The games of war 2 comments

19 Jan 2003 @ 13:49, by Jenese James The Games of War By John Cory TO correspondent in Saudi Arabia t r u t h o u t | Perspective Sunday 19 January 2003 The game is afoot as they say. While Ari Fleischer keeps denying that the war is inevitable, you cannot walk around Kuwait, or parts of Bahrain, without tripping over American military equipment and personnel or reporter-celebrities in safari suits. I suppose this means the war games in Qatar were successful and Gen. Franks will not be wintering in Florida this year. The Middle East Newsline reports that the U.S. has begun withdrawing non-essential government personnel from the Middle East. According to the article, "Officials said the effort is meant to avoid Arab or Islamic reprisals on U.S. personnel over the next few months amid tension in the Persian Gulf and Middle East region." According to the news article, "The biggest threat is that of kidnapping of Americans, particularly diplomats." A sure sign of coming war is when politicians evacuate, leaving the rest of us to face the consequences of their actions. Meanwhile the business of war continues, even on the eve of invasion. In Abu Dhabi, the UAE defense show is on schedule for March 16-20. More than 850 defense contractors from Britain, the United States, France, Russia, Germany and Italy and elsewhere are expected to attend the sixth International Defense Exhibition and Conference (IDEX) despite the pending war. According to Ali Al-Tunaiji, the director general of General Exhibitions Corp. "The tension is increasing day by day, but we will go ahead in hosting the event even if there is an attack on Iraq." Obviously the profits of war must not be ignored during war. This weekend there was a lot of coverage on CNN International of a Time magazine article suggesting that Saudi Arabia is quietly shopping a plan to offer exile to Saddam in exchange for him stepping down and avoiding war. Many of those interviewed said this plan has been around a long time and was not expected to actually happen, while some insist it is part of the overall game plan. One of my fellow Americans who likes to gloat about his power connections, said he was golfing with the General and others (wow - a general), and they said that the Saudi's are actually offering money to Saddam's military staff to resign. A bribe to avoid war. How GOP. In this morning's Arab News there is a page 2 story denying any such plan or offer from the Saudis. Prince Naif is quoted as saying, "As leadership and people we are with the Iraqi people in their suffering and, God willing, we will work to spare Iraq the miseries of war." He went on to say, "The Arab world should ensure that continued solidarity and cooperation prevail in order to serve their joint interests." Solidarity is a big issue in the Arab world. Within the same article was an official denial from the Director of Intelligence Prince Nawaf. The prince stressed that what was published in Time magazine was untrue: "It is an Iraqi issue whether Saddam remains in power or not. This talk is totally baseless. The Kingdom would not interfere in the internal affairs of Iraq and has no contact with Iraqis inside or outside." What would be the purpose of such a story leaked to the world press? One can only guess at the motives. Is it a means to put pressure on Iraq by showing the lack of support by other Arab nations? Is it intended to cut the legs out from under Saddam by revealing the weakness of his leadership? Or is it meant to show how Arabs are easily corrupted by money, willing to turn a blind eye, if the price is right? One thing is for sure, and that is by revealing this story, it exposes Iraq's neighbors to possible retaliation. If it is true, then Saudi Arabia has made itself a target for attack by Iraq. If Saddam is on the verge of annihilation with nothing to lose, and he knows his Arab brothers are willing to sell him out - why not take some of them with him? A bigger war means more troops and more opportunity for American military installations in Arab nations - for a price. A couple of my Jordanian friends believe that these "leaks" and "stories" are the work of the CIA and Bush to undermine Arab unity. Like the discovered warhead story, it is not the inspection team, but outisde sources leaking information in order to create a pretext for invasion. They believe these stories of Saudi bribery and Arab friction are intended to weaken opposition and generate internal confusion and conflict that will allow the U.S. to occupy and control Iraqi oil. As one of them so cleverly said, "This is a Mobil-Shell game intended to put the American Exxon Iraq." Who says Arabs have no sense of humor? The game of numbers and spin control insists that the war will be short and decisive. American losses will be minimal and probably only 100,000 Iraqi lives lost. Sounds fair. After that, America will set up a military government until Iraq can present candidates that are malleable- er-acceptable to the U.S. and its business partners. I am no geo-political whiz-bang, but occupation of an Arab country by the U.S. will never bring stability to the Middle East. The very notion that this will work like WWII occupations of Japan and Germany is absurd and reflects a total lack of understanding of this part of the world. Take a look at Afghanistan for answers. Success? Hardly. Peace? Not even. The Taliban is returning stronger than ever, and aided by Pakistan and local warlords, is creating havoc at every opportunity. The occupation of Iraq will be like the very industry this war is all about. There will be leaks in the pipelines and harmful spillage that will ooze across the Middle East in an oil slick of disaster. Small groups will be emboldened and larger terrorist organizations will set fires of more and more conflict. Fueled by the arrogance of U.S. policies, the continued failure