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Bush's Wars
by STEVE PERRY
Another Look at The
Speech
A new translation of Bush's victory address--courtesy
of Secretary of Shizzolatin' Snoop Dogg.
The prez chillin' with his boyzz Ozzy and Snoop
Here is the president's speech from the deck of the USS Abraham
Lincoln, restored to its original gangsta-ese. I learned about
Snoop's Shizzolator
from my colleague Brad Zellar, whose blog is not war news-related but damn fine all the
same.
The Battle for Iraq's
Oil: Backstory
A primer on what's putting the US, Russia,
and France at odds.
A few days ago I said I'd be posting a links digest focusing
on the roles and interests of the US and its two main Iraq war
antagonists, Russia and France. Here it is, but a word of advice: Do your eyes a favor and
print it. It's more than you'll want at one sitting anyway.
Bremer: General Jay's
New Boss
Score one for Powell and the State Department--and
so what?
At week's close the Bush administration
appointed
a new overseer to run the occupation of Iraq, L. Paul
Bremer. Bremer is a real prize--the Reagan administration's one-time
ambassador for counter-terrorism, a long-time associate of Henry
Kissinger, and a hawk who is very tight with the Wolfowitz neo-cons.
In 1999 he was appointed Chairman of
the National Commission on Terrorism by Republican House leader
Dennis Hastert. The Commission's mandate was to review America's
counter-terrorism policies.
In this capacity Bremer addressed the Senate Select Committee
on Intelligence in June 2000. He said "Iran is still the
most egregious state-sponsor of terrorism, despite the election
of a reformist president The Commission is concerned that recent
American gestures toward Iran could be misinterpreted as a weakening
of our resolve to counter Iranian terrorism."
In this respect his views are identical
to those of ultra-hawk Paul Wolfowitz who had classified Iran
as the greatest threat to international proliferation in 1997.
Bremer's antipathy toward Tehran is certainly
not destined to mend fences with the religious Shiite majority
in Iraq.
There's your victory for "Powell
moderates," a class of folk who deserve harder scrutiny
than they get. The Rumsfeld/Powell division within the Bush administration
is not a struggle of light versus dark over the merit of foreign
conquests--it's a managerial-class squabble over how best to
achieve those aims. The Wolfowitz/Rumsfeld faction wants to dispense
with diplomacy and show the world that no one can hope to challenge
the US militarily; the Powell faction wants to proceed more carefully
and put the right political and legal gloss on things internationally.
Whatever Happened
to Gorgeous George?
Not to mention all the other "secret"
Iraqi documents found by the Telegraph.
Over the weekend I trolled around looking
for more news about George Galloway, the anti-war British MP
so sensationally accused of a business relationship with Saddam's
government in the UK press a couple of weeks ago. As you may
recall (see BW's 4/22
and 4/24),
those allegations were based on Iraqi intelligence documents
that seem to have floated from the skies of Baghdad only to be
"found" by reporters from the Telegraph and a number
of papers.
All those secret intelligence reports
seem to have dried up as quickly as they appeared, however. Perhaps
they were made to self-destruct after a certain length of time,
as in Mission: Impossible. Or maybe the trouble is that
they're coming to nothing. The best discussion of the "evidence"
I've seen is right here at Counterpunch,
by Wayne Madsen, who writes: The problem with these documents
is that they are being provided by the U.S. military to a few
reporters working for a very suspect newspaper, London's Daily
Telegraph (affectionately known as the Daily Torygraph"
by those who understand the paper's right-wing slant).
The Guardian says British
intelligence doubts the Galloway and Al-Qaeda "finds."
There must be doubts about the documents'
authenticity. But even if they are genuine, intelligence services
are notorious for hoarding tittle-tattle, exaggerating and distorting,
not least to stress the importance of their own role in their
bids for more funds. Heaven knows what we would find if the archives
of MI5 and MI6--and the CIA and FBI--were plundered.
Yet, significantly, it is not ministers
who are warning of the dangers of jumping to conclusions. It
is the intelligence agencies themselves. "They do not take
things further forward," said an intelligence source about
the Sunday Telegraph's publication of Iraqi documents appearing
to show that Baghdad was keen to meet an "al-Qaida envoy"
in 1998.
And here is an interview
with Galloway from the Jordanian news site Al-Bawaba.
Contracts: Friends
Helping Friends Help Themselves
The lede paragraph in this
AP story about changing USAID regulations for post-war
rebuilding contracts says it all:
The agency awarding Iraq reconstruction
contracts deleted its requirement for a security clearance after
realizing it awarded a project to a company that lacked one,
an internal report says.
UK Defense Chief:
Let's Wait on Next "Discretionary" War
Brit military needs post-coital cigarette
and nap.
Sir Michael Boyce, who is about to retire
as the UK's top military commander, says that Tony Blair could
not follow W into another war before the end of 2004 without
"serious pain":
Admiral Boyce said that the Armed Forces could not handle another
"discretionary" war, a conflict waged "by choice",
if it were launched in 2004. Speaking to defence journalists
as part of his farewell, Admiral Boyce said that if the United
Kingdom were threatened, every man and woman in the Services
would fight to defend the country. However, a war in the style
of the Iraqi campaign was not something that could be repeated
again and again.
Read the rest.
Safqua: More About
the "Secret Deal" for Baghdad
I've posted several items in the past
couple of weeks about allegations that a secret arrangement between
the US and elements of Saddam's government led to the rapid fall
of Baghdad, and now the world press is taking up the story in
growing numbers. Back at the home page of Bush
Wars I have an item from last week that links to several
of those stories.
Bush Dada
The Bush Wars site of the day.
The other day I asked for links to the
best Bush flash animation and manipulated-sound files on the
net, and reader Claude de Bogdan has sent along a gem--his own
page of found-speech sound collages featuring Bush, Ashcroft,
and others. Some of them are brilliant, and all are fun. Download
'em all!
They're at happytime
world.
This is a sampling from City Pages editor and
Counterpunch contributor Steve Perry's daily-updated Bush Wars blog.
He can be reached at: sperry@citypages.com
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Wasserman
Bush's Military Defeat
John
Troyer
Question Those Writing History
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