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T H E N E W F A S C I S T D O C T R I N E by Anneke Auer, April 2003 © |
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Day Fourteen. It makes me sick, really physically sick, to have to watch the war propaganda in the media. The "fascinating images" and advanced technology, how political correct and humane this war is, and how evil "the enemy" is... Meanwhile the dead bodies of children are loaded upon trucks and who knows what is going on in Western and Northern Iraq. Everywhere across the US and Brittain billboards appear with "We support our troops", and even Madonna is praying for the soldiers. But what the soldiers and their families don't realize, is that there is a distinctive pattern in US foreign policy: building up an enemy in order to be able to fight against him afterwards for economic and political reasons that do not necessarily have anything to do with an "enemy". |
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 US supported Nazi-Germany Financing and recruting the Taliban Arming Saddam Hussein (Iraq-Gate) |
Arming Saddam Hussein again American Global Leadership Changing values |
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Corporate America helped to finance the rise of Hitler and continued during World War II to provide economic support for Nazi Germany. For example, according to former New York Times reporter Charles Higham, in 1944, with the active support of the State Department, 48,000 tons a month of American oil were exported to Germany via Spain (Franco) (Trading with the Enemy - The Nazi-American Money Plot 1933-1949). According to Henry Ford, the purpose of this policy was to provide the means for Nazi Germany and Great Britain to destroy each other, leaving the field to the US (Page 157). This aim was excellently fulfilled. At the end of World War II not only was Germany ruined but the British empire also went down, with obvious advantages for corporate interests in the US. Wall Street's investments in Hitler were highly profitable.  top |
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The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 and in 1986 CIA director William Casey decided to end the Russian occupation with 3 important, but in those days very secret measures. 1. He gained the support in Congress to supply the Pakistani mudjaheddin (he called them 'freedom fighters') with American Stinger missiles to take down Soviet airplanes above Afghanistan. He also sent CIA-personnel to train the Islamic guerilla fighters (with amongst them Osama Bin Laden). Some were trained in Fort Benning, Georgia. 2. The CIA, the British M16 and Pakistan's secret service ISI agreed upon coordinating guerilla warfare against Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, the Islamic underbelly of the Soviet Union that supplied the Soviet troops in Afghanistan. ISI did the job in 1987. 3. Casey sent the CIA to Pakistan to recrute radical Muslims, so that they could fight side by side with the mujaheddin against the Soviets in Afghanistan. |
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According to Central Asia expert Ahmed Rashid, in his book "Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia" (2000), the US and Pakistan decided in 1994 to create a stable government in Afghanistan. One to end the civil war in order to contract Unocal (California) for building an essential pipeline from Turkmenistan to Pakistan. They also decided, through Pakistan's ISI, to fund and arm the Taliban to fight against the Northern Alliance, and did so until 1999. The interest of Pakistan in this deal was the profit they could make from activities around the pipeline in the port of Karachi. The Saudi Red Crescent, the secret service of the US's close friend and business partner Saudi Arabia (who wanted to promote fundamental Islamism in their country and at the same time get rid of other 'unwanted elements'), took care of a vast flow of Saudi money to the Makthab, a fundamentalist Islamic terrorist group, that later bombed the World Trade Center in New York and the US embassies in Africa in 1989. The Reagan administration wanted to make the world believe that the whole Islamic world was fighting aganst the Soviet Union, backed up by the US. President Reagan compared the mudjaheddin warriors with the 'Founding Fathers', and of course the Founding Fathers were happy to receive the American weapons and the millions of dollars to enforce their armies. top |
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In 1982, Iraq was on the brink of losing its war with Iran. At the time, the United States was officially neutral in the Iran-Iraq conflict, but in June that year president Reagan decided that the US could not afford to allow Iraq to lose the war to Iran. CIA director Casey personally spearheaded the effort to ensure that Iraq was provided with billions of dollars of credits, U.S. military intelligence and advice, and closely monitored third country arms sales to Iraq to make sure that Iraq had the military weaponry required such as cluster bombs and anti-armor penetrators. The United States approved, assisted and encouraged Egypt's (Mubarak) sale of weaponry, munitions and vehicles to Iraq. Also Israel asked the US for a secret financial support to arm Saddam Hussein (due to the growing Iranian influence and presence in Lebanon), and Donald Rumsfeld went to Baghdad to make this offer to Tariq Aziz, who immediately rejected the offer: Saddam Hussein would have executed him on the spot. Links: www.cjr.org/year/93/2/iraqgate.asp and www.fair.org/extra/9505/iraqgate.html top |
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At the moment, Iraq hasn't attacked any country for more than 12 years. Just 8 days before Iraq's invasion of Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990, the U.S. envoy to Baghdad gave what appeared to be a green light for the invasion when she met with Saddam Hussein. An Iraqi transcript of the meeting quotes ambassador April Glaspie: "We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary (of State James) Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait is not associated with America." After Operation Desert Storm, the Iraqi army was in a deplorable state, and the country had to cope with various economical sanctions and the oil-for-food program, that implied that the profit made from selling Iraqi oil should be spent on humanitarian aid. But, it was only five years ago when vice president Richard B. Cheney, as chief executive of the oil-field supply corporation Halliburton Co., was engaged in secret business dealings with Saddam's regime by selling Iraq oil production equipment and spare parts to get the Iraqi oil fields up and running, according to confidential United Nations records. |
