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A brilliant documentary by John
Pilger an investigative journalist that has produced some of the most
popular documentaries ever created.
This particular documentary is interesting not least of all because it shows just how massively people have been unaware of what had been going on in Iraq before the coalition of the willing decided to implement regime change in another country.
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Creator: John Pilger
This particular documentary is interesting not least of all because it shows just how massively people have been unaware of what had been going on in Iraq before the coalition of the willing decided to implement regime change in another country.
iraq, usa, john pilger, uk, islam, documentary, islamic, muslim, war.
Creator: John Pilger
"I object to John Pilger including Saddam Hussain as guilty as the
Europeans (Americans, Israelis, CIA-MOSSAD-Arabs, and their Allies) in the genocide
of the Iraqi people as the issue was and is not about Saddam Hussain, but about
EUROPEAN SAVAGERY, ADDICTION TO WAR AND GLOBAL PLUNDER, AND THEIR
ENDLESS BLATANT LIES AS A MATTER OF POLICY!
There is nothing new
about Western atrocities (or through their policies) in what they call
the Third World as well as in their own countries like Germany, East
Europe (including Russia), so what's the use of exposing them over and
over again: Vietnam, Cambodia, Latin America, Congo, Afghanistan,
Rwanda, Palestine, Lybia, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, Somalia, Sudan, Iraq,
Iran, Hindustan, Kashmir, Indonesia, China, South Africa, Congo, Original Natives of the Americas, Australia and New-Zealand, and on and on.
Western savagery and mendacity have been (can be) fully documented all throughout the ages and the entire globe.
The
Western world and their slaves blame Saddam Hussain for possessing
weapons of mass destruction when they are the ones who possess them and
use them freely including ECONOMIC SANCTIONS, EMBARGOES IMPOSED BY THE
UN ZIONIST DICTATORSHIP!"
And damn it, people (sheeple) are aware but they do not give a damn!
BAFS
Sent by Muhammad Al-Massari - Monday 19 October 2015
Smoking gun emails reveal 'deal in blood' George Bush and Tony Blair made as they secretly plotted the Iraq War behind closed doors a YEAR before the invasion
- Damning White House memo, from secretary of state Colin Powell to president George Bush, was written on March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s famous summit with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas
- In the bombshell document, headed ‘Secret... Memorandum for the president’, Powell tells Bush that Blair ‘will be with us’ on military action
- It adds that Blair was preparing to act as spin doctor for Bush, who was told 'the UK will follow our lead'
- New light was shed on Bush-Blair relations by material disclosed by Hillary Clinton at the order of the U.S. courts
A
bombshell White House memo has revealed for the first time details of
the ‘deal in blood’ forged by George Bush and Tony Blair over the Iraq
War.
The
damning memo, from secretary of state Colin Powell to president George
Bush, was written on March 28, 2002, a week before Bush’s famous summit
with Blair at his Crawford ranch in Texas.
The
Powell document, headed ‘Secret... Memorandum for the President’, lifts
the lid on how Blair and Bush secretly plotted the war behind closed
doors at Crawford.
In
it, Powell tells Bush that Blair ‘will be with us’ on military action.
Powell assures the president: ‘The UK will follow our lead’.
The
classified document also discloses that Blair agreed to act as a
glorified spin doctor for the president by presenting ‘public affairs
lines’ to convince a skeptical public that Saddam had Weapons of Mass
Destruction - when none existed.
In
return, the president would flatter Blair’s ego and give the impression
that Britain was not America’s poodle but an equal partner in the
‘special relationship’.
Scroll down to read the documents in full
All sewn up: President George Bush and
UK prime minister Tony Blair at the infamous 2002 summit at Bush's
ranch house in Crawford, Texas, where the two men spoke about invading
Iraq
Bombshell dossier: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell, left of Bush, wrote to the president to say the UK 'will be with us'
The
sensational leak shows that Blair had given an unqualified pledge to
sign up to the conflict a year before the invasion started.
It
flies in the face of the UK Prime Minister’s public claims at the time
that he was seeking a diplomatic solution to the crisis.
He told voters: ‘We’re not proposing military action’ - in direct contrast to what the secret email now reveals.
Big man? Blair's ego was flattered by the
President during his visit to his ranch home. He is pictured above
embracing First Lady Laura Bush
The
disclosure is certain to lead for calls for Sir John Chilcot to reopen
his inquiry into the Iraq War if, as is believed, he has not seen the
Powell memo.
A
second explosive memo from the same cache also reveals how Bush used
‘spies’ in the Labour Party to help him to manipulate British public
opinion in favor of the war.
The
documents, obtained by The Mail on Sunday, are part of a batch of
secret emails held on the private server of Democratic presidential
candidate Hillary Clinton which U.S. courts have forced her to reveal.
Former
UK Conservative shadow home secretary David Davis said: ‘The memos
prove in explicit terms what many of us have believed all along: Tony
Blair effectively agreed to act as a frontman for American foreign
policy in advance of any decision by the House of Commons or the British
Cabinet.
‘He
was happy to launder George Bush’s policy on Iraq and sub-contract
British foreign policy to another country without having the remotest
ability to have any real influence over it. And in return for what?
