Hi Kent,
Thanks for sending in your interesting post. I agree with a lot of
what you wrote, except a few points:
1. Tom Simons denies using the "carpet of gold/carpet of bombs"
expression. But he admits they were trying to negotiate the handover
of bin Laden for the attack on the USS Cole, and also raised the
issue of the treatment of women, and were trying to find out whether
the Taliban would be prepared to install a "broader government" as
the Americans put it. That might have paved the way for the
Americans to do business there. But the predominant thing for the
Americans, with Clinton and Bush, was that the Taliban should hand
over bin Laden, who was known to be a major threat before September
11.
2. It's not true that America via April Glaspie gave Saddam the green
light to invade Kuwait in 1990. She responded to his war ramblings,
just before the invasion, during a meeting called suddenly by Saddam,
which she was given no warning of, and before which she had no time
to contact her government, that "we have no opinion on Arab-Arab
disputes". She didn't understand that he was warning her of an
invasion, and when you read the very long transcript (and it is
flowery language, hard to follow), you can only see that he might
have meant this with hindsight.
What he was saying is -- don't push me. I helped you with Iran, now
help me with my economy. The Kuwaitis are trying to get more money
out of me. Please warn them off.
And she responded: "We have no opinion on Arab-Arab disputes."
Saddam then called a series of meetings with the heads of state from
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, to which he didn't turn up at the
last minute, sending an official in his place. An argument broke out
between the Iraqi official and the Kuwaiti Crown Prince. The
official left the meeting, telling Saddam that Kuwait had insulted
Iraq. Hours later, Saddam invaded. It was all very dramatic and
very avoidable. America was caught off-guard by it.
3. The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) is a non-profit
organization set up in 1997. What connection do they have, if any,
with the Bush administration?
4. Can you refer me to the Cheney/Wolfowitz/Perle plan that was
codified by the PNAC in the fall of 2000, and where they stated the
need for a new Pearl Harbor?
5. Are you suggesting the Americans had something to do with September 11?
6. You say that Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11. But in the 80s,
everyone said of the rejectionist Palestinian movement (the
Palestinians who oppose Arafat) that there's no way they would ever
hook up with the Islamists, because the rejectionists were Marxists,
secular. But they did, because they needed the money, and even as
all the experts were insisting otherwise, the PFLP and PFLP-GC were
being funded by Iran.
Same with Saddam. You team up with people who can further your interests.
Sarah
From: Kent Southard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
It's generally been printed in only the 'better' papers, but this war
on Iraq has been desired and planned, by Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz,
Richard Perle, etc., for some years now; as the first step towards
American military domination of the oil of the Middle East. Their
plan was codified most recently in the Project for the New American
Century (PNAC) written in the fall of 2000, in which they openly
stated the need for a new 'Pearl Harbor' in order to galvanize
American public support for such a plan - this was supplied by 9/11.
. . . When Hussein sought to invade Kuwait because they were drilling
slantwise under the border, he sought our permission, and our
ambassador, April Glaspie, gave it.
. . . the Bush administration had re-opened negotiations with the
Taliban, cut off by Clinton because of their human rights record, for
the building of oil and gas pipelines through Afghanistan; these
pipelines providing access to the reserves of the Caspian Sea,
thought to be among the world's largest. The Taliban wasn't coming
around, so Bush's representative, Tom Simons, told them 'Either
accept our carpet of gold, or we will bury you in a carpet of bombs.'
. . . Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11, nothing to do with Wahabi
fundamentalist terrorism.
- The True Bush Agenda In Iraq Kent Southard
