Bush I on Saddam

Interesting Quote:

"We should not march into Baghdad . . . . To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition, turning the whole Arab world against us, and make a broken tyrant into a latter-day Arab hero . . . assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator and condemning them to fight in what would be an unwinnable urban guerrilla war. It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability."

– Former President, George Bush, in his 1998 book "A World Transformed", co-authored with Brent Scowcroft, Random House

5 comments

  1. >>To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our coalition,

    Yeah, “nothing destroys an alliance like the disappearance of the enemy.”
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1998/vo14no07/vo14no07_arming.htm

    >>assigning young soldiers to a fruitless hunt for a securely entrenched dictator

    And /who/ was it, exactly, that “securely entrenched” Saddam, Mr. Bush?
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/2002/10-21-2002/vo18no21_iraq.htm
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/departments/feature/2000/092400.htm

    >>It could only plunge that part of the world into even greater instability.

    “Instability” as defined by the interests of our foreign-policy Establishment, that is:
    http://www.thenewamerican.com/tna/1997/vo13no26/vo13no26_baghdad.htm

    3/28/2003 11:19:00 AM

  2. WELL, JAMES LANDRITH…YOU HAVE A FIRST CLASS SITE.
    mY NAME IS DESIREE YAGAN CELLULAR# 315-491-7934
    HAVE 18 DAYS EXPERIENCE ON INTERNET, LITERALLY.
    MY SOUL PURPOSE IN LIFE IS TO INFORN, ENLIGHTEN,
    ORGANIZE, THEN MOBOLIZE THE CITIZENRY AGAINST THIS THREAT TO AMERICA AND THE REST OF THE WORLD.
    I WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO YOU. COULD USE ADVICE/ HELP WITH CREATING A WEBSITE. THIS ADMIN. IS RUTHLESS…AND MORE DANGEROUS THAN MOST PEOPLE EVEN KNOW.
    I HAVE BEEN TARGETED AND_GEORGE ORWELLS “1984”
    HAS ARRIVED. SURVEILLANCE, TRACKING, TAPPING IS DONE WITH INPUNITY. THERE ARE GROUPS WHO ENGAGE IN THAT>>>PSYOPS STUFF, AND THEIR SERIOUS. YOU KNOW OTTO REICHS COLORFUL BACKGROUND. GETS OFF ON ALL FORMS OF PSYOPS. LOOK AT MY PROFILE ,IF YOUR SO INCLINED AND MY FIRST SHOT AT A HOMEPAGE. LIKE I SAID I WOULD BE INTERESTED IN SPEAKING TO A LIKE MINDED HIGHLY, INTELLIGENT PERSON WHO SHARES MY PASSION FOR OUR NATION, AND THE CONSTITUTION THAT IT IS BASED ON.
    DESIREE YAGAN911INTELLI4@AOL.COM

    8/8/2003 5:06:00 AM

  3. AMERICA BETRAYED??
    ???????????????

    THE TRUTH IS HIDDEN FROM VIEW. THE PHOTO-OPS THAT ARE PRESENTED TO US ON TELEVISION AND THE NEWSPAPERS BETRAY WHAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING IN IRAQ. THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN INDOCTRINATED ARE BLIND TO THE TREMENDOUS TRAUMA THAT WILL FOREVER SCAR OUR YOUNG SOLDIERS IN A WAR. THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH PROTECTING AMERICA, OR “SPREADING DEMOCRACY”.
    THE MEDIA HAS PARTICIPATED IN A *PSYOPS (PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS/PROPAGANDA) AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO PORTRAY THIS OCCUPATION AS “OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM”. THIS IS AN OBSCENE LIE THAT ONLY OUR SOLDIERS IN IRAQ ON THE GROUND, FEARING FOR THEIR LIVES EVERY TIME THEY STEP OUT OF THEIR BARRACKS IN FULL BODY ARMOR, PRAYING THEY WILL NOT BECOME ONE OF THE CAUSALITIES (TO BE MAIMED _ OR DIE …IN A BOMB BLAST ) KNOW ONLY TOO WELL.

