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Irak - Iraq: Hat die künstliche Kreation Churchills eine Überlebenschance?
CYNTHIA TUCKER:
Big Oil's slick no-bid contracts will keep us mired in Iraq.
A consortium of Western oil companies —
the very definition of Big Oil — is on the verge of receiving no-bid
contracts in Iraq, giving them access to one of the most
sought-after prizes in the petroleum industry, according to
The New York Times. Can it be mere coincidence
that the leading companies in the deal — ExxonMobil, Shell, BP and
Total — are the very same companies that Saddam Hussein threw out
when he nationalized the Iraqi oil industry more than three decades
ago? "It's been a long road, but the oil companies seem set to get
much of what they have been seeking," said James Paul, executive
director of the Global Policy Forum. "The Iraqi public is
overwhelmingly opposed to this privatization of Iraqi oil, just like
they are overwhelmingly opposed to the so-called security pact with
the U.S."..... The U.S. government could have spent $500 billion on
an Apollo mission-like search for alternative energy and still had
about $500 billion to hand to Americans as gasoline subsidies. And
we would have been well on the way toward freeing ourselves from the
troubled Middle East. (AJC, 22.6.08).
Irak: Die Kriegslüge nun nachgewiesen. The
War Lies Now Documented. LEONARD PITTS JR.: You remember the War on
Terror, don't you? The Washington Post reported
on
two secret White House memos explicitly endorsing the
use of waterboarding -- simulated drowning -- on
so-called high-value terrorism suspects. This is, says The Post, the
first time the still-classified memos have been disclosed. They were
written in response to requests from then-CIA Director George Tenet,
who worried his agents might be hung out to dry if the practice were
discovered and the people or their representatives demanded
someone's head. According to The Post, the White House issued
written authorizations in 2003 and 2004. Yet in 2006, President Bush
told the nation, ``The United States does not torture. It's against
our laws, and it's against our values. I have not authorized it --
and I will not authorize it.'' Which was, of course, a lie. (MH,
19.10.08).
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The Washington Post
(09/27/07):
Report Says Sadam Hussein Was Open To Exile Before 2003 Invasion.
Less than a month before the U.S.
invasion of
Iraq,
Saddam Hussein
signaled that he was willing to go into exile
as long as he could take with him $1 billion and information on
weapons of mass destruction, according to a report of a Feb. 22,
2003, meeting between
President
Bush
and his Spanish counterpart published by a Spanish newspaper
yesterday. El Pais, a leading Spanish daily and a
critic of the war, said the
transcript of the conversation was prepared by Spain's
ambassador to the United States,
Javier Ruperez,
who was at the meeting in Crawford.
Aznar
returned to the subject. "Is it true there's
a possibility Saddam Hussein
might go into exile?"
"Yes, it's possible,"
Bush
responded. "It's also
possible he could be assassinated."
Aznar: ¿Es
cierto que existe alguna posibilidad de que
Sadam Hussein
se exilie? Bush: Sí,
existe esa posibilidad. Incluso de que sea asesinado. Here is a
further part of the
English translation.
Kommentar:
Wer immer nach einem politischen Grund für den Krieg sucht, ist auf
dem Holzwege. Bush wollte den Krieg auf Teufel komm
raus. Das Bush/Cheney Team tut nichts ohne
Profitinteresse. Folgt dem Geldinteresse ihrer Geschäftsbeziehungen
und ihr werdet fündig.
Auch Rumsfeld
nutzte die Gunst der Stunde von 9/11:
Ein Memo von Rumsfeld, das wenige Stunden nach den Anschlägen vom
11.9. verfasst und letztes Jahr bekannt wurde, machte deutlich, dass
der Verteidigungsminister sofort daran dachte, die Gunst der Stunde
zu nutzen, um auch gegen den Erzfeind Saddam Hussein vorzugehen.
Rumsfeld forderte General Myers auf, möglichst schnell Informationen
und Beurteilungen herbeizuschaffen, um nicht nur militärisch gegen
Bin Laden, sondern gleichzeitig auch gegen Saddam Hussein vorgehen
zu können: [b]est info fast . . . judge whether good enough [to] hit
S.H. [Saddam Hussein] at same time - not only UBL [Usama Bin Laden]"
(
Texas Congressman
Ron Paul said in the GOP presidential debate in South
Carolina
the 9/11 killers were "over here because we are over there,"
and
received 30% approval by FOX-viewers, thus becoming the winner of
the debate. (Pittsburg Tribune-Review, May 19, 2007).
