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In
April, John Gleeson, the Editor of the Winnipeg Sun wrote a groundbreaking
column entitled "War on Terror Looks Like a Fraud" which circulated widely on
the Internet and got a large positive response from readers. Apparently, this
breath of fresh air took place because Gleeson had been fired as part of a plan
to standardize Sunmedia newspapers, and thereby increase profits. He was given
two-weeks-notice and used the opportunity to speak the truth. He penned this
article and another about 9-11 Scholars. In recognition of his heroic gesture,
we are reposting his article.
War On Terror Looks Like A Fraud
April 15th, 2007
John Gleeson
WINNIPEG SUN
Contrary to the "patriots" who try to use the deaths of our soldiers in
Afghanistan to stifle debate on Canada's involvement in the War on Terror, I
would say that as new evidence presents itself, we would indeed be cowards to
ignore it simply because we've lost troops in the field and are therefore
blindly committed to the mission.
And new evidence is piling up around us, arguably strong enough to declare the
whole War on Terror an undeniable fraud.
Virtually ignored by mainstream media, the Americans showed their hand this year
with the new Iraqi oil law, now making its way through Iraq's parliament.
The law — which tens of thousands of Iraqis marched
peacefully against on Monday when they called for the immediate expulsion of
U.S. forces — would transfer control of one of the largest oil reserves on the
planet from Baghdad to Big Oil, delivering "the prize" at last that
Vice-President Dick Cheney famously talked about in 1999 when he was CEO of
Halliburton.
"The key point of the law," wrote Mother Jones' Washington correspondent James
Ridgeway on March 1, "is that Iraq's immense oil wealth (115 billion barrels of
proven reserves, third in the world after Saudi Arabia and Iran) will be under
the iron rule of a fuzzy 'Federal Oil and Gas Council' boasting 'a panel of oil
experts from inside and outside Iraq.' That is, nothing less than predominantly
U.S. Big Oil executives.
"The law represents no less than institutionalized raping and pillaging of
Iraq's oil wealth. It represents the death knell of nationalized Iraqi
resources, now replaced by production sharing agreements, which translate into
savage privatization and monster profit rates of up to 75% for (basically U.S.)
Big Oil. Sixty-five of Iraq's roughly 80 oilfields already known will be offered
for Big Oil to exploit."
While the U.S. argues that the oil deal will give Iraqis their shot at "freedom
and stability," the International Committee of the Red Cross reported this week
that millions of Iraqis are in a "disastrous" situation that continues to
deteriorate, with "mothers appealing for someone to pick up the bodies littering
the street so their children will be spared the horror of looking at them on
their way to school."
Four years after the invasion, it's becoming pretty clear that Iraq has been
"pacified" solely for the purpose of economic aggression. Humanitarian
considerations are moot. The awful plight of Iraq's one million Christians, who
have no place in the new Iraq, underscores this ugly truth.
Afghanistan, meanwhile, has given the U.S. a strategic military beachhead in
Central Asia (which "American primacy" advocates called for in the '90s) and it
was quietly reported in November that plans are being accelerated for a
$3.3-billion natural gas pipeline "to help Afghanistan become an energy bridge
in the region."
With many Americans (including academics and former top U.S. government
officials) now questioning even the physical facts of 9/11 and seriously
disputing the "militant Islam" spin, with the media more brain-dead than it's
been in our lifetimes, now is not the time for jingoism and blind faith in the
likes of Cheney, George W. Bush and Robert Gates.
Our young men are worth more than that — aren't they, Mr. Harper?
Source: http://groups.google.com/group/total_truth_sciences/browse_thread/thread/1d7e7c4b37331c4b
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