    WOUNDED IN IRAQ_ ARE NOT BROKEN LEGS

    AS MAJOR GENERAL KEVIN C. KILEY AT WALTER REED ARMY MEDICAL HOSPITAL STATED “THAT … (RPG) ROCKET- PROPELLED.? GRENADES, REMOTE CONTROLLED MINES AND IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES CAUSE THE KIND OF AMPUTATING DAMAGE THAT YOU DON’T SEE NORMALLY WITH BULLET INJURIES”. THE RESULT HAS BEEN “LARGE NUMBER OF TROOPS COMING BACK TO WALTER REED AND BETHESDA NAVAL MEDICAL CENTER WITH SERIOUS *BLAST WOUNDS…ARMS AND LEGS THAT HAVE BEEN AMPUTATED IN IRAQ OR AT LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER IN GERMANY.
    SO THE NEXT TIME YOU HEAR THAT ANOTHER SOLDIER OR GROUP OF SOLDIERS HAVE BEEN WOUNDED IN A BLAST FROM (RPG) ROCKET PROPELLED GRENADE (IED) IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICES OR BY REMOTE CONTROLLED MINES, UNDERSTAND THIS___THEY ARE LIKELY DEVASTATING INJURIES WHICH CAUSE AMPUTATING-TYPE DAMAGE. THOSE WOUNDED IN BOMB BLASTS ARE *NOT SUFFERING FROM SUPERFICIAL INJURIES.
    A FEW OF US STARTED VOLUNTEERING AT (WALTER REED) AS AMPUTEES IN 1991 AND “THIS IS THE MOST WE HAVE EVER SEEN” SAID JIM MEYER. A DOUBLE AMPUTEE FROM THE VIETNAM WAR, WHO WORKS AT THE VETERNS ADMINISTRATION . “I’VE HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS”.

    IRAQ _THE PRICE OF OCCUPATION HIDDEN

    Since the war began more than 6,000 U.S. Soldiers have been evacuated back to the United States. The number 6,000 includes 1,500 wounded (combat and non-combat) and THOUSANDS (4,500 plus Soldiers) who became “Physical and *Mentally ill”. The number 6,000 causalities has been kept a secret from the public, not reported by our media liberal or otherwise. Few have touched this shocking subject which would be highly damaging to the Administrations assertions that we are “WINNING THE PEACE”. Our “Free Press” who so loudly proclaim to support our troops is a myth. Instead, the Media is Supporting a War and have Openly engaged in Propaganda, Misinformation and Disinformation TO THE PUBLIC under the Guise of Reporting. They have willingly or thru coercion from the White House avoided the most sensitive subject of this war. Question: Is this how we HONOR our Soldiers__by NOT reporting about those whose LIVES have been altered forever? The causalities of this occupation, are airlifted virtually every night in Giant C-17 Transport Jets to Andrews Airforce Base.
    There is no fanfare, our precious soldiers are carefully obscured from public view {except the occassional one chosen as a (PHOTO-OP) an Opportunity by the Pentagon for public relation purposes TO INFLUENCE PUBLIC OPINION AND “SHOW” HOW WELL THE WAR IS GOING. The media avoids reporting on the massive number of soldiers who arrive (virtually every night} in Giant C-17 Transport Jets at Andrews Airforce Base to be wisked off to military hospitals.
    These Soldiers are ignored, HIDDEN from view as they REPRESENT the visual, ugly ever so real results of this ENDLESS WAR… NOW Occupation, for which THEY have no control over. “OUR NATION DOESN’T KNOW THAT ” Said Susan Brewer President of America’s Heros Of Freedom “Sort of Out of Sight Out of Mind”. QUESTION: Is this how we HONOR our soldiers by NOT reporting about those whose lives have been altered forever?

    YOU MUST BECOME INFORMED HOW PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE AND PROPAGANDA_BY DESIGN IS USED BY THE GOV’T TO DECEIVE AND MANIPULATE PUBLIC OPINION AND GAIN SUPPORT FOR__A WAR OF CHOICE.

    MALICIOUS INTENT ???
    ?????
    THIS ADMINISTRATION HAS WITH DELIBERATE MALICE, VIOLATED ITS TRUST WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE USING DECEIT, DISTORTION AND TERROR TO FRIGHTEN and COERICE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INTO SUBMISSION. THE “WAR ON TERRORISM” IS THROWN AROUND AT WILL WHENEVER PRESIDENT BUSH WANTS TO JUSTIFY SOME ACT OF AGGRESSION AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION {Patriot Act, Terrorism Information Awareness, THE ENHANCED DOMESTIC SECURITY ACT OF 2003} OR… FOR A WAR OF CHOICE. THE BASIS FOR PREEMPTORY ATTACK ON IRAQ IS A LIE, AS IS THE EVER ***CHANGING REASONS FOR ATTACKING IRAQ.

