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WHAT WOULD THE US DO WITHOUT SADDAM? (Foreign Correspondent -Eric Margolis

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Jan 16, 1998, 3:00:00 AM1/16/98

WHAT WOULD THE US DO WITHOUT SADDAM? (Foreign Correspondent -Eric
Margolis

...I listened to an American academic `expert' on Iraq fulminate that
Saddam Hussein was behind the bombings of the New York World Trade
Center, the Federal Building in Oklahoma City, the downing of TWA
flight 800, and numerous other nefarious acts.

I took this Philippic with many grains of salt. Some of the media's
current `anti-terrorism experts' are really paid propagandists for
Mideast nations. Which one might be funding this particular exercise
in demonology, I wondered?

One good soul in our discussion group hotly demanded, `Why don't we
take out Saddam?' Good question, and one asked by many Americans.
Here's why not:

Because Saddam Hussein is a key part of the control mechanism used by
the west to dominate Mideast oil. The loathsome Saddam, and his
sinister Iraq, are the bastard children of Britain and America.

We don't use the Victorian term `imperialism' any more to describe the
west's domination of Mideast resources. The current euphemism is,
`America's vital interests.' Invocation of this term allows the US to
meddle in the affairs of soverign nations, overthrow their
governments, and, when necessary, go to war for the sake of cheap
gasoline. It applies mainly to the Mideast, where America's normal
policy of promoting democracy, free speech and human rights around the
world is suspended in favor of keeping regimes in power who keep down
the price of oil.

Britain's old Arab `protectorates,' are today's `America's Arab
allies.' The rapidly growing US military presence in the Mideast is
aimed at protecting US-backed rulers from the anger of their own
peoples as much as from rapacious neighbors. The words are different,
but the song remains the same.

In the 1920's, the victorious British Empire created the mutant state
of Iraq from the wreckage of the Ottoman Empire in order to grab
Mesopotamia's recently discovered oil, deny this oil to Turkey, and
open a land route to India. Three totally disparate regions were
stitched together into a chronically unstable, rebellious mess. Kurds
in the oil-rich north; Shia's in the south. In the middle, Sunni
Muslims; Chaldean, Nestorian, and Assyrian Christians; and Jews. At
the time, Baghdad was a leading center of Jewish culture and
population.

Iraq seethed with revolt. The British bombed and gassed rebellious
Kurds, battled Shias, and jailed nationalists - just as Saddam does
today. When the British Empire collapsed in 1945, America took over,
forging a new Mideast Raj.

The US overthrew the nationalist governments of Iran and Syria. When
an Iraqi officer, Col. Kassem, overthrew the British puppet monarchy
in Baghdad, CIA agents tried unsuccessfully to assassinate him with a
poisoned handkerchief. CIA helped a certain Col. Aref gun down
Col.Kassem. Aref was murdered. Many bodies later, Saddam Hussein shot
his way to power, probably with some American help.

But when Saddam stabilized Iraq through terror and began building its
economy and military forces, the US, Israel and Iran joined to
destabilize Iraq by financing and arming Kurdish rebels in the north.
After an Islamic revolution overthrew the Shah of Iran, the US ditched
the Kurds, and backed Saddam Hussein as new policeman of the Gulf.

Washington and London encouraged Saddam to invade Iran, producing an
8-year war that caused one million casualties. The west secretly armed
Iraq, and supplied the poison gas plants and toxic materials that
Saddam ruthlessly used against Iranians, and later, against rebellious
Kurds. The west never protested such barbarity - because those being
gassed or poisoned were Muslim troublemakers.

When the war ended, however, Saddam, became too big for his jackboots.
He had pretensions that Iraq, which has the Mideast's second largest
oil reserves, should be a regional power, and armed, like Israel, with
weapons of mass destruction.

Alarmed, the US set about bringing down Saddam. Kuwait was used to
goad Iraq by running down oil prices, filching Iraqi oil by slant
drilling, and publically insulting Saddam. Washington then gave Iraq
what Baghdad believed was a green light to invade irksome Kuwait. When
Saddam struck, former Texas oilman George Bush sprang the trap.

But Bush did not `take out' Saddam at war's end for two good reasons.
First, contrary to Desert Storm disinformation and propaganda, the
main force units of the Iraqi Army remained intact. Bush had no
intention to fight his way into Baghdad, or end up governing and
policing ungovernable Iraq.

Second, if Saddam fell,Iran and Turkey would probably invade and divvy
up Iraq's oil regions. The Saudis and Bush realized they needed a
Saddam to hold Iraq together and keep Iran at bay - but with his wings
clipped.

A series of feeble but very expensive CIA operations were mounted
aimed at replacing Saddam with an equally ferocious, but more
pro-American despot. This effort humiliatingly collapsed...[when
Sadam] ran the CIA and its various networks out of northern Iraq. To
cover this pre- election fiasco, Clinton barraged Iraq with $300
million of cruise missiles.

The US also needs Saddam as Mideast bogeyman. After Iraq invaded
Kuwait, Washington terrified the Saudis into allowing US forces into
Arabia by showing them satellite photos doctored to depict an
impending, but actually non- existent, Iraqi attack...

And, of course, American presidents reply on Mideast malefactors to
boost popularity and prove their machismo. Reagan made excellent use
of Libya's zany Khadaffi. Thanks to Saddam, Bush went from `wimp' to
hero. Clinton's... missile attacks on Iraq eclipsed the Dole campaign
and scotched talk about a weak, draft-dodging president.

One night during World War II, Hitler observed, `When I finish
conquering Russia, I'm going to put that man Stalin back in charge.
He's the only person who knows how to deal with Russians.'

And that holds just as true for Saddam, and for poor, tortured Iraq.

Inside Track On World News
By International Syndicated Columnist & Broadcaster
Eric Margolis
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