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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.
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