Posted on 05/19/2004 4:14:43 AM PDT by JesseHousman
There is something mystical about these three events that happened almost at the same time:
- In Washington, US Secretary of State Colin Powell made a sensational confession on NBC: CIA agents had deliberately misled their bosses and him about the presence of WMD in Iraq. His dramatic speech in the UN on February 5, 2003, featuring slides and other multimedia tricks to prove Iraq's possession of mobile biological weapons labs, has proved to be nothing but the involuntary untruth of a deceived man.
- A bombing carried out by guerrillas in Baghdad killed the head of Iraq's Governing Council, Ezzedine Salim, a philosopher and the author of over 40 books. The explosion also deprived members of the future provisional government of the hope that their new offices will not become the main target for the resistance forces. The provisional government, which the US intends to form before June 30, has already been called a doomed one.
- Another bomb, this time intellectual, has exploded at the Cannes Film Festival, with the premiere of the documentary, Fahrenheit 9/11 directed by Michael Moore, who won an Oscar last year. The film exposes some little known facts, including the close business ties between the Saudi bin Laden family and the US Bush clan, which includes the current and former incumbents of the White House.
This business self-interest prompted George Bush Jr. to allow many members of the bin Laden family to leave the United States shortly after the September 11 terrorist act, the film suggests. Meanwhile, each of the escaped bin Ladens could have become a valuable source for the investigation.
Moreover, the president began the war mostly to distract attention from the dubious ties between gas and weapons producing companies of the Texan Bush clan and the Saudi relatives of international terrorist No. 1. The audience found Mr Moore's idea fairly convincing.
These three events that took place in three different parts of the world at the same time now make a coherent picture of US foreign policy based on lies and self-interest.
Today, the world has further confirmation that Saddam Hussein posed no danger to humanity. In an interview with CNN, Mr Powell hinted that some Iraqi engineer, a CIA agent and a person empowered to act for the Iraqi National Congress - an emigrant group which pushed Bush to topple Hussein - had made up the threatening story about the mobile biological laboratories.
The engineer had managed to convince the CIA, and the latter convinced Mr Powell who persuaded the future "voluntary coalition" countries at the UN. This is how the Iraq war was launched.
The end of this war is nowhere in sight. The death of Ezzedine Salim was a serious blow to the US plan for transferring power to the Iraqi provisional government in six weeks. The number of those who want to have this authority is decreasing in the wake of recent events.
So far, the United States has no more or less clear plan to form a representative and truly legitimate government on the national scale. Any US puppet will be treated as a traitor and could well meet the same fate as Ezzedine Salim.
The fact that there is no clear plan can be seen in the desperately chaotic statements from Washington.
The US president has promised a quick withdrawal, but has asked Congress for millions of dollars to send reinforcements to Iraq.
Paul Bremer, the US administrator in Iraq, has stated that all the soldiers of the coalition can leave Iraq after July 1 if the new Iraqi leaders ask them to do so.
But this is a cynical statement, to say the least. The leaders will not ask them to do this, because they are not suicidal. And if they do, the coalition will hardly pull out because this would leave the Iraq campaign as a complete fiasco for the United States and Great Britain, no matter what their true motivations were.
As for the goals, perhaps Michael Moore used an excessively contrasting black-and-white format when confining all the cause and effect ties in present Iraqi history to the business ties between the Bush and the bin Laden clans. Of course, talented people have the right to artistic hyperbole. But the message of the director laid down in the name of the film is unambiguous. Fahrenheit 9/11 plays on the title of Ray Bradbury's novel Fahrenheit 451, which is the temperature when paper burns.
Washington's Iraqi war, its false prerequisites, dubious arguments and repulsive circumstances, such as the prisoner abuse in Abu Ghraib, have brought global public opinion to the point when the moral authority of the US is being reduced to ashes.
© RIAN
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Iraqis are not felt by Pravda to be humans. Further, the Russian propaganda machine is enamored by Michael Moore.