'For
George Bush pretending Blair was a player on the world stage to impress
voters in the UK when the Americans didn’t even believe it themselves’.
Davis
was backed by a senior diplomat with close knowledge of Blair-Bush
relations who said: ‘This memo shows beyond doubt for the first time
Blair was committed to the Iraq War before he even set foot in Crawford.
'And
it shows how the Americans planned to make Blair look an equal partner
in the special relationship to bolster his position in the UK.’
Blair’s spokesman insisted last night that Powell’s memo was ‘consistent with what he was saying publicly at the time’.
The
former Prime Minister has always hotly denied the claim that the two
men signed a deal ‘in blood’ at Crawford to embark on the war, which
started on March 20, 2003.
Powell
says to Bush: ‘He will present to you the strategic, tactical and
public affairs lines that he believes will strengthen global support for
our common cause,’ adding that Blair has the presentational skills to
‘make a credible public case on current Iraqi threats to international
peace’.
Five
months after the summit, Downing Street produced the notorious ‘45
minutes from doom’ dossier on Saddam Hussein’s supposed Weapons of Mass
Destruction. After Saddam was toppled, the dossier’s claims were exposed
as bogus.
Nowhere in the memo is a diplomatic route suggested as the preferred option.
Instead,
Powell says that Blair will also advise on how to ‘handle calls’ for
the ‘blessing’ of the United Nations Security Council, and to
‘demonstrate that we have thought through “the day after” ’ – in other
words, made adequate provision for a post-Saddam Iraq.
Critics
of the war say that the lack of post-conflict planning has contributed
to the loss of more than 100,000 lives since the invasion – and a power
vacuum which has contributed to the rise of Islamic State terrorism.
Significantly,
Powell warns Bush that Blair has hit ‘domestic turbulence’ for being
‘too pro-U.S. in foreign and security policy, too arrogant and
“presidential” ’, which Powell points out is ‘not a compliment in the
British context’.
Powell
also reveals that the splits in Blair’s Cabinet were deeper than was
realized: he says that apart from Foreign Secretary Jack Straw and
Defence Secretary Geoff Hoon, ‘Blair’s Cabinet shows signs of division,
and the British public are unconvinced that military action is warranted
now’.
Powell
says that although Blair will ‘stick with us on the big issues’, he
wants to minimisze the ‘political price’ he would have to pay: ‘His
voters will look for signs that Britain and America are truly equity
partners in the special relationship.’
The
president certainly did his best to flatter Blair’s ego during the
Crawford summit, where he was the first world leader to be invited into
Bush’s sanctuary for two nights.
Tony
and Cherie Blair stayed in the guesthouse close to the main residence
with their daughter Kathryn and Cherie’s mother, Gale Booth. Bush took
the highly unusual step of inviting Blair to sit in on his daily CIA
briefing, and drove the prime minister around in a pick-up truck.
Mystery has long surrounded what was discussed at Crawford as advisers were kept out of a key meeting between the two men.
Sir
Christopher Meyer, who was present in Crawford as Britain’s ambassador
to the U.S., told Chilcot that his exclusion meant he was ‘not entirely
clear to this day... what degree of convergence was, if you like, signed
in blood at the Crawford ranch’.
But in public comments during his time at Crawford, Blair denied that Britain was on an unstoppable path to war.
‘This is a matter for considering all the options’, he said. ‘We’re not proposing military action at this point in time’.
Close: Bush and Blair are pictured above shaking hands at a meeting near Camp Davis in February 2001
During
his appearance before the Chilcot inquiry in January 2010, Blair denied
that he had struck a secret deal with Bush at Crawford to overthrow
Saddam. Blair said the two men had agreed on the need to confront the
Iraqi dictator, but insisted they did not get into ‘specifics’.
‘The one thing I was not doing was dissembling in that position,’ he told Chilcot.
‘The
position was not a covert position, it was an open position. This isn’t
about a lie or a conspiracy or a deceit or a deception. It’s a
decision. What I was saying... was “We are going to be with you in
confronting and dealing with this threat.” ’
Pressed
on what he thought Bush took from their meeting, he said the president
had realized Britain would support military action if the diplomatic
route had been exhausted.
In
his memoirs, Blair again said it was ‘a myth’ he had signed a promise
‘in blood’ to go to war, insisting: ‘I made no such commitment’.
Critics
who claimed that Blair acted as the ‘poodle’ of the US will point to a
reference in Mr Powell’s memo to the fact Mr Blair ‘readily committed to
deploy 1,700 commandos’ to Afghanistan ‘even though his experts warn
that British forces are overstretched’.
The
decision made the previous October in the wake of the September 11
attacks led to widespread concern that the UK was entering an open-ended
commitment to a bloody conflict in Afghanistan – a concern many critics
now say was well-founded.
Mr
Powell’s memo goes on to say that a recent move by the U.S. to protect
its steel industry with tariffs, which had damaged UK exports, was a
‘bitter blow’ for Blair, but he was prepared to ‘insulate our broader
relationship from this and other trade disputes’.
The
memo was included in a batch of 30,000 emails which were received by
Mrs Clinton on her private server when she was US Secretary of State
between 2009 and 2013.
