[Peace-discuss] Drumbeats for war

[Dlind49 at aol.com]

The drumbeats for war escalate. The escalation is based on real and perceived 
threats orchestrated by Sadaam Hussein. The Bush administration has made it 
perfectly clear that a regime change must occur.  One aspect of the reasoning 
is the possession of and possible use of weapons of mass destruction by the 
Iraqi military against United States interests and U.S. Allies or coalition 
partners.  During the Iran - Iraq war the United States and other U.S 
coalition governments permitted and actually encouraged companies to provide 
Iraq with the chemical, biological, and radiological precursors and weapons 
for use against Iran (Reigel Report, U.S. Senate).   Consequently with the 
initiation of the Gulf War we knew that Iraq possessed those weapons of mass 
destruction provide by the United States and had in fact developed, 
stockpiled, and weaponized additional weapons of mass destruction to include 
but not limited to; sarin, cyclo-sarin, soman, tabun, VX, Novachuks, Anthrax, 
botulinium toxin, bacillus globigii, and staphylococcus.   During all phases 
of the Gulf War coalition forces were exposed to low level releases of these 
agents as a consequence to deliberate U.S. military artillery strikes, air 
strikes, explosives use and Iraqi land mines, Scuds, artillery rounds, and 
sprayers that were unleashed on U.S. coalition forces during combat actions. 
Both the U.S. and Iraqi military in also destroyed of the industrial 
infrastructure releasing all kinds of hazardous materials. The Iraqi 
destruction of over 600 oil wells released a toxic mess that was distributed 
over a region with a 250 miles radius from each well. Then, we have the 
deliberate use by U.S. and British forces of depleted uranium munitions.  
Upon the completion of the ground war phase U.S. coalition partners entered 
Kuwait and Iraq to destroy the known stockpiles of weapons of mass 
destruction (WMD's). The United Nations team of which Scott Ritter was member 
also spent years finding and destroying Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.  
Consequently, all of these combat and post combat releases of WMD's have left 
trail of death and illness in most military personnel and too many 
noncombatants.  One reason for the extent of the known health and 
environmental problems is that U.S. coalition forces just ignored and still 
do ignore what happened. Military personnel had defective equipment, 
inadequate education and training, and virtually no medical care.  
Noncombatants were just simply ignored as if they did not exist.

The next reason is the continued attacks on U.S. interests abroad and home.  
A truck bomb attack on U.S. military barracks at Kobar Towers in Saudi Arabia 
occurred because there was absolutely no security in place to prevent an 
enemy from approaching and launching an attack. The next incidents, which 
involved attacks on U.S. Embassies also, could have been prevented by 
adequate security that was simply ignored. Then we have the attack on the 
U.S.S. Cole that once more involved a complete failure of security and 
defense in a known hostile area.  The culmination was the attacks on 
September 1, 2001 that could have been prevented if desired based on all of 
the warnings that had been issued by foreign governments, the United Nations, 
and U.S. intelligence agencies.

What I have described consists of willful actions resulting in death, 
illness, and destruction that provoked a response and also enabled various 
groups to succeed in their efforts. The purpose in part was and still is to 
gain public and political support for military action. Today, U.S. officials 
are discussing the implementation of a pre-planned and tested preemptive 
attack on Iraq and any nation that refuses to comply with U.S. directives and 
wishes.  We must prevent this preemptive military attack! The reasons are not 
the establishment democracy but for geopolitical and economic reasons. 
Simply, we must do what is right for God and the citizens of