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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (91821)	6/23/2012 5:43:56 PM
From: dvdw©	Respond to of 217588

always fighting the last war...no leadership or bandwidth... no degrees of freedom = lowest truth quotient. hardly worth considering at all. accept that, because of them, the world is locked into their very well contrived, dumb and dumber matrix.

To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (91821)	6/23/2012 5:57:11 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 217588

continuation Had Desert Storm reached Baghdad, the region would be an entirely different place now. “The greatest (though open) secret of the Operation Desert Storm is that it failed to achieve its objectives,” Stroilov writes. According to National Security Directive 54, which authorized the military action, were Iraq to resort to destroying Kuwait’s oil fields, “it shall become an explicit objective of the United States to replace the current leadership of Iraq.” On Feb. 22, 1991, Saddam set Kuwait’s oil wells alight. So, why did it take 12 more years to get rid of him? Because Gorbachev and Mitterrand feared that the overthrow of his regime would leave the United States with too much influence in the region and thus defected from the coalition. “Without hesitation,” Stroilov writes, “Bush placed the new world order above everything else. The rebels were massacred, Saddam’s regime survived, U.S. forces withdrew.” ...................................................... A final note: While not discussed at length in this book, the Bukovsky archives show clearly that nuclear disarmament campaigns across Europe were largely funded by the Soviet bloc. The money was channeled through communist parties or other pro-Soviet organizations. Baroness Catherine Ashton was the treasurer for the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament from 1980 to 1982. The CND was notoriously secretive about its sources of funding and refused to submit its accounts to independent audit; when it was finally forced to do so under immense pressure, the auditors discovered that 38 percent of their annual income could not be traced back to the original donors. Will Howard, a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, was responsible for this part of the fund-raising. Baroness Ashton is now the E.U. foreign policy chief, leading negotiations between the P5+1 and Iran. Whatever the outcome, we may surely thank the Kremlin for that, too. ***