12/17/03
BRINGING ‘FREEDOM’ TO IRAQ?
By J. Parnell McCarter
Editorialist Charley Reese points
out the new US method for subduing Iraq in an article appropriately entitled “Murder Inc.”:
“Seymour
Hersh, with his usual thoroughness, has documented Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld's latest scheme for Iraq. It is, in short, to set up death squads,
trained by Israelis and using Israelis as consultants in Iraq. The Israeli role is supposed to be
hush-hush, but not only Hersh, in his New Yorker article, but also a British
reporter in the Guardian have confirmed the Israeli role. That will win a lot
of hearts and minds in the Arab world. About the only government they hate worse
than ours is Israel's. The idea is to
hire some of the worst of the worst — members of Saddam's old secret police —
to infiltrate the resistance and finger key players for the American murder
squads. Thus, we climb in bed with the very people our boy president likes to
moralize about — those dreaded evildoers. Only now they will be evildoers on
our payroll instead of Saddam's. Only now, instead of bringing democratic
values to Iraq, we will show the Iraqis we are just as good at murder as
Saddam. If you are one of those superpatriots who like to wrap themselves in
the American flag while you watch Fox News, don't be shocked. We did exactly
the same kind of things during the Vietnam War. I used to have, now and then, a
bloody Mary or several with a CIA man who had run the infamous Phoenix Program
in Vietnam.
There,
the South Vietnamese would finger members of the Viet Cong, and we would snuff
them. Of course, my friend said in his cynical way, if the quota for the month
was 50, the South Vietnamese fingered 50; if it was 500, they found 500. How
many of the thousands we murdered were actually Viet Cong and how many were
innocent Vietnamese, nobody knows, except perhaps the South Vietnamese who were
involved. The number of people we murdered ranges from 21,000 (an official
figure) to 47,000.
Another
friend of mine, on loan to the CIA from the Green Berets, paid Nung mercenaries
$5 for each Vietnamese head they brought in. They brought them in by the
croaker sack full, but of course a severed head can't tell you if the person
who used to wear it was a Viet Cong or just a poor farmer the Nungs happened
upon. After all, they hated all the Vietnamese without regard for ideology.
The same
thing will happen in Iraq. Our paid evildoers will finger people they have a
personal grudge against or, if they are smart, innocent Iraqis actually on our
side. That way our death squads will endear us to the Iraqi people just as the
Israeli death squads have endeared them to the Palestinians…”
Here is how Hersh describes this methodology in his article entitled “Moving Targets” (see http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?031215fa_fact ): “The Bush Administration has authorized a major escalation of the Special Forces covert war in Iraq. In interviews over the past month, American officials and former officials said that the main target was a hard-core group of Baathists who are believed to be behind much of the underground insurgency against the soldiers of the United States and its allies. A new Special Forces group, designated Task Force 121, has been assembled from Army Delta Force members, Navy seals, and C.I.A. paramilitary operatives, with many additional personnel ordered to report by January. Its highest priority is the neutralization of the Baathist insurgents, by capture or assassination. The revitalized Special Forces mission is a policy victory for Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who has struggled for two years to get the military leadership to accept the strategy of what he calls "Manhunts"-a phrase that he has used both publicly and in internal Pentagon communications. Rumsfeld has had to change much of the Pentagon's leadership to get his way. "Knocking off two regimes allows us to do extraordinary things," a Pentagon adviser told me, referring to Afghanistan and Iraq. One step the Pentagon took was to seek active and secret help in the war against the Iraqi insurgency from Israel, America's closest ally in the Middle East. According to American and Israeli military and intelligence officials, Israeli commandos and intelligence units have been working closely with their American counterparts at the Special Forces training base at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and in Israel to help them prepare for operations in Iraq. Israeli commandos are expected to serve as ad-hoc advisers-again, in secret-when full-field operations begin... Americans in the field are trying to solve that problem by developing a new source of information: they plan to assemble teams drawn from the upper ranks of the old Iraqi intelligence services and train them to penetrate the insurgency. The idea is for the infiltrators to provide information about individual insurgents for the Americans to act on. A former C.I.A. station chief described the strategy in simple terms: "U.S. shooters and Iraqi intelligence." He added, "There are Iraqis in the intelligence business who have a better idea, and we're tapping into them. We have to resuscitate Iraqi intelligence, holding our nose, and have Delta and agency shooters break down doors and take them"-the insurgents-"out." …An American who has advised the civilian authority in Baghdad said, "The only way we can win is to go unconventional. We're going to have to play their game. Guerrilla versus guerrilla. Terrorism versus terrorism. We've got to scare the Iraqis into submission."
The fundamental problem here is that
we have a government and government leaders who are in rebellion against God
and His Word. They refuse to submit to
His ways, for they do not fear Him.
Instead of being constitutionally and personally committed to Biblical
Protestantism, they are constitutionally and personally committed to humanism. They
support thugs like Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, who down the road will
turn on them, and give another lame excuse for “regime change” in the name of “freedom”. The drug lords in Afghanistan and the rogues
in Iraq which the US supports today will most likely tomorrow be another bin
Laden and Hussein. Consequently, they
pursue a methodology which keeps our nation and our world in a constant state
of strife with God and with man. Even
their fellow humanists, like the journalists quoted above, recognize the
problem in the methodology, even if they have no sound, Biblical solution to
the problem. Until men and nations bow
to Christ as He is revealed in His Word, we shall be in a perpetual
cycle of violence.