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Page 6 of 6 He wrote to me after reading my piece *"Neo-Cons Grip Slipping as Iraqi Resistance Morphs Into Liberation War or Worse "
mwcnews.net and Al-Jazeerah.info, June 30 ,2005.
Dear Ambassador Singh:
A friend sent me your posting on Al Jazeerah and I enjoyed it immensely, a much different perspective than I have seen elsewhere. I was one of the neo-cons during the Cold War and have known Richard Perle, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Kristol et al from 1965, 67 or 69. They of course picked GWB when he was Texas governor because he was a blank slate on which they could write their plans for a New American Century. Until is death he was working relentlessly to expose the neo-cons and other lies. I received the following message received from his office From: Patricia Koyce Wanniski; September 2005
Re: Jude's Final Thoughts on Iraq When Jude died on August 29, he was at his office desk, working on this memo on Iraq. I know Jude would have been appalled at the recent Al-Qaida bombings, and the rising toll in American and Iraqi lives, military and civilian, over the last few weeks. It is with this in mind that I offer a last look at the questions Jude was posing to one of his key sources, Dr. Mohammed Al-Obaidi, about the Iraqi elections, and to Joost Hiltermann, one of his key sparring partners on the opposing side, about mass graves. Ever the reporter, Jude was tireless and passionate about finding out what was happening in Iraq. Note that he writes to Mr. Hiltermann that "If the bodies had been found, I would be…encouraging the trial and execution of Saddam as a mass murderer." This last flexibility demonstrates that indeed Jude had no direct political agenda but was merely concerned with finding the truth. I've never been prouder of my husband. Saddam Hussein did not commit genocide
Jude Wanniski wrote on March 14, 2004 Exactly a year ago, as I saw the Bush administration pick up the pace for war on Iraq, I sensed the Pentagon civilians were pulling President Bush along with their insistence that he [Saddam Hussein] was a truly evil man because he had committed genocide. At the end of the Iran/Iraq war in 1988, it was said the Iraqi air force dropped poison gas on its own citizens in the Kurdish town of Halabja and killed at least 5,000 in the course of recapturing the town from the Iranians. That was in March of \'88. In the days after Iran sued for peace in August, it was reported the Iraqi army had systematically rounded up another 100,000 Kurds – and on the grounds they had fought with the Iranians – slaughtered them with poison gas. Secretary of State George P. Shultz reported this latter assertion without checking and the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning Saddam, relying upon a report from Kurdistan by a staff member of its Foreign Relations Committee, Peter Galbraith, son of the famous economist, John Kenneth Galbraith. The story faded but resurfaced when Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990. In the years since, it has been amplified repeatedly by the Washington organization, Human Rights Watch. Its resident expert, Joost Hiltermann, an Arabic-speaking law professor at Johns Hopkins School for International Studies, was chiefly responsible for this amplification. "In 1997, I had come upon a 1991 report of the Army War College at Carlyle, Pa., that had come to completely different conclusions. Its author, Dr. Stephen Pelletiere, had headed a team that pulled together all the specialists of the US intelligence agencies to study the Iran/Iraq war, to study how Iraq had defeated a country three times its size. The report touched on the Halabja deaths, saying that \"hundreds\" of civilians had died, with indications they were killed by a cyanide gas known to be used by the Iranian army, not possessed by Iraq. It said nothing about the \"disappearance\" of 10,000 Iraqi Kurds. "Pelletiere had been the CIA's senior analyst in covering the eight-year Iran/Iraq war. When I tracked him down a year ago, living in retirement near the War College, he insisted nothing had happened in the dozen years since to change his mind. There was no genocide, he told me, and said the story about the 100,000 deaths was a hoax, a non-event, propagated by Human Rights Watch. He said he had discussed his differences with Joost Hilterman, arguing the \"victims\" had never been found, nor had any mass graves been located. "I called Hiltermann at HRW for a discussion of his differences with Pelletiere, which led to an exchange of e-mails over a period of weeks. Here is the last contact I had with him, a long e-mail from me asking questions, and his lengthy response. I've merged the two letters so they can be read seamlessly. There are of course no follow-up questions in this exchange, but I think the exchange speaks for itself, and why I could easily conclude that Human Rights Watch had made an enormous blunder in propagating the genocide story and now will say anything to insist it was right all along. Unfortunately, President Bush has not yet been advised by his team that the U.S. intelligence agencies had the story correctly in the first place, as it suits the interest of the war hawks at the Pentagon to have the President believe