North Romakia
17-06-2004, 07:34
-This is actually an article written by a friend of mine.-
In Defense of Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein is a man who is often condemned as a wretched tyrant, a beast, a madman, but lets take a look at the history of Saddam Hussein and see what he has achieved.
It is commonly accepted by most “mainstream” ignoramuses that Iraq started the Iran-Iraq war. But any honest historian will tell you that this is simply not true. The radical Shiite government of Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini essentially tore up a treaty with Iraq that guaranteed Iraq navigation rights on the Shatt-Al-Arab (A river channel, about 193 km (120 mi) long, of southeast Iraq formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and flowing southeast to the Persian Gulf. The Shatt al Arab forms part of the Iraq-Iran border, and navigation rights to the channel have long been disputed by the two countries).
With the navigation rights gone, the Iraqi economy would suffer greatly. Thus as is typical of Middle Eastern politics, Hussein ordered Iraqi units to make minor incursions into Iran to enhance his bargaining position. However the bargaining failed and thus began the Iran-Iraq war.
It must be remembered that several months before the Iraq invasion (invasion occurred on September 23rd 1980), that the Iranians attempted to assassinate numerous Iraqi officials. A timeline of events shortly before the actual war began is as follows, also included are events shortly after the war began. I also include shortly before the war ended. I apologize for skipping the middle, but the middle of the war was mostly attacks and counter-attacks, and stalemate for the most part.
February 1979, after 15 years of exile, Ayatollah Khomeini arrives in Tehran (capital of Iran), and his Revolutionary forces take over the government
.
June 1979, Revolutionary Regime in Iran urges Iraqis to rise against their rulers.
February 3rd, 1980, Bani Sadr takes office as Iran’s first president.
March 8th, 1980, Iran withdraws its ambassador from Iraq.
April 1st, 1980, Iran attempted to kill Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz.
April 15th, 1980, Iran attempted to kill Iraqi Minister of Information Latif Nusseif al-Jasim.
May-August of 1980 clashes begin along Iran-Iraq border.
September 4th, 1980, Iran shells Khanaqin and Mandali.
September 23rd, 1980, Iraq invades Iran.
September 28th, 1980, Iraqi army units halt at the outskirts of Ahvaz and Susangerd (Both are major cities), and readies to accept a ceasefire with Iran.
October 5th, 1980, Iraq requests a ceasefire. Iran rejects the idea.
October 6th, 1980, Iraq besieges Khorramshahr (major city). Street fighting begins.
October 22nd, 1980, Iraq besieges Abadan (major city, very important for oil and flow of exports).
October 24th, 1980, Khorramshahr falls to Iraqi army.
January 5-11th, 1981, major Iranian counter-offensive around Susangerd fails.
June 7th, 1981, Israel destroys Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor.
Iraq made only minor incursions into Iran. The notion that it only offered a cease-fire because it realized it had “Bitten off more than it could chew” is false, within a few weeks of the first Iraqi offer; they took Khorramshahr and besieged several other major cities. Saddam just wanted Iran to stop shelling Iraqi border towns, to stop arming and stirring up the Shiite and Kurd terrorists within Iraq, and to stop threatening Iraqi commerce on the Shatt-al-Arab. Saddam made no less than 10 declarations of wanting a ceasefire throughout the war. The UN ordered on less than 10 ceasefires. Iraq suggests ceasefires long before the 1981-1982 reversal of fortunes in the war and the invasion of Iraq by Iran.
Shortly after the initial Iraqi attacks Iran counter-attacked, around 1981-1982 Iran drove Iraq from Iranian territory and the war shifted into Iraq, it was mostly a static WW1 style war, with large losses and little appreciable gains.
On July 20th, 1987, UN Security Council passes Resolution 598, calling for withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi forces back to the internationally recognized boundaries. Iraq welcomes the Resolution, but Iran rejects it.
On July 22nd, 1987, Kuwaiti oil tankers begin to fly the US flag and the tankers receive US Naval protection. Iran threatened to sink all ships in the Persian Gulf, so the Kuwaitis “lent” their ships to the USA.
On September 4th, 1987, Iran fired missiles into Kuwait,
On September 22nd, 1987, US ships attack and capture an Iranian mine-laying vessel with mines on board. The Iranians intended to lay mines in the Persian Gulf.
Through October 8-22 US Naval forces sink 3 Iranian patrol boats in the gulf. Iran fires at unprotected US-owned oil tankers. US destroys an disused Iranian oil platform.
