Iraq’s Baffling Moves

Original Post Date: 2002-09-22 Published on: ETHERZONE.COM&nbsp  Posted By: Jan

SubTitle: USA out to bully the world

Just as war talk in the USA reached a fever pitch, Iraq suddenly allowed weapons inspectors
back. The US government believes the offer to be insincere, and I agree.

People should never forget that Saddam Hussein’s BAATH party are actually a bunch of
communists. They are pretty well-versed in the dialectic concept – two steps forward and
one step back. Yasser Arafat practises the same tactics all the time by claiming he wants
peace and by claiming he is trying to stop terrorist actions against Israel.

This type of confusing talk is nothing more than a normal military strategy of communists
and of communist allies. It is meant to confuse the enemy. It is meant to sow dissension
in the enemy camp.

In my book, Government by Deception, I point out that a gun is of no use
unless you are prepared to use it. So what if you have a rifle pointed at the enemy’s head?
If you do not possess the resolve to pull that trigger, then you might as well be disarmed.

Herein lies a dilema which faces the USA with regard to Iraq and which faces Israel with
regard to the PLO. In each case, you have a Western army which is powerful enough to obliterate
the opposition in one single blow. But in both cases, they are dogged by a minefield of
diplomatic, moral and psychological issues.

It saddens me to see how the USA plays with Iraq, never quite knowing if Saddam should be
wiped out or not. The same is true of Israel.

Look at the Israelis. More bombs… more civilian deaths… what should be done? The Israeli
military must be tearing its hair out. They’ve attacked various camps where terrorists came
from. That no doubt saved the lives of countless Israeli civilians who might have died. But it
did not win the war. There they go back to Arafat’s HQ trying to intimidate him. This no doubt
won’t work because Arafat knows the Israelis have not got the resolve to actually put a bullet
through his head. Arafat knows that Israel will only go so far because if it goes any further,
then Russia, China, the UN and much of the world will jump all over Israel – including even
the USA. Arafat knows he has the moral high ground, and the Israelis, with all their wonderful
weaponry just aren’t allowed to kill the old warmongering terrorist dog.

The USA is just as ineffective against Saddam. They did not wipe him out in the last Gulf war.
Then there were all those leaked stories about how the CIA was going to clandestinely remove
him. That never happened. Saddam is still there. It would seem as if this time, the USA does
have the resolve to take him out… and let’s hope they do it and get it over with.

I’m all for using terrorism – against TERRORISTS!! Yeah, why not? I’m against using terrorism
against innocent civilians, but why not terrorise the terrorists? Why not have Saddam Hussein
running for his life, and Yasser Arafat sneaking from one safe house to another while the Israelis
try to blow him off the face of the Earth? Why not try that for a change?

Its time that the Western world, in this case represented by the USA and Israel, were
unleashed upon these terrorists and showed them that they really do want to kill them. That
should go a long way to securing real peace. If Saddam or Arafat don’t want to talk real peace
then kill them and talk to their successors. Sooner or later, some future leader will rather
negotiate a genuine peace than have his head blown off.

That may seem quite cruel, but it is definitely preferable to millions of people living in
fear, and civilians in Israel dying needlessly. It is preferable to assassinate a few leaders
than having Saddam amass weapons of mass destruction which would be rained down upon innocents.

Saddam’s moves which recently tripped up US intentions are no doubt just another part of
the psychological game. Since Saddam is a client of Russia, I believe he has a certain level
of protection which only he knows about. Take for example the last Gulf War. The USA was
kicking the crap out of Iraq. Then suddenly, the USA just stopped. Many reasons have been
given over the years as to why the USA suddenly stopped. But none of it makes real sense to
me. I have always wondered quietly whether Russia perhaps quietly growled in the USA’s ear
and said: “If you go beyond this point… we will step in…”. The USA’s sudden stop back
then never really made sense to me. It goes against all known military principles. If the
enemy is broken and on the run, why then would you stop?

Instead, Saddam survived and has built up. He has learned from his previous experiences.
I wonder if things will be as easy this time as last time? US ground forces seem to be
extremely efficient, but there is a lot of current thinking which says Saddam will try
some last moment desperate tactics which might even include terrorist attacks on US soil
not to mention the ever present sword which hangs over the heads of the poor Israelis.

