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On October 31st, 1998 William Jefferson Clinton
signed into law H.R. 4655, the "Iraq Liberation Act" which supported the
pursuit of regime change in Iraq."You know, by the time you become the
leader of a country, someone else makes all the decisions. You may find you can
get away with virtual Presidents, virtual Prime Ministers, virtual everything."
- William Jefferson Clinton
"The mightiest
military in the
world fails
to achieve its strategic goals and is, in the end,
politically defeated by an
economically and technologically inferior
adversary. In history, the most
important consequences are often
the unintended ones." - Timothy Garton Ash
"A marine friend told me we lost the
hearts and
minds of the Iraqis when we secured
the
oil fields but left their
national artwork open to plunder." - Jonathan Talberg
“Controlling Iraq is about oil as
power, rather than oil as fuel.
Control over the Persian Gulf translates
into control over Europe, Japan, and
China. It’s having our hand on the spigot.” - Michael Klare
"Iraq was attacked based on falsified evidence
causing the death of hundreds of thousands of people, widespread destruction,
destabilization and contamination with cancer-causing depleted uranium
munitions." - Lt. Col. Debra B. Simmons
The Institute for
Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, an
Israeli
think tank, published a
political blueprint titled "A clean
break: a new strategy for securing the realm" for the incoming government
of Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996. The paper was developed with the help of
Richard Perle,
Douglas J. Feith and
David Wurmser among others. They
presented a plan whereby Israel
would "shape its strategic environment," beginning with the removal of
Saddam Hussein and the
installation of a Hashemite monarchy in Baghdad, to serve as a first step
toward eliminating the anti-Israeli governments of Syria, Lebanon, Saudi
Arabia, and Iran.
"The neocons hoped that the first
Gulf war would lead to the
removal of Saddam Hussein and the
American occupation of
Iraq. However, despite the urgings of then -
Defense Secretary Richard Cheney and
Undersecretary of Defense Paul
Wolfowitz, the full conquest of Iraq was
never accomplished because of the opposition of General Colin Powell, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs, and General Norman Schwarzkopf, the field commander.
Moreover, the United States had a UN mandate only to liberate Kuwait, not to
remove Saddam Hussein. To attempt
the latter would have caused the United States - led coalition to fall apart.
America's coalition partners in the
region, especially Turkey and Saudi Arabia, feared that the elimination of
Saddam's government would cause Iraq
to fragment into warring
ethnic and religious groups. That could have involved a Kurdish rebellion
in Iraq that would have spread to Turkey's own
restive Kurdish population. Furthermore, Iraq's
Shiites might have fallen under the influence of Iran, increasing the threat of
Islamic radicalism in the region." - Stephen J. Sniegoski
"The fact that
a great many Jewish neoconservatives – people like Joe Lieberman and the
crowd over at Commentary – plumped for this war, and now for an
even more foolish assault on Iran, raised the question of divided loyalties:
using U.S. military power, U.S. lives and money, to make the world safe for
Israel." - Joe Klein, June 24, 2008
"The suggestion that the war with
Iraq is being planned at
Israel's behest, or at the
instigation of policymakers whose main motivation is trying to
create a secure environment for
Israel, is strong." - Stephen J.
Sniegoski
"Americans love to have
a demon, a certain person who is
the symbol of
all the
evil and
tyranny in the regime that we want to
attack." - Stephen Kinzer
"Iraq's three ethnic
territories were cobbled together after
World War I and held together
by force. The area is fissiparous by nature. Any
thoughts that our efforts could correct
thousands of years of division is
ridiculous. The prospects of a government
surviving with an adequate
degree of support from Shiite and Sunni is unlikely.
Similarly, any foreign policy that has as
its fundamental philosophy a
black-and-white view of
world conflict is destined to
fail. The
George W. Bush administration
made a colossal blunder by invading
Iraq." - John Brodey
"Dick
Cheney ponders whether Americans and
Congress have "the stomach" to see a few thousand more
American
soldiers die in
Iraq for this pathetic misadventure of a
war. One must admire the boldness of a
man who has never been a soldier but
has the right amount of intestinal fortitude so that he can fearlessly watch as
others die to perpetuate his own and
George W. Bush's
mistakes and miscalculations from
the safety of his famous undisclosed location."
- Kenny Feurman
01/16/07Dick Cheney
applied for and received five draft deferments so he would not have to be sent
to Vietnam. When asked about
his deferments, Dick Cheney
reportedly said, "I had other priorities in the '60s than military
service."
(Or
perhaps he had been informed of the truth and did not want to pointlessly throw
away his life.)
"In the last 10 days, the military has dropped
nearly 100,000 pounds of explosives on a gateway for Sunni militants into
Baghdad. This area includes the village of Arab Jabour. During the Spanish
Civil War, the German military dropped 100,000 pounds of bombs on Guernica,
Spain, a tragedy that outraged the world. The
"surge" may be working from an American military viewpoint but not from the
viewpoint of Iraqis living in and near Arab
Jabour. The media do not give us a sensitive
image of what this war has done to the
Iraqi people. It is always about "our" interests,
"our" policies and "our" dead and
injured. If the United States was a person, we would give it a diagnosis of
narcissistic personality
disorder." - Donald F. Hanley 1/21/08
"It is sad to reflect on this but if those from
whom our national leaders sought
counsel had included historians and
anthropologists along with
military and
intelligence people, the worst
international blunder in American
history might have been avoided and
the lives of brave Americans, along with
countless Iraqis, might have been spared." -
Charles M. Aulino
"When George W. Bush says - as he often does
- that we must stop the insurgents in Iraq or
they will follow us home, does he really believe these people don't have maps? Does
he think they'd couldn't find the United
States without being led here by following our troop ships or cargo planes?" -
Dan Witt
"The only terrorist that followed
us home from the last war in Iraq
was
American veteran
Timothy McVeigh." - Brian
Fejer "Divine missions and sensible
foreign policy just don't mix. For
George W. Bush and his
neoconservative supporters, the
invasion of
Iraq was from the outset about much more than
dismantling weapons
of mass destruction, cutting Saddam Hussein's ties to
al-Qa`ida and removing a murderous
and unpredictable dictator from
power.
They also sought to depose
an Iraqi regime hostile to the United States and
Israel - and
to demonstrate to Arabs and
others in the greater Middle East who was the real master of the region.
Crusaders a millennium
ago blamed their defeats in the Middle East on a lack of
faith, we are told today that it is
the realists - those
heretics with an insufficient
faith in the ability of
American values and power to rapidly
transform the
world - who are poised to sabotage the entire
project for spreading freedom throughout
the region, that the realists and their
false
gods of stability and
national interest will seduce Americans
away from their true calling of
spreading liberty throughout the
Earth at the
barrel of a gun." -
Dimitri K. Simes
The National Security Strategy of the
United States of America 2002 stated that "For centuries, international
law recognized that nations need not
suffer an
attack before they can lawfully take
action to defend themselves against forces that present an imminent
of attack."
