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U.S. - IRAQ INVASION LIKELY TO BEGIN WITH STATE of the UNION, Tuesday
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Michael C. Ruppert
www.fromthewilderness.com
January 24, 2003, 1930 PST (FTW) - Serious international developments are indicating that the first stages of the U.S. invasion of Iraq will begin unilaterally no later than next Wednesday and most likely as the President delivers his State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night.
The Associated Press reported today, in a story little noticed by mainstream American press, that the Japanese government had today urged all Japanese citizens to leave Iraq as soon as possible. Japan has large numbers of its nationals working in Iraq in various trade and oil-related business ventures. According to a second report today on CNN Headline News the Japanese advisory was specific that all Japanese citizens should be out of the country by next Wednesday at the latest.
The Japanese alert was followed by a simultaneous advisory from the U.S. State Department issuing a worldwide alert to all Americans traveling overseas. According to another AP story, State Department officials tried to downplay the significance of the warning, "but officials were unable to say when the last such advisory had been issued." A worldwide alert for U.S. citizens is extremely rare and suggests that the administration is concerned about a global backlash against Americans traveling overseas. Cautionary advisories are normally isolated to specific countries or geographic regions.
The invasion of Iraq will most likely commence with a massive aerial campaign in which the U.N. and many military analysts have predicted widespread collateral damage with heavy civilian casualties. One recent UN estimate suggested that the total Iraqi casualty count for the entire operation could exceed 500,000.
This decision should not be taken as a surprise. In recent weeks support for the obvious U.S. intentions, both worldwide and at home, has been declining rapidly. At the time this story was written a contemporaneous CNN poll showed that 62% of those responding believed that the United States should not attack Iraq without UN approval. Politically, the Bush administration has seen that this situation is not going to improve. Every delay in an attack to which the administration has already committed not only risks greater military, political and economic opposition but also increases the risk that U.S. ground forces will be engaged in desert fighting in hot summer weather. Recent moves by both the French and Russian governments to approve new trade and development agreements with the Hussein government might also weaken U.S. economic control in a post-Saddam regime.
With crude oil prices at two-year highs and with U.S. oil reserves at 27-year lows the signs of a crumbling U.S. economy made themselves felt again today with a more than 200 point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial average. The Bush administration has apparently decided to roll the dice now in a go-for-broke imperial conquest that has as its primary objective the immediate control of 11 per cent of the world's oil reserves.
In many previous stories FTW has documented how the Iraqi invasion is but the first in a series of sequential worldwide military campaigns to which the United States has committed. All of these are based upon globally dwindling oil supplies and the pending economic and human consequences of that reality. On January 21st, CNN Headline News acknowledged, for the first time, the reality of Peak Oil and accurately stated that "all the cheap oil there is has been found." The story also acknowledged that there was only enough oil left to sustain the planet for thirty to forty years and that what oil remained was going to become increasingly more expensive to produce and deliver.
It is likely that the resiliency of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, in his effort to resist U.S.-inspired strikes by wealthy Venezuelan industrialists, has had an impact on this decision by the Bush administration. Venezuela, which is the third largest foreign importer of oil to the U.S., has seen its U.S. deliveries cut to a fraction of normal levels in recent weeks. Within the last week oil analysts have been predicting shortages and price spikes similar to those of 1973-4 if U.S. oil stocks were not replenished quickly. The administration's apparent decision to launch the attacks against Iraq appears to be at least a partial acknowledgement that Chavez is successfully resisting U.S. pressure to oust him.
Chavez angered multinational investors and financiers recently by moving to increase the share of oil profits retained in Venezuela for the benefit of its people.
Today's announcements signal that the world is entering a period of danger not seen for forty years. That the announcements from the Japanese government and the State Department came on the same day that the Department of Homeland Security became active and its Secretary Tom Ridge was sworn in seems an unlikely coincidence. Previous reporting from FTW had indicated that even massive protests and non-violent global resistance would prove ineffective in preventing an Iraqi invasion. And our predictions that the Bush junta had prepared for all the worst-case scenarios, including domestic unrest and worldwide opposition appear to be vindicated.
The administration has clearly issued a statement to the world. "Screw you. We're going to play this game any way you want to play it. And we're ready for anything that comes."
WATCH OUT FOR A POSSIBLE BIO ATTACK THIS WEEKEND OR MONDAY.....GOD KNOWS BUSH NEEDS ONE.
GET IT?
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Sat Jan 25, 2003 10:03 pm
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big hypocrisy here...
ol' mech says bush and the U.S are saying screw you to the world....
well aren't you against the world mech, the NWO and all ?
your just a bush basher and a U.S hater...and a anarchist hypocrite...
