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Friday, December 27, 2002 |
QUOTE OF THE DAY
"Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder.
Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth.
Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate.
Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that."
- - Martin Luther King, Jr.
RHINO HERE: In aviation, it's said that "it takes 3 bad decisions to cause a fatality". Judging from the history I've been able to watch unfold during my half century life, I'd say the same is true of political catastrophes. I would hope that even the boyz of shrub & company would admit that big bush had made at least 3 huge mistakes in dealing with Iraq that have contributed to the supposedly deadly dangerous situation in Iraq today. If anyone hasn't heard or hasn't believed that it was Bush and Reagan's administration that oversaw the arming of Saddam with what are now called WOMADS (weapons of mass destruction), following are 2 recent articles with the details. No one should be in denial of these facts, and more importantly, the citizenry needs to hammer on our representatives that we need to stop making these dumb mistakes.
The question today shouldn't really be, "Does Saddam have WOMADS?" The questions should be how MANY countries have them and how MANY are we allowing to continue to buy them from U.S. war merchandisers?
This month, Long Island Newsday featured an article by their United Nations correspondent, Mohamad Bazzi, citing definitive information from both Iraq's 12,000-page declaration of its weapons programs, and from Congressional studies.
Here's a quote and a link to the article entitled:
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( http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/1213-02.htm )
"...Shipments to Iraq continued even after the United States learned Hussein had used chemical weapons against Iranian troops and Kurdish villagers in northern Iraq in 1988, according to Senate investigators. The U.S.- Iraqi relationship flourished from February 1986, when then Vice President George Bush met with Iraq's ambassador to Washington, Nizar Hamdoon, and assured him that Baghdad would be permitted to receive more sophisticated U.S. technology, until the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. Over that four-year period, the Reagan and Bush administrations approved licenses for the export of more than $600 million worth of advanced American technology to Iraq, according to congressional reports..."
Then on the US national listener-sponsored radio and television show Democracy Now! this month, Geneva-based reporter Andreas Zumach broke details on the story that includes shrub & company's attempts to cover up the illegal sales by U.S. war merchandisers. Rhino ponders how the inhabitants of La Casa Blanca can hold a straight face in front of the UN Security Council accusing Iraq of deception for failure to be forthcoming, while trying to present a document edited to protect U.S. corporations from scrutiny for illegally arming Iraq. How stupid do they think the world community is? How can they expect to retain any credibility? How can anyone support war on these terms?
Following is an excerpt and a link to that story:
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http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/12.21A.us.firms.iraq.htm
"...Hewlett Packard, Dupont, Honeywell and other major U.S. corporations, as well as governmental agencies including the Department of Defense and the nation's nuclear labs, all illegally helped Iraq to build its biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs. Zumach's Berlin-based paper Die Tageszeitung plans to soon publish a full list of companies and nations who have aided Iraq. The paper first reported on Tuesday that German and U.S. companies had extensive ties to Iraq but didn't list names.
Zumach obtained top-secret portions of Iraq's 12,000-page weapons declaration that the US had redacted from the version made available to the non-permanent members of the UN Security Council. We have 24 major U.S. companies listed in the report who gave very substantial support especially to the biological weapons program but also to the missile and nuclear weapons program, Zumach said. Pretty much everything was illegal in the case of nuclear and biological weapons. Every form of cooperation and supplies was outlawed in the 1970s.
Zumach also said the U.S. Departments of Energy, Defense, Commerce, and Agriculture quietly helped arm Iraq. U.S. government nuclear weapons laboratories Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos and Sandia trained traveling Iraqi nuclear scientists and gave non-fissile material for construction of a nuclear bomb..."
US Corporations named in Iraqi Report:
1 Honeywell
2 Spectra Physics
3 Semetex
4 TI Coating
5 Unisys
6 Sperry Corp.
7 Tektronix
8 Rockwell
9 Leybold Vacuum Systems
10 Finnigan-MAT-US
11 Hewlett-Packard
12 Dupont
13 Eastman Kodak
14 American Type Culture Collection
15 Alcolac International
16 Consarc
17 Carl Zeiss
18 Cerberus
19 Electronic Associates
20 International Computer Systems
21 Bechtel
22 EZ Logic Data Systems, Inc.
23 Canberra Industries Inc.
24 Axel Electronics Inc.
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