[A-List] Ramsey Clark Letter

[Macdonald Stainsby <mstainsby@xxxxxx>]

Jared Israel has horrible judgement these days.
I forward the letter written by his new "enemy".
Macdonald

LETTER FROM FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL
RAMSEY CLARK TO PRESIDENT BUSH

May 14, 2003

President George W. Bush
The White House
By fax: 202-456-2461
1600 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear President Bush,

The authorization to U.S. military personnel in Iraq to
shoot looters reported in the press today must be
rescinded immediately. Neither the laws of war, nor peace,
or any legal definition of "American Justice", authorize
soldiers, or police to shoot looters. Any soldier who
shoots a looter has committed armed assault if injury
results and murder if death results. You must not put this
Iraqi blood on the hands and conscience of young American
soldiers.

During the racial turbulence of the 1960's, there was
"Much loose talk of shooting looters." As Attorney General
I said "this talk must stop!" "If America has a conscience
we had best awake from this wild talk of shooting looters
and face reality." "Far from being effective, shooting
looters divides, angers, embitters, drives to violence...
Is this American justice?"

Deadly force, including firearms, can be employed only as
a last resort when necessary to stop a direct and
immediate threat to life.

This new authorization to shoot looters compounds the
excessive use of force employed against the people of Iraq
by the shock and awe aggression already committed. It
means the U.S. does not respect the lives of the people of
Iraq and will use its armed might to kill them as it
chooses.

Only your immediate action can prevent more deaths and
greater hatred toward our country.

Sincerely,
Ramsey Clark

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