Another
document included in the email batch is a confidential briefing for
Powell prepared by the U.S. Embassy in London, shortly before the
Crawford summit.
The
memo, dated ‘April 02’, includes a detailed assessment of the effect on
Blair’s domestic position if he backs US military action.
The
document says: ‘A sizeable number of his [Blair’s] MPs remain at
present opposed to military action against Iraq... some would favor
shifting from a policy of containment of Iraq if they had recent (and
publicly usable) proof that Iraq is developing WMD/missiles... most seem
to want some sort of UN endorsement for military action.
‘Blair’s
challenge now is to judge the timing and evolution of America’s Iraq
policy and to bring his party and the British people on board.
'There
have been a few speculative pieces in the more feverish press about
Labor [sic] unease re Iraq policy… which have gone on to identify the
beginnings of a challenge to Blair’s leadership of the party.
'Former
Cabinet member Peter Mandelson, still an insider, called it all
"froth". Nonetheless, this is the first time since the 1997 election
that such a story is even being printed’.
The paper draws on information given to it by Labour ‘spies’, whose identities have been hidden.
It
states: ‘[name redacted] told us the intention of those feeding the
story is not to bring down Blair but to influence him on the Iraq
issue’.
‘Some MPs would endorse action if they had proof that Iraq has continued to develop WMD since UN inspectors left.
‘More would follow if convinced that Iraq has succeeded in developing significant WMD capability and the missiles to deliver it.
'Many
more would follow if they see compelling evidence that Iraq intends and
plans to use such weapons. A clear majority would support military
action if Saddam is implicated in the 9/11 attacks or other egregious
acts of terrorism’.
‘Blair
has proved an excellent judge of political timing, and he will need to
be especially careful about when to launch a ramped-up campaign to build
support for action against Iraq.
'He
will want neither to be too far in front or behind US policy... if he
waits too long, then the keystone of any coalition we wish to build may
not be firmly in place. No doubt these are the calculations that Blair
hopes to firm up when he meets the President’.
A
spokesperson for Blair said: ‘This is consistent with what Blair was
saying publicly at the time and with Blair’s evidence given to the
Chilcot Inquiry’.
Neither Mrs Clinton nor Mr Powell replied to requests for comment.
Stunning memo proves Blair signed up for Iraq even before Americans - comment by former shadow home secretary David Davis
This is one of the most astonishing documents I have ever read.
It
proves in explicit terms what many of us have believed all along: Tony
Blair effectively agreed to act as a front man for American foreign
policy in advance of any decision by the House of Commons or the British
Cabinet.
He
was happy to launder George Bush’s policy on Iraq and sub-contract
British foreign policy to another country without having the remotest
ability to have any real influence over it.
And
in return for what? For George Bush pretending Blair was a player on
the world stage to impress voters in the UK when the Americans didn’t
even believe it themselves.
Blair
was content to cynically use Britain’s international reputation for
honest dealing in diplomacy, built up over many years, as a shield
against worldwide opprobrium for Bush’s ill-considered policy.
Judging from this memorandum, Blair signed up for the Iraq War even before the Americans themselves did. It beggars belief.
Blair
was telling MPs and voters back home that he was still pursuing a
diplomatic solution while Colin Powell was telling President Bush:
‘Don’t worry, George, Tony is signed up for the war come what may –
he’ll handle the PR for you, just make him look big in return.’
It should never be forgotten that a minimum of 120,000 people died as a direct result of the Iraq War.
What
is truly shocking is the casualness of it all, such as the reference in
the memo to ‘the day after’ – meaning the day after Saddam would be
toppled.
The
offhand tone gives the game away: it is patently obvious nobody thought
about ‘the day after’ when Bush and Blair met in Crawford.
And
they gave it no more thought right through to the moment ‘the day
after’ came about a year later when Saddam’s statue fell to the ground.
We
saw the catastrophic so-called ‘de-Baathification’ of Iraq, with the
country’s entire civil and military structure dismantled, leading to
years of bloodshed and chaos. It has infected surrounding countries to
this day and created the vacuum into which Islamic State has stepped.
This may well be the Iraq ‘smoking gun’ we have all been looking for.
In full: The Blair/Bush White House documents
- Pictured below is the memo from Secretary of State Colin Powell to George W Bush
- Part two: This second, explosive memo, drafted by the U.S. Embassy in London, reveals how Bush used Labour 'spies' to manipulate British public opinion
Cong. Ron Paul: Classified Cable Proves US Ok’d Saddam’s Kuwait Invasion
HOW THE 20-YEAR WAR STARTED
ANOTHER “WILD CONSPIRACY THEORY” PROVEN TRUE….
Editor’s note: Though Ron Paul totally sidesteps his previous statements on 9/11 and the role of Israel and its friends in both conflicts, choosing instead to push blame on to the Republican party and a cabal of oil companies, there are telling facts to be gleaned from the Wikileak cable meant to discredit the United States. When a reasonable and acute thinker quickly comes to the conclusion that the influence of Israel is far greater in Washington than any oil company and the rationale for targeting Iraq served only the strategic interests of Israeli expansionism and was not, in any way, related to accessing oil openly available on the world market, we can escape the artifices of Mr. Assange and his handlers along with the “soft soap” of Ron Paul and his “kow-tow” to AIPAC.”
