It's Harvest Time

January 19, 2008
by Cliff Carson

Mr. Frank, I agree with just about everything you reported and wrote in your recent blog post, 'Until "Victory" is Achieved.' Your commentary is excellent. But, I do disagree with those that would say Gulf War 1 was a "Just" war.

Why was it a Just war? Kuwait was no Democracy as represented by those who wanted to start a war. The invasion of Kuwait was an excuse to stir up the Middle East. And for what reason was that? I submit that the NeoCons saw profit and resource grabs to be made. Does the majority of the public know why Saddam Hussein wanted to invade Kuwait?

I'll bet not 1 of 100 could state the real reason for Iraq's invading Kuwait. Would they know why Hussein approached Ambassador April Glaspie and asked what the position of the United States would be if he did invade Kuwait? He gave her his reason for the oncoming invasion, the same reason that he had been discussing with the United States for two years. Does the public know what that reason was?

Do they know why April Glaspie told Hussein that the United States was not interested in getting involved in the dispute? Would they know why she said "It's none of our business"? In essence Ms. Glaspie gave him the go-ahead, inferring that the United States would not intervene.

How many people know why the United States Ambassador misled a MidEast "partner" of America? That he was a brutal dictator was of no consequence to our Government. We have a long, long history of setting up American brutal dictators in the region since World War Two.

I don't suppose that oil has anything to do with it, do you?

From the transcript of the Glaspie conference prior to the War, this is what she told Hussein.

"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute with Kuwait. Secretary Baker has directed me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the 1960s, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."

I doubt that very few American people know just what the underlying cause of that war was, but I watched an interview with Queen Noor immediately after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait where she and some others were discussing why the invasion, why the asking of April Glaspie about the American response to an invasion, and why the response given by Glaspie " The Kuwait issue is not associated with America."

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The reason for the invasion according to Queen Noor and those in the discussion group was a prolonged action of slant drilling into the Iraqi Ramallah Oil field by Kuwait and their refusal to stop the drilling or pay royalties to Iraq. As to why Ambassador Glaspie told Hussein that America would stay out of it, my personal opinion is that the NeoCons saw their chance to get a war going - something that is always profitable to that group.

So the game was to say, "We will stay out of it" then be very indignant and ready to come to the aid of "whoever" when it occurs.

Some people call that lying. The NeoCons call it good for their business.

What is the business of the NeoCons? The creation of wars, and the stealing of others' resources. People will die to boost that profit, and innocents will suffer financial hardships, but not the NeoCons.

For them, baby, its harvest time.

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