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Lies, Deception And Political Rhetoric
Aljazeera.com
10-15-5
Trying to justify the extended U.S. military presence in Iraq, the American President George W. Bush made new claims during his address to the National Endowment for Democracy, saying that there's a hidden plot by some "Islamic organisations" to create a "radical Islamic empire" starting with Iraq, The Associated Press reported.
"Our new enemy teaches that innocent individuals can be sacrificed to serve a political vision ... (and) militants believe that controlling one country will rally the Muslim masses, enabling them to overthrow all moderate governments in the region, and establish a radical Islamic empire that spans from Spain to Indonesia," Bush said.
It's long been known that the U.S. has aided armed groups since President Jimmy Carter, who in 1979 signed a secret executive order providing funding for the new Islamic Mujahedeen movement, which the CIA is believed to have trained in America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.
The U.S. started in the eighties to train and arm the Afghans to fight the Soviets.
"Over the years the United States and Saudi Arabia expended about $40 billion on the war in Afghanistan. The CIA and its allies recruited, supplied and trained almost 100,000 Mujahedeen from forty Muslim countries, including Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Algeria, and Afghanistan itself. Among those who answered the call was Osama bin Laden (a Saudi dissident)".
"Largely created and funded by the CIA, the Mujahedeen mercenaries took on a life of their own. Hundreds of them returned home to Algeria, Chechnya, Kosovo, and Kashmir to carry on terrorist attacks."
President Bush has been trying lately to step up efforts to revive his nation's support to his unwise decision to invade Iraq. But the Irony in his latest speech is that he looked, unconsciously, committed to all evils he accused "Islamic fundamentalists" of.
Bush, who claims that the "Islamic movements" are seeking the creation of an empire, has been himself the biggest imperialist of the 21st century by initiating several conflicts across the Arab world and the Middle East, bringing more threats and insecurity to the world he claims to be on a mission to protect.
After destroying Afghanistan and turning it into a battle ground, Bush moved to Iraq on a mission to impose "democracy" on the country, apparently seeking, according to analysts, to turn it into a Persian Gulf version of Somalia, for the Iraqi constitution will eminently fail, as experts explain, if the new regime failed to win the Sunnis, support.
If dissolving the Iraqi nation and laying hand on the country's oil wealth wasn't the end of Bush's aspirations, experts predict that Syria will be the next on the American President's agenda, according to Newsday,
The U.S. has recently stepped up the pressure on Syria, with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld making subtle threats against it, claiming it harbors Abu Mus'ab Al Zarqawi, whom the U.S. maintains is the key leader of Iraq's "insurgency" and Al Qaeda man there.
It wouldn't be a surprise to see fierce battle between the U.S. occupation and the Syrian forces on Syria-Iraq border, leading up to the extension of the U.S. "liberatory" efforts in the Middle East.
The American President says that that the "Islamic fundamentalists" believe it is worth taking innocent lives for a political cause. While he has sacrificed nearly 2,000 of the U.S. military personnel and hundreds of thousands of Arabs and Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan for his own political agenda, on the basis of a bunch of lies which he failed to force the world to swallow.
Another Bush lie is that there are some hidden organisations seeking to spread "Islamic fundamentalism" across the Middle East. Bush has made it clear more than once that he seeks imposing an American-style "democracy" on the Iraqi nation, part of a wider agenda of spreading American-style "democracy" across the Middle East.
In 2002, Mo Mowlam, a former member of Tony Blair's cabinet stated in a report published by the Guardian, that the old tension between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia was behind the Bush administration's animus against Iraq.
"The possibility of the world's largest oil reserves falling into the hands of an anti-American, militant Islamist government is becoming ever more likely - and this is unacceptable.
"The Americans know they cannot stop such a revolution. They must therefore hope that they can control the Saudi oil fields, if not the government. And what better way to do that than to have a large military force in the field at the time of such disruption. In the name of saving the west, these vital assets could be seized and controlled. No longer would the U.S. have to depend on a corrupt and unpopular royal family to keep it supplied with cheap oil. If there is chaos in the region, the U.S. armed forces could be seen as a global saviour. Under cover of the war on terrorism, the war to secure oil supplies could be waged.
"This whole affair has nothing to do with a threat from Iraq - there isn't one. It has nothing to do with the war against terrorism or with morality. Saddam Hussein is obviously an evil man, but when we were selling arms to him to keep the Iranians in check he was the same evil man he is today. He was a pawn then and is a pawn now. In the same way he served western interests then, he is now the distraction for the sleight of hand to protect the west's supply of oil."
Bush has created a phantom enemy called "Islamic terrorism" to follow it everywhere, and spread the fear of it in an attempt to save his own political future.
Failing to give his nation a reasonable justification to launch Iraq war, Bush is starting to pitifully beg his people to support this illegal invasion.
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