View Full Version : Delusional Sunshine of the Iraqless Mind
jmiller
06-20-2005, 04:41 PM
In case you didn’t know, Saddam Hussein’s nuts. Hiding in holes and spending time in prison hasn’t helped his view of reality much, either. According to GQ magazine, Hussein believes he’s still the president of Iraq and will return to power soon.
“I’ll show you all around my country,” he said to members of the Pennsylvania National Guard who have him in custody while he awaited trial in Baghdad. “You are like sons to me. It’s not beautiful now, but it will be when I’m back in charge.”
Apparently, his captors have been kind to him while he awaits trial. After getting clearance from superiors the guards revealed the details of their experience with Hussein to GQ. Turns out, Saddam’s a fan of junk food, like Cheetos and Doritos, and raisin bran. Fruit Loops met severe disregard however.
The prisoner is somewhat demanding, requiring juice or milk, or other beverages to be at room temperatures. Guards said he was obsessive about germs and cleanliness, constantly washing his hands and wiping plates and utensils with baby wipes before eating.
“He had germophobia, or whatever you call it,” said Specialist Jesse Dawson, 25.
Hussein spoke often with his guards, knowing them by name and giving them advice on women and life. Specialist Sean O’Shea was advised to find a woman who was “not to smart, not too dumb, not too old, not too young.”
Hussein repeatedly denied having any relationship with Osama Bin Ladin and claims that President Bush knew he didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction.
He expressed admiration of President Ronald Reagan and said that President Clinton was “okay.” As for the Bushes, he didn’t seem to like them, calling them “no good.” Maybe he’s not so crazy.
Scratch that, Hussein also stated that he’d like to be “friends” with President Bush and hoped the two could resolve their difference once Hussein was acquitted and his position was restored. Interesting world he lives in.
When the army invaded iraq i remember feeling similar to witnessing police brutality.
I think it is true that Bush knew that neither had Saddam weapons of mass destruction nor contact with Al Quaida. What it all comes down to is $, fear of diminishing oil reserves in the world and possible impact on domestic industry. It´s cold war tactics taken into the corporate world. To me this is so obvious, how about others.
ctabuk
06-21-2005, 07:28 AM
Why do you think the Brits joined in? lol
Besides from any shady deals we don´t know about, for the same reasons basicly. They as do all industrialised natinons profit (in the short term and then purely economicly) from keeping oil prices down. The french were probably mainly upset becouse they already had good oil contacts in iraq through the aid for oil scam, besides they need to import a lot less, also it meant popularity from their voters to stand up to the World Police. According to a Newsweek article I read a few months ago the main competitors in the race for remaining oil reserves on earth are USA and China. I really think the invasion was justified in the minds of the power elite (stock holders and captains of industry, including the arms industry) not as a way to protect the american public (since when do they give a bleeb?) but as means to guarantee the flow of oil for the next hundred years or so. The talk of homeland security and all the rest is solely manipulation to get votes, scare tactics, in other words the war is about money and power. The whole affair reeks of greed, lust for power and injustice on a monumental level.
ctabuk
06-21-2005, 08:14 AM
No, not entirely correct Sadam had already tried to take Kuwait and keep it, he was not 'bonkers' then, and in many ways got off lightly. Had we have pressed home the advantage there and then, then this thread would not be here. Never forget the Iraq/Iran wars, the US and probably the UK backed Sadam to the hilt. You have to realise that to 90% of the population the invasion was a welcome sight. But you are correct in the oil deparment, there was a hidden agenda.
KeithO
06-21-2005, 08:25 AM
When the army invaded iraq i remember feeling similar to witnessing police brutality.
I think it is true that Bush knew that neither had Saddam weapons of mass destruction nor contact with Al Quaida. What it all comes down to is $, fear of diminishing oil reserves in the world and possible impact on domestic industry. It´s cold war tactics taken into the corporate world. To me this is so obvious, how about others.I agree. Thats why oil that was just $30 a barrel in 1999 has doubled in price in 5 years. You put a puppet for the oil industry into power and see how rich you can get.
No, not entirely correct Sadam had already tried to take Kuwait and keep it, he was not 'bonkers' then, and in many ways got off lightly. Had we have pressed home the advantage there and then, then this thread would not be here.
At that time there was a different pressident in power with a different set of presidents-men whispering in his ear (or microphone). The reason the army did not pursue into Iraq was because the Saudis made it a prerequisit to allowing their land be used for staging attacks that Saddam would not be toppled. Still that would have been a much better oppurtunity for taking the oilfields than the terrorist attack on sept 11 2001.
I wonder how this all will be viewed in history. Everybody can see how easy it is to construct a great conspiracy teori out of this: The president and his father are oil men, they have good ties with the Saudis. A terrorist attack is made by men from Saudi Arabia (brainwashing?). That attack is used as excuse for invading Iraq and cementing the Saudis, the Bush familys plus buissness partners monopoly of the middle east oil export buissness plus guaranteeing the oil flow to domestic industry. Everybody profits except the Iraqi population and US servicemen.
If anyone thinks the rulers, or rather those who work for them and have done since the cold war era, could never be so coldhearted as to stage an attack on its own nation. Lets remember how the CIA blew up churches is central america and distributed communist litterature among the corpses for propaganda purposes. One migh say it´s a step up to sacrifice ones own citizens in such schemes. Not to mention all the other nationales that died in the attack, thus making it easier to recruit for an internationa coalition. It´s ingeniously, devilishly clever one might say. Of course you have to be a psychopath to go ahead with such a plan but then it has been argued that corporations are psycopathic in nature and then who more so than the arms industry that got a major facelift after being in decline since the end of the cold war.
06/12/05 "The Times" - - MINISTERS were warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a way of making it legal.
The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch of President George W Bush three months earlier.
The briefing paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair’s inner circle on July 23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was “necessary to create the conditions” which would make it legal. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htm
The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence.
The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.
In recent days, those missing pieces have finally begun to fall into place. As it turns out, this is not really about Iraq. It is not about weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or Saddam, or U.N. resolutions.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htm
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