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Enron Lobbyist Pushed Deregulatory Agenda - Public Citizen Press http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=38790 Iraq rebuilding contracts awarded - Halliburton - CNN/Money http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=38767 Cheney daughter - human shield in Baghdad??? - Albawaba.com http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=38763 Enron Lobbyist Pushed Deregulatory Agenda - Public Citizen Press http://disc.server.com/discussion.cgi?id=149495;article=38790 ======== FLASH US WILL LOOSE THE IRAQ WAR -SAYS SCOTT RITTER 25th March, 2003 by Fintan Dunne, Editor http://www.GuluFuture.com Thorn in the side of the American administration, and former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, has warned that America will loose the Iraq war and the American military: "will leave Iraq with its tail between its legs." In an interview with Irish radio, Mr. Ritter said that the conflict would become an "absolute quagmire," and the US-UK advance would stall outside Bhagdad and fail to capture the city. "We find ourselves... facing a nation of 23 million, with armed elements numbering around 7 million --who are concentrated at urban areas. We will not win this fight. America will loose this war," said Mr. Ritter. According to Mr. Ritter, too many in the Pentagon have listened to: "the blithering of Iraqi expatriates," whose agenda coincides with neo-conservatives in the White House. "We're in Iraq --carrying out the right-wing neo-conservative motives of a handful of people. The Richard Perle's, Paul Wolfowitz's; the Dick Cheney's. And we've allowed them to hijack our foreign policy," he told Irish broadcaster, Vincent Browne on the RTE1 radio "Tonight Show." He warned that Shia Muslims in the South were not fighting because of intimidation by the Iraqi government, but because of nationalistic and religious reasons. "They're doing it because, the American Crusader Infidel has invaded and violated Holy Iraq, and they will resist us, and they will resist us strongly," said Mr. Ritter. "We are not liberating Iraq, we are destroying Iraq," he added later in the interview. Scott Ritter, is a former U.N. weapons inspector and author of the book "Endgame." Ritter, a ballistic missile technology expert, worked in military intelligence during his 12-year career in the U.S. armed forces. In 1998, Ritter resigned from the U.N. Special Commissions team to protest Clinton Administration policies that he said subverted the weapons inspection process. ============ Pictures of our dead sons & daughters. Warning, this is sad: http://www.911exposed.com/ ============ In Baghdad, a deadly risk of urban war House-to-house fighting may rival Vietnam's worst http://www.sunspot.net/bal-te.urban24mar24,0,3000446.story?coll=bal-home-hea dlines ============= FLASH "E-bomb dropped on Iraqi T.V" http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/24/iraq/main541815.shtml ================ Knocks on the door have started. Internet discussant Brian Quig visited by Homeland Security at 4:30 a.m. From: "BRIAN DOWNING QUIG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 7:59 PM Subject: [cia-drugs] MY FIRST HOMELAND SECRITY VISIT!! > Now just 5 minutes to tell of the intrusion of three cops and a > Detective from the TERRORISM SQUAD who I made the mistake of being > too civil to at 4:00AM when they shined flashlights into my > residence. without warrents of any kind and under the pretext that > they could not check if I was the real resident of the house because > their computers were down and for 4 and ahlf hours they searched > eveything I owned and interrogated me for as long. > > Getting the point? permindex ahs his a nerve > > Brian ============ FLASH Untrue Reports of Basra uprising Could Lead to Bloody Massacre Following the discovery that this campaign against Iraq wasn't going to be the walkover that the US administration promised, nor the 'humane' and 'bloodless' attack that the people of Britain were told, it seems that the US and British governments resorted to misinformation and deception in trying to boost public opinion and ultimately win over a war that is threatening to turn into the bloody and messy affair that The Muslim Association of Britain and the whole antiwar movement warned against from the outset. British media sources are reporting an alleged 'uprising' in the city of Basra, which the Iraqi forces are countering by killing and shooting into the groups of uprisers. The reports also state that the US and British commanders are planning to attack the city of Basra in order to 'protect the people who have come under Iraqi attack'. However, one cannot help but consider these reports with great suspicion for a number of reasons: The timing of this report, following the announcement this morning of Basra as a 'Military Objective', as well as the Prime Minister's statement this afternoon, gives rise to extreme suspicion as to the true events unfolding in Basra. The total absence of any report of an uprising or unrest in Basra, from the entire Arabic media. One must note that Al-Jazeera satellite channel have a reporter permanently stationed in Basra for the past few weeks, yet deny any