Sweet Home Bahrain

con gli usa che sono il mercato più grosso del mondo ad aver risolto l'unico grande problema di sempre : il petrolio e a poter decidere le sorti commerciali anche di chi finora aveva come unica arma il petrolio (la russia) o la manodopera (la cina). ci voleva un genio come Bush per capire che bastava prendersi con le cattive l'IRAQ per risolversi il problema del petrolio! quanti anni buttati con Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Bush padre (che in realtà aveva quasi intuito la cosa, ma poi aveva mancato l'affondo) e Clinton! i duecento milioni e rotti di russi sono impossibilitati a proporsi come manod'opera per qualche lesione genetica alle mani o qualche baco permanente alle gambe?? o è qualche lesione al cervello che non gli suggerisce di vendere il petrolio a 10000 dollari il barile anzichè miseri 25 (ora per qualche giorno ancora 40)!? diamine è così facile : Tu volere petrolio di grande russia? tu pagare 10000 dollari su conto in Cipro per barile di nostro ottimo oro nero! speriamo proprio che il treno della morte sia solo l'opera di un hacker iraniano e non la realtà prossima ventura!

io la complicatezza dla punto di vista militare non lo vedo, secondo me è una guerra che può durare anche poche ore. Il conmplicato invece rispetto al 1991 lo vedo nei rapporti tra USA e resto del mondo. Se ci sono accordi sottobanco con Russia Cina Francia ecc... allora è una passeggiata, altrimenti il problema sorge dopo, con gli usa che sono il mercato più grosso del mondo ad aver risolto l'unico grande problema di sempre : il petrolio e a poter decidere le sorti commerciali anche di chi finora aveva come unica arma il petrolio (la russia) o la manodopera (la cina). Il problema serio è che tra potenza commerciale USA e CINA con la manodopera, russia col petrolio, Francia e Germania col potere di bloccare fusioni USA tramite l'Unione europea oppure di trattare il commercio tra le due sponde dell'atlantico, si era formato un certo euilibrio che teneva a freno lo strapotere commerciale USA in tutti i settori, ma col petrolio a non bloccare più gli USA le altre armi in mano al resto del mondo diventano poca cosa. Quindi resto sempre dell'idea che gli USA attaccano e arrivano al loro obbiettivo, ma anche a mancare pochi giorni ci sarà sempre il dubbio che riescano a fermarli, perchè l'ostacolo è alle NU e non in IRAQ, ciao massimo

