Middle East
Click here for a pic of the door of Babylon
This is the Door of Babylon, one of the first cities on the Earth and where a written language and a code of law were developed circa 3000 B.C. Ishtar is the Babylonian god of love. This will most likely be destroyed in the Iraq war. A beautifful building over 5,000 years old.
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Click here for article:"Iraq's ancient Babylon bites the dust:"
This article to the link above by Kevin Tibbles gives insight into the sad fate of part of Iraq's cultural heritage as a result of the ongoing war. "In a sense, it is a total war against the past.," says Professor John Russell of the Massachusetts College of Art: "History is being erased, with no possibility of being recovered."
The Ancient History of Mesopotamia (Iraq)... click here
America...if war is prosecuted further in Iraq, we as citizens must be prepared to advance the cause of peace in this country.
Friends.... This is still your government in the US!!!!! We all each individually have a right to have a say in how its destiny is being charted. We have a right together! Where does that right come from? That right derives from our very Declaration of Independence, which claimed self-governance as a basic right.
Of the fifteen Nato council members of the NATO club, only Unites States and Great Britian have voiced support for invading Iraq's homeland. But Bulgaria and Spain are considered likely members of a coalition should the United States go to war.
Powell Fails To Sway Powerful Key Allies China, Germany, Russia, France but Jack Straw of Britain, America's closest ally, stands firmly behind the United States if Bush decides to invade Iraq, and we need national defense in support of attacks at United States borders/homeland. Britian's army will help protect the US in the possible very near World War III. This is a reality. Bush is putting fuel in the fire to trigger a World war III. Is America ready for war with only one key ally?
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THE EXHIBITION OF THE UNIVERSE HOMEPAGE
The United Nations: An Organ for World Democracy, or Imperial Hangover?
Pictures of Anti-War Protests from around the World
JOIN the PEOPLE'S
ANTI-WAR REFERENDUM!
People in the United States and everywhere have an obligation to stop the Bush administration's mad drive to launch a new, all-out military aggression against Iraq. The Bush administration has no right to wage war against a country that is posing no threat to the United States. Disregarding all international law, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and company are planning to send tens of thousands of young GIs to kill and be killed in a war for Big Oil.
The January 18, 2003, march on Washington DC will call for civilians and soldiers alike to exercise their political right to speak out against an illegal war that will benefit only Exxon/Mobil, Texaco, Chase, Citibank, Raytheon, Lockheed, Boeing and George Bush's corporate backers who are his real constituents.
"The CIA judged the likelihood of Iraq attacking the United States without U.S. provocation as "low" but rising dramatically if the U.S. prepared for a preemptive strike. In other words, Bush’s strategy might touch off precisely the nightmare scenario that he says he is countering," quote by Sam Parry.
STOP LISTENING TO CNN, NBC, (MSN(INTERNET)/NBC OWNED BY GENERAL ELECTRIC)... THESE ARE OWNED BY THE LARGEST CORPORATION IN THE WORLD, GE. THE MORE YOU WATCH TV, OR WATCH THESE STATIONS, YOU WILL QUICKLY BEGIN TO AGREE WITH THIS WAR!!!!!!!LIKE THEY WANT! LETS NOT GET BRAINWASHED BY THESE COORPORATIONS WHO CONTROL OUR GOVERNMENT! HOW? READ ANY KIND OF INDEPENDENT NEWS, PAPERS, INTERNET AND FORM YOUR OWN OPINION. Get a little more familiar with GE click here
Nato says more time US for inspection
This person, who asked not to be identified but is intimately familiar with Powell's thinking, said Thursday that Powell opposes any action in which the United States would "go it alone ... as if it doesn't give a damn" what other nations think.
National Network TO
End The War
Against Iraq
Iraq is being threatened by the biggest and only military superpower in the world, a country that will have an annual military budget of $500,000,000,000 by the year 2007. The U.S. will soon spend more on the military than all the other countries in the world combined. It has more weapons of mass destruction than the rest of the world combined. It has used nuclear weapons against the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, and carried out devastating bombings of Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. It also bombed Libya and invaded Grenada and Panama. Martin Luther King once said, "The greatest purveyor of violence on the planet is the U.S. government."
The best way to protect U.S. and Iraqi soldiers from the danger of exposure to chemical or biological weapons--and all conventional weapons that also kill people--is for the U.S. not to carry out this new war of aggression.
WHY A WAR NOW?
During the 1991 Gulf War, the U.S. dropped more than 88,500 tons of explosives in a 42-day period, killing more than 100,000 Iraqis from that relentless bombing. The combined number of soldiers and civilians may be double that. Only 148 U.S. military personnel died during the war - 37 from friendly fire accidents--making the conflict one of the most one-sided massacres in human history!
In 1991, George Bush Senior made the decision not to press the war further into a massive ground invasion of Iraq to topple the government because he knew that scenario would likely lead to thousands and perhaps tens of thousands of U.S. casualties.
George Bush, Sr. was concerned that the people in the U.S. would turn against the war in the event of huge U.S. casualties. Most of the high government officials feared a repeat of what they called the Vietnam Syndrome meaning a massive and militant anti-war movement at home. That's the real reason they didn't "finish the job" (in the words of the war-mongers) with a full invasion of Baghdad and the overthrow of the Iraqi government.
But the war against Iraq has continued by other means. Through a combination of sanctions, covert action and continued (but lower level) bombing--including a major four day campaign December 16-19, 1998, and repeated bombing over "no fly" zones since that time--the U.S. war against Iraq has continued.
This war has had disastrous consequences for the Iraqi people. Economic sanctions imposed on August 1990 have taken the lives of 1.5 million civilians mainly children under the age of five in the twelve years. Sanctions have proven to be a weapon of truly mass destruction for Iraqi babies, 5,000 of whom die each month from malnutrition and hunger-related illness (source: UN Food and Agricultural Organization). Iraq's infrastructure--bombed heavily in 1991--has remained unfixed because of restrictions on the necessary imports.
This U.S. war has continued for over a decade with little knowledge by the U.S. public, and thus more muted public outcry than during the Gulf War, but it has failed to accomplish the U.S. government objective of overthrowing the current Iraqi government and replacing it with one more subservient to U.S. dictates.
The Bush administration is counting on a changed, post-September 11 political atmosphere in which the U.S. people will not denounce a war that includes a high number of U.S. casualties--as Bush senior's administration believed people would in 1991, and as they did during the Vietnam War.
BUILD THE ANTI-WAR MOVEMENT
The A.N.S.W.E.R. - Act Now to Stop War & End Racism - coalition is organizing now against a new U.S. war in Iraq. Join this movement and help build a movement among young and working people, labor unionists, students, peace activists, civil rights activists, community organizers, soldiers and more. It is the united action of the people who can stop even this mobilization by the U.S. government.
For more information, go to www.InternationalANSWER.org
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