Legal scholars and
international jurists often conditioned the legitimacy of
preemption on the existence of an
imminent threat - most often a visible mobilization of armies, navies,
and air forces preparing to attack as
in World War II.
The federal government of
America, with purportedly the best
intelligence agency on Earth, claimed to
believe that in all those palaces there
was a massive weapons
of mass destruction building program underway.
Neo-con spin helped con-vince
doubters that Saddam Hussein had
a massive weapons of
mass destruction building program underway by noting the
following:
"Washington was heavily supporting Iraq in her war against Iran. It was during this period
of United States support that Iraq used poison
gas against the Iranians and the Kurds, a tactic that the
United States government and its
media supporters now describe as so horrendous.
In fact, United States
intelligence facilitated the Iraqi use of gas
against the Iranians. In addition, Washington eased up on its own technology
export restrictions to Iraq, which allowed the
Iraqis to import supercomputers, machine tools,
poisonous chemicals, and even strains of
anthrax and bubonic plague. In short, the United States helped
arm Iraq
with the very weaponry of
horror that administration
officials are now trumpeting as justification for forcibly removing Saddam from
power." - Stephen J. Sniegoski, February
10, 2003
Official explanation for the final
invasion plans? The
weapons inspectors were not allowed
into the palaces.
Why were the weapons inspectors not allowed into the
palaces?
Because the empty palaces would have revealed the strong man,
Saddam Hussein, as simply a
facade builder - straight out of
Hollywood.
Much easier to control a populace when the
populace is led to
believe
that you have much more
strength than you do in reality.
Of course the executive
leadership of
America claimed that 'shock and awe' would cause
the collapse of
Saddam Hussein's regime and they
seemed very confident in this assertion.
Kanan Makiya, the ally of
Paul Wolfowitz who famously
predicted that American troops "will be
greeted with sweets and flowers", spirited off 7 million pages of documents
from the Baath Party headquarters and deposited them with the Hoover
Institute at Stanford University.
"More than any single figure
Kanan Makiya made the case for invading because it was the right thing
to do." - Dexter Filkins
The Society of American Archivists said
seizing and removing the documents was "an act of pillage" prohibited under
international laws of
war. (What are they trying to
hide?)
{The Hoover Institute is funded by Archer Daniels
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Douglas Feith and
Paul Wolfowitz actions betray
the fact that they are Zionists
working for Israel. As the
information that was truly known is,
and remains, classified or has
been shredded common ordinary working
Americans may never
know all the details
known by the
executive
leadership before the
invasion.
It seems rather
odd though that the executive
leadership did not seem overly
concerned that Saddam Hussein
would use weapons of
mass destruction during their "shock and awe"
invasion
campaign.
"There's no doubt
Iraq hasn't fully complied with its disarmament
obligations as set forth by the Security Council in its resolution. But on the
other hand, since 1998
Iraq has been
fundamentally disarmed: 90-95% of
Iraq's
weapons of mass
destruction capacity has been verifiably eliminated. We can't reasonably
talk about Iraqi non-compliance as representing a
de-facto retention of a prohibited capacity worthy of
war." - Scott Ritter, an intelligence
officer in the United States Marine Corps for 12 years, was chief UNSCOM
inspector in fourteen of the more than thirty
weapons of mass
destruction inspection missions in which he participated in
Iraq. Stated September 25, 2002, 6 months before
the invasion. Scott Ritter
believed diplomacy was the
answer.
.
"No image of
what happened in America since September
11, 2001 is complete unless you "follow the
money". We have a president and
vice president who are all too cozy with
the industries that stand to profit
from the war. This is not leadership, it
is highway robbery."
- Ted
Reisse Victory in Iraq
means not sacrificing any of American
aristocracies oil interests
while also assuring American aristocracts
are not vulnerable to
suicide
bomber
attacks. In the case of the Persian
Gulf, that means America should pursue a
strategy that secures
American aristocracies interest in
oil and protects
American aristocracts at home but does not
encourage the rise of a new generation of
al-Qa`ida
suicide
bombers.
In the 1970s and the
1980s, American aristocracy secured it's
interest in oil without
stationing a single
combat
soldier on the Arabian Peninsula but
peace is just not as
profitable as war!
In the 1970s and the 1980s
American aristocracy relied on numerous
aircraft carriers off the coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and naval air
power is even more effective now.
American aristocracy also built numerous
military bases near but not on the
Arabian Peninsula so that large numbers of military ground forces could be moved to
the region quickly if a crisis emerged. (Although
combat
troops have been moved off of the
Arabian Pennisula they have been moved to Iraq -
still too close for Islamic
literalists.)
That
strategy, called "offshore
balancing," worked against Saddam Hussein after the
first Gulf War and is again
the best strategy to secure
American aristocracies interest in
oil while preventing the rise of
more al-Qa`ida
suicide
terrorists but the
truth is turmoil in
the region is profitable for the Zionists and
American aristocracy.
Iraq has the third-largest oil reserves on
Earth which is the main reason
America went to
war.In March 2001
Dick Cheney's Energy Task Force
developed a map of Iraq's oil
fields, with the southwest divided into nine "Exploration Blocks" according to
Peter Dale Scott.
"The United States State Department's Oil and
Energy Working Group, meeting between December 2002 and April 2003, said
that Iraq "should be opened to international oil
corporations as quickly as possible after the war." Its preferred method of
privatization was a form of
oil contract called a production-sharing agreement. Page 1, Chapter 1 of the
Iraq Study Group report lays out Iraq's
importance to its region, America and
the world with this reminder: "Iraq has the world's
second-largest known
oil reserves." The group then
proceeds to give very specific and radical recommendations as to what the
United States should do to secure those reserves. If the proposals are
followed, Iraq's national
oil industry will be
commercialized and opened to foreign firms." - Antonia Juhasz,
12/08/06
The 2003 invasion of Iraq began March 20, 2003.
"Leaks
from the state department's "future of Iraq"
office show Washington plans to privatize
the
Iraqi economy and
particularly the state-owned national oil company." - Jonathan Steele
03/31/03
(Corporatists,
American aristocracy and
Zionists did not appreciate the
nationalization of the Iraq oil industry under
Saddam
Hussein.)
"When we have economic problems, it's been caused by
disruptions in our oil supply.
If we have a force in Iraq, there will be no
disruption in oil supplies." -
Robert Kagan,
neo-con
Askenazi
Zionist
"Each year, the
United States military commits resources to securing access to and safeguarding
the transport of oil and other
energy supplies. These costs are not captured in the
market
valuation of
oil, gasoline and other energy
supplies but are paid by American
taxpayers.