In confronto l'operazione del 1991 in Kuwait era come bere un bicchiere d'acqua: tutti erano d'accordo, lo scopo era limitato a ricacciare gli irakeni dal Kuwait senza toccare Saddam, non c'era l'uso probabile di armi chimiche o biologiche (per il motivo precedente) non c'era Al Qaeda con i suoi terroristi nascosti a Roma, Londra, New York. Questo è invece un conflitto tremendamente complesso altro che in TV e sui giornali con in prima pagina la settantaduesima o novantacinquesima dichiarazione del tizio Onu, dell'ispettore blix, del politico francese o inglese o russo o irakeno o noglobal. E' impressionante leggere invece cosa accade al confine con l'iraq e poi le trattative con 10 paesi arabi e 8 gruppi irakeni diversi Ci sono ora 230-250 mila soldati mentre al tempo del Kuwait nel 1991 erano 750 mila, ma dopo sei mesi di preparazione sono ora pronti a prendere un paese di 30 milioni di abitanti grande come la francia e con tuttora quasi un milione di soldati armati in qualche giorno. La Turchia non ha concesso il passaggio, per cui sono tutti accampati su un fazzoletto di terra in Kuwait e Qatar che sta per sprofondare dal peso di tutto l'equipaggiamento militare ammassato. Sono state costruite intere basi dal niente, sono arrivati centinaia di buldozer dall'america solo per quello, ci sono aereoporti nuovi di zecca per ogni sorta di aerei e elicotteri, ci sono i Predator, gli aerei automatici senza pilota che volano 20 ore al giorno a bassa quota filmando tutto sotto di loro, ma in grado di sparare missili come quelli con cui hanno fatto fuori due mesi fa alcuni capi di Al qaeda in auto nello Yemen. Per invitare gli irakeni a arrendersi ogni settimana vengono buttati centinaia di migliaia di volantini, effettuate trasmissioni televisive e radio pirata e messaggi su cellulare a tappeto, coordinati con gli irakeni in esilio. Nella base nato in ungheria ci sono 3 mila irakeni che si stanno addestrando per guidare le truppe e convincere i soldati irakeni a arrendersi. Secono altri ^reportage aumentano i disertori e molti ufficiali e soldati irakeni stanno preparando le bandiere bianche da tenere sempre a portata di mano #www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2003/2/28/151351^. Anche se non lo dicono e mettono le mani avanti dicendo: "... può durare qualche settimana..." in realtà l'aspettativa è che in tre giorni il 90% della resistenza sia finito e che l'unica incognita siano le armi chimiche. Questa è un operazione di un tipo mai tentato prima: l'attacco è fatto con pochi soldati (230 mila), ma completamente simultaneo, senza bombardare prima per giorni, ma colpendo di precisione dappertutto. Al tempo del Kuwait l'80% dei missili erano "ciechi", nel kosovo ancora un 40%, ora si calcola che quasi il 90% sia guidato sull'obiettivo dal sistema del satellite-arerei spia-comandos sul terreno. In Afganistan c'erano 5-6 mila soldati e hanno preso un paese di 18 milioni di abitanti in 20 giorni con l'aiuto di una milizia (alleanza del nord) locale. Qua ora con 200-250 mila uomini (e l'aiuto un poco confuso di 80 mila kurdi) cercano di prendere il secondo paese del medio oriente (e tuttora piuttosto armato) in una settimana, contro un dittatore che da 20 anni ha combattutto con tutti e speso tutto il petrolio del paese in armi di tutti i generi, che ha ammassato gas nervino, virus e germi vari e può spararli con qualche missiile. Se poi uno pensa a: - le trattative con tutti i gruppi irakeni in esilio, le tre organizzazioni degli sciiti irakeni che sono il 60% del paese, - con l'Iran che organizza e protegge questi sciiti (stessa religione contro i sunniti come Saddam), - con le due organizzazioni di kurdi nel nord con 80-90 mila soldati, - con l'Iraq National Congress a Londra con centinaia di ufficiali scappati negli ultimi 10 anni, - con i turchi che vogliono rispolverare il trattato di Losanna del 1920 per farsi dare alcuni pozzi di petrolio e che vogliono impedire ai kurdi di avere troppo spazio - con l'Arabia saudita che secondo alcuni report ora tenta un avvicinamento in extremis temendo il successo dell'operazione - con la Giordania che vuole avere un ruolo nel post-saddam ecc.. E poi la Nato e l'ONU con l'Asse Berlino-Parigi-Mosca-Pechino che si oppone con tutte le forze al rovesciamento di Saddam. E poi l'opinione pubblica degli alleati come Blair e Aznar che se vedesse più di 10 giorni di combattimenti e troppe vittime su CNN li metterà in crisi E' un impresa tremendamente complicata e rischiosa, per cui anche l'impatto sarà proporzionale ----------------------------------------------------- washingtonpost.com 'A War of Bridges' 225,000 U.S. and British Troops Are Now Within Striking Distance By Susan B. Glasser and Vernon Loeb Washington Post Foreign Service Sunday, March 2, 2003 IN NORTHERN KUWAIT -- Along Highway 80, the main road heading into Iraq, sand berms, concertina wire and guard posts surrounding military bivouacs stretch across the bleak Kuwaiti desert almost as far as the eye can see. What once were scattered outposts have multiplied and expanded so much that they have nearly converged into a single tent city, a still-building force representing U.S. military might poised to attack. As diplomacy heads into its final chapter at the United Nations, U.S. officers here say the Bush administration has amassed enough forces around Iraq to march on President Saddam Hussein whenever the order comes. While the focus at U.N. headquarters in New York is on disarmament and Iraqi cooperation with weapons inspectors, the focus in the Persian Gulf region is on fine-tuning the growing U.S. military machine and getting ready for a war that appears increasingly imminent. "We're ready," said Maj. Gen. Buford C. Blount III, commander of the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, one of the major units here in Kuwait. "We've got everything we need. We're just waiting on the word, the decision from the president on whether we're going to do anything." From F-15 pilots roaring off runways in Qatar to sailors preparing Tomahawk missiles aboard ships in the Persian Gulf and eastern Mediterranean, from the crews of advanced B-2 bombers on Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean to M1 Abrams tank drivers practicing here in the Kuwaiti desert, more than 200,000 U.S. troops and another 25,000 Britons have deployed within striking distance of Iraq. U.S. planes assigned to the campaign fly out of 30 bases in a half-dozen countries. Five aircraft carrier battle groups have been dispatched to the region. And another is on the way. The 101st Airborne Division with its shrink-wrapped helicopters plans to arrive in Kuwait by the middle of this week, while the 4th Infantry Division and other U.S. forces await final word from the Turkish parliament before deploying along Iraq's northern frontier. The impact of a vote in Turkey on Saturday rejecting the U.S. request to use the country was unclear. Even once it reaches its peak in the next week or two, the force here will represent less than half of the three-quarters of a million U.S. and allied troops who gathered for Operation Desert Storm in 1991 to expel Iraqi troops occupying Kuwait. U.S. commanders believe that with the advancement of technology and the experience of 1991, they will be able to focus more firepower more accurately and lethally than ever before. "There are sufficient forces in place to do whatever the president asks them to do and they're certainly trained and ready," said Army Col. Rick Thomas, chief spokesman for the U.S. ground forces in Kuwait. A month ago, the bustling town dubbed Camp Ripper did not exist here in northern Kuwait. Now it has hot showers, Internet hookups, plywood-floored tents with electricity, hot meal service twice a day and a camp PX with two-hour lines for cigarettes and junk food -- and 8,000 heavily armed residents. "When we got here, there wasn't nothing but nothing," said Cpl. Byron Woods, 31, who served in the infantry during the Persian Gulf War and has returned as a Marine communications specialist. "The last time we were here," recalled Gunnery Sgt. Nick Hentges, another Gulf War veteran, "the infantry was living in holes. We didn't have any of this." Hentges, logistics chief for the 3rd Battalion, 7th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division, is essentially responsible for getting 1,000 Marines into Iraq with everything they need to fight. "Beans, bullets and Band-Aids," he summarized. The other day he surveyed the desert parking lot of trucks, a field of antennas planted as if they were a crop. His wife had to mail him two 42-cup coffee makers from California. When hats were in short supply, she bought 10 in each size and sent them to Kuwait as well. By now, more than 110,000 U.S. troops and 18,000 British troops have arrived in Kuwait, jostling for room in a nation of only 6,880 square miles. The Kuwaiti government has cordoned off the northern half of the country as a military reservation, but even that does not seem enough. In the south, outside that zone, Camp Arifjan, the main supply base, has seen its population surge to 12,000 in recent days; a highway that was not there two weeks ago now leads into the secure fortress. The U.S. ground forces in Kuwait divide about evenly between Army and Marines, but all will fight under a single commander, Army Lt. Gen. David D. McKiernan. The Marines, who expect to be among the "breaching forces" that launch into Iraqi defenses, have about 55,000 men and women here with another 8,000 due in the days ahead, organized under the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. Unlike in 1991, when a sizeable force of Marines remained on ships in the Persian Gulf in a bluff to make Iraqis fear an amphibious assault, most Marines have come ashore, including the Amphibious Task Force East from Camp Lejeune, N.C., and Amphibious Task Force West from Camp Pendleton, Calif. At the moment, just the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit, also from Camp Lejeune, with 2,300 Marines, remains afloat in the eastern Mediterranean. Camped alongside the Marines in Kuwait is the Army's 3rd Infantry Division, a mechanized unit with about 21,000 soldiers and hundreds of tanks and armored vehicles. Under a different name, it executed the famous left-hook advance into southern Iraq during Desert Storm. Like other Army units arriving in the region, it will be commanded by the 5th Corps headquarters from Germany, which itself has dozens of aviation and combat support units here. 'A War of Bridges' "Lay ho! Heave!" "Shake it, shake it, shake it!" "Toward the gap!" Two dozen sweaty, panting Marine engineers lifted, shoved and forced massive aluminum girders into place, piece by piece. Anchored by a heavy support structure, a long, thin section stretched across a 50-yard ravine until it hit ground on the other side, then the skeleton of a bridge was rolled across. From pallets of parts to full-fledged bridge, it took Alpha Platoon one hour and 59 minutes, giving them victory in a training contest in the Kuwaiti desert. "This is what we call brute-force engineering," said Lt. Col. Rick Nelson, commander of the 8th Engineer Support Battalion. "It's all about muscle, lift, coordination." It is also about winning a war. Long a staple of the U.S. military, combat engineers could prove a critical part of any stab into Iraq, through which the Tigris and Euphrates rivers flow. If Hussein blows up dams as U.S. intelligence predicts he might, it will fall to units such as Nelson's to keep the invasion force moving toward Baghdad. A bridge put up in two hours can hold a 70-ton tank. "This is going to be a war of bridges," predicted Lt. Thomas Tragesser, 32, who led the winning platoon. Among the tens of thousands of troops here are specialized units gearing up for challenges that might face them in the Iraqi desert. Hundreds of bulldozers have been shipped in to knock down sand berms. Chemical and biological specialists have set up detection equipment throughout the region. Military police are bracing for mass surrenders. Many forces en route also bring with them specialties that give a clue about how the military expects to wage the war. The 101st Airborne Division, with 20,000 soldiers and more than 200 helicopter gunships and transport helicopters, could play a lead role in any assault by virtue of its speed and ability to strike from the air. Other forces trained in parachute jumps could be used to capture Iraqi air bases or seize oil fields. The 82nd Airborne Division's 2nd Brigade is in Kuwait and the 173rd Airborne Brigade, based in Vincenza, Italy, has received a deployment order. The Army is also dispatching 10,000 soldiers from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, a lethal, fast-moving unit equipped with M1 Abrams tanks, M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and AH-64 Apache helicopters. While it remains unclear where the unit is heading, the regiment belongs to the Army's 3rd Corps, just as the 4th Infantry Division does, leading some analysts to conclude it will be part of an invasion force out of Turkey. After successes in Afghanistan, military commanders plan to rely heavily on special operations units such as the Army Special Forces and Navy SEALs to take out key targets and search for nuclear, chemical or biological weapons. Even the Marines are establishing their largest force reconnaissance unit ever to take on some of those specialized missions, said Capt. David T. Romley, a Marine spokesman. "This campaign is going to be fought a different way," said retired Army Col. Robert Killebrew. "Desert Storm was fought a lot on the Warsaw Pact model of war while this war will be fought on a new model, and that new model uses special forces a lot more." Eye on the Battlefield On a still-peaceful night at a secret base in the Persian Gulf region, Lt. Col. Gary Fabricius prepared for another mission, a complicated task considering the modest size of the aircraft he was about to launch. Fabricius is the squadron commander in charge of sending aloft the Air Force's favorite new weapon over southern Iraq, the unmanned Predator spy plane. The $3.2 million high-tech drone looks like a baby plane, barely twice a person's height in length and light enough that it can be pushed around the tarmac by two maintenance workers. For nearly 20 hours a day, the Predators buzz over enemy territory beaming back intelligence. Armed with Hellfire missiles, they can also attack, as a CIA-operated drone did last fall when it destroyed a vehicle carrying six suspected al Qaeda activists in Yemen. But the Predator might be used in a war against Iraq for its most critical role, giving real-time pictures of an unfolding battlefield. "The leadership loves the real-time video," said Fabricius. "We're the eyes over the battle space for the commanders." He and his team of pilots, sensor operators and communications specialists are studying possible targets in Iraq. "Our major role is to sanitize the battlefield," said Service Airman Medric Jones. "We will need to make sure our own guys aren't walking into danger." The Predator is part of an aerial armada in the region, including AWACS airborne command aircraft, EC-130 electronic combat aircraft, F-16C/J fighters with HARM missiles and F-15C fighter jets. Altogether, the United States has 700 Air Force and Navy airplanes in the region and 200 Marine planes, with another 150 from the Air Force on the way. The air campaign will be commanded from a computer center at Prince Sultan air base in Saudi Arabia overseeing aircraft flying out of 30 bases in Turkey, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, the United Arab Emirates and Diego Garcia. B-2 stealth bombers and F-117 stealth fighters would fly the leading edge of an air attack. While the F-117s were among the first to attack Baghdad during the Gulf War, the B-2 bombers were not deployed in combat until Kosovo in 1999. The B-2s will operate out of Diego Garcia, possibly Britain and maybe even their home base in Missouri, refueling en route. The F-117s will fly out of Qatar, according to the Air Force. The Air Force, with 27,000 troops in the region, has also deployed B-1B bombers, which can carry even bigger payloads, and will send elements of two B-52 bomber wings. Complementing the Air Force attack would be the Navy's 5th and 6th Fleets, which now have 70,000 personnel in the region as well as five aircraft carriers and 40 other warships and submarines. The USS Harry S. Truman, the newest carrier in the fleet, and the USS Theodore Roosevelt are in the eastern Mediterranean, while the USS Constellation, USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Kitty Hawk are in the Persian Gulf. The USS Nimitz will sail Monday from San Diego, officially to replace the Lincoln in April, although commanders could keep six carriers here for a while. Each carrier has about 50 strike aircraft; the Lincoln hosts the first dozen F/A-18E Super Hornets, with a longer range and bigger payload. "Four, five, six carriers give you the ability to sustain the campaign 24 hours a day," said a retired Navy officer who asked not to be named. "I would anticipate everything would be flying. Modificato da - gz on 3/2/2003 15:19:7