January 14-15, 1988, Iran attacks 3 oil tankers in two days.
March 15-16, 1988, Iraqi forces recapture the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja; the attack was preceded by the use of a large amount of chemical weaponry by the Iraqi army.
April 18th, 1988, US Naval forces sink 6 Iranian warships.
July 13-17 1988, Iraqi forces launch massive counter attacks and drive Iran from Iraqi soil and for the first time since 1982, Iraqi forces hold Iranian territory.
July 17th, 1988, Iran unconditionally accepts UN Resolution 598 and a ceasefire is declared.
Iran basically accepted because 1) Iraq had crossed into Iran again (the war was going badly for Iran at the moment). 2) Iraq threatened to hit Tehran (Iranian capital) with several hundred missiles with chemical weapon warheads unless Iran ended the war immediately.
During the Iran-Iraq war, we must remember that essentially the West, the USA, and the U.S.S.R. all backed Iraq. Basically only Libya, Syria, and North Korea backed Iran. Khomeini publicly spoke of spreading the Islamic Revolution throughout the Middle East, he was a man bent on expansionism of Shiite Islamic values. He had to be stopped, and Saddam’s Iraq went to bat and stopped him, but only at great cost to Iraq. From 1980-1988, Saddam had to fight to save Iraq from a massive Iranian invasion, it was a seesaw war for the most part, where one side would make a few small gains, and then lose them shortly thereafter.
In January of 1987, Iran launched a massive assault against Al-Basra (Codenamed Karbala 5). Iraq only managed to hold Basra because they used MASSIVE quantities of Chemical Weapons (Blister and Nerve agents, primarily Nitrogen Mustard and Sarin Gas).
It should also be remembered that during the war Iran violated UN Security Council Resolution 598, and thus the UN placed a general Arms Embargo on them. Iraq however was given all the weapons they needed. Iran was sinking neutral ships in the Persian Gulf in an attempt to strangle the Iraqi economy by hurting their trading partners. Iran was on a warpath and needed to be stopped. Iraq was willing to stop them, and ultimately Iraq’s efforts would be repaid by betrayal from her former supporters in the West.
In the matter with the Kurds and the Shiites in Iraq, they were rebels and as such one does not feel sorry when they are dealt with. Saddam dealt with them in a manner similar to how the Americans dealt with the Indians, or the Confederates. Or how the British dealt with the Scots, the Irish, and attempted to deal with the Americans. Saddam crushed the rebels, as one should attempt to do. The only problem was that he crushed them with chemical weapons, rather than just doing the politically correct thing and simply shooting them.
It should also be remembered that the US chemical companies that sold Saddam the precursors to make his chemical weapons did so with the approval of the US Government, even though in some cases it was tacit approval. They were sold largely as “Pesticides” and “Industrial Chemicals”. Let us not forget the weapons grade anthrax and botulinum that was delivered to Iraq courtesy of the USA. What did the USA think Saddam was going to use the Chemical Weapons for?
It should also be noted that France sold Iraq a nuclear reactor and that during the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq was going to use the nuclear reactor to build a power plant to vastly improve the quality of life of her people.
But in typical cowardly Israeli fashion, the Israeli Air Force launched raids destroyed the reactor After all; Israel was and still is “the only democracy in the Middle East” (it’s actually closer to an Orthodox Jewish theocracy). Also, why should gentiles (non-Jews) enjoy the benefits of nuclear power, the Talmud (the book that all Orthodox Jews, and many non-orthodox Jews go by) states that gentiles are just animals and nothing more. I cite the Talmud for proof of the contempt that Jews hold gentiles in.
Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to say the following prayer every day: Thank you God for not making me a Gentile, a woman or a slave.
More can be found at the link below.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/talmud.htm#012
But the primary focus of this article is not to point out the flaws of Israel, if it was, this article would take up many thousands of pages. This article is to shed light on the real Saddam Hussein, not the media portrayal of Saddam as mass murderer and warmonger, but the true Saddam, a courageous politician, warrior, and dedicated Iraqi who stood firm to stop Iranian and Zionist aggression.
The Iran-Iraq war left the Iraqi economy largely in ruins and Iraq was deeply in debt, by 1988 Iraq owed over 100 billion to foreign creditors. In January of 1990, Saddam asked that one of his largest creditors (Kuwait) erase his debt since the debt had been incurred fighting a war to save nations like Kuwait from Iranian aggression.
