"We Can Live Together In The World Better Than Human!"
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The Rich Must Take Care Of The Poor,
The Poor Must Honour The Rich.
When The Strong Protects The Weak, The Weak Then Will Respond With Trust.
The End Result: GOODWILL and UNDERSTANDING.
Once overcoming THE SUSPICION then only comes TRUE COOPERATION!!
I WISH THIS MESSAGE REACH ALL COUNTRY LEADERS AND THE KINGS OR QUEENS.
We need not wasting resourses on war projects, this EARTH by itself already has too many imperative problems at hand that need our immediate attention.
We invite you---help the world shine!// Wij nodigen u uit---help de wereld glanzen!// Nous vous invitons---aidez le monde pour briller// Wir laden Sie ein---helfen Sie der Welt zu glänzen//!Σας προσκαλούμε---βοηθήστε τον κόσμο να λάμψει!// Lo invitiamo---aiuti il mondo per lucidare!// 私達は誘う---照るために世界を助けなさい!// Nós convidamo-lo---ajude o mundo a brilhar!// Мы приглашаем вас---помогите миру для того чтобы посветить!// Le invitamos---¡ayude al mundo para brillar!
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DE OORLOG IS DE SLECHTSTE OPLOSSING VOOR DE WERELD.
LA GUERRE EST LA PLUS MAUVAISE SOLUTION POUR LE MONDE.
Ο ΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ ΕΙΝΑΙ Η ΧΕΙΡΟΤΕΡΗ ΛΥΣΗ ΓΙΑ ΤΟΝ ΚΟΣΜΟ
KRIEG IST DIE SCHLECHTESTE LÖSUNG FÜR DIE WELT.
戦争は世界のための最も悪い解決である。
전쟁은 세계를 위한 가장 나쁜 해결책이다.
A GUERRA É A SOLUÇÃO A MAIS MÁ PARA O MUNDO.
ВОЙНА САМОЕ ПЛОХОЕ РАЗРЕШЕНИЕ ДЛЯ МИРА
A Summary of
United Nations Agreements
on Human Rights
Contents
Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Optional Protocol to the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Convention Against Torture
Convention Against Genocide
The Geneva Conventions
Convention on the Rights of the Child
Convention on Eliminiation of Discrimination Against Women
Charter of the United Nations
http://www.hrweb.org/legal/undocs.html
MEMORIES OF WAR
Everyone is taking about WAR with his/her own feeling, but how many are talking to the SOLDIERS to know their feeling/reality of WAR because they are THE ONES directly involved in the wars.
Title Of Above Videos:No End In Sight - Iraq War - Documentary Trailer
This Documentary by Charles Ferguson. Chronicles the reasons behind Iraq's descent into civil war, guerrilla war, warlord rule, criminality and anarchy. An insider's tale of incompetence, recklessness and venality.
Historical Background: In the Middle East on the Persian Gulf, Iraq is a country roughly twice the size of the state of Idaho. It shares its eastern border with Iran, its northern border with Turkey, its western border with Syria and Jordan, and its southern border with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Iraq is the site of some of the oldest known human civilizations, including Sumer, Babylon and Assyria, the earliest of which dates back to before 4000 BC. Iraq ranks as one of the three oil-richest nations in the world, and the oil industry provides the country’s main source of income.Iraq’s history as one nation dates back to shortly after the First World War. Up until that point the geographical territory of present-day Iraq had been parts of various empires, most recently spending several centuries as part of the Ottoman Empire. But early in 1920 with World War I over and the Ottoman Empire having been dissolved its holdings in the Middle East were split between France and Britain. The borders of Iraq were drawn by, and control over the state was given to, Great Britain. By 1921 Iraq’s first national government was formed, but the British, interested in the country’s location on important trade routes and oil resources, remained the most influential power in Iraq. This situation held until the military coup and Revolution of 1958. The Iraqi Monarchy was overthrown, its leaders executed, and the military leaders of the coup declared the country to be a Republic. A decade of instability followed. During that time the Ba’ath party, a secular political group that believed all Arab states should join into one, first gained power in 1963 thanks to the strength of their paramilitary forces. This would only hold for nine months. But in 1968 the Ba’ath party was able to take power again, this time for good, under President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr and his right hand man, Saddam Hussein.
