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Did the US Really
Need to Bomb Iraq? I've been waiting for something to
happen You might ask what it takes to remember There's a shadow on the faces from Lives In The Balance, by Jackson Browne There is a increasing awareness that the justification for the most recent bombing of Iraq was flimsy, and even the U.S. media has begun questioning what, if any, positive results came from it. All UN inspectors have now been ousted from Iraq, and President Hussein has asked all UN relief workers to leave the country. The media has noted that Butler's report contained no new information and had been a formality, and several commentators have questioned the timing of the bombing. In the book The Fire This Time, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark makes a powerful case that the intent of the Gulf War and the embargo that followed had little to do with Iraq's military threat, which has always been considered minimal in US military circles. The intent, according to Clark and backed by documentary evidence, was simply to debilitate Iraq's independent status: to undermine its civilian infrastructure to the point that it would no longer represent an alternative to dependency on the Western countries (the U.S., Europe) or Japan. The reason: regardless of Iraq's form of government - dictatorial or democratic - a country independent of Western influence presents a model to the populations of the Arabian states. This apparently represents a serious threat to "U.S. strategic interests," namely control of Middle East oil. Using detailed data from the war, Clark proves, for instance, that our "surgical strikes" against "military targets" destroyed every electrical station, sewage plant, water works, fuel pipeline, and bridge in Iraq. The strict embargo that followed prevented repair parts from being shipped, in addition to preventing shipments of even food or medical supplies. Over one million Iraqis have died of disease and hunger, and the entire intelligensia of Iraq has abandoned the country. It is now time for the people of the US to recognize that the war against Iraq is not for national or world security, and that Iraq does not represent a threat to world peace. It is the actions of the US military, driven by short-sighted economic interests, which threaten world peace by destabilizing the Middle East by this war and angering Arab and Moslem people everywhere. This is what Ramsey Clark says of the embargo: "There is one crime against humanity in this last decade of the millennium that exceeds all others in its magnitude, cruelty and portent. It is the US-forced sanctions against the twenty million people of Iraq... If the UN participates in such genocidal sanctions backed by the threat of military violence -- and if the people of the world fail to prevent such conduct -- the violence, terror and human misery of the new millennium will exceed anything we have known." Here are some headlines from here and abroad, from a commentator in Scotland:
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