i motsetning til KVJ konkluderer Howard Zinn at
"we who are offended by this should send our own message to our demented
leaders."
Følgende er klippet fra Z-net i USA http://www.zmag.org/zinniraq.htm)
IRAQ BOMBING "ANOTHER LIE"
HOWARD ZINN
President Clinton has just told another lie, this time not about the
relatively trivial matter of his sexual activities, but about matters of
life and death. In explaining his decision to bomb Baghdad, he said that
other nations besides Iraq have weapons of mass destruction, but Iraq alone
has used them.
He could only say this to a population deprived of history. The United
States has supplied Turkey, Israel, and Indonesia with such weapons and
they have used them against civilian populations. But the nation most
guilty is our own. No nation in the world possesses greater weapons of mass
destruction than we do, and none has used them more often, or with greater
loss of civilian life. In Hiroshima hundreds of thousands died, in Korea
and Vietnam millions died as a result of our use of such weapons.
Our economic sanctions are also weapons of mass destruction, having
resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children. Saddam
Hussein may well have weapons of mass destruction, he may indeed be
inclined to use them, but only the United States is actually using them,
and at this very moment, people are dying in Iraq as a result.
However evil Saddam Hussein is, whatever potential danger he may represent,
he is not, as the president said tonight (telling another lie) a "clear and
present danger" to the peace of the world. We are. And, as the president
said, if there is a clear and present danger we must act against it. It is
a time for protest.
We are living in times of madness, when men in suits and ties, and yes, a
woman secretary of state, can solemnly defend the use, in the present, of
indiscriminate violence-they do not know what they are bombing!-against a
tyrant who may use violence, in the future. The phrase "clear and present
danger" has therefore lost its meaning. The phrase "weapons of mass
destruction" too has lost its meaning when a nation which possesses more
such weapons, and has used them more often, than any other, uses those
words to justify the killing of civilians "to send a message." We who are
offended by this should send our own message to our demented leaders.
Howard Zinn is professor emeritus of history at Boston University, and
author of _A People's History of the United States_.
Hilsen
Knut Rognes