Iraq: laziness, deception, lies and spin
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Lund, Sweden, March 20, 2006
IRAQ WAR 3 YEARS. IRAQ SUFFERING 16 YEARS. Sorry - but TFF's predictions about Iraq - based on an annual budget of US $25,000 - have turned out to be better than those of the American, British and Danish governments with their multi billion dollar budgets for foreign policy research, intelligence services, etc. Fortunately, their intellectual laziness, their (self) deception, lies and spin has been debunked. The only problem is that so-called democracies have lost decency and self-criticism and thus Mr. Bush, Mr. Blair and Mr. Fogh Rasmussen have not resigned. For a look back and some recent articles: TFF's Iraq Forum One of the most useful libraries on the conflict with Iraq: TFF PressInfos, Associates' articles, the 'Think Freely About Iraq Diary', as well as hundreds of Feature articles from the critical sources of global press. See also articles about the Iraq Tribunal which the free press chose to remain silent about: http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/TFF_Forum_Iraq.html The photo series 'Iraqi Faces and Surfaces' Politicised and violence-obsessed media wanted you to think that Iraq was only a weird man with mustache, military parades and a lost war. Here are the images and impressions that you were not supposed to get of the Iraqi civilians, their everyday life and culture. http://www.transnational.org/photoseries/iraq/photo_iraq_index.html TFF conducted two two-week fact-finding missions 2002 and 2003. We investigated the effects of the sanctions, how the Iraqis felt and how they see the conflict - and we have argued consistently for a non-violent, political solution to the conflict. We published the Danish book, Predictable Fiasco - which is what the whole thing is. This is also the day when our thought go out to our Iraqi friends who died - such as Akila Al-Hashimi and Margaret Hassan, TFF Associate min Al-Zubydi who with his family has had to flee from Iraq and whose son disappeared. And there are those we talked with who are seriously ill but still in prison without trial such as Tariq Aziz. We also think of Hoda Amash who, seriously ill, only recently was released for lack of evidence, although she was one of those on the U.S. deck of cards of alleged criminals. http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/TFF_Forum_Iraq.html 16 YEARS OF SUFFERING On Hiroshima day 1990 the members of the UN Security Council decided to impose history's most brutal sanctions on the Iraqi people. Until 2003 they killed - knowlingly - between 500.000 and 1 million Iraqis and destroyed culture, health, infrastructure - and the opposition to Saddam. A couple of Hiroshimas...that should be remembered today too, not only the war. Nobody has suggested 3 minutes of silence for those hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqis who have been killed since 1990. But how some we did so after September 11, 2001? The crime against Iraq has been committed by Western terrorists. And only some few are worthy victims. Other human beings are of little or no value. The future? Those unable to hear, see and learn increasingly talk as if they have already decided to destroy Iran by sanctions and/or bombing. Please take a moment to think back today! Jan Oberg TFF - for peace with passion TFF Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research Transnationella Stiftelsen för Freds- och Framtidsforskning http://www.transnational.org Vegagatan 25 S - 224 57 Lund Sweden Phone +46 46 14 59 09 Fax + 46 46 14 45 12 Email TFF@transnational.org Public not-for-profit charity Organisationsnummer 845001-4637 |
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