Kuwait however refused to help Iraq; the nation that had endured 8 years of war was being snubbed… And that wasn’t the worst part; Kuwait was cheating on OPEC oil deals and producing much more oil than agreed to, the price dropped to $18 per barrel of oil. Iraq calculated that the price of $25 per barrel would really help boost the Iraqi economy, they asked Kuwait to abide by the agreements and cut production so the price would rise.
Kuwait wanted to flood the market with cheap oil so as to delay the development of alternative sources, and to make the world more dependent on Kuwait oil. Kuwait refused to cut production; they refused to abide by the agreement. Iraq simply sucked it up and tried to put a good face on a bad situation. Then it became known that Kuwait was directly stealing oil from Iraq by setting up drilling in the southern section of the Iraqi oilfields at al-Rumalia. Iraq was furious, as any nation would be.
Shortly after the revelations about the al-Rumalia oil thefts, Iraq began to amass soldiers on the border with Kuwait. Iraq demanded 10 billion dollars for the loss of oil from the al-Rumalia oilfields in exchange they would substantially reduce the size of the army on the border. Kuwait basically admitted that it was guilty as charged, but in what proved to be a poor decision, they insulted Iraq by agreeing to pay only 9 billion dollars (The fact that they agreed to pay anything is essentially an admission of guilt. The fact that they agreed to pay slightly less than the demand was a poor attempt at an insult, and it would cost them).
For Iraq, it was the last straw, they had fought and died for these people for 8 long years, and now their oil was being stolen, they were being insulted. They were fed up, they’d had enough, and on August 2nd, 1990 after months of fruitless negotiations, Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi army units to cross into Kuwait to put a stop to the oil thefts once and for all.
President George Bush Sr, spoke to the American public about how “This invasion will not stand.” Keeping with his earlier espoused ideas about the New World Order of which he so fondly spoke; he amassed a coalition of “Democracies” (Note Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and a few other “Democracies” played major roles in the coalition). It should be noted that Syria and Iraq had the same political party, the Baath Party, why Syria decided to side with America probably has something to do with behind the scenes economic deals combined with well worded threats, the old Carrot and Stick diplomacy.
On July 16th, 1990, Tariq Aziz speaking on behalf of Saddam Hussein demanded Kuwait halt all oil thefts, give Iraq 10 billion dollars, and cut production of oil so the price would rise to at least $25 per barrel. Iraq wanted the 10 billion dollars because between 1981-1990, Kuwait had swindled Iraq out of an estimated $89 billion through secretly producing more than the agreements allowed. Also Iraq demanded a complete moratorium of the repayment of Iraqi debts incurred during the Iran-Iraq war.
On July 17th, 1990, Saddam accused Kuwait on “Conspiring with world Imperialism and World Zionism to cut off the livelihood of the Arab Nation of Iraq. And Iraq will not able to put up with such behavior for much longer.”
Saddam stated, “If the world fails to afford us protection, then we will have no choice but to resort to effective action to put things right and ensure the restitution of our rights.”
On July 18th, 1990, Kuwait resoundingly rejected all Iraqi demand, however they did offer 9 billion of the 10 billion Iraq was demanding. Offering slightly less was an insult, and both sides knew it. The stage was set.
The US ambassador to Baghdad, April Glaspie, said on July 25th. 1990.
“We are not going to do anything until we meet with the Kuwaitis. If, when we meet, we see that there is hope, nothing will happen. But if we are unable to find a solution, then it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death, even though wisdom is above anything else.”
On August 2nd, at about 1:00 a.m. Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi military units, spearheaded by the Republican Guard, to invade Kuwait.
What is known is that Iraq didn’t do so well in Gulf War 1, but Saddam managed to endure and his regime endured. Numerous Republican Guard Divisions held their ground and died to the man, many divisions were completely wiped out. The performance of the regular army was less commendable; over 60,000 Iraqis were reported captured by the Coalition. Iraq had been under the false impression that their efforts to stop Kuwaiti treachery and oil theft had the approval and backing of the US and the West. “…then it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death…”
We know that Iraq under UN supervision dismantled all of their WMDS. We also know that no-fly zones were imposed in Southern and Northern Iraq to protect Shiite and Kurdish terrorists that the US hoped would topple Saddam. It is quite odd that US wanted the terrorists to win, but they left them to their fate when they pulled out of Iraq.