    THE INSANE ASSERTION THAT WE ARE “FIGHTING THE TERRORIST ON THE THEIR LAND” INSTEAD OF U.S. SOIL, THEREBY MAKING AMERICA SAFER, IS A NEFARIOUS DISTORTION OF THE TRUTH. >>> THE TERRORIST WHO ATTACKED THE UNITED STATES (16 OF THE 19) CAME FROM *SAUDI ARABIA. YET, WE ATTACK IRAQ! IRAQ WAS NO THREAT TO AMERICA AND BARELY A THREAT TO ITS NEIGHBORS. (SEE INTELIGENCE REPORTS)

    BUT HE GASSED HIS OWN PEOPLE…

    IF SADDAM HAD WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION HE CERTAINLY WOULD HAVE USED THEM AGAINST HIS MOST HATED ENEMY AND *ENJOYED THE OPPORTUNITY OF KILLING AS MANY OF OUR TROOPS AS POSSIBLE.

    BUT HE GASSED HIS OWN PEOPLE…

    SADDAM HUSSEIN DID NOT USE THE WMDs
    NOT___ BECAUSE HE THOUGHT BUSH WAS NOT SERIOUS ABOUT REMOVING HIM, OR THOUGHT THE UNITED STATES LACKED THE MILITARY CAPACITY TO OBLITERATE HIM. ___SADDAM___ DID NOT USE THE WMDS BECAUSE HE DIDN’T HAVE THEM ANY LONGER!! HE HAD DESTROYED THEM AND THE ADMINISTRATION KNEW IT.

    BUT HE GASSED HIS OWN PEOPLE…

    TO SUGGEST THAT SADDAM *BURIED THEM, OR MOVED THEM RATHER THAN USE THEM IS PURE ***** PROPAGANDA. A TRANSPARENT ATTEMPT TO EXPLAIN WHY THE WMDs HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND AFTER SIX MONTHS OF OCCUPATION. YES, SADDAM HAD BIOLGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS…BECAUSE WE GAVE HIM THE AGENTS TO BUILD THEM. YESTERDAYS DICTATOR/ASSOCIATE IS TOMMORROWS DICTATOR/ENEMY _OF CHOOSING! THINK!? {{{{{ The continued BAZARRE Rationalization __THAT SADDAM had them, but didn’t use them is
    delusional. O.K.?? He did DESTROY them, Period. That is why NO Iraqi Official, Scientist __Not? even “Chemical Ali ” could tell us where the WMDs are.? This administration, along with their co-conspirator Tony Blair fully knew this and they orchestrated an all out, full blown scam on? us!? That is the TRUTH. So Who pays the price for this INIQUITOUS? Agenda? of? Power and Domination? IT IS our Precious Soldiers and the Iraqi people _who did not want Saddam _but have now come to hold America in equal contempt> We are now the oppressors,?? dominators in a foreign land.? Iraq is our own West Bank? and Gaza Strip!? There is
    *Anarchy,??Rampant Crime,? Rapes,?? Robbery,??? No Jobs… and the Civilians are being killed by both sides ___accidental killings? by are soldiers in a highly dangerous environment and by the attackers of soldiers__again caught in the crossfire > Iraqi Freedom Is A Lie.? The Media has been complicit in perpetuating the deceit and deception? using?? “Photo-Ops”?? that have Nothing? to do with reality,? are prearranged , and an INSULT to all of us who understand war strategy_ War Games?By Norman Polmar

    IF YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND ABOUT WAR GAMES THEN YOU NEED TO READ THE BOOK:
    WAR GAMES BY NORMAN POLMAR__THOMAS B. ALLEN (an excellent biography of United States history in war stategy and PSYOPS)

