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- From: bfrg9732@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Brian F. Redman)
- Subject: A Gulf War Retrospective
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- Summary: The Gulf War viewed from a distance
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 14:33:38 GMT
- Keywords: treachery trickery deceit deception
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- A Gulf War Retrospective
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- (From the "Daily Illini," student paper at the University of
- Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.)
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- PROF ATTRIBUTES WAR TO U.S. NEED FOR OIL
- ========================================
- Gulf War origins traced back 20 years
-
- by Elaine Richardson
- (Champaign-Urbana, November 16, 1992) -- During the Persian Gulf
- War the United States violated international law to procur oil
- rights in the region, a University international law professor
- said during a speech Friday.
-
- "I want to look at the Gulf War to show how the power elite who
- run this country used and abused international law to steal the
- resources of the Persian Gulf and in the process exterminated a
- quarter of a million people in Iraq," said Francis Boyle in his
- speech titled "International Law as an Ideology of American
- Imperial Power."
-
- Boyle's speech was given at the Friday Forum held at the
- University YMCA, 1001 S. Wright St., Champaign, and is the 10th
- in an 11-part series called "Sustaining Ideologies: What's Left
- to Believe In?"
-
- Boyle said a series of open public hearings, based on research
- done by the International Committee to Investigate U.S. War
- Crimes in the Persian Gulf, were held in New York City to present
- evidence of the crimes.
-
- "But you never heard about it because it was vigorously censored
- out of the U.S. news media," Boyle said. "We made every effort to
- try and get them to cover it, but they wouldn't."
-
- The origins of the Gulf War can be traced back to 1973 when the
- Arab states first cut off their supply of oil to Europe -- which
- affected the U.S. he said.
-
- "Henry Kissinger openly and publicly threatened that if the Arab
- states ever cut their oil off again, we would go in and steal
- it," Boyle said, adding that this policy continued through the
- Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations.
-
- "We poured billions of dollars into weapons and supplies... to
- set up an international force to go into the gulf and steal the
- Arab resources," he said.
-
- Boyle said it is "obvious" that the government had a oil-usurping
- plan before moving such a large military force into the Gulf.
-
- "The power elite are no dummies. This war had been planned for a
- long time and worked like a well oiled machine," Boyle said.
-
- The plans for war against Iraq can be traced back to the end of
- the Iran/Iraq war in 1988, Boyle said, and the policy concerning
- Saddam Hussein goes back to the Carter administration.
-
- "It was clear back then that [Hussein] was a treacherous
- dictator, but we needed him to debilitate Iran because the
- Ayatollah was in power and we couldn't control the Ayatollah,"
- Boyle said. "We had to get Iran and Iraq to kill each other off
- while we stepped in to steal their oil."
-
- Boyle said there is concrete evidence that Kuwait had been
- stealing oil from Iraq and that Kuwait refused to renegotiate
- Iraq's debt at the request of the U.S. Bush gave Hussein the
- "green light" to invade Kuwait, he said.
-
- "We knew he would fall for the bait. We gave him the green light
- to invade Kuwait because we knew he would," Boyle said. "This
- would give Bush the justification to go to war and the pretext to
- steal all the Arab oil."
-
- Boyle said now the U.S. government has control of all the Arab
- oil.
-
- "OPEC exists only in name now. We're OPEC, we're calling the
- shots," Boyle said. "The only oil we don't control over there are
- [the oil fields in] Iran, Libya and Algeria. We run the Persian
- Gulf. We control what flows in and out of Iraq and right now
- nothing's flowing out."
-
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- Transcribed by Brian Redman
- "Ah yes, Armageddon. I remember it well."
- End
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