Knowing the military costs of securing energy is
important for a few reasons. For one, United States soldiers' well-being is put
at risk in the pursuit of securing energy. Secondly, the tax dollars spent on
enhanced military activities have
opportunity costs; in other words, the same
tax dollars could be spent on improving education, repairing bridges, or
addressing other needs, even other national security needs. Third, since the
market price does not indicate the
true cost of production and
consumption, it results in
market failure and over
consumption of energy. If the
market price reflected the
true cost, the quantity demanded by
consumers would decrease,
leading to more conservation, and making renewable, non-polluting energy
alternatives more viable. In short, the true price of energy supplies would
facilitate a transition away from fossil fuels, lead to greater energy
independence and lessen the impact on the
environment.
If we
are to decrease our global military
footprint and reduce the potential for future
conflict, we must decrease our
dependence on non-renewable energy supplies. This must coincide with a national
campaign for a significant and sustained investment in clean, renewable
energy and conservation. Not
only will this reduce our military
budget, but will also decrease our nation's
contribution to climate change." - Anita Dancs
In 2004,
American
appointed interim Prime Minister Iyad
Allawi submitted guidelines to Iraq's Supreme
Council for Oil Policy suggesting that the "Iraqi government disengage from running the
oil sector" and that it be opened
to international foreign investment, according to International Oil
Daily.
Between 2003 and 2004 alone,
American
oil imports from
Iraq increased by more than 86%. (In 2007
Americans burnt 20.7 million barrels of
oil per day, the equivalent of
the oil
consumption of China, Japan,
Germany, Russia, and India combined.) Plans for a new Iraqi oil law were made public at a
news conference in Washington
hosted by the executive branch of the federal
government. The
American
appointed interim Finance Minister
Adel Abdul Mehdi explained that the new law
would be "very promising to the American
investors and to American enterprise,
certainly to oil companies."
A few weeks later, Adel Abdul Mehdi became one of
Iraq's two vice presidents and Iyad Allawi was
elected to the National Assembly. Iraq's new
oil law, approved by the Iraqi cabinet in February 2007, allows
Iraq's provinces
freedom from the central government in
executing exploration and production contracts called "production share
agreements" which basically transfer control of Iraqi oil to
Zionist
controlled multinational
corporations.
Ray Lee Hunt, CEO of Hunt Oil, signed
an oil deal with the Kurdistan Regional Government of Iraq on September 8, 2007
with the approval of the State Department according to
documents
obtained by Congressional Commitee on Oversight and Government Reform.
Ray Lee Hunt spent most of the
Bush administration serving on the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory
Board (renamed the President's Intelligence Advisory Board in early 2008).
On October 13, 2008 a meeting shrouded in
secrecy between 34 international oil companies and Iraqi oil ministry
representatives occurred at the Park Lane Sheraton in London to divvy up the
following oil fields: Kirkuk
and Bai Hassan in the north, and Rumaila North and South, Zubair, West Qurna
Stage 1 and the three Missan oil
fields in the south. Also on the table are the Akkas gas field in western
Iraq and the Mansouria gas field to the country's east where. With a combined
total of 40 billion barrels, at no point in history has so great a quantity of
known oil been offered in a single bid round to international oil companies, in
any country.
When the
George W. Bush administration
relinquished control of
Iraq to the fledgling government of
Iraq in June 2004 the administration
believed that they had ‘bought off'
that government's loyalty. After all sending 363 tons of cash, shrink wrapped
into $400,000 bricks on pallets, which amounted to $12
billion should have been enough
to buy anyone off!
"Who in their right
mind would send 363 tons of cash into a
war zone?" - Henry Waxman*
American marines gaurding pallets of
money
"This was more cash than Donald Trump had ever
seen in his life." - Robert J. Stein Jr.
The Pentagon's policy of "money
as a weapon system" left battlefields awash in cash. Coalition Provisional
Authority official Robert J. Stein Jr. was sentenced to nine years in prison
for his role in a bribery, theft and money laundering case in connection with
contracts given to Philip H. Bloom. Army Capt. David Gilliam stashed $400,000
in his luggage when he came home from his assignment as a disbursement officer
in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Capt. Lee W. Dubois stole $39.6 million in fuel from
the Army's Camp Liberty in Iraq and sold it on the black market - a scheme that
netted him at least $450,000.
One of the L. Paul
Bremer's * last orders denied
the Iraqi government the ability to give preference
to Iraqis in the reconstruction effort. (From
1989 Paul Bremer was managing director at Kissinger and Associates founded by
Henry Kissinger.)
Initally more than 150
American companies were awarded
contracts totaling more than $50 billion.
Halliburton's contract was initally
worth more than $11 billion,
while 13 other
American companies contracts were
initally worth more than $1.5 billion each.
On a contract of $13.7 billion,
Kellogg, Brown and Root, a
subsidiary of
Halliburton, agreed to return $9
million to the federal government in
2006 after auditors questioned $208 million in overcharges in
Iraq. (Halliburton kept $199 million in
overcharges and returned less than 4%.)
"One former Halliburton employee after
another tells the same story of
outrageous and intentional overcharging. Yet no one in the
George W. Bush administration
seems to care." - Henry Waxman*
Another federal
government audit, reported in 2006, of
Iraq's coalition provisional authority was unable
to account for $97 million of $120 million in
oil revenue from southern
Iraq. Apparently millions were handed out to
firms that never submitted required competitive bids or were paid for
unfinished work.
In February 2007
the three top auditors overseeing work in
Iraq told a house panel that their review of $57
billion in
Iraq contracts found that State and Defense
department officials condoned or allowed repeated
work delays, bloated expenses and payment
for shoddy work or
work never done. (As of March 20, 2008 12
soldiers have died in Iraq due to accidental
electrocution due to faulty constrcution.) More than 1 in 6 dollars charged by
American contractors was questionable
and unsupported for a total of about $10
billion.
"There is no
accountability. Organizations charged with overseeing contracts are not held
accountable. Contractors are not held accountable. The individuals responsible
are not held accountable." -David M. Walker, Congressional head
auditor
Over $13 billion that America sent to Iraq to pay for reconstruction projects has been
wasted, stolen or diverted to al-Qa`ida in Iraq, according to Salam Adhoob, a former chief
investigator for Iraq's Commission on Public
Integrity. Salam Adhoob worked for the Commission for three years, where he
oversaw 200 employees. Salam Adhoob testified about the waste, fraud and
diversion of American taxpayer dollars before the American Senate Democratic
Policy Committee. Salam Adhoob told the panel that some of the investigations
his and other agencies conducted uncovered "ghost projects" that never existed,
or instances in which contractors did poor-quality
work. In one case, Salam Adhoob said that America had spent $24.4 million on an
electricity project in Nineveh province, but that an oversight agency found
that it "existed only on paper." Salam Adhoob reported that he had a
"firsthand, up-close look at corruption"
and waste of American taxpayer dollars, and that he eventually was forced to
flee Iraq because of
death
threats.
