Of course he was. That's standard practice to get a nation and its military ready for war. The Japanese and Germans were demonized during WW2 too. So do you think we should have stayed out and let Hitler have Europe and the Japanese Asia for that reason?
I think you misunderstood me somewhat. You see, far too many naively accept what the media tells them as the gospel truth. I simply took the position that very often there's more than what meets the eye.
To illustrate: many Americans to this day still believe the attack by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor ("Day of Infamy") was an unprovoked and cowardly attack simply because President Roosevelt said it was so. However, it appears that Japan, an emerging power in the Asia-Pacific sphere that other powers wanted to emasculate, Japan felt it was being unfairly treated, in Machiavellian ways, by America in regard to imports of vital raw materials. So, it was not surprising that, with Germany as an ally, the Japanese attacked a la the German blitzkrieg style. Fortunately for the Americans, the Japanese secret code was broken with the result that the US always knew what the enemy was up to. Yet Roosevelt let the attack take place so as to be able to galvanize full national support for war.
You wanted to know whether I really believe that the Bushies bribed some Arabs to do their 9/11 episode? To be sure, there are pros and cons for what seems to be an outrageous idea. Well, as I said earlier, there's usually more than what meets the eye. So, let's wait for history to show where the chips fall. For now, Michael Moore of
Fahrenheit 9/11 fame will give you quite an earful and eyeful.
What's really amazing is that SH almost cooperated in the process. Now THAT is puzzling. Did he really ever think he had a chance against the US military? Or did his own military lie to him about its capabilities, possibly out of fear of him?
My take is that Saddam was overly intoxicated with power and aggrandized by his henchmen and people. He was euphoric in his self-appointed role as the only tough Arab who dared stand up to the might of the US, and he told his Arab brothers elsewhere that attacks on Iraq were inevitable and a price to "pay for Muslim Renaissance". As he was fawned over by the US in the early 1980s and the western media exaggerated his power (btw, this was really part of a ploy to get him) Saddam loved to (or thus made) to believe he was invincible. This coupled with the fact that the UN would not cooperate with the US and Britain in regard to Iraq, no doubt, convinced him there would be no war. And so he strutted and strutted and enjoyed seeing everyone running circles around him. Of course, one must not forget he has enemies and traitors who betrayed him, notably Chalabi.
As for Germany and Japan in World War II, as they were the ones that started the war, defence was not an option. War against them was fully justified regardless of whether there was demonization or not,of these countries.
I brought out this demonization thing simply because lots of folks naively swallow the media's output hook-line-and-sinker like country yokels and become what Marx and Lenin called, "useful idiots" (i.e. useful to the goals of the perps.) |
