Inspect Iraq, Don't Attack
The Boston Globe reports that the Bush administration war hawks have for many years planned to "reshape" the Middle East. Iraq is "merely a first step." "After an ouster of Hussein," according to the Globe, "the United States will have more leverage to act against Syria and Iran."
As the Globe article makes clear, oil and domination of the region are primary concerns, not any "threat" from Saddam Hussein. Some of the hawks claim they want to create "democracy" in the region, but they have lied about that concern in the past.
According to the Globe article, "Jessica T. Mathews, president of Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington policy group, said that installing a democracy in Iraq, much less the rest of the Middle East would be extraordinarily difficult, if not out of the question. She contended that change in Iraq is more akin to building a wall brick by brick and will require the support of allies."
Matthews said, ''The argument we would be starting a democratic wave in Iraq is pure blowing smoke....You have 22 Arab governments and not one has made any progress toward democracy, not one."
Here is what this information means:
* The Bush administration is lying to the American people, to Congress, to the UN and to the rest of the world about its real motives for attacking Iraq.
* The real intention of the Bush administration hawks is to keep this country at war for many years, attacking first Iraq and then a number of other nations -- primarily for domination of the region and control of the region's oil.
* The Bush war hawks have no concern for the tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of human lives these wars will cost. They don't care that many American soldiers will die for oil, and they don't mind lying to those soldiers in order to recruit them.
* The Bush administration will squander trillions of dollars on their misbegotten wars -- money that could instead be spent on a national health care system or other human needs.
* The war hawks' plans amount to premeditated, cold-blooded murder of many thousands of innocent Iraqis and American soldiers, and possibly the eventual murder of innocent Syrians, Iranians and others.
* The Bush hawks' plans will likely cause large numbers of potential terrorists to retaliate and possibly harm innocent Americans.
* The world should realize this: If the Bush war hawks go ahead with their plans to attack Iraq and other nations for the reasons detailed in the following Boston Globe article, the Bush administration will be committing acts of terrorism every bit as evil and of greater proportions than the terrorist acts committed on September 11.
Contact members of Congress. Protest. Don't let this be done in your name.
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BUSH ADMINISTRATION: Iraq war hawks have plans to reshape entire Mideast
By John Donnelly and Anthony Shadid, Globe Staff, 9/10/2002
WASHINGTON - As the Bush administration debates going to war against Iraq, its most hawkish members are pushing a sweeping vision for the Middle East that sees the overthrow of President Saddam Hussein of Iraq as merely a first step in the region's transformation.
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