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October, 2004
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LIES, Lies, Washington's weapons Of
Mass Deception
By Edward W. Miller, MD
"There are not
two classes of terrorists, one that is condemned and another that is pardoned.
Terrorism must be fought, no matter what its origin."
Martin Torrijos, President of Mexico 1 Sept. 2004
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
Pogo
Bush's pre-emptive "SHOCK AND AWE" against the Iraqis, was
outright terrorism. A hidden, more deadly terrorism was the first Gulf War
followed by the 13-years of Oil-for Food semi-starvation, daily US overflights
with bombing, and a US-planned bacterial genocide created by destroying Iraq's
potable water facilities plus a UN embargo to prevent Iraqis from both cleaning
up their water and even treating the water-born plagues. Add a desert air filled
with depleted uranium particles and cluster bombs for the kids, and one can
understand why two million Iraqis, the majority children and the aged, have
died since Desert Storm. Also add Washington's support for Sharon's daily killing and terrorism of the
Palestinians, and our Twin Towers deaths and Pentagon damage pale by comparison. Washington is reaping the harvest of those
dragon's teeth the Reagan, two Bush's and the Clinton administrations have been sowing.
The morass in Iraq and Afghanistan worsens each week. Sixteen months after our leader,
outfitted in flight clothes announced on the carrier deck an "end to
hostilities in Iraq" British General Sir Mike Jackson just admitted his
soldiers were now fighting a "counter-insurgency war" in Iraq.
Reporter Mike Benjamin, reporting in America's oldest journal (Editor &
Publisher 9/16/2004) noted 16,765 US service members have so far been medically
evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan for injuries and ailments not directly
related to combat, according to the US Transportation Command. Injuries absent
from the public Pentagon casualty reports cited by our media. According to
military date review from United Press International, these evacuee don't fit
the Pentagon's definition of casualties, but veteran's advocate say they should
be counted. "The Pentagon has reported 1019, dead and 7,245 wounded in Iraq."
Meanwhile Iraqi civilian casualties are mounting. Adnan Zurfi, governor of
that battle weary city, Najaf reported that "three weeks of urban warfare
have killed at least 1,000 Iraqi rebels and civilians." and in the
cement-factory town of Tal Adfar, 30 miles west of Mosul, troops battling
insurgents, reported 67 rebels killed. (Chicago Tribune 9/11/2004), while a US
air strike on Fallujah ( 16 Sept.) left 44 civilians dead and 37 wounded.
(ZAMAN INTERNATIONAL)
Gen. Richard Meyers, Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff just
acknowledged that it "could take months before the US and Iraqi authorities can take back Éthe toughest
Sunni insurgent bastions such as Fallijah and Ramadi." (Yahoo News 9/10/2004 )
Meanwhile, all is not going well with our allies. Patrick Cockburn reported
(UK INDEPENDENT 9/12/204 ) "the US
military assault on Tal Afar, an ethnically Turkmen city, has provoked a
furious reaction from the Turkish government which is demanding the US call off the attack."
"The US came into Iraq like an elephant astride its war machine," said
Ibrahim Jaafari, influential Iraqi Vice President." The Turks claimed the
Kurds had managed to get the US involved on
their side in the long-standing ethnic Kurd-Turkomen conflict.
The FAIRFAX NEW ZEALAND LIMITED reported 9/16/2004) New Zealand's Kiwi
troops are "pulling out of Iraq under a cloak of secrecy as security
deterioratesÉ" While a huge explosion and fire on the Iraq-Turkey oil
pipeline on 9/1/2004, followed by the "biggest sabotage operation on oil
instillation in Kirkut since the invasion" and a pipeline feeding the Al
Dura oil refinery on the outskirts of Baghdad, have further reduced Iraq's
already failing petroleum exports.
It would seem that bringing democracy to Iraq
has become an increasingly painful process so let's re-examine that barrage of
falsehoods from the Bush' people which lead congress and many Americans down
the road towards this war.
It seems obvious the drive to seize Iraq
had been driven in part by Cheney's oil friends. The SF Chronicle (10 Mar 2003 ) reported a company tied to our Vice President had
already won a Pentagon contract "for advice on rebuilding Iraq oil fields after a possible war."
Another hidden impetus behind Bush's War was revealed in the March/April
2003 magazine, MOTHER JONES, by investigative reporter Robert Dreyfuss: The
United States "has steadily been accumulating military muscle in the Gulf,
building bases, selling weaponry and forging military partnerships. Now, it is
poised to consolidate its might in a place that will be a fulcrum of the
world's balance of power for decades to come. At a stroke, by taking control of
Iraq, the Bush administration can
solidify a long-running strategic design. Dreyfuss quotes James Akins, former US diplomat and once ambassador to Saudi Arabia: "It's the Kissinger
Plan," says Akins. "I thought it had been killed, but it's
back." According to Akins, the plan to seize Arab oil was initiated in
1975 in a series of well-placed articles in such American magazines as Harpers,
Business Week, and Commentary. Dreyfuss notes: "The idea began to gain
favor among a feisty group of hard-line, pro Israel thinkers who played important roles in President Reagan's
Defense Department."
Lead by Richard Perle, chairman of the Pentagon's Defense Policy Board, and
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, this group still "occupies
several dozen key posts in the White House, the Pentagon, and the State
Department."
