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Letter to Raleigh News & Observer [to CPWJ Letters page] [ to CPWJ home page] October 11, 2002Hardly a threat In your Oct. 4 editorial "The push on Iraq" you say, "No one disputes that Saddam Hussein is a threat." I wonder, do you folks read your own newspaper? Do you read any other newspapers? If you'd been paying attention, you'd know that most of the rest of the world disputes the absurd claim that Saddam Hussein poses a military threat to the United States. Former U.N. weapons inspectors have said that Iraq is no threat. Retired U.S. generals have said that Iraq is no threat. Most European leaders (other than Bush's echo, Britain's Tony Blair) have said that Iraq is no threat. Nearly all Iraq's neighbors say they do not feel threatened. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have marched in the streets to dispute the claim that Iraq is a threat. The real threat to world peace, they have been saying, is the drive by the Bush cabal to achieve world domination. Most of this has been reported in The N&O. How did you miss it? What is the Bush administration after? Getting rid of alleged "weapons of mass destruction" has nothing to do with it. Nor does protecting Americans from terrorism. The unabashed goal is U.S. control of Middle Eastern oil and the leverage over the world economy that would come from this control. But Americans are understandably reluctant to send their sons and daughters to die for Exxon, and so we are being told that a small country beaten down by 10 years of sanctions is a threat to the greatest military power on Earth. That's a lie big enough to make Goebbels blush. Michael Schwalbe Chapel Hill [to CPWJ Letters page] [ to CPWJ home page] |
