Scoop Links: Is The Iraq War The Beginning Of World War IV
SCOOP EDITOR'S NOTE: The following report from CNN is chilling in its audacity. Ex-CIA Director James Woolsey is a Bush
insider who is tipped to become the overseer of Iraq once this war is over. Here Woolsey openly talks of a much bigger
war, what he calls World War IV.
While there is nothing particularly new about Woolsey's statement, a large number of Neoconservative nutter friends of
the Bush Administration have been saying similar things for at least a decade (and Scoop has been reporting this for
several months), what is truly shocking is the openness of the declaration contained in this story. Here we see the
gloves of the American Imperialist agenda well and truly taken off.
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LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former CIA Director James Woolsey said Wednesday the United States is engaged in World
War IV, and that it could continue for years.
In the address to a group of college students, Woolsey described the Cold War as the third world war and said "This
fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us. Hopefully not the
full four-plus decades of the Cold War."
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He said the new war is actually against three enemies: the religious rulers of Iran, the "fascists" of Iraq and Syria,
and Islamic extremists like al Qaeda.
Woolsey told the audience of about 300, most of whom are students at the University of California at Los Angeles, that
all three enemies have waged war against the United States for several years but the United States has just "finally
noticed."
"As we move toward a new Middle East," Woolsey said, "over the years and, I think, over the decades to come ... we will
make a lot of people very nervous."
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Singling out Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, he said, "We want you nervous. We want
you to realize now, for the fourth time in a hundred years, this country and its allies are on the march and that we are
on the side of those whom you -- the Mubaraks, the Saudi Royal family -- most fear: We're on the side of your own
people."
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EDITOR'S NOTE: The story linked below analyses the US Neoconservative American Imperial agenda in more detail.
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Is Iraq the opening salvo in a war to remake the world?
By Robert Dreyfuss
Issue Date: 4.1.03
For months Americans have been told that the United States is going to war against Iraq in order to disarm Saddam
Hussein, remove him from power, eliminate Iraq's alleged stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and prevent Baghdad
from blackmailing its neighbors or aiding terrorist groups. But the Bush administration's hawks, especially the
neoconservatives who provide the driving force for war, see the conflict with Iraq as much more than that. It is a
signal event, designed to create cataclysmic shock waves throughout the region and around the world, ushering in a new
era of American imperial power. It is also likely to bring the United States into conflict with several states in the
Middle East. Those who think that U.S. armed forces can complete a tidy war in Iraq, without the battle spreading beyond
Iraq's borders, are likely to be mistaken.
"I think we're going to be obliged to fight a regional war, whether we want to or not," says Michael Ledeen, a former
U.S. national-security official and a key strategist among the ascendant flock of neoconservative hawks, many of whom
have taken up perches inside the U.S. government. Asserting that the war against Iraq can't be contained, Ledeen says
that the very logic of the global war on terrorism will drive the United States to confront an expanding network of
enemies in the region. "As soon as we land in Iraq, we're going to face the whole terrorist network," he says, including
the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad and a collection of militant splinter
groups backed by nations -- Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia -- that he calls "the terror masters."
"It may turn out to be a war to remake the world," says Ledeen.
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Scenarios for sweeping changes in the Middle East, imposed by U.S armed forces, were once thought fanciful -- even
ridiculous -- but they are now taken seriously given the incalculable impact of an invasion of Iraq. Chas Freeman, who
served as U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War, worries about everything that could go wrong. "It's a war
to turn the kaleidoscope, by people who know nothing about the Middle East," he says. "And there's no way to know how
the pieces will fall." Perle and Co., says Freeman, are seeking a Middle East dominated by an alliance between the
United States and Israel, backed by overwhelming military force. "It's machtpolitik, might makes right," he says. Asked
about the comparison between Iraq and Hiroshima, Freeman adds, "There is no question that the Richard Perles of the
world see shock and awe as a means to establish a position of supremacy that others fear to challenge."
But Freeman, who is now president of the Middle East Policy Council, thinks it will be a disaster. "This outdoes
anything in the march of folly catalog," he says. "It's the lemmings going over the cliff."
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