pro-war

international | anti-war / imperialism | opinion/analysis Friday December 10, 2004 11:43 by Simon Willace

According to my paper war is very popular and recieves alot of support

This war is about oil and where would we be without it, the Arabs would go back to herding goats but what would we do?

Exec sum.
Concerns
Why war
War history
Why we should support it

I’ve become rather concerned at the level of ignorance shared by the general public over great many current issues. It has come to a point that in polite conversation the discussions are stalled while I have to educate the point of view.
People commonly confuse about the Iraq war, it’s often confused with Afghanistan, Muslims with Taliban, and insurgents with international Terrorism and we always forget that Iraq has never attacked or threatened the west, but the west has invaded and occupied Arab lands in an unprovoked attack.
Through pointing these out simple facts, I become on the side of the enemy so my position becomes a little confused leftwing instead of right wing so I’ll make it plain from the start…. I'm Pro War.
I really feel that the war is necessary if first world nations are to secure lifestyles afforded by consumerism. War is never simple, but the reasons are, we and our trading partners need thick black Middle Eastern oil otherwise the base raw material that we rely so heavily upon will be sold to China.
There, isn’t that the greatest threat? we will be holding out our hands, not to America but to China and their Communist partners, isn’t that worth a war?

so why do we hear all this bullshit about Democracy and Christian Values, Iraq doesn’t even have a tax department so its hardly going to have a representational government, Is it?

I really think the whole worlds confused, however this should not be the case, if such information was clearly pointed out in the press I would not feel the need to correct the mistakes made, and would be saved considerable personal time and expense by not having to set the record straight.

War has become the only economically viable option if we are to survive in a highly competitive global market reliant upon a depleting resource.
There are no current alternative fuels that can provide the enormous demand that oil maintains. So we must go to war for it, but we do not need the smoke screen of democracy to achieve it, because its just another crusade after all.

Therefore I have devised a relatively easy tutorial to dismiss such grave failings in public knowledge concerning just one issue, the Iraq war.

The Iraq war has been going on for 14 years, it started in 1990 as a regional conflict, short lived while Iraq invaded Kuwait and did so with prior US knowledge, with intentions being known in Washington weeks in advance Iraq's plans were acknowledged so the invasion in 1990 was unopposed.

The Gulf war commenced in 1991 once America convinced the world that Iraq’s intention was to move through the Middle East in a plan to take over the world. Remember the Hitler analogy?
Nevertheless the Gulf war stalled shortly after it began, while the combined forces of western and Arabic nations joined forces representing populations of over one billion to thwart a small country with less than 19 million souls who had no intention of threatening world peace at all.

Kuwait was invade because the Kuwaitis were stealing Iraq’s oil by sneaking the directional drills under the border beneath the soil. The dispute was 10 years old by this time and was being mediated by American agencies but the two concerned parties had failed to negotiate a settlement so Saddam closed Kuwait down. As you would a neighbor who had rigged your electricity meter.

Hearing the news of the impending arrival of US forces Osama Bin Laden offered to take care of Saddam,( an American installed dictator, no friend in fact the opposite) Osama offered to push Saddam’s forces out of Kuwait, and he would have too, but
The offer was refused which made Ussama (correct spelling) really angry, have you noticed? And its not just because we always misspell his name and he’s even got royal blood. He is mad because we supported him in his fight against Russia, all that’s changed is the nationality of his enemy.

Osama had just chased away one group of foreign invaders and now another bunch of hypocrites were poised to invade forcing there way into a local problem that really did not concern anyone but Arabs.

Within the 1991 a cease-fire was declared after Saddam’s forces suffered decimation while in retreat. Once more war continued briefly in 1992, but the UN prevented America’s intention of invasion and occupation, so the Blockade years and sanctions began.

Once more the war was allowed to stall in a cease fire until resuming again for another battle in 2003 when war changed into a civil resistance which now is the state of play, between largely Iraqi civilians and western occupational forces.

The civilian deaths of non- combatants amounted to millions over this time frame in addition to the Lancet report (identifying 100 000 minimum deaths but only of deaths since 2003).

The UN estimated 2.2 million innocent civilians had lost their lives by the year 2000.
So today deaths through direct western intervention can be conservatively estimated at 2.8 million.

