[Peace-discuss] Drumbeats for war

[parenti susan rose]

Doug, Did you write this? The emphasis is on Sadaam and the propaganda
phrase 'weapons of mass destruction'---all of which support the pending
attacks on Iraq. While I clump Sadaam with Bin Laden and George Bush, in
terms of elitism and use of violent power, I don't support the propaganda
smoke screen.
curious, susan, who is leaving for Croatia today

On Sun, 18 Aug 2002 Dlind49 at aol.com wrote:

> 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
>
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