The
scapegoats, Lieutenant Colonel
Bruce D. Hopfengardner, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Wheeler, Lieutenant Colonel
Debra Harrison and a CPA Comptroller and convicted felon named Robert Stein
Jr.*, admitted receiving $2
million in money and gifts in return for them using their official positions to
award fraudulent contracts of $8.6 million to Philip Bloom*.(That leaves about
$9,901,400,000 unaccounted for! Maybe
Dov Zakheim* knows what happened to
it.)
"The American use of
mercenaries in
Iraq to enrich
corporations has long been
known. Our soldiers are not being
supported by contractors; our troops are protecting the enrichment of the
mercenaries." - Patricia Reilly
Schairer
George W.
Bush stood up before the American
people and claimed that the Congressional estimate of the cost of the
Iraq war
was too high at $100 billion to
$200 billion. The actual funding
for the Iraq war from 2003 through 2007 was $413
billion (direct costs
only).
"The evidence of widespread
corruption in the
Iraq rebuilding effort is beyond dispute.
Corruption aside, private companies are
exempt from many regulations that would apply to government agencies. The
records of private corporations can’t be
obtained through the Freedom of Information
Act. They can use foreign subsidiaries to avoid
laws meant to restrain
American
corporations. Before the
war,
Halliburton used subsidiaries to do
business with Iran, Iraq, and Libya, despite
official American trade sanctions
against all three countries." - Cullen Murphy
"The bureaucratic arm of
George W. Bush administration
whose recalcitrance is enabled by appointed loyalist cronies, is almost
staged to fail by
neocon
ideological
mistrust of big
government. On the
other hand, the shadow
government is cheating
taxpayers with overcharges,
fraudulent bookkeeping and
secrecy with little oversight
by its irresponsible leaders. The
George W. Bush administration
and Congress are dealing with the exploitive version of unsupervised,
unfettered business given privileged
contracts like manna from
self-righteous
government
leadership." - Jim Hoover
"Does anyone really
believe that after thousands of years of
civilization and countless
occupations the
Iraqi's aren't capable of rebuilding their own
country?" - Ana Sanchez"The justifications for the
Iraq war
are becoming more and more tortured
and divorced from reality or even common
sense. The
war was a
mistake, plain and simple, and
nothing is going to change that. Republicans have sold themselves
quite well as the party of steely realism, but their
policies betray the fact that they are
living in a
dream." - Branden Frankel
Everyday
that passes it becomes clearer that the American aristocracy
invaded Iraq for three reasons:
1) to gain
control of Iraqi oil
production and reserves;
2)
to award ‘make work' contracts to
American
corporations in need of ‘work' due to their inability to compete in a
market driven,
Talmudist
designed, global
capitalist
economy (see
Halliburton);
3) to incite a religious
war between Shiite and Sunni. After all if they are fighting each
other, as they did when
Saddam Hussein started
the Iraq versus Iran
war, they will not bother the
Zionist Israelis!(And if you can
get the Christians into a Holy War with
the Muslims then the
Talmudists can further
consolidate their stranglehold on the Earth's resources.)
"Our main reason for invading Iraq was to assure control of its
oil reserves. When our initial
excuse of weapons of
mass destruction was proved false, we fell
back on the rationale of promoting democracy
in the Middle East." - Maneck Bhujwala
"You won't have any problem with
Saddam Hussein. We'll be
rid of the bastard soon enough. And in his place we'll install a pro-Western
dictator, who will be
good for us and for you." - Represenative
Tom Lantos calming the worries of an Israeli member of the
Knesset
"Despite all of the fiction perpetrated by the
George W. Bush administration
and reported by the media to make us
think otherwise, was there ever any
doubt that the real reason for the war
was to maximize profits of private American
corporations (and
multinational oil companies)?" -
Joel Pelcyger
"If the end result of
George W. Bush's effort in
Iraq is two of the world's largest sources of
oil being
controlled by Shiite
theocracies, it will be a
political failure on a historic scale." - James Lee
Cook
"There is an important difference between the
Marshall Plan for Europe and the debacle that is Iraq: The Marshall Plan actually helped Europe.
After nearly three years and billions spent in a country with
rock-bottom construction costs, Iraq is still in
shambles. So where did the money
go?
Judging by the number of
scandals, reconstruction was not the
goal but rather was a thinly
disguised welfare plan for
American
corporations. And, of course,
forcing Iraq, a country we've
destroyed, to pay for its own
reconstruction is right out of the International
Monetary Fund playbook: loan
forgiveness in return
for allowing corporations to "privatize"
Iraq's oil and infrastructure at fire-sale
prices. Such a deal. Comparing the mess in Iraq
with the Marshall Plan that helped rebuild Europe is a triple
insult: to the Marshall Plan, to
the American
taxpayers and, most of all, to
the Iraqi people." - Richard
MalleryImplementation of the game plans remain on track.
"Mismanaged private contracts have
wasted $745.5
billion over the last five years
of the George W. Bush
administration. The no-bid and cost-plus contracts are a scandal, and
Congress does nothing about it. It is so patently apparent that Congressional
represenatives have too many friends and
lobbyists that have reaped huge
profits from these private and
cost-plus contracts. The war in Iraq is a
wonderful opportunity for
these sleazy deals. No wonder our Congressional represenatives don't want to
withdraw too soon from Iraq - they have to make
sure all of their friends get theirs."
-Patty Salinas
"I can unequivocally state that the abuse related to
contracts awarded to KBR represents the most blatant and improper abuse I have
witnessed." - Bunnatine H. Greenhouse, former chief contracting officer
(Principal Assistant Responsible for Contracting (PARC)) of the United States
Army Corps of Engineers
In the lead-up to the Iraq war in 2003,
Bunnatine H. Greenhouse objected to a decision to give a five-year, no-bid
contract to KBR (Kellogg, Brown and Root) for putting out the oil fires that
Pentagon officials believed retreating Iraqi troops would set as the United
States invaded. Kellogg, Brown and Root had earlier been hired to write the
plans for how that work would be conducted.
American whistleblower
Bunnatine H. Greenhouse was demoted for revealing no-bid insider deals between
the Pentagon and Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR).
