[lit-ideas] long past acts through the lens
- From: Eric Yost <eyost1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Lit-Ideas <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 13:51:43 -0500
from the "World Peace Movement" site
(note the use of terrorist in quotes)
http://www.san.beck.org/US-MissileStrike.html
Clinton and U.S. Violates International Law
with Missile Strike on Afghanistan and Sudan
Once again President Clinton and the United States
on August 20, 1998 violated international law with
a pre-emptive cruise missile attack on four
"terrorist" camps in eastern Afghanistan and a
pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum.21 were killed in
Afghanistan and 30 were wounded there; at least
ten workers were wounded in the Khartoum medical
drug factory. In his speech to the nation from the
White House oval office timed to dominate the news
on another day of testimony before the grand jury
by Monica Lewinsky, Clinton tried to justify the
attack as "self-defense." However, Article 51 of
the United Nations Charter only allows the
inherent right of self-defense "if an armed attack
occurs against a Member of the United Nations,"
not as a pre-emptive strike against some feared
attack in the future. The United States Justice
Department claimed the attack did not violate U.
S. laws because of a 1996 U. S. anti-terrorism
law, but they did not address the issue of
international law. When a more obvious motivation
for the strike is as a retaliatory reaction to the
bombings of the U. S. embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania, who is going to believe this
rationalization on a question of mass murder from
the lips of Bill Clinton, who has so recently
admitted deceiving the public about a little sex
with a White House intern?
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