Iraq: A War Built On Fictions

Today the Bush Administration is insisting that it may have to use nukes to be sure and reach the deep underground bunkers where Iraq stores its weapons of mass destruction. The only problem is, of course, that no such weapons were ever found by the various inspection teams and even Scott Ritter, who used to be in charge of the inspection teams, is now convinced no such weapons ever existed. Certainly if the US Intelligence agencies knew for a fact that such weapons were there, the teams could and would have been told where to look for them, in order to find them to justify further sanctions on Iraq. The teams were not given that information, ergo the Intelligence agencies really didn't and don't have a clue as to whether such weapons actually exist and where they might be. The only known fact is that none have been found. So, even though no weapons of mass destruction have actually been found in Iraq (other than those our tax dollars paid for which were destroyed at the end of Operation We-Suckered-Saddam-Into-Invading-Kuwait), our government wants to use nukes to make sure that we get those weapons that we don't really know are there in the first place. That's a pretty thin excuse to justify melting another nation into a sheet of green glass in my book.

Iraq's weapons of mass destruction are far less than a fact. And what is less than a fact is a fiction. There has been a lot of fiction in the rush to war that followed 9-11. There has been a faked video tape showing a man who almost-but-not-quite looks like Osama (but only in profile) saying something sort-of-incriminating that the translators are still arguing over. There have been fake IDs of the supposed hijackers of the four planes using Arabic names which did not appear on the passenger lists of the planes, which explains why 7 of them later showed up still alive. (Meanwhile, evidence that links 9-11 to Israeli spies remains classified by the US Government).

The much waved-about Anthrax terror letters, blamed on Arab terrorists in the media, eventually turned out to have carried made-in-the-USA Anthrax, thankfully less lethal than had been claimed by the lowest bidder who sold it to Fort Detrick. The chief suspect in the FBI's hunt for the letter-mailer is NOT Arab, by the way. That media supposition was a fiction, too.

Unlike Iraq, the nuclear weapons possessed by the United States are all too real, from the 25 megaton city busters to the suitcase micro-nukes which the US invented, claims to the contrary notwithstanding. Unlike Saddam's much rumored but never found stockpiles of Anthrax, the world's largest stockpiles of Anthrax are owned by the United States (see Anthrax letters above).

Sun Tzu said, "All War Is Based In Deception". It is the character of Americans that they would not willingly support a war of aggression against another nation which had done them no wrong. Were the leadership of the United States to desire to salvage what remains of their bankrupt government by stealing control of the world's oil, there would be no means to win public support for such a war for profit other than by deception. It is therefore time to take a close look at just how much deception has been used to ignite this war of conquest for the riches of the middle east (1/3 of which lies under Iraq) and the Caspian sea (estimated at $5 trillion, against which the cost of a new World Trade Center is pocket change).

We The People are being lied to. That is a scary reality for the average citizen to have to face up to. But it is a fact that MUST be faced up to, because hiding from the lies only encourages more lies. And unless the people of this nation acknowledge the lies and deal with the full implications of these lies before this war of global conquest really gets going, future generations will regard the United States at the dawn of the third millennium with the same revulsion our generation views Germany in the latter half of the 1930s.

Deal with it.