Khanjar
30-01-03, 04:07 AM
From the January 2003 Idaho Observer: Weapons of Mass Destruction -- WMDs
R U.S. by Hari Heath The steady cadence of the media drumbeat begins the
march to another war. This time they are playing the tune of those “weapons
of mass destruction” in the “evil empire” of Saddam Hussein. The proper
public hysteria, micro-managed with the politics of terror, terror, terror,
is being fine tuned as we march off to yet another war for the dominion over
oil. All the satellites are beaming, the presses are rolling and the
airwaves crackle with a mass bombardment of information from the
prevaricating presstitutes. By the sheer volume of information pressed
against the collective mind, the witless masses that dare to vote and pay
taxes will be corralled and herded towards the oiligarchy's next goal: More
oil, of course. National Guard units have been called into duty to support
the thousands of active duty troops already deployed for the next war.
Another weapons-test-fest for the latest in military technology is scheduled
soon for the land of Baghdad. We'll get those bad guys -- whoever they are.
Slight problem. The truth. Not to worry, it shall be overcome as it always
is. Oil is more important than truth. The oiligarchy has been turning the
truth on its head ever since it discovered the value of that crude stuff.
And Saddam Hussein's “weapons of mass destruction” are just the ruse they
need to establish yet another conduit of petro-power. The UN inspectors
have been looking all over Iraq for his weapons of mass destruction. They
can't find any. Even the ones we sent him when President Jr.'s father
publicly held the reins in the 1980s and 90s. Where did they go? Did the
evil one of Baghdad use them all up on his own people and his neighbor,
Iran? Are the UN inspectors coming up empty-handed because this is just
another UN incursion of incompetence? A brief history of WMDs Biological
and chemical “weapons of mass destruction”(WMDs) are nothing new. Among the
earliest known uses of biological weapons were the catapulting of infected
human corpses into castles that were under siege, where they would cause
sickness to those within the walls. Blankets infested with smallpox-carrying
bedbugs were used on our native peoples in the 1800s. Chemical weapons in
the form of mustard gas found use in WWI. These horrible chemicals were
subsequently banned for use in war by international treaty. So much fortreaties.
Has there ever been a treaty that was honored? Our own President
Truman was the first to unleash a true WMD. He ordered what proved to be the
incineration of 140,000 Japanese with two atomic bombs in August, 1945 --
still the only time nuclear weapons have been used in war. The Russians
used a poison gas called “yellow rain” in Afghanistan and Laos. Our Soviet
former enemies-turned-friends-turned (well, it's still turning) also had an
anthrax factory explode towards the end of “the Cold War,” killing hundreds
of their own people. During WWII, the British manufactured 5,000,000
anthrax cattle cakes to drop on Germany under the name of “Operation
Vegetarian.” George Rosie of the Glasgow Herald said, “The aim of Operation
Vegetarian was to wipe out the German beef and dairy herds and then see the
bacterium spread to the human population.” The Germans surrendered before
this British WMD plan was carried out, but the anthrax cakes were tested on
an island off Scotland that was not cleared of contamination until 1990.
The U.S. and WMDs The story of U.S. involvement in the development,
manufacture and use of WMDs could fill a library. And that's just the
unclassified documents. No mere article could begin to cover the subject.
Rest assured, that no stone has been left unturned in the U.S. government's
quest to know everything about anything that has the potential to kill,
maim, destroy or debilitate. Once known, the more promising killers have
been developed. These include: A nuclear arsenal capable of incinerating
all life on the planet several times over; radio frequency weapons, lethal
and otherwise; electromagnetic pulse weapons; global weather modification
technology, enhanced, engineered and modified infectious biological agents;
eugenics and its related fields to re-engineer the human organism and; all
the chemicals a petroleum-based super-power can dream of. U.S. WMD
deployment The chemical, biological and nuclear testing in Fort Greely,
Alaska, has reportedly caused major health problems among civilian and
military populations. Modified B61-11 bombs with depleted uranium were
dropped as recently as March 17, 1958. Sarin gas, mustard gas, VX nerve
agent, 2,4D, 2,4,5T, biological infectious agents serratia marcescens, E.
