- In April, John Gleeson, the Editor of the Winnipeg Sun
wrote a groundbreaking column entitled "War on Terror Looks Like a
Fraud" which circulated widely on the Internet and got more positive
response from readers than any that have appeared in this newspaper.
Apparently, this breath of fresh air took place because Gleeson had
been fired as part of a plan to standardize Sunmedia newspapers, and
thereby increase profits. He was given two-weeks-notice and decided to use
the opportunity to speak the truth. He penned this article and another
about 9-11 Scholars. In recognition of his heroic gesture, we are reposting
his article. --Henry Makow
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- War On Terror Looks Like A Fraud
- By John Gleeson
- Winnipeg Sun
- April 15, 2007
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- Contrary to the "patriots" who try to use the
deaths of our soldiers in Afghanistan to stifle debate on Canada's involvement
in the War on Terror, I would say that as new evidence presents itself,
we would indeed be cowards to ignore it simply because we've lost troops
in the field and are therefore blindly committed to the mission.
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- And new evidence is piling up around us, arguably strong
enough to declare the whole War on Terror an undeniable fraud.
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- Virtually ignored by mainstream media, the Americans
showed their hand this year with the new Iraqi oil law, now making its
way through Iraq's parliament.
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- The law - which tens of thousands of Iraqis marched peacefully
against on Monday when they called for the immediate expulsion of U.S.
forces - would transfer control of one of the largest oil reserves on the
planet from Baghdad to Big Oil, delivering "the prize" at last
that Vice-President Dick Cheney famously talked about in 1999 when he was
CEO of Halliburton.
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- "The key point of the law," wrote Mother Jones'
Washington correspondent James Ridgeway on March 1, "is that Iraq's
immense oil wealth (115 billion barrels of proven reserves, third in the
world after Saudi Arabia and Iran) will be under the iron rule of a fuzzy
'Federal Oil and Gas Council' boasting 'a panel of oil experts from inside
and outside Iraq.' That is, nothing less than predominantly U.S. Big Oil
executives.
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- "The law represents no less than institutionalized
raping and pillaging of Iraq's oil wealth. It represents the death knell
of nationalized Iraqi resources, now replaced by production sharing agreements,
which translate into savage privatization and monster profit rates of up
to 75% for (basically U.S.) Big Oil. Sixty-five of Iraq's roughly 80 oilfields
already known will be offered for Big Oil to exploit."
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- While the U.S. argues that the oil deal will give Iraqis
their shot at "freedom and stability," the International Committee
of the Red Cross reported this week that millions of Iraqis are in a "disastrous"
situation that continues to deteriorate, with "mothers appealing for
someone to pick up the bodies littering the street so their children will
be spared the horror of looking at them on their way to school."
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- Four years after the invasion, it's becoming pretty clear
that Iraq has been "pacified" solely for the purpose of economic
aggression. Humanitarian considerations are moot. The awful plight of Iraq's
one million Christians, who have no place in the new Iraq, underscores
this ugly truth.
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- Afghanistan, meanwhile, has given the U.S. a strategic
military beachhead in Central Asia (which "American primacy"
advocates called for in the '90s) and it was quietly reported in November
that plans are being accelerated for a $3.3-billion natural gas pipeline
"to help Afghanistan become an energy bridge in the region."
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- With many Americans (including academics and former top
U.S. government officials) now questioning even the physical facts of 9/11
and seriously disputing the "militant Islam" spin, with the media
more brain-dead than it's been in our lifetimes, now is not the time for
jingoism and blind faith in the likes of Cheney, George W. Bush and Robert
Gates.
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- Our young men are worth more than that - aren't they,
Mr. Harper?
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