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Who's STIFFING the World?

Dick | 07.09.2002 12:06

Without interviews of SCOTT RITTER (and others) there will be NO real "debate" presented to the American people who will soon have the DRAMATIC WAR they seem to want, a great bloodbath to report to Americans, who will be riveted in fascination. Too bad so many innocent civilians need to be slaughtered to give TV networks high ratings!

Sept. 4th, Bush said Saddam Hussein was "STIFFING" the world
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WHO'S "STIFFING" THE WORLD, Saddam - OR BUSH?

Iraq's civilian infrastructure was destroyed during the Gulf War with needed repairs largely prevented by us, and its economy is ruined by 10+ years of draconian sanctions, plus day after day "no fly zone" bombing, not sparing civilian areas, a 100 plane attack just Thursday!

SCOTT RITTER, OUR EXPERT FORMER UNSCOM ARMS INSPECTOR IN IRAQ THRU 1998, INSISTS THAT IRAQ IS TOTALLY DISARMED AND NO THREAT TO ANYONE NOW OR INTO THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE!

President Bush (parroting his several PRO-ISRAEL, war-hawk advisors) says the opposite.


WHICH MAN IS MORE BELIEVABLE AND RELIABLE?
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* PLEASE CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING...
Iraq has NO nuclear weapons and no meaningful aircraft or missiles left to deliver any of the supposed "hidden" Chemicals and Biologicals (which existence Scott Ritter disputes, maintaining that his UNSCOM teams successfully destroyed 90 to 95% of Iraq's WMD and ALL facilities and supplies needed to build any in the future.)
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* RITTER: "We confirmed that 96 per cent of Iraq's 98 missiles were destroyed. As for chemical weapons, even if Iraq had succeeded in hiding stocks of sarin and tabun nerve agents, these chemicals have a shelf life of five years; after that they deteriorate and become useless gunk."
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Also, our CIA reported that Iraq in the past 10 years has NOT threatened its neighbors and has had NOTHING to do with global terrorism
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* DO NOT FORGET THAT SCOTT RITTER
(hated by Saddam), resigned from UNSCOM in 1998 TO PROTEST our continuing "genocidal" sanctions against Iraq, which Ritter and UN agencies like UNICEF, accurately report have DIRECTLY resulted in widespread malnutrition, disease and the deaths of more than a million and half Iraqi civilians, 500,000 of them children through just 1995 and more since. These are internationally known and published UN supported FACTS, though poorly reported, if at all, by our lazy American national "news" media. And UN permitted open oil sales by Iraq are all paid directly to the UN first, whose agencies then give Iraq money for Food and Medicines, which the UN agency's inspectors have carefully policed. Year after year the UN has verified the monies were NOT diverted to arms purchases.
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* IF WE NOW ATTACK IRAQ,
do any of you honestly believe that in our military's plan for saturation bombing of Iraq's urban centers, cluster bombs and poisonous depleted uranium tipped explosives, will NOT be used? We used them during the Gulf War in Iraq. We used them on Serbia in 1999. During the Gulf War, only 7% of our bombs and missiles were guided, "smart." 25% still missed their targets. Reportedly, the majority of the bombs we dropped on Iraq in 1991 were "dumb" bombs, inaccurately dropped from a safe (above anti aircraft fire) 30,000 feet and higher. They landed everywhere, not sparing residential areas. Or don't we care how tens of thousands - or more - of innocent Iraqi civilians will be slaughtered and maimed by our American WMD technology? ... in an insane attack that is totally unnecessary!
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* AS WE SIT SAFE AND COMFORTABLE ON OUR SOFAS,
once again "entertained" by network TV, presenting the exciting drama of mass bombing of Iraq, will any cameras move in close to show the smashed homes, the blood, the scattered body parts of men, women and children? Not likely. Note how little we've ever seen about our bombing in stone-age Afghanistan, where some 5,000 civilians may have "accidentally" died, labeled "collateral damage." If we attack - and most probably carpet bomb Iraq and its cities - remember that the Iraqi population is largely packed into those cities.
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* UNREPORTED TO AMERICANS... ISRAEL'S "STATE TERRORISM."
There is existing "STATE" terrorism by ONLY one nation in the area. Continuous STATE terrorism against unarmed Palestine. Tiny Israel, a very REAL and PRESENT (not just future) threat to all its neighbors, is armed with vast numbers of existing WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, which its leaders publicly assure WILL BE USED if they decide to do so. Tiny Israel, led by merciless Sharon, is a PRESENT TIME THREAT, yet its possession of many Weapons of Mass Destruction, goes UNREPORTED, unmentioned to most Americans, by our 100% pro-Israel news media.