Iraq was a moderate secular society under Saddam Hussein, having all the ethnic and religious groups one would expect to find in a Middle Eastern region. Christian fellowship and forms of Islamic followings were practiced freely and without interference, like here, if we acknowledge that Muslims are prevented from early morning Calls to prayer in Ireland, and are prevented by law from marrying more than one wife.
Therefore both societies are secular to a degree.

President Hussein was a Sunni Muslim but within his government he included even Christian ministers and his Government featured more female representatives than our own during 1991.
In Iraqi society women were educated and employed without restrictions although it must be said in Mosques, segregation was in forced, but during the normal day women wore only a head-scarf to show traditional and cultural respect to religious instruction, like some of us wear the cross here.

President Hussein was first assisted to power by US support and later developed economic assistance through nurturing Russian contacts pitting the two great nations against one another while securing the best prices and services for his greatest asset, Oil.

Saddam was a game player who also concentrated his efforts in homeland security, giving favors for favors and punishing dissent. He ruled like any other leader within his region but was more successful than most.
He enabled his country to advance and assume 20th century development while building roads and developing electricity and water supplies to world class standards throughout Iraq in both cities and the rural sector, and like Russia and America he also drained wetlands for no good reasons.

His schools are still in use, where his free supplies of textbooks and equipment are still used in lessons. While it should be added that UNNESCO awarded him an education prize during the late 80’s and the BBC world service awarded him an honor recognizing the achievements of his rule.

Oh and he did kill 300 000 people during his rule but by western standards, I think we can all say BIG DEAL!
He took twenty years; we can do that much in side three.

All the originally installed community infra structure created under the Saddam years is now destroyed awaiting repair.

In the face of a weight of evidence it can no longer be said or be maintained that Iraq and the world is better off without Saddam Hussein. Our responsibility for millions of deaths already proven while not in dispute is admitted murder. Sanctioned by our press, it is a reckless action, against Geneva Convention, so it is something of a war crime in itself.

This has swamped the counter allegations that Hussein was responsible for the deaths of civilians while we absolve all responsibility in killing far more to get to him. I am in no doubt that he was a dictator but no excuse can absolve the greater evil of coalition action even if the intentions are thought to be mistaken today.

partners in this coalition still support the murderous regimes of Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, Kuwait still use the torture chambers that Saddam once held for a few months and we continue in a fight that lost its cause a long time ago.
The west are just reinventing reason while we are no longer even fooling ourselves as the death toll rises, soon all except our politicians and media tycoons will support the war while the population either switches sides or compromises beliefs for comfort, in either case Ussama Bin Laden has been vindicated.

So far ‘KFC’ and ‘Toys R US’ are amongst the only groups who have received compensation since the start of this war, corporations and governments have received billions without being the victims while the Iraqi people have received billions in only bomb tonnage, dropped indiscriminately upon or around them.

They still suffer the humiliation of forced searches or custodial sentences of no fixed term.
With the WMD scare no longer of use as an excuse we have shifted beliefs in belated intentions of establishing a quasi-Democracy while intentionally and knowingly installing the very same team who supplied us with all the evidence of weapons of mass destruction. So it’s got to be said, this was a set up from the start.

A Christian inspired reform of political beliefs in a Muslim land was never going to work, where feudalism was always the tradition. Where no one has ever voted before and no one is expected to pay any income tax at all.
In our nation we get little in the way of representation or choice in the polls but in a nation where a taxation office does not even exist… why should there be any representation at all?

An opposition party would be useful to provide choice, but there isn’t one.
How are the bastereds going to be kept honest after winning power by telling lies? We have similarities here but why should anyone else want a system that offers less?

Especially as America intends to administer funds while it makes Iraq pay war reparations with its own oil and innocent lives.

I’m sorry if this upsets some of you but its better to be led by an informed point of view rather than having been led by the point of a gun.

The west needs the Oil its as plain as day, but our populations require justifiable cause, we had that for Vietnam, Korea and the 2nd world war, but then if you think about it that was over oil as well, Russian North African and won with American Texas Tea.

This war is about oil and where would we be without it, the Arabs would go back to herding goats but what would we do?