[Congressional Record: January 26, 2011 (House)] [Page H503]
“The SPEAKER pro tempore.
Under a previous order of the House, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul) is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. PAUL. Mr. Speaker, how did the 20-year war get started?
It had been long assumed that the United States Government, shortly before Iraq invaded Kuwait in August of 1990, gave Saddam Hussein a green light to attack. A State Department cable recently published by WikiLeaks confirmed that U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie did indeed have a conversation with Saddam Hussein one week prior to Iraq’s August 1, 1990, invasion of Kuwait.
Amazingly, the released cable was entitled,
“Saddam’s Message of Friendship to President Bush.” (published below)In it, Ambassador Glaspie affirmed to Saddam that “the President had instructed her to broaden and deepen our relations with Iraq.” As Saddam Hussein outlined Iraq’s ongoing border dispute with Kuwait, Ambassador Glaspie was quite clear that, “we took no position on these Arab affairs.”
There would have been no reason for Saddam Hussein not to take this assurance at face value. The U.S. was quite supportive of his invasion and war of aggression against Iran in the 1980s. With this approval from the U.S. Government, it wasn’t surprising that the invasion occurred. The shock and surprise was how quickly the tables were turned and our friend, Saddam Hussein, all of a sudden became Hitler personified.
The document was classified, supposedly to protect national security, yet this information in no way jeopardized our security. Instead, it served to keep the truth from the American people about an event leading up to our initial military involvement in Iraq and the region that continues to today.
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The secrecy of the memo was designed to hide the truth from the American people and keep our government from being embarrassed. This was the initial event that had led to so much death and destruction–not to mention the financial costs–these past 20 years.
Our response and persistent militarism toward Iraq was directly related to 9/11, as our presence on the Arabian Peninsula–and in particular Saudi Arabia–was listed by al Qaeda as a major grievance that outraged the radicals (sic) who carried out the heinous attacks against New York and Washington on that fateful day.
Today, the conflict has spread through the Middle East and Central Asia with no end in sight.
The reason this information is so important is that if Congress and the American people had known about this green light incident 20 years ago, they would have been a lot more reluctant to give a green light to our government to pursue the current war–a war that is ongoing and expanding to this very day.
The tough question that remains is was this done deliberately to create the justification to redesign the Middle East, as many neo- conservatives desired, and to secure oil supplies for the West; or was it just a diplomatic blunder followed up by many more strategic military blunders? Regardless, we have blundered into a war that no one seems willing to end.
Julian Assange, the publisher of the WikiLeaks memo, is now considered an enemy of the state. Politicians are calling for drastic punishment and even assassination; and, sadly, the majority of the American people seem to support such moves.
But why should we so fear the truth? Why should our government’s lies and mistakes be hidden from the American people in the name of patriotism? Once it becomes acceptable to equate truth with treason, we can no longer call ourselves a free society.”
Reference ID | Created | Released | Classification | Origin |