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* WHY THE URGENCY TO ATTACK IRAQ?
ONE MAJOR REASON: THAT'S WHAT ARIEL SHARON WANTS BUSH TO DO!
Tiny but wealthy ISRAEL, commanded by Ariel Sharon, is URGING - INSISTING - Bush quickly attack Iraq, because Sharon and his Likud partners fear Iraq might some day oppose Sharon's openly known near future plans to expand Israel's military and economic domination of the entire middle east. Do not dismiss Sharon's known plan to "transfer' (ethnically cleanse) all Palestinians out of Israel, across the river into Jordan or into Southern Iraq. (While we're attacking Iraq?) Do you think Israel won't opportunistically join in on an attack on weak Iraq? Sharon doesn't need 4,000 battle tanks just to suppress unarmed Palestinians.
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* A SECONDARY REASON TO ATTACK IRAQ
is undeniably (even stated) to take military possession of Iraq's vast oil deposits - and place them "safely" under direct control of American and British oil corporations - and probably Israel (whose delayed "Operation Shekhinah" has large quantities of special flexible pipes ready to quickly lay down, to extend from the Southern Iraq Oil fields to Israel).
Some Bush supporters also think WAR ON IRAQ will serve as a DISTRACTION to take attention off news about our crashing economy and the thefts by corporate Execs.
Clinton used distractions to take attention off his own disgraces. He succeeded.
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* RUSSIA WAS SUCCESSFULY DETERRED FROM USING ITS THOUSANDS OF WEAPONS...
Unlike little Iraq, Russia had (and still has) tens of thousands of nuclear, biological and chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction that were not used against America because Russians were DETERRED by fear of America's own Weapons of Mass Destruction. Iraq and Saddam fear the deterrence of America's AND Israel's WMD. Thus, there is NO RATIONAL EXCUSE to attack Iraq.
OR - is Ariel Sharon and tiny Israel, now urging Bush to attack Iraq, so infinitely powerful within American POLITICS and through our staunchly pro-Israel NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA, that Sharon assumes he can successfully DICTATE American policy to an obeying President and obeying majority (of both parties) in Congress? We will soon know.
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* BUT WHAT COULD DETER ISRAEL'S LEADERS
if they and Sharon decide they NEED to nuke their perceived enemies, Iraq, Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Palestine? George Bush threatening to cut off America's $3 to up to $10 billion yearly free financial support? Or Bush THREATENING to nuke Israel in retaliation? Both most unlikely.
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* SHARON HAS BEEN A MERCILESS TERRORIST SINCE 1948, NOW CARRYING OUT "STATE" TERRORISM AGAINST PALESTINIANS...
Now commanding Israel's massive military, merciless Sharon has daily used Israeli STATE terrorism against millions of Palestinians, literally imprisoned and surrounded within their fenced and divided "prison" camp cities, many restricted to their homes by near total curfew for over 2 months. Schools are closed. Those who go outside are shot at. 80% of Palestinians are nearly penniless and without jobs, prevented from going to work, to buy (or afford) food, or even reach hospitals.
UN agencies report over 50% of Palestinian children are now suffering from malnutrition. BE HONEST, that is STATE terrorism, carried far beyond even the daily shooting and bombing of Palestinians and bulldozing of their homes. How about some needed "regime change" in Israel? Can anyone rationally deny Sharon has been - and is now - a TERRORIST who is threatening his neighbors - and world peace?
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* ABOUT TERRORIST HAMAS. FACT: SHARON PERSONALLY, WITH PAST ISRAELI GOVERNMENTS, ORIGINALLY HELPED CREATE AND FINANCE HAMAS (its offshoot is Islamic Jihad) AS A CONVENIENT EXTREMIST COUNTER FORCE TO ARAFAT'S SECULAR PLO.
This connection between Hamas and Sharon, continuing CONVENIENTLY today, has been well documented by LYNDON LAROUCHE and the HAMAS history verified by our present American Ambassador in Israel and reporters. Provocations by Sharon bring revenge terror attacks by Hamas, providing Sharon excuses for retaliation "curfews" and STATE terror attacks on ALL Palestinias, especially Arafat's PLO, as well as on minor Hamas individuals. A "marriage" of convenience to insure Sharon's domination, planned never to end, over Palestine's suffering millions.
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* IRAQ HAS NO NUCLEAR WEAPONS. ISRAEL HAS THOUSANDS...
