From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: US Administrations Masterful at Covering Up Their Past with Saddam Hussein
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 10:10:16 -0800


Anthony writes:

FOR THE FOURTH TIME, HAVE YOU READ RESOLUTION 1441? John,
once is an honest
mistake, twice is a possible mistake, THREE times is
conspicuous, but FOUR
times is downright willed blindnes. And this from someone
TALKING about WtP!
Paragraph 4 of resolution 1441 specifically gives the
criteria for a
material breach, and it EXPLICITLY says that Iraq must FULLY
COOPERATE, not
"progress." And the inspectors themselves have already
explicitly said that
they are not receiving full cooperation, especially
regarding interviews
with scientists.

Would you like me to start a count for the number of times
you are going to
post the above without having read resolution 1441?

Anthony Crifasi


The resolution is an example of the 'ontic' and the
repetitive calculative approach is one that is explicitly
'inauthentic' (cf. Heidegger. Being and Time, and The
Question Concerning Technology. Serious consequences for the
US mean only war and death for them.

When is the US going to reduce or eliminate it's weapons of
mass destruction? The US is the only nation which has used
nuclear bombs to kill people, and it is the only nation
which has used nuclear weapons on civilians. No warning was
provided to the citizens of the "Twin Cities"; is this all
rather 'inauthentic'?


What about the serious consequences. How do you interpret
that?  Does this mean another 200,000 Iraqi dead?


US Administrations Masterful at Covering Up Their Past with
Saddam Hussein

Transcript:

Introduction:

It's not a story that's received a lot of play in western
media. But last December, a German paper published a list of
dozens of European and American companies reported to have
supplied Saddam Hussein with materials for weapons of mass
destruction. The paper claimed the list was included in
Iraq's massive document on its weapons programs that it
turned over to the United Nations. Jim Trautman is a
freelance journalist in Ontario. On Commentary, he focuses
on some of those American companies.

Jim Trautman:

As another war in Iraq gets closer, U.S. administrations
have become masterful at covering up their past and present
dealings with Saddam Hussein. Historically, when things go
badly the U.S. rewrites history to portray itself as the
victim.

In the 12-thousand page declaration that was provided to the
U.N. by Iraq in December, there was a list of the
24-American companies and 30 of their subsidiaries that
provided material to Iraq.

But, in a deal with Hans Blix this information was never
released. In fact, the Bush administration received the only
copy and carefully edited out the incriminating evidence
before presenting it to the other Security Council members.
The list was leaked by a European publication and it makes
for some very interesting reading. Besides naming the
companies it is coded to show what each provided to the
regime.

Companies on the list include: Dupont, Honeywell, Bechtel,
Unisys, American Type Culture Collection, and the Los Almos
and Lawrence Livermore Nuclear Facilities.

The U.S. companies provided rocket engines, nuclear
material, biological and chemical material for weapons of
mass destruction. This included cultures to manufacture
biological weapons.

Little mentioned is the 1994 U.S. Senate report that focused
on the U.S. material and technology that assisted the Iraqi
government to make mustard gas, VX nerve gas, anthrax and
bubonic plague.

Looking at that list one realizes that the cast that
provided the deadly material is the same cast preparing for
war today. Donald Rumsfeld opened the door to Iraq - U.S.
relations in his meeting with Saddam in 1983. Rumsfeld was
Reagan's envoy to the Middle East. He ok'd the transfer of
satellite images to Iraq of where the Iranian troop
deployments were concentrated during the Iran - Iraq war.

The 54 companies did the selling all with the authority of
the Reagan and Bush administrations. They saw Iraq as a
bulwark against militant Muslim extremism. The U.S. provided
Saddam with deadly outlawed "cluster bombs" through a phony
cover company in Chile. Of course at the same time the U.S.
was supporting bin Laden in Afghanistan.

And for anyone that believes this commerce stopped,
Halliburton Oil was doing over $100 million in business with
Saddam in 2000. Who was the CEO of Halliburton - why Vice
President Dick Cheney.

This is a war about covering up the deal made with the
devil, and oil - always oil.

For CBC Commentary, I am Jim Trautman in Guelph, Ontario.

Listen to today's Commentary








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