[Nettime-nl] American terrorist zonder grenzen

["H S" <persgal@wanadoo.nl>]

hallo Nettime,

Bijgaand een introductie in wat er na de eerste Golfoorlog gebeurde in Iraq en welke rol de VS daarin speelden uit het artikel van john pilger in The New Statesman van vandaag:

Then Washington, the tyrant's old paramour who had supplied him with $5bn worth of conventional arms, chemical and biological weapons and industrial technology, intervened just in time. The rebels suddenly found themselves confronted with the United States helping Saddam against them. US forces prevented them from reaching Iraqi arms depots. They denied them shelter, and gave Saddam's Republican Guard safe passage through US lines in order to attack the rebels. US helicopters circled overhead, observing, taking photographs, while Saddam's forces crushed the uprising. In the north, the same happened to the Kurdish insurrection. "The Americans did everything for Saddam," said the writer on the Middle East SaId Aburish, "except join the fight on his side." Bush Sr did not want a divided Iraq, certainly not a democratic Iraq. The New York Times commentator Thomas Friedman, a guard dog of US foreign policy, was more to the point. What Washington wanted was a successful coup by an "iron-fisted junta": Saddam without Saddam. 
http://www.newstatesman.co.uk/nscoverstory.htm
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