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Apr-26-03, 12:41 PM (ET)
Regime Change Playing Cards (US Version)
I hope this isn't a dupe posting.


> 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.
>
> # 30 #

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