According to this article the Bush Administration is planning on attacking Iraq this summer between July and September. No doubt near September to capitalize on the emotionalism tied up with the destruction of the World Trade Center. Imagine every red-blooded Joe Six-Pack getting tears in their eyes as we drop bombs onto hospitals and power plants. “That’s for 9-11, you ragheads! The giant has awoken!”
The real goal is to assassinate Saddam Hussein despite the talk of this being another offensive in the ‘war against terror’.
The U.S. attack, the diplomats and sources said, envisions a lightning offensive against Baghdad and the capture of key Iraqi military installations. They said the move would seek to kill Saddam or drive him out of Baghdad to eliminate the prospect of bloody resistance in the Iraqi capital.
If this doesn’t work, the diplomats and sources said, the United States would launch stage two of the military campaign. This would involve heavy air attacks on Iraqi military installations. Stage three calls for a ground attack.
Why does Saddam Hussein need to be assassinated? Why can’t he be arrested and brought to trial? In a great column by former CIA insider Al Martin he explains the reasons for this:
Regarding the Gulf War, the Bush Sr. Administration said that the reasons the US didn’t go in and get Saddam is because the American people were beginning to complain about the number of casualties we were inflicting on the Iraqis. It was a cover story pure and simple.
The truth is that the United States wanted Saddam to remain in power because there was only one shot to take Saddam out. He had to be liquidated. He couldn’t be captured even though he was under indictment in the United States for a variety of charges and also under indictment in the World Court. But the United States couldn’t afford to have Saddam a prisoner and thus be able to talk about his relationship with the Reagan-Bush Regime.
Lying is a way of life for these people. Everything they say is suspect. If Saddam Hussein somehow aided ‘terrorists’ and Bush/Reagan aided Hussein, doesn’t that make them terrorists too? If Osama bin Laden is a terrorist and Reagan-Bush aided bin Laden doesnt that make them terrorists? This might be a good time to check out the Bush family timeline.