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                           Blase Bonpaine on Iraq
                      Any incompetent can start a war

                   Pacifica Commentary For July 29, 2002

                                    IRAQ



     Hello. This is Blase Bonpane with a comment.

     Any incompetent can start a war. It requires humanity and genius
     to avoid one. Washington's social psychosis is more and more
     obvious to the world's intellectual Community. On the centennial
     of the Nobel Prize, over 100 Nobel Laureates, primarily from the
     hard sciences called for the "replacement of war by law" and an
     end to "the unilateral search for security." The laureates called
     the performance of the corporate media, "a madman rhetoric." And
     referred to the situation of the world's poor as "desperate and
     manifestly unjust."

     Just think about the level of cult mind control that has been
     accomplished by the media/government nexus. We have been
     psychically dulled to the point of calmly yielding as our
     President and our congress are planning the cold-blooded murder of
     countless civilians in Iraq. This is to be done with knowledge and
     aforethought.

     And what is the motive for this planned massacre? The motive is to
     cover up their criminal performance at home and to silence the
     people of the United States with new and unacceptable limits on
     civil liberties and social justice. Quite simply, they are afraid
     of the people of the United States who are sick and tired of the
     government's inability to deliver such essentials as health care,
     education and a civil society. Oh, yes, there is a question of
     oil. But oil is only a symptom of deeper problems.

     The Senate Foreign Relations Committee is under the control of
     Democratic Senator Joseph Biden. Biden is bringing people to speak
     to the Senate who are experts in nothing but war mongering, people
     like Paul Wolfowitz and Richard Perle. These are simply drum
     beaters for the upcoming massacre.

     Authentic experts are being excluded from Biden's hearings. People
     like like Scott Ritter, a chief UN weapons inspector in Iraq who
     says that Senator Joe Biden is running a sham hearing with a
     pre-ordained conclusion in order to provide a political cover for
     a massive military attack on Iraq.

     Also excluded are:

        * Dennis Halliday who called our plans genocidal and as an
          inspector said that Iraq did not have weapons of mass
          destruction.
          See: Denis Halliday - The Salon Interview, 20 March 2002
               Iraq and weapons of mass destruction, by Chris
               Tolworthy, March 2002

        * Mr. Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant Secretary General of
          the United Nations who resigned his post as Coordinator of
          Humanitarian Aid in Iraq so he could freely speak out about
          the destruction of that country.
          See: Action Alert: UN Chief condemns UN sanctions in Iraq, 28
               February 2000
               Former UN Official Speaks Out on Iraq Policy, WORT (FM),
               Madison, WI, 28 July 2002
               Hans von Sponeck Interview, UN Building, Baghdad, 5
               April 1999

        * Biden might even call upon George Bush Senior who is aware of
          the war crimes he committed and how they led to his failure
          to be reelected. Biden should also call upon the U.S.
          Generals who are saying that Iraq is not a threat to the
          United States.
          See: Gulf War: Gonzalez Impeachment Resolution of Bush,
               re-sent 5/02
               Sanctions and War on Iraq: In 300 words, by Citizens
               Concerned for the People of Iraq, 8/11/02
               US War Crimes in Iraq--Use Nuremberg Standards, by
               Francis Boyle, 1992

     Any incompetent can start a war. It takes humanity and genius to
     avoid one.

     This is is Blase Bonpane.

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