"The Wartime Contracting Commission presented a bleak assessment of how
tens of billions of dollars have been spent since 2001. The 111-page report,
obtained by The Associated Press, documents poor management, weak oversight,
and a failure to learn from past mistakes as recurring themes in wartime
contracting. More than 240,000 private sector employees are supporting military
operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the huge size and importance of the
massive support contract known as "LOGCAP", the main program office managing
the work for both Afghanistan and Iraq has only 13 government employees. For
administrative help, it must rely on KBR Inc., the primary LOGCAP contractor in
Iraq - paid nearly $32 billion since 2001 (for LOGCAP admistration). " -
Richard Lardner June 07, 2009
"As we look back on what we've done,
we're real proud of being able to go into a war theater like that as a private
contractor and support 200,000 troops." William P. Utt, chairman of KBR
After the third set of Iraqi
elections the price of gas went from
5 cents a gallon to 65 cents a gallon.
"Iraqis had some
hope that this
election would be a new start. This
hope is gone because the
explosions and car bombs came
back on the next day, the conflicts
between the politic blocs started again,
and then, suddenly all prices increased as the
government made it's move on
oil
products" - Mustafa Hussam
Haidary of Bagdad
The syndicate of the soulless claims to
want a democracy in
Iraq but takes control of Iraqi
oil and then insist that prices
must be equivalent to prices in surrounding countries to stop independent sales of gas by resellers. The
profits from gas sales now go
directly to those now in control of the
oil instead of small
Iraqi family business'.
The
plutocracy is concerned with
Iraqi oil and
profits not with the conditions under
which the Iraqi people
live.
What makes the
syndicate of the soulless
believe that once
American combat troops have been
withdrawn that the Iraqis will not, once again,
take back their oil from
multinational oil
conglomerates?
The
truth is they do not!
Expect American soldiers to remain in
Iraq until they are forced to withdraw.
Remember
Vietnam?
(John McCain predicts one hundred
years!)
(I quess they figure they can have all the oil pumped
by then.)Zionist
neocons
hoped to
create an Iraqi plutocracy not run by the Baath
party which, after the first Gulf War, no longer
trusted
American aristocracy. What makes
American aristocracy
believe that any group that gains
control of Iraq will not turn against them, Shiite or Sunni?
This seems a
little disingenuous as the Central
Intelligence Agency put the Baath party and
Saddam Hussein in
power.
"We rode
to power on a
CIA train." - Baath party
secretary general Ali Saleh Saadi
And as for
democracy?
The Baath party overthrew
the democratically elected government
of Iraq which really was not playing ball with
American aristocracy and the
syndicate of the soulless.
Of course the Baath party really angered
syndicate of the soulless when they
nationalized the Iraqi
oil
industry.
Iraq average
oil
production fell over a million
barrels a day from the day of America's
invasion of
Iraq through December of 2005. During that time
oil pipelines were blown up over
300 times by Iraq
insurgents. Why does
mainstream media no longer report oil pipeline
sabotage? Does such news send shivers down the legs of
syndicate of the
soulless?
Remember when the
Iraqi oil-for-food imbroglio started?
The George W. Bush
administration claimed that the
French and Russians, who had
failed to support the invasion of
Iraq, were the main benefactors of the
oil-for-food kickback schemes.
Paul A.
Volcker*, the former Federal Reserve
chairman, headed up an investigation.
A Virginia company admitted
in state Supreme Court in New York that it paid $440,000 in kickbacks to
Iraqi officials as part of the United Nations
‘oil-for-food' program.
Midway Trading, based in Reston, Virginia, pleaded
guilty to grand larceny
charges and agreed to pay a $250,000 fine in October according to Manhattan
District Attorney Robert Morgenthau.
Texas
oilman, Oscar S. Wyatt Jr., the
founder and former chairman of Coastal Corporation, was sentenced to 1 year and
1 day in prison in November 2007 for paying millions of dollars in kickbacks to
Saddam Hussein's regime.
Also implicated were several companies from the UK including the Compass Group
which suspended Peter Harris, chief executive of its UK & Ireland,
Middle East and Africa companies.
American allies and
American
corporations were also involved
with bribes and kickbacks.
Russian
oil traders
captured nearly one-third of
Iraq's oil export
market. Three Russian companies,
Zarubezhneft and J.S.C. Alfa Eco and an unnamed company, bought more than $7.3
billion in
oil. Two
French firms, Total
International Ltd. and SOCAP International Ltd., bought more than $3
billion. And a London-based
Chinese firm, Sinochem International Oil London Co., bought $2.2
billion in crude.
Texaco bought
$28.3 million in oil and
ExxonMobil
corporation paid $152 million.
Purchases by Chevron and Phoenix
came to $140.2 million and $162.25 million, respectively. The overall
American stake in
Iraq's oil
market was far greater. But
American
oil companies, which consumed
more than 40 percent of Iraq's exported
oil, were
forced to purchase through Russian and
French traders.
Charges were brought
against Chevron under the
Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. In November 2007
Chevron paid a fine of $30
million for it's role in the oil-for-food imbroglio even though
Chevron did not deny or confirm
it paid kickbacks. El Paso Corp. paid $2.7 million,
Textron paid $4.6 million,
Ingersoll-Rand Co. paid
$6.7 million and York
International paid $22 million in Securities and Exchange Commission fines
based on charges of corruption.
The
George W. Bush administration
felt that
American
oil companies were not making
enough off of the oil-for-food
program, apparently they were not corrupt
enough, so America
invaded Iraq. The
George W. Bush administration
condemned the Russians and the
French. The
George W. Bush administration
did not condemn the Chinese. Why? Was it
because the Chinese hold hundreds of billions in United States treasury
bonds?
"It appears that the
neo-con's "beacon of
democracy in the Middle East" is becoming a
candle in the wind." - Bob Goldstein
"When you say you are against the
Iraq war,
people say you are not supporting the soldiers.
I support firefighters but
you do not see me starting forest
fires to prove it!"
-Doug
Hamblin"The
George W. Bush
administration's newly unveiled National Security
strategy might well be subtitled
"The Irony of Iran."
Three years after the
invasion of
Iraq and the invention of the phrase "axis of
evil," the
George W. Bush administration
now highlights the threat posed by Iran - whose radical
government has been vastly
strengthened by the invasion of
Iraq.
This is more
tragedy than
strategy, and it reflects the
Manichean approach the George W.
Bush administration has taken to the Earth.
It is sometimes convenient, for
purposes of
rhetorical effect, for
national leaders to talk of a
globe neatly
divided into
good and evil.
It is quite
another, however, to base the
policies of the
Earth's most
powerful nation upon that
fiction.
The
George W. Bush
administration's penchant for painting its
perceived adversaries with the
same sweeping brush has led to a series of
unintended consequences."