At the initial negotiations, General Norman Schwarzkopf who spoke for the USA declared that the no-fly zones applied only to fixed-wing aircraft, and not to helicopters, since Iraq stated they would need helicopters to fly rebuilding equipment to rebuild the heavily damaged Iraqi infrastructure. The helicopters would prove very useful in the coming weeks and months to crush the Kurd and Shiite uprisings.
Why would the USA allow Saddam to stay in power? Because the government often needs a distraction to keep people’s attention away from the real problems, the domestic problems. The economy goes sour, fire some cruise missiles at some nation the average citizen cannot locate on a map, or hit that nation, the one who most people only remember hearing about once in 9th grade geography class.
The truth is Saddam Hussein was a friend of the US and the West, and the USA repaid his friendship with a dagger in the back. The USA was friendly when Iraq was fighting Iran. But then when the war was over and Iraqis cried out for assistance to rebuild their shattered economy, they found the US interest in Iraq was over. Overnight, the USA was gone; Iraq was on its own.
The Second Gulf War is a war that to fully discuss the motives, I am forced to go into what the mainstream media would call “Conspiracy theory”. I will simply present the evidence, give you my thoughts, and let you make the ultimate decision.
Israel demanded war. They were still angry over Iraq firing a few dozen Conventional Scud Missiles at them in Gulf war 1 (Probably Iraq’s way of repaying the Israeli bombing of Iraqi nuclear reactors).
Israel was short on oil, the Mosul (Iraq) to Haifa (Israel) pipeline had been shut down in 1948, when the state of Israel declared independence in utter disregard for the rightful inhabitants of Palestine (The Palestinians of course). Israel wanted the pipeline reopened.
Information on the Mosul-Haifa pipeline can be found at the links below.
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/65135_comment.php
http://www.nci.org/0new/iraq-osirak-lat53001.htm
George W Bush, a man who once said, “Only Christians get into heaven” but then changed almost overnight, visited the west wall in Jerusalem, and as president hosted Jewish guests in the white house to light menorahs and hang Israeli flags. This occurring in the same country where Christian symbols were declared banned in Public schools as they are “Religion” but where Jewish symbols and Islamic symbols were allowed as they “Have historical value”. I should think all religions have a degree of historical value.
It must be remembered the George W Bush is a Mason, a Skull and Bones man, and a member of Bohemian Grove (The Bohemian Club). He is part of the New World Order agenda, just as his father was. The economy began to get shaky, Israel needed oil, Bush wanted to further the New World Order agenda, he also wanted to get revenge on Iraq for trying to kill his father (Shortly after Gulf War 1, Iraqi agents tried to kill Bush Sr when he visited Kuwait).
Mr. Bush, why are American soldiers dying in Iraq?
Mr. Bush, where are the WMDs that you spoke of?
Mr. Bush, a report released a few days ago stated that Al-Qaeda had no links to Iraq outside of 3 meetings that took place in the Sudan in 1992 between an Iraqi agent and an Al-Qaeda man, and that nothing materialized from these meetings. Why did you state otherwise? Why did you try to make the American people associate Iraq with Al-Qaeda?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/16/911.commission/index.html
9/11 REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
· No "credible evidence" that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda
Mr. Bush, why did you promise Israel that if the Iraqis don’t reopen the pipeline, that you’ll provide them American oil, regardless of what it does to the American economy?
Mr. Bush, why did you declare to the Iraqi governing council that you would not recognize the new Iraqi state unless they reopen the Mosul-Haifa pipeline?
Mr. Bush, why has Israel already been allowed to buy over 1,500 companies in Iraq?
Mr. Bush, who is running America? (Read below for your answer).
"Every time we do something, you tell me America will do this, will do that. I want to tell you something very clear; don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Former Prime Minister Shimon Peres - October 3, 2001
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http://www.uwsa.com/pipermail/uwsa/2002q3/032945.html
http://www.mediamonitors.net/khodr49.html
Why are American soldiers dying in Iraq in a war that has nothing to do with American interests but rather everything to do with Israeli interests.
When will Americans wake up and realize what is being done to their country. Right now American men and women are fighting and dying in a war that is not their war, for a nation that is not theirs. If Israel wants oil, let them fight and die for it. Not one drop of American blood for all the oil in Iraq.
In Defense of Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein is a man who is often condemned as a wretched tyrant, a beast, a madman, but lets take a look at the history of Saddam Hussein and see what he has achieved.
