime Against Peace in their decision to got to war against Iraq
and to seize and steal the oil resources of the Persian Gulf.

The Conduct of the War Itself

23. Obviously, in the brief space that has been allotted to me, there is no
way that I could adequately describe all of the atrocities and war crimes
that were committed by these Defendants and their Agents during the course
of their actual conduct of military hostilities against the People and State
of Iraq. These matters have been covered in great detail during the course
of the public investigations and hearings conducted around the world by the
Commission during the past year. Nonetheless, I will provide you here with a
succinct account of the major categories of war crimes committed by these
Defendants during the course of their criminal war against Iraq.

Bush Ordered the Destruction of Facilities Essential to Civilian Life and
Economic Productivity Throughout Iraq

24. Systematic aerial and missile bombardment of Iraq was ordered to begin
at 6:30 p.m. E.S.T. January 16, 1991, in order to be reported on prime time
TV. The bombing continued for 42 days. It met no resistance from Iraqi
aircraft and no effective anti-aircraft or anti-missile ground fire. Iraq
was basically defenceless.

25. Most of the targets were civilian facilities. The United States
intentionally bombed and destroyed centres for civilian life, commercial and
business districts, schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, shelters,
residential areas, historical sites, private vehicles and civilian
government offices. In aerial attacks, including strafing, over cities,
towns, the countryside and highways, United States aircraft bombed and
strafed indiscriminately. The purpose of these attacks was to destroy life
and property, and generally to terrorise the civilian population of Iraq.
The net effect was the summary execution and corporal punishment
indiscriminately of men, women and children, young and old, rich and poor,
of all nationalities and religions.

26. As a direct result of this bombing campaign against civilian life, at
least 25,000 men, women and children were killed. The Red Crescent Society
of Jordan estimated 113,000 civilian dead, 60% of them children, the week
before the end of the war. According to the Nuremberg Charter, this "wanton
destruction of cities, towns, or villages" is a Nuremberg War Crime.

27. The intention and effort of this bombing campaign against civilian life
and facilities was to systematically destroy Iraq's infrastructure leaving
it in a pre-industrial condition. The U.S. assault left Iraq in near
apocalyptic conditions as reported by the first United Nations observers
after the war. As a direct, intentional and foreseeable result of this
anti-civilian destruction, over one hundred thousand people have died after
the war from dehydration, dysentery, diseases, and malnutrition caused by
impure water, inability to obtain effective medical assistance and
debilitation from hunger, cold, shock and distress. More will die until
potable water, sanitary living conditions, adequate food supplies and other
necessities are provided. Yet Defendant Bush continues to impose punitive
economic sanctions against the People of Iraq in order to prevent this from
happening.

The United States Intentionally Bombed and Destroyed Defenceless Iraqi
Military Personnel; Used Excessive Force; Killed Soldiers Seeking to
Surrender and in Disorganised Individual Flight, Often Unarmed and Far from
Any Combat Zones; Randomly and Wantonly Killed Iraqi Soldiers; and Destroyed
Material After the Cease-Fire

28. In the first hours of the aerial and missile bombardment, the United
States destroyed most military communications and began the systematic
killing of Iraqi soldiers who were incapable of defence or escape, and the
destruction of military equipment. The U.S. bombing campaign killed tens of
thousands of defenceless soldiers, cut off from most of their food, water
and other supplies, and left them in desperate and helpless disarray.
Defendant Schwarzkopf placed Iraqi military casualties at over 100,000.
Large numbers of these soldiers were "out of combat" and therefore not
legitimate targets for military attack.

29. When it was determined that the civilian economy and the military were
sufficiently destroyed, the U.S. ground forces moved into Kuwait and Iraq
attacking disorientated, disorganised, fleeing Iraqi forces wherever they
could be found, killing thousands more and destroying any equipment found.
In one particularly shocking manoeuvre, thousands of Iraqi soldiers were
needlessly and illegally buried alive. This wholesale slaughter of Iraqi
soldiers continued even after and in violation of the so-called cease-fire.

