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War and Truth III

Links to a Collection of Articles (March 17, 2003)

"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia… Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent is sustained." Zbigniew Brzezinski

Sometimes law enforcement officers can become so frustrated with being unable to catch their suspect red-handed, that they will plant evidence. The question of guilt is already decided in the officer's mind; it's only a matter of convincing his superiors and down the line the judge or jury. Something similar is now going on regarding the question of Iraq's possesion of an actual or potential nuclear capability. The allegation is that Iraq has all components in place to make a bomb except the uranium. How convenient would it be for Iraq's accusers if it could be proven that they tried to acquire that last essential component. The British thought they had the proof in the form of ducuments about secret deals between Niger and Iraq. They handed them over to the IAEA, which declared them inauthentic. The question is of course, who has the motive and capability to excecute an elaborate operation of forging and distributing incriminating documents. The fact that the British and American intelligence agencies did not make the discovery themselves gives pause to think. It would well fit the pattern of 'politicized' intelligence work, which becomes the basis then of deceptive statements by government officials.

The first four articles of this batch will address this point of deception. The first two are the most substantive. One by a scholar of international studies, Dr. Alan Gilbert, the other by Joel Skousen, the son of Cleon Skousen, who wrote The Naked Capitalist, a book-length review of Caroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope. Both have provided solid critiques of domestic and foreign policies from a conservative constitutionalist point of view. The article "An Unnecessary War" is a plea for the feasibility of an effective inspections regime.

The article by Stephen J. Sniegoski highlights the role and interests of the Israeli government, their lobbyists in Washington and their sympathizers in USA government circles. In the pursuit of truth these stones have to be turned over, and certain facts have to be aired, even if a critique of key players in the Jewish community risks to be labeled as anti-Semitic. This label is quite often used to silence those who expose and oppose their policies, eventhough it might in some cases be blatantly clear that the label will not stick, because either the persons in question are Jewish themselves or have spoken out against anti-Semitism. Therefore careful distinctions have to be made between a) critique of Israeli policies as a matter of legitimate questioning and disagreement, b) anti-Zionism as a legitimate critique of the nationalistic and often racist ideology of Zionism, and c) anti-Semitism as an illegitimate racist attitude towards Jewish people.

The article by Michael Rupert is a review of Zbigniew Brzezinski's 1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and It's Geostrategic Imperatives. This book and its review should be read carefully, because Brzezinski is a highly influential key-player in the transnational power elite. He was the architect of trilateralism, i.e. the coordination of the corporate and political interests of North America, Western Europe and Japan, and he was with David Rockefeller the founding director in 1973 of the Trilateral Commission, which, on a yearly basis, consolidates and fine-tunes the trilateral agenda set by the Council on Foreign Relations, of which Brzezinski was a director.

If it were a choice between inspections or war, I would prefer a stepped-up inspections regime, which would establish with real hard evidence the compliance or non-compliance of the Iraqi government with UN resolutions. After finding Iraq free of WMD's, or having destroyed whatever is found, the unfair, even murderous sanctions should be lifted, and Iraq and its people should be left in peace. If you like to help the Iraqis with regime change do it voluntarily. If it were a choice between domestic and foreign interventionist policies or minimal government, I would prefer the latter. Get the US Government out of private interests and get the private interests out of the US Government in order that its bureaucratic, diplomatic and military tools will not be used for the securing and expansion of private and corporate interests both within and outside its borders. The undoing of the corporate take-over of the US government and the de-transformation of the US informal global empire back into a neutral nation-state (and let's throw in also the dismantling of the welfare state) should be high on the agenda of the American people as necessary components of the struggle, not only against terrorism, but also against corporate exploitation, against the creation of dictatorial client-states, against the creation of a domestic police-state, against pre-emptive militarism, and a host of other problems generated by the greed for money and power by the trans-national power elite, which so far has been insufficiently challenged and checked.

The problems and dangers of WMD's and terrorism as they face us now have to be dealt with, but not in such a way that would aggravate their cause in the first place. The people of the West are being hoodwinked by talk of freedom, safety, democracy, human rights etc. to make it side with those who have time after time broken their promises and delivered the opposite. We are truly entering Orwellian times of double-speak, where surveillance will secure privacy, restrictions will secure freedom, war will secure peace, and, down the line, a state of national emergency will surely secure the constitution. The scary thing is not so much that persons in power try to deceive and manipulate--after all, power corrupts--but that too many people are willing to believe and follow. There is no shred of evidence that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attack, but a recent poll shows that 51% of the American people believe it was involved, transforming vague hints and suggestions from the government into a conviction. Even the pundits on TV are baffled. America is getting ripe for its own unique brand of bi-partisan fascism, and nobody will be out there to liberate us, but ourselves.

