Iraq: Inside the Belly of the CIA
By <
http://www.globalresearch.ca/author/ismail-salami/> Dr. Ismail Salami
Global Research, September 09, 2012
middleeast
Much to the bitter disappointment of the international community, a report
recently declassified by the CIA reveals that a war that started in the name
of democracy in Iraq in 2003 and claimed the lives of more than one million
innocent Iraqis and thousands of US-led troops was waged on the basis of an
unfortunate series of blatant lies fabricated by CIA.
In a nutshell, the report says the CIA failed to carry out sufficient
research into the possibility of WMDs in the hands of the Iraqi despot
Saddam Hussein and that without due proof, they concluded that since Saddam
was in the habit of lying about WMDs, they guessed he was in possession of
weapons and mass destruction and that Iraq had to be reduced to dereliction
and misery at the hands of the US military on the strength of a sheer
conjecture.
Prominent points in the report are as follows:
1) When the [U.N. and International Atomic Energy Agency] inspections proved
more intrusive than expected, the Iraqi leadership appears to have panicked
and made a fateful decision to secretly destroy much of the remaining
nondeclared items and eliminate the evidence.
2) Iraq's firmly established "cheat and retreat" pattern made it difficult
for U.N. inspectors and Western analysts to accept new Iraqi assertions at
face value.
3) A liability of intelligence analysis is that once a party has been proven
to be an effective deceiver, that knowledge becomes a heavy factor in the
calculation of the analytical observer.
The new report brings to fore and highlights the necessity of an idea
audaciously expressed by some in recent past: the trial of Georg Bush and
Tony Blair as war criminals for lying about WMDs in Iraq.
Only recently, South African peace activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop
Desmond Tutu pulled out of a leadership summit in Johannesburg because he
refused to share a platform with Mr. Tony Blair whom he considers a war
criminal. Loud and clear, Tutu has announced Tony Blair and George W. Bush
as war criminals who should be taken to the International Criminal Court in
The Hague over the Iraq war for lying about Iraq's weapons of mass
destruction. Besides, Tutu has said the US- and UK-led war against Iraq had
brought about conditions for the civil war in Syria and a possible Middle
East conflict involving Iran.
"The then leaders of the United States [Mr. Bush] and Great Britain [Mr.
Blair] fabricated the grounds to behave like playground bullies and drive us
further apart. They have driven us to the edge of a precipice where we now
stand - with the specter of Syria and Iran before us," he said.
No doubt, Bush and Blair will be eventually tried in a fair court of justice
for the crimes they have committed in Iraq in the name of democracy under
the hallucination of a divine decree; indeed, that is only a matter of when
rather than if. As for Bush, he has explicitly stated that he was on a
mission from God to strike Afghanistan and Iraq. Overwhelmed with a maniac
feeling of messianic mission, Bush revealed this religious madness four
months after the US-led invasion of Iraq in the Egyptian resort of Sharm
el-Sheikh in his meeting with a Palestinian delegation during the
Israeli-Palestinian summit.
He said, "I am driven with a mission from God. God would tell me, 'George go
and fight these terrorists in Afghanistan'. And I did. And then God would
tell me 'George, go and end the tyranny in Iraq'. And I did."
In an unprecedented ruling handed down by the Kuala Lumpur (KL) War Crimes
Tribunal in Malaysia in May, George W. Bush and a number of his accomplices
including Dick Cheney, former US Vice President, Donald Rumsfeld, former
Defense Secretary, and Alberto Gonzales, then Counsel to President Bush were
found guilty of war crimes.
Though the Kuala Lumpur Tribunal may not have the authority to try them in
practice, it must be regarded as a great step in upholding justice and
respecting humanity on a large scale.
Besides, the tribunal evinces a keen sense of public sensitivity to and
awareness of a universal quest for truth and justice. It is manifest that
global awareness is on the increase in the world and that the truth will
emerge from behind the clouds one day.
Day by day, more evidence is building up to put Bush and Blair to abject
shame for their crimes and fresh calls for arresting and trying the duo and
their accomplices at the international criminal court fall upon the ears
from time to time.
International community is waking up to the realities thanks to the efforts
of peace activists and the justice-seeking dissidents across the world. It
is indeed a good sign that a new age of social and political enlightenment
has already begun to dawn and that a new light is in sight. This marks an
imminent end to multitudes of atrocities perpetrated by Washington and its
allies and the plots hatched by the Zionists to divide and rule the world.
Washington's monophonic urge to decide for the world is growing weaker and
weaker every day with a powerful polyphonic global voice taking the place of
the old one. In short, the world is developing greater perceived need for
sustainable peace and security.
What the CIA file documents is the fact that Iraq was ferociously devoured
in the belly of the CIA beast not as a country with a dictator as its leader
but as a nation which was denied the opportunity to hold its fate in its own
hands and get rid of its dictator.
The sheer ouster of Saddam Hussein as a dictator barely justifies the
innocent blood that was spilled in Iraq and a military invasion of such
colossally devastating proportions.
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