Iraq, G8 and a Question for Bono & Sir Bob

The illegal, immoral war against the Iraqi people continues.

US and British warplanes have bombed suspected resistance hideouts near the Syrian border as US and Iraqi forces pressed a double offensive in Iraq's Al-Anbar province. On Sunday, US marine and British Royal Air Force warplanes attacked vehicles and buildings with laser-guided bombs and missiles in and around the town of Karabilah near the Syrian border, on the third day of an operation against resistance activity called Operation Spear, the US military said. Super Cobra helicopters, British GR-4 Tornados and US F-16s, and 1000 US marines and Iraqi soldiers on the ground were involved in the fight, the military said.

US, British planes bomb Iraq targets
Aljazeera

The US Army is used as a private militia to defend and expand private interests. The few powerful giant corporations own the country, control the political system and manufacture consent through that propaganda apparatus called 'the media'.

The sycophancy of most of the journalists should be remembered and judged as complicity in terrorism, war crimes and mass murders. The ruthless ruling classes of those countries who helped in carrying out this war of aggression and occupation should stand ‘shoulder to shoulder’ with the Bush administration before international justice. The Blair government in the UK, the Berlusconi government in Italy, the Howard government in Australia and so on, should be held accountable and stripped off their immunity, which is just impunity for their massive war crimes.

Will all this happen? The answer to this question depends only on us. If we believe on it, it will happen. If we work for it, it will happen.

Finally, a question for Bono, Sir Geldof & C. - Will you be the accomplices of these war criminals? Will you let them use your faces, your voices and your appeal for their criminal projects? Now that even part of the American Establishment started to distance itself from gangsters like Bush, Blair, Cheney, Brown, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Rice, will you be their life-savers? Your good friends at the G8 are plain and simple a cartel of warlords responsible - and consciously responsible - for much sufference in the world. And they know it.

If you care for children, don't join their torturers. If you want to Make Poverty History, you really chose the wrong side. The limelights are now for you but the light of history is somewhere else. I hope you won't miss it.