incident which may be interpreted as an 'uprising' or 'unrest', let alone such attack by the Iraqi forces against the people of Basra. We find it illogical that the BBC should choose not to use Aljazeerah on this news item, when the BBC has signed a news collaboration deal with this highly reliable Arab satellite TV station (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2668007.stm) The continuing mis-reporting of events unfolding on the ground, and the huge discrepancy between the images and news conveyed by the British and Arabic media outlets, where the former continue to report an almost 'clean' war, whilst numerous Arabic reporters inside Iraqi towns and cities bring back daily images of hundreds of killed and wounded civilians, some being children as young as 5 years old. High amongst the mis-representation of events is the news that the people of Al-Faw received American troops with great rejoice, whilst the vast majority of Al-Faw residents who were interviewed after the entry of the troops spoke of their despise to this foreign force on their lands, forcing an American Marine to block the camera lens shooting this interview, so that the true feelings of the Iraqi people cannot be conveyed. The trail of deceptions and half-baked facts which were presented by the British and American governments in their respective struggle to win the argument for going to war and win over a massive opposition at home. Anas Altikriti the spokesman of The Muslim Association of Britain therefore warns "These suspicious unconfirmed reports denied by Independent sources may be used as an excuse for a truly bloody massacre in the city of Basra where British and American troops could possibly be ordered to storm the city which has resisted the attack for several days now.The troops may attack with a ferocity which breaches the initial undertaking to launch only 'surgical' attacks that would avoid causing civilian casualties, under the pretext that the Iraqi forces were killing their own people, something that has been denied vehemently by the residents of Basra ." ======== Senhor San The Jewish zionists have a core menagerie of cabalistic sorcerers. Evil black magicians. Be aware of that. They batter the shining spirits of the world the same way their exoteric propagandists batter the published truth. They cannot prevail against a pure spirit. And "purity" is a matter of self-knowledge, not of being "perfect" or "free of sin", it is the freedom from self-deception (possibly the only real "sin"). ================== PLEASE LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT THE SOLDIERS NEED TOILET PAPER! namaste,if anyone is familiar with the contents of a package of MRE's you'll notice that the Pentagon forgot something ...toilet paper.. Camp Le Juene says the marines need TP and to send the troops some Toilet Paper, that's what I call having all yer bases covered but I guess those brainacs at the pentagon did not think that TP was a necessity during a War( we need some more inept leaders to think of everything to protect us)my little bro' is in the 2nd marine expeditionary force and guess what they need shit paper cause the higher ups have thought of everything ,they claim !!! hopefully they took enough ammo with them?! Yes, and they forgot the tanks -- RUmsfeld broke with US military attack doctrine and went at half prescribved stregth -- so Bush could as for 75 billion and not the 100 billion that it will really take -- RUmsfeld can take more casualties, since the lives of our sons do not enter into the accounting system as liabilities. ============ Will American Administration Declare War on Russia? US officials think that Russia is guilty of their unsuccessful war It is obvious today that the war in Iraq is not the kind of war that the American administration was intended to have. The strong resistance that Iraqi troops showed, Iraqi ABM systems and anti-tank facilities turned out to be an unexpected surprise for Americans. As the American administration believed, the war turned out to be difficult on account of the fact that the Russian defense industry delivered anti-tank missiles to Iraq via third countries. As it was said, the Russian defense industry also supplied Iraq with night vision devices, and unique Kolchuga anti-missile systems. The US administration determined that Russia delivered those weapons to Iraq several days before the war was launched. The official note of protest on the part of the US Department of State was based on those illegal deliveries. The note of protest was handed over to the Russian ambassador to the USA, Yury Ushakov. The Russian government did not ignore USA's threats (in the form of certain statements) to punish Russia for arms deliveries. The Russian leadership realizes that the war menace is approaching the country. According to the information from competent military sources, the navy command finished checking the alertness of anti-submarine facilities of naval troops in Kamchatka. Military exercises were conducted in admirals' presence. Diesel submarines of the Russian navy performed basic military exercises at sea. The order for battleships to travel to the Indian Ocean and to the Persian Gulf was called off. Military units of