30. The Defendants' intention was not to remove Iraq's presence from Kuwait.
Rather, their intention was to destroy Iraq. The disproportion in death and
destruction inflicted on a defenceless enemy exceeded 100 to one. The
Defendants conducted this genocidal war against the Male Population of Iraq
for the express purpose of making sure that Iraq could not raise a
substantial military force for at least another generation.

The United States Used Prohibited Weapons Capable of Mass Destruction and
Inflicting Indiscriminate Death and Unnecessary Suffering Against Both
Military and Civilian Targets

31. Fuel air explosives were used against troops in place, civilian areas,
oil fields and fleeing civilians and soldiers on two stretches of highway
between Kuwait and Iraq. One seven mile stretch called the "Highway of
Death" was littered with hundreds of vehicles and thousands of dead. All
were fleeing to Iraq for their lives. Thousands were civilians of all ages,
including Kuwaitis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Jordanians and other
nationalities.

32. Napalm was used against civilians and military personnel, as well as to
start fires. Oil well fires in both Iraq and Kuwait were intentionally
started by U.S. aircraft dropping napalm and other heat intensive devices.

33. Cluster bombs and anti-personnel fragmentation bombs were used in Basra,
and other cities and towns, against the civilian convoys of fleeing vehicles
and against military units.

34. "Superbombs" were dropped on hardened shelters with the intention of
assassinating Iraqi President Saddam Hussein - a war crime in its own right.

The United States Intentionally Attacked Installations in Iraq Containing
Dangerous Substances and Forces in Violation of Article 56 of Geneva
Protocol I of 1977

35. The U.S. intentionally bombed alleged nuclear sites, chemical plants,
dams and other dangerous forces. The U.S. knew such attacks could cause the
release of dangerous forces from such installations and consequently severe
losses among the civilian population. While some civilians were killed in
such attacks, there are no reported cases of consequent severe losses.
Presumably, lethal nuclear materials, and dangerous chemical and biological
warfare substances, were not present at the sites bombed.

The United States Waged War on the Environment

36. Before the war started, the Pentagon had developed computer models that
accurately predicted the environmental catastrophe that would occur should
the United States go to war against Iraq. These Defendants went to war
anyway knowing full well what the consequences of such an environmental
disaster would be. Attacks by U.S. aircraft caused much if not all of the
worst oil spills in the Gulf. Aircraft and helicopters dropped napalm and
fuel-air explosives on oil wells throughout Iraq and many, if not most, of
the oil well fires in Iraq and Kuwait.

Defendant Bush Encouraged and Aided Shiite Muslims and Kurds to Rebel
Against the Government of Iraq Causing Fratricidal Violence, Emigration,
Exposure, Hunger and Sickness and Thousands of Deaths. After the Rebellion
Failed, the U.S. Invaded and Occupied Parts of Iraq Without Lawful Authority
in Order to Increase Division and Hostilities Within Iraq

37. Without authority from the U.S. Congress or the United Nations,
Defendant Bush encouraged and aided rebellion against Iraq, failed to
protect the warring parties, encouraged mass migration of whole populations
placing them in jeopardy from the elements, hunger and disease. After much
suffering and many deaths, Defendant Bush then without authority used U.S.
military forces to distribute aid at and near the Turkish border, ignoring
the often greater suffering among refugees in Iran. He then arbitrarily set
up bantu-like settlements for Kurds in Iraq and demanded for Iraq to pay for
U.S. costs. When Kurds chose to return to their homes in Iraq, he moved U.S.
troops further into northern Iraq against the will of the government and
without any legal authority to do so. As Defendant Baker correctly put it
when he visited the area, these atrocities constituted a Nuremberg "crime
against humanity."

Defendant Bush Intentionally Deprived the Iraqi People of Essential
Medicines, Potable Water, Food and Other Necessities

38. A major component of the assault on Iraq was the systematic deprivation
of essential human needs and services, to terrorise and break the will of
the Iraqi People, to destroy their economic capability, and to reduce their
numbers and weaken their health. Towards those ends, the Defendants:

- imposed and enforced embargoes preventing the shipment of needed
medicines, water purifiers, infant milk formula, food and other supplies;
- froze funds of Iraq and forced other nations to do so, depriving Iraq of
the ability to purchase needed medicines, food and other supplies;
- preventing international organisations, governments and relief agencies
from providing needed supplies and obtaining information concerning such
needs;
- failed to assist or meet urgent needs of huge refugee populations and
interfered with efforts of others to do so, etc.

