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Both Rumsfeld and Powell were pivotal players in beefing up Iraq's 
military prowess,  

"Donald Rumsfeld, the US Defense Secretary and one of the most 
strident critics of  Saddam Hussein, met the Iraqi President in 1983 
to ease the way for US companies to sell Baghdad biological and 
chemical weapons components, including anthrax and bubonic plague 
cultures, according to newly declassified US Government documents."   
[London Times]  

The "warm handshake" between then Middle East envoy Rumsfeld and 
Hussein was captured on film and is a perfect example of how a 
picture can destroy a thousand hypocritical words. After U.S. 
intelligence confirmed that Iraq was using chemical weapons on an 
almost daily basis against both in the war against Iran and domestically,
Ronald Reagan signed secret National Security Decision Directive 114, 
one of few Reagan era foreign policy documents that remains classified. 
The directive stated that the United States would do "whatever was 
necessary and legal" to prevent Iraq from losing the war with Iran.  

Selling biological weapons to Hussein was only deemed "legal" because 
the State Department had lovingly removed Iraq from the list of terrorist 
sponsors the previous year.  

In recent interviews Rumsfeld lied by saying he "cautioned" Saddam 
Hussein about the use of chemical weapons when the declassified 
State Department minutes of the meeting state no such thing. The 
mishap was covered up by Pentagon spokesman Brian Whitman, who 
changed the story by saying that the comments were made to Iraqi 
foreign minister Tariq Aziz.  

The Washington Post reported, 

"According to a sworn court affidavit prepared by Teicher (NSC official 
under Reagan) in 1995, the United States "actively supported the Iraqi 
war effort by supplying the Iraqis with billions of dollars of credits, 
by providing military intelligence and advice to the Iraqis, and by closely 
monitoring third country arms sales to Iraq to make sure Iraq had the 
military weaponry required." Teicher said in the affidavit that former 
CIA director William Casey used a Chilean company, Cardoen, to supply 
Iraq with cluster bombs that could be used to disrupt the Iranian 
human wave attacks. Teicher refuses to discuss the affidavit."

This military support included more than 60 defense intelligence 
agency officers who secretly provided information on Iranian 
deployments, tactical planning for battles, plans for air strikes 
and bomb-damage assessments. As Reagan's national security advisor, 
Colin Powell had intimate knowledge and influence over this operation.  

Powell played the role of being cautious against a second war on Iraq 
all along until his "Adlai Stevenson moment" U.N. presentation. This 
was subtle manipulation to make people think, "oh even the dove now 
wants war, perhaps the war is just". From Grenada to Panama, whenever 
there's a blatantly unjust war to be waged, Powell's always there to 
put a respectable sheen on it.  

In July of 1990, after years of building the Iraqi war machine, 
Secretary of State James Baker (business partner of both the Bush's 
and bin Laden's) dispatched American ambassador April Glaspie to Iraq 
where she told Saddam Hussein,  

"We have no opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your 
dispute with Kuwait. Secretary [of State James] Baker has directed 
me to emphasize the instruction ... that Kuwait is not associated 
with America." [Christian Science Monitor]

This gave Hussein the green light to invade and after a few invented 
stories about Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators, 
the West feverishly allied and war was declared. 500,000 dead Iraqi 
civilians later and we enter the second and final phase of what is, 
in President Herbert Walker Bush's own words,  

"The opportunity to fulfill the long-held promise of a New World Order."

In 2003, the Bush administration is still arming Saddam Hussein while 
it prepares to go to war with Iraq. The Export Administration Act, 
which passed the Senate and looks set to pass the House, would weaken 
already casual controls over the export of sophisticated computer 
technology. Both Clinton and George W. Bush sold the technology to 
China, which is a key component in the design of nuclear bombs.  

Insight Magazine reported,

"The Bush administration has been "as bad, if not worse" than the 
Clinton administration when it comes to the transfer of sensitive 
technologies to the People's Republic of China (PRC), claims Tom 
Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a nonpartisan public-interest 
law firm. Fitton says the Bush administration even has "relaxed the 
rules put in place during the Clinton years." Specifically, he tells 
Insight, the administration has allowed the transfer of "computer 
technology [whose] only practical purpose is for nuclear-weapon design."

China has had no qualms in the past about reselling such technology to 
Iraq and yet a bill that the Center for Security Policy refers to as the 
"Arm Saddam Act" has the unbridled support of the Bush administration. 
Five Republican U.S. senators wrote a letter to President Bush,  

It "warns that China is using legally acquired U.S. dual-use technology 
to modernize its military." Electronic warfare capabilities have been 
accomplished "mainly through cooperation with Western companies 
and by reverse engineering." Further, the senators tell the president, 
"it is important to note that Beijing continues to transfer dual- use 
technology to states that support international terror networks," and 
in fact "have exported substantial dual-use telecommunications equipment 
and technology to Iraq."  [Newsmax]  

At time of press, the bill looked set to receive instant approval on 
Capitol Hill. Democrats and Republicans are not separate entities -
they are a "Hobson's Choice" - both abide by the same policies 
because they are following the same agenda.  

The agenda is order out of chaos.

NEXT WEEK - MIDDLE EASTERN CHESSBOARD PART 2: The 
documents that prove the war on Iraq was planned over 2 years ago.  


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Cheers, Steve..

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