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April 25, 2003
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PLAYING CARD DECK SHOWS WAY TO REGIME CHANGE

	The deck:
http://www.gatt.org/regime/usregimecards.pdf
	Info and ordering: http://www.gatt.org/regime/
	Contact: mailto:playingcards at gatt.org

In the wake of the U.S.'s "pre-emptive" destruction of
Iraq, her
people, and her culture, the Trade Regulation
Organization is issuing
a "55 most wanted" playing-card deck
(http://gatt.org/regime/) similar
to the one that the Pentagon issued two weeks ago in
Iraq
(http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Apr2003/pipc10042003.html).

The TRO, estimating that the U.S. governing regime is
no longer
consistent with world peace or prosperity, hopes that
the playing
cards will show the way to regime change and,
eventually, large-scale
war crimes proceedings.

According to the TRO, the victims of the unprovoked
U.S. war fall into
three categories (see http://gatt.org/regime/ for
sources):

* People. In the 1991 Gulf War, up to 200,000
civilians and up to 
150,000 soldiers were killed by ordinary bombs or
their effects on
infrastructure.
   In addition, poisoning from the U.S.'s depleted
uranium (DU)  
weapons - banned by the Geneva Convention - has led to
hundreds of
thousands more Iraqi cancers and deaths; the 80,000
cases of "Gulf War
syndrome" among U.S. veterans are most likely also due
to DU exposure.
   In the 2003 Iraq War, the U.S. once again used
massive amounts of
DU in its weapons. Iraqi death counts are unknown or
unpublicized.

* Culture. Because of a U.S. policy giving carte
blanche to looters -
only the Oil Ministry and Interior Ministry were
protected - the
Middle East's leading archaeological museum lost
almost all of its
unique ancient artifacts, and two libraries full of
irreplaceable
medieval manuscripts were destroyed.

* Prospects. The U.S. is now considered the primary
world criminal by
the vast majority of the world's citizens. The
implications for the
U.S.'s long-term prospects are grim.

Many of those featured on the "55 most wanted" cards
are in government, 
and removing these people from power will go a long
way towards making 
the world a safer place.

Others include corporate CEOs; in those cases, the
corporations
themselves must be dissolved or otherwise rendered
incapable of
further harm.

"If one day the people on these cards are indeed
brought to justice,
'just following orders' or 'supporting our troops'
will be no excuse
for the rest of us," said TRO spokeswoman Hedwig
Ixtabal-Mono.


The Trade Regulation Organization, committed to making
trade benefit
poor people, is the World Trade Organization's
successor; see
http://gatt.org/irelease.html for more details.

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