the Russian Far East get ready for possible border conflicts. It seems that the Supreme Commander-in-Chief of Russia, President Vladimir Putin, realizes the anti-Russian essence of America's aggressive aspiration. Putin takes measures to strengthen the alertness of Russian troops at the border territory. The Russian army and navy command held a secret session in Moscow yesterday, at which military high-ranking officials considered possible variants for the Mideast situation to develop. American spy planes have been conducting aerial reconnaissance at Russia's borders for several days already. Colonel-General Valery Manilov, a member of the Federation Council from the Primorye region, said in his interview to Echo of Moscow radio station: "The decision to start the war on Iraq is a big mistake that the United States made. America gave an incentive for the rest of the world to unite in the anti-American coalition. It is obvious from the diplomatic point of view that no country in the whole world will wish to live and watch Americans using the military force whenever they want and like it to use. The world community will have to consolidate its military, political, economic, technical resources in order not to allow that to happen. The process is under way already. This is a unique moment, for it never happened before, not even during the USA's bombing of Yugoslavia. The world will have to unite and find a format to restrain America, the country, which opposed itself to the whole world." On the other hand, the beginning of the war is a drama for the USA itself. This is likely to provoke the collapse of the antiterrorist coalition, terrorist activities in the USA and in Great Britain might increase, arms race is likely to speed up, including the weapons of mass destruction race. Ecological catastrophes are likely to happen in the world as well. Before opposing the whole world, the United States and Great Britain made desperate steps to strengthen their activities for winning UN Security Council members and the world community over to their side. This means that George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice did their best not to let the USA have an aggressive image for the world community. The American administration suffered a diplomatic failure. Cheap and high-quality Iraqi oil is the prime goal of the game. Americans hope that the oil will allow them to settle their economic and financial issues. However, the price of that oil will be unacceptable for the USA. America's image as a safe, stable and powerful country has been ruined. At present moment, the world perceives the USA as a country that is ready to disregard the opinion of the world for the sake of its own interests only. A large number of victims is not an issue at all. Thousands of lives will have to be wasted for such hypothetical takeover of the Iraqi oil. Those lives will be the lives of American people too. As they say, if you sow wind you will rip a storm. The inferiority complex might also be a reason why the war began. This complex has been tormenting President Bush and his team - the people, who did not get to overthrow Saddam in 1991. Those people try to get rid of their complexes, including the September 11th complex, with the help of the military force. The inevitable failure of the incumbent American administration will be the result of that. You can conquer with bayonets, but you can't sit on them. Vasily Buslayev Daily News Vladivostok PRAVDA.Ru Translated by Dmitry Sudakov ============================ FLASH Whose God is stronger? Allah or the Dollah? American Troops are stuck in a Sandstorm It could actually happen that the fate which befell the Spanish Armada could happen to the American Troops invading Iraq. Right now, the American troops cannot move because of the sandstorm. This problem may be serious. Because the troops cannot see, they cannot move forward or attack the enemy. Moreover, they are now only 50 miles from Baghdad but 300 miles from Kuwait, and the supply trucks bringing food and fuel up from Kuwait cannot reach them. It is being explained on TV news today that it takes one thousand gallons of fuel each day to run just one American tank or fighting vehicle. This means that a lot of trucks have to be bringing up fuel from Kuwait every day. Their only choice now is to turn off their machines to save gas until the fuel trucks can get through. American troops are now only 50 miles South of Baghdad. They are believed to be East and North of Baghdad as well. However, if the sand storm does not break soon, they will run out of fuel and will be sitting ducks for the Iraqis. It is to be remembered that a turning point in history occurred when the 500 ship Spanish Armada was destroyed by a hurricane. Otherwise, Spain would have almost certainly conquered and occupied England. Similarly, during World War II, the German Tanks ran out of gas and this enabled the conquest of Germany. I am not gloating over this. To the contrary, my daughter is in the US Marines and is in Kuwait participating in the invasion of Iraq, through aircraft maintenance. Sam Sloan http://www.samsloan.com/harriergr7.htm FLASH ==================== U.N. council to debate U.S.