This is Not Saddam (Pravda tin-foilery)

This is not Saddam 07/07/2004 11:54 The man the Americans are parading is not the real Saddam Hussein When a liar is clever and careful, he is convincing because he is plausible and covers all his tracks. However, the longer the lie is spun out, the more clues are left. The Bush regime has been neither clever, nor careful nor plausible in its disastrous foreign policy, which culminates in parading a "Saddam" before the cameras who is certainly not the real Saddam Hussein, ex-President of Iraq.

The first attempts at justifying the illegal act of butchery called the Second Gulf War started in December 2002 when documents were forged by British and American intelligence operationals, trying to create a link between Niger and Baghdad, which was supposed to be buying yellowcake uranium for its "active nuclear programme". In the event, Mohammed El Baradei, the Director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, saw the scam when the papers were presented to him. He said the letterhead was wrong, the names were wrong and the signatures were wrong. Those who showed the papers to him maintained a sullen and embarrassed silence and the issue was forgotten.

Suddenly, Washington stopped talking about Baghdad's "active nuclear programme" and concentrated instead on its Weapons of Mass Destruction and its chemical and biological warfare programme.

"Magnificent intelligence" was presented by Colin Powell at the UN Security Council, complete with maquettes and satellite photographs of "mobile chemical facilities". Soon afterwards, when the international UNMOVIC teams were unable to find the WMD, the Bush administration declared that "we know where they are".

So the act of butchery was launched. In the event, no weapons of mass destruction were found, nor even the production facilities and certainly no active nuclear programme. However, since nobody has spoken about these lies for a year, public opinion has forgotten them.

Next was the story of the murder of Saddam Hussein's sons, Ouday and Qusay, who were mysteriously together (when common sense would tell them to split up) with another man and a boy in a farmstead in the middle of a plain west of Baghdad. The story went as follows: hundreds of troops and a fleet of helicopter gunships finally killed the four after several hours of fighting.

This story sounded like the child trying to justify the fact that he had forgotten his homework, claiming that the dog ate it, the house caught fire and that someone stole his school bag on the way into the classroom. The photographs were not shown to the public immediately and when they did appear, Iraqis across the country shook their heads in disbelief, claiming that these were not Saddam's sons.

Then came the pictures of the hitherto clean-shaven, articulate, educated and proud Saddam Hussein, crawling out of a hole, disheveled, bearded and dirty, supposedly in December but with the date trees laden with mature fruits, which only takes place in August in that part of the world. Another strange occurrence.

The supposed Saddam was shown by an unconvincing Paul Bremer who declared "Ladies and Gentlemen, (pause) we got him!" The pause was telling, an unsaid "I am going to tell a lie". When the ex-President of Iraq's wife was taken to Qatar to see him, she burst out laughing and immediately said that this was not her husband. Had the Americans fallen for their own trap, or were a small group of Americans fooling the others?

Curiously, the Saddam shown by the Americans has a long beard after capture and continues to wear an unruly beard now, whereas Saddam Hussein the president was always clean-shaven and with a moustache. Why the beard now? To hide the fact that he is not the real Saddam? To hide the jaw line?

Now, the Holy Grail is offered by Joe Vialls, who sent his article "Shaddam Shaddam's new Vaudeville Scam" to Pravda.Ru this morning. In this piece he points out that all photographers were banned from photographing "Saddam" in court for security reasons but then the CNN arrived in the person of Christiane Amanpour, who immediately started shooting hundreds of metres of video footage, which was then transformed into stills.

Here was the mistake. As Mr. Vialls points out, the real Saddam Hussein had a fine set of teeth, completely even, in which the upper jaw closed over the lower (overbite). The figure paraded in court, as it is easy to see, has highly irregular lower teeth and a condition called "underbite", when the lower teeth close in front of the upper.

Touche. Dental records cannot lie. The set of teeth of the President of Iraq and the set of teeth of the man paraded before the cameras pretending to be Saddam Hussein are wholly and totally different.

The man they have in court is not the real Saddam Hussein. Yet another lie by this Bush administration is exposed. How much lower can this clique of criminals sink?

Here is what Google brought in [the guy is a communist]. Have fun:

http://www.axisoflogic.com/cgi-bin/exec/view.cgi?archive=51&num=7025&printer=1.
Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey replies to Mike's "I have had enough"
By Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey
Apr 30, 2004, 10:14
Dear Mike, I read your letter "I have had enough" with interest and I think you express the desperation of many millions of people who were born into the capitalist-monetarist world very ably.
In the capitalist-monetarist model, real power is detained by a few colourless and invisible elements who pull the strings behind the throne. The Prime Minister or President and his government are a sort of front for these elements to hide behind. What do they do?
First, they control each and every avenue towards power and this starts with the capital of the country, in monetary and human terms. Therefore every blockage is set in place to prevent a person from becoming powerful and thereby challenging the system which these elements have decided is the best one, for them.
It starts with the education system. After years and years of study, between 20 and 40% of people in the western world leave school illiterate or functionally illiterate, meaning that they understand the letters but not a text. Drama number two is getting a job, as you point out in your letter. Drama number three is retaining the job. Drama number four is buying a house, which is increasingly impossible in the UK, where I believe 12% of first-time buyers are over 40 years of age. The system has you by the throat, you have to take out a massive loan which controls your movements until you are too old to act. It is called a mortgage. In French, "mort" means "death".
Drama number five is retaining the house. Drama number six is whether you have enough money to have children, for the cycle to be repeated. Drama number seven is when you need dental care. Drama number eight is when you need health care. As you know, the system only works when you pay for it.
Eight basic and fundamental dramas from the moment you are born to the second you die and even then the state has the last laugh, pilfering your last ha¦pennies and putting the family through funeral costs of between one and five thousand pounds. It's kind of like a raspberry from the system as people go to meet their Maker.
Under the Communist model, of course, none of this is true, thankfully. Using the Soviet Union as an example, the education system was free and a temple of excellence, meaning that today any adult in the former USSR is able to compete with any other individual anywhere on Earth for any job at any time.
The health care system was free and of the highest quality, a job was a birthright, a house was a birthright, food was a birthright, alcohol for moderate consumption was a birthright, a pension was a birthright. For all its "ills" the economy in Soviet times produced a GDP which was two times what it is now in the Russian Federation.
I do not consider this system a failure, I do not consider this system as evil. I consider that it is too perfect a system in Marx's model for an imperfect specimen, Mankind. Therefore I believe that Marx and Engels were academics who put a good idea onto paper, Lenin being the one who tried to put it into practice and unfortunately he died before he had time.
Do not forget the considerable blocks that the capitalist world put in the way: the Russian Civil War and a myriad of attempts to subvert the fledgling Soviet governments, just as the USA did everything possible, including assassination attempts, to destroy Cuba, as indeed it did with Brazil (the cotton industry in the State of Ceara, for example).
I believe that the Communist model needs some minor alterations, to introduce for instance a component which rewards labour but the basic idea is valid and in my opinion will therefore be the model of a civilised and developed human society, one which bases its attitude on dialogue, debate and discussion and not war, cruelty and subversion.
The Communists of today are the guardians of the truth which will form tomorrow's society.
Timothy BANCROFT-HINCHEY
Original article at http://english.pravda.ru/mailbox/22/98/386/12665_letter.html

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