Moroccan press denounces international silence on mercantile war

Moroccan dailies denounced this week the "mercantile war" and wondered about the role of mere onlooker observed by the international community in this war that threatens the Iraqi people of "genocide" and "destruction" of all its wealth.

"We do not understand the position of the international community which failed to take firm action to pressure Americans and try to stop the massacre," comments Al Bayane.

The daily warned that the world is heading towards a humanitarian catastrophe that will lead to the devastation of Iraq especially that living conditions are increasingly deteriorating.

Echoing the same viewpoint, Aujourd'hui le Maroc condemned the conflict as a "mercantile" one where oil is "the priority goal."

The editorialist of the newspaper even regretted the end of the cold war that paradoxically "chased away the specter of wars." The editorialist further believes that America's superpower gave it a total arrogance and unlimited impunity as to the violation of peoples' right.

On its part Liberation says "it is obvious that the region will explode and that the Americans and British will never win this war."

"The aggressors of Iraqi people, who are seeking a swift victory whatever it takes, do not hesitate to destroy civil institutions. Throwing hundreds of bombs and missiles on civilians, who are massacred solely because they fight the invaders, shows they no longer have any scruples," says Attajamua.

Under the title "ethics and barbarities of war," Al Alam fears that "war will henceforth be a means of dialogue, that aggressing any oil-rich state will be among the bases of civilization and the killing of innocents by mass destruction weapons will be an expression method of future civilizations."