Statement by Norman Solomon - January 26, 2003
Executive Director, Institute for Public Accuracy
Co-author, Target Iraq (Context Books, New York: January 2003)
Like millions of other American citizens, I am horrified by the imminent threat of an all-out U.S. attack on Iraq. In our names, with our tax dollars, the Bush administration appears ready and willing - even eager - to devastate Iraqi society while killing large numbers of civilians in the process. No amount of oil or geopolitical leverage for the U.S. government could possibly serve as a valid justification for such slaughter.
The people I've seen and met in the streets and shops of Baghdad in recent days have done nothing to deserve the horrors that President Bush appears to have in store for them.
Top officials in Washington have repeatedly pledged to lead a "coalition of the willing"; in other words, a coalition for the killing - of vast numbers of Iraqi people.
Executive Director, Institute for Public Accuracy
Co-author, Target Iraq (Context Books, New York: January 2003)
Like millions of other American citizens, I am horrified by the imminent threat of an all-out U.S. attack on Iraq. In our names, with our tax dollars, the Bush administration appears ready and willing - even eager - to devastate Iraqi society while killing large numbers of civilians in the process. No amount of oil or geopolitical leverage for the U.S. government could possibly serve as a valid justification for such slaughter.
The people I've seen and met in the streets and shops of Baghdad in recent days have done nothing to deserve the horrors that President Bush appears to have in store for them.
Top officials in Washington have repeatedly pledged to lead a "coalition of the willing"; in other words, a coalition for the killing - of vast numbers of Iraqi people.