It was also during the 1950s and ‘60s that the United States first began to take a major role in the politics of the Middle East. During this time, in the aftermath of the Second World War, the influence of the British Empire was waning and the U.S. was beginning to step in and fill the void. In 1953 the U.S. became involved with a coup against Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. Britain, fearing Mossadegh was about to nationalize British-owned Iranian oil companies, and the U.S., afraid that the Prime Minister was leading the country to support communism, organized a propaganda campaign and then influenced the Shah of Iran to dismiss Mossadegh from office. In 1955 the United States would first involve itself in Iraqi politics. The U.S. was involved with, but was not officially a signatory to, the Baghdad Pact. This diplomatic agreement established a regional security organization modeled after NATO called the Central Treaty Organization, or CENTO. The founding members were Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and the United Kingdom. But only three years later in 1958 Iraq, where CENTO’s headquarters were originally located, withdrew following the Revolution. From this point forward the United States displaced Britain and became the dominant western power in the Middle East, and Iran replaced Iraq as the favored state of the region.
By the late sixties, with the Ba’ath party now firmly in control in Iraq, Saddam Hussein was involved in a personal climb to power within the party. Once he became deputy chairman of the Iraq’s Revolutionary Command Council Hussein began to remove anyone who posed a threat to him and his ambitions from positions of influence. By the middle of the seventies his path to leadership of Iraq was clear. Authority over many state and party functions had been concentrated in his hands and he was the obvious successor to al-Bakr, whose health was failing. In 1979 al-Bakr resigned and was immediately succeeded by Hussein, who then carried out a series of purges and executions to be absolutely certain no one who would question his authority remained in government.
1979 also saw another event that would have an immediate and long-lasting impact on both the United States and Iraq. A revolution against the Shah of Iran led to the rise of an Islamic Republic led by Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. For Iraq, this meant its neighbor to the east was now an immediate threat. Iraq and Iran had repeatedly argued in the past over border issues. Now Iraq was suspicious that Iran’s new Islamic government would urge Iraq’s Shi’ite Muslim population, which formed a majority of the country but held almost no influence in the secular Sunni Muslim dominated government, to carry out their own revolution. For the U.S., the Revolution meant the loss of one of its most loyal client states in the region and its replacement by one that was openly hostile to America and American interests. By late 1980, Iraq had invaded Iran and the two countries were at war.
Although Iraq was initially successful, the war settled into a stalemate after the first few months. The U.S. was concerned with the possibility of Iran’s Revolutionary, anti-American sentiment spreading throughout the Middle East as well as with the damage the conflict was causing to oil shipping in the region. The United States government began to throw its support behind Iraq, providing the country with military intelligence, economic aid and weaponry. The administration of President Ronald Reagan at one point appointed Donald Rumsfeld as special envoy to the region, and in this capacity Rumsfeld twice traveled to Baghdad to carry out negotiations with Saddam Hussein. Full diplomatic relations with Iraq, which had been severed since 1967, were re-established in 1984. Even as reports began to surface stating that Iraq was using chemical weapons against Iranian troops, Iranian civilians, and even against its own civilians in its northern Kurdish areas, U.S. support remained strongly behind Iraq and Saddam Hussein. The Iran-Iraq War ended in 1988 as the two sides finally agreed to a UN cease-fire. Neither gained any territory from the other and casualty estimates for the war approach 900,000.
The aftermath of the war left Iraq and its leader in poor condition, politically and economically. Saddam Hussein had not been able to achieve his dream of becoming a glorified figure in the Arab world who had led his country to a great military victory and saved the rest of the Arab states by destroying the Iranian menace. Iraq owed large debts to several other Arab states it had borrowed from to fund its military effort and faced the sudden unemployment of the large military it had built up during the war. One of those states Iraq owed money to was Kuwait, its small neighbor to the south. Kuwait also had a sizable coastline, at least in comparison to Iraq’s, which Saddam coveted for the military and trading opportunities it offered, and the two countries shared an oil field on their common border that they often quarreled over. In August 1990, in a move Saddam hoped would solve several of his problems at once, Iraq invaded Kuwait.
The international response was immediate. In less than a day the UN Security Council called for the immediate withdrawal of Iraq’s troops and the United States, United Kingdom and France froze Iraq’s assets. Within a week the United States and the Soviet Union issued a joint declaration that suspended any arms deliveries to Iraq and U.S. President George H.W. Bush ordered American troops to be airlifted into Saudi Arabia in order to defend against any further Iraqi military actions. A UN backed coalition military force was formed, in which the United States held the major role. Key U.S. military planners included Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney and General Colin Powell, Head of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. When attempts at mediation failed, the Gulf War began with the coalition bombing campaign in January 1991 and was followed by a decisive three-day long ground campaign in February. The Iraqi army was driven out of Kuwait, but the coalition stopped short of removing Saddam Hussein from power.