La distruzione dei missili in Iraq, per ora è un fatto simbolico rispetto alle armichimiche che non si trovano, ma l'affermazione russo/francese che credono nella continuazione del disarmo rende quest'inizio un successon politico, oltre al fatto che la turchia non ha ancora appoggiato il passaggio delle truppe, l'ipotesi dell'attacco all'iraq deve per forca prevedere un accellerazione della data prevista, perchè attaccando subito si avrebbero malumori immediati poi spenti da un ventuale rapido successo che metterebbe le altre nazioni nella situazione di dover fare rapida marcia indietro per spartirsi la torta. Invece il ritardo dell'attacco può solo significare un abbandono della guerra per almeno un anno e quindi per sempre viste le elezioni presidenziali in avvicinamento, quindi per avere questa alternativa o bisogna pensare che saddam vada in esilio o più probabile un suo accordo sottobanco con gli usa che preveda una costituzione, più democrazia, contratti con le compagnie petrolifere usa e quindi l'abbandono ufficiale dela guerra con discorsi di Bush sul successo della sua politica aggressiva che ha portato ai cedimenti di saddam e forse questo sarebbe un successo ancora maggiore di un aguerra lampo vittoriosa, ma mentre finora non si intravedeva l'ipotesi e per pensare alla pace si prevedeva solo la fuga di saddam, ora la cosa aumenta di probabilità, perchè saddam ha duimostrato di vivere per il potere e non lascerà mai, dalòl'altra parte gli americani lo stanno per mandare via e l'unica possibilità rsta come la regina d'inghilterra quandio vide la rivoluzione francese avere successo e concesse la costituzione, non è che tra regina e saddam ci sia uno che vuole cedere il potere, ma se la prima ha fatto la grossa concessione che conosciamo, non vedo perchè saddam non possa fare lo stesso e rimanere un presidente simbolico o anche qualcosa di più e gli USA avere il petroluio e un alleato contro il terrorismo come è diventato Gheddafi, che pure mandò un missile a lampedusa, fatto che neppure saddam è arrivato a fare ed oggi ha la tamoil diffusa in tutta italia e partecipazioni in Finpart e Juventus, quindi lo scenario non mi sembra proprio difficle da concretizzarsi, anche perchè in questo modo avrebbero vinto tutti; Saddam, Bush, francia, Russia e soprattutto avrebbero perso i terroristi, che non dimentichiamo sono quelli che hanno cominciato la guerra.

Visto? Arrestato Khalid Cheik Mohammed in Pakistan. Sicuramente fra i responsabili dell'11/9. Grande lavoro di Musharraf. Grosso colpo. Qui si trema, perche' delle due l'una: AlQaeda e' viva oppure e' gia' allo sbando. Se e' viva, deve reagire. Se e' allo sbando meglio. Nel frattempo, intervistona a WBush di USAToday. Ne vien fuori un personaggio macbethiano, molto luci e ombre. E' un guerrafondaio? O non piuttosto un sincero amante della pace, che si trova a dover prendere delle decisioni difficili trascinato dagli eventi, laddove queste decisioni, man mano che gli eventi precipitano, diventano sempre piu' difficili? I pacifisti credono che sedersi sui binari della stazione richieda piu' coraggio che sedersi sulla poltrona di Presidente. Ma probabilmente si sbagliano. Ignorano la tragedia del potere (che e', per l'appunto, shakespeariana).

Stamattine ho letto al televideo che Powell ha affermato che gli USA daranno più tempo per le ispezioni. Quest'ulteriore cedimento crea molta incertezza, perché nei fatti il dispositivo bellico viene posizionato, nelle parole era stato detto che avrebbero attaccato anche senza le NU, quindi il primo dilazionamento era stato interpretato come ininfluente ai fini della decisione di attaccare, ma ora con questa seconda concessione di tempo si incrina di molto la credibilità sull'attacco e visto che alle piccole concessioni di Saddam é corrisposto un rafforzamento del fronte pacifista con la Russia che ha indurito la sua posizione, il non dar seguito all'attacco potrebbe venir interpretato come un bluff la volonta di attacco USA senza le NU. Sarebbe come ribadire che gli interessi commerciali impediscano la rottura con il consiglio di sicurezza e un grosso successo politico di Saddam. di certo Bush non può rimandare la soluzione del problema pena la sua rielezione, ma sta mettendosi in un vicolo cieco, a meno che Powell come rinvio sottindedeva pochi giorni e non altre due settimane.

