ASSURED BY THE U.S., SADDAM INVADED KUWAIT
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April 21, 2006
The Wisdom Fund
ASSURED BY THE U.S., SADDAM INVADED KUWAIT
From the Gulf War of 1991, to September 11, 2001, and the invasion, andoccupation of Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. government and major news
media have concealed the truth.
by Enver Masud
On March 16, 2006, George W. Bush presented the U.S. National Security
Strategy (NSS) the twin pillars of which are:
- promoting freedom, justice, and human dignity;
- confronting the challenges of our time by leading a growing
community of democracies.
Defeating global terrorism is a key component of this strategy intended
to achieve the NSS goals. Indeed the war on terrorism, launched shortly
after the attacks of September 11, 2001, was intended to do just that.
Arguably the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan and Iraq have created more
"terrorists", and the facts reveal that freedom, justice, human dignity,
and democracy are not the real goals of the NSS.
1- Rumsfeld fired Gen. Garner for trying to build a democratic Iraq.
In September 2003 I asked: "Israel does not have a written constitution.
The British do not have a written constitution. The U.S. constitution
provided few benefits for the majority of Americans for over 150 years.
So why must the Iraqis wait for a new constitution before the U.S.
occupation force transfers power to them?"
Author and investigative journalist Greg Palast confirms the answer
given by many in the alternative news media. In his April 14, 2006
column, Palast relates his conversation with General Jay Garner - the
United States' first post-invasion "viceroy" in Iraq:
"Garner arrived in Kuwait City in March 2003 working under the
mistaken notion that when George Bush called for democracy in Iraq, the
President meant the Iraqis could choose their own government.
Misunderstanding the President's true mission, General Garner called for
Iraqis to hold elections within 90 days and for the U.S. to quickly pull
troops out of the cities to a desert base. 'It's their country,' the
General told Palast of the Iraqis. 'And their oil'."
Gen. Garner's tenure as "viceroy" was short-lived. "On April 21, 2003,"
writes Palast, "the very night General Garner arrived in Baghdad, he got
a call from Washington. It was Rumsfeld on the line. He told Garner, in
so many words, 'Don't unpack, Jack, you're fired'."
Garner was replaced by Paul Bremer, the Managing Director of Kissinger
Associates, who postponed elections for a year. Then "he issued 100
orders," writes Palast "selling off Iraq's economy to U.S. and foreign
operators, just as Rumsfeld's neo-con clique had desired."
2 - "The 9/11 Commission Report" offers no explanation for the collapse
of the 47-story Building 7 of the World Trade Center.
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), in a report titled
"Rebuilding America's Defenses," wrote: "the process of transformation,
even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one,
absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor."
For most Americans, reducing defense spending may be the way to a better
life. The September 11, 2001 attack on the Pentagon and the World Trade
Center was for PNAC, and its neo-con allies, the "new Pearl Harbor."
The twin towers of the World Trade Center were obliterated. The 47-story
Building 7 of the World Trade Center (WTC 7) collapsed in about seven
seconds.
"The 9/11 Commission Report" tells us that the Mayor's Office of
Emergency Management was located on the 23rd floor of WTC 7, and at 8:48
AM the Emergency Operations Center was activated, but it does not
mention the collapse of WTC 7. Major news media have largely ignored
this glaring omission.
Videos of the collapse of the 47-story WTC 7, while readily available on
alternative news sites, have generally not been shown to the public by
major news media after September 11. The collapse of the nine-story
Murrah Federal Building in downtown Oklahoma City on April 19, 1995 was
repeatedly shown on television, and initially blamed on Muslim
terrorists.
Scholars such as theologian Dr. David Ray Griffin, and MIT engineer Jeff
King question the official version of September 11. Dr. Steven E. Jones,
a physics professor at Brigham Young University, writes: "Concluding
remarks in the FEMA report on the WTC 7 collapse lend support to my
arguments: The specifics of the fires in WTC 7 and how they caused the
building to collapse ["official theory"] remain unknown at this time."
Prof. Jones attempted to make his point on MSNBC's "The Situation" with
Tucker Carlson last November.
Actor Charlie Sheen, during his appearance with radio talk show host
Alex Jones on CNN's "Showbiz Tonight" last month, said: "It seems to me
like 19 amateurs with box cutters taking over four commercial airliners
and hitting 75% of their targets, that feels like a conspiracy theory."