-Madeleine Albright
"The claim that "terrorist
attacks are not caused by the use of
strength; they are invited by the perception of weakness" has a
pleasing structural symmetry, which is presumably why
George W. Bush's speech
writers like it so much.
As a prescription forAmerican policy, the phrase ought to join the
dodo and the
woolly mammoth.
It is
misleading, and if high-ranking
members of the George W. Bush
administration really believe it,
they have no business setting American
national security
policy.
Here's the basic problem.
The "use of strength" does cause terrorist
attacks.
This is not an argument for weakness, but a simple
statement of fact.
America possesses the most
powerful conventional
military on
Earth, and no
State or non
State
actor can go up against
America in a traditional
war and face anything
other than crushing
defeat.
As a direct result of
America's
military strength, those who don't
like us (an ever-expanding group, thanks to the
George W. Bush administration)
will employ the classic weapons of the
weak: unconventional tactics such as guerrilla
warfare, infrastructure sabotage,
suicide bombings and
terrorism.
Military analysts call it asymmetric
warfare, or fourth generation warfare (4GW, in
military jargon).
Any
military analyst worth his salt will
tell you that as long as we remain a military superpower in the conventional
sense, we can expect our adversaries to
avoid direct military confrontations
with us which they will inevitably lose.
Instead, they will turn to
terrorism,
attacks on civilians and similar
"force multipliers."
That is why we can not "win" the
war in Iraq
through a traditional military "use
of strength."
This is
realism, not
defeatism.
Our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are doing what they have
been trained to do, and then some, but effectively combating
insurgents,
terrorists and suicide
bombings requires skills and
institutional capacities our
military is not equipped to
provide." - Rosa Brooks
"The
military
forces that
successfully
defeat
insurgencies are usually those
able to overcome their institutional inclination to wage
conventional war against
insurgents." -
"Counterinsurgency," United States Army Field Manual 3-24, December 15, 2006
"I
have collected demographic data from across the face of the
Earth on the 462
suicide
bombers who, from 1980 to early 2004,
have actually completed the mission. It is the first complete database of every
suicide
bomb
attack . This research is conducted in
English as well as in native language
sources - Arabic, Hebrew, Russian, and
Tamil, and others. The
terrorist groups are often quite proud
of what they do in their local communities, and they produce albums and
other information that can be
very helpful to understand suicide
bomb
attacks.
Tsar Alexander II
was assassinated on March 13, l881 by the first suicide bomber 25-year-old
apostate
Ashkenazi
Khazar Ignacy
Grinevitsky.
The world
leader in
suicide
bombings is the Tamil Tigers in Sri
Lanka. The Tamil Tigers are a Marxist
secular group that draws from the Hindu families of the Tamil regions of the country.
The Tamil Tigers invented the famous suicide
bomb vest for their assassination of
Rajiv Ghandi in May 1991. The Palestinians got the
idea of the
suicide
bomb vest from the Tamil Tigers.
Most suicide
bombers are walk-in volunteers. Very few
are criminals and very few of the suicide
bombers are actually longtime members of
a terrorist group. For most
suicide
bombers, their first
experience with extreme physical
violence is their very own
suicide
bomb
attack.
The
reality is that
overwhelmingly
suicide
bomb
attacks are not driven by
religion as much as they are by a clear
strategic objective: to compel modern
democracies to withdraw
military forces from the territory
that the terrorists view as their
homeland.
From Lebanon to Sri Lanka to Chechnya to Kashmir to the West
Bank, every major suicide
bombing
campaign - over 95 percent of all
the incidents - has had as its central objective to compel a
democractic state to withdraw.
Suicide
bombing is not, as
Dick Cheney claims, a
supply limited phenomenon
where there are just a few hundred religious
fanatics scattered across the
face of the Earth willing to
die.
Suicide
bombing is a demand driven
phenomenon.
"When the
American
combat
forces entered Saudia Arabia, the land
of the two holy places, there was
strong protest from the Ulema and from students of the
Shariah law all over the country
against the interference of American
combat
forces. It is not permissible for any
non-Muslim to stay in our country." - Osama bin
Laden
Osama bin Laden's
speeches and sermons many times run to 40 and 50 pages long. They begin by
calling attention to the presence of tens of thousands
of American
combat
forces on the Arabian Peninsula.
In 1996, Osama bin
Laden stated that there was a plan by America; that the
Americans were going to use
combat
forces to
conquer
Iraq, break it into three pieces, give a piece of
it to Israel, and then do the same
thing to Saudi Arabia. The government
of the United States of America appears
to be on the path to fulfill his
prediction which is of tremendous help in Osama
bin Laden's mobilization appeals.
"The really tricky part of
creating a mythical terrorist monster out of an incomplete truth is laying-out
the facts behind your mythical story without revealing the whole truth about
your part in its creation. In order to explain away the billions of dollars
worth of weapons and training that went into the operation, they chose a rich
jihadi, a Saudi millionaire named Osama bin Laden, who had been a faithful
recruiter and business agent of the Mujahedeen. He was painted as the sole
financier of the entire enormous operation that was centered in Pakistan and
Afghanistan. Bin Laden may not even have known that he was playing a part in a
deceitful CIA global drama until after the fact." - Peter Chamberlin
American aristocracy
believes that if
American
combat
troops keep a low profile they can
safely be stationed in foreign
countries. In the past Americans did a
pretty good job of keeping a low profile from Saudi
society in general but still maintained
tens of thousands of American
combat
troops along with air
power in Saudi Arabia and naval
power off shore.
In 2005 there was at least
160,000 American
combat
troops on the Arabian Peninsula.
If Islamic literalism
were the pivotal factor in suicide
bomb
attacks then
Americans should see some of the largest
Islamic literalist countries on
Earth, like Iran, which
has 70 million people - three times the
population of
Iraq and three times the
population of Saudi Arabia - with
some of the most active literalist groups using
suicide
bombers against
America.
There has not yet been
an al-Qa`ida
suicide
bomber from Iran and
America has no evidence that there are
any suicide
bombers in Iraq from Iran.
Sudan is
a country of 21 million people. Sudan's government practices an extreme form of
Islamic literalist
law. The ideology of Sudan was so congenial to
Osama bin Laden that he spent three years in
Sudan in the 1990s.
There has never been an
al-Qa`ida
suicide
bomber from Sudan.
The first complete set of data on every
al-Qa`ida
suicide
bomber from 1995 to early 2004 concludes
that suicide
bombers are not from some of the largest
Islamic countries on Earth. Two thirds are
from the Islamic countries where America
has stationed heavy
combat
troops since 1990.
Before the invasion,
Iraq never had a
suicide
bomber
attack in its
history. Since the
invasion,
suicide
bombing has been escalating rapidly.
