Sadam

I don’t think most people know, how the whole Sadam Hussein thing, (from our standpoint), got started. So here’s a quick history lesson.
All this started in Iran, in nineteen seventy-nine, when Ayatollah Khomeyni overthrew the Shah of Iran and took control of the country.
We, in the west, weren’t happy with the noises he was making, so we went to Sadam Hussein, gave him lots of weapons, and told him to go and attack Iran.
This started the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted for eight years.
When it finally ground to a halt, Saddam decided, if he couldn’t have Iran he would have Kuwait instead, so he invaded Kuwait.
At this, us and the Americans said “ Oy… You can only attack countries we tall you you can attack”. And Sadam Hussein ,(quite rightly, probably), said “Go away and mind you own business”.
When you come right down to it, Saddam Hussian had to be removed, because he wouldn’t do as he was told.
Both George Bush and Tony Blair have used the incident of Sadam gassing the Kurds as an argument in favour of removing him. At the time of the Kurd gassing, one on the other middle Easton countries raised a U.N. resolution condemning it. The Americans vetoed this resolution. If the Americans hadn’t have vetoed this resolution, then we probably would have. Sadam, at this time, was still are mate.
Occasionally you have look past the rhetoric, neither Tony Blair George Bush nor most of the other countries leaders are particularly bothered, by a few Kurds being gassed, as the American veto showed, but they will still use this for their own ends

At he end of a documentary I was watching on Sadam Hussein, a withered ageing Maggie Thatcher popped up, and at the end of her piece finished with “ Sadam is a danger because he attacks his neighbours”. The woman, when she said this, had a huge smirk on her face. She was Prime Minister at the start of the Iran-Iraq war and was involved in arming him, and pushing him to start it.
We know before the Iraq war, Sadam had “weapons of mass destruction”. We know this, because we sold them to him, and according to his records, he hadn’t used them. Its basic deduction, if he hadn’t used them, then he must still have them.
Its quite possible we sold him saran nerve gas. The British government couldn’t admit to this. Half the countries in Europe, and the U.S. helped arm him before the Iran-Iraq war.
Let me explain how U.N. weapons “inspectors” work.
The U.N. supply’s the inspectors with a list of arms that had been sold to Iraq throughout Sadams reign. The weapons inspectors check their list against the Iraqi military records. Every country, and this is even moor crucial to dictators, have to know were everything from bullet to a jet is. The last thing a dictator would want was to be overthrown by someone using the dictator’s own weapons.

The records would detail were the arms came from and were they ended up. And more crucial in this discussion, whether they were used or not. Then the Iraqi authorities would show the inspectors were they arms were, then the inspectors would watch while the Iraqis disposed of them.
This worked quite well, at least until the inspectors started getting to the stuff the Iraqis didn’t want to give up. That’s when the problems started. They soon worked out if they messed the inspectors around, there wasn’t much the inspectors could about.
The inspectors we not equipped or trained in finding hidden weapons. There particular skills were used to authenticate the weapons, and to stop the Iraqis from telling them ten hand-grenades were in fact ten long range missiles.
In the eighties, well before the fist gulf war, there was a news item which went something like “Two Israeli F16s have bombed Iraq”. I remember thinking “What the hell are the Israelis doing bombing Iraq”.
I didn’t find the answer to this until about two years ago (2002).
Sadam Hussein had wanted a nuclear reactor. He approached the Russians, who at the time had been supplying him with military hardware, they decided he was two dangerous and said no. So he went to the French, who said OK. The details were handled by a lowly French minister by the name of Jacques Chirac. The story goes while all this was being sorted, and because they spent so much time together, there was a rumour going around Iraq that Sadam was going to change his name to Sadam Chirac.
Just as Sadam was adding the finishing touches to his shiny new reactor, the Israelis bombed it.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall, when some poor soul told Sadam. An Iraqi General probably got a young private, shoved a note in his hand, and pushed him through Sadams office door saying “Go and give this to the president”. Then legged it quick. This would probably have been a good case for shooting the messenger.
There was a British men in Iraq, building a super-gun, a gun capable of propelling a shell over hundreds of miles. Iraq was the only country he could find, that was interested in a super gun. He was assassinated before it was finished. It is believed he was killed by Israeli intelligence.
Both the French and the Russians had billions of dollars of contracts with the Sadam Hussein government, which couldn’t be used until the U.N. sanctions were lifted. That’s why the both opposed war. They wanted Sadam to remain in power, and to be disarmed peacefully.
The people responsible for the Iraq war starting, were the French. Jacques Chirac,s “it doesn’t matter what’s in the new resolution we will veto it” remark, wasn’t an off the cuff remark, he would have sat down with his cabinet, and discussed the implications of what ever statement they came up with. I can’t think what they thought the response to “it doesn’t matter what’s in the new resolution we will veto it” would be, given the Americans were champing at the bit. I think the “veto” remark probably had every dictator on the planet laughing their heads off. At this point, from a global security stand point Sadam had to be dealt with, and dealt with decisively, and that in the end was what happened.
Another Jacques Chirac remark was “We still want to help re-build after its over”. Which translated means French company’s still want to be there when the re-building contracts are handed out. Typically French…I suppose.
When Sadam was captured, I would take bets on the first words from both Tony Blairs and George Bushes lips, after they were informed of this, would have been “Is he dead”.
Sadam Hussein knows too much. Iran’s first question after Sadams capture was “Who told him to attack us”.

Cellular One