CNN asked its viewers: "Do you agree with Charlie Sheen that the U.S.
government covered up the real events of the 9/11 attacks?" The results
after 15,079 votes had been cast: 83% voted "Yes"; 17% voted "No".
Among those questioning the "The 9/11 Commission Report" are Rep.
Cynthia McKinney, former presidential advisor and CIA analyst Ray
McGovern, and former Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Paul Craig
Roberts - the father of Reaganomics.
The September 11 attacks were used to rally Americans behind the U.S.
attack on Afghanistan, and the 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq.
3 - Saddam Hussein was "assured by the United States that it would have
no objection to his claiming his prize - Kuwait."
Dr. George Friedman whose firm Stratfor has been dubbed by Barron's as
"The Shadow CIA", and who has provided analysis to Fortune 500
companies, news outlets, and the U.S. government writes in his book
"America's Secret War":
"The Carter administration wanted to motivate Saddam to fight, but he
had little to gain simply by fighting Iran. What Saddam wanted was to
become the dominant power in the Persian Gulf. Absorbing Kuwait, which
had historically been a part of Iraq under the Ottoman Empire until the
British carved it our for their own interests, was a key goal, but so
was dominating the region politically. He knew that if he defeated Iran,
Iraq would be the dominant power in the region. He was also quietly
assured by the United States that it would have no objection to his
claiming his prize - Kuwait - once he defeated Iran. The assurances were
very quiet and very deniable. . . .
"In his famous meeting with U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie on July 25,
1990, just before the invasion," writes Dr. Friedman, "Saddam calmly
explained his intention to invade Kuwait, and Glaspie, not informed by
the State Department that the policy had changed, proceeded to give
Saddam the reassurance of American support that had been the U.S. policy
transmitted by ambassadors and back channels for a decade. . . .
"What Glaspie didn't know. and what Glaspie hadn't been told, was
that the United States had never expected Iraq to win and certainly was
not prepared to let Saddam collect his war prize."
Iraq's subsequent invasion of Kuwait was used by President George H. W.
Bush to justify the 1991 war with Iraq, and the crippling sanctions that
followed the war.
The sanctions were maintained throughout the Clinton administration, and
into the George W. Bush administration.
4 - The U.S. lied to sell the 1991 Iraq war to Americans.
Ever since the Arab oil embargoes of the 1970s, the U.S. had been
seeking an opportunity to dominate the Middle East. Now the public had
to be rallied to the "just war."
A high point of the public relations campaign against Iraq, was the
testimony of a Kuwaiti refugee, before the Congressional Human Rights
Caucus on October 15, 1990, who told of Iraqi troops removing over 300
babies from incubators in Kuwait City hospital, and dumping them on the
floor to die.
On January 6, 1992, John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper's Magazine
and author of "Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War,"
revealed in a New York Times Op-Ed that "Nayirah," the alleged refugee,
was the daughter of Saud al-Sabah, Kuwait's ambassador to the United
States, and that Hill and Knowlton, a large public relations firm, had
helped prepare her testimony, which she had rehearsed before video
cameras in the firm's Washington office.
"The chairmen of the Congressional group, "Tom Lantos, a California
Democrat, and John Edward Porter, an Illinois Republican, explained that
Nayirah's identity would be kept secret to protect her family from
reprisals in occupied Kuwait" wrote MacArthur.
5 - To build bases in Saudi Arabia, from which to launch the 1991 war on
Iraq, the U.S. lied to the Saudis.
On September 6, 2002, Scott Peterson of the Christian Science Monitor,
wrote:
"When George H. W. Bush ordered American forces to the Persian Gulf -
to reverse Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait - part of the
administration case was that an Iraqi juggernaut was also threatening to
roll into Saudi Arabia.
"Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated in
mid-September that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks stood on
the border, threatening the key US oil supplier.
"But when the St. Petersburg Times [Jean Heller, January 6, 1991] in
Florida acquired two commercial Soviet satellite images of the same
area, taken at the same time, no Iraqi troops were visible near the
Saudi border - just empty desert."
The "top-secret satellite images" were used to persuade the Saudis to
allow U.S. troops into Saudi Arabia - home of the holiest of Muslim
shrines, the Kaaba at Mecca. The U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia turned Osama
Bin Laden, who had sided with the U.S. in expelling the Soviet Union
from Afghanistan, against the U.S.
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Enver Masud founded The Wisdom Fund - a nonprofit corporation - eleven
years ago today.
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