From jad@ckuxb.att.com Ukn Feb 3 08:16:59 1993 Received: from att-out.att.com by css.itd.umich.edu (5.67/2.2) id AA08904; Wed, 3 Feb 93 08:16:56 -0500 Message-Id: <9302031316.AA08904@css.itd.umich.edu> To: pauls@css.itd.umich.edu Date: Wed, 3 Feb 93 08:13:50 EST From: jad@ckuxb.att.com Status: RO X-Status: Article 20008 of alt.conspiracy: Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,talk.politics.misc,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa Subject: Part 9, LURE TO WAR: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait [Stockwell] Message-ID: <1993Feb2.135916.8649@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Keywords: LURE TO WAR: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait Sender: usenet@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU Organization: University of Virginia, FREE Public Access UNIX! Lines: 151 I made the following transcript from a tape recording of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station WBAI-FM (99.5) 505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl. New York, NY 10018 (212) 279-0707 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) JOHN STOCKWELL [former CIA official and author of THE PRAETORIAN GUARD]: Now we are at war. Everyone knows Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait on the 2nd of August. George Bush immediately responded with U.S. forces, and he's had an unwavering commitment to a violent solution there. Of course, this was no surprise to me because I was predicting that he needed a war. They needed to get the nation back to war. They succeeded. Vietnam is history. They've erased the stigma. Our united nation is enamored of war again, and hanging to the TV set. And most of the nation is cheering and applauding and waiting for us to engage on the ground and begin the ground war right now, as we're talking here tonight. And he announced the exciting concept of a "New World Order," of which he perceives himself as being the leader, the framer, the Julius Caesar if you will, bringing together the "New World Order" that will probably dominate world activities for the next, who knows, a thousand years, in different forms, or twenty-five years, or whatever, unless other events, like the pollution, intervene. In January, he got the U.N., of course, to approve it. And this is the way he was able to do that: The U.N. had never supported the United States, but he was bringing together this "New World Order" now that the United States economy was subservient to the World bankers. That's where the "New World Order" would serve his interests; he would serve their interests. They backed him on this coalition and on this rigged and orchestrated war in the Persian Gulf. For the first time [now, there is] massive support from the United Nations, with no veto, because the Soviet Union, which has the veto power -- having been crippled itself at the end of the Cold War and needing cooperation from the World Financial Order -- had to support the United States and George Bush in this thing. On January the 2nd, the U.S. Congress approved the use of force under the U.N. Charter or mandate. And on the 16th, we watched the launching of "The Good War," the Persian Gulf War. Now, the rationales that make this thing so saleable, of course, is that forty percent of the world's oil is at stake in the region. Bush called it Iraq's "bald aggression," hoping that nobody would notice HIS bald aggression against Panama just a few months before. I'm paraphrasing what he says: "Saddam Hussein is demonstrably an evil, ugly, terrible man. He's somebody who could be painted into the Hitler image." As you know, they even published him on the cover of a magazine [The New Republic], trimming his moustache to make him look like Hitler himself. The rape of Kuwait: Now Saddam Hussein claimed Iraq's historic right to Kuwait. And you might or might not agree if you were a historian. I would not agree that legally he had any such claim whatsoever. But his personality came through. They did not go in and welcome their brothers and sisters and hug them and kiss them. There was rape and pillage and hostages and brutality. It was an ugly thing, which made it, again, saleable to George Bush. Just the sheer evil of what they had done and how they had done it made it saleable to the People of the World and to the United States. And they were developing a nuclear capability. And this man, Saddam Hussein, had attacked Iran, with our encouragement, in 1980, and then he had invaded Kuwait. So he is seen as an aggressor. And he is developing nuclear weapons. Therefore, he has to be stopped. Other countries, including countries in that region who had nuclear weapons [Israel], who put their forces into other countries [Israel], of course, are just simply ignored because they happen to be our allies. He was able to say that we were fighting for cheaper gasoline. I don't know if you know this, but immediately, in the first week of August, my gasoline prices shot up by 30 percent. And there was no shortage of oil in the World. And the Arab emirs were not getting that extra 30 percent tax on gasoline. This was the middleman, the oilman, of whom George Bush and his family are members, as a matter of fact. And magically, in order to make us feel good about this war, guess what happened when we went to war in mid-January? The prices were dropped down. So everybody is saying: Hey, we're at war and the gasoline prices have gone down. So they feel a little good about it, obviously without understanding. Once again, if I may repeat, Senator Hiram Johnson's book of 1917: "WHEN WAR COMES, THE FIRST CASUALTY IS THE TRUTH." What we're dealing with here is the power of the football pep rally, as matched against the power of a seminar on political science, if you will, or this meeting, or the intellectual grappling with the issues. Very intelligent people can forget their intelligence when they go to a football pep rally and they begin to cheer: "Kill -- kill -- kill -- kill." And they get into it. And they get excited. And this is the war spirit that Lyndon Johnson wouldn't tap, refused to tap, in the Vietnam War, that George Bush has successfully tapped in this war. I submit to you that this is not, in fact, "a good war." There's nothing good about it, as far as I can see. The oil, for example, that we're supposedly fighting for, is not our oil. It belongs to the oligarchies of Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. And they sell it to Japan and Germany. We get seven percent of our oil from that region altogether, and we have alternatives, even there. Japan, which depends on that oil, didn't want this war because the war would interrupt the flow of oil and endanger the sources and installations. And they can buy the oil from Saddam Hussein just as well as they can buy it from the Saudis or the Kuwaitis. The United States insisted on proceeding into this war for our own reasons. And there was a great rift in our society because even the Commandant of the Marine Corps and General Schwartzkopf himself, were against the war. They were saying: "Let sanctions work. This is a dangerous thing -- an unnecessary thing. We shouldn't do it." We were orchestrated into it because George Bush, the politician, and the people that he would rally to him, needed it and wanted it. "We are fighting for democracy and freedom in the Middle East." Come again? This is what they said, of course, lying, in Nicaragua and in Panama: "We were fighting to restore democracy." But certainly, there isn't even a pretense of democracy in the Middle East. Our allies over there in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait ..... Forgive me if this sounds chauvinistic. It's not. I've lived seventeen years overseas and laid my life on the line for people of the Third World. But the leaders of Saudi Arabia, for example, are not, by my humanist standards, nice people. They stone women to death for adultery. How many people saw the docudrama, THE DEATH OF A PRINCESS? This is a true story. A granddaddy billionaire there ordered his 19-year-old granddaughter shot in a village square because she had sex with her lover. These are the people that we're fighting and dying for, to restore their oil and their source of billions of dollars to them. I can't see it. I wouldn't spend five dollars for one American life to defend their oil interests. But nevertheless, of course, they're saying that we're fighting for peace -- that we'll restore peace into the Middle East. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies instead of the bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People, then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism. So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places, both on and off campus. The need for concerned people, alerting their neighbors to overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as society itself. John DiNardo