coli and LVS have been tested there since the 1950s. CBS News correspondent
Vince Gonzales reported that during the 1990s, the Pentagon conducted more
than 100 secret biological warfare tests at sea. In 1996, Pentagon officials
told the VA, “They do not possess” any information about the tests. Two
years later they admitted they had 15 bound volumes relating to just one of
the tests, “Operation Autumn Gold,” conducted near Hawaii in 1963. The Army
is coming under fire recently for using live bacilius subtilus when training
troops with their Biological Integrated Detection System (BIDS). Neighboring
civilian populations have complained of ill-health effects and local farmers
report stillborn and deformed livestock including a five-legged calf.
Similar training exercises have been conducted in Missouri, Utah, Alabama
and Louisiana. If the historical pattern of U.S. WMD testing holds true, it
will be decades before we learn the truth about current clandestine WMD
operations -- if we ever do. George Shultz, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq and WMDs
In his book, “Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State,” George
Shultz refers to a declassified CIA report which notes Iraq's use of mustard
gas in August of 1983, giving further credence to the suggestion that the
State Department and/or the National Security Council (NSC) was well aware
of Iraq's use of chemical weapons at that time. Nathaniel Hurd stated in
“U.S. Diplomatic and Commercial Relationships with Iraq, 1980-August 2,
2000,” that, “Iraq reportedly began using chemical weapons (CW) against
Iranian troops in 1962, and significantly increased CW use in 1983...
Shortly after removing Iraq from the terrorism sponsorship list, the Reagan
administration approved the sale of 60 Hughes helicopters. Analysts
recognized that 'civilian' helicopters can be weaponized in a matter of
hours and selling a civilian kit can be a way of giving military aid under
the guise of civilian assistance.” How much does the current Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld know about Iraq and it's WMD use? The American Gulf
War Veterans association (AGWVA) reports that Rumsfeld, acting as a Middle
Eastern envoy on December 19, 1983, carried a handwritten note from
President Reagan to Saddam Hussein to “resume our diplomatic relations with
Iraq.” On March 23, 1984, Iran accused Iraq of poisoning 600 of its
soldiers with mustard gas and Tabun nerve gas. March 24, 1984, the UPI wire
service reported that a team of UN experts had concluded that: “mustard gas
laced with a nerve agent has been used on Iranian soldiers.” Meanwhile, on
the same March 24, 1984, Rumsfeld returned to Baghdad and held talks with
foreign minister Tariq Aziz. Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward
reported December 15, 1986, that, “the CIA began to secretly supply Iraq
with intelligence in 1984 that was used to 'calibrate' mustard gas attacks
on Iranian troops.” What was Rumsfeld doing in Iraq in 1984? Making the
world safe for the oiligarchy? Saddam Hussein is accused of using chemical
weapons on his own people. But did he have help with such a heinous act?
Mark Phythian, in his book, “Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly
Built Saddam's War Machine,” states “...the Secretaries of Commerce
(Baldridge) and State (Shultz) lobbied the NSC advisor into agreeing to the
sale to Iraq of 10 Bell helicopters, officially for crop spraying. It is
believed that U.S.-supplied choppers were used in the 1988 chemical attack
on the Kurdish village Halabja, which killed 5,000 people.” Follow the
money? Joyce Riley vonKleist, a former Air Force flight nurse and
researcher into the causes behind Gulf War Illness, reports that, “It is
public record that the U.S. not only armed Iraq from 1983 through August 1,
1990, but that they also provided the money to Iraq to purchase the weapons
via the Atlanta branch of the Banca Nazianale del Lavoro (BNL), George Bush,
Sr., and the Export-Import Bank. Iraq received $5 billion funneled through
the Commercial Credit Corporation, ostensibly for food credits. It is also
public information that at least $2 billion from the defaulted loan was
repaid by the U.S. citizen taxpayers. So who funded Iraq? Those of you who pay your taxes.
