The
Iraq Hawks
Can their war plan
work?
by Seymour
M. Hersh December 24, 2001
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ABSTRACT: ANNALS OF NATIONAL SECURITY
about the history of plans hatched by the U.S. government to oust Saddam Hussein, and the
status of current efforts to remove him… Describes a military plan being put forth by
Ahmad Chalabi, 56, the leader of the Iraqi National Congress, an opposition group devoted
to the overthrow of Saddam Hussein... The plan would involve an invasion of southern Iraq-the
site of most of Iraq’s oil fields… A Chalabi adviser explained, "If the
insurgent force took Basra-that’s the end. You don’t have to go to Baghdad. You
tie up his oil and he’ll collapse." ...America’s success in routing the
Taliban has improved Chalabi’s standing with some elements of Washington’s
defense community… But Secretary of State Colin Powell, known to be skeptical of the
I.N.C., has "backed away from the infighting," a senior general explained, and
left it to . Richard Armitage, the Deputy Secretary of State, his trusted colleague,
"to stall them off four or five months. There’s a lot of ways to squeeze Saddam
without using military force." President Bush has not yet decided what to do about Iraq,
according to the senior Administration official. Until he has, he said, the State
Department will continue to give financial support to opposition groups, including the
I.N.C. …Inside the Administration, there is a general consensus on one issue,
officials told me: there will be no further effort to revive the U.N. inspection regime in
Iraq. The inspectors were withdrawn in late 1998, after seven years of contentious and
sometimes very successful inspections, and Iraq has refused since then to accept a new
wave of inspectors…
"To Achieve World
Government it is necessary to remove from the minds of men their individualism,
their loyalty to family traditions and national identification" Brock Chisholm - Director of the World Health Organization
"A society whose citizens refuse to see and investigate the facts, who refuse to
believe that their government and their media will routinely lie to them and fabricate a
reality contrary to verifiable facts, is a society that chooses and deserves the Police
State Dictatorship it's going to
get." Ian Williams Goddard
The fact is that "political
correctness" is all about creating uniformity. Individualism is one of the biggest obstacles in the way of
the New World Order. They want a
public that is predictable and conditioned to do as it's told without asking questions.
"The two enemies of the people are criminals
and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the
second will not become the legalized version of the first." Thomas Jefferson
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