By Felicity Arbuthnot, The Palestine Chronicle, Jan 18 2013
A UN team called the devastation ‘near-apocalyptic.’ (Photo: Zoriah.net)
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Incredibly it is twenty two years to the day since the telephone rang
in the early hours and a friend said: “They are bombing Baghdad.”It was not alone Baghdad, of course, Iraq was being systematically destroyed, from ancient southern Basra to haunting, historic Mosul in the north – in the West destruction was such that it was not even noticed by the outside world that about seventy miles of Iraq had been entirely illegally donated to Jordan, the border was simply “moved.” Kuwait, bordering of Iraq’s southern border benefited similarly illegally.
Then Secretary of State James Baker’s vow to: “reduce Iraq to a pre-industrial age” was being minutely executed over what was to become a forty three day blitz, which morphed in to a thirteen year, vicious, murderous, one sided war of attrition and ultimately illegal invasion and occupation.
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2 comments:
In your opinion, why does the United States want to "reduce Iraq toa preindustrial age."? What do they have to gain?
Just to impose its will and show its military power! All this, of course, in the interests of military-industrial complex of America. But there were other policy considerations as well. By destroying Iraq, it could become the master of a large Arab country and thus control its oil and natural resources. A weakened Iraq gave America much leverage on the political developments within Iraq. A puppet regime controlled by the invaders was an easy tool to further American geopolitical interests in the Middle East.
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