By Felicity Arbuthnot
“The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.” (Former US Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, b 1927.)
As outlined by Felicity Arbuthnot in this incisive historical
review, the US is now providing weapons to the Maliki government to
fight Al Qaeda in Iraq and the Levant (AQIL). In a bitter irony, they
are also supplying AQIL with weapons to fight the US puppet regime.
This article carefully documents the role of war crimes in
feeding the military industrial complex. “War is Good for Business” and
so are war crimes. Russia is tacitly complicit in selling weapons to
the Iraqi “government” which constitutes a US proxy regime.
The not so hidden objective is twofold: to feed multibillion
dollar contracts to the US weapons producers while also contributing to
the ongoing destruction of Iraq as a nation state. (GR Editor. M.Ch.)
Iraq War Preparations Behind Closed Door
On February 10th 2003, German Green MP Joschka Fischer, then Foreign
Minister and Vice Chancellor, stunned an international security
conference, in Munich’s opulent 19th century Bayerischer Hof hotel
discussing the proposed invasion of Iraq, by banging on the table,
switching to English to guarantee Donald Rumsfeld understood and shouted
of the US arguments for war: ” … I am not convinced.” As he spoke, he
gazed at the then US Defence Secretary over his silver, half framed
spectacles, concluding: “That is my problem, I cannot go to the public
and say, ‘these are the reasons’, because I don’t believe in them.”
A stony faced Rumsfeld was described
as:”gazing at Mr Fischer through a tropical plant … he looked like a
tiger in the jungle, ready to pounce.”
The astute Herr Fischer recognized a pack of lies when he heard them
and saved Germany from enjoining a war of aggression – Nuremberg’s
“supreme international crime” – against a country which posed no threat
and had no way of defending itself against the world’s most devastating
and destructive weapons, whose poisonous residual pollution will continue to maim and kill generations to come for all time.