From uucp Wed Oct 27 16:07 EDT 1993 >From jd Wed Oct 27 15:59:36 EDT 1993 remote from hogpa.att.com Received: from hogpa.att.com by hopper.acs.virginia.edu.ACS.Virginia.EDU; Wed, 27 Oct 1993 16:07 EDT Received: from hogpd.ho.att.com by hogpa.ho.att.com (4.1/SMI-4.0) id AA08248; Wed, 27 Oct 93 15:59:22 EDT Received: by hogpd.ho.att.com (4.1/6.0c-FWP); id AA06534; Wed, 27 Oct 93 15:59:36 EDT Date: Wed, 27 Oct 93 15:59:36 EDT From: jd@hogpa.att.com Message-Id: <9310271959.AA06534@hogpd.ho.att.com> To: att!hopper.acs.virginia.edu!jad Content-Type: text Content-Length: 7612 Status: OR Article: 20698 of alt.conspiracy Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.activism,alt.society.civil-liberty,alt.individualism,alt.censorship,misc.headlines,soc.culture.usa,misc.activism.progressive Path: murdoch!uvaarpa!darwin.sura.net!wupost!mont!pencil.cs.missouri.edu!rich From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo) Subject: Part VI, Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious Message-ID: <1992Dec11.204411.25589@mont.cs.missouri.edu> Followup-To: alt.conspiracy Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Keywords: Within America's soul, Hitler is victorious Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu Nntp-Posting-Host: pencil.cs.missouri.edu Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:44:11 GMT Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu Lines: 139 The following text is from a legal complaint filed on May 9, 1991 by former Attorney-General of the United States Ramsey Clark: * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * (continuation) The United States changed its military plans for protecting its control over oil and other interests in the Arabian Peninsula in the late 1980's when it became clear that economic problems in the USSR were debilitating its military capacity and Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan. Thereafter, direct military domination within the region became the U.S. strategy. With the decline in U.S. oil production through 1989, experts predicted U.S. oil imports from the Gulf would rise from 10% that year to 25% by the year 2000. Japanese and European dependency is much greater. THE CHARGES 1. The United States engaged in a pattern of conduct beginning in or before 1989 intended to lead Iraq into provocations justifying U.S. military action against Iraq and permanent U.S. military domination of the Gulf. ____________________________________________________ In 1989, General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander in Chief of the Central Command, completely revised U.S. military operations and plans for the Persian Gulf to prepare to intervene in a regional conflict against Iraq. The CIA assisted and directed Kuwait in its actions in violating OPEC oil production agreements, extracting excessive amounts of oil from pools shared with Iraq, demanding repayment of loans it made to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war and breaking off negotiations with Iraq over these disputes. The U.S. intended to provoke Iraq into actions against Kuwait that would justify U.S. intervention. In 1989, CIA Director William Webster testified before the Congress about the alarming increase in U.S. importation of Gulf oil, citing U.S. rise in use from 5% in 1973 to 10% in 1989 and predicting 25% of all U.S. oil consumption from the region by 2000. In early 1990, General Schwarzkopf informed the Senate Armed Services Committee of the new military strategy in the Gulf designed to protect U.S. access to and control over Gulf oil in the event of regional conflicts. In July, 1990, General Schwarzkopf and his staff ran elaborate, computerized war games pitting about 100,000 U.S. troops against Iraqi armored divisions. The U.S. showed no opposition to Iraq's increasing threats against Kuwait. U.S. companies sought major contracts in Iraq. The Congress approved agricultural loan subsidies to Iraq of hundreds of millions of dollars to benefit U.S. farmers. However, loans for food deliveries of rice, corn, wheat and other essentials bought almost exclusively from the U.S. were cut off in the spring of 1990 to cause shortages. Arms were sold to Iraq by U.S. manufacturers. When Saddam Hussein requested U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie to explain State Department testimony in Congress about Iraq's threats against Kuwait, she assured him the U.S. considered the dispute a regional concern, and it would not intervene. By these acts, the U.S. intended to lead Iraq into a provocation justifying war. On August 2, 1990 Iraq occupied Kuwait without significant resistance. On August 3, 1990 without any evidence of a threat to Saudi Arabia, and King Fahd believed Iraq had no intention of invading his country, President Bush vowed to defend Saudi Arabia. He sent Secretary Cheney, General Powell and General Schwarzkopf almost immediately to Saudi Arabia where on August 6, General Schwarzkopf told King Fahd the U.S. thought Saddam Hussein could attack Saudi Arabia in as little as 48 hours. The efforts toward an Arab solution of the crisis were destroyed. Iraq never attacked Saudi Arabia and waited over five months while the U.S. slowly built a force of more than 500,000 and began the systematic destruction of a defenseless Iraq and its military by aircraft and missiles. In October 1990, General Powell referred to THE NEW MILITARY PLAN DEVELOPED IN 1989. After the war, General Schwarzkopf referred to EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF PLANNING FOR THE CAMPAIGN. The U.S. retains troops in Iraq and throughout the region and has announced its intention to maintain a permanent military presence. This course of conduct constitutes a crime against peace. 2. President Bush from August 2, 1990 intended, and acted to prevent any interference with his plan to destroy Iraq economically and militarily. _________________________________________________ Without consultation or communication with Congress, President Bush ordered 40,000 U.S. military personnel to advance the U.S. build up in Saudi Arabia in the first week of August 1990. He exacted a request from Saudi Arabia for U.S. military assistance and on August 8 assured the world his acts were "wholly defensive." He waited until after the November 1990 elections to announce his earlier order sending more than 200,000 additional military personnel, clearly an assault force, again without advising Congress. As late as January 9, 1991 he insisted he had the constitutional authority to attack Iraq without Congressional approval. While concealing his intention, President Bush continued the military build up of U.S. forces unabated from August into January 1991 intending to attack and destroy Iraq. He pressed the military to expedite preparation and to commence the assault before military considerations were optimum. When General Dugan mentioned plans to destroy the Iraqi civilian economy to the press on September 16, he was removed from office. President Bush coerced the United Nations Security Council into an unprecedented series of resolutions, finally securing authority for any nation in its absolute discretion by all necessary means to enforce the resolutions. To secure votes the U.S. paid multi-billion dollar bribes, offered arms for regional wars, threatened and carried out economic retaliation, forgave multi-billion dollar loans, offered diplomatic relations despite human rights violations and in other ways corruptly exacted votes, creating the appearance of near universal international approval of U.S. policies toward Iraq. A country which opposed the U.S., as Yemen did, lost millions in aid, as promised, the costliest vote it ever cast. (to be continued) * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * transcribed by John DiNardo This document was provided by The Coalition to Stop U.S. Intervention in the Middle East 36 East 12th St., 6th Fl. New York, NY 10003 (212)254-5385