CONTINUING IN THE NEXT PAGE
R U.S. by Hari Heath The steady cadence of the media drumbeat begins the
march to another war. This time they are playing the tune of those “weapons
of mass destruction” in the “evil empire” of Saddam Hussein. The proper
public hysteria, micro-managed with the politics of terror, terror, terror,
is being fine tuned as we march off to yet another war for the dominion over
oil. All the satellites are beaming, the presses are rolling and the
airwaves crackle with a mass bombardment of information from the
prevaricating presstitutes. By the sheer volume of information pressed
against the collective mind, the witless masses that dare to vote and pay
taxes will be corralled and herded towards the oiligarchy's next goal: More
oil, of course. National Guard units have been called into duty to support
the thousands of active duty troops already deployed for the next war.
Another weapons-test-fest for the latest in military technology is scheduled
soon for the land of Baghdad. We'll get those bad guys -- whoever they are.
Slight problem. The truth. Not to worry, it shall be overcome as it always
is. Oil is more important than truth. The oiligarchy has been turning the
truth on its head ever since it discovered the value of that crude stuff.
And Saddam Hussein's “weapons of mass destruction” are just the ruse they
need to establish yet another conduit of petro-power. The UN inspectors
have been looking all over Iraq for his weapons of mass destruction. They
can't find any. Even the ones we sent him when President Jr.'s father
publicly held the reins in the 1980s and 90s. Where did they go? Did the
evil one of Baghdad use them all up on his own people and his neighbor,
Iran? Are the UN inspectors coming up empty-handed because this is just
another UN incursion of incompetence? A brief history of WMDs Biological
and chemical “weapons of mass destruction”(WMDs) are nothing new. Among the
earliest known uses of biological weapons were the catapulting of infected
human corpses into castles that were under siege, where they would cause
sickness to those within the walls. Blankets infested with smallpox-carrying
bedbugs were used on our native peoples in the 1800s. Chemical weapons in
the form of mustard gas found use in WWI. These horrible chemicals were
subsequently banned for use in war by international treaty. So much fortreaties.
Has there ever been a treaty that was honored? Our own President
Truman was the first to unleash a true WMD. He ordered what proved to be the
incineration of 140,000 Japanese with two atomic bombs in August, 1945 --
still the only time nuclear weapons have been used in war. The Russians
used a poison gas called “yellow rain” in Afghanistan and Laos. Our Soviet
former enemies-turned-friends-turned (well, it's still turning) also had an
anthrax factory explode towards the end of “the Cold War,” killing hundreds
of their own people. During WWII, the British manufactured 5,000,000
anthrax cattle cakes to drop on Germany under the name of “Operation
Vegetarian.” George Rosie of the Glasgow Herald said, “The aim of Operation
Vegetarian was to wipe out the German beef and dairy herds and then see the
bacterium spread to the human population.” The Germans surrendered before
this British WMD plan was carried out, but the anthrax cakes were tested on
an island off Scotland that was not cleared of contamination until 1990.
The U.S. and WMDs The story of U.S. involvement in the development,
manufacture and use of WMDs could fill a library. And that's just the
unclassified documents. No mere article could begin to cover the subject.
Rest assured, that no stone has been left unturned in the U.S. government's
quest to know everything about anything that has the potential to kill,
maim, destroy or debilitate. Once known, the more promising killers have
been developed. These include: A nuclear arsenal capable of incinerating
all life on the planet several times over; radio frequency weapons, lethal
and otherwise; electromagnetic pulse weapons; global weather modification
technology, enhanced, engineered and modified infectious biological agents;
eugenics and its related fields to re-engineer the human organism and; all
the chemicals a petroleum-based super-power can dream of. U.S. WMD
deployment The chemical, biological and nuclear testing in Fort Greely,
Alaska, has reportedly caused major health problems among civilian and
military populations. Modified B61-11 bombs with depleted uranium were
dropped as recently as March 17, 1958. Sarin gas, mustard gas, VX nerve
agent, 2,4D, 2,4,5T, biological infectious agents serratia marcescens, E.