It was expected that Saddam’s failure would lead inevitably lead to his fall. Days after the cease-fire that ended the Gulf War, Iraq’s Shi’ite population in the south and Kurdish population in the north rose up against the government of Saddam Hussein. The United States and its allies encouraged these uprisings, but no actual military support was provided. Faced with no opposition to its aerial superiority, Saddam’s military brutally crushed the rebellions.
This left the U.S. and the rest of the international community to deal with the question of what to do about Iraq. The UN had initially put sanctions in place against Iraq following the invasion, and those sanctions were clarified in April of 1991. Iraq would not be permitted to import anything other than foodstuffs and materials essential to its civilian population. It would not be allowed to export oil. These sanctions would be lifted if Iraq met four demands: it identified and destroyed its weapons of mass destruction, it accepted Kuwaiti sovereignty and settled its borders with Kuwait, it released Kuwaiti prisoners as well as prisoners of other nationalities it still held following the war, and it established a Compensation Commission to pay for war damage via oil revenues. Saddam Hussein initially refused, and eventually only backed down on the issue of Kuwaiti sovereignty. The sanctions remained in place, hitting the Iraqi civilian population hardest.
With Iraq unwilling to reveal the details of its weapons of mass destruction programs, the United Nations forced it into accepting the presence of UNSCOM, the United Nations Special Commission established to inspect Iraq for evidence of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs. From 1994 to 1998 UNSCOM inspectors were able to work in Iraq but were often hassled and delayed by the Iraqi government. In December 1998, upset with Iraq’s lack of cooperation, the United States and the United Kingdom launched a bombing campaign known as Operation Desert Fox. They targeted military-industrial facilities suspected of being used by Iraq to continue its weapons programs. The UN’s weapons inspectors were evacuated prior to the bombing. They were not allowed back into the country until December 2002.
In the United States during the ‘90s various groups began to work towards the goal of seeking a change of regime in Iraq, possibly without the need for a full-scale U.S. military invasion. In 1995 the CIA funded an effort by the Iraqi National Congress (INC), an Iraqi opposition group operating in exile, to lead a resistance movement against Saddam Hussein. The INC set up a base of operations in the northern Kurdish region of Iraq, which enjoyed a degree of autonomy from the Iraqi government and was a UN-protected no-fly zone for the Iraqi air force. But political infighting led rival Kurdish factions to tip off Saddam’s government to the group’s presence. The INC was hopelessly outmatched, and hundreds were captured and executed. Those who escaped, including the INC’s leader Ahmed Chalabi, returned to the U.S. and continued to lobby for action against Saddam.
The Project for the New American Century, a think tank of prominent conservatives in the United States, wrote an open letter to President Clinton in 1998 urging him to make the removal of Saddam Hussein from power one of the his top priorities. The writers of the letter argued that with his potential for developing weapons of mass destruction, Saddam could not be allowed to remain in power and the full diplomatic, political and military powers of the United States should be used to remove him. The signatories of the letter included several people who would later hold positions in the administration of President George W. Bush, including Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Armitage, John Bolton and Zalmay Khalilzad.
Following Bush’s election in 2000, Iraq became a more pressing issue in the eyes of those making U.S. foreign policy. And in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, the possibility that Iraq could act as of source of weapons of mass destruction for terrorist groups seeking to use them against the United States created further cause for alarm. The success of the war in Afghanistan gave the U.S. government reason to believe it could topple a hostile government and replace it with one that was more democratic and friendlier to the United States. Meanwhile, intelligence provided by sources in the Iraqi National Congress on Iraq’s weapons programs seemed to support the Bush administration’s worst fears about Saddam Hussein, although some in the intelligence community and the State Department suspected the information might not be accurate. And so, this time without the support of the United Nations, the United States, supported by the United Kingdom and a coalition of allied countries, invaded Iraq in March of 2003.[Abstract from http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/]
MY COMMENT: The action to justfy war is equivocal:Past historical ground OR/AND Present "legal" ground. Why not based on the noble never-changing HUMANITARIAN ground which supercedes RACE and RELIGION,even MONEY?Webster New World Dictionary defines HUMANITARIAN=A Person devoted to promoting the WELFARE of HUMANITY
The above video is about a reporter (Howard Hesseman) recently kidnapped in Afghanistan returns safely and shows exclusive footage shot by him and his cameraman (Carl Gottlieb). The interviewee, who looks a lot like Osama bin Laden (Larry Hankin), gives a tour of his cave and one last, insane interview.[Note:Youtube and original text by INFABLE] OLDER POSTS ON THE RIGHT EDGE
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