Il telegramma di Arafat a Saddam ------------------------------------------------ A Vostra Eccellenza, fratello-presidente Saddam Hussein, gli auguri e la benedizione di Allah cadano su di voi. Mentre la nostra nazione gloriosa celebra la Festa del Sacrificio e della redenzione, desidero inviare a voi e attraverso voi al vostro illustre governo e al vostro popolo, nostro confratello, in nome del popolo palestinese e della sua dirigenza, e da parte mia personale, i più calorosi saluti, le congratulazioni di cuore e sincere, le nostre preghiere più ferventi ad Allah il Glorioso; possa Egli condurre i nostri passi sul cammino della virtù, del successo, possa far progredire i nostri popoli, rafforzare i legami fraterni, la cooperazione e la solidarietà in modo da servire i nostri interessi, i nostri diritti, le nostre nazioni, il futuro delle nostre generazioni, e respingere tutti i pericoli che ora incombono sulla nostra regione. In questa occasione benedetta, che noi stiamo celebrando con il nostro popolo palestinese nella Terra Santa di Palestina, la prima delle due Qibla (la direzione verso la quale i musulmani si rivolgono in preghiera), la terra di Al-Israa wa Al-Mi'raj (l'ascesa notturna del profeta Maometto al cielo da Gerusalemme, e il suo ritorno alla terra), mi auguro con fiducia e speranza che i nostri confratelli nella nostra grande nazione ci sostengano ancora di più nella fase difficile e pericolosa che stiamo attraversando, con tutte le sue vecchie e dolorose ferite. Ci aiutino a ridurre la sofferenza del nostro popolo paziente e resistente, sostengano la nostra immutata resistenza nell'affrontare la macchina da guerra israeliana, la sua aggressione, i delitti, la distruzione. Ci aiutino a minare i tentativi e i piani con i quali il governo di Israele, la potenza di occupazione, sta cercando di far saltare il processo di pace e le fondamenta istituzionali dell'Autorità palestinese, anche per cambiare con la forza la sua dirigenza regolarmente eletta, per imporci una soluzione israeliana che serva gli interessi di Israele e le sue mire avide sulla Terra Santa, e sulle nostre risorse, per rafforzare i vili insediamenti e l'occupazione della nostra terra. Ogni tipo di sostegno e di assistenza da parte vostra in questi tempi difficili ci permetterà di continuare la nostra resistenza, finché non riusciremo a mettere fine all'occupazione, in tutte le sue forme, della nostra sacra Al-Quds (Gerusalemme) e dei luoghi sacri islamici e cristiani, a esercitare i nostri diritti legali, basati su risoluzioni internazionali, e, ancora più importante, i diritti all'autodeterminazione, al rimpatrio, al ristabilimento del nostro Stato Indipendente, con capitale Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Gerusalemme). Vi rinnoviamo i nostri auguri fraterni dal cuore, e a Vostra Eccellenza auguriamo il meglio in salute e felicità, possa Allah il Potente proteggere l'Iraq dai grandi pericoli e dai mali che lo minacciano, e insieme, mano nella mano, marceremo su Al-Quds- Al Sharif. Yasser Arafat Ramallah 5 febbraio 2003 (Testo del telegramma del capo dell'Olp a Saddam Hussein per la Festa del Sacrificio