-led war --In closed-door consultations, the U.N. Security Council Tuesday agreed to requests from the Arab Group and the Non-Aligned Movement for all members of the world organization to join in a formal debate on the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq to unseat President Saddam Hussein. =========== Do You Think Bush Should Be Impeached? Will be published on: http://GeorgeWalkerBush.net Do You Think Bush Should Be Impeached? Congressman John Conyers Jr. Seeks Impeachment Tally http://www.house.gov/conyers Congressman John Conyers Jr. on the Judicial Committee is asking you to, through his legislative assistant Alexia, email or fax him if you want Bush to be impeached. Message from Alexia: The phones are currently ringing off the hook, so please send a brief message stating whether you are for or against impeachment via email or fax. eMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 313 226.2085 Fax: 202 225.0072 2426 Rayburn Building Washington, DC 20515 202 225.5126 Fax: 202 225.0072 669 Federal Building 231 W. Lafayette Detroit, MI 48226 313 961.5670 Fax: 313 226.2085 http://eMailCongress.net eMail addresses for the 435 members of the U.S. House of Representatives eMail addresses for the 100 members of the United States Senate Call your Congressperson or Senators Congressional Switchboard: Toll Free: 800 839.5276 and 202 224.3121 eMail addresses for Bush and Cheney Call Bush and Cheney White House Comment Line: 202 456.1111 Fax Bush and Cheney White House Fax: 202 456.2461 ============= Professor A.K. Dewdney, author of `Ghost Riders in the Sky', has released the results of an experiment testing the feasibility of claims that cellphone calls were made from `hijacked' airplanes on September 11th 2001. The cellphone calls from hijacked planes were a crucial element of the 'official version' of the horrific events of '9/11', as they directly corroborated the notion that all four planes were hijacked by Arab terrorists. Dewdney's experiment suggests that it is highly unlikely the cellphone calls took place as reported... Dewdney's `Ghost Riders in the Sky' hypothesis has been available on the web since early 2002. Now in its fourth version, it can be viewed HERE. http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/ghost_riders_1-4_1.html Dewdney is a Canadian Mathematician and Computer Scientist who holds the position of Emeritus Professor at the University of Western Ontario and has some 100 academic papers to his name. He proposes that the four `hijacked' airplanes on 9/11 were taken over by remote control after all crew and passengers were disabled (probably killed by a poisonous gas such as sarin). Professor Dewdney further suggests that the `Arab hijackers', whose identity has been shrouded in mystery since it was discovered that eight supposed "hijackers' are in fact alive and well, were patsies. A crucial objection to Dewdney's hypothesis has been the cellphone calls reportedly made from the `hijacked' planes. These cellphone calls appear to substantiate the official version of events. If they took place as reported, Dewdney's hypothesis is clearly incorrect. In version four of `Ghost Riders', Dewdney went to great lengths to analyze the numerous reports of cellphone calls, and showed how they could have been faked. Now he`s gone one better. On Tuesday 25th February 2003, Dewdney chartered a light plane and flew up into the airspace above London Ontario an area extensively serviced with cellphone stations. His goal was to test the essential feasibility of the claim that cellphone calls could have been made from planes at high altitude. Dewdney's report on this private experiment, entitled 'Project Achilles', is HERE http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/project_achilles_report_2_0302 25.htm l His report concludes: "To the extent that the cellphones used in this experiment represent types in general use, it may be concluded that from this particular type of aircraft, cellphones become useless very quickly with increasing altitude. In particular, two of the cellphone types, the Mike and the Nokia, became useless above 2000 feet. Of the remaining two, the Audiovox worked intermittently up to 6000 feet but failed thereafter, while the BM analog cellphone worked once just over 7000 feet but failed consistently thereafter. We therefore conclude that ordinary cellphones, digital or analog, will fail to get through at or above 8000 feet abga." The light plane used by Dewdney for the experiment could be expected to yield much better results for cellphone use than large commercial airliners of the type `hijacked' on 9/11, because the carbon fiber skin of the test plane is 'radio transparent' and offers little attenuation of the signal - unlike the aluminum surface of a Boeing 757 or 767. If cellphones fail at a given altitude in the test plane, one may be confident they won't work at equivalent altitude in an airliner with a metal surface. Dewdney's experiment suggests that if cellphone calls from `hijacked' airplanes on 9/11 happened at all, they must all have occurred at very low altitude. This is inconsistent with the `official version' of events. The implications that 9/11 was a spectacular hoax are, of course, staggering. Many journalists and commentators