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SADDAM HUSSEIN ; HIROSHIMA OR HARA-K
Foreign Press Foundation / HR - 09.02.2003 14:19
The present plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international
community into supporting a war to - this time - evt. 'tactically nuke' and oust Iraq's leader
FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION - THE NETHERLANDS - Free Press release conc.:
ABC NEWS - Good Morning America World News Tonight-20/20-Primetime-Nightline.
SADDAM HUSSEIN ; HIROSHIMA OR HARA-KIRI ?
United States Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize the U.S. to Provoke War.
ABC.COM NEWS : URL for the full story* :  http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/jointchiefs_010501.html
To read further reports, go to the National Security Archive Web site, or search Footnotes*
This item's FPF-text is partly rewritten and as such adapted to the present reality.
Terror to create public support for a U.S. war.
America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit
acts of terrorism in U.S. cities and abroad to create public support for a war. Gen. Lyman L.
Lemnitzer was head of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time the plans of
deception by terror were drawn up and presented to the U.S. Secretary of defense.
Code named 'Operation Northwoods'(see ABC link), the plans reportedly included all kinds
of threats which had to be 'fabricated'. Like the possible assassination of émigrés, sinking
boats of refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, wrecking buildings like the Pentagon,
blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism with 'snipers' and
conventional or nuclear bomb or gas threats to U.S. cities, it's population and foreign
countries within the "American Sphere of Interest".
NUKING AND OUSTING SADDAM ?*
Possibility of US Lowering 'Nuclear War Threshold' in Iraq Viewed
The present plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international
community into supporting a war to - this time - evt. 'tactically nuke' and oust Iraq's leader,
Saddam Hussein. The four million people - half of them children - trying to live in and
around Baghdad under the regime of Saddam Hussein, are - as in so many cases -
apparently looked upon as "collateral damage". A perfectly miserable example of this
narrow-minded way of thinking was given on 9/11 - 2001 in Germany, by visiting former
secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Asked to comment on the 9/11 disaster he said:
"This is comparable to Pearl Harbor, and we must have the same response, and the people
who did it must have the same end as the people who attacked Pearl Harbor,'' former
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger told CNN. " talking about nuclear warfare, like in
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Advocating to "nuke" countries is inhumane and as shortsighted
as a mole. Kissinger alone has wrecked nearly the whole good image the U.S. globally ever
had. His policy has also resulted in breeding anti U.S. terrorism on a worldwide scale.*
The Columbia space crash ?
The documents in the Bamford book show "the Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved
plans for what may be the most corrupt plan ever created by the U.S. government. (see
URL).
The United States Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut
John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war ,
the documents show. Should the rocket explode and kill Glenn, they wrote, "the objective
is to provide irrevocable proof … that (at present) the fault lies with Saddam Hussein".
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing that
they could blow up an airplane or a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay; blame Al Qaida and
Osama bin Laden. All the faked propaganda or real horror stories strongly backed up with
casualty lists in U.S. newspapers which "would cause a helpful wave of national
indignation." The plans had the written approval of all of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and
"Operation Northwoods" has gone undisclosed for four decades.
"The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here
this is the complete reverse; the United States military trying to trick the American people
into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."
Iraq is the "Mother of all Water" in the Middle East,
including Israel...
At present he United States wants to safeguard its future profits and thus existence not only
in the oil fields : Iraq also is the "Mother of all Water" in the Middle East.
Quote, (see footnote URL) :
A closer look may shed light on America's impetus to invade Iraq.
"We are constantly reminded that Iraq has perhaps the world's largest reserves of oil. But in
a regional and perhaps even geopolitical sense, it may be more important that Iraq has the
most extensive river system in the Middle East. In addition to the Tigris and Euphrates, there
are the Greater Zab and Lesser Zab rivers in the north of the country. Iraq was covered with
irrigation works by the sixth century A.D., and was a granary for the region.
Before the Persian Gulf war, Iraq had built an impressive system of dams and river control
projects, the largest being the Darbandikhan dam in the Kurdish area. And it was this dam
the Iranians were aiming to take control of when they seized Halabja. In the 1990's there
was much discussion over the construction of a so-called Peace Pipeline that would bring the
waters of the Tigris and Euphrates south to the parched Gulf states and, by extension, Israel.
No progress has been made on this, largely because of Iraqi intransigence. With Iraq in
American hands, of course, all that could change.
Thus America could alter the destiny of the Middle East in a way that probably could not be
challenged for decades — not solely by controlling Iraq's oil, but by controlling its water.
Even if America didn't occupy the country, once Mr. Hussein's Baath Party is driven from
power, many lucrative opportunities would open up for American companies.
All that is needed to get us into war is one clear reason for acting, one that would be
generally persuasive. But efforts to link the Iraqis directly to Osama bin Laden have proved
inconclusive. Assertions that Iraq threatens its neighbors have also failed to create much
resolve; in its present debilitated condition — thanks to United Nations sanctions —
Iraq's conventional forces threaten no one".
