Daniel Ellsberg calls President Bush a war criminal

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http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/news/010702.html

Anti-war activist Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times in 1971, spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Church in San Francisco on March 30 as he condemned the U.S. invasion of Iraq as a “supreme war crime” and warned about the dangers of a future war in Iran.

At the time, he was a consultant to the Defense Department, and risked possible imprisonment for life. Ellsberg felt that the classified information was of great importance to the American public.

Since then Ellsberg has worked as an anti-war activist, working with the American Civil Liberties Union and establishing the Truth-Telling Project which is intended to expose government corruption and lies and encourage “patriotic whistle-blowing.”

Ellsberg’s talk was a celebration of the 10th year anniversary of the War and Law League (WALL), a non-profit San Francisco-based organization working to ensure that the U.S. government follows the Constitution, treaties, and international laws in times of war and peace.

Ellsberg condemned Bush and Cheney as war criminals and “domestic enemies of the constitution,” an accusation that brought the entire crowd of people—a vast majority of whom were from the Vietnam War era—to a loud standing applause.

He explained that the invasion and occupation of Iraq was illegal, in clear violation of the U.N. charter and international law. “It was a war of aggression without approval from the U.N. security council,” he said.

“The scourge of war is what the U.N. was founded to prevent,” added WALL coordinator Jeannette Hassberg. “This is the very crime that Japanese and Germans were hung for at Nuremberg.

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1. Let's get on with it already.

There are lots of people to try.

"“This is the very crime that Japanese and Germans were hung for at Nuremberg."

[Orwellian_Ghost]

2. K&R n/t

[SammyWinstonJack]

3. And Cheney would say, "so"?

x( Rat bastards!

[Kurovski]

4. K&R. (nt)

[Usrename]

5. To the Hague!

They have no strategic intelligence value.

[spanone]

6. he's right you know, now if he can convince the house of representatives

[pleah]

7. K&R

Can we please impeach now?

[Pastiche423]

8. K&R for Mr. Ellsberg!

[tbyg52]

9. As Tess McGill said in _Working Girl_, when told she couldn't call her boss a pimp....

"Well, he *is*."