THE MOTHER OF ALL TAR BABIES I think this will be a gift for Osama bin Laden. He will be the beneficiary of it. He hates Saddam Hussein. He has a better chance of getting one of his men [in power] after we cause a lot of disruption over there. And besides, his recruiting operation is going to get a real boost. We are going to prove to many Muslims around the world exactly what he has been telling them all along, that we are over there to dominate, to control, and to get the oil. I think we have fallen into that trap. --Cong. Ron Paul http://www.texasobserver.org/showArticle.asp?ArticleID=1246 The dogs of war are racing toward the tar baby. I think this war will begin on March 15 or close to it. The stock market has been suffering from uncertainty, as well it should. This war will be a war mainly on Iraq's civilians. Maybe our troops will starve them out by capturing the oil fields -- the ones that survive Saddam's alleged preparations to blow them up -- and thereby cut off goods flowing into Baghdad. Or maybe pilots will bomb Baghdad into rubble. Or maybe our troops will have to adopt urban warfare because Iraq's troops will be mixed with the civilian population. Here is bin Laden's recommendation on February 11: We advise about the importance of drawing the enemy into long, close and exhausting fighting, taking advantage of camouflaged positions in plains, farms, mountains and cities. The enemy fears the most the town fights and street fights. Such fighting would cause the enemy huge losses of souls. We stress the importance of martyrdom operations against the enemy, these attacks that have scared Americans and Israelis like never before. I don't think Saddam Hussein will step down. Nothing seems to faze him. He cooperates a little with the inspectors, but he is not rushing to let them inspect. He moves very slowly, very calculatingly, to retain power. Unlike bin Laden, he is not in a position to escape. Unless a smart bomb or a special forces unit takes him out very early, or one of his own officers, this war will be bloody. He will not surrender. He has been in a position to cut a deal with Bush for a year. He shows no signs of being willing to trade a promise of his amnesty for his resignation from office. He gives the appearance of being a wolverine trapped in a corner. He acts as though he believes he has been targeted for extinction personally, and there is no way for him to get out of the trap. This has increased his will to resist. We now face an enemy who corresponds to the enemy described by Sun Tzu around 300 B.C., who advised: Do not oppose those with their backs to the wall. . . . Leave an escape route for a surrounded army. . . . Do not press a desperate foe. http://www.thewarriorclass.com/our.htm There is no question that the bin Laden audiotape identified Iraq as the prime target of "crusader" imperialism. He knows that Saddam and the Ba'ath Party are secularists, having little to do with Islamic religion, especially Saudi Arabia's Wahabi branch. But bin Laden is nothing if not a masterful PR manipulator. He knows his audience. He sees an American invasion coming, and he is preparing his organization's potential recruits for the emotional reaction that will follow this invasion. There is no love lost between bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, but there is a shared enemy: the United States. The tape says exactly what he has been saying for years. That's why I don't think it's a fake. First, to be honest in intention that the fighting would be for the sake of God, not to triumph for nationalism or pagan regimes in all the Arab countries, including Iraq. God said in his book, 'Those who are the believers fight for the sake of God. Those who are infidels fight for the sake of the juggernaut. Fight the followers of the devil. The devil's cause is weak'. . . You know that such a crusade war concerns the Muslim nation mainly, regardless of whether the socialist party and Saddam remain or go. So Muslims in general and Iraq in particular must pull up your pant legs for jihad against this unjust campaign. You should also keep the ammunitions and weapons, as it is an obligatory mission. It is known before that you should not fight raising the pagan banners, but you have to, as a Muslim, to have a clear faith and banner during war for the sake of God, as the Prophet said, 'Whoever fights should raise the word of God'. It is not harmful in such conditions for the Muslims' interests and socialists' interests to come along with each other during the war against the crusade, without changing our faith and our declaration that socialists are infidels. Socialists' leadership had fallen down a long time ago. Socialists are infidels wherever they are, either in Baghdad or Aden. Such war which may take place these days is similar to the war between Muslims and Romans when the interests of the Muslims came along with the interests of the Persians who both fought against the Romans. Nothing was harmful for the Companions of the Prophet. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/12/1044927652254.html It Was Never About Al Qaeda In a January 8 article, Canadian war critic Stephen Gowans went after Canadian war hawk David Frum. Almost no one has heard of Gowans. A lot of people have heard of Frum, a former White House speech writer. Millions of people have heard a re-worked version of a phrase that Frum coined, "Axis of hatred." The version we know is "Axis of evil." Frum was fired by the White House after his wife went public with the information that he had coined the early version. Frum is a neoconservative. Here is Gowans' account of what the public has now been told by Frum in his recent book on his experiences in the White House. George W. Bush put Saddam Hussein in his crosshairs shortly after 9-11, an attack conducted by a bunch of Saudi Arabians. Gowans summarizes Frum's account of what took place. In late December 2001, chief presidential speechwriter Mike Gerson "was parceling out the components of the forthcoming State of the Union speech. His request to me," recalls David Frum in his new book The Right Time: The Surprise Presidency of George W. Bush, "could not have been simpler: I was to provide a justification for a war." And so was born the phrase "the axis of evil." . . . Key Bush cabinet members had been pushing for a take-over of Iraq and its oil fields for some time. In September, 2000, Dick Cheney, now vice-president, along with his current chief of staff Lewis Libby, and Donald Rumsfeld, now Secretary of Defense, along with his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, laid out a plan to create a new American century, in which the United States would be supreme in the world, the first truly global empire. The plan adumbrated regime change in Iraq, that is, the installation of a US puppet regime in Baghdad. The events of 9/11 were pressed into service to provide the trigger. Within hours of hijacked jets careening into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, Rumsfeld was ordering his staff to find something that could be used to pin the blame on Iraq. National Security advisor Condoleeza Rice ordered her staff to consider the opportunities 9/11 provided, as if the grim events of that day were a sliver lining that could justify the vigorous extension of US hegemony. In his book, Frum recounts how he spent two days dreaming up a pretext for "going after Iraq," eventually hitting on the "axis of evil" idea, which he originally conceived of as the "axis of hatred" but which Gerson changed "to use the theological language that Bush" (mirroring Osama bin Laden) "had made his own since Sept. 11." While Frum denies the decision to launch a ground invasion had been made when he was asked to "sum up in a sentence or two our best case for going after Iraq," the events leading up to Frum's inventing a pretext for the mass murder suggest the decision had been made long before that. http://www3.sympatico.ca/sr.gowans/frum.html This means that the war on Iraq is not the result of the attack on the WTC. It is the result of other special interests. Oil and the Great Game "The Great Game" is the name given by participants and historians to the battle between England and Russia in the 19th century for control over India and contiguous nations. This phrase is now commonly applied to the Middle East as well, because of its oil. This is not about a low price for oil. If that were the issue, then there would not be United Nations controls over Iraq's export of oil in its "oil for food" plan. Such restrictions reduce the flow of oil, thereby keeping the oil price higher. This war is over the control of oil at the margin. The price of oil is highly volatile. It responds dramatically to relatively small increases or decreases in the supply of oil. What oil retailers want is price stability. This is true of all oligopolies. This includes the oil cartel of the wholesalers (OPEC) and oil cartel of the retailers (the major oil companies -- "Seven Sisters"). They see the unhampered free market as somehow de-stabilizing. They want an alliance between big government and themselves. This is what they now possess, and have for 70 years. When Libya's Ghadaffi stole Bunker Hunt's oil by nationalizing the oil fields in 1971, OPEC's leaders watched for a reaction from the West, especially the United States. There was no reaction. Within two years, OPEC made the first major hike in oil's price. The oligoplists saw their opportunity, and they took it. They did it again in 1979. This created uncertainty for their partners, the oil company retailers. The retailers want stability. They want high profit margins, not low prices. Oil is a nonrenewable resource. Its price should reflect this. Retailers want predictable supplies and predictable prices. Iraq has the