PRELIMINARY RESPONSES
TO POWELL'S ADDRESS
February
6. 2003
1 The
2 The ingenuity and finesse now being refined to conceal mass weapons can
easily be exported to other anti-US parties, or simply sold on
international terrorism's EBay. Saddam is strengthening his
asynchronous warfare capabilities and he can easily sell these in any cargo
container that can haul a truck or rail car. We might expect to see such
a shipment into
3 Is Saddam linked to bin Laden? In October of 2001, the Enquirer
reported that Mohammed Atta and a few of his associates had met personally
with Saddam one month before 9/11. Of course, we certainly know that
Saddam relished 9/11, as did many Palestinian militants. The Enquirer
also reported that the anthrax that shut its offices down had been mailed from
Iraq, and that a prior test mailing had been done 6 months before that to test
the mail route. The world underestimates the care and discipline with
which bin Laden operatives are prepared to test and perfect their methods, as
the educated engineers so many of them are.
I believe there is linkage, opportunistic linkage, between Saddam and
bin Laden. It's not Saddam's main focus but it could become so as he
grows more desperate in his last Hitler-in-the-bunker throes.
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5 Is it not likely that even more of
6 It is difficult even to conduct surveillance on
7 Saddam is becoming more of a menace every month, not less. There
is no process of whittling him down, nor will there be.
8 The UN will never confront Saddam and truly enforce disarmament
because it is weak and incapable of doing so. The UN cannot and will not
enforce its resolutions against
9 Furthermore, the UN doesn't care sufficiently about
10 The most important decision to be made now is how to administer
11 Economic democracy in Greater
12 The
13 Possibility: Plan the division of
14 A military confrontation is inevitable because Saddam does not engage
with the rest of the world but has a bunker mentality--always has, always will.
15 Saddam will never disarm or abdicate. His military dominance is how
he sees himself and how he demands that others see him. He came up
through security forces and he is a smalltime brutalizer writ large.
Saddam will likely continue to starve and repress his people and disallow food
that would half-fill Iraqi bellies and possibly give strength for a
rebellion. Like Hitler, Saddam is surrounded by yes men and always will
be because that's what he insists on. He is in no way a world citizen and
cannot be rehabilitated. His great pleasure is repression and
domination. As usual, the world is letting one male's endocrine system
make miserable the lives of millions who are at his mercy.
16 Saddam is protected partly by the Aristocracy Ethic in our nation and
in our world: "might, if not making right, should always get a
hands-off response". To cross this boundary would expose other
corrupt, tyrannical and self-serving tyrants. The UN is full of these.
17 It is time to treat the Iraqi regime arbitrarily, completely as we
decide. The posture of Iraq's being asked permission of to fly U2
missions over it, is like Spanky asking Butch to avoid Our Gang when coming
home from school so as not to be tempted to beat them up.
18 Hussein should no longer be offered asylum or other buy offs.
Both he and hard-core loyalists should immediately be killed: i.e.,
assassinated. They only have one purpose, and it is illegitimate.
Hussein's dictatorship is worth smashing alone on the grounds of its
repressiveness and torture anyway. Hussein is a cur dog and we are
watching him bite lambs full of hydrophobia, and it is time he were
shot. If he gets on the international media stage of war crimes trials,
he will suffer the horrible fate of international publicity and glorification,
a soapbox from which to crow, as did Milosevic, and the horrible and effective
punishment of confinement in a HoJo for 20 years with ACLU-mandated Internet
access from which to exercise his First Amendment self-exoneration rights until
he can get himself out and on Oprah or invited to speak at Oxford like
OJ. After W.W.II, the Japanese high command was all hung -- 400 of
them. I would have preferred tranquilizers followed by lethal
injection, but somebody had the right idea.
19 We have the chance now to kill limited numbers of large nests of roaches.
If we fail to kill them, they will overrun planet earth and suicide killings
will be our fate for the next 100 years. Right now we have the chance to
get into the seedbed of future terrorism and learn how they're doing it.
20 Expect Saddam to use "human shields" as in 1991, to exploit
the news business as well and also to exploit frustrated radical left elements
who are still upset at the USSR's collapse as a status blow to their dream of
collectivism. American movies and TV provoked a lot of the third world
jealousy we see, anyway, so it is natural to go to those sources for power in
time of vengeance.
21 The peace movement, as in
22 The cries of "it’s only about US oil companies" are
illegitimate. There are always commercial implications from
everything done in
23 You can be sure that any unprevented attacks on any
24 Prior to all of this, "no-first-strike policies" were in place
because we were buffered. Oceanic isolation and non-suicidal
militaries were the rule. But now there is no defense against a
determined suicidal zealot except neutralization of the zealot. If
25 The
26 The rich and powerful (the
27 Colonize
--Robb Murray,