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Title: "Rice's Former Prof Says Bush Admin Deliberately Deceives"

Author: Omar Jabara

Source: www.prioritypeace.org

URL: http://www.rense.com/general35/del.htm

Excerpt: " Average citizens will now be able to gauge whether or not Iraq actually poses a threat to them and their families, thanks to a new report issued today by one of National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice's former professors at the University of Denver (DU). Dr. Alan Gilbert, distinguished John Evans Professor at the Graduate School of International Studies at DU, said the new report 'lays out the facts and exposes Bush Administration claims as nothing short of a deliberate pattern of deception.' "

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Title: "Powell's Show And Tell At The UN"

Author: Joel Skousen

Source: World Affairs Brief, 2-12-3

URL: http://www.rense.com/general34/powellsshowandtell.htm

Excerpt: "While most Americans were impressed by Sec. of State Collin Powell's Feb 5th case against Iraq before the UN Security Council, I was struck by the weakness of it all. The presentation was a masterpiece of propaganda, designed to lead the general public down a path of seemingly perfect logic, to conclusions predetermined by the Bush administration. However, anyone with any background in US intelligence methods would have been able to perceive multiple ironies and contradictions in the Powell presentation."

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Title: "UK nuclear evidence a fake "

Author: Ian Traynor

Source: the Guardian, March 8, 2003

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/
0%2C2763%2C910113%2C00.html

Excerpt: "The chief nuclear inspector for Iraq, Mohammed El Baradei, yesterday flatly contradicted Downing Street's and British intelligence's claims of attempted uranium smuggling by Iraq and said that the documents used to substantiate the British claim were 'not authentic.' … The fabrication was transparently obvious and quickly established, the sources added, suggesting that British intelligence was either easily hoodwinked or a knowing party to the deceit."

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Title: "Angry Arms Inspectors hit out"

Author: Richard Wallace

Source: The Mirror, Feb 22 2003

URL: http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/msg03408.html

Excerpt: "US spy chiefs were branded 'time wasters' yesterday after weapons inspectors rubbished their evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Angry and frustrated at being given vague or wrong information, a senior member of the UN team said they had been fed 'garbage after garbage after garbage.'
The inspector said: 'It took a long time for the US to hand over intelligence in the first place and when they did it has proved to be highly inaccurate.' "

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Title: "An Unnecessary War"

Author: John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison

Source: Foreign Policy

URL: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/users/login.php?story_id=169&URL=
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=169&page=1

Excerpt: "If the United States is, or soon will be, at war with Iraq, Americans should understand that a compelling strategic rationale is absent. This war would be one the Bush administration chose to fight but did not have to fight. Even if such a war goes well and has positive long-range consequences, it will still have been unnecessary. And if it goes badly-whether in the form of high U.S. casualties, significant civilian deaths, a heightened risk of terrorism, or increased hatred of the United States in the Arab and Islamic world-then its architects will have even more to answer for."

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Title: "The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel "

Author: Stephen J. Sniegoski

Source: WTM Enterprises

URL: http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/conc_toc.htm

Excerpt: "The suggestion that the war with Iraq is being planned at Israel's behest, or at the instigation of policymakers whose main motivation is trying to create a secure environment for Israel, is strong. Many Israeli analysts believe this. The Israeli commentator Akiva Eldar recently observed frankly in a Ha'aretz column that [Richard] Perle, [Douglas] Feith, and their fellow strategists "are walking a fine line between their loyalty to American governments and Israeli interests." The suggestion of dual loyalties is not a verboten subject in the Israeli press, as it is in the United States. Peace activist Uri Avnery, who knows Israeli Prime Minister Sharon well, has written that Sharon has long planned grandiose schemes for restructuring the Middle East and that "the winds blowing now in Washington remind me of Sharon. I have absolutely no proof that the Bushies got their ideas from him. But the style is the same."
In the following essay I attempt to flesh out that thesis and show the link between the war position of the neoconservatives and the long-time strategy of the Israeli Right, if not of the Israeli mainstream itself. In brief, the idea of a Middle East war has been bandied about in Israel for many years as a means of enhancing Israeli security, which revolves around an ultimate solution to the Palestinian problem.

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Title: "A War in the Planning for Four Years"

Author: Michael Ruppert

Source: From The Wilderness Publications

URL: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html

Excerpt: "The current Central Asian war is not a response to terrorism, nor is it a reaction to Islamic fundamentalism. It is in fact, in the words of one of the most powerful men on the planet, the beginning of a final conflict before total world domination by the United States leads to the dissolution of all national governments. This, says Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and former Carter National Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, will lead to nation states being incorporated into a new world order, controlled solely by economic interests as dictated by banks, corporations and ruling elites concerned with the maintenance (by manipulation and war) of their power. As a means of intimidation for the unenlightened reader who happens upon this frightening plan - the plan of the CFR - Brzezinski offers the alternative of a world in chaos unless the U.S. controls the planet by whatever means are necessary and likely to succeed. "

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Title: "Mo' War with Iraq: My Thoughts on the Current Crisis"

Author: Moryam Van Opstal

Source: Personal web site

Excerpt: "There is no guarantee that inspectors can disarm Iraq, and no evidence that they'll be more than marginally effective. Substantial Iraqi cooperation--essential to effective inspections--is not forthcoming, and will never be. If Saddam Hussein gets a nuclear weapon, and thirty years of history demonstrate that it is his goal to do so, he will be in a good situation to control a significant percentage of world oil production and to undermine the fragile state of middle eastern affairs. He does not currently present a threat to the United States or the world, but by the time he does the costs of removing him from power will have risen prohibitively."

[See also: First and second collection of articles regarding War and Truth]

 

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