Red Cross Views the US War Crimes Carnage

The war crimes perpetrated by the United States with the bombing and slaughter of 800 prisoners of war in Afghanistan during the week ending 11/25/01, many of whom were bound, is causing a major outcry around the world as the Red Cross and others enter the jail after this war crime to view the carnage. In the United States, the World Socialist Website is currently running a series on this story, the latest of which can be found at:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/mass-n29.shtml

The full list of articles is as follows:
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/afgh-n27.shtml
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/afgh-n28.shtml
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/mass-n29.shtml

The legal definition of war crimes and the coverage of the capitalist press are thoroughly discussed and the conclusion is inescapable: the United States has committed war crimes.

This is only the latest criminal aspect of this attack on Afghanistan. We should remember that only Congress can declare war, which it did not do. It merely gave the president some war powers. Further, the government of Afghanistan never attacked the United States, and thus the claim of self-defense does not hold. Finally, the United States waited 3 weeks before it started bombing Afghanistan, thus proving the United States government did not feel it was in immediate danger of attack by Afghanistan.

This is another colonial war of mass pillage and murder, with oil being the primary resource being sought by the United States, in particular the oil in the Caspian Sea region. This attack on Afghanistan was long planned, as any serious research shows, and Unocal's desire for a pipeline through Afghanistan from the Caspian Sea to the Indian Ocean is well-established and is the primary reason for this attack.

This is Nazi Germany all over again, looting the resources and murdering the poor people of the world. It was stopped by the Red Army, in particular the Battle of Stalingrad of 1942-1943, the turning point of World War 2. The Soviet Union drove the Nazis all the way back to Berlin, arriving in Berlin first, where a woman military officer planted the Soviet red flag. In spite of the counter-revolutionary Stalin, the workingclass was able to defeat the Nazis. The workingclass will prevail today, too.