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PLAYING CARD DECK SHOWS
WAY TO REGIME CHANGE
by Spartacus,
Friday April 25, 2003 at 01:58 PM
In the wake of the U.S.'s
"pre-emptive" destruction of Iraq, her people, and her
culture, the Trade Regulation Organization is issuing a "55
most wanted" playing-card deck (http://gatt.org/regime/)
similar to the one that the Pentagon issued two weeks ago in
Iraq...
April 25, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PLAYING CARD DECK SHOWS WAY TO REGIME CHANGE
The deck: http://www.gatt.org/regime/usregimecards.pdf
Info and ordering: http://www.gatt.org/regime/
Contact: mailto:playingcards@gatt.org
In the wake of the U.S.'s "pre-emptive"
destruction of Iraq, her
people, and her culture, the
Trade Regulation Organization is issuing
a "55 most
wanted" playing-card deck (http://gatt.org/regime/)
similar
to the one that the Pentagon issued two weeks ago
in Iraq
(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2003/pipc10042003.html).
The TRO, estimating that the U.S. governing
regime is no longer
consistent with world peace or
prosperity, hopes that the playing
cards will show the way
to regime change and, eventually, large-scale
war crimes
proceedings.
According to the TRO, the victims of the
unprovoked U.S. war fall into
three categories:
* People. In the 1991 Gulf War,
100,000-200,000 civilians and
80,000-150,000 soldiers were
killed directly by bombs.
In addition, poisoning from the
U.S.'s depleted uranium (DU)
weapons - banned by the
Geneva Convention - has led to hundreds of
thousands more
Iraqi cancers and deaths; the 80,000 cases of "Gulf War
syndrome" among U.S. veterans are most likely also due to
DU exposure.
In the 2003 Iraq War, the U.S. once again
used massive amounts of
DU in its weapons. Iraqi death
counts are unknown or unpublicized.
(See http://gatt.org/regime/ for
links.)
* Culture. Because of a U.S. policy giving
carte blanche to looters -
only the Oil Ministry and
Interior Ministry were protected - the
Middle East's
leading archaeological museum lost almost all of its
unique ancient artifacts, and two libraries full of
irreplaceable
medieval manuscripts were destroyed. (See http://gatt.org/regime/ for
links.)
* Prospects. The U.S. is now considered the
primary world criminal by
the vast majority of the world's
citizens. The implications for the
U.S.'s long-term
prospects are grim.
Many of those featured on the "55 most
wanted" cards are in government,
and removing these people
from power will go a long way towards making
the world a
safer place.
Others include corporate CEOs; in those
cases, the corporations
themselves must be dissolved or
otherwise rendered incapable of
further harm.
"If one day the people on these cards are
indeed brought to justice,
'just following orders' or
'supporting our troops' will be no excuse
for the rest of
us," said TRO spokeswoman Hedwig Ixtabal-Mono.
The Trade Regulation Organization,
committed to making trade benefit
poor people, is the
World Trade Organization's successor; see
http://gatt.org/irelease.html
for more details.
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