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Everybody's
second-guessing why George W. Bush wants to blow Iraq off the map. Some,
like William Safire, say he wants a regime change because Saddam is a
proven maniac who previously used weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
against Kurds and Iranians. Even adding the comment that Saddam also tried
to assassinate Bush's father hardly provides a viable rationale for wiping
out another million or so Iraqis.
Others say that the wipeout of Iraq must happen because Saddam can develop
a nuclear weapons capacity within a few years. The US revised the
nuclear threat rationale for pre-emptive strikes when the news got out
that North Korea has at least three atomic bombs. The new version
has Iraq giving the technology to terrorists. The fact that Israel
has been developing nuclear weapons for years goes un-remarked by most of
the media and all of the US government.
 For
the moment, forget about those who say there isn't enough evidence to
prove that Saddam has WMD capacity. It's too easy to dismiss
skeptics like Scott Ritter, who was a UN chief weapons inspector, or with
the CIA who has lots of satellite photo coverage they're not
offering as WMD revelations. Those that they have offered don't
reveal anything like real evidence.
Momentarily ignore, also, the fact that the Iraqis have even yielded to
demands that inspectors be allowed unfettered access to Saddam's palaces
in violation, it should be added, of all that America holds dear about
rights to privacy. Along with this, overlook the fact that previous
weapons inspectors fed intelligence information unrelated to WMD's to the
CIA, which was later used to target presumed WMD sites.
A number of pundits around the world have used their crystal balls to
envision oil as the reason for the US wish to rain death on Baghdad and
take over Iraq. The speculation that America could get away with a
stunt like that assumes that the rest of the world would look the other
way as General Tommy Franks reigns over the Iraqi oil fields.
What then is the real, though undisclosed, rationale for decimating Iraq?
Quite simply, Israel wants to rid Palestine of Palestinians.
Before that can be accomplished, any potential for the use of
weapons of mass destruction by Iraq must be eliminated.
There's been much pressure for establishing a Palestinian
state. Israel doesn't want a Palestinian state to exist inside
Palestine at all. They want the Palestinians removed to Jordan or
Saudi Arabia or Lebanon or Syria--anywhere but in Palestine. That
line has been part of the Israeli national agenda since Israel was
conceived. It was certainly in evidence when Menachem Begin and the Stern
gang mass murdered Palestinians to provoke the rest to flee in fear.
It's been even more in evidence since Ariel Sharon, following up on his
sponsorship of Palestinian extermination in Lebanon, has unleashed his
genocidal troops, with the latest military armaments, against rock
throwers and suicide bombers, wiping out freedom fighting members of the
Palestinian resistance with Hitlerian ferocity. The line has also
been endorsed by US congressmen, like Rep. Dick Armey.
Chris Matthews interviewed Armey (R-Texas), leader of the Republicans in
the U.S. House of Representatives (source: MSNBC, May 1, 2002). In
the most blatant admission of this line, Armey said, "I am content to
have Israel occupy that land that it now occupies and to have those people
who have been aggressors against Israel retired to some other area, and I
would be happy to have them make a home. I would be happy to have all of
these Arab nations that have been so hell bent to drive Israel out of the
Middle East to get together, find some land and make a home for the
Palestinians. I think it can be done."
Couldn't this be done now? Why couldn't Sharon and Co. force the
Palestinians out of Palestine now? As long as Israel perceives that
Iraq may be developing weapons of mass destruction along with the capacity
to deliver them, they don't dare remove the remaining Palestinians from
their midst. They know that if Saddam lobbed a WMD to Israel that it
would kill more Palestinians than Israelis.
But if/when the Palestinians have been run out of their lands, that
restraint could be removed from Saddam's mind set; and, assuming he has
the weapons, all WMD hell could break loose over the land of Zion before
the Israelis could prevent it or retaliate.
 So
what happens if Sharon and his American
supporters--Perle, Wolfowitz, Cohen, Ruben, Rumsfeld, Fleisher, Armey and
all of the rest of the US-Israel support troops prodding Bush and
Cheney--get their way and finish Iraq?
The Palestinians will be forced again to flee their homeland and become
refugees in another Arab country. If/when this happens, resulting in
a Diaspora of Palestinians outside of the occupied lands called Israel,
there will no longer be a radical like Saddam Hussein, with weapons of
mass destruction, to threaten Israel's very existence.
The purpose of the whole Bush & Co. exercise in an Iraq wipe-out is
thus clear: it opens the floodgates for Israel to rid Palestine of
the Palestinians.
The reporters who accept the Bush administration public line about regime
change and (unproven) weapons of mass destruction have simply been
repeating political nonsense. Those commentators who speculate that
the Bush/Cheney oil connections have motivated them to seek control of
Iraqi oil have merely been grasping at straws for a rationale for the war
mongering by Washington hawks. In short, the pundits have it all
wrong.
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