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Conspiracy Nation Vol. 09 Num. 15
Conspiracy Nation -- Vol. 9 Num. 15
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("Quid coniuratio est?")
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BENEATH THE VEIL
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(*La Jornada*, 9/8/96)
[Translation by Conspiracy Nation]
The indiscretions of a "government source" in Washington
(probably designed to torpedo Clinton in his presidential
campaign) have permitted the lifting of part of the heavy veil
thrown by the United States over its operation in Iraq and,
without a doubt, it will drop with a thud on the table of the
United Nations Security Council, from which the United States had
wanted to drag out a condemnation of Bagdad and an imposition of
silence regarding its supposed "punitive" action.
Now it turns out that the CIA, which since 1992 is paying the
opposition in Iraq and in exile, and is organizing plots against
Saddam Hussein, was organizing his assassination and also a
military coup, which the movement of Iraqi troops into the
northern part (Kurdistan) of the country completely frustrated.
The facts are clear: Iraq is one, and it includes Kurdistan and
the south of Iraq, which the United States tries to exclude from
Bagdad's jurisdiction. Besides, the support given by the Iraqi
army to the *peshmerga* (guerrillas) anti-Iranian Kurds (and
subsidized by Bagdad) against the anti-Iraqi Kurds (supported by
Teheran) not only consisted in the defense of national
sovereignty being menaced from the exterior but was also a
preventative security measure. On the part of Washington, on the
other hand, the plots, the attempt at magnicide, and the
preparation of a coup d'etat -- now admitted by the "government
source" in question -- corresponds quite well to the tradition
that began shortly after the Second World War and which was
consolidated in Vietnam, Guatemala, Chile, Grenada and which
failed in Cuba (to cite only the most notorious cases). And the
bombing of Iraq, if it consists in a "punishment," is for not
having allowed a coup d'etat financed and organized from abroad,
with local and international agents that today are being
thwarted.
These are, we repeat, the plain facts. The problem of the
character of Saddam Hussein's regime and of his personality, or
of that strange "democracy" that clandestinely constructs
assassinations and coup d'etats (with bad results) should be
provisionally put to one side so as to focus attention on the
question of national sovereignty. This has been newly trampled
on by Washington's decision to act as a Holy Trinity -- fiscal,
judicial, and police in a single person -- besides hiding its
actions from U.S. public opinion and from public opinion
worldwide, and seeking from both complicity in the crime. The
imperial conception, according to which the United States decides
in the name of all just what should be the world order and which
are national governments, should be strongly condemned. Not just
because the *Pax Americana* is, as we have seen, war, but also
because it violates international law and imposes the law of the
jungle on the relationships between peoples.
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