Rantisi Was Murdered Per Mofaz Plan

Rantisi Was Murdered Per Mofaz Plan

Abdel Asiz Rantisi was murded this morning - a nationalist at times driven to terror with Hamas to make his nation and to defend his people. His murder was plotted and ordered by an Israeli Defense Minister per his publicly announced plan of a month ago, joining a similar assassination of Sheik Yessin. This is uncondonable international crime - murder - not national defense and must be condemned by the UN Security Council unanimously. Israel must be ordered to disband the military killer group involved - and sack and arrest the Cabinet figures and intermediate civilan command responsible. Lacking a positive Israeli response - the UN must seriously consider the disarmament of Israel .. and the international destruction of its capacity to capriciously harm by its national military force. Sharon, a self-styled martial judged in accumen only by his murders in uniform and the Israeli Government has forgotten the terrorist national determination of his own party -- Irgun became Likud. Mofaz is another generation - sadly Sharon's disciple. The United States cannot vacate the world council of human responsibility and law for this butchery. Its forthcoming elections as always will speak to it. Rantisi's murder is condemned - it is a war crime perpetrated by the nation born of victims of Nazi war crime. It must stop and can be stopped. Failure to condemn israel's actions and to internationally stop them will commence war - the United States will not assist Israel in that war; nor re-arm it; nor re-fund it.

Iraq Policy

IRAQ Policy

Iraq's Occuaption will formally end as a legal status June 30 2004. That date restores Iraqi legal sovereignty - ie self-governance. It is not an instance of power vacuum comparable to 1947 Palestine's partition. An international force will remain in Iraq-composed of the Coalition which liberated it, and Iraqi froces as they are established. Iraq can prepare to weather what is styled a 'Tet' offensive by guerillas which are hosted in some Sunni Triangle quarters (ie Falluja) - mainly gangish and the opposition of Muqtada Al Sadr's overgrown security force (now a militia). The judgement of foreign force maintenance will be Iraq's -as it measures the targeting cost versus the maintenance of internal order until its self-defense forces have readied. Those groups with the Sunni Al Zawqawi Faction will aim to destabilize by crime and alternate miitary power enablement. Unlike the Viet Cong/Minh they do not have the strength for a systemic disabling attack on Iraqi Government Centers and personnel. They will instead seek terror: assassination, kidnapping, public event or center attack by stealth, and public intimidation by kidnapping of foreigners to break the coalition's resolve. Other criminal motifs like an OAS [Organization de l'Armee Secret -France 1956-9] format would sustain underground resources. Iraq cannot be confused with Haiti where an armed veterans group knocked out pillars of state control. Haiti had a limited police force and no army. The post June 30 Iraq will govern; have police and internal defense forces, and the assistance, as in Afgahanistan, of a coalition for its survival. Its national infancy will be protected. The psychologcal war of terrorism will be addressed politically and mlitarily and by expansve open communication. Al Sadr will surrender or be apprehended accounting to the Iraqi Governemnt and the governments of the defensive coalition - unless amnestied. No other policy will replace that - other than international broadening - after June 30 - through January 20 2005. International broadening can expand once the new Iraq is established - making assistance - peaceful defensive assistance possible, conceivably even by the Arab league and other regional nations -by addressing Iraq directly. The USA and its allies will recede but continue to be a target by visibility until the new Iraq government and international governments convert that guerilla/insurgent energy to an address of nationhood by political participation instead of insurrection. June 30 2004 wil be the rebirth of an Iraqi Republic - and a date kept.