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For Joe C
 Jul 18, 03 - 8:22 PM |
Why I am campaigning for Howard Dean
Dear Joe, I hope you are aware that I am an Indian national living in India. I wouldn't campaign for Howard Dean or anybody else, foreign or Indian, for all the money in the world. Having said that, let me address the issues you have raised. The media, regardless of which side they stand, has been more forgiving than say when Clinton was in office. They have been more than willing to overlook his mistakes, and provide some form of credibility to his actions when none exists. The Taliban was originally created by the US, UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan to help secure Afghanistan from the Mujahideen so that an American company (Unacol) could lay a oil & gas pipeline across Afghanistan and Pakistan into the Arabian sea and India (for the gas market). This started under the Clinton administration. Since GWB was more closer to oil business, he gave even more taxpayers money as aid to the Taliban. Even in the year of the 9-11 tragedy, GWB gave the Taliban $200 million in aid. The current ruler of Afghanistan is a former employee of Unacol. Despite evidence that Saddam was developing WMD in the early 80s, Ronald Reagan provided him with chemical/biological intermediaries and labs so that those weapons could be used against Iran. Donald Rumsfeld lobbied for financial and military aid for Iraq and met Saddam in the early 80s. Iraq was removed then from the list and given the technology and material for WMD. Rumsfeld now leads GWB's war against Saddam. I saw a program on TV of how kids just out of school were being forced go to Iraq to fight. GWB in contrast is said to have dodged the draft. In all these cases, there has been a clear lack of credibility. American media has chosen to ignore them. Fox News is responsible for raising the war hysteria to great heights and the rest of media has to compete with it. This blurs the distinction of being left or right or center. If CNN supports war, then it is due to competition from Fox. American people are provided with a sanitized view of the war, which hides the suffering it causes and if intelligent people support war it is because of that. If the war in Iraq was not for oil, then why is insisting that Iraq be under its control. If Iraq was placed under the UN, then a broad spectrum of countries would have come forward to send their troops to Iraq. Orinary people would not be ambushing soldiers like they do now with American forces. GWB's oil companies have gone broke and so Bin Laden's family and his backers may no longer have their investments. With the Carlyle group where GB Sr and James Baker are, the investments are still there. Finally, I would like to say what Abraham Lincoln said. Anybody can stand adversity, but to really test a man, give him power. |
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For Joe C
Jul 18th, 2003 - 9:41 PM |
Continued: Why I am campaigning for Howard Dean
Dear Joe, You said that ========================= The war in Iraq was not for oil; America has vast oilfields that are yet untapped. This action was an extension of the "first" Gulf war because Hussein did not abide by the terms of surrender. This was a punitive strike. The U.N. was too emasculated to do anything about it and the previous administration did nothing militarily except when it was necessary to divert attention from their legal issues. ========================= Sure, there are lots of oilfields. But they can't be exploited because of environmental concerns and the high cost. Ronald Reagan provided Saddam Hussein with chemical and biological material in the first place. Donald Rumsfeld met Saddam in the early 80s. He also successfully lobbied for military and financial aid to Iraq in its war against Iran. You have to put prosecute Reagan and Rumsfeld in first. You said that ====================== And one pretty important point about the "thousands of Iraqis [who] were killed in the bombing": Americans in war ALWAYS target military installations. We do not choose to attack innocent people like the terrorist groups do. Any collateral losses were due to Hussein hiding his army and weapons behind women and children ====================== The US attacked a huge mulistoreyed telephone exchange in Baghdad. Al-Sahaf, the joker cum information minister, said that at any point in time thousands of men and women worked in that buidling. Vincent Brooks, the Centcomm spokesman, specifically said that the building was targeted because they suspected they suspected the infrastructure was being by Iraqi military. If Iraq had attacked a similar building in the US, you wouldn't call it collateral damage. You would have labelled it as a crime against humanity. The American politicians who sustained the Taliban and Saddam and the business interest that made them to do it must prosecuted first. Ordinary Americans need not feel guilty or be on the defensive. The only way to make amends is to prosecute the politicians and businessmen who sustained the terrorists and dictators. Don't bear the cross for mistakes of some greedy fellows. |
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