coli and LVS have been tested there since the 1950s. CBS News correspondent
Vince Gonzales reported that during the 1990s, the Pentagon conducted more
than 100 secret biological warfare tests at sea. In 1996, Pentagon officials
told the VA, “They do not possess” any information about the tests. Two
years later they admitted they had 15 bound volumes relating to just one of
the tests, “Operation Autumn Gold,” conducted near Hawaii in 1963. The Army
is coming under fire recently for using live bacilius subtilus when training
troops with their Biological Integrated Detection System (BIDS). Neighboring
civilian populations have complained of ill-health effects and local farmers
report stillborn and deformed livestock including a five-legged calf.
Similar training exercises have been conducted in Missouri, Utah, Alabama
and Louisiana. If the historical pattern of U.S. WMD testing holds true, it
will be decades before we learn the truth about current clandestine WMD
operations -- if we ever do. George Shultz, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq and WMDs
In his book, “Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State,” George
Shultz refers to a declassified CIA report which notes Iraq's use of mustard
gas in August of 1983, giving further credence to the suggestion that the
State Department and/or the National Security Council (NSC) was well aware
of Iraq's use of chemical weapons at that time. Nathaniel Hurd stated in
“U.S. Diplomatic and Commercial Relationships with Iraq, 1980-August 2,
2000,” that, “Iraq reportedly began using chemical weapons (CW) against
Iranian troops in 1962, and significantly increased CW use in 1983...
Shortly after removing Iraq from the terrorism sponsorship list, the Reagan
administration approved the sale of 60 Hughes helicopters. Analysts
recognized that 'civilian' helicopters can be weaponized in a matter of
hours and selling a civilian kit can be a way of giving military aid under
the guise of civilian assistance.” How much does the current Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld know about Iraq and it's WMD use? The American Gulf
War Veterans association (AGWVA) reports that Rumsfeld, acting as a Middle
Eastern envoy on December 19, 1983, carried a handwritten note from
President Reagan to Saddam Hussein to “resume our diplomatic relations with
Iraq.” On March 23, 1984, Iran accused Iraq of poisoning 600 of its
soldiers with mustard gas and Tabun nerve gas. March 24, 1984, the UPI wire
service reported that a team of UN experts had concluded that: “mustard gas
laced with a nerve agent has been used on Iranian soldiers.” Meanwhile, on
the same March 24, 1984, Rumsfeld returned to Baghdad and held talks with
foreign minister Tariq Aziz. Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward
reported December 15, 1986, that, “the CIA began to secretly supply Iraq
with intelligence in 1984 that was used to 'calibrate' mustard gas attacks
on Iranian troops.” What was Rumsfeld doing in Iraq in 1984? Making the
world safe for the oiligarchy? Saddam Hussein is accused of using chemical
weapons on his own people. But did he have help with such a heinous act?
Mark Phythian, in his book, “Arming Iraq: How the U.S. and Britain Secretly
Built Saddam's War Machine,” states “...the Secretaries of Commerce
(Baldridge) and State (Shultz) lobbied the NSC advisor into agreeing to the
sale to Iraq of 10 Bell helicopters, officially for crop spraying. It is
believed that U.S.-supplied choppers were used in the 1988 chemical attack
on the Kurdish village Halabja, which killed 5,000 people.” Follow the
money? Joyce Riley vonKleist, a former Air Force flight nurse and
researcher into the causes behind Gulf War Illness, reports that, “It is
public record that the U.S. not only armed Iraq from 1983 through August 1,
1990, but that they also provided the money to Iraq to purchase the weapons
via the Atlanta branch of the Banca Nazianale del Lavoro (BNL), George Bush,
Sr., and the Export-Import Bank. Iraq received $5 billion funneled through
the Commercial Credit Corporation, ostensibly for food credits. It is also
public information that at least $2 billion from the defaulted loan was
repaid by the U.S. citizen taxpayers. So who funded Iraq? Those of you who pay your taxes.
CONTINUING IN THE NEXT PAGE