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90BAGHDAD4237 | 1990-07-25 12:12 | 2011-01-01 21:09 | SECRET | Embassy Baghdad |
O 251246Z JUL 90
FM AMEMBASSY BAGHDAD
TO SECSTATE WASHDC IMMEDIATE 4627
INFO AMEMBASSY ABU DHABI IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY CAIRO IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY KUWAIT IMMEDIATE
AMEMBASSY RIYADH IMMEDIATE
ARABLEAGUE COLLECTIVE
S E C R E T SECTION 01 OF 05 BAGHDAD 04237 E.O. 12356: DECL:OADR TAGS: MOPS PREL US KU IZ SUBJECT: SADDAM'S MESSAGE OF FRIENDSHIP TO PRESIDENT BUSH ¶1. SECRET - ENTIRE TEXT. ¶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¶3. AMBASSADOR WAS SUMMONED BY PRESIDENT SADDAM HUSAYN AT NOON JULY 25. ALSO PRESENT WERE FONMIN AZIZ, THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE DIRECTOR, TWO NOTETAKERS, AND THE IRAQI INTERPRETER. ¶4. SADDAM, WHOSE MANNER WAS CORDIAL, REASONABLE AND EVEN WARM THROUGHOUT THE ENSUING TWO HOURS, SAID HE WISHED THE AMBASSADOR TO CONVEY A MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT BUSH. SADDAM THEN RECALLED IN DETAIL THE HISTORY OF IRAQ'S DECISION TO REESTABLISH DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS AND ITS POSTPONING IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT DECISION AT THE BEGINNING OF THE WAR, RATHER THAN BE THOUGHT WEAK AND NEEDY. HE THEN SPOKE ABOUT THE MANY "BLOWS" OUR RELATIONS HAVE BEEN SUBJECTED TO SINCE 1984, CHIEF AMONG THEM IRANGATE. IT WAS AFTER THE FAW VICTORY, SADDAM SAID, THAT IRAQI MISAPPREHENSIONS ABOUT USG PURPOSES BEGAN TO SURFACE AGAIN, I.E., SUSPICIONS THAT THE U.S. WAS NOT HAPPY TO SEE THE WAR END. ¶5. PICKING HIS WORDS WITH CARE, SADDAM SAID THAT THERE ARE "SOME CIRCLES" IN THE USG, INCLUDING IN CIA AND THE STATE DEPARTMENT, BUT EMPHATICALLY EXCLUDING THE PRESIDENT AND SECRETARY BAKER, WHO ARE NOT FRIENDLY TOWARD IRAQ-U.S. RELATIONS. HE THEN LISTED WHAT HE SEEMED TO REGARD AS FACTS TO SUPPORT THIS CONCLUSION: "SOME CIRCLES ARE GATHERING INFORMATION ON WHO MIGHT BE SADDAM HUSAYN'S SUCCESSOR;" THEY KEPT UP CONTACTS IN THE GULF WARNING AGAINST IRAQ; THEY WORKED TO ENSURE NO HELP WOULD GO TO IRAQ (READ EXIM AND CCC). ¶6. IRAQ, THE PRESIDENT STRESSED, IS IN SERIOUS FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES, WITH 40 BILLION USD DEBTS. IRAQ, WHOSE VICTORY IN THE WAR AGAINST IRAN MADE AN HISTORIC DIFFERENCE TO THE ARAB WORLD AND THE WEST, NEEDS A MARSHALL PLAN. BUT "YOU WANT THE OIL PRICE DOWN," SADDAM CHARGED. ¶7. RESUMING HIS LIST OF GRIEVANCES WHICH HE BELIEVED WERE ALL INSPIRED BY "SOME CIRCLES" IN THE USG, HE RECALLED THE "USIA CAMPAIGN" AGAINST HIMSELF, AND THE GENERAL MEDIA ASSAULT ON IRAQ AND ITS PRESIDENT. ¶8. DESPITE ALL THESE BLOWS, SADDAM SAID, AND ALTHOUGH "WE WERE SOMEWHAT ANNOYED," WE STILL HOPED THAT WE COULD DEVELOP A GOOD RELATIONSHIP. BUT THOSE WHO FORCE OIL PRICES DOWN ARE ENGAGING IN ECONOMIC WARFARE AND IRAQ CANNOT ACCEPT SUCH A TRESPASS ON ITS DIGNITY AND PROSPERITY. ¶9. THE SPEARHEADS (FOR THE USG) HAVE BEEN KUWAIT AND THE UAE, SADDAM SAID. SADDAM SAID CAREFULLY THAT JUST AS IRAQ WILL NOT THREATEN OTHERS, IT WILL ACCEPT NO THREAT AGAINST ITSELF. "WE HOPE THE USG WILL NOT MISUNDERSTAND:" IRAQ ACCEPTS, AS THE STATE DEPARTMENT SPOKESMAN SAID, THAT ANY COUNTRY MAY CHOOSE ITS FRIENDS. BUT THE USG KNOWS THAT IT WAS IRAQ, NOT THE USG, WHICH DECISIVELY PROTECTED THOSE USG FRIENDS DURING THE WAR--AND THAT IS UNDERSTANDABLE SINCE PUBLIC OPINION IN THE USG, TO SAY NOTHING OF GEOGRAPHY, WOULD HAVE MADE IT IMPOSSIBLE FOR THE AMERICANS TO ACCEPT 10,000 DEAD IN A SINGLE BATTLE, AS IRAQ DID. ¶10. SADDAM ASKED WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR THE USG TO ANNOUNCE IT IS COMMITTED TO THE DEFENSE OF ITS FRIENDS, INDIVIDUALLY AND COLLECTIVELY. ANSWERING HIS OWN QUESTION, HE