    *********** PSYOPS PROPAGANDA AND
    ENDLESS WAR **********
    ?
    ???? Propaganda in the media has reached an exceedingly dangerous level_the truth about this war is being suppressed and distorted.
    There has been open season (killings by friendly fire) too many times in a short period to be accidental, of journalist who are not “IMBEDDED” with our military. This has happened approx. 18 times in Iraq a very short period since the beginning of “Operation Iraqi Freedom”.
    ???? The reporters “allowed” to remain in Iraq __Under the wing of the PENTAGON cannot possibly BE expected to report the HARSH REALITIES on the ground, as it would be considered “Unpatriotic” to the war effort (or better said, illusion). Last, why has the pentagon covered? up? the 6,000 plus U.S. soldiers who have been EVACUATED? from IRAQ?
    ?????? *WASHIGTON POST: Sept 2 Article?? entitled: Number of Wounded in? Combat On The Rise.?*** Buried in the article is the shocking number of 6,000 plus soldiers stated to have been EVACUATED FROM IRAQ TO U.S. MILITARY HOSPITALS. 1,127 wounded in combat 301 non-combat 4,500 soldiers who became? “Physically and Mentally ill”.? What?does that mean? From What?? These are/were healthy?young soldiers,? what is the Pentagon covering up?? How did 4,500 soldiers become so “Physically and Mentally ill ” that they had to be EVACUATED from? Iraq to U.S. Military Hospitals????? Why has this been suppressed in the media??? DO THESE soldiers whose lives THOUSANDS?? Are we willing to allow this administration to Scar____ Emotionally??and /or? Physically? from this Hostile Occupation BEFORE we Demand Answers???? NO,? Forget about the Politics and Ugly Rhetoric,? that is a diversion.? It is about the TRUTH…nothing more.

    ? DEMOCRACY A DREAM, BUSH TOLD: The Age Newspaper (AUG 15) Intelligence Agencies WARNED The National Security Council (In March Briefing) That The Plan For Democracy in Iraq Was So AUDACIOUS __That It Would Ultimately___ Prove Impossible.

    ????????????????????????????? T
    TOLL OF US WOUNDED RISES FAST (MSNBC NEWS)
    ??????????????? http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/960067.asp?0sl=12?

    ____HOW TO SUPPORT OUR TROOPS____

    I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTACT THE SOURCES: WASHINGTON POST:REPORTER VERNON LOEB, MSNBC NEWS, NEWSPAPERS, THE DEPT OF DEFENSE, THE PENTAGON AND YOUR CONGRESSMAN FOR ANSWERS ABOUT THE 6,000 SOLDIERS EVACUATED FROM IRAQ,THE TRUTH HAS BEEN HIDDEN FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.
    FURTHERMORE I ASK THAT YOU FORWARD THIS NEWSLETTER TO EVERYONE AS THE ONLY PROTECTION OUR SOLDIERS HAVE IS EXPOSING THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS OCCUPATION.

    ENDLESS WAR… TERRORISM __AND AMERICA

    10/11/2003 5:16:00 AM

  4. What we are seeing is historical. It has happened time and again. If the founding fathers of this nation were alive today they would have sent buses to Washington, D.C. to physically remove the president and his men, instead of peace marchers. This situation has been foisted on the American people thru lies, deceit and greed. The main thing I look at is Israel. We should never never NEVER support Israel. Get Israel out of US politics NOW and FOREVER.

    11/2/2003 12:49:00 PM

  5. PROPHECY_OMINOUS SIGNS OF AMERICAS FUTURE

    YOU MUST BECOME INFORMED THE LIVES OF OUR SOLDIERS DEPEND ON IT. THE WHITE HOUSE CONTENDS THAT THE NEWS FROM IRAQ IS MISLEADING. THEY ARE CORRECT…IT IS ACTUALLY MUCH WORSE THAN EVEN THE TERRIBLE REPORTS WE ARE GIVEN.

    I ASK THAT YOU LISTEN TO YOUR CONSCIENCE ___NOT TO THE PERPETUAL CONTRADICTING, CONFUSING BLACK IS WHITE_ WHITE IS BLACK RHETORIC. BEWARE OF THE PROPAGANDA, MISINFORMATION AND DISINFORMATION WHICH WE HAVE BEEN INUNDATED WITH. THE TRUE NUMBERS REGARDING SOLDIERS EVACUATED FROM IRAQ ARE NOT BEING REPORTED. TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE COST OF LIVES IN IRAQ IS OUR RIGHT TO KNOW. WITHHOLDING THE TRUTH ABOUT THE CASUALITIES EVACUATED FROM IRAQ IS NOT PATRIOTISM _IT IS BETRAYAL. OUR OCCUPATION OF IRAQ HAS INFLAMED THE MIDDLE EAST AND DESTABLIZED THE REGION. I IMPLORE YOU TO MOVE BEYOND THE RHETORIC. THINK, ARE YOU WILLING TO ACCEPT THE BLOODY TOLL OF HUMAN LIFE THAT THIS OCCUPATION CONTINUES TO EXACT ON OUR TROOPS AND THE IRAQI PEOPLE.