Between 3/03 - 7/03: 2 attacks, 8/03 -
12/03: 23 attacks, 1/04 - 5/04: 29
attacks, 6/04 - 10/04: 40
attacks, 11/04 - 3/05: 73
attacks, 4/05 - 9/05: 112
attacks. Every year that
American
combat
troops have been
stationed in
Iraq suicide
bombings have been exponentially
increasing. There is no evidence there were any
suicide
bomber organizations lying in wait in
Iraq before America
invaded.
The best information
is that the Iraqi
suicide
bombers come from two groups -
Iraqi Sunnis and Saudis - the two
populations most
vulnerable to
transformation by the
presence of large
American
combat
troops on the Arabian Peninsula.
This is consistent with the strategic
logic of
suicide
bombing.
al-Qa`ida appears to have made a
deliberate decision not to attack in
America in the short term.
Americans
know this not only from the
pattern of their
attacks but because we have an actual
al-Qa`ida planning document found
by Norwegian intelligence.
The document says that
al-Qa`ida should not try to
attack the continent of
America in the short term but instead
should focus its energies on hitting America's allies in order to try to split
the coalition. What the document then goes on to do is analyze whether the
terrorists should hit Britain, Poland,
or Spain.
It concludes that the terrorists should hit Spain just before
the March 2004 elections because
Spain could not withstand two, maximum three, blows before withdrawing from the
coalition, and then others
would fall like dominoes. That is exactly what happened. (The actual authors of
this document were most likely
operatives of syndicate of the
soulless. The syndicate of the
soulless is attempting to start a third world war between the
Christians and the
Muslims. The
syndicate of the soulless knew of
the attack because they planned it.)
Six months after the document was
produced, al-Qa`ida
attacked Spain in Madrid. That caused
Spain to withdraw from the coalition.
Others have followed.
So al-Qa`ida certainly has
demonstrated the capacity to attack as
they have committed over 15 suicide
bombing
attacks since 2002, more than all the
years before 911 combined.
"The real enemy in the global war on terror is not
the "axis of evil"(North Korea, Iran and Iraq)
but the "axis of allies." Today, the countries most likely to produce another
911 are not Iran, much less North Korea, but countries long regarded as (after
Israel) America's most reliable allies in the greater Middle East. Step
forward, Saudi Arabia (almost certainly still the biggest source of funding for
radical Islamists) and Pakistan (definitely their one-stop shop for nuclear
weaponry)." - Niall Ferguson Studying the
patterns of where
suicide
bombing has occurred but also where it
has not occurred shows Americans where
religion matters, but not quite in the
way most Americans
imagine. In virtually every instance
where an occupation has produced a
suicide
bombing
campaign, there has been a
religious difference between the
occupier and the
occupied community.
This
is true not only in places such as Lebanon
and in Iraq today but also in Sri Lanka, where it
is the Sinhala Buddhists who are
having a dispute with the Hindu
Tamils. When there is a religious
difference between the occupier
and the occupied, that enables
terrorist
leaders to demonize the
occupier in especially vicious
ways as the ‘other'.
Absent the
presence of foreign
combat
troops,
Osama bin Laden could make his arguments but
there would not be any reality behind
them which is difficult to dispute now when America really does have 160,000
combat
soldiers sitting in
Iraq. American aristocracy
fears that once a large number of
suicide
bombers have acted that
suicide
bombing will be
impossible to wind down.
The history of the last 20 years shows
the opposite. Once the occupying
military ground forces withdraw from the
homeland territory of the terrorists
the suicide
bombings stop.
In Lebanon, for
instance, there were 41 suicide
terrorist
attacks from 1982 to 1986, and after
America withdrew it's
military ground forces, France withdrew
it's military ground forces, and then
Israel withdrew it's
military ground forces to just that
six-mile buffer zone of Lebanon, they virtually ceased. Although the
suicide
bombings did not completely stop there
was no suicide
bomb
campaign. Once
Israel withdrew it's
military ground forces from the vast
bulk of Lebanese territory, the Lebanese
suicide
bomber's did not follow
Israel to Tel Aviv.
This
is also the pattern of the second
intifada with the Palestinians. As Israel has withdrawn from Palestinian
controlled territory (in addition to some
other factors), there has been
a decline of the suicide
bombings
campaign. This is evidence that
withdrawal of military ground forces
does diminish the ability of terrorist
leaders to recruit
suicide
bombers.
This does not mean that
the existing
suicide
bombers will not want to continue the
campaign. There will be a tiny
number of terrorists who will still be
committed to the cause, but the real issue is not whether
Osama bin Laden
exists. It is whether anybody listens
to him. If no one listens then Americans
will be safe from suicide
bombings by
Islamic
terrorist.
The purpose of a
suicide
bomber's
attacks is not to die. It is the
kill, to inflict the maximum number of
casualties on the target
society in order to compel that
target
society to put pressure on it's
government to change
policy. If the
government is already changing
policy, then the
whole point of
suicide
bombing in the way it has been used for
the last 25 years does not come up. The central motive for anti
American
terrorism,
suicide
bombings, and
catastrophic
terrorism is response to foreign
occupation, the
presence of
American
combat
troops.
The longer
American
combat
forces stay on the ground on the Arabian
Peninsula and in Iraq, the greater the risk of
the next 911, whether that is a suicide
bombing
attack
campaign, a nuclear
attack, or a biological
attack.
-
adapted from Robert Pape of the University of Chicago
"Why do women
become suicide
bombers? Like
male
suicide
bombers, their
motives vary. Contrary to popular
perception, they are not
unbalanced sociopaths, nor are they
poor, uneducated
religious
fanatics. According to their
suicide videos and interviews
with those who knew them, the
women are most often driven by the
desire to
avenge the deaths of
relatives, to
redeem the
family name, to escape a sheltered
life or to equalize patriarchal
societies. Many have been
raped or
sexually abused by
enemy forces. Once dishonored, they are
no longer marriageable. With their deaths they reinvent themselves as
martyrs, redeeming the
family name and recouping lost
honor."- Mia Bloom
"The news
on the Central Intelligence
Agency drones shows our officials and
experts dwelling on the legalistic
and logistical minutiae of using flying robots to snuff out
human
life on the
other side of the
Earth while ignoring the obvious
strategic and
ethical dead ends to which it leads.
Common sense should tell us that even if we
do manage to 'whack' a couple of evil guys
once in a while, along with a dozen or so women and
children, this kind of action merely
guarantees that an untold number of America
hating militants will rise to take
their place. Not only are we creating more
enemies, we ourselves are becoming more
and more like our enemy. When will we
realize that, by betraying our own American values, we're only
destroying our own
American soul?" - Don Pearce
Terrorist
activities will cease to happen only when the reason for committing a
terrorist act ceases to
exist. When every
human and every group of
humans is treated
humanely by
government then there will be no more
terrorist acts.