SAID THAT TO IRAQ IT MEANS FLAGRANT BIAS AGAINST THE GOI. ¶11. COMING TO ONE OF HIS MAIN POINTS, SADDAM ARGUED THAT USG MANEUVERS WITH THE UAE AND KUWAIT (SIC) ENCOURAGED THEM IN THEIR UNGENEROUS POLICIES. THE IRAQI RIGHTS, SADDAM EMPHASIZED, WILL BE RESTORED ONE BY ONE, THOUGH IT MAY TAKE A MONTH OR MUCH MORE THAN A YEAR. IRAQ HOPES THE USG WILL BE IN HARMONY WITH ALL THE PARTIES TO THIS DISPUTE. ¶12. SADDAM SAID HE UNDERSTANDS THAT THE USG IS DETERMINED TO KEEP THE OIL FLOWING AND TO MAINTAIN ITS FRIENDSHIPS IN THE GULF. WHAT HE CANNOT UNDERSTAND IS WHY WE ENCOURAGE THOSE WHO ARE DAMAGING IRAQ, WHICH IS WHAT OUR GULF MANEUVERS WILL DO. ¶13. SADDAM SAID HE FULLY BELIEVES THE USG WANTS PEACE, AND THAT IS GOOD. BUT DO NOT, HE ASKED, USE METHODS WHICH YOU SAY YOU DO NOT LIKE, METHODS LIKE ARM-TWISTING- ¶14. AT THIS POINT SADDAM SPOKE AT LENGTH ABOUT PRIDE OF IRAQIS, WHO BELIEVE IN "LIBERTY OR DEATH." IRAQ WILL HAVE TO RESPOND IF THE U.S. USES THESE METHODS. IRAQ KNOWS THE USG CAN SEND PLANES AND ROCKETS AND HURT IRAQ DEEPLY. SADDAM ASKS THAT THE USG NOT FORCE IRAQ TO THE POINT OF HUMILIATION AT WHICH LOGIC MUST BE DISREGARDED. IRAQ DOES NOT CONSIDER THE U.S. AN ENEMY AND HAS TRIED TO BE FRIENDS. ¶15. AS FOR THE INTRA-ARAB DISPUTES, SADDAM SAID HE IS NOT ASKING THE USG TO TAKE UP ANY PARTICULAR ROLE SINCE THE SOLUTIONS MUST COME THROUGH ARAB AND BILATERAL DIPLOMACY. ¶16. RETURNING TO HIS THEME THAT IRAQ WANTS DIGNITY AND FREEDOM AS WELL AS FRIENDSHIP WITH THE U.S., HE CHARGED THAT IN THE LAST YEAR THERE WERE MANY OFFICIAL STATEMENTS WHICH MADE IT SEEM THAT THE U.S. DOES NOT WANT TO RECIPROCATE. HOW, FOR EXAMPLE, SADDAM ASKED,CAN WE INTERPRET THE INVITATION FOR ARENS TO VISIT AT A TIME OF CRISIS IN THE GULF? WHY DID THE U.S- DEFENSE MINISTER MAKE "INFLAMMATORY" STATEMENTS? ¶17. SADDAM SAID THAT THE IRAQIS KNOW WHAT WAR IS, WANT NO MORE OF IT--"DO NOT PUSH US TO IT; DO NOT MAKE IT THE ONLY OPTION LEFT WITH WHICH WE CAN PROTECT OUR DIGNITY." ¶18. PRESIDENT BUSH, SADDAM SAID, HAS MADE NO MISTAKE IN HIS PRESIDENCY VIS-A-VIS THE ARABS. THE DECISION ON THE PLO DIALOGUE WAS "MISTAKEN," BUT IT WAS TAKEN UNDER "ZIONIST PRESSURE" AND, SADDAM SAID, IS PERHAPS A CLEVER TACTIC TO ABSORB THAT PRESSURE. ¶19. AFTER A SHORT DIVERSION ON THE NEED FOR THE U.S. TO CONSIDER THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF 200,000 ARABS WITH THE SAME VIGOR AND INTEREST AS THE HUMAN RIGHTS OF THE ISRAELIS, SADDAM CONCLUDED BY RESTATING THAT IRAQ WANTS AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP "ALTHOUGH WE WILL NOT PANT FOR IT, WE WILL DO OUR PART AS FRIENDS." ¶20. SADDAM THEN OFFERED AN ANECDOTE TO ILLUSTRATE HIS POINT. HE HAD TOLD THE IRAQI KURDISH LEADER IN 1974 THAT HE WAS PREPARED TO GIVE UP HALF OF THE SHATT AL-ARAB TO IRAN TO OBTAIN ALL OF A PROSPEROUS IRAQ. THE KURD HAD BET THAT SADDAM WOULD NOT GIVE HALF THE SHATT--THE KURD WAS WRONG. EVEN NOW, THE ONLY REAL ISSUE WITH IRAN IS THE SHATT, AND IF GIVING AWAY HALF OF THE WATERWAY IS THE ONLY THING STANDING BETWEEN THE CURRENT SITUATION AND IRAQI PROSPERITY, SADDAM SAID HE WOULD BE GUIDED BY WHAT HE DID IN 1974. ¶21. THE AMBASSADOR THANKED SADDAM FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS DIRECTLY WITH HIM SOME OF HIS AND OUR CONCERNS. PRESIDENT BUSH, TOO, WANTS FRIENDSHIP, AS HE HAD WRITTEN AT THE 'ID AND ON THE OCCASION OF IRAQ'S NATIONAL DAY. SADDAM INTERRUPTED TO SAY HE HAD BEEN TOUCHED BY THOSE ¶22. AMBASSADOR RESUMED HER THEME, RECALLING THAT THE PRESIDENT HAD INSTRUCTED HER TO BROADEN AND DEEPEN OUR RELATIONS WITH IRAQ. SADDAM HAD REFERRED TO "SOME CIRCLES" ANTIPATHETIC TO THAT AIM. SUCH CIRCLES CERTAINLY EXISTED, BUT THE U.S. ADMINISTRATION IS INSTRUCTED BY THE PRESIDENT. ON THE OTHER HAND, THE PRESIDENT DOES NOT CONTROL THE