to deal with the Israeli-Palestinian issue, the conflagration of violence will flood onto the whole world. And who will benefit? The defense contractors and the oil conglomerates. American lives will be endangered. Arab lives will be grist for more and more regime change. The already suffering poor, the medically needy children and orphans, the starving; all will be swept aside in the march of conquest and imperial domination. And for what? A substance made from the fossils of extinct life forms, which fuel the engines of greed, in a world choking on its own fumes. War is now a game of monopoly, played on a lethal field, with no winners, and only the dead to keep score. my wee blurb This is insane, a handful of male leaders, putting the world at risk all because of their arragance, ignorance and greed. Well they might be intelligent, although i have my doubts about that...but they are all hardley conscious.... Ive had enough of this male power over, and so has millions of humanity....what can be done....the voting machines are rigged, and money buys votes....its not about what we the people want, finaly we are waking up to just how powerless we are. George Bush fits the profile of a physcopath along with his entire cabniet...the rules that govern you an me are ineffective to these people....yet... the biggest crime against humanity is not this war over world oil domination...is insane simply because there is not enough oil to last anyway...no the biggest crime aganist humaity is the deliberate with holding of free energy devices The knowledge has been there for over 100 years but it has been marginilised, put away so that at the oil men can prosper at the expense of the rest of us...and you are you willing to walk more...to reduce your reliance on oil...to stop polluting our atmosphere....the substance is insidious...its now a fact that more people die from inhaling polluted air from fossil fuesl than do from road accidents....how insane is that...many of us are not willing to give up one inch of our lifestyle....no matter how many people will have to die to secure a western oil monopoly....we are all responsiblit to what ever degree.....our lifestyles are built on the backs of those in the 3rd world Sept 11 was never an act of terrorism...it was...on a much deeper level...and act of freedom..why....because it had to take such an act to wake people from thier self induced self obsorbed coma's....since 9/11 millions of people have shockingly realised just how insidious a power the US has become...this of course will reflect on all americans in some way or another in the times to come..... My heart however goes out to all those people who galvinised themselves to action this weekend and all the weekends before and to come...my heart also goes out to those who keep a universal prayer vigil....thank your to all who see the benefit in doing something.... yet there is an insidious evil on our planet...that has no regard for life nature nor any real interest in peace...what we are seeing played out is our beleif systems...and whether you beleive it or not....its because 1 half of humanity has been deemed inferor..this half of humanity now ascribes to male defined values....this half of humanity have been left out of all discourse...this part of humanity is the holder of wisdom...while the other is the holder of strength...who has abused their strength by using it to bully other nations and individuals...the male and female of present times is a dysfunctional unit....and this dysfuncton can be seen most clearly in our male lead world today...it can be seen in our male defined religious story and it can be felt in our hearts...the hearts of women are waking up and realising that she is the birther of life, and here he is destroying it. Who gives birth only to watch their child die of political sanctions...who gives birth to watch their son go off to die is some politicans war....the american military is a bunch of cowyboys...they slaughtered the indians so they could have the land...and they slaughter each other at home over minor things....a country founded on guns will die by guns....what a legacy... This insidious nation is soley responsible for half the wars in the world and profited nicely from hitlers atrocities...didn't want to get involved...and then turns round and brags that it saved the world...arragant karma awaits its ok though cos hollywood will hire some pitiful big name actors offer them obscene amounts of money to make a movie to ah hem...holywash the entire event anyway....and the weak minds of the over awed...star gazer will swoon at the hero and all will be romantised out of historic reality...example pearl harbour.... To the boys sent to die as aggressors upon another country, you are now the terrorists, you are now the agressors...you are not heros you are militant cowboy agressors...this is not for your country this is for a handful of oil men and powerful american corporate interests....you have been used and will continue to be used....you are now the agressor you have become the very terrorist bush is so anti over...which is ripe ...because this imbecille is the leader of the biggest terrorist nation the world has ever seen....wake up and to the women who somehow think that joining the army is equality....get real...youve just sucumbed to the biggest lie in womens history...youve just become a clone of patriarachy, a puppet...you gain nothing by joining the boys in their war nothing...yet you loose much....you are not protecting your country...you are the aggressors...you are the terrorists about to rein terror on other mothers children and you all know it deep in your hearts...for the world finaly is begining to wake up...i don't know what it will take to stop this....for us to wake up to the reality of what we are all doing....its insane...

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