HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK ---------------------------
I think the operative phrase is "freedom fascism". Steve K. _______________________________________ >From: mart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], com-int <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >[EMAIL PROTECTED], John Clancy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Fw: [iac-disc.] War is Working for Bush: [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] >Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 21:34:53 -0500 > >HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK >--------------------------- > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Vicki Andrada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 9:00 PM >Subject: Fw: [iac-disc.] War is Working for Bush: > > to visit my home page go to: > http://www.nosanctions.com > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rania Masri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 4:27 PM > Subject: [iac-disc.] War is Working for Bush: > > From Counterpunch.org > > December 21, 2001 > > War is Working for Bush: > Osama Becomes Saddam; Iraq Becomes the Scapegoat for > U.S.Government-Produced Anthrax Terror > By Tom Turnipseed > > Polls in the United States show unprecedented support for George W. Bush >and his leadership in the victory of the world's sole super-power over the >destitute nation of Afghanistan, and its rag-tag Taliban government. > >Bush has become enormously popular and empowered by war. He is cheered >on by a jingoistic and flag-waving media, from pandering pundits and >admiring >anchors to the travel industry employing Bush's visage in television >commercials telling you that to be a good American and help win the war, >you must hurry and buy your tickets. Bush destroyed the tattered Taliban in >Afghanistan with a mighty display of hi-tech bombing aided by local >warlords >and warriors on the ground. He and his fellow warlords in Washington are > planning where and how to keep the war momentum going now that the "the > most evil one," Osama bin-Laden, appears to have vamoosed. In his Texas >cowboy cockiness that thinly disguises his rich Ivy League frat boy roots, >Bush >has said he would get Osama "dead, or alive," but, at least for now, the > object of the greatest manhunt since Jesse James has escaped the noose. > >Luckily, for George W., the perfect stand-in for the elusive Osama bin >Laden is the arch-villain of his father, Saddam Hussein. Under his father, > President George H. W. Bush's leadership, Saddam's relatively affluent > country of Iraq was reduced to poverty by the Persian-Gulf War of 1991 > and by the U.S.-driven economic sanctions continuing since the War. In >that War, more bombs were dropped on Iraq than the total dropped by >both sides in all of World War II. An estimated 150,000 Iraqis were killed >with at least 1,000,000 more dying since due to the economic sanctions. > >The elder Bush demonized Saddam as another Hitler, but withdrew U.S. >forces from Iraq before finishing off Saddam Hussein and his government >after Kuwaiti oil fields were secured for U.S. oil interests. The elder >Bush >also received the adulation of the American public with favorable ratings >of >90% in the polls at the height of the patriotic fervor of winning the war >against >Iraq. > > The passion of patriotism cooled with the layoffs of a recession and the > elder Bush lost the election to Bill Clinton in 1992. But now the war >against > terrorism is an all-encompassing global struggle, so with Cowboy George, > it is on to other impoverished Islamic countries "who might be harboring >terrorists." > > While there is military action brewing in the squalor of smaller Muslim > countries like Yemen, Somalia and Sudan, the big enchilada for Cowboy > George the younger could be Iraq. Saddam is like Osama in that he came >into his > own in militaristic terrorism in a United States-backed war against Iran >in > the 1980s, killing 1,000,000 people - much like the U.S. recruited Osama > into the military business as a mujahedeen leader to terrorize the >Soviets > out of Afghanistan in the early 1980s. Anthrax cultures were supplied to >Iraq > by a Virginia firm, the American Type Culture Collection Company in 1985. > Saddam has been demonized as a fiendish monster for more than ten years >and > there is an ol' family score to settle. > > Cowboy George has demanded Iraq allow U.N. inspections for chemical, > biological, and nuclear weapons or they will find out what happens if > they don't. Scott Ritter, an ex-U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq from the > United States, has repeatedly said that such weapons had "been destroyed >or rendered harmless by 1998." > >On December 20, the New York Times ran a front page story about a >"defector" from Iraq, who is Kurdish and a member of a group opposing >Hussein called the Iraqi National Congress. He said he was an engineer who >had "personally worked on renovations of secret facilities for biological, >chemical and nuclear weapons." The story said the Iraqi defector "had been >interviewed twice by American intelligence officials" according to >"government >experts." > > On December 19, White House spokesperson Ari Fleischer said, "The > evidence is increasingly looking like it was a domestic source" in >reference >to the anthrax spores used to kill five Americans in mail attacks. > >The Associated Press reported on December 19 that several government >laboratories are being investigated who conducted anthrax research for the >CIA and the Department of Defense. The labs received samples form the U.S. >Army Research Institute of Infectious Disease at Fort Detrick, Maryland. >Military officials have also admitted that the Army's Dugway Proving >Ground >in >Utah has been working with anthrax for bio-warfare since 1992. Last summer >the Bush administration killed the inspection enforcement provision of the >1975 >Biological Weapons Convention saying it might expose the industrial secrets >of >U.S. biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies. > > Cowboy George wears his white hat into the continuing war against evil > ones like Saddam Hussein to the praise of an adoring American public and > Congress. On December 19 the U.S. House of Representatives passed a > resolution by Rep. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina by a vote of 392-12 > that names Iraq as "a mounting threat to the United States, its allies, >and > international peace and security." The same day, U.N. Secretary General > KofiAnnan warned the United States against attacking Iraq and said it >would >"exacerbate the situation and raise tensions in a region that is already >under strain." > > Tom Turnipseed is an attorney, writer and civil rights activist in > Columbia, South Carolina. > > ------------------------------------------------- > *** Iraq Action Coalition Discussion Forum *** > > http://iraqaction.org/discussion.html > ------------------------------------ > *To Post a message, send it to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > *To Subscribe, send a blank message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > *To Unsubscribe, send a blank message to: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > * To see the List Guidelines, go to: >http://iraqaction.org/discussion.html > *Any questions, contact the List Moderator at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com ==^================================================================ This email was sent to: [email protected] EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?a84x2u.a9WB2D Or send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