second- largest known oil reserves. When the United States military controls access to Iraq's oil fields, the Administration will gain control over the spigots. The Administration can then determine the marginal price of oil. It can see to it that OPEC never again unilaterally raises the price of oil by restricting production. The war in Iraq is about oil. It's about controlling the marginal supply of oil, thereby reducing the volatility of oil's price. It's about divvying up the flow of Iraq's oil among participants who are presently also-rans behind France and Russia. It's also about Bush II getting revenge for his father's refusal to take out Saddam in 1991. There are now reports that the managers of the oil wells have ordered large quantities of dynamite. How the media know this is uncertain. The official interpretation is that Saddam is preparing for the destruction of the oil fields, comparable to what retreating Iraqi troops did to Kuwait's oil fields in 1991. If the reports are true, then oil production could be squeezed badly, beginning as soon as it's clear to Saddam that he is about to be overrun. If not true, the reports would justify an initial securing of the oil wells by the U.S. Army. The least risky strategy of invasion would involve the capture of the oil fields and the economic strangulation of the cities. This is a variation of a traditional naval blockade. It can work because Iraq's source of foreign currency is its oil. The wells are identifiable targets for occupation. Once U.S. troops control these fields, the French and the Russians will confront a fait accompli. Like our troops in Saudi Arabia, nobody can get them out. This will play right into the hands of bin Laden. His main objection to the United States for a decade has not changed: the presence of American infidels on Islam's holy land, Saudi Arabia. What his audiotape was all about is to rally his own troops and also the pool of young men who serve as his target audience. He gave them this message: "The infidels are coming for you, too. It's not just Saudi Arabia that is under oppression." There was another obvious tactic in his release of that tape. He was forcing American strategists to admit that they had not killed him. The standard reply has been this: "He may be dead." But the Administration's desire to tie Al Qaeda to Iraq was too great to resist. No one officially said, "The tape is a fake. It's not bin Laden." By not immediately announcing that it was a fake, the Administration had to admit that bin Laden, like the Scarlet Pimpernel, has eluded them. He has thumbed his nose at the Great Satan. His targeted audience of young, angry Arab males who are dedicated Muslims now knows that bin Laden is alive. He is still providing a voice for their anger. He is still their senior representative. If the U.S. invades, Saddam Hussein will be killed. This will leave bin Laden as the voice of resistance for Islam in general and the Middle East specifically. This man is very clever. He is in a win- win situation. Whatever the outcome in Iraq, he can pick up the pieces at his convenience. His words are preparing his followers for protracted conflict: We also make it clear that anyone who helps America, from the Iraqi hypocrites (opposition) or Arab rulers, whoever fights with them or offers them bases or administrative assistance, or any kind of support or help, even if only with words, to kill Muslims in Iraq, should know that he is an apostate and that (shedding) his blood and money is permissible (in Islam). . . . I also assure those true Muslims should act, incite and mobilise the nation in such great events, hot conditions, in order to break free from the slavery of these tyrannic and apostate regimes, which is enslaved by America, in order to establish the rule of Allah on Earth. Among regions ready for liberation are Jordan, Morocco, Nigeria, the country of the two shrines (Saudi Arabia), Yemen and Pakistan. As I have been saying for years, his model is The Old Man of The Mountain, the legendary medieval leader of the Assassins, a revolutionary Islamic brotherhood. Osama bin Laden is not tied to any civil government. He can present himself as the representative of the Islamic holy people precisely because nobody elected him, and therefore nobody can unelect him. The more that the regional political leaders claim to be opposed to him -- Ghadaffi is the latest to do so -- the more he undermines their legitimacy in the eyes of the voters who count: angry young fanatics. He is calling them to become martyrs. He can be matched now only by religious leaders. But Islam is decentralized. Even if a few mullahs announce their opposition to violence, this will do little good for the West. Because bin Laden has positioned himself as the voice of the holy people, despite his lack of ordination or its Islamic equivalent, he cannot be placed under anyone's formal discipline. He cannot be silenced except by killing him. You can't kill him if you can't find him. We are being told by the Administration that we face a war that will last for decades. Doug Casey calls it the Forever War. This is exactly what it is. It is also the tar baby, or the "uncongealed tar baby." George W. Bush is B'rer Rabbit. B'rer Bear is Saddam Hussein. And B'rer Fox is Osama bin Laden. President Bush is about to ram his fist into the tar baby because it just doesn't respond when he talks to it. (It is a shame that the politically correct decisionmakers at Disney years ago permanently pulled "The Song of the South" out of circulation. It was a great film for all age groups. In the revised book version of Disney's version of B'rer Rabbit and the tar baby, it's a glue baby. It's white.) The CIA, whose estimates have not been particularly reliable, has estimated: "By 2015, only one-tenth of Persian Gulf oil will be directed to Western markets; three-quarters will go to Asia." http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/globaltrends2015 If this estimate turns out to be anything near the truth, then China will be paying through the nose for its oil, and it will be paying American/European producers. The looming war in Iraq is America's response, three decades later, to the OPEC hijacking of 1973. Western retailers are going to recapture some of the oil revenues that have flowed through their fingers since 1973. This is not about cutting oil prices. This is about allocating the booty: from Islamic governments to Western oil companies. China is steadily becoming the world's number-one manufacturer of low-price goods. The West's money is flowing into China. This means that China's investors are buying Western debt and other investments. China is following a rule laid down by Moses 3,500 years ago: The LORD shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow. And the LORD shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the LORD thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them (Deuteronomy 28:12-13). The U.S. Treasury Department is becoming more and more dependent on the policies of China's central bank and government. Instead of allowing China to continue to lay up U.S. debt, the Administration is about to take active steps to re-direct the flow of dollars toward American oil companies and Middle Eastern oil-producing nations that have American troops inside their borders or right next door, e.g., Iran. The Great Game continues, but with the United States' having replaced Great Britain. Russia is still in the game. The question is: How deeply? If Iraq really does have nuclear capability, then Saddam bought the technology and the raw materials from Russia. There is no other likely source. China is a second suspect. Both Russia and China are opposed to the war in Iraq. Domestic terrorism is now the wild card. This was never a consideration in the original Great Game. It is now. Bin Laden began his message with these words: In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Beneficent: A Message to our Muslim brothers in Iraq. Alsalam Alikom Wa Rahmat Allah wa Barakato. (Koran verse) Oh Believers, be pious to God, and never die but when you are believers in Islam. We are following with utmost concern the Crusaders' preparations to occupy the former capital of Islam (Baghdad), loot the fortunes of the Muslims and install a puppet regime on you that follows its masters in Washington and Tel Aviv like the rest of the treacherous puppet Arab governments as a prelude to the formation of Greater Israel. Because of the complete dependence of the West on Middle Eastern oil, it is obvious even to amateur military strategists what the Islamic radicals' targets will be in the Middle East: the oil wells. There will be a war on the sources of the West's oil. The "treacherous puppet Arab governments" are the ones that are allied to the West. Bin Laden is rallying his troops and future recruits with a call to undermine the Arab governments of the Middle East. When this happens -- and it will happen -- the United States will be forced to send in troops to keep the oil spigots open. We are about to embark on phase two of a program of occupation that began in 1990 in Saudi Arabia. The war in Kuwait was U.S. policy to persuade the Saudis to allow the United States to station troops permanent ly inside Saudi Arabia. The U.S. government distrusts the Saud family's ability to maintain continuity, which means continuity of the flow of oil. The Administration lured Saddam Hussein into that attack when it instructed April Glaspie, our Ambassador to Iraq, to tell Saddam on July 25, 1990, that the U.S. had no opinion on his invasion of Kuwait. This is old news, but we need occasional reminding. The transcript from the New York Times (Sept. 23, 1990), is posted on the website of Montclair State University. GLASPIE: I think I understand this. I have lived here for years. I admire your extraordinary efforts to rebuild your country. I know you need funds. We understand that and our opinion is that you should have the opportunity to rebuild your country. But we have no opinion on the Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with Kuwait. http://www.chss.montclair.edu/english/furr/glaspie.html Iraq invaded on August 2. Bush within days then said we would go to war to defend Kuwait. This news came as a shock to Gen. Schwarzkopf. On February 5, 2003, The Guardian ran an account of how the United States tricked Saudi Arabia into inviting American troops into their country. In 1990 as the US prepared for its first war with Iraq there was heavy reliance on the use of "classified" satellite photographs purporting to show that in September 1990 - - a month after the invasion of Kuwait -- 265,000 Iraqi soldiers and 1,500 tanks were massing on the border to gear up to invade Saudi Arabia. The threat of Saddam aggressively expanding his empire to Saudi Arabia was crucial to the decision to go to war, but the satellite pictures were never made public. Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2 1990. The US cabinet met the same day. At that point, war was no more than a possibility. Norman Schwarzkopf recalls the prevailing mood in his autobiography, It Doesn't Take a Hero. He quotes General Colin Powell's remark to him: "I think we could go to war if they invaded Saudi Arabia. I doubt if we would go to war over Kuwait." Within days the mood at the top had hardened. When Schwarzkopf next met Powell, he was told to prepare to go to Saudi Arabia. "I was stunned," he says in his book. "A lot must have happened after I left Camp David that Powell wasn't talking about. President Bush had made up his mind to send troops." It gets worse. . . . The photographs, which are still classified in the US (for security reasons, according to Brent Scowcroft, President Bush senior's national security advisor), purportedly showed more than a quarter of a million Iraqi troops massed on the Saudi border poised to pounce. Except, when a resourceful Florida-based reporter at the St Petersburg Times persuaded her newspaper to buy the same independently commissioned satellite photos from a commercial satellite to verify the Pentagon's line, she saw no sign of a quarter of a million troops or their tanks. Jean Heller, an investigative reporter on the St Petersburg Times, has been nominated for a Pulitzer prize five times and come second twice, so when she asked permission to spend $3,200 on two satellite pictures, the newspaper backed her. Heller's curiosity had been aroused in September when she read a report of a commercial satellite -- the Soyuz Karta -- orbiting and taking pictures over Kuwait. She wanted to see what the only independent pictures would make of the alleged massive build- up of Iraqi troops on the Kuwait/Saudi border. Soyuz Karta agreed to provide them. But no trace of the 265,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks that the US officials said were there could be found in the photographs. . . . Jean Heller wrote her story for the St Petersburg Times. It opened with the words: "It's time to draft Agatha Christie for duty in the Middle East. Call it, The Case of the Vanishing Enemy." Looking back now, Heller says: "If the story had appeared in the New York Times or the Washington Post, all hell would have broken loose. But here we are, a newspaper in Florida, the retirement capital of the world, and what are we supposed to know?" A year later, Powell would admit to getting the numbers wrong. There was no massive build- up. But by then, the war had been fought. http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,12271,889419,00.html Because of the World Wide Web and Google, a researcher can locate such information rapidly. Yet the vast majority of Americans are still unaware of all this or else they just don't care. Presidents Bush have had an agenda: to get American troops stationed in every oil producing Middle East nation. One by one, by invitation or by invasion, our troops are going in. One by one, Islamic terrorist radicals are preparing to drive us out. There is no doubt in anyone's mind that part of this counter-offensive will take place on America's soil. Bin Laden has now drawn a line in the sand. He specifically identified Bush, Senior as the initiator of the White House's present strategy. He speaks of U.S. troops. They are fighting only to serve the interest of those who have the capital, arms dealers, oil owners, including the criminal gang in the White House. Adding to that, those who keep their personal envoys, Bush the father. The text in the BBC's transcript is clearer: "This is in addition to crusader and personal grudges by Bush the father." A terrorist network is always highly centralized. It is difficult for civil authorities to penetrate its command structure. When its members are also screened by religious confession, the network becomes even more difficult to penetrate. The West has opened its borders to millions of people who profess the faith of Islam. This has placed Western nations at a great disadvantage. They have within their borders large organizations that give cover to, and camouflage to, Islamic radicals. To bring down the economies of the West, Islamic terrorists need only disrupt the flow of oil. Yes, this will starve the populations of the oil-exporting countries, but envy is a powerful force. In a war, fanatics call on their own followers to become martyrs. Bin Laden is doing this. What do they care if the apostates -- Islamic citizens who have adopted a Western lifestyle -- should also perish? Their goal is to bring down the West. The United States is now committed to military occupation. The troops will not be home for Christmas. The decentralized economies of the West are tied to highly centralized sources of oil: socialist governments (Iraq, Venezuela), Islamic one-party governments, and a handful of free market governments. But, here at home, green socialists (environmentalists) care more for Caribou than people. We are not allowed to drill for oil in Alaska. President Bush has wrapped his family's long-term strategy of military occupation in the swaddling clothes of anti-terrorism. Bin Laden has responded to the Bush family's challenge. He has re-defined the war's terms from anti-terrorism to anti-Crusaderism. He has made it a holy war, a jihad. This has been his strategy for a decade. Any military retreat by the United States from this point on will be seen by Islamic radicals as their victory. This will whet their appetite, which cannot be appeased. America already has one fist in the tar baby. That took place back in 1990-91. The French and the Germans see where this is headed, and they seek to keep their second fist out of the tar. They don't want to be seen as co-conspirators. But this may not work. They are seen by Islamic radicals as part of the Crusader regime, which the United States best represents. The day that we invade Iraq, our other fist goes in. I see only one way out: a successful palace coup that leads to a new regime. (I mean in Iraq.) The new regime would invite the U.N. inspection team to go anywhere. This would confront Bush with a Fait Accompli. The justification for invading would disappear. As far as I can see, only one good thing will come out of this: the final nullification of the United Nations' official reason for existence. The Iraq war will prove, once and for all, that the United Nations Organization is a toothless bureaucracy that nobody with weapons of mass destruction needs to pay any attention to. When it comes time to hand out the blame -- and it will -- here will be a good place to begin: Charles Krauthammer's call for Americans to become full-time policemen of the Middle East, at our expense in blood and taxes rather than Arial Sharon's. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,421021,00.html The Economic Implications The Iraq war has no specified limits. It is just another battle in the Forever War. The Administration's goal will be attained: U.S. troops stationed permanently in Iraq. There may initially appear to be a military resolution. This will serve to reduce the sense of uncertainty in investors' minds. I think there is a real possibility of a rebound in the stock market later this spring. But this will not change the reality of America's journey deeper into the tar baby of the Middle East. Tens of millions of American families still believe in the ability of the U.S. stock market to provide them with the funds they will need for their retirement. They have been told this for two decades. The bubble of 1996-2000 lured them into fantasyland, and not even the bursting of Nasdaq's bubble has shaken their faith. They still think there is hope in the S&P500. Their faith will be broken only by the erosion of the market because of the effects of the Forever War. Trillions of dollars of on-paper capital is now gone. It will not come back. It was always a sucker's play anyway. There was no way they could all cash out. Late-comers were wiped out. They will not put any new real money into that market, which they now see as one enormous illusion. High-tech capital was always an illusion based a lot of money flowing into a thin market that was legal for pension money and conventional investing. Like the fiber optic cable that now lies in the ground, unused -- "dark fiber" -- so is the dream of getting rich with the Nasdaq. The Nasdaq's capital base existed as a statistical artifact of the imputation of the latest share price to millions of shares. Now the imputation process has taken 90% of it away. "Imputation giveth, and imputation taketh away. Cursed be the name of imputation." Bullish imputations subsidize fantasies. Gary North