Michael Scheuer,
the former head analyst at the CIA’s bin Laden unit and author of the
books
Through Our Enemies Eyes and
Imperial Hubris,
said
“I thought Mr. Paul captured it the other night exactly correctly.
This war is dangerous to America because it’s based, not on gender
equality, as Mr. Giuliani suggested, or any other kind of freedom,
but simply because of what we do in the Islamic World – because
‘we’re over there,’ basically, as Mr. Paul said in the debate.”
War criminal
Henry Kissinger compares Iraq to Vietnam
(LA-Times, 31.5.07).
David Ignatius: Cheney And the Saudis (Washington Post, May 9, 2007).
Having
volunteered for Iraq, Mark Daily
was killed in January by an I.E.D. Dismayed to learn that his
pro-war articles helped persuade Daily to enlist
Christopher Hitchens
measures his words against a family's grief and a young man's
sacrifice. (Vanity
Fair,
November 2007).
Robert Redfords „Von
Löwen und Lämmern“ setzt sich mit den Argumenten für
den Krieg In Afghanistan und Irak auseinander. (Welt, 1.11.07). Er
erläutert weshalb.
LIONS FOR LAMBS.
Robert Redford, Tom Cruise, Meryl Streep
In the Valley of Elah (2007). Tommy Lee Jones
Thomas Friedman übt Selbstkritik: "Our reaction to 9/11 -- mine included -- has knocked America completely out of balance, and it is time to get things right again....We need a president who will unite us around a common purpose, not a common enemy." (NYT, Spiegel, 2.10.07).
Bob Woodward
(Washington
Post, 17. Sept. 07):
Alan Greenspan, the former
Federal Reserve chairman, said in an interview that the
removal of
Saddam Hussein had been "essential" to
secure world oil supplies, a point he emphasized to the
White House in private conversations before the 2003 invasion of
Iraq.
In his new book “The
Discussion in
Democracy Now (24.9.07):
AMY GOODMAN: Alan Greenspan, let's talk
about the war in Iraq. You said what for many in your circles is the
unspeakable, that the war in Iraq was for oil. Can you explain?
ALAN GREENSPAN:
Yes. The point I was making was that if there were no oil under the
sands of Iraq, Saddam Hussein would have never been able to
accumulate the resources which enabled him to threaten his neighbors,
Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia. And having watched him for thirty years,
I was very fearful that he, if he ever achieved -- and I thought he
might very well be able to buy one -- an atomic device, he would
have essentially endeavored and perhaps succeeded in controlling the
flow of oil through the Straits of Hormuz, which is the channel
through which eighteen or nineteen million barrels a day of the
world eighty-five million barrel crude oil production flows. Had he
decided to shut down, say, seven million barrels a day, which he
could have done if he controlled, he could have essentially also
shut down a significant part of economic activity throughout the
world.
The size of the threat that he posed, as I saw it emerging, I
thought was scary. And so, getting him out of office or getting him
out of the control position he was in, I thought, was essential. And
whether that be done by one means or another was not as important,
but it’s clear to me that were there not the oil resources in Iraq,
the whole picture of how that part of the Middle East developed
would have been different.
Cynthia Tucker: Far from reality, Bush dares to invoke Vietnam (AJC, 26.8.07).
A WAY OUT: THE UNION OF IRAQI STATES
Pauline H. Baker, The Fund
for Peace. Report #7,
A soldier's
account: Is the war manageable?
The Iraq War As We See It. By Buddhika Jayamaha (NYT,
19.8.07).
Im Irak kämpfte er für Freiheit, Demokratie und für seine
Kinder. Heute ringt er damit, sein Leben wieder in den Griff zu
bekommen. Herold Noel ist einer von tausenden
Irak-Veteranen, die den Krieg zurück in die Heimat tragen und
das Gesicht Amerikas verändern. (Spiegel, 4.11.06)
New books on the "War On Terror" (NYT, 29.7.07).
Simulation zeigt das Ende des World Trade Centers (Spiegel, 18.6.07).
