Letter Never Sent

From here:

After weeks of media blitz and diplomatic efforts the United States is all set to launch attack on the beleaguered Iraq on October 9, highly credible diplomatic sources disclosed to The Frontier Post here Wednesday. …

Special US emissaries have already taken rulers of governments of Middle East region in confidence by sharing the intended date of US attack on their isolated neighbour. While their stationed diplomatic staff is doing hectic diplomatic lobbying to tone down the general public anger against the naked US aggression against Iraq, they added. The main agenda of US attack is to eliminate President Saddam Hussain and to install a pro US regime in Baghdad.

The first sorties of US Air Force flying from their near by stationed aircraft carriers would go for bombing the presidential palace and other safe houses of Saddam Hussain. If their initial plan, some how failed then intense bombing of the military and other strategic installations would be done leading to an internal revolt would be staged by US loyal people for the ouster of Saddam loyal regime they said.

The ‘war’ news is really strange. For example, from an article in the NY Times:

Washington, on the other hand, is trying to resolve the issue of Iraq’s compliance with inspections as quickly as possible so that if it comes to war, military action can be taken this winter. If the inspections are stymied, as the White House expects, the United States would be able to attack when the cooler temperatures make it easier for American troops to operate in bulky chemical gear and the longer nights enable them to take advantage of their night vision equipment.

It just points out how this is more like a gang dispute rather than a ‘war’. Bush and the rest of Hell’s choir spout slogans and belligerence against Iraq, but yet they engage in this invasion as if it were part of their business plan. Isn’t the nature of war that something presents itself as an immediate danger to your people and you fight that threat? As Clausewitz wrote, “War is politics by other means.” It is all power politics and economics.

We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. – George Orwell, 1984

From the Houston Chronicle:

WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is exploring ways to use drugs such as Valium to calm people without killing them during riots or other crowd control situations where lethal weapons are inappropriate.

Some critics say the effort violates international treaties and federal laws against chemical weapons, an allegation the military denies.

“It’s a rotten idea to drug rioters,” said Edward Hammond of the Sunshine Project, a chemical and biological weapons watchdog group that is the program’s chief critic. “Beyond being a horrible idea, it’s illegal.”

The Pentagon has long tried to develop nonlethal weapons that would incapacitate or repel people with little risk of killing them. The effort intensified in the 1990s after hostile mobs confronted U.S. troops during peacekeeping and humanitarian missions in places like Somalia, Bosnia and Haiti.

Bush’s puppet masters have outlined their manifesto for the so-called ‘Pax Americana’ recalling the ‘Pax Romana’ of the Roman Empire. Despots with a global aim have often linked themselves to the Romans. Napolean had himself crowned emperor, the tsars of Russia and the kaisers of Germany took their titles from the Roman Caesars. Hitler and the Third Reich used Roman-style standards and banners as well as the traditional Roman imperial salute, the outstretched arm. Hail Caesar! Sig Heil! The Fourth Reich may well be the American Reich, the one world government, the New World Order. What you are seeing is the corruption of the principles which our government is supposed to represent. The parasites in the Bush administration talk about other governments engaging in the ‘appeasement’ of Iraq. They are trying to make the comparison between Hussein and Hitler, but the more apt comparison would be the appeasement of the United States by the governments of the world. While the US plots murder against the people of Iraq, the leaders of France, China, and Russia are making back room deals to get what they want out of this farce.

Manifesto for world dictatorship By Margo Kingston

Now we know. The Americans have spelt it out in black and white. There will be a world government, but not one even pretending to be comprised of representatives of its nation states through the United Nations. The United States will rule, and not according to painstakingly developed international law and norms, but by what is in its interests.

In declaring itself dictator of the world, The United States will have no accountability to non-United States citizens. It will bomb who it likes when it likes, and change regimes when and as it sees fit, it will not be subject to investigations for war crimes, for torture, or for breaches of fundamental human rights.

When it asks the United Nations to move against Iraq, it is not demanding agreement to a strong case for action. It now admits it has no evidence that Iraq is preapring to use weapons of mass destruction against any other country. The Americans have stopped pretending, and now demand outright capitulation to its hegemony. The world will be policed in American interests. Full stop.

American Military Interventions of the 20th Century

Please be aware that this listing does not include many, many U.S. “interventions” where U.S. troops were not the primary force – such as the U.S. intervention in the Greek civil war during the 1950s – nor does it include the many, many U.S. nuclear threats that one might well consider a form of intervention – such as the U.S. nuclear threat during the ’73 Arab-Israeli war – nor does it include many CIA organized war efforts, such as the long war against the leftist Angolan government which was waged by the U.S. and racist South Africa – nor does it include all the countries intervened/invaded by the U.S. in World War I and World War II.

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