George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography - Get a Free Blog

with Iran. It later became known that the Emir of Kuwait was preparing further measures
of economic warfare against Iraq, including the printing of masses of counterfeit Iraqi
currency notes which he was preparing to dump on the market in order to produce a crisis
of hyperinflation in Iraq. Many of these themes were developed by Saddam Hussein in a
July 17 address in which he accused the Emir of Kuwait of participation in a US-Zionist
conspiracy to keep the price of oil depressed.
The Emir of Kuwait, Jaber el Saba, was a widely hated figure among Arabs and
Moslems. He was sybaritic degenerate, fabulously wealthy, a complete parasite and
nepotist, the keeper of a harem, and the owner of slaves, especially black slaves, for
domestic use in his palace. The Saba family ran Kuwait as the private plantation of their
clan, and Saba officials were notoriously cruel and stupid. Iraq, by contrast, was a
modern secular state with high rates of economic growth, and possessed one of the
highest standards of living and literacy rates in the Arab world. The status of women was
one of the most advanced in the region, and religious freedom was extended to all
churches.
Anglo-American strategy was thus to use economic warfare measures, including
embargos on key technologies, to back Saddam Hussein into a corner. When the position
of Iraq was judged sufficiently desperate, secret feelers from the Anglo-Americans
offered Saddam Hussein encouragement to attack Kuwait, with secret guarantees that
there would be no Anglo-American reaction. Reliable reports from the Middle East
indicate that Saddam Hussein was told before he took Kuwait that London and
Washington would not go to war against him. Saddam Hussein was given further
assurances through December and January, 1991 that the military potential being
assembled in his front would not be used against him, but would only permanently
occupy Saudi Arabia. It is obvious that, in order to be believable on the part of the Iraqi
leadership, these assurances had to come from persons known to exercise great power
and influence in London and Washington-- persons, let us say, in the same league with
Henry Kissinger. One prime suspect who would fill the bill is Tiny Rowland, a property
custodian of the British royal family and administrator of British post-colonial and neocolonial
interests in Africa and elsewhere. Tiny Rowland had been in Iraq in July, shortly
before the Iraqi military made their move.
It is important to note that every aspect of the public conduct of the Bush regime until
after the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait had become a fait accompli was perfectly coherent with
the assurances Saddam Hussein was receiving, namely that there would be no US
military retaliation against Iraq for taking Kuwait.
The British geopoliticians so much admired by Bush are past masters of the intrigue of
the invitatio ad offerendum, the suckering of another power into war. Invitatio ad
offerendum means in effect "let's you and him fight." It is well known that US Secretary
of State Dean Acheson, a close associate of Averell Harriman, had in January, 1950
officially and formally cast South Korea outside the pale of American protection,
providing encouragement to Kim Il Sung to start the Korean war. There is every
indication that the North Korean attack on South Korea in 1950 was also secretly