It is commonly accepted by most “mainstream” ignoramuses that Iraq started the Iran-Iraq war. But any honest historian will tell you that this is simply not true. The radical Shiite government of Iran under Ayatollah Khomeini essentially tore up a treaty with Iraq that guaranteed Iraq navigation rights on the Shatt-Al-Arab (A river channel, about 193 km (120 mi) long, of southeast Iraq formed by the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and flowing southeast to the Persian Gulf. The Shatt al Arab forms part of the Iraq-Iran border, and navigation rights to the channel have long been disputed by the two countries).
With the navigation rights gone, the Iraqi economy would suffer greatly. Thus as is typical of Middle Eastern politics, Hussein ordered Iraqi units to make minor incursions into Iran to enhance his bargaining position. However the bargaining failed and thus began the Iran-Iraq war.
It must be remembered that several months before the Iraq invasion (invasion occurred on September 23rd 1980), that the Iranians attempted to assassinate numerous Iraqi officials. A timeline of events shortly before the actual war began is as follows, also included are events shortly after the war began. I also include shortly before the war ended. I apologize for skipping the middle, but the middle of the war was mostly attacks and counter-attacks, and stalemate for the most part.
February 1979, after 15 years of exile, Ayatollah Khomeini arrives in Tehran (capital of Iran), and his Revolutionary forces take over the government
.
June 1979, Revolutionary Regime in Iran urges Iraqis to rise against their rulers.
February 3rd, 1980, Bani Sadr takes office as Iran’s first president.
March 8th, 1980, Iran withdraws its ambassador from Iraq.
April 1st, 1980, Iran attempted to kill Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz.
April 15th, 1980, Iran attempted to kill Iraqi Minister of Information Latif Nusseif al-Jasim.
May-August of 1980 clashes begin along Iran-Iraq border.
September 4th, 1980, Iran shells Khanaqin and Mandali.
September 23rd, 1980, Iraq invades Iran.
September 28th, 1980, Iraqi army units halt at the outskirts of Ahvaz and Susangerd (Both are major cities), and readies to accept a ceasefire with Iran.
October 5th, 1980, Iraq requests a ceasefire. Iran rejects the idea.
October 6th, 1980, Iraq besieges Khorramshahr (major city). Street fighting begins.
October 22nd, 1980, Iraq besieges Abadan (major city, very important for oil and flow of exports).
October 24th, 1980, Khorramshahr falls to Iraqi army.
January 5-11th, 1981, major Iranian counter-offensive around Susangerd fails.
June 7th, 1981, Israel destroys Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor.
Iraq made only minor incursions into Iran. The notion that it only offered a cease-fire because it realized it had “Bitten off more than it could chew” is false, within a few weeks of the first Iraqi offer; they took Khorramshahr and besieged several other major cities. Saddam just wanted Iran to stop shelling Iraqi border towns, to stop arming and stirring up the Shiite and Kurd terrorists within Iraq, and to stop threatening Iraqi commerce on the Shatt-al-Arab. Saddam made no less than 10 declarations of wanting a ceasefire throughout the war. The UN ordered on less than 10 ceasefires. Iraq suggests ceasefires long before the 1981-1982 reversal of fortunes in the war and the invasion of Iraq by Iran.
Shortly after the initial Iraqi attacks Iran counter-attacked, around 1981-1982 Iran drove Iraq from Iranian territory and the war shifted into Iraq, it was mostly a static WW1 style war, with large losses and little appreciable gains.
On July 20th, 1987, UN Security Council passes Resolution 598, calling for withdrawal of Iranian and Iraqi forces back to the internationally recognized boundaries. Iraq welcomes the Resolution, but Iran rejects it.
On July 22nd, 1987, Kuwaiti oil tankers begin to fly the US flag and the tankers receive US Naval protection. Iran threatened to sink all ships in the Persian Gulf, so the Kuwaitis “lent” their ships to the USA.
On September 4th, 1987, Iran fired missiles into Kuwait,
On September 22nd, 1987, US ships attack and capture an Iranian mine-laying vessel with mines on board. The Iranians intended to lay mines in the Persian Gulf.
Through October 8-22 US Naval forces sink 3 Iranian patrol boats in the gulf. Iran fires at unprotected US-owned oil tankers. US destroys an disused Iranian oil platform.
January 14-15, 1988, Iran attacks 3 oil tankers in two days.
