Were the wars against the peoples of Afghanistan and Iraq illegal? – for evidence in the trial of Graeme Dunstan.
Were the wars against the peoples of
Afghanistan and Iraq illegal?
Howard's War
Alison Broinowski
MARCH 21, 2013
WATCH: Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas
Young on Bush, Missing WMDs, Failed Medical Care
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/3/21/part_2_exclusive_dying_iraq_war_veteran_tomas_young_on_bush_missing_wmds_failed_medical_care
The Children of Fallujah - the Hospital of Horrors
Stillbirths, disabilities, deformities too distressing to describe - what lies behind the torments in Fallujah General Hospital?
Afghanistan and Iraq illegal?
Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General:
Reported in Yew York Times, BBC, ABC (Australia), The Guardian
Lessons of Iraq war underscore importance of UN
Charter - Annan
Iraq war was illegal and
breached UN charter, says Annan
Julian Borger
Ramesh Thakur
LAW, LEGITIMACY AND UNITED NATIONS
The Iraq crisis and world order: Structural, institutional and normative
challenges
Edited by Ramesh Thakur and Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
Part V:
International legal and doctrinal issues. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. 379
23 The war in
Iraq as illegal and illegitimate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
381
David Krieger
(use this)
24 Legitimacy
as an assessment of existing legal standards:
The case of the
2003 Iraq war . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 397
Charlotte Ku
25 The
multinational action in Iraq and international law . . . . . . . . . 413
Ruth Wedgwood
26 Iraq and the
social logic of international security . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426
Jean-Marc
Coicaud
27 Justifying
the Iraq war as a humanitarian intervention:
The cure is
worse than the disease . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . 444
Nicholas J.
Wheeler and Justin Morris
28 The
responsibility to protect and the war on Saddam
Hussein . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 464
Ramesh Thakur
29 Post-war
relations between occupying powers and the United
Nations . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . . . 479
Simon Chesterman
Alison Broinowski
Howard's War
Alison Broinowski
Signatories
Call for an Iraq war inquiry
Why did we go
to War with Iraq?
Former Australian Prime Minister, Malcolm Fraser
An illegal war, a divided world
By Margo Kingston
May 20, 2003 |
US TV station Democracy Now!
MONDAY, MAY 27, 2013
Memorial Day Special: U.S.
Veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan Return War Medals at NATO Summit
“...Jason Hurd, a former combat
medic who spent 10 years in the U.S. Army. "I am deeply sorry for the
destruction that we have caused in those countries and around the globe."
Scott Kimball, an Iraq war veteran, adds: "For all the servicemembers and
veterans who are against these wars, you are not alone!"
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 2003
Is War Against Iraq Legal
Or Not? a Debate Between Roger Normand and Ruth Wedgewood
“War against Iraq
is "unequivocally illegal under the UN Charter and international
law." That is the conclusion of a new report by the Center For Economic
and Social Rights.
"It is the height of
hypocrisy for the U.S. and U.K. to base war on Resolution 1441 when they are
fully aware that France, Russia and China approved that resolution on explicit
written condition that it could not be used by individual states to justify
military action," said CESR Executive
Director Roger Normand, who recently returned from a fact-finding mission to Iraq.
"This war violates every
legal principle governing the resort to force. It clearly has little to do with
disarmament, democracy, human rights, or even Saddam Hussein, and everything to
do with oil and power."
The report warns that an illegal
war in Iraq would threaten the pillars of collective security established after
World War II to protect civilians from a recurrence of that unprecedented
carnage.”
MARCH 21, 2013
WATCH: Dying Iraq War Veteran Tomas
Young on Bush, Missing WMDs, Failed Medical Care
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/3/21/part_2_exclusive_dying_iraq_war_veteran_tomas_young_on_bush_missing_wmds_failed_medical_care
Particular War Crimes:
1. The Sanctions and 12 years of around the clock bombing were each war crimes in their own right:
1. The Sanctions and 12 years of around the clock bombing were each war crimes in their own right:
Iraq
Still Years From Seeing Sanctions Lifted
by Jason Ditz, June 18, 2013
Declassified Documents Point To US
War Crimes In Iraq
By Stephen Gowans
MediaMonitors.net
© 2001 Steve Gowans
8-12-1
2. Fallujah: The use of egregious
weapons, Depleted Uranium and White Phosphorus and resultant birth defects:
(see also Donna Mulhearn’s
accounts)
Research links rise in Falluja birth defects and cancers to US assault
• Defects in newborns 11 times higher than normal
• 'War contaminants' from 2004 attack could be cause
• 'War contaminants' from 2004 attack could be cause
guardian.co.uk, Thursday 30
December 2010
The Children of Fallujah - the Hospital of Horrors
Stillbirths, disabilities, deformities too distressing to describe - what lies behind the torments in Fallujah General Hospital?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31189.htm
By Robert Fisk
April 27, 2012 "The Independent
By Robert Fisk
April 27, 2012 "The Independent
by Mozhgan Savabieasfahani on
13-06-2013
A 2012 World Health Organization
study on congenital birth defects in Iraq has still not been released to the
public.
Fallujah children's 'genetic damage'
21 July 2010
3. US Colonel James Steel and
General David Petraeus – the use of Death Squads in Iraq (its link to ongoing
sectarian violence in Iraq):
From El Salvador to Iraq:
Washington's man behind brutal police squads
In 2004, with the war in Iraq going from bad to
worse, the US drafted in a veteran of Central America's dirty wars to help set
up a new force to fight the insurgency. The result: secret detention centres,
torture and a spiral into sectarian carnage
6 March 2013
How the US exported its
'dirty war' policy to Iraq – with fatal consequences
Using Latin American covert operations as a
template for its Iraqi paramilitary proxies, the US once again lost the moral
war
James Steele: America's mystery man in Iraq – video
8 March 2013
Revealed: Pentagon's link
to Iraqi torture centres
Exclusive: General
David Petraeus and 'dirty wars' veteran behind commando units implicated in
detainee abuse
6 March 2013
Searching for Steele
Broadcast: 02/04/2013
Reporter: Trevor Bormann (narrator)
Friday, March 22, 2013
BBC-Guardian Exposé Uses WikiLeaks to Link Iraq Torture Centers to U.S.
Col. Steele & Gen. Petraeus
4. Abu
Ghraib, Torture, Extraordinary Rendition (Australia implicated) see Rod Barton
book:
The
Weapons Detective
The Inside Story of Australia's
Top Weapons Inspector
Abu
Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse
5.
Orders to carry out 360 degree rotational fire – documented by US veterans, Ethan
Mccord, Vince Emanuele and others (see Winter Soldier Hearings)
Soldier's Shocking Allegation: Troops Ordered to Engage in '360
Rotational Fire' Against Civilians
If even
a fraction of former Bravo Company 2-16 soldier Ethan McCord's story is true,
Congress must investigate.
June 21, 2010
6.
Looting, Destruction, Theft of Cultural Heritage and National Treasures.
7. Crimes by individual soldiers, often under
orders, disrespect for Qurans, mutilation of corpses and massacres.
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