| Thursday November 06, 2003 CET
by Comrade Medvedsilnyn
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The New York Times reports that, contrary to claims by the Bush administration, President Saddam Hussein, (still the lawful elected leader of Iraq), wanted peace all along. One of the last things he did before the fateful attack on March 20th was to send a plea to Pengagon advisor Richard Perle for a peaceful solution to the conflict.
Iraqi officials, including the chief of the Iraqi Intelligence Service, had told the businessman that they wanted Washington to know that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction, and they offered to allow American troops and experts to conduct an independent search. The businessman said in an interview that the Iraqis also offered to hand over a man accused of being involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 who was being held in Baghdad. At one point, he said, the Iraqis pledged to hold elections.
The article paints the picture of a desperate third world country, unable to understand what it has done to offend the most powerful nation on earth, or what it can possibly do to appease it:
The Iraqi seemed desperate, Mr. Hage said, "like someone who feared for his own safety, although he tried to hide it."
Mr. Obeidi told Mr. Hage that Iraq would make deals to avoid war, including helping in the Mideast peace process. "He said, if this is about oil, we will talk about U.S. oil concessions," Mr. Hage recalled. "If it is about the peace process, then we can talk. If this is about weapons of mass destruction, let the Americans send over their people. There are no weapons of mass destruction."
The Bush administration, obviously, rejected the offer, and covered it up.
When even a Republican spokespiece like the New York Times begins to contradict the White House propaganda machine, "President" Bush is in trouble. What this will do to the fledgling Iraqi resistance movement is anyone's guess. Iraqis who naively trusted the American claim that the destruction of their country was unavoidable, and that the Americans are there simply to "aid" them as they set up a "democratic" society (ie. a capitalist-dictatorship controlled from Washington), must feel deeply betrayed. The anger of the Arab street has been growing for two years, fueled by a steady succession of American atrocities against Muslims, and may explode at any moment. When it does, what the Americans are facing in Iraq today will look like a Republican party convention by comparison.
And that Iraq would bypass more well-known Bush officials and go straight to Richard Perle, a well-known Zionist, gives a frightening glimpse of who's really pulling the strings in Washington. Papa's boy Bush it certainly ain't.
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