I hope this isn't a dupe posting.
> April 25, 2003
> FOR IMMEDIATE
RELEASE
>
> PLAYING CARD DECK SHOWS WAY TO
REGIME CHANGE
>
> The deck:
> http://www.gatt.org/regime/usregimecards.pdf
>
Info and ordering: http://www.gatt.org/regime/
>
Contact: mailto:playingcards@gatt.org
>
> In the wake of the U.S.'s "pre-emptive"
destruction
> of Iraq, her
> people, and her
culture, the Trade Regulation
> Organization is
issuing
> a "55 most wanted" playing-card deck
>
(http://gatt.org/regime/) similar
>
to the one that the Pentagon issued two weeks ago in
>
Iraq
>
(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2003/pipc10042003.html).
>
> The TRO, estimating that the U.S. governing
regime
> is no longer
> consistent with world
peace or prosperity, hopes
> that the playing
>
cards will show the way to regime change and,
>
eventually, large-scale
> war crimes
proceedings.
>
> According to the TRO, the
victims of the unprovoked
> U.S. war fall into
>
three categories:
>
> * People. In the 1991
Gulf War, 100,000-200,000
> civilians and
>
80,000-150,000 soldiers were killed directly by
>
bombs.
> In addition, poisoning from the U.S.'s
depleted
> uranium (DU)
> weapons - banned by
the Geneva Convention - has led
> to hundreds
of
> thousands more Iraqi cancers and deaths; the
80,000
> cases of "Gulf War
> syndrome" among
U.S. veterans are most likely also
> due to DU
exposure.
> In the 2003 Iraq War, the U.S. once again
used
> massive amounts of
> DU in its weapons.
Iraqi death counts are unknown or
>
unpublicized.
> (See http://gatt.org/regime/ for
links.)
>
> * Culture. Because of a U.S. policy
giving carte
> blanche to looters -
> only the
Oil Ministry and Interior Ministry were
> protected -
the
> Middle East's leading archaeological museum
lost
> almost all of its
> unique ancient
artifacts, and two libraries full of
>
irreplaceable
> medieval manuscripts were destroyed.
(See
> http://gatt.org/regime/ for
>
links.)
>
> * Prospects. The U.S. is now
considered the primary
> world criminal by
> the
vast majority of the world's citizens. The
>
implications for the
> U.S.'s long-term prospects are
grim.
>
> Many of those featured on the "55
most wanted" cards
> are in government,
> and
removing these people from power will go a long
> way
towards making
> the world a safer place.
>
> Others include corporate CEOs; in those cases,
the
> corporations
> themselves must be
dissolved or otherwise rendered
> incapable of
>
further harm.
>
> "If one day the people on
these cards are indeed
> brought to justice,
>
'just following orders' or 'supporting our troops'
>
will be no excuse
> for the rest of us," said TRO
spokeswoman Hedwig
> Ixtabal-Mono.
>
>
> The Trade Regulation Organization, committed
to
> making trade benefit
> poor people, is the
World Trade Organization's
> successor; see
> http://gatt.org/irelease.html for more
details.
>
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