Saddam is not just a dictator, but also a Hitler. As a footnote, the CIA last October issued a report on Iraq's use of gas during its war with Iran. It said its last use of gas was at Halabja, that "hundreds" had died, and that Iraq had used mustard gas, not cyanide gas. It dismissed the report of the disappearance of 100,000 Kurds later in the year. As for the assertion by Hiltermann that the Iraqi air force had delivered the gas on Halabja, I was advised in an e-mail by W. Patrick Lang, who was the chief intelligence officer at the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency in those years, that there was no evidence of air attacks, that both Iraq and Iran had used gas at Halabja and had delivered them by artillery.http://www.wanniski.com/showarticle.asp?articleid=2497 My note; this information on exchange between Wanniski and Hiltermann is available on the net and can be easily Googled. http://uruknet.info/?p=1454 During Wanniski's persistent and focused investigations, Hiltermann appears aggressive, sometimes rattled and even confused and says “Human Rights Watch never said the Halabja attack constituted genocide." [It was battlefield situation] Wanniski had written to David Remnick, editor, The New Yorker in April, 2002 .He also challenged senior US officials like National Security Adviser, Sandy Berger , Jesse Helms ,Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, back in 1998 but no one replied .Naturally. I am convinced that Jude Wanniski is correct in his assessment . I am convinced that Jude Wanniski is correct in his assessment . Madarsas and Western Christian distant education Western leaders and media keep on repeating ad-nauseam about the adverse impact of Madarsa education on Muslim minds .Many times it is true .But with oil wealth of Muslims in the Middle East and elsewhere being funneled to the west, there is both shortage of funds and anger at the Western Crusades aimed at them . But the West should realize that in these days of distant education, where education specially to uneducated adults is imparted through written material by post , TV channels and internet ,the same purpose is perversely being achieved as mirror image by the spins , half truths and blatant lies , repeatedly by Western leaders from the highest level , which the Western audience , specially in America , like the Madarsa pupils , believes in .The info purveyed in Western mainstream media has been emasculated or distorted . I have watched in horror , dismay and contempt lies being spewed by western media outlets. With this kind of brainwashing and training, western minds , even adult minds have been poisoned .No wonder then there are Guantanamo , Abu Gharib and renditions for torture in East Europe and elsewhere.. Then criminal behavior becomes a natural outcome and not exception as Western leaders then tries to explain away .What do Rambo films convey , marines trained to kill ruthlessly and efficiently . That is what they do best. And when faced with the task of 'running' a country like Iraq, untrained in policing or administration , they continue to kill with vengeance in revenge ,innocent civilians, women and children ,when attacked by freedom fighters in Iraq .There are umpteen such examples in Iraq , which Western leaders and propaganda try to hide . Till western Christian leaders and thinkers change their outlook on others ( historically called barbarians ) i.e. Eastern Christians , Muslims , Indians and Asians, Africans , the distance education of western minds led by Fox Channel, CNN, BBC etc would keep on producing , Christian bigots , mirror images of Muslim bigots and terrorists. Western virginity Reputation about the integrity and honesty of a country and its people is like virginity .Once it is ravaged , especially with help from its own people , it cannot be repaired .Of course in the West there are some examples of women getting themselves surgically repaired to offer themselves to their spouses on marriage anniversaries . West is welcome to its devices. But such attempts by hiring US PR firms to improve USA's terrible image in the East have failed and will .Even in India , while the English speaking media , brainwashed by CNN, BBC etc , many among them bribed by study grants , well paid seminars in the West or even a drink with the 11th second secretary , remain beholden to West's lies and propaganda .But it is not so in the small towns and the country side . Not many in vernacular media, which is read by hundreds of millions, had a real word of welcome for George Bush when he came visiting. There were widespread demonstrations against him. Moral and ethical arithmetic in the world The moral and ethical arithmetic in the world was best shown up in the UN General Assembly vote a month ago , when for the new Human Rights Council , US was isolated with Israel, the Marshall Islands and Palau, with 170 nations ranged against Washington . (K Gajendra Singh, served as Indian Ambassador to Turkey and Azerbaijan in1992 -96. Prior to that, he served as ambassador to Jordan (during the1990 - 91Gulf war), Romania and Senegal. He is currently chairman of the Foundation for Indo-Turkic Studies. The views expressed here are his own. Recommend this article...
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