It would seem that Saddam has this time been deliberately inciting some sort of
confrontation, but that the USA was moving too rapidly, and hence he had a need to back
down for a moment. There is no doubt that all America’s enemies are working overtime on
the diplomatic and propaganda fronts to turn the entire world against the USA. This latest
move indeed gives America’s enemies a propaganda opportunity which they can exploit.

Consider the words of Nelson Mandela, another old terrorist whom we let live. Many regard
Mandela as the world’s foremost statesman – a thought which just makes me want to puke.
Mandela is very clever, and he times his moves brilliantly. Mandela unleashed the most
vitriolic attack on the USA I had seen in a long time. I’m paraphrasing, but this is the
gist of what he said. He said who is George Bush to determine whether Saddam’s moves are
genuine or not? Bush should give Hussein a chance. He said that there is no place in the
world for one nation (the USA), to want to bully everyone else. He said things should be
done by consensus through the UN. Clever move that, because it gives the Russians, Chinese
and all their Third World loser allies a chance to get up and scream at the USA and condemn
it.

It is clear, from the events of the last year, that America’s enemies are working overtime
to wage a war depicting America as a bully. They seem to have been quite successful so far
in getting much more world sympathy for Saddam than he had a decade ago. I find it quite
scary that a majority of British people are actually opposed to a war against Saddam. The
USA and Israel are both slowly becoming more and more diplomatically isolated. No doubt,
the USA, with its huge resources, can “buy friends” by writing off debts, giving special
concessions and deals. But this practise of “buying friends” is something which I think
Americans should be wary of. This process of “buying friends” is often used in the Middle
East. But what are these “friends” worth? Surely they can turn on the USA at the drop of
a hat? Some of them, like Saudia Arabia, it turns out, are not friends at all. Pakistan
is an example of a terrorist-sponsoring nation which, in order to save itself from annihilation
decided, for the moment, to work with the USA. But will they not turn on the USA if given
a chance?

I think Americans should be concerned, not so much over a war, but over the manner in which
America’s enemies are turning the world against America. Then they try to trap the USA into
a diplomatic hell-hole where the USA has to “build consensus”. This “consensus building”
costs a lot of money and wastes a lot of time, and buys only fairweather friends for a
short while.

Some years ago, Gorbachev said that Russia and China believed they could turn 90% of the
world against the USA. As I watch the USA’s actions, and those of Israel, I see the same
pattern which we had here in southern Africa when Rhodesia and South Africa tried to deal
with terrorists who came in from other countries. One sees those same weak military
responses (in the form of selected raids), which result in diplomatic mayhem. One sees
the military, which is in a position to win outright, constantly being held back through
various psychological tricks. Nobody ever really pulls the trigger. And over a period of
time, one’s favourable military position is slowly eroded away through diplomatic
considerations.

Israel is currently caught in this trap, and barring a miracle, Israel may eventually
be lost through this process. I hope the USA doesn’t fall into this trap. The other
possibility may be that America’s enemies want the USA to attack Iraq so that it gives
them the moral high ground from which to condemn the USA as an aggressor and turn the
whole world against the USA. Saddam’s backward move might have just been a tactical one
to buy him time, throw the USA off balance and mobilise more of the world against the USA.
It may be that in the long run, America’s enemies really want the USA to get back into
the Middle East, this time allied with Israel so that they can try to turn the entire
Arab world, and every Muslim on the planet against the USA.

My general feeling is that both Israel and the USA should not waste too much time in
talking to their enemies. They should hit, and hit hard. Hit first, and talk later. And
as for assassination – I think its a great idea. Nothing will intimidate the enemy like
a good assassination or two – even if they fail. These types of leaders, like Hussein
and Arafat, have no feeling for the suffering of others, but I reckon if a good bullet
or two come their way they will break out in a sweat really quickly.

I leave you with this final thought: The Worst thing a conservative can do, is to keep
quiet. That is a recipe for certain defeat. The only hope for conservatism is for us to
speak out much more loudly and to counter the many lies put out by our enemies.

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