(actual
badge worn by military personel)
"In the case of the Iraq
invasion and occupation, the journalists who have placed themselves in danger
most often are local Iraqi journalists. Some 116 Iraqi journalists and media
workers have been killed in the line of duty since March 2003. In all, 189
journalists have been killed in Iraq. At least 16 of these journalists were
killed by the U.S. military, according to the Committee to Protect
Journalists." - Jeremy Scahill
"A terrorist who serves American interests is a
freedom fighter;
a freedom fighter who doesn't is a terrorist." - Rick
Rozoff
Mohammad and Ahmad - the rest of their
family was
slaughtered
by
American
soldiers that had taken a
fancy to their sister,
Abeer
"Come and see our
overflowing morgues and find our little ones for us ... You may find them in
this corner or the other, a little hand poking out, pointing out at you... Come
and search for them in the rubble of your "surgical" air raids, you may find a
little leg or a little head ... pleading for your attention. Come and see them
amassed in the garbage dumps, scavenging morsels of food... Come and see,
come...
You will never control Iraq, not in six years, not in ten
years, not in 20 years.
You have brought upon yourself the hate and the
curse of all Iraqis." - Layla Anwar
(The word terrorist was coined during the French Revolution to
describe "an adherent or supporter of the Jacobins, who advocated and practiced
methods of partisan repression and
bloodshed in the propagation of the
principles of democracy and equality.")
"Over $300
million United States tax dollars will be paid to private contractors to
propagandize
Iraq over the next three years. The
money will be used to "produce news stories,
entertainment programs
and public service
advertisements for the Iraqi
media in an effort to 'engage and inspire' the
local population to support United States objectives and the
Iraqi (vassal) government. The four
companies that will share
in the new contract are SOSi, the Lincoln Group, MPRI and Leonie Industries." -
Washington Post, October 3, 2008
{Past
propaganda programs seem to have been
successful as Iraqis are second behind
Israelites in approving of
torture. Maybe they can con-vince
Mohammad and Ahmad not to grow up to be terrorists by installing a
fear of
torture!
Jiverly A. Wong, a
Vietnamese War
refugee and immigrant to America, killed 13
people and wounded four others, firing 98 shots from two handguns in about a
minute on April 3, 2009. I wonder
how being a war refugee affected
him?}
mujahideen training
ground
"We assess that the Iraq jihad is shaping a new
generation of terrorist leaders and operatives; perceived jihadist success
there would inspire more fighters to continue the struggle elsewhere. The Iraq
conflict has become the cause celebre. for jihadists, breeding a deep
resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for
the global jihadist movement. Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive
themselves, and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be
inspired to carry on the fight." - National Intelligence Council
Americans
have been told endlessly that the "front line" in the "war on terror" is in
Iraq. Iraq is not
the "front line" in the "war on
terror", Iraq is the training ground for
future terrorists and
al-Qa`ida.
Americans, in an effort to undermine the
United Soviet Socialist Republic's occupation of
Afghanistan, supported, armed and
taught the use of terrorist tactics to Osama Bin
Laden and his mujahideen brethren. Afghanistan was
al-Qa`ida's first training ground.
Osama Bin Laden and his mujahideen brethren
fought the Soviets occupiers and learned how to use
terrorist tactics.
Now
al-Qa`ida and their
Iraq mujahideen brethren are training in
Iraq and learning to use
terrorist tactics against the
American occupiers.
Iraq is not the "front line" in the "war on terror",
Iraq is the training ground for future
terrorists and
al-Qa`ida.
"al-Qa`ida started out as an insurgency
working for American interests.
Osama Bin Laden worked for us. We have been
told Osama Bin Laden turned
against us; the how, when or why is
not said. The list of lies that led
us into the war in
Iraq is long. The attacks of 911 are used as
justification for all of George W.
Bush's questionable actions. Osama Bin
Laden, as a scapegoat, has
served the George W. Bush
administration well. George W.
Bush has full expectations that we are
willing to support his continued blood-shedding to achieve
neo-con
political objectives." - Mary T.
Ficalora
In Liberia, a female head of a
household was referred to the
American resettlement program by the Office of the United Nations High
Commissioner for Refugees as a person particularly
vulnerable to attack.
Insurgents had come to her home,
killed her father, beat and gang
raped her. The
insurgents held her hostage in
her own home and forced her to wash
their clothes. The woman escaped after several weeks and made her way to a
refugee camp.
The Department of Homeland Security has declared
that because the insurgents
lived in her house and she washed their
clothes, she had provided "material support" to the
insurgents.
A Sierra
Leonean woman's house was attacked by
insurgents in 1992. A young
family member was killed with machetes, a
child was subjected to burns and the
woman and her daughter were
raped. The
insurgents kept the
family captive for days in their own home.
The Department of Homeland Security has declared the
family provided housing - "material
support" - to the insurgents.
Yusuf Islam was denied entry into America by the Department of Homeland
Security because he provided "material support" to the
terrorists.
Yusuf Islam is Cat
Stevens who wrote the songs Peace
Train, How Can I Tell You and Morning has Broken.
"On an
Earth teeming with calamities and man-made
disasters, we all seem to face a
continuously uncertain future. One thing
that people need to do in the year to come in order to help reduce
self-inflicted
tragedies, however, is to try and
reduce the causes of conflict within
our own human spheres of
influence. That means to start
putting out the fires of
ignorance and
hatred by means of their
opposites:
knowledge and
compassion.
It is also time that the
media played a more responsible role in reflecting the commonalities
between the two realities of Islam and
the West. The media still chooses to
play on
fears of the
unknown, using extremists as a
representation of a religion, when the
more pure and faithful
picture is bypassed.
Thankfully, some
journalists and
media experts have
woken up."
Peace
Yusuf Islam, 1st January
2006
Question: If a person purchases music
created by Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam, would
the Department of Homeland Security consider that an act of
terrorism?
After all, that
could be considered as material support for an individual
branded as a
terrorist supporter.
"We need to end this
war and bring our troops home as soon as
possible. We need to seek out and respond to the root causes of terrorism:
poverty and inequity in the Middle
East, misbehavior of
multinational corporations, our ongoing and unnecessary
war with
Muslims and our sick dependence on foreign
oil. Let us impose restrictions
on multinationals, offer aid to Middle Eastern countries, increase
communication and diplomacy and promote alternative energy
resources. It is
time to look at
things in a new
light - to
educate
Americans on these issues and how they
will really solve the problem, not
perpetuate this gargantuan mistake
and deepen the problem for generations to come." - Drew Falkman |
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