March 15-16, 1988, Iraqi forces recapture the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja; the attack was preceded by the use of a large amount of chemical weaponry by the Iraqi army.
April 18th, 1988, US Naval forces sink 6 Iranian warships.
July 13-17 1988, Iraqi forces launch massive counter attacks and drive Iran from Iraqi soil and for the first time since 1982, Iraqi forces hold Iranian territory.
July 17th, 1988, Iran unconditionally accepts UN Resolution 598 and a ceasefire is declared.
Iran basically accepted because 1) Iraq had crossed into Iran again (the war was going badly for Iran at the moment). 2) Iraq threatened to hit Tehran (Iranian capital) with several hundred missiles with chemical weapon warheads unless Iran ended the war immediately.
During the Iran-Iraq war, we must remember that essentially the West, the USA, and the U.S.S.R. all backed Iraq. Basically only Libya, Syria, and North Korea backed Iran. Khomeini publicly spoke of spreading the Islamic Revolution throughout the Middle East, he was a man bent on expansionism of Shiite Islamic values. He had to be stopped, and Saddam’s Iraq went to bat and stopped him, but only at great cost to Iraq. From 1980-1988, Saddam had to fight to save Iraq from a massive Iranian invasion, it was a seesaw war for the most part, where one side would make a few small gains, and then lose them shortly thereafter.
In January of 1987, Iran launched a massive assault against Al-Basra (Codenamed Karbala 5). Iraq only managed to hold Basra because they used MASSIVE quantities of Chemical Weapons (Blister and Nerve agents, primarily Nitrogen Mustard and Sarin Gas).
It should also be remembered that during the war Iran violated UN Security Council Resolution 598, and thus the UN placed a general Arms Embargo on them. Iraq however was given all the weapons they needed. Iran was sinking neutral ships in the Persian Gulf in an attempt to strangle the Iraqi economy by hurting their trading partners. Iran was on a warpath and needed to be stopped. Iraq was willing to stop them, and ultimately Iraq’s efforts would be repaid by betrayal from her former supporters in the West.
In the matter with the Kurds and the Shiites in Iraq, they were rebels and as such one does not feel sorry when they are dealt with. Saddam dealt with them in a manner similar to how the Americans dealt with the Indians, or the Confederates. Or how the British dealt with the Scots, the Irish, and attempted to deal with the Americans. Saddam crushed the rebels, as one should attempt to do. The only problem was that he crushed them with chemical weapons, rather than just doing the politically correct thing and simply shooting them.
It should also be remembered that the US chemical companies that sold Saddam the precursors to make his chemical weapons did so with the approval of the US Government, even though in some cases it was tacit approval. They were sold largely as “Pesticides” and “Industrial Chemicals”. Let us not forget the weapons grade anthrax and botulinum that was delivered to Iraq courtesy of the USA. What did the USA think Saddam was going to use the Chemical Weapons for?
It should also be noted that France sold Iraq a nuclear reactor and that during the Iran-Iraq war, Iraq was going to use the nuclear reactor to build a power plant to vastly improve the quality of life of her people.
But in typical cowardly Israeli fashion, the Israeli Air Force launched raids destroyed the reactor After all; Israel was and still is “the only democracy in the Middle East” (it’s actually closer to an Orthodox Jewish theocracy). Also, why should gentiles (non-Jews) enjoy the benefits of nuclear power, the Talmud (the book that all Orthodox Jews, and many non-orthodox Jews go by) states that gentiles are just animals and nothing more. I cite the Talmud for proof of the contempt that Jews hold gentiles in.
Menahoth 43b-44a. A Jewish man is obligated to say the following prayer every day: Thank you God for not making me a Gentile, a woman or a slave.
More can be found at the link below.
http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/talmud.htm#012
But the primary focus of this article is not to point out the flaws of Israel, if it was, this article would take up many thousands of pages. This article is to shed light on the real Saddam Hussein, not the media portrayal of Saddam as mass murderer and warmonger, but the true Saddam, a courageous politician, warrior, and dedicated Iraqi who stood firm to stop Iranian and Zionist aggression.
The Iran-Iraq war left the Iraqi economy largely in ruins and Iraq was deeply in debt, by 1988 Iraq owed over 100 billion to foreign creditors. In January of 1990, Saddam asked that one of his largest creditors (Kuwait) erase his debt since the debt had been incurred fighting a war to save nations like Kuwait from Iranian aggression.