I say screw you to the world all the time, when I choose to buy American...
screw you world and screw you mech !
man that felt good !
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Mech
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Sat Jan 25, 2003 10:07 pm
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LOL! Your hero Bush is one step closer to being out the door. This is only the beginning. |
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Sun Jan 26, 2003 7:54 pm
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NO "SMOKING GUN" IN IRAQ FOUND..SADDAM 'IS CO-OPERATING' WITH INSPECTIONS.
Posted: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 0:48 AEDT
IAEA to tell UN: no 'smoking gun' in Iraq
The United Nations's nuclear watchdog says it would tell the UN Security Council it has yet to prove that Iraq is secretly seeking atomic weapons.
Today International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Mohamed El Baradei and chief UN weapons inspector Hans Blix will report on progress in their two-month-old hunt for Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction.
"It (El Baradei's report) won't reveal any prohibited nuclear arms program," IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming said.
"If we were to find a smoking gun, we wouldn't wait for an update report.
"We'd go straight to the Security Council."
Ms Fleming says Mr El Baradei had hoped to report positive progress on private interviews with Iraqi scientists.
However, he would be unable to do so given the refusal of the scientists to submit to interviews without the presence of Iraqi officials.
Dr Blix, whose inspectors are checking for any banned chemical, biological and ballistic weapons, is expected to be more critical than Mr El Baradei.
Mr El Baradei and Dr Blix last briefed the council on January 9.
Ms Fleming says Mr El Baradei's report would contain new information on aluminium tubes imported by Iraq.
"It will also address allegations Iraq tried to import uranium and the issue of high explosives that could be useable in nuclear weapons," Ms Fleming said.
The United States and Britain have accused Iraq of trying to acquire uranium, saying the aluminium tubes might be used to enrich it.
The IAEA has said the tubes were unsuited to that purpose.
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HOW THE U.S. SUPPLIED IRAQ WITH WMD
U.S. Supplied Germs to Iraq in '80s
Mon Sep 30, 2:31 PM ET
By MATT KELLEY, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - Iraq's bioweapons program that President Bush wants to eradicate got its start with help from Uncle Sam two decades ago, according to government records getting new scrutiny in light of the discussion of war against Iraq.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent samples directly to several Iraqi sites that U.N. weapons inspectors determined were part of Saddam Hussein's biological weapons program, CDC and congressional records from the early 1990s show. Iraq had ordered the samples, claiming it needed them for legitimate medical research.
The CDC and a biological sample company, the American Type Culture Collection, sent strains of all the germs Iraq used to make weapons, including anthrax, the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and the germs that cause gas gangrene, the records show. Iraq also got samples of other deadly pathogens, including the West Nile virus.
The transfers came in the 1980s, when the United States supported Iraq in its war against Iran. They were detailed in a 1994 Senate Banking Committee report and a 1995 follow-up letter from the CDC to the Senate.
The exports were legal at the time and approved under a program administered by the Commerce Department.
"I don't think it would be accurate to say the United States government deliberately provided seed stocks to the Iraqis' biological weapons programs," said Jonathan Tucker, a former U.N. biological weapons inspector.
"But they did deliver samples that Iraq said had a legitimate public health purpose, which I think was naive to believe, even at the time."
The disclosures put the United States in the uncomfortable position of possibly having provided the key ingredients of the weapons America is considering waging war to destroy, said Sen. Robert Byrd , D-W.Va. Byrd entered the documents into the Congressional Record this month.
Byrd asked Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld about the germ transfers at a recent Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. Byrd noted that Rumsfeld met Saddam in 1983, when Rumsfeld was President Reagan's Middle East envoy.
"Are we, in fact, now facing the possibility of reaping what we have sown?" Byrd asked Rumsfeld after reading parts of a Newsweek article on the transfers.
(RUMSFELD'S DENIAL)...LIE
"I have never heard anything like what you've read, I have no knowledge of it whatsoever, and I doubt it," Rumsfeld said. He later said he would ask the Defense Department and other government agencies to search their records for evidence of the transfers.
Invoices included in the documents read like shopping lists for biological weapons programs. One 1986 shipment from the Virginia-based American Type Culture Collection included three strains of anthrax, six strains of the bacteria that make botulinum toxin and three strains of the bacteria that cause gas gangrene. Iraq later admitted to the United Nations that it had made weapons out of all three.
The company sent the bacteria to the University of Baghdad, which U.N. inspectors concluded had been used as a front to acquire samples for Iraq's biological weapons program.
