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Volume V, Issue # 40, Feburary 26, 2003
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"GREENS" JOIN "REDS" TO OPPOSE WAR WITH IRAQ
By Alan Caruba
It should have been obvious to anyone watching the anti-war demonstrations held during the President's Day weekend that environmental groups, the Greens, have joined in solidarity with Socialist organizations, the Reds, to present a united front against regime change in Iraq.
Contrary to their pious calls to protect the environment and for what they call grassroots democracy, neither of the two groups exists in Iraq. Greens and Reds have joined to support the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein and denounce the intention of the United States and its coalition partners to end Saddam's threat to the Middle Eastern region and the world. In doing so, they are deliberately ignoring his past ecological crimes and crimes against humanity.
A February 12, 2003, statement on the Internet website of the World Socialists, the International Committee of the Fourth International, states: "Rarely has a war crime been set out as openly before the eyes of the entire world as the imminent war against Iraq." The statement says, "there is no credible evidence" for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Everyone knows that Iraq has great stores of chemical and biological weapons, in addition to the missiles and other devices to use them. His efforts to secure nuclear weapons is common knowledge.
The Greens/Green Party USA have issued a joint statement charging President Bush with making "warmongering threats that make him a far greater danger to world peace than Saddam Hussein." The statement called the plans for regime change "war crimes being planned by the White House."
On February 14, Greenpeace posted a statement that it is "fundamentally opposed to war" and cited its efforts in Great Britain, Belgium, and Australia to block movements of military hardware and call attention to its opposition to the U.S.A. and the other nation- states in its warmongering, aggressor coalition to disarm Iraq.
The irony of the Greens opposition to the U.S.A. and its coalition partners can be seen in the ecological devastation perpetrated by Saddam Hussein during Desert Storm. At that time, Iraqi troops set fire to more than 700 oil wells in several Kuwaiti oil fields as they evacuated, creating an ecological disaster zone.
Even before the fires, Iraq intentionally released an estimated eleven million barrels of oil into the Arabian Gulf from January to May, 1991, causing damage to more than 800 miles of Kuwaiti and Saudi Arabian coastlines. CNN reported that the amount of oil released was categorized as 20 times larger than the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska and twice as large as the previous world record oil spill.
LINKS TO RELATED TOPICS:
Liberals, Statists, Socialists, & Other Leftists
The Middle East & the Problem of Iraq
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The Problem of Rogue States:
Iraq as a Case History
The Middle East & the Arabs
Islamism & Jihadism -- The Threat of Radical Islam
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War & Peace in the Real World
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Islamist Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.A.
Osama bin Laden & the Islamist Declaration of War
Against the U.S.A. & Western Civilization
Islamist International Terrorism &
U.S. Intelligence Agencies
U.S. National Security Strategy
Alan Caruba is a veteran business and science writer, a Public Relations Counselor, Communications Director of the American Policy Center, and Founder of the National Anxiety Center, a clearinghouse for information about media-driven scare campaigns. Caruba writes a weekly column, "Warning Signs," posted on the Internet website of the National Anxiety Center (www.anxietycenter.com). He is the author of A POCKET GUIDE TO MILITANT ISLAM and THE UNITED NATIONS VS. THE UNITED STATES, both available from the National Anxiety Center, 9 Brookside Road, Maple- wood, New Jersey, 07040.
Copyright 2003 Alan Caruba
Published with Permission of Alan Caruba
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