Ruthless attacks in Iraq [Archives:2004/797/Letters to the Editor]
Mohamed Saeed
South Africa
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In the attacks on Fallujah and Mosul the US is using some 'horrible' weapons and Cluster bombs. If you are unlucky and managed to get attacked by such weapons you would beg Abu-Musab Al-Zarqawi to behead you to end the sufferings! Using such weapons is OK, since the generals in the Pentagon embrace these weapons as simply a military 'option'! Since, it is not in the hands of the 'terrorists' no need to make any noise about the moral dimension of this issue.
The mass media failed to report such small details unless of course the events turn and the 'insurgents' managed to obtain some of these weapons and put it to use. What would follow would be big headlines “WMD used against US forces”, the UN would be brought in and a resolution to Nuke the entire country would be passed. Cluster bombs are considered inhuman and outlawed under the Geneva Convention. In Afghanistan, the US forces went one step further by dropping cluster bombs and food packages with almost identical shape and colour.
Like the intelligence failure over WMD, this technical 'mistake' was addressed after the event. If the Afghan victims got any compensation, rest assured it is nowhere near that of the Lockerbie or the 9/11 victims. The West does believe in human rights, but some humans are considered more human than others! Well! Bush is almost divine, chosen and placed by god. All they are doing is putting the good lord's word into practice.
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