(Here's some information worth knowing that you'll never get on CNN.)
Do you know enough to justify going to war with Iraq? Take the War on Iraq IQ Test:
1. Q: What percentage of the world's population does the U.S. have?
A: 6%
2. Q: What percentage of the world's wealth does the U.S. have?
A: 50%
3. Q: Which country has the largest oil reserves?
A: Saudi Arabia
4. Q: Which country has the second largest oil reserves?
In the modern world, Iraq is seen by most Britons and Americans as a mortal enemy, and Saddam Hussein the evil dictator who has to be removed. Few people are only aware of Iraq, however, because of the last Gulf War 1n 1991, and because of the recent threat Iraq has presented. The country of Iraq, though, has a much longer history and a much longer relationship with Britain. Modern Iraq was actually formed by Britain in 1920, and the consequences and legacy of that action have a direct influence on the problems we see today, as Iraq has gone from ally to arch enemy. The history of Iraq and Britain's relationship with that nation is worth investigating more closely.
The assault on Iraq about to get underway is not a war. It will be a racist massacre.
The Bush administration's military campaign to "shock and awe" Iraq will be a senseless mass slaughter of defenseless women, children and men justified by the claim that the military is merely disarming a dangerous enemy.
The goal of conquest, and the mentality of racist, imperial arrogance, is a gruesome U.S. tradition started from the first days of colonization. However, today the U.S. government's weapons are much more destructive, and the death and horror will be even more massive and widespread.
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Here is the speech of Robin Cook, former British Foreign Secretary, who resigned from Tony Blair's cabinet yesterday in protest against the illegal invasion of Iraq by Britan and the US.
At the conclusion of his speeech, Robin Cook exposed the hypocrisy of the Balir-Bush postion: "I have heard it said that Iraq has had not months, but 12 years in which to complete disarmament, and that our patience is exhausted. Yet it is more than 30 years since resolution 242 called on Israel to withdraw from the occupied territories. We do not express the same impatience with the persistent refusal of Israel to comply."
Carter Says Bush Has Not Proven Case for Iraq War
The Bush administration has not convinced Americans or Europeans that a military attack on Iraq is necessary, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Jimmy Carter said on Friday.
Blix Says He Saw Nothing to Prompt a War
Days after delivering a report on Iraq's cooperation with international inspectors, Hans Blix on Wednesday challenged several of the Bush administration's assertions about Iraqi cheating and the notion that time was running out for disarming Iraq through peaceful means.
Robert Fisk - The Independent
The Israeli writer Uri Avnery once delivered a wickedly sharp open letter to Menachem Begin, the Israeli prime minister who sent his army to defeat in Lebanon. Enraged by Begin's constant evocation of the Second World War – likening Yasser Arafat in Beirut to Hitler in his Berlin bunker in 1945 – Avnery entitled his letter: "Mr Prime Minister, Hitler is Dead."
With US forces poised to invade Iraq, most of us are hoping against hope that they will face stiff resistance and pay for the crime of invading a sovereign nation despite the fact that it is led by a dictator like Saddam Hussain. In 1990 we had hoped and prayed for the same. In 1973, and earlier in 1967, 1956, and of course 1948, people around the world had hoped for an Arab victory, but our hopes were dashed . . .
by NOAM CHOMSKY, CounterPunch
http://www.counterpunch.org/chomsky1118.html
The dedicated efforts of the Bush administration to take control of Iraq - by war, military coup or some other means - have elicited various analyses of the guiding motives.