may be reticent to dissect the official version of events, because to do so opens a veritable Pandora's Box. If 9/11 was not carried out by Arab terrorists, the perpetrators clearly must have influence within the highest levels of the US Administration. Key elements of the mass media must also have been complicit in perpetrating the fraud. Whoever was ultimately responsible for these crimes against humanity apparently intended, inter alia, to portray terrorism as a quintessentially Muslim phenomenon and trigger long-term western hostility towards the Arab and Moslem world. With war looming in the middle east, justified largely on the basis of the events of '9/11', the immediate contemporary relevance of this possibility is self-evident. Giving credence to this view is not, perhaps, conducive to a successful career in the western media. Nevertheless, journalists worthy of the title should start seriously investigating the many anomalies surrounding 9/11 - and stop uncritically regurgitating officially-sanctioned myths which fail to withstand scientific scrutiny. ### See Professor Dewdney's 'Project Achilles' Part 2 Report http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/project_achilles_report_2_030225.htm l See also Professor Dewdney's Ghost Riders in the Sky Version 1.4 http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/index.html More about A.K. Dewdney http://feralnews.com/issues/911/dewdney/media_release_030304.html ==================== Untrue Reports of Basra uprising Could Lead to Bloody Massacre Following the discovery that this campaign against Iraq wasn't going to be the walkover that the US administration promised, nor the 'humane' and 'bloodless' attack that the people of Britain were told, it seems that the US and British governments resorted to misinformation and deception in trying to boost public opinion and ultimately win over a war that is threatening to turn into the bloody and messy affair that The Muslim Association of Britain and the whole antiwar movement warned against from the outset. British media sources are reporting an alleged 'uprising' in the city of Basra, which the Iraqi forces are countering by killing and shooting into the groups of uprisers. The reports also state that the US and British commanders are planning to attack the city of Basra in order to 'protect the people who have come under Iraqi attack'. However, one cannot help but consider these reports with great suspicion for a number of reasons: The timing of this report, following the announcement this morning of Basra as a 'Military Objective', as well as the Prime Minister's statement this afternoon, gives rise to extreme suspicion as to the true events unfolding in Basra. The total absence of any report of an uprising or unrest in Basra, from the entire Arabic media. One must note that Al-Jazeera satellite channel have a reporter permanently stationed in Basra for the past few weeks, yet deny any incident which may be interpreted as an 'uprising' or 'unrest', let alone such attack by the Iraqi forces against the people of Basra. We find it illogical that the BBC should choose not to use Aljazeerah on this news item, when the BBC has signed a news collaboration deal with this highly reliable Arab satellite TV station (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/2668007.stm) The continuing mis-reporting of events unfolding on the ground, and the huge discrepancy between the images and news conveyed by the British and Arabic media outlets, where the former continue to report an almost 'clean' war, whilst numerous Arabic reporters inside Iraqi towns and cities bring back daily images of hundreds of killed and wounded civilians, some being children as young as 5 years old. High amongst the mis-representation of events is the news that the people of Al-Faw received American troops with great rejoice, whilst the vast majority of Al-Faw residents who were interviewed after the entry of the troops spoke of their despise to this foreign force on their lands, forcing an American Marine to block the camera lens shooting this interview, so that the true feelings of the Iraqi people cannot be conveyed. The trail of deceptions and half-baked facts which were presented by the British and American governments in their respective struggle to win the argument for going to war and win over a massive opposition at home. Anas Altikriti the spokesman of The Muslim Association of Britain therefore warns "These suspicious unconfirmed reports denied by Independent sources may be used as an excuse for a truly bloody massacre in the city of Basra where British and American troops could possibly be ordered to storm the city which has resisted the attack for several days now.The troops may attack with a ferocity which breaches the initial undertaking to launch only 'surgical' attacks that would avoid causing civilian casualties, under the pretext that the Iraqi forces were killing their own people, something that has been denied vehemently by the residents of Basra ." ======== FLASH Whose God is stronger? Allah or the Dollah? American Troops are stuck in a Sandstorm It could actually happen that the fate which befell the Spanish Armada could happen to the American Troops invading