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The CIA also thought it was a good idea to overthrow the government of Iran and replace it with the Shah in the 1950s. LOL liberty no doubt was brought to the Iranian people! The Shah then instituted a regime of terror against the Iranian population. Iran's security forces were trained by the Mossad. The Iranian population began to seethe with resentment and express that resentment at Mosque of all places! Of course it was not suprising when the Islamic Revolution hit Iran in 1979 as a direct consequent of American interventionism. The rise of an Islamic Republic in Iran threw U.S. geopolitical strategy in the Middle East into shambles. Up until this time America had relied upon its "strategic triangle" or Iran, Turkey, and Israel to maintain its supremacy in the region. Now faced with the specter of Islamicism sweeping across the Arab world America began to coddle you guessed it, Saddam Hussein of all people! American supplied Saddam with lots of nasty weapons, lots of bad intelligence, and a lot of motivation to attack Iran which America made out to be much weaker than it actually was to Saddam. The Iran-Iraq war goes on for years during which at the encouragement of America Iraq borrows billions of dollars from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait to pay for the war effort - who encouraged Saddam to attack. Once the war was over Kuwait of course began to demand payment on the massive amount of money it had lent Iraq but Iraq still exhausted from war could not comply. Kuwait then began to produce well over its OPEC quota to drive down the price of oil and hurt Iraq's economy as punishment. It also began slant drilling into an oil field in Southern Iraq. Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait. The United States leads a coalition to throw Saddam out of Kuwait. After bombing Iraq for over 10 years we remain poised again to attack Iraq.
An important point should be realized here. Intervention created this problem in the first place.
REALITY REPORT: WHY AMERICA IS HATED! (part of the reason)
Subject: Re: Attack on America
Our War Against Iraq: Causes & Cure...
by Nick Pine
In 1897 and 1898, Britain used assassination, intrigue, and threats to carve out a piece of Iraq and rule it through the Sheikh of Kuwait. In 1920, after World War I, Britain, France, and the U.S. seized the rights to 95% of the oil in Iraq. By 1932, Britain had expanded Kuwait from a small village on the Gulf into a colony occupying the entire coastline of the Persian Gulf from Arabia to Iran, completely shutting off Iraq from access to the Gulf. For the next half a century, British intelligence murdered almost every Iraqi leader and king, because they called for the return of Kuwait. By 1958 the U.S. was an equal partner with Britain in the coups and assassinations. Together they backed a coup against King Faisal II (who had himself been installed by the British). He was killed and replaced with Abdel Karim Qassim. But he too called for the return of Kuwait, so CIA chief Allen Dulles ordered his assassination.
After the job was botched a couple of times, the CIA gave the assignment to one of its promising young assassins, Saddam Hussein. With the help of a CIA airlift, he succeeded. By 1968, Saddam Hussein was in complete control and, under CIA direction, killing trade unionists, radicals, and Communists.
In 1977, US National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski met with Saddam Hussein, the Emir of Kuwait, and a Saudi representative, and proposed that Iraq invade Iran, seizing the Khuzestan oil fields. In 1982, US FBI chief William Webster met with the Emir of Kuwait and plotted the seizure of Iraqi oil fields and the slant-drilling with which Kuwait and western oil companies stole $14 billion worth of Iraqi oil.
Right up to the time of Saddam's invasion of Kuwait, US Department of Defense training manuals sang the praises of Saddam Hussein, noting how he had vastly improved education, medical care, and the standard of living of his people. His regime was called one of the most enlightened, progressive governments in the region. This was in an official DoD document used in the education of high-ranking officers of all the military services.
But there was a problem. The Berlin wall had come down. The Soviet Union had collapsed. And the American people were clamoring for a peace dividend. They had to find another bad guy, fast. In May 1990, a National Security Council white paper stated that Iraq and Saddam Hussein were (and I quote) "the optimum contenders to replace the Warsaw pact as the rationale for major military expenditures."
Two months later, on July 20, 1990, General Schwarzkopf conducted training exercises simulating exactly the contingency of an Iraqi attack on Kuwait. Five days later, April Glaspie gave Saddam the green light to invade Kuwait. A week later, he did. Almost immediately, the U.S. deployed as many troops and twice as much material as was moved for the Normandy invasion. Do you think this was done without advance planning?
This was the war they wanted, the war they planned for, the war they instigated, the war they salivated over. This was the war that would demonstrate the capabilities of the smart bombs made by our weapons manufacturers. It was better than a hundred trade shows. This was the war that would prove that George Bush was not a wimp. This was the war that "would make billions for the oil company owned by the president's son, George Bush, Jr., who had exclusive rights to offshore oil in the Gulf."
Saddam was suckered into our trap. And he fell for it. He crossed the undefended border of Kuwait, and in response our government dropped 300 to 400 million pounds of high explosives on Iraq. This onslaught destroyed tens of thousands of buildings and essentially every bridge, power plant, and industrial facility in the country. It killed a quarter of a million Iraqis, including at least 100,000 civilians, of which half were children.
Now here we are eight years later, and the shocking death toll from the Gulf War has been dwarfed by that from our continuing war against Iraq. Not only have we failed to rebuild what we destroyed; we have imposed economic sanctions which have prevented the Iraqis and everyone else from doing so. In the eight years since the end of Desert Storm, one and a half million Iraqis have died as a direct result of US/UN sanctions. It is now estimated that among those who have lost their lives are "three quarters of a million children under the age of five!" And the dying goes on. A million Iraqi children are ""seriously malnourished"", and 150 to 200 are "dying every day".
Among the ordnance we used on Iraq were some 500 tons of depleted uranium bombs and artillery shells. The radioactive dust covering the southern part of Iraq has caused birth defects and cancer rates to soar. As if that were not enough, we periodically continue to drop bombs and cruise missiles on that devastated nation...
Is it any wonder we are considered the great Satan? NO!
Is it any wonder we are hated? NO !!
Is it any wonder we are the target of terrorists? NO !!!
I support the war. It is a classic example of an Empire overextending itself in a period of domestic economic decline. America will not win its War on Terror anymore than the the Soviet Union won its War on Terror. I would like to go on record with that prediction.
Uncle Joe. If you think this hating America vibe is going to change public opinion you're right. The French have caused the support for Bush and the Iraq war to go up to 70%. The people in the US are so convinced that Al Qaeda is out to destroy us and the world is not reliable, we're resolved to doing whatever we have to do to defend ourselves.
One thing about Bush, in 2001, right after the WTC murders, he named the countries and Al Qaeda and said he was going to bring people to justice or bring justice to them. And he named Iraq, Iran and North Korea. So they've had time to get out of the terrorist sponsoring business.
I just posted this article cause I thought it was interesting...and not really flattering about Bush.
Any chance you work for one of them? If not you've missed your *coughs* calling. :rolleyes: