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