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Excerpt from The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy:


In 1989, President George H. W. Bush signed a National Security Directive ordering closer ties with Iraq. Yet conversely, around the same time, Bush condemned Saddam Hussein in press interviews – like the one in which he accused the Iraqi leader as being “worse than Hitler.”

The following year, in 1990, the First Gulf War began and the US invaded Iraq.

It was one of the most surreal wars ever, and few if any journalists seemed to be able to accurately describe what caused it. Other than the obvious, that is. We refer of course to Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait – something countries do to each other with frightening regularity and with little or no interference from the international community.

Someone said the First Gulf War was like a movie without a screenwriter. Can’t remember who it was who said that. Wait a minute...oh yes, it was us! Certainly, it seemed to lack a coherent storyline or plot.

Some journos observed that the war was about overthrowing a dictator, which didn’t happen if you recall, while others said it was fighting to free the Iraqi people, which didn’t happen either.

As former Pentagon defense analyst Pierre Sprey told Congress, “The shallow, Nintendo view of the war on TV was false. It was created by hand-picked video tapes and shamelessly doctored statistics.”

Let’s return to the June 1998 article Washington Peace Center intern Steve Pickering wrote for the center. It was curiously headlined The Making of an Enemy: Saddam Hussein. In this insightful article, which was written in the interim between the First and Second Gulf Wars, Pickering goes to great lengths to acknowledge the Iraqi leader’s war crimes, but also mentions US “foreign policy propaganda” and states the US had reasons for “demonizing Saddam Hussein”. He claims those reasons had nothing to do with fighting for the freedom of the Iraqi people.

In the article, Pickering goes on to describe how throughout the period of the Iran-Iraq conflict “United States foreign policy was firmly in support of Iraq”. During this time, the Soviet Union, the UK, the US and various other major nations, all saw their (mainly oil) interests being threatened. As “the war shifted in Iran’s favor,” these superpowers and industrialized nations suddenly realized if Iran defeated the Iraqi regime, “Iraq would have become a mirror of the political situation seen in Iran”.

“In order to tip the scales back in the favor of Iraq,” Pickering continues, “the international community began to supply technologically advanced weapons, credit facilities and important military information to Iraq.”

Pickering also explains how the West saw its Middle Eastern interests threatened again in 1990 when Iraq invaded Kuwait. Only this time, Iraq was in the position Iran had formerly been in where they were the ones threatening Western interests.

And thus, Pickering concludes, Western media suddenly informed the public of “the horrors of Saddam Hussein, of his despotic control, of his endless paranoid quest for power”.



From the many years he’d spent in the Omega Agency, the special agent understood there were no obvious good guys or bad guys on the world stage. Contrary to the PR spin generated within Congress and spoon-fed to the well-meaning American public by a gullible or at least malleable media, Kentbridge also knew there were no clear sides anymore. As he often told the orphans, patriotism was a useless emotion because the modern world was no longer shaped by countries or governments. In fact, nations had long since been superseded by the vast spider web of elite conspirators spanning the globe. –The Orphan Factory

As we all recoil from the awful images and try to make sense of the horror unfolding in the Middle East right now, and as America considers broad military action against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, I can’t help but feel a sense of déjà vu.

My mind drifts back to the First Gulf War of 1990-91 – also referred to as the Persian Gulf War and the Kuwait War and codenamed Operation Desert Shield/Operation Desert Storm. The reasons for America’s involvement in that dust-up were as cloudy and confused as they are for its involvement in the region’s current problems...

What does everybody else think about these ongoing Middle East conflicts?

Lance Morcan wrote: "In 1989, President George H. W. Bush signed a National Security Directive ordering closer ties with Iraq. Yet conversely, around the same time, Bush condemned Saddam Hussein in pre..."