Iraq. Right now, the American troops cannot move because of the sandstorm. This problem may be serious. Because the troops cannot see, they cannot move forward or attack the enemy. Moreover, they are now only 50 miles from Baghdad but 300 miles from Kuwait, and the supply trucks bringing food and fuel up from Kuwait cannot reach them. It is being explained on TV news today that it takes one thousand gallons of fuel each day to run just one American tank or fighting vehicle. This means that a lot of trucks have to be bringing up fuel from Kuwait every day. Their only choice now is to turn off their machines to save gas until the fuel trucks can get through. American troops are now only 50 miles South of Baghdad. They are believed to be East and North of Baghdad as well. However, if the sand storm does not break soon, they will run out of fuel and will be sitting ducks for the Iraqis. It is to be remembered that a turning point in history occurred when the 500 ship Spanish Armada was destroyed by a hurricane. Otherwise, Spain would have almost certainly conquered and occupied England. Similarly, during World War II, the German Tanks ran out of gas and this enabled the conquest of Germany. I am not gloating over this. To the contrary, my daughter is in the US Marines and is in Kuwait participating in the invasion of Iraq, through aircraft maintenance. Sam Sloan http://www.samsloan.com/harriergr7.htm FLASH The Overthrow Of The American Republic - Part 31 Great Storms And Big Lies Of History By Sherman H. Skolnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.skolnicksreport.com 3-22-3 Throughout the events of the world, there were happenings that, on occasion, changed the course of history. Later generations often failed to remember or note the same or see an evil omen of these past occurrences. Some later called them acts of Mother Nature, others preferring to be spiritual, called them Divine Intervention. And then there were the Big Lies of foreign invaders. >From about the 15th Century on, Spain emassed great wealth from plundering countries in the New World. Such as, early in the 16th Century, Spain conquered Peru and Mexico. Perhaps at the time, Spain denied invading those lands to steal their gold and silver. For a time, the Spanish Hapsburg royalty became the most powerful in the world. In 1588, Philip II of Spain ordered his huge Spanish Armada, considered invincible, to set sail to conquer England. Call it Mother Nature, call it a Judgment from Heaven, but a terrible storm blew them off course. What was left of the shipwrecked fleet ended up on the shores of Ireland. The surviving sailors/killers later intermarried with the inhabitants, thus resulting in the Dark Irish. Following the French Revolution late in the 18th Century, what survived of the French Aristocracy that had not met their fate at the guillotine---a machine invented for beheading condemned prisoners---in a form of counter-revolution, installed a brilliant military conniver, Napoleon Bonaparte, of Corsica. As the dictator of France, acceptable to the monied class, he sought to restore their "glory", hurling the best of the French youth, some to their deaths, to conquer with his clever strategies, Germany, Austria, and other places. Eventually Napoleon conquered Russia and briefly set up his headquarters in Moscow. In the winter of 1813, retreating from Moscow, his armed forces were hit with the worst winter ever, 80 degrees below zero. Most of his army of 600,000 were lost. Some were frozen deep in ice and their corpses did not thaw out until many months later. After the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo, he was sent to be exiled in an island in the mid-South Atlantic Ocean, St. Helena. Some now contend that there is proof from surviving strands of his hair, that Napoleon was murdered, bit by bit, by being poisoned with arsenic. After Adolf Hitler's armies invaded Russia in 1941, the two winters that followed, were, like what hit Napoleon's army in 1813, some of the worst low temperatures ever. Many German soldiers considered being sent to the Russian front as a death warrant. Was it a dark omen of what was to be the great Nazi military disaster at Stalingrad? Perhaps over the last two centuries, foreign invaders and would-be foreign invaders of the Mid-East, did not learn from previous events. Failure to understand the region, rather than Mother Nature or Divine Intervention, brought them eventually to ruin. Each such foreign invader started with bombarding the targetted nation, and others, with the Big Lie that the invaders were coming, not to steal their land and treasures, but for the good of the populace. As one publication quoted George W. Bush, comparing him to Napoleon, Bush was invading Iraq for spreading " 'God's gift' of liberty 'to each and every person', and of how 'Iraqi lives and freedom matter greatly to us' " Wall Street Journal, 3/19/2003, "Past Mideast Invasions Faced Unexpected Perils". What follows are excerpts from the same newspaper: "Napoleon proclaimed a similar era of equality and respect for 'true Muslims' as he marched into Cairo in 1798, killing a thousand members of Eqypt's ruling caste....'Peoples of Egypt, you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion', said Napoleon as he entered Cairo. 'Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights.' Napoleon's real goals involved France's colonial rivalry with Britain." (Note, several times before George W. Bush invaded Iraq, the head of British Petroleum warned the Bush White House that British Pete, as they are called, will demand a piece of the Iraq post-war oil treasure. Guardian newspaper, London, 10/30/2002.) More excerpts from the Wall Street Journal: "British troops landed in what's now Iraq in 1914, as part of Britain's campaign against the Ottoman Turks, allies of Germany in World War I. 