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- Subject: NEWS:US Bombers to Partition Iraq
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- U.S. bombers to partition Iraq
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- By Charles Knight
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- "We crossed right on the minute," said U.S. Navy Air Commander
- Daniel Cain. He piloted the first of 200 U.S. bombers to
- penetrate southern Iraq at 10:15 a.m. Baghdad time on Aug. 27,
- under George Bush's re-election partition plan.
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- The military crews for Florida's disaster zone weren't quite as
- quick. But then, control of oil profits is not at stake there.
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- Some 250 U.S. bombers shake the sky above both southern and
- northern Iraq 24 hours each day. They have effectively cut off
- all the country's oil-producing regions.
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- The pretext of "humanitarian" protection was blown away both
- north and south by these reports: Bombers made and financed by
- the U.S. but flown by Turks are hitting Kurdish communities in
- the north. And in the south, fishers interviewed by reporter
- Susan Sachs of New York Newsday said there were no Iraqi assaults
- against the civilian population from which they needed
- protection.
-
- News blot
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- Although detailed news from the war zone has been blotted out,
- the outline of the situation is clear. The Bush administration
- wants to destroy the Iraqi economy, but establish firm control
- over the oil-producing areas. It has the full support of
- Democratic presidential candidate Bill Clinton.
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- The bomber campaign is complete with aerial refueling, giant
- AWACS aerial command ships, and super-high-flying R-135
- reconnaissance craft, with sea- and land-based missile power in
- reserve.
-
- The attack is off the front pages partly because of the Florida
- hurricane coverage, and partly because of tight Pentagon
- censorship. A New York Times reporter on the aircraft carrier
- Independence admitted that every story filed from the vessel must
- be cleared by Pentagon officials on board.
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- Another report said no government in the region wanted to host a
- U.S. Air Force news conference. So the Air Force base commander
- in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, had to go aboard a U.S. ship in the
- Gulf to speak to the media on the record. Of course, if the
- Pentagon wanted to speak to the press, no one in Saudi Arabia or
- Kuwait could stop it.
-
- Kuwaiti "ethnic cleansing"
-
- Kuwait has carried out its own "ethnic cleansing" campaign under
- the approving eye of Washington. It has driven out more than
- 300,000 people--mainly Palestinians--using over a dozen types of
- torture, according to an Amnesty International report.
-
- The report cites "savage beatings with sticks, hoses, pipes and
- rifle butts; whipping with electric cables; electric shocks;
- burning with cigarettes, candles and acid; ... and threats of
- execution and sexual assault."
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- U.S. officials explained these atrocities as the "natural
- reaction to the trauma of war, and an understandable move in the
- reconstruction of a country," according to an April 29 report
- from Pacific News Service.
-
- Noting the hypocrisy of U.S. official justifications for its
- military escalation should not fool anyone about the deadly
- seriousness of the military campaign.
-
- (Copyright Workers World Service: Permission to reprint granted
- if source is cited. For more info contact Workers World,46 W. 21
- St., New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)
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