Washington (AFP) - Forty-one American Nobel Prize signed a declaration against
unilateral release by the United States of a war against Iraq.
" The undersigneds oppose a preventive war against Iraq without a broad international
support ", affirm the researchers in this text which they were to diffuse Tuesday
with the Congress, a few hours before the annual speech of the president George W Bush on
the state of the Union." Of the military operations against Iraq could certainly
lead to a relatively fast victory, in the short run. But the war is characterized by the
surprise, the losses human and the involuntary consequences ", write the Nobel Prize,
in a text which holds in four sentences.
" Even in the event of victory, we believe that the consequences medical, economic,
environmental, morals, spiritual, political and legal of a preventive attack against Iraq
do not would protect but would harm the safety of the United States and their row in the
world".
The signatories all, of the men, are prizes winner of the Nobel Prize of physics,
chemistry, economy and medicine.
Among them appear of former advisers of the department American of Defense or the
scientists having taken part in military programs, like Norman Ramsey, old directing of
the " Manhattan Project " which, for this reason, had contributed to the
development of the first American atomic bomb.
The public can express its support for this declaration by the means of a forum internet www.nobellaureatesoniraq.org |