Ci siamo: o guerra o pace. Le truppe la prox. settimana o si muovono o devono iniziare a tornare a casa. Il 1° aprile è già troppo caldo. E sabato è il 1° marzo. Berlusconi, solito presenzialista, non era ai funerali di Sordi, qualcosa sotto c'è.....

molto divertente perchè anche l'editore del signore citato non regala la testata, così per gioco e farsi quattro risate ad un senza tetto (vero), che ne so di Bucharest?? perchè il suddetto signore non si trasferisce a Bagdad per dimostrare quanto vi si viva bene lì?? IPOCRITA

( La Repubblica ) Ultimo discorso da Fort Quiet di STEFANO BENNI AMERICANI. L'ora delle decisioni irrevocabili E' giunta. Qualcuno, ultimamente, ha messo in dubbio la mia salute mentale. Lo smentirò oggi con questo discorso lucido, scritto di mia mano. Dio mi ha ispirato e Rumsfeld mi ha spiegato da che parte tenere la biro. Non possiamo più aspettare, mettendo a repentaglio la pace del mondo. Se i nostri avi avessero aspettato, a quest'ora l'America sarebbe sotto il dominio pellerossa e al mio posto ci sarebbe un sanguinario Apache di nome "Piccolo Cespuglio" o "Bisonte W. Junior". E' ora che il federalismo americano ritrovi la sua vera forza, e che lo spirito guerriero texano spazzi via il centralismo di Manhattan ladrona e i terroni californiani. Non possiamo accettare ulteriormente i veti d'una diplomazia imbelle. L'America deve caricarsi sulle spalle il mondo. Se il mondo cade per terra, pazienza. Vi comunico, con infinito e preventivo entusiasmo, che le truppe americane hanno attaccato l'Iraq del dittatore Saddam. I nostri militari sono i migliori del mondo e entro poche settimane riporteremo la pace in quel tormentato paese. La moderna tecnologia bellica Usa, unita al perfetto addestramento del mio pitbull Tony e alla geometrica potenza della rete ferroviaria italiana, si è messa in moto e niente potrà fermarla. Non abbiamo aspettato l'Onu perché proprio lì si annidano i complici del raìs e di Osama, in particolare i francesi. Abbiamo le prove che esiste una base islamica popolatissima e agguerritissima, in riva al mare, pronta a accogliere le navi che trasportano armi chimiche. Il nome della base segreta è Marsiglia. I nostri bombardieri, che sono i migliori del mondo, stanno radendo al suolo questo covo di serpi. - Pubblicità - Anche i mollaccioni tedeschi hanno dimostrato la loro connivenza col terrorismo. Abbiamo le prove che il mullah Omar scappò dall'assedio su una moto Bmw. Esistono piani di guerra batteriologica per farcire di crauti i nostri hamburger. I tedeschi hanno cercato di confonderci le idee fuggendo in vari paesi, ma li abbiamo individuati e li colpiremo ovunque. Abbiamo già attaccato Berlino, Vienna, Berna e Bolzano, lanciando i nostri paracadutisti che sono i migliori del mondo. Il forte vento, probabilmente alimentato dai pacifisti, ha fatto sì che metà dei nostri parà atterrasse in Norvegia. Già che c'eravamo, abbiamo raso al suolo Oslo. Chi è neutrale oggi può essere ostile domani. Abbiamo anche attaccato il Venezuela la cui situazione politica e petrolifera esigeva una pronta risposta. Per un errore di battitura nella trasmissione degli ordini, oltre l'obiettivo "Venezuela" è stato bombardato anche l'obiettivo "Venezia". Il premier Berlusconi, nostro fedele alleato, ci ha però perdonato. La sua reazione è stata: "Tanto stava affondando, così ha sofferto di meno". Americani, anche l'Oriente sta per conoscere la pace globale! Un aereo con una delle nostre testate nucleari, le migliori del mondo, ha sorvolato il cielo coreano a scopo lievemente deterrente. Ma non abbiamo usato l'atomica, non siamo dei pazzi irresponsabili. Purtroppo mentre l'aereo faceva inversione di rotta, per la rottura di un elastico, la bomba è caduta su Pechino. Pagheremo i danni, non rompeteci i coglioni. Ma chi abbiamo colpito con ferma e preventiva decisione, è stato il Raìs Bianco, colui che più di tutti ci ostacola: un dittatore eletto coi voti di un'esigua élite che pretende di rappresentare milioni di persone, che straparla di pace aizzando le masse dal balcone o dalla sua mostruosa auto blindata. Un uomo che pretende di rappresentare il Bene (che come è noto, è copyright americano) senza neanche pagarci il diritto d'autore. Costui porta il nome vampiresco di Wojtyla. Stamattina truppe scelte di marines travestiti da vescovi, coi bazooka eroicamente dissimulati nella propria anatomia, hanno attaccato il Vaticano. Sapevamo che l'esercito mercenario papale disponeva d'un arma segreta detta Alabarda, ma noi abbiamo i migliori spadaccini del mondo e dopo uno spettacolare duello siamo entrati nel covo cattoterrorista. Il Raìs Bianco era a colloquio con un uomo barbuto travestito da francescano, subito identificato in Osama Bin Laden. Benché la Cia mi abbia assicurato che Osama è morto 14 volte di cui almeno 7 gravemente, il bastardo ha dato prova d'inattesa vitalità ribellandosi, urlando di chiamarsi frate Giuseppe e bestemmiando in modo indecoroso. Sono in corso accertamenti. Americani, non temete: l'operazione Global peace non si ferma qui. Truppe di leoni marini e calamari addestrati, i migliori del mondo, hanno attaccato con bombe subacquee la città di San Francisco, notoriamente covo del pacifismo hippy e disfattista. Abbiamo anche chirurgicamente distrutto 5mila ristoranti orientali. Come dice l'amico Borghezio, non un granello di cuscous impesterà più il nostro sacro suolo. L'operazione Global peace ha comportato, naturalmente, anche insidie e pericoli, soprattutto per la mia persona. Un gruppo di terroristi travestiti da infermieri, ha circondato il mio appartamento della Casa Bianca. Io e Condoleezza li abbiamo respinti a revolverate. Dopo questo incidente, sono state prese immediate contromisure. Dieci marines, a loro volta travestiti da infermieri e guidati da un colonnello travestito da psichiatra, mi hanno portato in salvo in una località segreta dal nome di Fort Quiet, anche se, per ingannare i terroristi, fuori c'è scritto "Casa di cura Villa Serena". Vi parlo appunto dalla Sala tv e svaghi di Fort Quiet, e quelli che vedete giocare a tombola in pigiama sono in realtà guardie del corpo, le migliori del mondo. Certo è un sacrificio stare chiuso qui, ma come presidente degli Stati Uniti sono troppo prezioso per espormi in un momento così difficile, e poi ho i miei soldatini di piombo e il letto ad acqua. Sono assistito da psicomarines gentili che mi danno le medicine migliori del mondo. Ho conosciuto un simpatico signore che si chiama Napoleone Bonaparte, un ex-militare. C'è anche uno che si crede Berlusconi, ma è fondamentalmente onesto e questo gli ha causato un conflitto interiore d'interessi con esito schizofrenico. Americani, abbiate fiducia! So che fuori di qui le operazioni procedono e il nostro esercito passa di conquista in conquista, il mappamondo si riempie di bandierine a stelle e strisce come un gioioso porcospino. Tutte le notti faccio il punto con Colin Powell (anche lui è nascosto a Fort Quiet). Camminiamo nei corridoi col pigiama e le pantofole mimetiche e prepariamo l'operazione finale. Lanceremo in orbita Final Fantasy, un satellite con un raggio laser precisissimo in grado di distruggere tutte le terre emerse a eccezione dell'America. Solo così potremo garantire una vera sicurezza al mondo. Ma quel rompiballe di Powell insiste a dire: e poi contro chi facciamo la guerra? Abbiamo litigato, lui mi ha forato la padella e io gli ho riempito la flebo di maionese. Che risate! I marines medici hanno detto che per il momento non posso uscire, la situazione è troppo pericolosa. So che vorreste il vostro presidente nella zona delle operazioni col giubbotto da aviatore e la Colt in pugno. Ma credetemi: come dicono i miei collaboratori, l'unica vera speranza per la pace mondiale è che io stia chiuso per un po' qui dentro. Quando uscirò, saremo padroni della terra e poi via, all'attacco del sistema solare! Cittadini americani, il vostro presidente George W. Bush vi saluta da Fort Quiet alias Villa Serena. Dio benedica l'America, e incenerisca i suoi nemici, e un accidente a Colin Powell se mi frega ancora la mela cotta. (27 febbraio 2003)

Gli stessi americani (vedi la relazione di kissinger e soci) accusano i sauditi di quella strage (non il governo saudita, ovvio: quello è utile) perchè utile?? mi risulta abbia ancora più petrolio di Saddam ....sono di meno, molto meno avanzati degli iraqeni, appoggiano ancora più di saddam i palestinesi, bombardi Jeddah, e poche altre città, sequestri qualche yacht in Costa smeralda e hai fatto.... ah,....ma c'è LA MECCA!, accidenti, che guaio....e no, non si può proprio bombardare l'Arabia Saudita...che se la tengano stretta la loro bella pietra nera.... mi sembra l'anti-bombardamento più efficace al mondo...altro che i satelliti!

talmente reazionario che in casa ho il busto di Radetsky non quello di Mazzini

Più che altro Sig.Gianlini lei evince un'indole reazionaria non comune, ma si rilegge ? Riporta G.Bocca che : Scrivono a Bush alcuni opinionisti americani: se il petrolio è vitale per l'economia e la difesa americane, se quello iracheno è indispensabile, fatela questa guerra, ma fatela finita con la storia di Saddam che minaccia il mondo intero. Cordiali saluti Joseph

Mai sentito bush accusare saddam di avere progettato o finanziato l'attentato alle torri. Saddam finanzia le famiglie dei kamikaze palestinesi; viene genericamente accusato di legami con al qaida. Nessuno lo accusa di un intervento diretto di nessun tipo legato alle torri. Gli stessi americani (vedi la relazione di kissinger e soci) accusano i sauditi di quella strage (non il governo saudita, ovvio: quello è utile) sia per l'organizzazione (bin laden) sia per i finanziamenti, sia per la nazionalità di molti attentatori. Va a finire che ti sei arruolato anche tu fra i qualunquisti...? 2ali