From: jad@hopper.ACS.Virginia.EDU (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part 7, LURE TO WAR: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait [Stockwell]
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy 
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords:  LURE TO WAR: Bush Sucks Saddam Into Kuwait [Stockwell]
Organization: UVA. FREE Public Access UNIX! 
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 22:26:28 GMT

        I made the following transcript from a tape recording 
        of a broadcast by Pacifica Radio Network station
               WBAI-FM (99.5)
               505 Eighth Ave., 19th Fl.
               New York, NY 10018       (212) 279-0707

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                        (continuation)
JOHN STOCKKWELL:
Gutting our Social Security:                                      
We can't afford to take care of the sick, the old, the poor, the
handicapped, the farmers, or to really help students get through
school or to build up our school system so that it's truly
competitive. In this period of time, the United States' standard      
of living has dropped to tenth and twentieth in the world.
Twenty-five percent of the people in this country are  
functionally illiterate.                                                    
We're ranked sixth in the percentage of children in school.      
We're tenth in the quality of education.                         
We're seventeenth in life expectancy.                           
We're twentieth in infant mortality.                             
The poor island communist country of Cuba has a better infant
mortality rate than our own nation's capital.                      

I submit to you that the United States only looks rich to ourselves
because we compare ourselves with refugees from Central America.  
If you go to Europe -- and I challenge you to do so ....  Before,
I was saying: "Go to Nicaragua and see for yourself."  Now I say to
people: "Go to Germany and see for yourself. This is not a communist
country. It is not a socialist country. It is one of the two most
successful capitalist countries in the world today.             
They have guaranteed sick leave.                                
They have guaranteed maternity leave.
They have one month's vacation guaranteed each year.             
They have guaranteed medical care and hospitalization.           
They have higher salaries.                                       
They have better social services, and                           
They spend a lot more money on building up the infrastructure of   
  their society.

These are all things that President George Bush has been
stubbornly, consistently vetoing -- bill after bill after bill --
depriving us of these things -- telling us that we are communists  
if we want these kinds of services from our society.

Meanwhile, the destruction of the environment continues, full-speed
ahead. FIFTY YEARS of nuclear pollution!  Just to give you one
example -- and you've all read into this, I'm sure:  In Pantex,
Texas, near Amarillo, I've ridden bicycles up there, protesting. 
One year, on a recumbent bicycle that was built, by the way, right
down the road in Freedom, California, near here, that was loaned to
me for that purpose .... Protesting in Pantex, they had this problem
with liquid wastes. They didn't want to go to the Congress and ask
for billions of dollars to figure out how to store it or get rid of
it because that would draw attention to the problem.  So, brilliant,
cheap solution: they took bulldozers and scooped what we call tanks
in the prairie up there and poured the liquid into it, so that it
could evaporate up -- so that it could blow into neighboring fields,
so that it could drip down into the Oglala aquifer.

Meanwhile, we're responsible, too. We all have to have automobiles.
Very few of us are willing to walk or ride bicycles.  A great
gluttony of consumption in this country, as we all have to buy more
and more and more.  And partially feeding that is the felling of 
the rain forests throughout the World, cutting off the World's supply
of oxygen. We're not just chopping down forests at the rate of an
area the size of the state of Maine each year. We're burning them.
So that puts carbon up into the air, which again is blocking out 
the sun and changing substantially the environment.

You all know that we still have sixty thousand thermonuclear weapons
boobytrapping this planet, just as we did in the mid-eighties, when
we worried about it. Now, how many of you have marched, protested,
or done anything about the nuclear arms race in the last six months?
That's good! Most people have just forgotten. I wrote a book about
it, and people have been racing on, and people have been supporting
it. I won't name them, but some very prominent people have been
encouraging it for three years.   And they said: "Well, it's not
really an issue now."  And I said: "Huh?"   It hasn't gone away.
They've just SUCCESSFULLY DISTRACTED the World from this problem.

We've had six submarines sink into the bottom of the ocean. We've
had seven nuclear weapons dropped by accident! The IPS [Institute
for Policy Studies] published, about a year ago, that there were
fifty-two, I believe it was, parts of nuclear weapons and reactors
now scattered across the bottom of the ocean, leaking this terrible,
polluting, radioactive material into the bottom of the oceans right
now. No way on the face of the Earth to recover it!  And it will be
poisoning and polluting the bottoms of the oceans fifty thousand
years from now, presuming we haven't managed to do in the whole
planet in that period of time.

Meanwhile -- great victory over war and conflict. The Cold War was
over. And we all celebrated. And we were all happy. Actually, not
quite all of us because I studied this thing out, and I said: "Ehh."
And some prominent peaceniks beat me on the head and shoulders and
said: "C'mon, give peace a chance."  But my assessment of it was 
that there was one cynicism. And [that is], because we had solved
nothing, the seeds of continuing conflict and instability
[remained]. But the point is, in terms of my analysis of the
Persian Gulf War, my prediction of it is that communism had
capitulated and the Soviet Union's economy was broken. And the U.S.
Military Complex was desperate for new rationales. How could we
justify continuing to spend a huge segment of our budget on a
continuing military buildup if the enemy was gone, and communism 
no longer existed?  So we had the United States War Complex facing
severe cuts. They were put in a position of having nothing to lose.
They had resisted the invasion of Nicaragua because the spigots were
wide open, and the money was flowing and they knew that if the body
bags began to come back, people would get angry and they would shut
off the spigots. And they would lose this great access to the flow
of OUR money: this welfare program we have for the Military-
Industrial Complex and the so-called "defense" corporations. Once
the Cold War was over and we began to cut the budget, they had
nothing to lose. And they had tons of new equipment to test. And
they needed to inspire the nation and recapture our imagination
and our love for war.
                      (to be continued)
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        The America Public is evidently in dire need of the truth, 
        for when the plutocracy feeds us sweet lies instead of the 
        bitter truth that would evoke remedial action by the People,
        then we are in peril of sinking inextricably into despotism.

        So, please post the episodes of this ongoing series to 
        computer bulletin boards, and post hardcopies in public places,
        both on and off campus. The need for concerned people, alerting
        their neighbors to overshadowing dangers, still exists, as it 
        did in the era of Paul Revere. That need is as enduring as
        society itself.
      
             John DiNardo