From: jad@Turing.ORG (John DiNardo)
Subject: Part VI,  Within America's Soul, Hitler is Victorious
Followup-To: alt.conspiracy 
Originator: rich@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
Keywords: Within America's soul, Hitler is victorious
Organization: The Turing Project, Public Access Internet Host
Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:44:11 GMT

The following text is from a legal complaint filed on May 9, 1991
by former Attorney-General of the United States Ramsey Clark:

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     The United States changed its military plans for protecting
its control over oil and other interests in the Arabian Peninsula
in the late 1980's when it became clear that economic problems in
the USSR were debilitating its military capacity and Soviet forces
withdrew from Afghanistan.  Thereafter, direct military domination
within the region became the U.S. strategy.

     With the decline in U.S. oil production through 1989, experts
predicted U.S. oil imports from the Gulf would rise from 10% that
year to 25% by the year 2000.  Japanese and European dependency is
much greater.


                           THE CHARGES

     1.   The United States engaged in a pattern of conduct
          beginning in or before 1989 intended to lead Iraq
          into provocations justifying U.S. military action
          against Iraq and permanent U.S. military domination
          of the Gulf.
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     In 1989, General Colin Powell, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, and General Norman Schwarzkopf, Commander in Chief of the
Central Command, completely revised U.S. military operations and
plans for the Persian Gulf to prepare to intervene in a regional
conflict against Iraq.  The CIA assisted and directed Kuwait in its
actions in violating OPEC oil production agreements, extracting
excessive amounts of oil from pools shared with Iraq, demanding
repayment of loans it made to Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war and
breaking off negotiations with Iraq over these disputes.  The U.S.
intended to provoke Iraq into actions against Kuwait that would
justify U.S. intervention.

     In 1989, CIA Director William Webster testified before the
Congress about the alarming increase in U.S. importation of Gulf
oil, citing U.S. rise in use from 5% in 1973 to 10% in 1989 and
predicting 25% of all U.S. oil consumption from the region by 2000. 
In early 1990, General Schwarzkopf informed the Senate Armed
Services Committee of the new military strategy in the Gulf
designed to protect U.S. access to and control over Gulf oil in the
event of regional conflicts.

     In July, 1990, General Schwarzkopf and his staff ran
elaborate, computerized war games pitting about 100,000 U.S. troops
against Iraqi armored divisions.

     The U.S. showed no opposition to Iraq's increasing threats
against Kuwait.  U.S. companies sought major contracts in Iraq. 
The Congress approved agricultural loan subsidies to Iraq of
hundreds of millions of dollars to benefit U.S. farmers.  However,
loans for food deliveries of rice, corn, wheat and other essentials
bought almost exclusively from the U.S. were cut off in the spring
of 1990 to cause shortages.  Arms were sold to Iraq by U.S.
manufacturers.  When Saddam Hussein requested U.S. Ambassador April
Glaspie to explain State Department testimony in Congress about
Iraq's threats against Kuwait, she assured him the U.S. considered
the dispute a regional concern, and it would not intervene.  By
these acts, the U.S. intended to lead Iraq into a provocation
justifying war.

On August 2, 1990  Iraq occupied Kuwait without significant resistance.

     On August 3, 1990 without any evidence of a threat to Saudi
Arabia, and King Fahd believed Iraq had no intention of invading
his country, President Bush vowed to defend Saudi Arabia.  He sent
Secretary Cheney, General Powell and General Schwarzkopf almost
immediately to Saudi Arabia where on August 6, General Schwarzkopf
told King Fahd the U.S. thought Saddam Hussein could attack Saudi
Arabia in as little as 48 hours.  The efforts toward an Arab
solution of the crisis were destroyed.  Iraq never attacked Saudi
Arabia and waited over five months while the U.S. slowly built a
force of more than 500,000 and began the systematic destruction of
a defenseless Iraq and its military by aircraft and missiles.  In
October 1990, General Powell referred to THE NEW MILITARY PLAN
DEVELOPED IN 1989.  After the war, General Schwarzkopf referred to
EIGHTEEN MONTHS OF PLANNING FOR THE CAMPAIGN.

     The U.S. retains troops in Iraq and throughout the region and
has announced its intention to maintain a permanent military
presence.
     This course of conduct constitutes a crime against peace.


     2.   President Bush from August 2, 1990 intended, 
          and acted to prevent any interference with his
          plan to destroy Iraq economically and militarily.
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     Without consultation or communication with Congress, President
Bush ordered 40,000 U.S. military personnel to advance the U.S.
build up in Saudi Arabia in the first week of August 1990.  He
exacted a request from Saudi Arabia for U.S. military assistance
and on August 8 assured the world his acts were "wholly defensive." 
He waited until after the November 1990 elections to announce his
earlier order sending more than 200,000 additional military
personnel, clearly an assault force, again without advising
Congress.  As late as January 9, 1991 he insisted he had the
constitutional authority to attack Iraq without Congressional
approval.

     While concealing his intention, President Bush continued the
military build up of U.S. forces unabated from August into January
1991 intending to attack and destroy Iraq.  He pressed the military
to expedite preparation and to commence the assault before military
considerations were optimum.  When General Dugan mentioned plans to
destroy the Iraqi civilian economy to the press on September 16, he
was removed from office.

     President Bush coerced the United Nations Security Council
into an unprecedented series of resolutions, finally securing
authority for any nation in its absolute discretion by all
necessary means to enforce the resolutions.  To secure votes the
U.S. paid multi-billion dollar bribes, offered arms for regional
wars, threatened and carried out economic retaliation, forgave
multi-billion dollar loans, offered diplomatic relations despite
human rights violations and in other ways corruptly exacted votes,
creating the appearance of near universal international approval of
U.S. policies toward Iraq.  A country which opposed the U.S., as
Yemen did, lost millions in aid, as promised, the costliest vote it
ever cast.
                        (to be continued)
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    transcribed by John DiNardo

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