Kuwait however refused to help Iraq; the nation that had endured 8 years of war was being snubbed… And that wasn’t the worst part; Kuwait was cheating on OPEC oil deals and producing much more oil than agreed to, the price dropped to $18 per barrel of oil. Iraq calculated that the price of $25 per barrel would really help boost the Iraqi economy, they asked Kuwait to abide by the agreements and cut production so the price would rise.
Kuwait wanted to flood the market with cheap oil so as to delay the development of alternative sources, and to make the world more dependent on Kuwait oil. Kuwait refused to cut production; they refused to abide by the agreement. Iraq simply sucked it up and tried to put a good face on a bad situation. Then it became known that Kuwait was directly stealing oil from Iraq by setting up drilling in the southern section of the Iraqi oilfields at al-Rumalia. Iraq was furious, as any nation would be.
Shortly after the revelations about the al-Rumalia oil thefts, Iraq began to amass soldiers on the border with Kuwait. Iraq demanded 10 billion dollars for the loss of oil from the al-Rumalia oilfields in exchange they would substantially reduce the size of the army on the border. Kuwait basically admitted that it was guilty as charged, but in what proved to be a poor decision, they insulted Iraq by agreeing to pay only 9 billion dollars (The fact that they agreed to pay anything is essentially an admission of guilt. The fact that they agreed to pay slightly less than the demand was a poor attempt at an insult, and it would cost them).
For Iraq, it was the last straw, they had fought and died for these people for 8 long years, and now their oil was being stolen, they were being insulted. They were fed up, they’d had enough, and on August 2nd, 1990 after months of fruitless negotiations, Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi army units to cross into Kuwait to put a stop to the oil thefts once and for all.
President George Bush Sr, spoke to the American public about how “This invasion will not stand.” Keeping with his earlier espoused ideas about the New World Order of which he so fondly spoke; he amassed a coalition of “Democracies” (Note Syria, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and a few other “Democracies” played major roles in the coalition). It should be noted that Syria and Iraq had the same political party, the Baath Party, why Syria decided to side with America probably has something to do with behind the scenes economic deals combined with well worded threats, the old Carrot and Stick diplomacy.
On July 16th, 1990, Tariq Aziz speaking on behalf of Saddam Hussein demanded Kuwait halt all oil thefts, give Iraq 10 billion dollars, and cut production of oil so the price would rise to at least $25 per barrel. Iraq wanted the 10 billion dollars because between 1981-1990, Kuwait had swindled Iraq out of an estimated $89 billion through secretly producing more than the agreements allowed. Also Iraq demanded a complete moratorium of the repayment of Iraqi debts incurred during the Iran-Iraq war.
On July 17th, 1990, Saddam accused Kuwait on “Conspiring with world Imperialism and World Zionism to cut off the livelihood of the Arab Nation of Iraq. And Iraq will not able to put up with such behavior for much longer.”
Saddam stated, “If the world fails to afford us protection, then we will have no choice but to resort to effective action to put things right and ensure the restitution of our rights.”
On July 18th, 1990, Kuwait resoundingly rejected all Iraqi demand, however they did offer 9 billion of the 10 billion Iraq was demanding. Offering slightly less was an insult, and both sides knew it. The stage was set.
The US ambassador to Baghdad, April Glaspie, said on July 25th. 1990.
“We are not going to do anything until we meet with the Kuwaitis. If, when we meet, we see that there is hope, nothing will happen. But if we are unable to find a solution, then it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death, even though wisdom is above anything else.”
On August 2nd, at about 1:00 a.m. Saddam Hussein ordered Iraqi military units, spearheaded by the Republican Guard, to invade Kuwait.
What is known is that Iraq didn’t do so well in Gulf War 1, but Saddam managed to endure and his regime endured. Numerous Republican Guard Divisions held their ground and died to the man, many divisions were completely wiped out. The performance of the regular army was less commendable; over 60,000 Iraqis were reported captured by the Coalition. Iraq had been under the false impression that their efforts to stop Kuwaiti treachery and oil theft had the approval and backing of the US and the West. “…then it will be natural that Iraq will not accept death…”
We know that Iraq under UN supervision dismantled all of their WMDS. We also know that no-fly zones were imposed in Southern and Northern Iraq to protect Shiite and Kurdish terrorists that the US hoped would topple Saddam. It is quite odd that US wanted the terrorists to win, but they left them to their fate when they pulled out of Iraq.
