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March 4, 2006
The uproar regarding cartoons depicting Islam's prophet as a man wearing a turban with a bomb in it is tied to a u.$. government official, Daniel Pipes. Now the same Daniel Pipes is going public saying that a civil war in Iraq would be a good thing for u.$. interests even if a bad thing from a humynitarian point of view. Among other things, he pointed out that while Iraqis are attacking themselves, they are too busy to attack u.$. troops.(1)
It turns out the Danish paper that first printed the cartoons did not carry out an innocent error of amateurs. The release had calculated politics behind it. MIM has checked on the facts in the following statement, all of which are true:
The editor of Jyllands Posten who ordered the publication of the cartoons is Flemming Rose, who has extensive connections to Daniel Pipes, another neocon fascist madman who runs Campus Watch, a neo-McCarthyite witch-hunting organization which vilifies American professors who criticize Israel or show sympathy for the Palestinians. President Bush wanted to name Daniel Pipes to the board of the US Institute of Peace, a government-funded arm of the State Department which organizes conferences and publishes books. When the raving extremist Pipes turned out to be too widely discredited to obtain Senate confirmation for this post, Bush forced his nomination through with a summer 2003 recess appointment to a temporary term at USIP without Senate approval. Daniel Pipes is the nepotist son of Richard Pipes, a Sovietologist who was a leading figure in George H.W. Bush's 1976 Team B, the incubator of today's neocon clique. At the time of his recess appointment, Daniel Pipes was accused by the very moderate Arab-American Institute of "hatred and bigotry" in the context of his "bizarre obsession with all things Arab and Muslim." (http://www.aaiusa.org/pr/release08-14-03.htm) This is the sick, racist point of view embraced by Jyllands Posten.(2)
Pipes has also held offices in the State Department and Pentagon.
The position of the U.S. Government officially is that Al-Qaeda is to blame for the bombing of the mosque in Samarra known as the "Golden Mosque."(3) This bombing has now triggered intra-Iraqi fighting.
The appearance of Pipes at this time in the media suggests u.$. involvement in the bombing. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran has suggested that Al-Qaeda would receive clearance to bomb the mosque from the CIA, as both seek a civil war in Iraq.
One thing for sure--Sunni and Shia peoples lived in tension but relative peace prior to the bombing and prior to the u.$. invasion. The tensions were there but the bombing of the Golden Mosque did not happen till Uncle $am's arrival. Although some point to George W. Bush as a moron, he knew from his father and his father's advisors that civil war was a likely result of taking Saddam Hussein from power.
Aside from the suspect u.$. interests in stoking up a civil war, there is also the influence of oil speculators. Chaos inside oil-supplier Iraq and tension with oil-supplier Iran contributes to an increase in the price of oil on the market, and that benefits anyone who happens to hold oil, including u.$. oil producers. This may be the reason that Iran and the United $tates rachet up the tension over nuclear weapons that Iran is supposedly headed toward building. Oddly enough, some oil speculators with long positions will favor Iran, Uncle $am and Al Qaeda simultaneously. Each has reason to think that an increase in oil prices would be good: 1) Iran has oil; 2) the people running the U.S. government are people who own oil; 3) the Al Qaeda may believe an increased oil price benefits the power of Islamic countries and threatens the economy of the West. One might think that Japan and the European Union would oppose such oil speculating, because they have not much oil of their own, but it depends on how much their capitalist class is involved with speculating itself.
We overheard one speculator on U.$. radio say he knows nothing of politics, but he believes either I$rael or the United $tates will bomb Iran soon. The interests of multi-millionaire speculators can easily point toward war with Iran, Nigeria and other oil-supplying countries that just so happen to have Islamic religions. It's just another reason that peace is impossible with capitalism. There is enough tension in the world without wondering what part comes from oil speculators.
MIM says to the people of Iraq not to be taken for fools by the United $tates. Kurd, Sunni and Shia peoples are not really exploiting each other for much. The real winner of conflicts over material resources is the united $tates.
We have read the reports of Sunni and Shia people carrying out ethnic cleansing of neighborhoods. We have seen it all before in u.$. instigated division of oppressed peoples. The people of Iraq should unite to throw out their Yankee occupiers and restore people to their old neighborhoods in peace.
Notes:
1. http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1582736.htm
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2006/s1582736.htm
Broadcast: 02/03/2006
2. http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=523587 ; see also,
http://bellaciao.org/en/article.php3?id_article=10253
3. http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-03-03-casey-iraq_x.htm
The U.S. official admitted there was no evidence for fingering Al Qaeda.