'Britain was bursting with confidence in an easy and early victory', wrote British officer T.E. Lawrence, better known as Lawrence of Arabia....Capturing Baghdad after the first three years, they offered almost the same salutation as Napoleon had in Cairo, 'Our armies do not come into your cities and lands as conquerors or enemies, but as liberators,' trumpeted Gen.F.S. Maude, commander of the British forces in Iraq. 'Your wealth has been stripped of you by unjust men....The people of Baghdad shall flourish under institutions which are in consonance with their sacred laws'....But Britain retained the Ottomans' long reliance on Sunni Muslims as the governing class in Iraq, an arrangement that exacerbated conflicts with Iraqs larger Kurdish and Shia Muslim populations." The story in the Wall Street Journal , apparently as the faction of the Ruling Class that opposed the arbitrary installation of George W. Bush, has a great deal of details of the disasters of foreign invaders into the Mid-East and the Big Lies proclaimed by each. So, in 2003, a huge American army, contrary to good military tactics, came up to the outskirts of Baghdad through desert from the South. Coming up principally on a highway designed by the Germans similar to their autobahn. The military purported masterminds had an excuse. Turkey would not permit the U.S. army to come to Northern Iraq the easy way, across Turkey. Retired generals and other clever sorts, grumbled that it could lead to a possible military disaster. Some saw an evil omen of what might follow, as the U.S. army camped on the outskirts of Baghdad. Like Napoleon, purported Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush, to vindicate his father's personal grudge against his former business partner, Saddam Hussein, might eventually come to ruin. All the while, George W. Bush claiming, like Napoleon, that Bush was there not to steal their oil to use as collateral for the out-of-control U.S. debt and tax cuts for the wealthy, but to do wonderful things for the inhabitants of Iraq, like Napoleon promised those in Eqypt. Just as the U.S. Army came up to Baghdad, a tremendous desert sandstorm befell them, one of the worst anyone could recall. A fine sand bombardment, capable of clogging up the mechanisms of military vehicles, helicopters, and jet planes, on which a modern army relies.Was it just a quirk of Mother Nature or Divine Intervention? To some, perhaps praying for Peace and being spiritual, it was a sign from Heaven, passing Judgement, on the foreign invaders, without an avenue of appeal. Were the Peace demands of the bulk of those on Planet Earth by this, ratified? Was it a signal that the wrath of Heaven, long biblically patiently withheld, will belatedly fall on those who violate the Ten Commandments? Time will tell....Stay tuned. ============= Here, Rachel's mother, Cindy, talks to Socialist Worker's GANESH LAL. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - IT'S HARD for me to be fair to Rachel's ideals. She taught me so much. She searched very deeply for answers to questions to learn all the different elements of this issue, and she tried to teach me. She was passionate about many things--about peace and freedom--but she was so gentle at the same time. One of her goals was to bring attention to the reality of the lives of the people in Gaza. She told me that this was one of the best things she did in her life. She loved the people, and their generosity towards her, although they had so little. She talked of the way people took her into their homes, into their families, and she spoke of their dignity, despite their suffering. Her death reflects the mindlessness of the whole situation. She believed that the occupation of Palestinian lands was indefensible. But Rachel also had a love for all of humanity. The actions of the Israeli Defense Forces are so horrifying, but I still believe that there are many Israelis and American Jews who oppose what Israel is doing to the Palestinians. So many people in the U.S., many of them Jewish, have shown so much support and sympathy towards us in the last few days. Rachel's message was one of peace. I've tried really hard to keep my focus on the Occupied Territories. But I have to think about the inconsistencies in our supporting UN resolutions calling for Iraq to disarm, while completely ignoring and abandoning all UN resolutions that have called for Israeli withdrawal from the Occupied Territories. Rachel was opposed to this war on Iraq. She was frightened about what would happen there if the U.S. goes to war. 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