    SADDAM WAS A TYRANNICAL LEADER

    YES, BUT WAS HE ANY LESS OF ONE WHEN THE U.S. COMMERCE LICENSED DOW CHEMICAL FOR A 1.5 MILLION SHIPMENT TO IRAQ, OR THE SALE OF ANTHRAX? WHAT ABOUT THE VIVID DETAILED STORYS OF TORTURE WHICH NOW HAVE SURFACED INTERESTINGLY TIMED AVAILABLE ON FILM…WAS THE U.S. UNAWARE OF SADDAMS HISTORY?

    THE MISSING WMDS HAVE NOW BECOME A FOOTNOTE: YET THIS IS THE ONLY LEGITIMATE JUSTIFICATION TO ATTACK A COUNTRY THAT HASN’T ATTACKED US.

    SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BY KNOWING THE FACTS.

    THAT INCLUDES THE COST OF LIFE DAILY AND SOON TO BE MULTIPLIED MANY TIMES. SEE THE PHOTOS OF THESE YOUNG SOLDIERS _THEIR NAMES WHERE THEY LIVED. HONOR THEM BY ACKNOWLEDGING THEIR LIVES… AND THEIR DEATHS.

    @CNN.COM GO TO: *SPECIAL REPORTS @ WORLD *WAR IN IRAQ SEE:CASUALITIES http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualities

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    WORDS OF PROGRESS ARE BETRAYED BY THE FACTS:

    THE RED CROSS ANNOUNCED IT WILL BE PULLING OUT IF IRAQ, THE ATTACK ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITTEE OF THE RED CROSS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN ITS 140 YEAR HISTORY. THE ICRC HAD SERVED IN IRAQ CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1980 THROUGH THREE WARS.

    WITHDRAWN: UNITED NATIONS, RED CROSS, DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS ALL OTHER AID AGENCIES AND NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS HAVE OR ARE EXPECTED TO PULL OUT. DEALING A STUNNING BLOW TO THE INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN EFFORT.

    REUTERS OCTOBER 30 2003 BLOODSHED DRIVES MORE AID WORKERS OUT OF IRAQ
    http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=3725992

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    1994 CONGRESSIONAL INQUIRY FOUND THAT DOZENS OF BIOLOGICAL AGENTS INCLUDING STRAINS OF ANTHRAX WAS SHIPPED TO IRAQ, LICENSED BY THE U.S. COMMERCE DEPT. ONE OF THE COMPANIES WAS DOW CHEMICAL WHO SHIPPED 1.5 MILLION WORTH TO IRAQ.
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,866942,00.html

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    TRUTH AT ALL COST
    http://www.usacitizens4truth.com/desireeyagan.html

    DESIREE YAGAN?? SYRACUSE, NEW YORK??? PLEASE… SPREAD THE WORD:?THE ONLY PROTECTION OUR TROOPS HAVE IS…WE THE PEOPLE DEMANDING THEY BE BROUGHT HOME.? THE KILLING HAS ONLY BEGUN _ NOV 1 2003

    ASK YOURSELF? ARE YOU WILLING TO SACRAFICE YOUR LOVED ONE IN IRAQ??? LOOK AT THE PHOTOS OF THE YOUNG SOLDIERS WHOSE LIVES WERE CUT SHORT BY? THIS? WAR OF CHOICE? @?CNN.COM? SPECIAL REPORTS? _WAR IN IRAQ???CASUALITIES? >>> THEN? ASK YOURSELF?WHAT IS THE TRUTH ABOUT??THIS PREEMPTORY WAR? NOW OCCUPATION, ?AND HOW CERTAIN YOU ARE ABOUT ITS JUSTIFICATION…SHOULD YOUR SON OR HUSBAND BE ONE OF THE PHOTOS OF THE >>> HUNDREDS OF FALLEN SOLDIERS.

    REMEMBER THIS: THE TIGHTNESS IN YOUR?THROAT??DUE TO THE EXTREMEvDISCOMFORT? CAUSED BY THE INTERNAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN ONES CONSCIENCE AND THE BLIND FAITH IN MAN NOT GOD.

    11/2/2003 12:50:00 PM

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