From: bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman)
Newsgroups: alt.activism
Subject: Gulf War Retrospective
Summary: Looking back at gulf war hysteria
Keywords: treachery trickery deceit deception
Date: 20 Dec 92 14:56:29 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana



Remember the bad old days of the Gulf War? I thought it might
be a good idea to look back via the perspective of history
at that recent case of mass hysteria. I thought it would be
a good idea to raise our historical consciousness a bit, in
light of the rumblings of a new war hysteria that is being
prodded into us by the powers that brought us the last big
war expenditure.

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	      A Gulf War Retrospective
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(From the "Daily Illini," student paper at the University of 
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.)


       PROF ATTRIBUTES WAR TO U.S. NEED FOR OIL
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         Gulf War origins traced back 20 years

by Elaine Richardson
(Champaign-Urbana, November 16, 1992) -- During the Persian Gulf 
War the United States violated international law to procur oil 
rights in the region, a University international law professor 
said during a speech Friday.

"I want to look at the Gulf War to show how the power elite who 
run this country used and abused international law to steal the 
resources of the Persian Gulf and in the process exterminated a 
quarter of a million people in Iraq," said Francis Boyle in his 
speech titled "International Law as an Ideology of American 
Imperial Power."

Boyle's speech was given at the Friday Forum held at the 
University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign, and is the 10th 
in an 11-part series called "Sustaining Ideologies: What's Left 
to Believe In?"

Boyle said a series of open public hearings, based on research 
done by the International Committee to Investigate U.S. War 
Crimes in the Persian Gulf, were held in New York City to present 
evidence of the crimes.

"But you never heard about it because it was vigorously censored 
out of the U.S. news media," Boyle said. "We made every effort to 
try and get them to cover it, but they wouldn't."

The origins of the Gulf War can be traced back to 1973 when the 
Arab states first cut off their supply of oil to Europe -- which 
affected the U.S. he said.

"Henry Kissinger openly and publicly threatened that if the Arab 
states ever cut their oil off again, we would go in and steal 
it," Boyle said, adding that this policy continued through the 
Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations.

"We poured billions of dollars into weapons and supplies... to 
set up an international force to go into the gulf and steal the 
Arab resources," he said.

Boyle said it is "obvious" that the government had a oil-usurping 
plan before moving such a large military force into the Gulf.

"The power elite are no dummies. This war had been planned for a 
long time and worked like a well oiled machine," Boyle said.

The plans for war against Iraq can be traced back to the end of 
the Iran/Iraq war in 1988, Boyle said, and the policy concerning 
Saddam Hussein goes back to the Carter administration.

"It was clear back then that [Hussein] was a treacherous 
dictator, but we needed him to debilitate Iran because the 
Ayatollah was in power and we couldn't control the Ayatollah," 
Boyle said. "We had to get Iran and Iraq to kill each other off 
while we stepped in to steal their oil."

Boyle said there is concrete evidence that Kuwait had been 
stealing oil from Iraq and that Kuwait refused to renegotiate 
Iraq's debt at the request of the U.S.  Bush gave Hussein the 
"green light" to invade Kuwait, he said.

"We knew he would fall for the bait. We gave him the green light 
to invade Kuwait because we knew he would," Boyle said. "This 
would give Bush the justification to go to war and the pretext to 
steal all the Arab oil."

Boyle said now the U.S. government has control of all the Arab 
oil.

"OPEC exists only in name now. We're OPEC, we're calling the 
shots," Boyle said. "The only oil we don't control over there are 
[the oil fields in] Iran, Libya and Algeria. We run the Persian 
Gulf. We control what flows in and out of Iraq and right now 
nothing's flowing out."


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So let's spend our money (that we don't have) on our own people
this time.


Brian Redman
(bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu)
"Ah yes, Armageddon. I remember it well."