Der Ritter der lebenden Toten. Überlegungen zu den Geständnissen von Khalid Shaikh Mohammed - und darüber, was die Legalisierung von Folter zerstört - von Slavoj Zizek (derStandard, 31.3./1.4.07).
Gewinnen die USA im Irak? - "Nein, Sir." Es ist eine deutliche Absage an die Politik seines Vorgängers. Der designierte Verteidigungsminister Robert Gates hält es unter den gegebenen Umständen im Irak für ausgeschlossen, den Krieg zu gewinnen. Die Truppenstärke nach dem Feldzug sei viel zu klein gewesen, sagte er im Senatsausschuss. (SPIEGEL, 5.12.06).
9/11
- ein Inside
Job?
Auch Matthias
Bröckers fasst seine Thesen zum Thema zusammen.
Die US-Regierung
versucht zu kontern.
Molly Ivins: Habeas Corpus, R.I.P. (1215 - 2006) . Folter in den USA legalisiert?
The
torture debate in the USA. "Failures
of Imagination" by Eric Umansky
Cheney facht Folter-Debatte (Waterboarding)
wieder an (Spiegel, 27.10.07).
CIA-Kenner Ron Suskind im Interview mit SPIEGEL
ONLINE sagt, im Kampf gegen al-Qaida handle Amerika wie "ein
kopfloses Huhn". Gerade die
CIA-Foltermethoden seien kontraproduktiv.
(26.10.07).
Why the Torture Bill
Matters. By
Molly Ivins, AlterNet,
September 28, 2006.
John McCain, der aussichtsreichste republikanische Nachfolger George W. Bushs, lenkt von eigenen Versäumnissen ab und will den Europäern die Schuld am Terrorismus zuschieben: "Die Bedrohung durch diese in Europa herangezüchteten Terroristen ist keine amerikanische... Wir müssen besser auf das politische und soziale Klima anderer Länder achten. Wir sollten auf das Umfeld schauen, in dem Menschen muslimischen Glaubens in Europa leben. Auf den ersten Blick mag das nichts mit Terrorismus zu tun haben, aber die jungen Muslime, die in den Gettos von Paris leben, waren willens, Tausende Autos anzustecken. Die Lage dort ist fraglos unberechenbar, das könnte sich leicht zu einem weiteren Umfeld für islamischen Extremismus entwickeln".
Militärexperte Martin van Creveld: Irak
- der dümmste Krieg seit Augustus Feldzug gegen Germanien.
Wie in Vietnam ist der Rückzug aus dem Irak unausweichlich.
Moshe Dayan questioned American goals in
Vietnam. What would he say about Iraq? The
Blemish of Conquest. We might add: What would he think about Gaza
and Lebanon?
Kriege
gegen Iran? "Das wäre das nächste US-Desasters"
Die Ablösung des "trinitarischen Krieges" durch den "low
intensity conflict" und die Auflösung der Staaten.
Hans-Christian Ströbele
(MdB Bündnis90Grüne): Abweichender Bericht zur BND-CIA-Zusammenarbeit
Germany was listed in Iraq as "noncoalition
but cooperating."
German Intelligence Gave U.S. Iraqi Defense Plan (NYT,
27.2.06)
by Michael R. Gordon
Germany Denies Giving U.S. Iraq's Plan to Defend Baghdad,
NYT, 28.2.06
Greg Thielmann, Powel's director of the Office of Strategic Proliferation and Military Affairs: Powel lied to the UN. Thielmann believes the decision to go to war was made - and the intelligence was interpreted to fit that conclusion. CBS, 60 Minutes II, 15. Oct.03
Neue Literatur zu Bushs neuer Weltordnung
Documents of Neocon-Strategies: Project for the First People's Century
Pierre Georges: Bush Prie. Le Monde, 8.3.2003
Yves Roucaute: Une guerre juste. Le Monde, 8.3.2003
Martin Amis: The palace of the end. Guardian, 4.3.2003
In
göttlicher Mission. Krieg aus Nächstenliebe
HANS HOYNG, GERHARD SPÖRL,
Spiegel 08/2003
God's
own country: Religiöse Grundlagen des Imperiums
Peter Steinacker, Hessischer Kirchenpräsident, FR
Regierungen
aller Länder, bewaffnet Euch!
