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According to press reports last last week and early this week, it is only a short matter of time before the U.S. steps in to attack Iraq again.  Citing movements of U.S. Central Command headquarters staff to CIA Chief Tenet's briefings to Murbarak in Egypt, several overseas press agencies have predicted "any time now" the U.S. will begin its second major effort in the War on Terror, launching attacks on Baghdad and going after Suddam Hussein.
 

Is it now time for Suddam to Ousted Forcibly?

First, let's assume the media is correct.  After all, European leaders reacted so strongly to the Bush "Axis of Evil" phrase in the State of the Union address, that we know now where most of Europe stands on really going after Terrorism -- "Its okay as long as you don't disrupt our oil supply and piss off our colleagues in the Middle East."

With the recent propaganda coming out of the Middle East, and European leaders jumping at the chance to climb on U.S. television to slap George W. around for being a "reckless cowboy", we are reminded Ronald Reagan's challenge to the Soviets in his finer moments.  Never-the-less, the Evil Empire, having moved to the Middle East, is quick to enlist the aid of its old allies the Chinese, French and Russians.  Remarkably, the new world order is, as we have said several times before, the same world order.

Secretary of State Colin Powell on two separate TV opportunities Tuesday, both being broadcast while President Bush tours Asia, clearly put Bush's messages in perspective.  Speaking on Meet The Press,  about  Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's claim that Iraq is not developing weapons of mass destruction is true, Powell said,
 

"...there is a simple way to test the proposition; that is, to let the inspectors in."

"If inspections are not allowed, economic sanctions on Iraq must remain in place," Powell said. "And, in fact," he said, "those sanctions which people thought would be falling apart are very much [still]  in place, and I think they will become more effective in May of this year when we get into smart sanctions."

"So what does a nation have to do to become a threat to world peace anyway?"

If  the following list doesn't comprise a threat, then obviously no nation will ever be a threat to world security:
 

1. aggressively pursuing programs to produce biological, chemical and nuclear weapons,
2.  having killed its own people with WMD,
3.  killed unpopular relatives because they spoke out against the leader,
4.  used woman and children as shields to prevent destruction of WMD facilities,
5. defying the terms of a signed treaty signed agreeing not to build WMD U.N. inspectors thereby preventing inspections to insure and prevent against further WMD development,
6. defied the terms of a signed treaty not to threaten neighbors and then within months attacked both north and south of its capital,
7. defined U.N. sanctions for oil exportation for use in purchase of military weapons and continued WMD development, and
8. showed absolutely no chance in behavior that led to a war with all major countries in their region and the rest of the world
9. has consistently funded terrorist groups both publicly and through clandestine funding
10. called for terrorism against no less than three nations naming innocents as necessary targets

It boggles the mind to see Bush attacked for calling Iraq a member of the Axis of Evil.  The President was actually quite soft.  Iraq is a central figure in an Axis of Evil that should also include, besides Iraq, the other houses of evil Lebanon, Syria and perhaps Egypt and Saudi Arabia.

For over fifty years these nations have been happily teaching through state sponsored and secular means, a regime of hatred for all things dealing with Christian beliefs, personal freedom, woman's rights, and essentially anything that has modified human behavior since the 8th century if not the 4th.

Is it no wonder that the most economically self reliant, growth oriented nation in the mid-east is the antithesis of all that the full membership of the Axis of Evil stands for?    And that the enemies of that nation are now finally turning their attention to America?

What is really hard to believe is the support Iran, Iraq and yes even poor little North Korea are getting from the bleeding hearts.  Stand up and salute that Iranian crowd, they are the epitome of all that we want our nations to be.  Or North Korea, who has promised everything and only delivered, well sort of,  on one promise...they have delayed their production of nuclear weapons grade material.  They haven't eliminated the appropriate equipment or destroyed their ability to assemble a nuclear weapon in less than a year, they have simply promised not to do so.  This from a nation that has failed to deliver on every promise made when faced with worldwide condemnation (except of course from the bleeding hearts who blamed the U.S. for from everything from starvation in North Korea to the hijacking of aircraft and flying them into the World Trade Center towers and the Pentagon).  "Mea Culpa, Mea Culpa, we are such bad people, we deserve this punishment...oh me, oh my."

Never mind that Korea is actively helping its brother third world nations build the rockets that will threaten immediate neighbors, then Central Europe and eventually North America.  Never mind that the extended list of members in the Axis of Evil (Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Sudan, and perhaps a few others) are all in the midst of preparing NBC weapons bazaar that will mark the deadliest period of proliferation since Soviet spies stole the plans to first the atomic and then hydrogen bomb.

On North Korea, Powell spoke on CNN's "Late Edition", saying in essence, Powell said the United States is open to dialogue with North Korea, and supports South Korean efforts to reach out to engage the North Koreans, but the administration "will not look away from the nature of that regime. ... They are still developing weapons that they plan to
sell to other irresponsible nations, and I think we have to call them to account. They are a despotic regime. And that is not just my opinion; it's an absolute statement of fact. Anybody can see it," he said.

And of course, the U.S. will be blamed for a new cold war if nations like Iraq, Iran, and North Korea continue to defy world requirements for disarming and rejecting terrorism -- everyone will know we could easily have prevented it simply by ignoring the threat until North America was surrounded like Great Britain in the late 1930s.

It is said that many major battles are fought as if they were fighting in the previous war.  Whenever proponents of touch action diagram their solution, the appeasement crowd will use this cliché to attempt to deflect the issue and deride anyone proposing to take real action.  They choose to either ignore or rewrite history.

In the case of popular worldwide liberalism today, rewriting history has crept into all levels of education -- rewrite it so it isn't so nasty and ugly.  There were no gas chambers, Hitler was protecting the French from invasion by the British, and modern day Jews have taken away the land of a nation Palestine -- a nation which has held it since those ancient times when  the oppressed Black African's called Egyptians fought that horrible tyrant Moses, finally revolting against the the slave master Jews and tossing them off their land.

Don't forget that great freedom fighter and hell of a man Saddam Hussein of Iraq and that benevolent society in Iran where no man shall live without his personal property including wife, daughters, tons of sarin gas, anthrax, botulism, nuclear waste disposal weapons, and even shiny metal spheres of plutonium and tritium surrounded by uranium.

The other fairly tale is that North Korea, Iraq, and Iran will never threaten anyone again,  will never develop weapons of mass destruction and there will never be a trade of these weapons and ballistic missiles amongst each other as well as to terrorist organizations, and of course those same terrorists, getting funding, succor and support will never threaten the civilized nations of the world.  The arab nations will not main, kill, and eliminate, without regret, each and every Israeli until that country exists no more, then continue on to eliminate anyone who does not subscribe to their religious tenets.

None of this is familiar and there is no history being repeated.  It is all a bad dream and we simply need to ignore it.

For those of us who don't believe in the liberal fairy tale, there is plenty of reason to call the Axis of Evil what it is.  It is NOT a kindly brotherhood of pious men producing agri-goods for the benefit of humanity and helping the suffering people within their own borders by ignoring weapons programs and instead feeding and saving their own children, indigent and needy.  If you believe that fairy tale, we know where there is a pretty orange bridge for sale in Marin County, California -- you know, where that great patriot and freedom fighter Johnnie Walker came from?

 © Copyright, 2002, Michael Crawford, MILNET

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