ZGram - 1/30/2003 - "Regime change: a troublesome excuse for war"

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ZGram - Where Truth is Destiny

January 30, 2003

Good Morning from the Zundelsite:

An East Coast attorney and Zundelsite reader, wrote this:

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Subject: Regime change: a troublesome excuse for war

As the powerful military forces of the United States, a nation of 280 
million and "the world's only superpower", armed to the teeth with 
the latest weapons of mass destruction, marshal for an attack on 
Iraq, a small, already bombed out nation of some 23 million with a 
third rate army, virtually no air force, navy or air defense, the 
reasons for the attack grow more questionable and unconvincing day by 
day. Nevertheless the rhetoric of the Bush administration demanding 
war grows conversely more shrill and more impatient as the 
international support dwindles. Who recalls the pompous Bush boast a 
short time ago, "I am a patient man!"?

The early preposterous claims that Iraq was planning to attack the 
United States have discreetly been dropped; claims that Iraq 
possessed nuclear weapons have been downsized to assertions that they 
might obtain them in the future, although there is no evidence of 
such actions; the latest claims that Iraq is hiding "weapons of mass 
destruction" are proving elusive as we speak. At the moment we seem 
reduced to claiming that Iraq has violated supposed United Nations 
requirements to "disarm," whatever that means. And finally there is 
the charge that Saddam has mistreated his own people. Only this last 
charge seems to have credibility but the dogs in the street know that 
this same charge can be made against many governments and leaders. 
This makes a lot of other countries uneasy.

At the moment international support for the attack on Iraq has 
dwindled down to Israel and the Blair government in Britain and 
British public opinion against the war is being ignored by Blair with 
more and more difficulty.

The declared reason for the attack may be summarized simply: we don't 
like Saddam and think he has to go.  The unstated reason is that we 
have strategic aims in the region which we think will be advanced by 
controlling Iraq through a puppet regime. Of course we do not mention 
these aims. In fact we even lie about them. The righteous are bold 
liars. In a good cause of course. Unfortunately for our hidden plans 
a growing part or humanity seems to be catching on.

Now there are good reasons not to like Saddam Hussein and to wish him 
gone. He does indeed operate a dictatorial regime and has brutally 
suppressed opposition within his own country. He has invaded other 
countries in the region. A regime change in Iraq might indeed be a 
good thing for the people of Iraq. But there is a problem.

If a regime change can be imposed in Iraq by outside military forces 
for what they see as good reasons - why is that idea limited to Iraq 
as the subject of change and the United States as the moving party?

For example why cannot this same idea be applied to secure regime 
change in Zionist Israel?

Many nations and billions of people dislike the Zionist regime in 
Israel with a passion quite as intense as the Bush passion to secure 
a regime change in Iraq. And they have some very good reason for 
dislike of that regime. It has mistreated its own subject people, the 
Palestinian Arabs; it has committed ethnic cleansing against the 
original inhabitants of its territory including forced expatriation, 
theft of land and property, and legal discrimination against the 
remnant of remaining Arabs; it refuses to allow refugees to return to 
their homes; it has invaded other countries; it possess nuclear 
weapons, lies about it and refuses international inspection; it has 
planted its own citizens in occupied lands in defiance of 
international law; and it has defied far more United Nations 
resolutions than has Iraq, resolutions which have condemned its 
brutality and oppression. These might seem to be cause for regime 
change to many. Why don't they move to do so?

Only one reason. They don't have the power to do so.

The bottom line: if you have the power you can do what you want, at 
least if you are "the world's only superpower" or have its backing. 
That used to be called "the law of the jungle." In the long run it 
has never worked, but some people never learn and a lot of innocent 
people have to suffer for this stupidity and arrogance. 

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