Von Harald Schumann
(Spiegel-online, 20.3.03)
Der
Untergang des US-Imperiums
Emmanuel Todd, taz 15.3.03
TRÄGT
DIE "BLUT FÜR ÖL"-HYPOTHESE?
von Friedemann
Müller
Getrieben von Versager-Komplexen, gestärkt vom fundamentalistischen Gotteswahn: George Bush ist für den Psychoanalytiker und Theologen Eugen Drewermann besessen davon, einen noch besseren Krieg als sein Vater zu führen. (Spiegel-online-Interview, 11.2.03)
Anti-Europeanism
in America
By Timothy
Garton Ash, NYRB, Febr. 13, 2003
The
Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Febr. 03
Interview with Greg Palast by Hustler Magazine
Joseph
Stiglitz: The
myth of the war economy
"war will be unambiguously bad in terms
of what really counts: ordinary people's standard of living".
(Guardian, 22.1.03)
Habermas und Derrida für das "alte Europa"
Wann ist
ein Krieg gerecht?
von JEFF GEDMIN (Leiter des Aspen-Instituts Berlin),
in taz 18.1.03
"Ebenso heiter stimmen die frommen Verlautbarungen über die
Unantastbarkeit des Völkerrechts. Fast alle, die das als Argument
gegen eine Intervention im Irak nutzen, übersehen bequemerweise, dass
die Intervention im Kosovo
vor nur wenigen Jahren völlig illegal war".
Nach
Stalingrad, vor Bagdad
Sind die Deutschen tatsächlich die intellektuellen Waisenkinder der
Geschichte?
Brief von Norman Birnbaum an Jeff Gedmin
"Informeller Imperialismus": Historiker: USA wollen globale Vormachtstellung festigen (Tgsp., 16.1.03)
National
Security Strategy
transmitted to Congress on September 20
Monthly Review Nov. 2002
The
logic of empire The
US is now a threat to the rest of the world. The sensible response is
non-cooperation
by George Monbiot, Guardian 6. Aug. 2002
"Fubar"
- Fucked
up beyond any recognition:
Wie bei einem Naziaufmarsch
Bob Woodward, "Bush at
War", Simon&Schuster, NY 2002, 369p, $28 (Spiegel 48/2002)
Outbreak.
Let's take over.
American
Empire als Wille und Vorstellung
von Rainer Rilling
The
U.S.-Europe Divide
by Robert Kagan, Washington Post, May 26, 2002
Joschka Fischer zu Verbrechen und Wohltaten der USA, zu Europa etc. im Spiegelinterview vom 18.5.2002
Brief von US-Bürgern an
europäische Freunde: Gegen Bush
deutsch
English
francais
Die
aufgeklärte Variante des Dschihad
Warum der Aufruf amerikanischer Intellektueller zum gerechten Krieg
anmaßend ist.
von
Peter Schneider
What
We’re Fighting For: A Letter from America Feb
12, 2002
Sixty scholars make the moral case for the war on
terrorism.
"Nächstenliebe
verlangt Gewaltanwendung"
gekürzte deutsche Version im tagesspiegel vom 12.2.2002
Martin Shaw
- Ten
Challenges to Anti-War Politics
to appear in Radical
Philosophy 111 (Jan/Feb 2002), pp. 11-19
- A
regressive crystallization of global state power: theorising a
response to the 'war against terrorism'
- Progressive
politics in Bush's global state?
from Renewal, journal
of new Labour politics, December 2001
Terror and Empire by Robin Blackburn
Glaubenskrieg: Kritik an Bahamas. Von Jens Wissel
Konservative Kritik an Bush: Islam and moral equivalence by Greg Swann
"Militärische Studien im Heiligen Krieg gegen die Tyrannen" Deutsche Mittäter
Webster G. Tarpley/Anton Chaitkin, George Bush - The Unauthorized Biography
Das
"amerikanische Familiengeheimnis":
George bin Laden und Osama Bush sind Brüder in Geist und Geschäft
Günter Langer
The Bush - bin Laden Connection
Die
müde Jagd des FBI auf den "Anthrax-Man"
Von Carsten Volkery, New York (Spiegel-online 13.6.02)
Analysis
of the Anthrax Attacks
by Barbara Hatch Rosenberg, Federation of
American Scientists