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MISSED FACTS RE US ON IRAQ
(05 03 03)
The first casualty
in war is truth (Anonymous)
1. US WAR CRIMINALS: The Bush government refuses to
recognize the International Criminal Court unless Americans are
exempt from its authority. Why? Because it knows people like
George Bush, Henry Kissinger, Norman Schwarzkopf and other top
US officials could be charged as war criminals. For example,
during the 1991 Gulf War thousands of retreating and defenceless
Iraqi soldiers inside Iraq were strafed and killed by jetfighters.
One American later referred to that brutality as "shooting
fish in a barrel." Current plans by Bush Jr. re an attack
on Iraq would kill thousands of innocent civilians.
2. "LIBERATING" IRAQ: The US claims it intends
to 'liberate" the Iraqi people. If the Iraqi people were
really so eager to get rid of their government, why then are
they allowed to get and own guns and why with all that alleged
public support for the US "liberators" would the war
take weeks, perhaps months to complete?
3. BATTLE TESTING NEW WEAPONS: Oil is generally recognized
as the real reason the US plans to attack and occupy Iraq, but
another reason is generally overlooked: trying out new weapons
as the US did in Panama (See the Oscar winning documentary The
Panama Deception.
4. THE BLACKMAIL CARD: Another reason for the US attack
on Iraq is to serve as a future blackmail tool for other countries
not towing the US line. "What we can do to Iraq we can do
to you!"
5. IMPROVING THE MILITARY ODDS: The US claims its insistence
on getting rid of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction
is to prevent Saddam Hussein from using it on his neighbours
or supply Al Qaeda with some of them. The reason this is an absurd
allegation is that Saddam would never do that after the Kuwait
fiasco, because he knows full well an attack by Iraq on any of
its neighbours would result in massive retaliation by the US.
If he does have weapons of mass destruction, the only way he
might use them is in an act of desperation, e.g. if the US attacks
Iraq. As for providing Al Qaeda with such weapons no credible
links have been proven to exist between Saddam and Al Qaeda.
The two are miles apart in ideology. So why is the US so eager
to have Iraq get rid of any major weapon systems? Because it
could significantly reduce American casualties when the US attacks
Iraq. Recent history shows the US has a preference for attacking
small, defenceless countries, e.g. Greneda, Panama. When it comes
to weapons of mass destruction. we do well to remember that no
country has more than the US and only the US has used nuclear
bombs on civilian populations (Hiroshima and Nagasaki). The Bush
government announced recently it reserves the right to use nuclear
weapons pre-emptively, even against countries that have no such
weapons.
6. NO HOSTILITY TOWARDS IRAQI PEOPLE: Both Bush Sr. and
Jr. have publicly stated the US has no hostile feelings towards
the Iraqi people-- just their leader. Yet, it is the Iraqi people
that have suffered most with nearly 12 years of sanctions and
various bombing raids. Right now (March 5, 2003) the US has some
300,000 military personnel in the area, poised to attack Iraq,
knowing it will result in many thousands of civilians being killed.
This poses a significant question: how can members of this massive
US military force justify causing the death of so many innocent
people who pose no threat to the US? Because they have been brainwashed
into believing it is their duty never to question orders, but
just to carry them out.
7. THE DEMOCRACY CLAIM: Another claim by the US is that
it wants to give the Iraqi people a democracy so they can live
happily after. This is particularly interesting since the US
itself is not a true democracy. For example, the most powerful
people in the US government are not even elected, but appointed,
i.e. the cabinet and the National Security Council. And, of course,
it was hardly democratic when Al Gore with half a million more
votes than George W. Bush lost the election. It should also be
remembered that the US has helped overthrow democratic governments
instead of supporting them, i.e.. the Allende government in Chile,
the Arbenz government in Guatemala and the Mossadeq government
in Iran. All three elected leaders were subsequently replaced
by brutal dictators. The US which portrays itself as George W.
Bush puts it: "the greatest country in the history of the
world" has militarily intervened in many countries. Here's
a list of the countries that the US has bombed since the end
of World War II, as compiled by historian William Blum:
China 1945-46
Korea 1950-53
China 1950-53
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-60
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Peru 1965
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Libya 1986
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Panama 1989
Iraq 1991-99 present
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
The US attack on Iraq will politically isolate the US from the
rest of the world and prove to be the biggest terrorist recruitment
program ever launched. So it is appropriate to reflect on how
the Bush government has managed to deceive its own people on
the moral justification of attacking Iraq. Julius Caesar and
Nazi leaders explained the process very clearly:
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to
whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is
indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just
as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached
a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has
closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of
the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded
by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader
and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And
I am Caesar." Julius Caesar
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people
will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained
only for such time as the State can shield the people from the
political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie.
It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of
its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy
of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth becomes the greatest
enemy of the State." Dr. Joseph M. Goebbels
"The people can always be brought to the bidding of the
leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are
being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism
and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any
country." Herman Goering
SEE ALSO:
US: FRIENDLY GIANT OR BRUTAL
BULLY?
ISOLATIONISM BLOOMS IN US
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