Why Hussein had to be stopped Part 1
- From: swayser <swayser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 23:17:06 -0400
Part-1,,The Persian Gulf produces 90% of the world's excess oil production. Excess oil is defined as oil which is in excess of what is consumed internally by a nation. The area is critical for the supply of oil to all the industrialized nations of the world.,,When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 it prompted Zbignew Brezinski to formulate the Carter Doctrine. At that time it was feared, probably correctly, that this was a move by the Soviet Union to extend its power into the Persian Gulf where its ideological enemies were dependent on its oil for their economy. This would threaten their economies.,,This doctrine was stated in James Carters 1980 state of the union address.,,This doctrine state that,,“An attempt by an outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force”.,,The inadequacy of this doctrine is obvious. Why was it restricted to “outside force”? What difference does it make who dominates the oil if they are able to shut off its flow?,,It should have read ANY FORCE.,,At that time the US was obtaining about 20% of its oil from the Gulf, Western Europe 70%, Japan 80%, China 59% and India 65%.. Clearly whoever controls oil from the Persian Gulf can hold a knife to the throat of the vast majority of the world's industrialized and developing economies..,,Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq in August 1979 upon the retirement of President Bakr. On Sept. 22, 1980 he invaded Iran, ostensibly over a dispute over the Shatt al Arab, a waterway dividing Iran from Iraq. The invasion's main thrust was not northeast toward Tehran but southeast toward the Iranian oil production fields at Khorramshahr and Abadan. At that time Iran was completely unprepared for a conflict. Hussein's army possessed about 2,400 main battle tanks against, for all practical purposes, no Iranian armored opposition. They probably couldn't have stooped Hussein from reaching Tehran had he directed his main thrust northeast toward Tehran. That would have probably ended the war right then and there, but he made sure he secured the Iranian oil production fields and facilities first. Why?,,http://reference.allrefer.com/country-guide-study/Iran/iran167.html,,http://www.country-data.com/cgi-bin/query/r-6532.html,,The United States originally backed Hussein by providing satellite intelligence. This ceased after Hussein was first accused of employing poison gas against Iranian military forces. Iran is the second largest oil producer in the Persian Gulf.,,Iran eventually stopped the Iraqis and the war ended in 1988.,,During that war Hussein had ordered attacks on Iran's military forces with both mustard gas and tabun, a nerve agent. These were reportedly produced at Samarra, so Hussein obviously had the formula, as well as the technology, to make both types of chemical agents.,,http://www.wisconsinproject.org/pubs/editorials/1990/poisongas.htm,,In 1988 Hussein ordered the Kurds in his country to be punished for sympathizing with Iran. He dispersed the nerve agents tabun, sarin and VX along with mustard gas over the town of Halabja. He murdered at least 5,000 of 80,000 inhabitants.,,http://www.terrorismcentral.com/Library/Teasers/ChemIraq.html,,Hussein continued to build his conventional forces. From a force of 2,400 tanks in 1977 he built it up to 5,500 Soviet and Chinese tanks of the T-54/55, T-62, T-72 Soviet and Chinese T-59 and T-69 type MBTs.,,Along with this were 390 strike fighters of the Soviet Mig-23, Su-7, Su-20, Su-22/23, Su2-4, Su-25, Chinese J-6 and French Mirage F-1s and 245 Fighters type Soviet MiG-21, MiG-25, Mig-29 and Chinese J-7s.,,http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/iraq/ground-equipment-intro.htm,,There was no army in the Persian Gulf with anything comparable. Hitler never had such an advantage in numbers of tanks even when he invaded Poland in 1939. When Hitler invaded the Soviet Union in 1941 he had approximately 3,300 tanks compared to over 24,000 Soviet tanks.,,Never before has a ruler amassed such a force against such negligible potential opposition.,,One must ask one's self “What did he want those massive forces for..? The most formidable forces in the Persian Gulf was Iran with maybe a couple hundred home modified variants of the Soviet T-72. The strongest air force was that of Saudi Arabia with 114 nearly totally obsolete f-5s and 78 F-15s.,,http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/gulf/rsaf.htm,,Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied Kuwait in August 1990. He announced that he had annexed the country as his 19th province. Saudi Arabia immediately asked for US help. Operation Desert Shield was quickly initiated.,,The United States, under President George Bush I gathered internal and international support and these forces moved against Hussein on January 15th 1991. The famous one hundred hour war did dreadful execution on Hussein's armored and air forces. In he war the US led forces destroyed about 3,700 of Iraq's tanks leaving Iraq with 1,800 MBTs. Still a more formidable armored force than any other in the Persian Gulf. In fact Hussein still had an army stronger than all the armies of Persian Gulf nations combined.,,Quite clearly Hussein was "doing a Hitler". He was proving himself to be an expansionist totalitarian dictator of th
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