As a direct result of these cruel and inhuman acts, thousands of people
died, many more suffered illnesses and permanent injury. For these actions,
the Defendants are guilty of Nuremberg Crimes Against Humanity and the Crime
of Genocide as recognised by international law and U.S. domestic law.

Defendant Bush, Having Destroyed Iraq's Economic Base, Demands Reparations
Which Will Permanently Impoverish Iraq and Threaten Its People with Famine
and Epidemic

39. Defendant Bush seeks to force Iraq to pay for damages to Kuwait largely
caused by the U.S. and even to pay U.S. costs for its violation of Iraqi
sovereignty in occupying northern Iraq to further manipulate the Kurdish
population there. Such reparations are neo-colonial means of expropriating
Iraq's oil, natural resources, and human labour. Meanwhile, the United
States government dominates and controls the respective governments and oil
resources of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates,
and Qatar.

40. The United States government has successfully carried out its
long-standing threat and war plan to seize and steal the oil resources of
the Persian Gulf for its own benefit. The United States now directly
controls the natural energy resources that fuel the economies of Europe and
Japan. Acting with their de facto allies in Israel and Great Britain, the
Defendants are today consolidating their control over the entire Middle East
in a blatant bid to establish worldwide hegemony.

Bush's "New World Order"

41. Today, the government in the United States of America constitutes an
international criminal conspiracy under the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment and
Principles, that is legally identical to the Nazi government in World War II
Germany. The Defendants' wanton extermination of approximately 250,000
People in Iraq provides definite proof of the validity of this Nuremberg
Proposition for the entire world to see. Indeed, Defendant Bush's so-called
New World Order sounds and looks strikingly similar to the New Order
proclaimed by Adolph Hitler over fifty years ago. You do not build a real
New World Order with stealth bombers, Abrams tanks, and tomahawk cruise
missiles. For their own good and the good of all humanity, the American
People must condemn and repudiate Defendant Bush and his grotesque vision of
a New World Order that is constructed upon warfare, bloodshed, violence and
criminality.

Impeachment

42. All of these aforementioned international crimes constitute "High Crimes
and Misdemeanors" as defined by the Article 2, Section 4 of the United
States Constitution and therefore warrant the impeachment, conviction, and
removal from office of Defendants Bush, Quayle, Baker, Cheney, Powell, and
Scowcroft. In regard to this matter, Congressman Henry Gonzalez of Texas has
already introduced an Impeachment Resolution into the House of
Representatives, that is numbered House Resolution 86, calling for the
impeachment and removal from office of these Defendants because they have
committed these international crimes and also because they have subverted
and perverted constitutional government in America "to the manifest injury
of the people of the United States."

A Special Prosecutor

43. These Defendants must be impeached by the House, tried and convicted by
the Senate, and removed from office. Thereafter, we believe that the
Commission of Inquiry and the International War Crimes Tribunal will have
produced sufficient evidence to trigger the application of the Ethics in
Government Act, 28 U.S.C. 591 et seq., that would lead to the appointment of
an Independent Counsel (i.e., Special Prosecutor) to investigate and
prosecute these high-ranking officials for the wholesale violation of
federal criminal laws in their decision to launch and wage this criminal war
against the People and State of Iraq. We fully intend to see Bush, Baker,
Cheney, Quayle, Scowcroft, Webster, Powell, Schwarzkopf and the rest of the
U.S. High Command sitting in jail for the rest of their natural lives.

44. Make no mistake about it: The very nature, future and existence of the
American Republic depends upon the success of these endeavours. Today, the
battle begins for the hearts and minds of the American People between the
Warmongers and the Peacemakers. We ask all of you to join us in this legal
campaign and moral crusade to restore to the United States of America a
democratic government with a commitment to the Rule of Law and the
Constitution both at home and abroad.


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954(voice)
217-244-1478(fax)
fboyle at law.uiuc.edu

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