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}}}>Begin This is a WorldNetDaily printer-friendly version of the article which follows. To view this item online, visit http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27127 Saturday, April 6, 2002 Looking for nukes in the wrong place Posted: April 6, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern By Gordon Prather © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Obviously, the war hawks have been – to put it politely – misleading you. Saddam doesn't have real nukes. He doesn't even have "dirty" nuclear devices. If he did, Palestinian teen-age girls wouldn't be blowing themselves up with plain old dynamite. Saddam would see to it that the girls at least had the radioactive materials needed to make their martyrdom in Israeli shopping malls a real radiological horror. Saddam is a thoroughly evil man. For example, he is providing a "survivor's benefit" of $25,000 to the families of the teen-age martyrs. But is that all he's doing? Wasn't Britain's Tony Blair supposed to provide President Bush this week a dossier, documenting Saddam's ongoing "weapons of mass destruction" programs and his support for international terrorism? A dossier sufficiently damning to justify an immediate invasion of Iraq? Well, funny you should ask. It seems that when British intelligence briefed British cabinet ministers on Saddam's WMD dossier, the cabinet, collectively, gave Blair the old raspberry salute. "Is that all you've got?" they moaned and groaned. Several ministers reportedly threatened to resign if Blair used that WMD dossier as a justification for an invasion of Iraq. More than a hundred members of his own party urged Blair to reconsider any commitments he might have made to support a U.S. invasion of Iraq. So, when Blair came calling, he didn't bring a Saddam WMD dossier with him, after all. Rats. Sandbagged by the Brits. What were the war hawks to do? They immediately got off a letter to President Bush, demanding that the U.S. impose – by force of arms – "democracy" on Iraq and the rest of the Islamic world: Furthermore, Mr. President, we urge you to accelerate plans for removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. As you have said, every day that Saddam Hussein remains in power brings closer the day when terrorists will have not just airplanes with which to attack us, but chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, as well. It is now common knowledge that Saddam, along with Iran, is a funder and supporter of terrorism against Israel. Iraq has harbored terrorists such as Abu Nidal in the past, and it maintains links to the al-Qaida network. If we do not move against Saddam Hussein and his regime, the damage our Israeli friends and we have suffered until now may someday appear but a prelude to much greater horrors. Moreover, we believe that the surest path to peace in the Middle East lies not through the appeasement of Saddam and other local tyrants, but through a renewed commitment on our part, as you suggested in your State of the Union address, to the birth of freedom and democratic government in the Islamic world. Now, as luck would have it, the 57-member Organization of the Islamic Conference – which includes Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Syria and Turkey – was meeting this week in Indonesia to develop an Islamic position on terrorism and a plan for fighting it. The OIC spent a lot of time worrying about the way "terrorism" was being defined by the U.S. war hawks, particularly with respect to member states Palestine, Iran and Iraq. The OIC secretary general called for an international conference to draw up "a balanced, international definition of terrorism so as not to leave it in the hands of the super powers to lay down a definition which serves their interests and jeopardizes the interests of others." In the OIC view, the identification and fighting of terrorism should be assigned to the United Nations. The Iraqi OIC delegate suggested using "oil" as a "weapon" to force the U.S. to pressure Israel into withdrawing from Palestinian territory. Whereupon Iranian Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi declared, "If they [Iraq] decide to use oil as a weapon, certainly Iran will consider it. It will be effective if all Muslim countries would take such a decision." Now, you'll probably agree that the threat of an Islamic oil cut-off will not be an effective deterrent to U.S. invasion and liberation of Islamic states run by "local tyrants," such as Palestine, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Somalia, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. So forget about Islamic oil as a weapon. But what about Islamic nukes? What if all Muslim countries decide to make that threat? Neither Iraq nor Iran have nukes, but Pakistan does have what all OIC members regard as "Islamic nukes." "Local tyrant" Gen. Musharraf is safeguarding them at the moment. But if you think we've got those Islamic nukes in our hip-pocket – permanently – you haven't been paying attention. Physicist James Gordon Prather has served as a policy implementing official for national security-related technical matters in the Federal Energy Agency, the Energy Research and Development Administration, the Department of Energy, the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Department of the Army. Dr. Prather also served as legislative assistant for national security affairs to U.S. Sen. Henry Bellmon, R- Okla. -- ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee and member of the Senate Energy Committee and Appropriations Committee. 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