(LibertyThink.com) - Another shocking lesson in the attention span
deficit of the American public reared its ugly head recently in an article by
Walid Rabah entitled,
"The Deal"
in which was revealed how Bush and Rumsfeld traded American money and
citizenship for the surrender of Baghdad.
"The deal includes, granting American citizenship and residency in the
United States to some of the first echelon commanders (Republican Guards)
and their families."
To many, this is being spun as Rumsfeld's brilliant propaganda campaign to
take down Saddam's regime with minimal loss of life. This is all fine and
good, until you remember the last time the United States attempted to
resettle up to 4,000 Iraqi soldiers who surrendered during the Persian Gulf
war. Consider the following:
Iraq POWS
Paid to Resettle in US - Lawmakers Protest
Los Angeles Times 08/24/93 -- The United States has begun
resettling in this country up to 4,000 Iraqi soldiers who surrendered during
the Persian Gulf War, an effort that has drawn criticism from a coalition of
congressmen who believe the prisoners are receiving special treatment never
awarded returning American soldiers. The U.S. government is paying between
$4,000 and $7,000 to relocate each of the enemy prisoners -- and in some
cases their family members. They have been classified as refugees who would
be harmed by Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if returned home.
Resettling Iraqi POWs in U.S. Criticized; Lawmakers Urge Clinton to End
'Potentially Dangerous'
Washington Post 08/25/93 -- Nearly 1,000 Iraqi soldiers captured
by U.S. forces during the 1991 Persian Gulf War have been resettled at
public expense in cities across the United States. They are among nearly
3,000 Iraqi refugees -- the majority of them civilians -- who have been
resettled in the United States from internment camps in Saudi Arabia...
...More than 80 members of Congress have asked President Clinton to end what
they called the "potentially dangerous and unfair policy" of resettling
captured Iraqi soldiers in the United States along with deserving civilian
Iraqi refugees.
..."When we dropped those leaflets on the [Iraqi] Republican Guard, we did
not include a plane ticket to Middle America and welfare entitlement
benefits. When those guys realized the war was lost, they changed into
civilian clothes and surrendered, and now we're rolling out the red carpet,"
Stearns (Rep, R-Fla.) added in a telephone interview from Ocala, Fla.
You may also remember that a disproportionate number of these Iraqis and
their families were planted in Oklahoma and Florida.
Many
researchers have
investigated the link between some of these "resettlers" and the tragic
bombings of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City on May 16,
1996,and also links between these bombings
and the
attacks of 9-11.
In the recent past, attempts to link these individuals to Saddam Hussein has
failed. Why? Perhaps because there isn't any link. There have been claims that
these particular people are "a series of cells that have been aided and
abetted by the U.S. Government." Others have been asking
more
questions:
"Why did FBI agents, who were actually serving their country, arrest five
members of the Iraqi Republican Guard involved in the Oklahoma City bombing
only for their release to be ordered by Bill Clinton? Why were these Iraqis,
who were initially trained in the US in the eighties, brought back in by
George Bush senior in the early nineties?
Why did the FBI declare national security to prevent the release of the
surveillance tapes that showed Iraqis crawling all over the OKC bomb scene?"
In more recent
news:
"Most Iraqi immigrants are believed to be opposed to Saddam Hussein, but
security chiefs are worried about those who cannot be traced, The Washington
Post reported on Monday. (January 27, 2003)"
So as we attempt to go around this circle of history yet another time, let
us first remember how we got to where we are in the first place:
On Mar 21, 2003, US House voted 392-11-22 that Iraq war is because of 9-11.
The show must go on.
