Rice and Rummy sued over Lebanon Evacuation

[kpete]

US Arab group sues Rice, Rumsfeld over Lebanon evacuation 1 hour, 11 minutes ago

WASHINGTON (AFP) - An Arab-American group sued top Bush administration officials, claiming it bungled the evacuation from Lebanon of US nationals, leaving them vulnerable to the Israeli military offensive.

In their suit against US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld filed in a Detroit, Michigan federal court, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) asked the court to order the government to stop shipping weapons to Israel as long as US citizens remain in danger inside Lebanon.

"At no time has President (George W.) Bush, Secretary of State Rice, or Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld called for a ceasefire in Lebanon," said ADC president Mary Rose Oakar.

"To the contrary, the Bush administration has encouraged the violence by sending an urgent shipment of bombs to Israel, giving that country the green light to continue in its indiscriminate bombing of Lebanon," Oakar said in a statement.

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[peacetalksforall]

1. Yes, the US virtually gave permission for the first week plus of

bombing and destruction by announcing they wouldn't do anything or go anywhere until this past weekend. Then they announceed that they wouldn't do anything for another week after Rice arriving there. So, the US sanctioned the bombing, homelessness, and destruction. Pathetic.

[chill_wind]

2. Some mild but interesting debate on this action here (link)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=2409806&mesg_id=2410964