AMERICAN PRESS; IF HE DID, CRITICISM OF THE ADMINISTRATION WOULD NOT EXIST. SADDAM AGAIN INTERRUPTED TO SAY HE UNDERSTOOD THAT. THE AMBASSADOR SAID SHE HAD SEEN THE DIANE SAWYER SHOW AND THOUGHT THAT IT WAS CHEP AND UNFAIR. BUT THE AMERICAN PRESS TREATS ALL POLITICIANS WITHOUT KID GLOVES--THAT IS OUR WAY. ¶23. WHAT IS IMPORTANT IS THAT THE PRESIDENT HAS VERY RECENTLY REAFFIRMED HIS DESIRE FOR A BETTER RELATIONSHIP AND HAS PROVEN THAT BY, FOR EXAMPLE, OPPOSING SANCTIONS BILLS. HERE SADDAM INTERRUPTED AGAIN. LAUGHING, HE SAID THERE IS NOTHING LEFT FOR IRAQ TO BUY IN THE U.S. EVERYTHING IS PROHIBITED EXCEPT FOR WHEAT, AND NO DOUBT THAT WILL SOON BE DECLARED A DUAL-USE ITEM- SADDAM SAID, HOWEVER, HE HAD DECIDED NOT TO RAISE THIS ISSUE, BUT RATHER CONCENTRATE ON THE FAR MORE IMPORTANT ISSUES AT HAND. ¶24. AMBASSADOR SAID THERE WERE MANY ISSUES HE HAD RAISED SHE WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT ON, BUT SHE WISHED TO USE HER LIMITED TIME WITH THE PRESIDENT TO STRESS FIRST PRESIDENT BUSH'S DESIRE FOR FRIENDSHIP AND, SECOND, HIS STRONG DESIRE, SHARED WE ASSUME BY IRAQ, FOR PEACE AND STABILITY IN THE MID EAST. IS IT NOT REASONABLE FOR US TO BE CONCERNED WHEN THE PRESIDENT AND THE FOREIGN MINISTER BOTH SAY PUBLICLY THAT KUWAITI ACTIONS ARE THE EQUIVALENT OF MILITARY AGGRESSION, AND THEN WE LEARN THAT MANY UNITS OF THE REPUBLICAN GUARD HAVE BEEN SENT TO THE BORDER? IS IT NOT REASONABLE FOR US TO ASK, IN THE SPIRIT OF FRIENDSHIP, NOT CONFRONTATION, THE SIMPLE QUESTION: WHAT ARE YOUR INTENTIONS? ¶25. SADDAM SAID THAT WAS INDEED A REASONABLE QUESTION. HE ACKNOWLEDGED THAT WE SHOULD BE CONCERNED FOR REGIONAL PEACE, IN FACT IT IS OUR DUTY AS A SUPERPOWER. "BUT HOW CAN WE MAKE THEM (KUWAIT AND UAE) UNDERSTAND HOW DEEPLY WE ARE SUFFERING." THE FINANCIAL SITUATION IS SUCH THAT THE PENSIONS FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS WILL HAVE TO BE CUT. AT THIS POINT, THE INTERPRETER AND ONE OF THE NOTETAKERS BROKE DOWN AND WEPT. ¶26. AFTER A PAUSE FOR RECUPERATION, SADDAM SAID, IN EFFECT, BELIEVE ME I HAVE TRIED EVERYTHING: WE SENT ENVOYS, WROTE MESSAGES, ASKED FAHD TO ARRANGE QUADRAPARTITE SUMMIT (IRAQ, SAG, UE, KUWAIT). FAHD SUGGESTFD OIL MINISTERS INSTEAD AND WE AGREED TO THE JEDDAH AGREEMENT ALTHOUGH IT WAS WELL BELOW OUR HOPES. THEN, SADDAM CONTINUED, TWO DAYS LATER THE KUWAITI OIL MINISTER ANNOUNCED HE WOULD WANT TO ANNUL THAT AGREEMENT WITHIN TWO MONTHS. AS FOR THE UAE, SADDAM SAID, I BEGGED SHAYKH ZAYID TO UNDERSTAND OUR PROBLEMS (WHEN SADDAM ENTERTAINED HIM IN MOSUL AFTER THE BAGHDAD SUMMIT), AND ZAYID SAID JUST WAIT UNTIL I GET BACK TO ABU DHABI. BUT THEN HIS MINISTER OF OIL MADE "BAD STATEMENTS." ¶27. AT THIS POINT, SADDAM LEFT THE ROOM TO TAKE AN URGENT CALL FROM MUBARAK. AFTER HIS RETURN, THE AMBASSADOR ASKED IF HE COULD TELL HER IF THERE HAS ANY PROGRESS IN FINDING A PEACEFUL WAY TO DEFUSE THE DISPUTE. THIS WAS SOMETHING PRESIDENT BUSH WOULD BE KEENLY INTERESTED TO KNOW. SADDAM SAID THAT HE HAD JUST LEARNED FROM MUBARAK THE KUWAITIS HAVE AGREED TO NEGOTIATE. THE KUWAITI CROWN PRINCE/PRIME MINISTER WOULD MEET IN RIYADH WITH SADDAM'S NUMBER TWO, IZZAT IBRAHIM, AND THEN THE KUWAITI WOULD COME TO BAGHDAD ON SATURDAY, SUNDAY OR, AT THE LATEST, MONDAY, JULY 30. ¶28. "I TOLD MUBARAK," SADDAM SAID, THAT "NOTHING WILL HAPPEN UNTIL THE MEETING," AND NOTHING WILL HAPPEN DURING OR AFTER THE MEETING IF THE KUWAITIS WILL AT LAST "GIVE US SOME HOPE." ¶29. THE AMBASSADOR SAID SHE WAS DELIGHTED TO HEAR THIS GOOD NEWS. SADDAM THEN ASKED HER TO CONVEY HIS WARM GREETINGS TO PRESIDENT BUSH AND TO CONVEY HIS MESSAGE TO HIM. ¶30. NOTE: ON THE BORDER QUESTION, SADDAM REFERRED TO THE 1961 AGREEMENT AND A "LINE OF PATROL" IT HAD ESTABLISHED. THE KUWAITIS, HE SAID, HAD TOLD MUBARAK IRAQ WAS 20 KILOMETERS "IN FRONT" OF THIS LINE. THE AMBASSADOR SAID THAT SHE HAD SERVED IN KUWAIT 20 YEARS BEFORE; THEN, AS NOW, WE TOOK NO POSITION ON THESE ARAB AFFAIRS. ¶31. COMMENT: IN THE MEMORY QF THE CURRENT DIPLOMATIC CORPS, SADDAM HAS NEVER SUMMONED AN AMBASSADOR. HE IS WORRIED. ACCORDING TO HIS OWN POLITICAL THEORIZING (U.S. THE SOLE MAJOR POWER IN THE MIDDLE EAST), HE NEEDS AT A MINIMUM A CORRECT RELATIONSHIP WITH US FOR OBVIOUS GEOPOLITICAL REASONS, ESPECIALLY AS LONG AS HE PERCEIVES MORTAL THREATS FROM ISRAEL AND IRAN. AMBASSADOR BELIEVES SADDAM SUSPECTS OUR DECISION SUDDENLY TO UNDERTAKE MANEUVERS WITH ABU DHABI IS A HARBINGER OF A USG DECISION TO TAKE SIDES. FURTHER, SADDAM, HIMSELF BEGINNING TO HAVE AN INKLING OF HOW MUCH HE DOES NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE U.S., IS APPREHENSIVE THAT WE DO NOT UNDERSTAND CERTAIN POLITICAL FACTORS WHICH INHIBIT HIM, SUCH AS: --HE CANNOT ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE PERCEIVED AS CAVING IN TO SUPERPOWER BULLYING (AS U/S HAMDUN FRANKLY WARNED US IN LATE 1988); --IRAQ, WHICH LOST 100,000'S OF CASUALTIES, IS SUFFERING AND KUWAIT IS "MISERLY" AND "SELFISH." ¶32. IT WAS PROGRESS TO HAVE SADDAM ADMIT THAT THE USG HAS A "RESPONSIBILITY" IN THE REGION, AND HAS EVERY RIGHT TO EXPECT AN ANSWER WHEN WE ASK IRAQ'S INTENTIONS. HIS RESPONSE IN EFFECT THAT HE TRIED VARIOUS DIPLOMATIC/CHANNELS BEFORE RESORTING TO UNADULTERATED INTIMIDATION HAS AT LEAST THE VIRTUE OF FRANKNESS. HIS EMPHASIS THAT HE WANTS PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT IS SURELY SINCERE (IRAQIS ARE SICK OF WAR), BUT THE TERMS SOUND DIFFICULT TO ACHIEVE. SADDAM SEEMS TO WANT PLEDGES NOW ON OIL PRICES AND PRODUCTION TO COVER THE NEXT SEVERAL MONTHS. GLASPIE
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Florida police chief says he has no problem with a dad who severely
beat up a man he claims to have caught sexually assaulting his
11-year-old son.
Daytona Beach police were called by the man on Friday - he reported he had come home to find his son being assaulted.
He could be heard telling the police operator he had left the attacker "nice and knocked out" and "in a puddle of blood" on the floor.
Officers arrived to find the alleged abuser, 18-year-old Raymond Frolander, unconscious.
Frolander was taken to the hospital and then arrested.
Chief Chitwood said Frolander admitted to sexually abusing the boy for the past three years.
And he said the father would not be charged, because he was protecting his son as a crime was being committed.
Today Monday 19 )ctober 2015 at 5:23 PM
JOHN PILGER EXPOSES SATANIST BLAIR
International Criminal Court for Blair
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Blair is a war criminal #ICC4Blair
So is Cameron #ICC4Cameron
#ICC4Israel #isuportgaza #ICC4Aal_Saud
Paying the Price: Killing the Children of Iraq
Reza Pahlavi, Sheikh Usama Bin Ladin, Saddam Hussain and Hosni Mubarak are/were all CIA assets and stooges.
ReplyDeleteMuslims did not murder Anouar Al Sadat to see a dictator put in his place for 30 years ; THE CIA DID!
Just like the CIA put Saddam into power in Iraq and used him to wage war on Iran!
Does it really matter if the US agreed or not to the invasion.
Is it not funny that the Israelis said the same thing happened regarding their cowardly attacks on the Arabs in June 1967. They said they understood the US (McNamara) even gave them the "green light" to attack!
When the Shah disagreed with te US about oil prices, he was replaced!
When Saddam dumped the dollar, his country and people were destroyed. Saddam was even 'hung' for doing CIA work!
Sheikh Usama Bin Ladin was bombed in December 2001 and killed by his US friends.
Now, it is the turn of Hosni Mubarak! Nothing new under GOD's sky.
BAFS