And still further, if some naive Americans felt that the USSR had toppled, they have their heads shoved firmly in the sand.
Russia will always be our enemy...and we'd best not forget it.
Haven't you got enough enemies to be getting on with at the moment?
Christ, I've seen worse stuff in UK Editorials than that fairly benign article. Russia has too much on its plate to think about reigniting the Cold War.
Rest easy, Mr McCarthy. Sorry, Housman.
Some newbie posted a lying sceed, the most despicable editorial from Pravda accusing Bush of being everything horrible including Satan that I had a rare abuse admin. mod paging moment. Some screeds are good to create discussion..Others are too slimy to read.
This one I'll comment as just anti war, anti Bush, anti American yawn.
There's your answer to everything, Slippery!
Mr McCarthy was right..There were communists in our government. It is popular to describe him as a witch hunter, however.
I realize that it's difficult at times to recognize subtlety, but this is about as subtle and benign as a sledgehammer in the head.
Nah, just Putin......and he no moreso than any given French foreign minister. Which is pretty bad, I grant you.
It is as I depicted and I still yawn...I've read so many now and I get to listen to the dems do it with much less subtle words...
The dems would never admit when they do this that they are harming our mission in Iraq and therefore anti American, of course...neither would Pat Buchanan....I am sickened by the lot of them.
Russia only broke up - publicly - to have more hands out at the UN; now instead of one hand out (to Russia) you have several. They are still unified in their military and their goals to topple the US.
Russians worked closely with Iraq against US, and continue to help insurgents!
Russia and China are united in their purpose of destroying America - economically and physically.
Ha! I sincerely hope so, Jesse.
No offence meant, by the way. Just making the point that while your 'allies' are flinging ever more inflammatory polemic across the Atlantic, something like this just seems less like propaganda and more like tired, ill-thought out, anti-US slurry.
Anyway, you've still got a few friends this side of the Atlantic!
"Christ, I've seen worse stuff in UK Editorials than that fairly benign article. Russia has too much on its plate to think about reigniting the Cold War"
Different Cold War. Look around you. Has Communism gone away? No. Has Islamofacism gone away? No. We assumed the enemy was the Soviet Union. The enemy wasn't the country, it was the ideology.
Capturing land for occupation and ideological acceptance is obsolete. I think the Soviet Union realized that this could not be supported any longer and let the wall fall. Because of that, Germany is now leaning Socialist and without firing a shot, pretty much killed the US/German alliance. I thnk that Russia sees its future moving westward rather than eastward.
Occupation by force is no longer a viable political option due to insurgencies and resources. Instead, political ideology through the control of information is the new way of doing things. Tass and Pravda proved that if you control the information, you control the populace. Ok, throw in a good dose of dissapearing relatives and it is enough to scare anyone.
We are seeing more of this today in our own news media. 90% of the media hates Bush, yet they all blame Fox for being bias. Go figure.
Vietnam was the proving ground for this strategy and it panned out. We won every battle but lost the war? Makes no sense. We could have leveled Hanoi in 66 and that would have been the end of it. What the media and Hollywood did back then, they continue to do today, with some success.
Americans best trait is our biggest enemy. That is compassion and faith in the lord. Our enemies do not believe in this and use every weapon possible to ensure we cannot openly practice our beliefs. And the excuses, however lame are supported by a court system that shares in anti religous views.
I am not saying that I would support McCarthyism. However, it is pretty obvious what is going on and the only people that actually care are the ones being descriminated against. White, middle class, Judeo/Christians that share in our Presidents moral clarity.
There is a cold war going on. Russia is irrelevant, China is irrelevant. What is relevant is the ideology war in which 30% of Americas populace fully supports with the assistance of people like Soros and groups like Moveon, ANSWER. What is more scary is that they have the media to forward their agenda. And what is more scary is that our courts agree.
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