(end quote - see footnote)
Reflecting and concluding this, the U.S. plans call for establishing hegemony : prolonged
military — not democratic — control over different economically useful nations after
invasions.Which is like many times before - done by imposing a government by tyranny,
basically what the United States is accusing Saddam Hussein himself of doing. But the U.S.
at present - and itself - is doing in Venezuela* helping to overthrow the democratically twice
elected President Chavez Frias government. At the same time, however, there are real
concerns globally - but even in American society - about the U.S. military overstepping its
bounds. There were reports U.S. military leaders had encouraged their subordinates to vote
conservative during elections. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee published its own
report on right-wing extremism in the military, warning a "considerable danger" in the
"education and propaganda activities of military personnel" had been uncovered. (see
PsyOps*) U.S. Congress passed a law designed to increase the public's access to
government records related to the United States war plans and hegemony.
Writer Bamford : "There really was a worry at the time about the military going off crazy
and they did, they never succeeded, but it wasn't for lack of trying," he says.
History repeating itself...?
Footnotes, to be better informed :
A closer look may shed light on America's impetus to invade Iraq.
CBS ; "Iraq Faces Massive U.S. Missile Barrage"" :
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/01/24/eveningnews/main537928.shtml
Possibility of US Lowering 'Nuclear War Threshold' in Iraq Viewed :
http://www.cdi.org/russia/239-12.cfm
New York Times : Iraq is the "Mother of all Water":
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/31/opinion/31PELL.html?pagewanted=print&position=top
Village Voice : How the Coming War Stacks Up/ Victims ? / Blood, Stats, and Tears :
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0306/harkavy.php
KILLING OUR OWN / The Disaster of America's Experience with Atomic Radiation :
http://www.ratical.org/radiation/KillingOurOwn/
Information on what's going on and "psychological operations" like "Operation Northwoods" :
http://www.iwar.org.uk/psyops/index.htm
Road show of Deception : http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/2807/
New York Times : Pentagon Readies Efforts to Sway Sentiment Abroad :
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/19/international/19PENT.html?pagewanted=print
Gunning for War: The NSA/CIA & Establishing United States Hegemony :
"The CIA uses every dirty trick in the book to accomplish its missions overseas," said
Timothy Edgar, an ACLU Legislative Counsel. "To allow those methods to govern
intelligence gathering on American soil is an invitation for disaster. The President
must ensure that appropriate curbs on its authority are imposed."
http://www.aclu.org/SafeandFree/SafeandFree.cfm?ID=11721&c=206&MX=690&H=0
Reliable news concerning President Chavez and Venezuela's struggle :
http://www.vheadline.com/main.asp
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST !
* The Dutch author worked globally for 40 years as an independent
journalist/foreign correspondent for many international printed and
A/V-media. From Scandinavia to Vietnam, as correspondent in Latin America,
(Chile '71-'74), and 10 years in North/South Africa and the Middle East.
While being accredited as N-Africa & M-East correspondent - based in Tunisia
for ten years, sometimes reporting for the BBC too... Because of
journalistic research declared "Persona non Grata" five times by different
governments in East and West.
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| aanvullingen | | | Poem | Prometheus P. - 09.02.2003 19:04
Saddam and George
were sitting on the porch
said Saddam to George:
"Will you or I light the torch?"
"It's getting as cold as hell can be
And I am only in my cowboy shirt you see"
said George and gave him a light
it was the beginning of a warm and cosy night
They were talking bout thissies and thatties
eating a lot and getting fatties
suddenly the torch started to dim because of rain
"Quick give me another light" said Saddam Hussein
"I just can't stand the darkness around,
getting afraid of any strange sound"
"Relax" said George, "I still have some oil,
your torch will burn soon and enlighten the soil
we'll have a party and invite some friends
to sit on the porch until the end"
"What do you mean with that slippery talk?
We don't have any friends with whom we can walk!
Our game is the torch and I only have soil
to share our love for getting some oil
So friend
we are together until the end
as long as you share my love for the torch
we will be sitting here warm on the porch"
| | Over beïnvloeding : Lezen = wéten ! | HR - 10.02.2003 09:10
How the U.S. faked satellite pictures to screw the Saudi's and start the first Gulf War :
http://www.iraqwar.org/bush.htm
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But this may change your mind and is a "Must Read" : Published on Friday, January 31, 2003 by the New York Times : "A War Crime or an Act of War ?"
by Stephen C. Pelletiere
MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — It was no surprise that President Bush, lacking smoking-gun evidence of Iraq's weapons programs, used his State of the Union address to re-emphasize the moral case for an invasion: "The dictator who is assembling the world's most dangerous weapons has already used them on whole villages, leaving thousands of his own citizens dead, blind or disfigured."