I was an investigative journalist in the '80s and early '90s, and one of the first to write about Hussein's weapons program. About the time GHW Bush signed that executive order, US and British Customs were deeply involved in an undercover investigation into an Iraqi plot to smuggle nuclear bomb detonators from San Diego to Baghdad via London. I learned of the investigation because a source was an undercover US Customs agent who did all the undercover work and he provided me details on the promise not to write anything on it until the Iraqis were arrested. I complied.

What was interesting in the case is that first the Reagan administration, then the Bush administration tried to derail the investigation. Reagan gave Hussein $5 billion in government guaranteed loans to buy American goods. Those goods were sold by Hussein to other countries, and the revenue used to fund his WMD research -- all with the knowledge of both administrations. Even after the case broke and its was obvious Hussein was trying to built nuclear weapons, the Bush administration continued denied what the evidence showed Iraq was doing. It wasn't until after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait that Bush admitted Hussein was after The Bomb. And that was only after Margaret Thatcher berated the heck out of him.

Iraq never paid back that $5 billion. The US taxpayers did.

Martin wrote: "Lance Morcan wrote: "In 1989, President George H. W. Bush signed a National Security Directive ordering closer ties with Iraq. Yet conversely, around the same time, Bush condemned S..."

And still the politicians wonder why we don't trust 'em!

In a CNN News article published on CNN's website on April 15, 2013 and headlined “Yes, the Iraq War was a war for oil, and it was a war with winners: Big Oil”,
they quoted General John Abizaid, former head of US Central Command and Military Operations in Iraq, as saying, “Of course it's about oil; we can't really deny that”.

The same CNN report mentioned above also quotes former US Senator and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel as confirming, “People say we're not fighting for oil. Of course we are”.

Greg Palast sees the plan as blood for no oil.

http://www.gregpalast.com/how-george-...

Bill Hicks- On Gulf War I & George H.W. Bush https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YlyY...

Weapons of Mass Deception



Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein



Understanding Geography and War: Misperceptions, Foundations, and Prospects by Steve Pickering

Document:In Defence of the Indefensible https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:...

A critique of the Scott Report on the illegal export of military equipment to Iraq through the 1980's

Disclaimer (#3)Document.png article by David Guyatt dated 1997
Subjects: Arms-to-Iraq, Scott Report, Matrix Churchill, Allivane International
Source: Deep Black Lies (Link)

In Defence of the Indefensible
Three and a half years in the making, Sir Richard Scott's long awaited inquiry report thumped on to the desks of quivering crown ministers in February 1996. Scott was charged with investigating Britain's own murky "Iraq-gate". Amongst other things he reveals how governments daily side-step domestic democratic controls in pursuit of reckless foreign policy. Also laid bare was the secret UK-USA policy to supply Iraq with anything that goes "bang" - from tanks, to chemical and nuclear weapons... even after Saddam invaded Kuwait!


Read full document here: https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Document:...

Then there were the French, who made a lot of money providing Saddam with SAM defences, then provided the Americans with the programming keys to ensure they would not work.

Ian wrote: "Then there were the French, who made a lot of money providing Saddam with SAM defences, then provided the Americans with the programming keys to ensure they would not work."

Agreed.

I think the way the West handles all this is similar to what this comedian (Bill Hicks) says here in this 2 minute video "We keep arming these little countries, then we go blow the shit outta them!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IZfp...

Baghdad: The Final Gathering

"Wars, an embargo, and forbidden love in this once peaceful city...."

With the drums of war just weeks away, Omar invites all those closest to his heart for lunch at his lavish villa overlooking the Tigris River of Baghdad. He can't help but smile at the faces that have graced his eventful life that spans from an interesting childhood, the two Gulf Wars, and the inhumane embargo that crippled the nation. Loved ones come together, probably for the last time, in the city their ancestors called Baghdad or Baghdadu, "God’s Gift."
Memories upon memories linger in Omar's head. He has survived times of struggle, holding on to hope and love along the way. As he reflects on his journey, as a man destined to live a hard life in tumultuous times, he ponders a clouded future, on the brink of unknown change.





"Wars, an embargo, and forbidden love in this once peaceful city...."


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