OPEN LETTER FROM RAMSEY CLARK - to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan,
members of the UN Security Council, and Our 'Fear and War' President
George Walker Bush

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January, 29, 2004
Dear Secretary General Annan,
U.S. President George W. Bush again confirmed his intention to
continue waging wars of aggression in his State of the Union message
on January 20, 2004.
He began his address:
" As we gather tonight, hundreds of thousands of American service men
and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By
bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent,
they are making America more secure."
He proclaimed:
" Our greatest responsibility is the active defense of the American
people... America is on the offensive against the terrorists..."
Continuing, he said:
" ...our coalition is leading aggressive raids against the surviving
members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.... Men who ran away from our
troops in battle are now dispersed and attack from the shadows."
In Iraq, he reported:
" Of the top 55 officials of the former regime, we have captured or
killed 45. Our forces are on the offensive, leading over 1,600 patrols
a day, and conducting an average of 180 raids a week...."
Explaining his aggression, President Bush stated:
" ...After the chaos and carnage of September the 11th, it is not
enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. The terrorists and
their supporters declared war on the United States and war is what
they got."
Forget law. No more legal papers, or rights. Forget truth. The claim
that either Afghanistan, or Iraq declared war on the U.S. is absurd.
The U.S. chose to attack both nations, from one end to the other,
violating their sovereignty and changing their "regimes", summarily
executing thousands of men, women and children in the process. At
least 40,000 defenseless people in Iraq have been killed by U.S.
violence since the latest aggression began in earnest in March 2003
starting with its celebrated, high tech, terrorist "Shock and Awe" and
continuing until now with 25, or more, U.S. raids daily causing
mounting deaths and injuries.
All this death-dealing aggression has occurred during a period, Mr.
Bush boasts, of "over two years without an attack on American soil".
The U.S. is guilty of pure aggression, arbitrary repression and false
portrayal of the nature and purpose of its violence.
President Bush's brutish mentality is revealed in his condemnations of
the "killers" and "thugs in Iraq" "who ran away from our troops in
battle". U.S. military expenditures and technology threaten and
impoverish life on the planet. Any army that sought to stand up
against U.S. air power and weapons of mass destruction in open battle
would be annihilated. This is what President Bush seeks when he says
"Bring 'em on."
President Bush declared his intention to change the "Middle East" by
force.
" As long as the Middle East remains a place of tyranny and despair
and anger, it will continue to produce men and movements that threaten
the safety of America and our friends. So America is pursuing a
forward strategy of freedom in the greater Middle East. We will
challenge the enemies of reform, confront the allies of terror, and
expect a higher standard from our friends."
"...America is a nation with a mission... we understand our special
calling: This great republic will lead the cause of freedom."
He extended his threat to any nation he may choose:
" As part of the offensive against terror, we are also confronting the
regimes that harbor and support terrorists, and could supply them with
nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. The United States and our
allies are determined: We refuse to live in the shadow of this
ultimate danger."
President Bush's utter contempt for the United Nations is revealed in
his assertion that the United States and other countries "have
enforced the demands of the United Nations", ignoring the refusal of
the U.N. to approve a war of aggression against Iraq and implying the
U.N. had neither the courage nor the capacity to pursue its own
"demands".
His total commitment to unilateral U.S. action, was asserted by
President Bush when he sarcastically referred to the "permission slip"
a school child needs to leave a classroom:
" America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of
our people".
President Bush intends to go it alone, because his interest is
American power and wealth alone, though he prefers to use the youth of
NATO countries and others as cannon folder in his wars.
President Bush believes might makes right and that the end justifies
the means. He declares:
" ...the world without Saddam Husseins regime is a better and safer
place".
So U.S. military technology which is omnicidal- capable of destroying
all life on the planet-will be ordered by President Bush to make the
world "a better and safer place" by destroying nations and individuals
he designates.
President Bush presided over 152 executions in Texas, far more than
any other U.S. governor since World War II. Included were women,
minors, retarded persons, aliens in violation of the Vienna Convention
on Diplomatic Relations and innocent persons. He never acted to
prevent a single execution. He has publicly proclaimed the right to
assassinate foreign leaders and repeatedly boasted of summary
executions and indiscriminate killing in State of the Union messages
and elsewhere.
The danger of Bush unilateralism is further revealed when he states:
" Colonel Qaddafi correctly judged that his country would be better
off, and far more secure without weapons of mass murder. Nine months
of intense negotiations involving the United States and Great Britain
succeeded with Libya, while 12 years of diplomacy with Iraq did not."
Forget diplomacy, use "intense negotiations". If President Bush
believed it was "diplomacy", which maintained genocidal sanctions
against Iraq for twelve years that failed, rather than an effort to
crush Iraq to submission, then why didn't he use "nine months of
intense negotiations" to avoid a war of aggression against Iraq? He
was President for nearly twenty seven months before the criminal
assault on Iraq, he apparently intended all along. Iraq was no threat
to anyone.
What President Bush means by "intense negotiations" includes a threat
of military aggression with the example of Iraq to show this in no
bluff. The Nuremberg Judgment held Goerings threat to destroy Prague
unless Czechoslovakia surrendered Bohemia and Moravia to be an ac

