From: "Clifford Duffy" <cwduff-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: Bourdieu, Deleuze Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 03:38:22 -0500 >Address to the French Government > >Pierre Bourdieu, Gilles Deleuze, Jerome Lindon, Pierre Vidal-Naquet > >If Iraq committed a crime with regard to internation law by invading >Kuwait in 1990, it committed the same crime when it invadedd Iran in >1990. But ten years ago, far from condemning Saddam Hussein, Western >leaders helped him to win. They were on familar terms with him before the >massacre of the Kurds in 1988. They invoke morality only in cases where >it coincides with what they consider to be their interest. > We can indeed imagine that Saddam Hussein would be less disposed >than the Kuwaiti emirs to reinvest oil profits in Western economies. But >the embargo that has been erected against the Iraqui takeover results in >the creation of a shortage, in a rise in the price per barrel that will >doubtless be a lasting one, that is to say precisely what they claimed to >fear in the first place. > The paradox is only an apparent one. Everything is actually taking >place as if the international operation now underway under the aegis of >the United Nations were only a deception. > Informed at the end of July by its observation satellites about >the Iraqui troop and tank concentrations at the Kuwaiti border, the >United States took none of the preventive measures that would appear to be >called for, such as solemnly promising to secure the threatened border or >evacuating American nationals; it seems rather that the Kuwaiti leaders >were urged to be intransigent. It wasnt a matter of avoiding the crisis >but on the contrary of making a profit from it to get rid of Saddam >Hussein and Iraqui military power definitively. The invasion of Kuwait >risks appearing as a simple military parade compared to the brutal >enterprise of trampling Iraq that is in preparation. > Admittedly, the mission that the United States received from the >United Nations is limited to the embargo operation. But who among those >who granted them this mandate still has time to prevent the unleashing of >a cataclysm with unforseeable consequences which we have somehow >accredited in advance? We pose this question to those who govern us. > >From Discourse 20.3., Fall 1998, pp 163-4 >Translated by Timothy S. Murphy >Originally published in Liberation, September5, 1990./ >The repetition of history again and again makes this essay written over >ten years ago all the more frightening; the political insight into the of >the Kuwait and Iraq conflict, the set-up which led to the destruction of >Iraq -- I mean the Iraqui people and the state of its society [which in >spite of its tyrant and its tyrannical state structures was the most >advanced in the Arab world before 1990] this manipulation to make Iraq >the "fall-guy" for world wide American global domination has been >vindicated over the last 10 years. Once again the Iraqui people must pay >for their despot by paying the American despot; the dictator kings of >American bomb at will and no one dares to stand-up to them. >Think of them tonight and tomorrow. The dead and wounded, the maimed and >sick in Iraq. > >There was and there was not a city called Baghdad. >--If you prick us, do we not bleed No. >Jalal Toufic > >"You have seen nothing in Hiroshima." > >As anyone can see this war has not ended. War never ends, and the bodies >of corpses mount higher. > >"To fight the anonymity with which the war enemy is killed even by >precision bombing...." Every Name in History is I. Jalal Toufic. ------------------- _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.
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