The Gulf Crisis and New World Order — Page 273
The Gulf Crisis & The New World Order war would last two days, yet it is now in its 6th week and Iraq is still fighting. The fact is that the world has changed. Man now has more pride in himself and is prepared to go to any length to defend his independence and his dignity. This has resulted in waves of freedom movements sweeping over the world. Allah's decree is changing man's outlook on life. This is no time now for false gods. The false gods have to pack-up, but they appear not to visualise their end. They continue with their oppression, tyranny and cruelty, without caring what image they project and what history will say of their deeds. Today they call Saddam a Hitler, portraying him as a tyrant, oppressor and dictator. Even if every thing alleged against Saddam were true, all his acts of torture and cruelty pale into insignificance when compared to what the United States did in Vietnam; it is like comparing a mustard seed to a mountain. The wrongs done by the United States of America in Vietnam in eight and half years, far exceed anything that Saddam could possibly be charged with. What right had The United States to enter a country the way it did in Vietnam and deluge it with bombs? What right had it to interfere in the internal affairs of Vietnam and join in to support one part to fight against the other? What right had it to bomb innocent people on such a scale and with such severity that one shudders even to think of its horrendous consequences? The havoc wrought on the Vietnamese people was unimaginable. But the greatest cruelty that the United States commits is that it continues to slander, malign and assassinate the character and honour of the soldiers and people of North Vietnam. The United States alleges that when the North Vietnamese re-captured cities in the war, they committed numerous atrocities against those Vietnamese who had cooperated with United States troops. United States accuses North Vietnam of killing hundreds and thousands of these people and burying them in mass graves in those cities. In a war of such ferocity between unequal combatants, a traitor or collaborator deserves what he gets. There is no law in the world that protects the life of a traitor or a collaborator in the course of a war. The United States admits that the people so killed had been their sympathiurs. The United States talks of these atrocities but does not talk about the atrocities that it had inflicted on the Vietnamese for eight and half 273