Ramsey Clark? Saddam's most persistent apologist-anything he
writes/says is heavily suspect.

He even offered to defend the Butcher
of Baghdad at his upcoming trial. Mr. Clark would be advised to
collect his fee in advance. And get ready to defend himself on
charges of aid and comfort to the enemy, embargo violations, and
(hopefully) treason.

Oh, and Mr. Clark ignores the fact that the
Taliban harbored and Sheltered Al-Queda; they refused to kick OBL and
his thugs out, and paid the price.

A Known Terrorist Living Among Us
Orlando Bosch is the perpetrator of a 1976 bombing of a Cubana
airplane carrying seventy-three civilians who were all killed. This
was the world's first terrorist action involving the bombing of a
civilian airliner. Bosch was recruited, trained, and supported by the
CIA. He was then pardoned by the previous Bush administration, and to
this day walks freely through the streets of Miami.
Bosch, had been serving a prison sentence but was freed as the result
of a campaign launched by Jeb Bush and his right-wing Cuban
supporters in Florida. The terrorist activities of Orlando Bosch are
fully documented in the book Deadly Secrets by Warren Hinkle and
William Turner, who in turn drew their information from a Senate
investigation led by Senator Kerry into the activities of the CIA.
Evidence showed that the bomb was placed by Cuban-American
mercenaries, in the pay of the US Central Intelligence Agency, the
CIA. The two terrorists who admitted that they placed the bomb on the
Cubana flight-Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch-are currently
free, receiving refuge in the United States.
According to the New York Time of August 17, 1989, Cuban right-wing
congressperson Ros-Lehtinen met with former President Bush to
negotiate Bosch's release. The meeting was arranged by her campaign
manager, Jeb Bush, who had earlier met with Cuban hunger strikers
also demanding the release. Bosch was pardoned on July 18, 1990 and
the New York Times was the lonely voice denouncing Bush's pardon on
an editorial published July 20, 1990.
Bosch was a cohort of Posada Carriles, a Cuban pediatrician who
became a world renowned terrorist for the CIA. Carriles has taken
claim for the recent wave of hotel bombings in Havana, Cuba. Both men
were trained together at Fort Benning, Georgia. Bosch was the founder
of the "Command of the United Revolutionary Organizations" formed to
cooperate with the DINA Chilean secret police and other Latin
American repressive organisms in the murder of leftists throughout
the region, including the assassination of the Chilean ambassador,
Letelier, in Washington, DC.
The US government has repeatedly declined to extradite Bosch to Cuba
to stand trial for the bombing of the Cubana airliner in 1976.
Probably because Bosch would prove very embarrassing for the US at a
trial in Cuba and his extradition would destroy the close political
relationship between the exile Cubans who demanded his release and
the Republican Party.
By its own admission, and as reported by U.S. Congressional
committees, the United States has supported or condoned hundreds of
violent acts, including plane hijackings, biological warfare,
sabotage, murders, and attempted assassinations. It continues to
provide immunity and safe-haven to the perpetrators of violent,
terrorist acts against Cuba and other nations. Most notoriously
though is the case of Orlando Bosch, a man so known for his
propensity for terrorist actions that the U.S. Attorney General urged
that he be deported lest the United States' credibility and security
be compromised.
For more information on this subject see:
US Government Harbors a Terrorist
Decisions on the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
Congressional Record the case of Joe Doherty compared to Orlando Bosch
Their Terrorists, Our Freedom Fighters