Celebrating War Criminal GW Bush In My Own Special Way:
This week US King G. W. Bush Senior, 94 years old, died. His father was a fellow traveller, and prominent enabler of the fascist regimes of the 1930s. His father managed the most important of Hitler’s war industries, and employed Auschwitz slave labor. His father relinquished formal control of Nazi industries in August 1942 (yes, the US and Hitler had been at war, declared by Hitler, for more than 6 months). Then GW Bush’s father was such a linchpin of US plutocracy, he was nominated US Senator, just to make him above any suspicion.
In striking contrast, the young George Bush got in the Navy well below age, became a pilot, was shot down, parachuted in the Pacific, was recovered by a US submarine. A hero.
But also a trickster. He headed the CIA forever and was part of the powers behind Reagan’s throne.
During all those years, the West’s man in the Middle East was Saddam Hussein. As Saddam would point out, baffled, before his execution:’We had good laws, like in the West. Why did they do that to us?’
You had good laws, Saddam? Right. True. That was exactly the problem. Those good, occidental, republican, secular laws made you potentially very hard to control… And made your oil honorable: surely one didn’t want it to flood world markets, killing US oil in the process?
Power, Saddam, power.
The MOST IMPORTANT REASONS TO INVADE IRAQ ARE NOT LISTED ABOVE. It was to show the world, in particular Europe and its pseudo-intellectuals and plutocrats, who was the boss, namely US plutocracy. Right, the list above was for the war of GW Bush (and the United Nations) against Saddam, not the 2003 invasion. But the fundamental reasons stayed the same. Another reason, not listed above, was to DESTROY SECULAR Iraq. Muslim Fundamentalism, a fundamentally plutocratic, theological ideology is a great justification for all exploiters and lovers of abusive war. And then the real reason of the oil men, the US frackers, was to keep Iraq out of production, so oil prices could be high enough.
Saddam got the bad idea to switch from US Dollars to Euros for oil payments. Horrendous: Thus Saddam was setting a currency precedent, an attack against king dollar, a chink in the US Dollar armor. An example had to be made. That was for the second, terminal attack against Iraq.
In the 1970s and especially 1980s, Saddam was the West’s enforcer, against Iran. What did that do? Keep oil world prices high enough, once again. Saddam was told to attack Muslim Fundamentalist Iran, so he did. When attacking Iranian tankers got too difficult for Iraqi competence, French pilots did it. Saddam got massive French, British, US, and even German support. Some was satellite imagery.
In the 1980s, top western government officials couldn’t have enough of Saddam, who bought so many nice, and very expensive weapons…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaP7ZrmkcuU
When Saddam was all puffed up, and ready to go, thinking he had achieved an Arab secular state, at last. Success yes: his goose was cooked.
Saddam Hussein was led to believe invading Kuwait would be tolerated, that was the bait set-up by the ex-CIA chief, Bush.
Saddam has reason to be upset: the Iraqis argued that sideways drilling from Kuwait, using advanced drilling techniques (now standard in fracking) was draining Iraqi oil fields. The more fundamental problem was clear for all to see by glancing at a map: Kuwait was made up to deprive Iraq of sea access… When Roman emperor Trajan got to his legions to the Gulf, he got to present day Kuwait (he unfortunately fell sick and died shortly after).
In any case, once Kuwait, a theocratic monarchy got invaded by the Iraqi Republic, Bush’s US screamed with high indignation, and the war was on, amplified by United Nations Security Council’s decisions. Now for some of the official mumbo-jumbo, one can consult:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Glaspie
… and read between the official lines… Inter-preting: the concept comes from going between what is in front. This is what thinking is about.
Patrice Ayme
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Note: the preceding was started by the following exchange with Irade Alexi Helligar, December 3, 2018. Alexi: “I have argued this point for many years:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/george-hw-bush-obit-presidential-legacy.html
“The Overlooked President: We should thank George H.W. Bush for many of the successes attributed to Reagan and Clinton. George H.W. Bush Was a Better President Than Reagan or Clinton. He did right by the country at political cost to himself. What modern presidents can say the same?”
I replied: Not saying much, though…
Irade Alexi Helligar answered: Patrice Ayme, Yes, it goes to show how bad US leadership has been over the past few decades. Let’s not forget, George H.W. Bush gave us Clarence Thomas.
Patrice Ayme: Saddam Hussein was led to believe invading Kuwait would be tolerated, Sideways drilling was an issue, also the fact Kuwait was made up to deprive Iraq of sea access… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Glaspie
Irade Alexi Helligar: Ah yes, quite true.
QED…
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