At the initial negotiations, General Norman Schwarzkopf who spoke for the USA declared that the no-fly zones applied only to fixed-wing aircraft, and not to helicopters, since Iraq stated they would need helicopters to fly rebuilding equipment to rebuild the heavily damaged Iraqi infrastructure. The helicopters would prove very useful in the coming weeks and months to crush the Kurd and Shiite uprisings.
Why would the USA allow Saddam to stay in power? Because the government often needs a distraction to keep people’s attention away from the real problems, the domestic problems. The economy goes sour, fire some cruise missiles at some nation the average citizen cannot locate on a map, or hit that nation, the one who most people only remember hearing about once in 9th grade geography class.
The truth is Saddam Hussein was a friend of the US and the West, and the USA repaid his friendship with a dagger in the back. The USA was friendly when Iraq was fighting Iran. But then when the war was over and Iraqis cried out for assistance to rebuild their shattered economy, they found the US interest in Iraq was over. Overnight, the USA was gone; Iraq was on its own.
The Second Gulf War is a war that to fully discuss the motives, I am forced to go into what the mainstream media would call “Conspiracy theory”. I will simply present the evidence, give you my thoughts, and let you make the ultimate decision.
Israel demanded war. They were still angry over Iraq firing a few dozen Conventional Scud Missiles at them in Gulf war 1 (Probably Iraq’s way of repaying the Israeli bombing of Iraqi nuclear reactors).
Israel was short on oil, the Mosul (Iraq) to Haifa (Israel) pipeline had been shut down in 1948, when the state of Israel declared independence in utter disregard for the rightful inhabitants of Palestine (The Palestinians of course). Israel wanted the pipeline reopened.
Information on the Mosul-Haifa pipeline can be found at the links below.
http://vancouver.indymedia.org/news/2003/09/65135_comment.php
http://www.nci.org/0new/iraq-osirak-lat53001.htm
George W Bush, a man who once said, “Only Christians get into heaven” but then changed almost overnight, visited the west wall in Jerusalem, and as president hosted Jewish guests in the white house to light menorahs and hang Israeli flags. This occurring in the same country where Christian symbols were declared banned in Public schools as they are “Religion” but where Jewish symbols and Islamic symbols were allowed as they “Have historical value”. I should think all religions have a degree of historical value.
It must be remembered the George W Bush is a Mason, a Skull and Bones man, and a member of Bohemian Grove (The Bohemian Club). He is part of the New World Order agenda, just as his father was. The economy began to get shaky, Israel needed oil, Bush wanted to further the New World Order agenda, he also wanted to get revenge on Iraq for trying to kill his father (Shortly after Gulf War 1, Iraqi agents tried to kill Bush Sr when he visited Kuwait).
Mr. Bush, why are American soldiers dying in Iraq?
Mr. Bush, where are the WMDs that you spoke of?
Mr. Bush, a report released a few days ago stated that Al-Qaeda had no links to Iraq outside of 3 meetings that took place in the Sudan in 1992 between an Iraqi agent and an Al-Qaeda man, and that nothing materialized from these meetings. Why did you state otherwise? Why did you try to make the American people associate Iraq with Al-Qaeda?
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/16/911.commission/index.html
9/11 REPORT HIGHLIGHTS
· No "credible evidence" that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda
Mr. Bush, why did you promise Israel that if the Iraqis don’t reopen the pipeline, that you’ll provide them American oil, regardless of what it does to the American economy?
Mr. Bush, why did you declare to the Iraqi governing council that you would not recognize the new Iraqi state unless they reopen the Mosul-Haifa pipeline?
Mr. Bush, why has Israel already been allowed to buy over 1,500 companies in Iraq?
Mr. Bush, who is running America? (Read below for your answer).
"Every time we do something, you tell me America will do this, will do that. I want to tell you something very clear; don’t worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."
- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to Former Prime Minister Shimon Peres - October 3, 2001
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http://www.uwsa.com/pipermail/uwsa/2002q3/032945.html
http://www.mediamonitors.net/khodr49.html
Why are American soldiers dying in Iraq in a war that has nothing to do with American interests but rather everything to do with Israeli interests.
When will Americans wake up and realize what is being done to their country. Right now American men and women are fighting and dying in a war that is not their war, for a nation that is not theirs. If Israel wants oil, let them fight and die for it. Not one drop of American blood for all the oil in Iraq.