Month after month the
TV and other sections of media monopoly have bombarded Americans with
propaganda villainizing Iraq and Afghanistan as "terrorist" nations
which must be conquered to save democracy. Those not
brainwashed
out of their skulls by the boob tube should suspect something has gone
terribly wrong since the 9-11 World Trade Center event. Out
of
that horrible experience has come the so-called "Patriot Acts" one and
two which eviscerate the last vestiges of democratic form and personal
freedom in America. Highway check points are being set up
across
the nation. Illegal search and seizure of personal property
are
becoming more common. Schools are being raided by body
armored
thugs carrying automatic weapons. American children are being
terrorized into accepting a police state and the aggrandizing of wars
of conquest. Children themselves are becoming more violent
while
we hear church organizations repeat the slogan "God bless our troops".
Nothing revealing anything more sinister
has been
media-aired since a New York Times reporter uncovered that President
Bush ordered the FBI to cease its investigation of Al Qaida and that
the Bushes and bin Ladens had been former business partners.
The
Bushes have long been connected to the oil business and the CIA.
There is a larger scenario which
Americans
aren’t being told about. In country after country
the CIA
and military have overthrown elected governments. Farmers
have
been evicted from their land to end up impoverished in cities, where
they are used as cheap labor against American workers. Oil
companies in turn explore for natural resource profits in the more
promising vacated areas, acquired in places like Columbia on the excuse
of fighting the drug trade. (Which the CIA has long been
involved
with.)
Low-witted TV line readers constantly
prepare
indoctrinated Americans to accept the next war-of-conquest that will
send more of their jobs to foreign cheap labor havens while sacrificing
our sons for corporate interests.
Formerly Saddam Hussein was a CIA asset
used in an
assassination plot to remove the the last Iraqi dictator.
Complicity between Hussein and the CIA go back a long way.
Saddam wouldn't have been in power or
stayed in
power without the backing of US oil interests and other corporate
profiteers.
In 1994 a Senate report revealed that US
profiteers
licensed by the Department of Commerce has sold the following items to
Saddam Husseins's Iraq:
Bacillus Anthracis (the Anthrax
bacillus) and
Clostridium Botulinum, the source of botulism poisoning. Also
shipped to Iraq with US government blessing was Histoplasma Capsulatam
which attacks the lungs, brain, spinal cord and heart and Brucella
Meliterisis that can damage major body organs. Other
wonderful
items which might later be used against US troops were the ugly toxins
Clostridium Perfringens and Clostridium Tetani. Nicest of
all,
was E Coli. Dozens of other biological horror weapons were
also
exported for profit to Iraq. These bio weapons were later
found
to be identical to those confiscated by UN weapons inspectors sent to
Iraq. Of course this didn't receive much corporate media
coverage
for obvious reasons. Newsday did however reveal some of the
hidden facts. According to a 1996 article, American Type
Collection of Maryland and Virginia "made seventy shipments of anthrax-
causing germs and other pathogenic agents to Iraq. Many other
US
companies were involved. One most interesting was the
Matrix-Churchill Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio which was regarded by
US Representative Henry Gonzales as "a front for Iraqi government".
When US planes bombed Iraqi weapons
storage
facilities during Operation Desert Storm American troops were certainly
infected with these US supplied toxins.
In 1994 twenty-six Gulf War Veterans
filed a billion
dollar lawsuit in Houston, Texas against some of these US bio-weapons
suppliers. These veterans had become victims of Gulf War
Syndrome, displaying those well known symptoms associated with
bio-weapons; memory loss, scarred lungs, (the ingredients for
mustard gas were also US supplied), chronic fatigue, severe headache,
raspy voice and fainting spells. The Pentagon did admit that
about 100,000 US soldiers were exposed to Sarin gas, without even
considering the other horrors released into the atmosphere.
From
1985 to 1990 the US approved 771 licenses to export such material to
Iraq. This also included high tech military
equipment.
Business volume was about $ 1.5 billion.
Today, a
substantial number of Iraqi children are being born with birth defects,
a malady just beginning to appear in American veteran
families.
Another of the major players in Iraq is the Halliburton Corporation
which was run by Dick Cheney before he ran for Vice President during
the George W. Bush bid for the presidency. In 2001 KBR (a
Halliburton subsidiary) grossed $ 13 billion, which
largely
came from military contracts.
The board of directors of Halliburton
now includes
present and former executives from Chevron, Hunt Oil, Phillips
Petroleum and Southern California Gas Co. Named in
research
also are connections with American Airlines and AMR Corporation,
(former)Assistant Secretary of State, Richard Armitage is also a former
Halliburton consultant.(1) Vice President Cheney is reported
to
receive about $ 160,000 deferred salary a year from
Halliburton. In 2001 Cheney received $ 205,298 and
another
$ 162,393 from Halliburton in 2002. The Vice President also
holds
433,333 unexercised stock options in Halliburton. Halliburton
also received control of Iraq oil and infrastructure restructuring
without competitive bidding.
The ability to raise grain and other
agricultural
products has been severely curtailed by the ravages of continuous war
in Iraq. Another player on the scene should be recognizable
to
Mohave County residents. The former operator of major area
polluter North Star Steel (The Cargill Corporation) is busying itself
attempting to take over Iraqi grain production and reportedly will be
flooding the area with cheap grain (reported in the October 2003 issue
of Acres USA). As Iraqi farmers are driven from their land by
corporate agriculture, they will reappear into the cities to become the
next batch of cheap foreign labor to compete with American workers.
Article by: C. James Matuschka
IMPEACH BUSH-CHENEY NOW !
Editor's note: (1) Armitage is former Assistant Secretary of State, who
according to sources leaked the Plame CIA Identity, see link:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082801278.html
and see link: "Armitage admits leaking Plame's identity" http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/09/08/leak.armitage/index.html