'55 most wanted' playing cards aim for U.S. regime change

Monday April 28, 2003 14:11

by ALTRO

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.

The deck:
http://www.gatt.org/regime/usregimecards.pdf
Info and ordering: http://www.gatt.org/regime/
Contact: mailto:playingcards@gatt.org