The accusation that Iraq has used chemical weapons against its citizens is a familiar part of the debate. The piece of hard evidence most frequently brought up concerns the gassing of Iraqi Kurds at the town of Halabja in March 1988, near the end of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war. President Bush himself has cited Iraq's "gassing its own people," specifically at Halabja, as a reason to topple Saddam Hussein.
But the truth is, all we know for certain is that Kurds were bombarded with poison gas that day at Halabja. We cannot say with any certainty that Iraqi chemical weapons killed the Kurds. This is not the only distortion in the Halabja story.
I am in a position to know because, as the Central Intelligence Agency's senior political analyst on Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war, and as a professor at the Army War College from 1988 to 2000, I was privy to much of the classified material that flowed through Washington having to do with the Persian Gulf. In addition, I headed a 1991 Army investigation into how the Iraqis would fight a war against the United States; the classified version of the report went into great detail on the Halabja affair.
This much about the gassing at Halabja we undoubtedly know: it came about in the course of a battle between Iraqis and Iranians. Iraq used chemical weapons to try to kill Iranians who had seized the town, which is in northern Iraq not far from the Iranian border. The Kurdish civilians who died had the misfortune to be caught up in that exchange. But they were not Iraq's main target.
And the story gets murkier: immediately after the battle the United States Defense Intelligence Agency investigated and produced a classified report, which it circulated within the intelligence community on a need-to-know basis. That study asserted that it was Iranian gas that killed the Kurds, not Iraqi gas.
The agency did find that each side used gas against the other in the battle around Halabja. The condition of the dead Kurds' bodies, however, indicated they had been killed with a blood agent — that is, a cyanide-based gas — which Iran was known to use. The Iraqis, who are thought to have used mustard gas in the battle, are not known to have possessed blood agents at the time.
These facts have long been in the public domain but, extraordinarily, as often as the Halabja affair is cited, they are rarely mentioned. A much-discussed article in The New Yorker last March did not make reference to the Defense Intelligence Agency report or consider that Iranian gas might have killed the Kurds. On the rare occasions the report is brought up, there is usually speculation, with no proof, that it was skewed out of American political favoritism toward Iraq in its war against Iran.
I am not trying to rehabilitate the character of Saddam Hussein. He has much to answer for in the area of human rights abuses. But accusing him of gassing his own people at Halabja as an act of genocide is not correct, because as far as the information we have goes, all of the cases where gas was used involved battles. These were tragedies of war. There may be justifications for invading Iraq, but Halabja is not one of them.
In fact, those who really feel that the disaster at Halabja has bearing on today might want to consider a different question: Why was Iran so keen on taking the town? A closer look may shed light on America's impetus to invade Iraq.
We are constantly reminded that Iraq has perhaps the world's largest reserves of oil. But in a regional and perhaps even geopolitical sense, it may be more important that Iraq has the most extensive river system in the Middle East. In addition to the Tigris and Euphrates, there are the Greater Zab and Lesser Zab rivers in the north of the country. Iraq was covered with irrigation works by the sixth century A.D., and was a granary for the region.
Before the Persian Gulf war, Iraq had built an impressive system of dams and river control projects, the largest being the Darbandikhan dam in the Kurdish area. And it was this dam the Iranians were aiming to take control of when they seized Halabja. In the 1990's there was much discussion over the construction of a so-called Peace Pipeline that would bring the waters of the Tigris and Euphrates south to the parched Gulf states and, by extension, Israel. No progress has been made on this, largely because of Iraqi intransigence. With Iraq in American hands, of course, all that could change.
Thus America could alter the destiny of the Middle East in a way that probably could not be challenged for decades — not solely by controlling Iraq's oil, but by controlling its water. Even if America didn't occupy the country, once Mr. Hussein's Baath Party is driven from power, many lucrative opportunities would open up for American companies.
All that is needed to get us into war is one clear reason for acting, one that would be generally persuasive. But efforts to link the Iraqis directly to Osama bin Laden have proved inconclusive. Assertions that Iraq threatens its neighbors have also failed to create much resolve; in its present debilitated condition — thanks to United Nations sanctions — Iraq's conventional forces threaten no one.
Perhaps the strongest argument left for taking us to war quickly is that Saddam Hussein has committed human rights atrocities against his people. And the most dramatic case are the accusations about Halabja.
Before we go to war over Halabja, the administration owes the American people the full facts. And if it has other examples of Saddam Hussein gassing Kurds, it must show that they were not pro-Iranian Kurdish guerrillas who died fighting alongside Iranian Revolutionary Guards. Until Washington gives us proof of Saddam Hussein's supposed atrocities, why are we picking on Iraq on human rights grounds, particularly when there are so many other repressive regimes Washington supports?
Stephen C. Pelletiere is author of "Iraq and the International Oil System: Why America Went to War in the Persian Gulf."
2003 The New York Times
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| | autoongeluk | 10.02.2003 11:41
meneer zal binnenkort wel een auto-ongeluk krijgen. Dit soort dissidente geluiden zijn natuurlijk ongehoord in the land of the free (to bombard brown people)
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