Dreyfuss also noted a Washington think tank developed: "Project for the
New American Century" Members include Richard, Perle, strategist Robert
Kagan, William Kristol, NEW REPUBLIC publisher, Martin Peretz, and ex-CIA
Director James Woolsey and are "tied to a web of similar neo-conservative,
pro-Israel organizations." Dreyfuss quoted Diplomat Akins: "It's a
team that looks all too familiar, seeking to implement the plan first outlined
back in 1975. It'll be easier once we have Iraq...
we already have Qatar, and Bahrain too so it's only Saudi Arabia we're talking about, and the United Arab Emirates."
Robert Dreyfuss also quoted Michael Klare, Hampshire College professor, and author of RESOURCE
WARS, who concluded that: "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."
The legitimacy of Muslim concern was also outlined by George Bisharat,
Hastings Law professor, in a SF Chronicle column. Bisharat wrote: "The
real reason we are going to war is the messianic vision of a small but
influential group of strongly pro-Israel hawks within the Bush administration.
Their goal is unilateral global domination through absolute military
superiority." Bisharat noted the group's leader, Richard Perle:
"helped author a study for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhu
describing Saddam Hussein's overthrow as "an important Israeli strategic
objective in its own right." War against Iraq would eliminate any obstacle to a disposition of the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict on terms that satisfy Israel's territorial ambitions on most or
all of the West Bank.
In a recent (7/9/04) article: TREASON IN HIGH PLACES:
PENTAGON ZIONISTS, AIPAC and ISRAEL, writer
James Petras notes: "The FBI investigation into Israel espionage agents in the Pentagon is
part of a major struggle between prominent Zionists in the Pentagon and the US
Security apparatus. Ever since the Bush regieme came into power there has been
a fierce... war between Pentagon Zionists ..their military collaborators... and
the professional military and intelligence apparatus."
Petras adds: " From 9/11/2001 to
the invasion of Iraq, the Pentagon Zionists and their
civilian militarists had the upper hand: They marginalized the CIA, and
established their own intelligence services to "cook the data."
They pushed through the doctrine of sequential wars, beginning with Afghanistan and Iraq and projecting wars with Iran, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi
Arabia and other
Muslim countries. The Pentagon Zionists increased Israel's power in the Middle East, and promoted its expansionist
colonization of PalestineÉ" Petras adds: "It s clear that Israeli
agents, not simply Zionist ideologues, infest the top echelon of the
Pentagon"
A day by day observation of this dangerous parasite's quiet insinuation into
Washington's intelligence, defense, planning
and political systems was recently offered by a retired Lieut.-Colonel in the
Air Force, Karen Kwaitkowski ( see Global Outlook, Issue 8 pg. 15-20).
Kwaitkowski writes: "From May 2002 until February 2003, I observed
firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Planning (OSP) and
watched the latter stages of the neoconservative capture of the
policy-intelligence nexus in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq... I watched neoconservative agenda bearers within
the OSP usurp measured and carefully-considered assessments, and though
suppression and distortion of intelligence analysis, promulgate what were in
fact falsehoods to both Congress and the Executive Office of the
President."
Kwaitkowski describes in detail how longtime professionals in important
Defense Department offices were replaced by agents from Jewish-orientated,
agenda-bearing think tanks "including the Middle East
Research Institute, the Washington Institute form Mideast Policy, and the
Jewish Institute for International Affairs." Adding : 'That the
PentagonÉwas implementing its own foreign policy had not yet occurred to
me," Kwaitkowski describes how the neocons in the Office of Special Plans,
developed "talking points," propaganistic in style and "all desk
officers were ordered to use them verbatim in material intended for higher-ups
and people outside the Pentagon. "Talking points included Saddam
Hussein's... using chemical weapons against his own people... his relations
with terrorists... aid to Palestinians, aggressive nuclear weapons
programÉ" Thus, instead of developing defense policy alternatives and
advice, the OSP was used to manufacture propagandaÉ and pseudo war
planning."
Stephen Green, recently retired official from the UN and well-know author of
books on Israel and the Mideast, recently said of Paul Wolfowitz,
active neocon and Bush's close advisor on Iraq
that Wolfowitz "had a strong attachment to Israel security, and a certain confusion about his obligation to US national security." Green adds that earlier
when "Working with the DOD (Department of Defense), Wolfowitz had promoted
the sale of ATM 9-L air-to-air missiles to China... A sale that General Colin Powell, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs,
intervened to cancel" (green@counterpunch.org)
Columnist Charlie Reese (www.rense.com/general57/apic.htm Sept. 15 ), reported
that Neocons Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser's policy paper
advised Netanyhu to abandon the peace process, reject "land for
peace," strengthen Israel's defenses, and focus on removing Saddam Hussein
from power. Reese adds: "Netanyhu did... abandon the peace process and at
a cost of $ 200 billion and almost 1000 American lives, Israel did achieve its "strategic
objective"... removing Saddam from
powerÉ It didn't cost Israel one shekel or one life."
"The Israeli lobby," Reese added, "has been so successful in
labeling any criticism of Israel as
"anti-semitic" that most Americans prefer to stick their heads in the
sand."
Reaping the harvest of dragon's teeth is likely to be a costly experience
for Americans.