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As secretary of defense in the first Bush administration, Cheney helped to lead a multinational coalition against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War and to devise a comprehensive economic embargo to isolate Saddam Hussein's government. After Cheney was named chief executive of Halliburton in 1995, he promised to maintain a hard line against Baghdad. But his stance changed when it appeared that Halliburton was headed for financial disaster in the mid-1990s. In 1998, Cheney oversaw Halliburton's acquisition of Dresser Industries Inc., the unit that sold oil equipment to Iraq through two subsidiaries. Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co. sold water and sewage treatment pumps, spare parts for oil facilities and pipeline equipment to Baghdad through French affiliates from the first half of 1997 to the summer of 2000, according to UN records. Ingersoll Dresser Pump also signed contracts - later blocked by Clinton - to help repair an Iraqi oil terminal that US-led military forces destroyed in the Gulf War, the Washington Post reported in a June 2001 story. The Halliburton subsidiaries and several other American and foreign oil supply companies helped Iraq increase its crude exports from $4 billion in 1997 to nearly $18 billion in 2000. Since the program began, Iraq has exported oil worth more than $40 billion. "We've not done any business in Iraq since U.N. sanctions were imposed on Iraq in 1990, and I had a standing policy that I wouldn't do that." Cheney lies on the ABC-TV news program "This Week" on July 30, 2000 |
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US and European officials have argued that the increase in production also expanded Saddam's ability to use some of that money for weapons, luxury goods and palaces. Security Council diplomats estimate that Iraq may be skimming off as much as 10% of the proceeds from the oil-for-food program, according to the Post. And earlier this year, Halliburton was chosen as one of the companies to rebuild Iraq's dilapidated oil fields following a US led attack on the country. It's only through the sale of Iraqi oil that Saddam would be able to afford to obtain such weapons. If Saddam was in fact building nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction, which some news reports allege could be used against American and British troops, Cheney is partially responsible. top |
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It is obvious that the recent "US against Saddam Hussein" policy is not motivated by his alleged or real possession of weapons of mass destruction - there is still no 'smoking gun'. There are economic and geopolitical interests at stake that have yet to be clearly identified. The main story cannot be oil alone, because Saddam Hussein would gladly cooperate with the US oil industry if he got the chance. He was even ready to receive Palestinian refugees from Lebanon in order to promote a Pax Americana in the Middle East. A possible central motivation can be found in the paper, "Rebuilding America's Defenses" of the organization ('think tank')The Project for the New American Century (PNAC) written as early as September 2000. Also see: www.warblogging.com and cryptome.org |
| Some of PNAC's members are: Dick Cheney (vice president), Donald Rumsfeld (defense secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), Jeb Bush (George W Bush's younger brother and Gov. of Florida), Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff), Richard Armitage (Foreign Affairs secretary), Richard Perle (chairman Defense Policy Board) and R. James Woolsey (former CIA director). | |
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"The oil can is mightier than the sword." Donald Rumsfeld quotes Senator Everett Dirksen in 'Rumsfeld Rules' (1974)  |
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September 11 gave the Bush Administration the necessary pretext to launch an "anti-terror-campaign" which facilitates perfectly the implementation of the goals sketched in PNAC's paper. It is frightening to realize that a group of individuals has plotted and planned an ugly future for America, and that they've succeeded in taking over the leadership of the country and have begun implementing their plans. Personally, I think that when people, US politicians, promote the developement some kind of biological weapon to target "certain genotypes" (Asian, African?), thus suggesting some kind of racial warfare, they can easily be labeled as imperialist fascists and present a serious menace to the world. top |
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The "enemy" the US soldier is facing at this moment is mainly using weapons that were provided by his own country. And, let's turn this around, would you be so thrilled when a strange far-away muslim country is bombing your cities and killing your family, who claims it is "liberating" you? "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out." George W. Bush, March 2002 in the White House Anyway, whatever happened to Osama Bin Laden? Obviously, the failure in finding 'the enemy' needs to be covered up by creating a new one, a new threat to the US - in this case Saddam Hussein. "Fuck Saddam. We're taking him out.", said president Bush at a meeting in the White House in March 2002. Saddam Hussein, financed and armed by the US for years and years, supplied with anthrax and cyanide by the US (to use against Iran) and who knows what else. And where was the Voice of America when he gassed the Kurds, his own people? If you want the world to be a better place, and want to defend democracy and human values, you should fight against the Coalition and all the truly evil plans they have in store for the world. The changing values of the Land of the Free, firmly built on the corpses of Indians and African slaves, need to be reconsidered. And I might add that the old slogan "Yankee go home" needs some thorough dusting and polishing. top |
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Some sources, credits & links: www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org / www.fpif.org / www.strategypage.com / www.conspiracyplanet.com / www.dissidentvoice.org / www.moles.org / www.bush-co.com / www.corpwatch.org / www.opensecrets.org / www.rense.com / www.guardian.co.uk / www.indymedia.org / english.aljazeera.net / www.fair.org / zmag.org / www.opednews.com / commondreams.org |
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