sean, for all your emphasis on empiricism and evidence, here you break down and
refer to "irrational messianism" as a motive, over power and money. i just
dont buy into that.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sean McBride
To: political-research@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 7:26 PM
Subject: Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons
Unleashed Carnage Anyway
Martin van Creveld in the Forward, 9/24/2007:
"Israel, which Ahmadinejad regards as his country's great enemy, has just
carried out what seems to be a very successful strike against an important
Syrian installation. And behind Prime Minister Ehud Olmert stands President
Bush - the same President Bush who four years ago needed no reason at all to
take on Iran's neighbor to the west and demolish it to the point where it may
never rise again."
Again: "DEMOLISH IT TO THE POINT WHERE IT MAY NEVER RISE AGAIN."
Very Old Testament and very neoconservative -- that's pretty much all that
the Iraq War has been about (that and an opportunity for war profiteers in the
military-industrial complex to loot the American Treasury). Forget any
rational calculations of the overall American interest -- they weren't in play.
In fact, the neocon crusade against its enemies may well destroy the United
States as a superpower and a functioning democracy.
Alan Greenspan and Henry Kissinger are trying to create the impression that
the rational pursuit of oil has been behind the Iraq War -- they are lying on
behalf of a neocon agenda that is utterly irrational.
George W. Bush, like any number of Free Republic Christian Zionist crackpots,
believed that he was fighting Gog and Magog in Iraq and helping to usher in a
global catastrophe and the End of the World.
Vigilius Haufniensis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
yep, that nearly clinches it. the was wasnt about oil. it was about using
the neocons obssessions with israel to prop up the us dollar as world reserve
currency.
----- Original Message -----
From: Sean McBride
To: political-research@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 11:16 AM
Subject: Re: [political-research] Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons
Unleashed Carnage Anyway
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/worldnews.html?in_article_id=484162
The story originates from the Daily Mail, and looks legit.
bad flash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi, anyone can confirm this:
Saddam Offered Exile, But Neo-Cons Unleashed Carnage Anyway
Filed under: 1 - webabuser @ 3:28 pm Edit This
What could have been saved? A trillion dollars, a million lives, the
global reputation of the U.S. - but that wasn't the plan
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet, Thursday, September 27, 2007
Neo-Cons could have saved a trillion dollars, spared over a million
lives and prevented tens of thousands of dead and injured U.S. soldiers but
decided to unleash carnage anyway, after it was revealed last night that Saddam
Hussein offered to step down and go into exile one month before the invasion of
Iraq.
"Fearing defeat, Saddam was prepared to go peacefully in return for
£500million ($1billion)," reports the Daily Mail.
"The extraordinary offer was revealed yesterday in a transcript of
talks in February 2003 between George Bush and the then Spanish Prime Minister
Jose Maria Aznar at the President's Texas ranch."
"The White House refused to comment on the report last night. But, if
verified, it is certain to raise questions in Washington and London over
whether the costly four-year war could have been averted."
According to the tapes, Bush told Aznar that whether Saddam was still
in Iraq or not, "We'll be in Baghdad by the end of March."
(Article continues below)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/september2007/270907_offered_exile.htm
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