SADDAM SPEAKS
Copyright: Eric S. Margolis, 2002
July 21, 2002
President George Bush has been demanding a `regime change' in `evil' Iraq, which he plans to invade. Let's put Bush's words in Saddam's mouth and see how they sound:
Baghdad: My fellow Iraqis, it's time for a `regime change' in the United States. President George W. Bush must go!'
`Bush is a danger to Americans, and to the whole globe. America has become a `rogue state' that threatens world peace and stability. Oh my brothers, America is the nexus of evil!
`I have just ordered our intelligence services to help Americans overthrow Bush and his evil clique. We are giving military training and money to the Hells Angles motorcycle gang, the Mexicans of California, and the Apache Indians of Arizona. I've ordered our fearless agents to kidnap Bush and bring him to Baghdad. If he resists, they are authorized to shoot - in ``self-defense.''
`Defectors from America report the US is the grandfather of weapons of mass destruction: over 8,000 nuclear weapons, 31,200 tons of chemical weapons, and enough biological warfare agents such as anthrax, botulism, plague, Q-fever, and rap music to wipe out the globe twice. The US is the only nation that actually used atomic weapons, and it is thinking about using them again.
`Israel, which keeps threatening nuclear attacks on us and our Iranian brothers, developed its secret nuclear and biological warfare programs with covert American aid. So did Britain, France, and India. America is a major proliferator of nuclear technology. Back in the 1980's. when we were still America's ally, the US supplied us with the very chemical weapons and germ warfare stocks it howls about today.
Speaking of biological warfare, we all know how in 1991 the US destroyed our dams, reservoirs, water pumping stations, filtration plants, and sewage systems in the Mother of All Battles. After the war, the US refused to allow us to import materials to repair our destroyed sanitary systems - even banning chlorine to purify water. The ensuing epidemics killed a million of our children.
`The US refuses to allow inspection of its nuclear, chemical, or biological warfare arsenals, or to destroy the nuclear warheads it now posses. Without inspection and destruction of America's weapons of mass destruction, the world cannot be safe. Who knows, the US might strike at any nation that displeases it.
Just last week, US Secretary of State Colin Powell warned Washington `reserves the right' to overthrow all regimes it considers a danger. The US is developing new, `mini-nukes' called `Arab busters' for use against Third World nations. Who is next?'
`As for terrorism. We suspect the United States had links to Osama bin Laden and his terrorists. After all, didn't the US finance most of the militant Islamic groups? The US has sponsored terrorist groups here in Iraq, in Iran, Libya, Cuba, El Salvador, Congo, Nicaragua, Angola, Sudan, and Indonesia. The US tried to assassinate Egypt's president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Iran's Islamic leadership, that crazy Khadaffi in Libya, Gen, Adid in Somalia, and, last, but not least, my humble self. Our prisons are full of American-sponsored terrorists who sought to overthrow our glorious revolutionary regime and murder its heroic leaders.
`Now, a crazy cabal of petro-imperialists, Israeli agents of influence, fanatical Christian fundamentalists, Pentagon warmongers, and Bush's poodle, Tony Blair, are plotting to invade beautiful Iraq. Then they plan to take their anti-Muslim crusade to Iran, Syria, Yemen, Libya and Lebanon - and any other nations that refuse to kiss America's feet. Bush's Texas imperialists are determined to turn the US into a second British Empire.
The people in the Pentagon pulling Bush's strings know our beloved Iraq has the Mideast's second largest oil reserves after Saudi Arabia - perhaps the biggest, only Allah knows. Oil will soon be in very short supply worldwide. Even Junior George Bush of Texas baseball can understand this. America lusts for our oil.
`I'm also deeply concerned about the welfare of America's suffering people. Their stock markets, accountant firms, brokerage houses and investment banks were run by super-crooks who make Ali Baba's Forty Thieves look like simple melon merchants. Bush's golfing buddies at Enron and Worldcom defrauded America's workers of their life savings, stole their pensions, and may yet cause a world financial crisis. In Iraq, such criminals would be shot and their families billed for the bullets.
Now, after wrecking America's economy, the war party in Washington is whipping up hysteria by fabricating tales claiming we intend to attack America with all sorts of nefarious weapons. This is the Mother of All Lies. Every square centimeter of Iraq was inspected for seven years by an army of UN `experts,' many of whom turned out to be US and Israeli spies. All - well, most, anyway - of our chemicals and germs supplied by the US and Britain are either destroyed or have become inert.
`President Bush is up to his ears in business scandals. November elections are approaching. The White House needs to war to divert public opinion.
My heroic, democratic, and peace-loving Iraqi brothers, it's time for a regime change in Washington. Perhaps I'll put that amiable Mr Bill Clinton back into the White House.' |