The CDC, meanwhile, sent shipments of germs to the Iraqi Atomic Energy Commission and other agencies involved in Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs. It sent samples in 1986 of botulinum toxin and botulinum toxiod — used to make vaccines against botulinum toxin — directly to the Iraqi chemical and biological weapons complex at al-Muthanna, the records show.
Botulinum toxin is the paralyzing poison that causes botulism. Having a vaccine to the toxin would be useful for anyone working with it, such as biological weapons researchers or soldiers who might be exposed to the deadly poison, Tucker said.
The CDC also sent samples of a strain of West Nile virus to an Iraqi microbiologist at a university in the southern city of Basra in 1985, the records show.
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On the Net:
The documents are available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2002_cr/s092002.html
CDC: http://www.cdc.gov
ATCC: http://www.atcc.org
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Mon Jan 27, 2003 5:36 pm
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Herr Bush becoming an international war criminal
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Bush Considers Nuking
Saddam's Underground Lairs
Daily Telegraph.com.au
1-26-3
The US is considering using nuclear weapons to destroy Saddam Hussein's underground command posts and stop him using his own weapons of mass destruction, a military expert warned yesterday.
Former US Army intelligence analyst William Arkin - known for his Pentagon connections - said plans were being laid at the Strategic Command bunker in Nebraska, the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.
"Nuclear weapons have, since they were first created, been part of the arsenal of war planners," Mr Arkin wrote in The LA Times.
"But the Bush administration's decision to actively plan for possible pre-emptive use of such weapons represents a significant lowering of the nuclear threshold," he said.
In Canberra last night a spokesman for Prime Minister John Howard reiterated comments Mr Howard made last week to the British press:
"If I thought there were going to be nuclear weapons used I would not allow Australian forces to be involved."
Washington has already warned Baghdad that any resort to weapons of mass destruction might have the most severe consequences, a diplomatic phrase for a nuclear strike.
In December 2001, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld signed a classified nuclear posture review opening the way for nuclear weapons to be used against targets invulnerable to non-nuclear attack.
Nations such as Iraq, Iran, North Korea, Libya and Syria were listed as possible targets.
The review also called upon the military to develop plans to attack foreign weapons of mass destruction facilities, even if the enemy did not resort to them first, Mr Arkin wrote.
This work is currently under way at the Strategic Command, which Mr Arkin says has already prepared a "Theatre Nuclear Planning Document" for Iraq.
Earlier this month Mr Bush approved a request by Mr Rumsfeld to put Admiral James Ellis in charge of dealing with foreign weapons of mass destruction.
"On the surface, these new assignments give the command a broader set of tools to avoid nuclear escalation," wrote the expert. "In reality, they open the door to contemplating American use of nuclear weapons."
Defence Department spokesman Major Ted Wadsworth would only say: "That's something that policymakers have to talk about."
An administration official said: "The US reserves the right to act in defence of itself and its allies by whatever means necessary."
* SOUTH Korea has urged the UN nuclear watchdog to postpone a meeting on North Korean - asking for more time to allow diplomatic efforts to work.
The request came after Seoul announced it was sending two envoys, including a special advisor to the president, to Pyongyang for talks on the nuclear stand-off.
Earlier, the International Atomic Energy Agency said it would hold an emergency session on February 3 to decide whether to refer the matter to the Security Council.
http://dailytelegraph.com.au
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Mon Jan 27, 2003 10:55 pm
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I somehow don't believe it..but thanks for the warning. |
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DAMN COMMIES  |
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Mech
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Fri Jan 31, 2003 1:30 am
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Hey soldier, is that a Good&Fruity in your
pocket or are you just glad to see me? |
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Fri Jan 31, 2003 2:23 am
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Mech, the http for that photo is a hilarious as the actual photo!!  |
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Fri Jan 31, 2003 3:57 am
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Hey Mech, why don't you go play in the road. It's getting old seeing you bash our government and our men and women in uniform. No wonder your not in the military anymore. All you are is a cut and paste waste. You don't have ANY proof of a conspiracy. As far as Bush dropping nukes, I hope he nukes all the towel headed bastards. It brought Japan to it's senses didn't it? You seem to be one of these wastes who just sits on a message board to use as a chat room. As a matter of fact you probably can't even move out of your seat or hold a decent job cause your "puter" is your life. And you call yourself a veteran? You probably got kicked out of the military for being a pain in the ass. How many airman died at your hands cause you didn't care about what you did to their birds. Could you pay attention to detail enough to wipe your own ass? All this bashing of America,if you don't like it, MOVE! You'll see how the third world lives and come crawling back hoping America will take you back. As a matter of fact all of you who don't like America can leave and we will be a better country! |
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Fri Jan 31, 2003 4:32 am
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No apologies for traitors. |
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