Israel's nuclear stockpiles are Internationally illegal, notes Scott Ritter Tiny Israel has stored thousands of nuclear warheads, has many hundreds of ready to go nuclear bombs, plus large stores of Biological and Chemical weapons, and a huge air force and missiles (even ICBMs, they boast can reach any place on earth) able to deliver those weapons and instantly nuke any nation Sharon determines. Weak, toothless Iraq (if Ritter can be believed) is no threat to anyone. ISRAEL IS. Then why isn't Bush worried about Israel? Worried about "loose cannon" Ariel Sharon?
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SCOTT RITTER SAYS CHENEY WAS LYING!
Ritter reminds us that Iraq did NOT kick out the Inspectors in 1998... It was Ritter's successor RICHARD BUTLER - aware of Clinton's (wag the dog?) renewed bombing to begin in a few days - WHO ORDERED THE INSPECTORS OUT OF IRAQ!
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Some URLs related to the above...
THE GASSING OF IRAQ'S KURDS.
Jude Wanniski
About a February 1990 US Army War College report that concluded Iraq was NOT responsible for the Halabja attack, stating it was the Iranian bombardment that had actually killed the Kurds.
 http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/12-14-00.html
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. EIR - WILL SHARON LAUNCH ANOTHER 911 AGAINST THE US?
By Jeffrey Steinberg, Executive Intelligence Review 8-30-2
 http://www.rense.com/general28/llng.htm
(TO PROVOKE BUSH - AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE - INTO AN ATTACK ON IRAQ?)
This is a startling, controversial charge from the Lyndon LaRouche website. BACKGROUND: Since just after 911, Lyndon LaRouche has constantly asserted that the WTC aircraft attacks were directed FROM INSIDE AMERICA, a carefully arranged ATTEMPTED Coup D'etat against the Bush government by "rogues," traitors, high up in American Intelligence and the Military, aided by another government. Their identities yet to be discovered.)
www.larouchepub.com/eiw
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IRAQ - THE LYING GAME
THE DECEIT USED TO JUSTIFY A WAR AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN
By John Pilger The Mirror - UK 8-30-2
(Pilger also quotes extensively from Scott Ritter)
 http://www.rense.com/general28/dedec.htm
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INCREDIBLY, BUSH IS APPARENTLY "STIFFING" US ALL ABOUT WAITING FOR CONGRESS' APPROVAL...
IRAQ INVASION ALREADY STARTED!
2 Globe-Intel/Yvonne Ridley (and UK Sunday Express) reports.
on Archive Page...  http://www.globe-intel.net/
Aug 20, 02: "FIRST SHOT FIRED AGAINST IRAQ"
5,000 Turkish Commandos and US Special Forces capture Northern Iraq Air Base. Aug. 29, 02: "ANOTHER STEP TOWARDS WAR WITH IRAQ"
Followup Story... Captured Iraqi Base is being readied for use by U.S. aircraft
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ISRAEL PLANS BLITZKRIEG TO CAPTURE ARAB OIL FIELDS
Operation Shekhina, Part One
Joe Vialls, 30 January 2002
 http://geocities.com/operationshekhinah/one.html
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THE OVERTHROW OF THE AMERICAN REPUBLIC - Part 14
By Sherman H. Skolnick 9-2-2
 skolnick@ameritech.net www.skolnicksreport.com
(The very controversial paraplegic Chicago investigator goes far beyond LaRouche, in contending the WTC planes were remotely controlled from the ground by traitors in our government)
 http://www.rense.com/general28/skol911.htm
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JEWISH GROUP OUTLINES PLAN TO REMOVE ALL PALESTINIANS
Newsmax.com 9-2-2
(Excerpts): A draconian plan to forcibly eject all Palestinians and remove them to a new state possibly in Iraq or Saudi Arabia has been disclosed by Gamla, a group that includes former Israeli military officers and settlers.
Gamla receives tax-deductible contributions from a New York-based charity that says its mission is to promote greater Arab-Jewish tolerance.
 http://www.rense.com/general28/remove.htm
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ISRAEL SECOND ONLY TO RUSSIA IN PROVIDING ARMS TO CHINA
By Carol Giacomo Diplomatic Correspondent 8-31-2
Copyright © 2002 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters. Reuters shall not be liable for any errors or delays in the content, or for any actions taken in reliance thereon.
 http://www.rense.com/general28/iisj.htm
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RUSSIA WARNS AMERICA AND ISRAEL AWAY FROM IRAQ
by Joe Vialls 20 Aug 2002
(Australian Private Investigator)
Report about 62 Russian Warships and carriers, planes with nuclear armed missiles, NOW in Southern Caspian due north of Iran.
 http://homepage.ntlworld.com/steveseymour/endgame/endgame.htm

NOW IRAQ IS IN THE BAG, SHARON TURNS FOCUS ON LYBIA
 http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/front_1.html

Dick

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