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YOU GOTTA HAVE NUKES

You have to have Nukes to get into that very exclusive club of countries
which have nuclear weapons but it is so monopolistic that those who do
don't want those who don't to have them. Those with nuclear weapons
threaten the world and each other with annihilation. BUT, they are not
about to give them up. Only South Africa did that and I think it was
because they didn't trust themselves and each other to have them - but
they also claimed to give up bioweapons and recently a scientist there
admitted that they have biological weapons of mass destruction.

North Korea says their options if threatened by the U.S. would be to use
them or they could sell them. The U.S. was more concerned with Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction than it was North Korea, but all that may be
changing. North Korea has oil too (recently discovered) and it is a lot
more technologically advanced (though still basic by U.S. and British
standards) than Iraq ever was.

Washington however still declares it's right to conduct "pre-emptive"
strikes against ANYONE at ANYTIME. This attitude and statements coming
from the imperialist Bush administration puts the North Koreans on notice
that possession of nuclear weapons is their defense against an
out-of-control unelected-president who considers them "evil" and is
divinely inspired to eliminate all evil (and hasten Armageddon).

YOU GOTTA HAVE GERMS

The U.S. armed Iraq with chemicals during the Iran-Iraq war.

"A U.S. Senate inquiry in 1995 accidentally revealed that during the
Iran-Iraq war the United States had sent Iraq samples of all the strains
of germs used by the latter to make biological weapons. The strains were
sent by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [sic] and the
Americna Type Culture Collection to the same sites in Iraq that UN weapons
inspectors later determined were part of Iraq's biological weapons
program." [Times of India, October 2002 as quoted in (RUPE) Research Unit
for Political Economy, "Behind the Invasion of Iraq"]

YOU GOTTA HAVE CHEMICALS

The Research Unit for Political Economy (based in India) writes that "It
is ironic to hear the United States today talk of Saddam Hussein's attacks
on the Kurds in 1988. These attacks had their full support:" [ibid]

"As part of the Anfal campaign against the Kurds (February to September
1988), the Iraqi regime used chemical weapons extensively against its own
civilian population. Between 50,0000 and 186,000 Kurds were killed in
these attacks, over 1,200 Kurdish villages were destroyed, and 300,000
Kurds were displaced...The Anfal campaign was carried out with the
acquiescence of the West. Rather than condemn the massacres of Jurds, the
United States escalated its supprot for Iraq. It joined in Iraq's attacks
on Iranian facilites, blowing up two Iranian oil rigs and destroying an
Iranian frigate a month after the Halabja attack *. Within two months,
senior U.S. officials were encouraging corporate coordination through an
Iraqi state-sponsored forum. The United States administraiton opposed, and
eventually blocked, a U.S. Senate bill that cut off loans to Iraq. The
United States approved exports to Iraq of items with dual civilian and
military use at double the rate in the aftermath of Halabja as it did
before 1988. Iraqi written guarantees about civilian use were accepted by
the United States commerce department, which did not request licenses and
reviews (as it did for many other countries). The Bush (Senior)
administration approved $695,000 worth of advanced data transmission
devices the day before Iraq invaded Kuwait." [RUPE]

* (A recent CIA report indicated that the gas used at Halabja most likely
was used by the Iranians and not the Iraqis as is often claimed by the
Bush administration. See http://pnews.org/ for links to articles about
this revelation which has been covered up until recently.)

It was all about the MONEY and those commercial contracts with Iraq. It
was about stopping the Iranian Revolution from spreading. It was about
oil. And a lot of it has been covered up while the U.S. puts a
"humanitarian" spin on their behavior and what has always been the
American agenda. The full extent of U.S. involvement with Iraq seeps out
over time and revelations like the one from the CIA reveals just how far
the administration (all of them) will go to make their case and convince
Americans to fight unjust and aggressive wars for the ruling elites.

"The full extend of U.S. complicity in Iraq's `weapons of mass
destruction' program became clear in December 2002, when Iraq submitted an
11,800-page reprot on these programs to the UN Security Council. The
United States insisted on examining the report before anyone else, even
before the weapons inspectors, and promptly insisted on removed 8,000
pages from it before allowing the non permanent members of the Security
Council to look at it. Iraq apparently leaked the list of American
companies whose names appear in the report to a German daily, DIE
TAGEZEITUNG. Apart from American companies, German firms were heavily
implicated."[RUPE]

"(Saddam Hussein's use of chemical weapons, like his suppression of
internal opposition, has been continuously useful to U.S. interests:
condoned and abetted during periods of alliance between the two countries,
it is routinely exploited for propaganda purposes during periods of
tension and war.)" [RUPE]


Hank Roth
http://pnews.org/

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