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is Against the Projected War and Against Hussein. Dear Emperor's Clothes, Let me get this off my chest: are you guys schizophrenic? You oppose anti-Semitism - right? Or am I wrong? Anyway you oppose ancient anti-Semitism. And you oppose attacking Iraq and you support Saddam Hussein, or you seem to - or do you? You said he's been demonized like Milosevic, right? Or did you not say that? Can you clarify these things?! Here is a write-up from Iraq Report, 10 November 2000, Volume 3, Number 37:
The "claws of the lowly Jews"! Do you deny the accuracy of the above? Does Emperor's Clothes claim it is just made up? Do you have two personalities? I hope you respond. M. Gregory Los Angeles, CA ========== Reply ========== Dear Mr. Gregory, Thank you for your letter. Happy New Year. No, we do not have two personalities, but we are unusual. First, we do not deny your quote. Second, we do not support Saddam Hussein. But we very much oppose bombing Iraq, which is a different matter. We oppose bombing and we oppose the authoritarian and racist politics of Mr. Hussein and his Arab Baath "Socialists", quotation marks intended. Third, regarding any comparison between Milosevic and Hussein, we never made it. You have us confused with someone else. The powers-that-be had to lie about Slobodan Milosevic to portray him as a dictator and a racist. For example, in the famous and almost-universally lied-about speech which Milosevic delivered in Kosovo on 28 June 1989, he opposed ethnic hatred. He warned against nationalism. (1) The coalition governments which Milosevic led were based on parliamentary majorities resulting from elections. These elections took place in a country whose mass media had far greater political variety than the meda in the West. (2) And Milosevic never got 100% of the vote - something which Mr. Hussein miraculously achieved in the latest Iraqi quote unquote election. Milosevic is demonized, that is lied about, to make him appear a demon. Saddam Hussein is attacked, and it is possible that some things being said about him now are untrue, but some of the worst things about him are unknown to the general public. I would not say he has been demonized in the same sense. To grasp what Hussein is, it's really only necessary to read his speeches. He sees the world as dominated by "Zionist imperialism" which translates, "The Jews." He believes in Arab supremacy. He whips people up into a real ultra-nationalist frenzy. Just compare any of his speeches (6) with Milosevic's speech at Kosovo Field in '89. (7) I would wager that sooner or later we will learn that the CIA backed the violently anti-communist and anti-Semitic coup that brought the Arab Baath "Socialists" to power. We already know from freedom-of-information documents that the US foreign policy establishment played the anti-Semitic card in the Arab world by calling Communism a Jewish plot starting in the 1950s. Emperor's Clothes opposes military aggression against Iraq. We do not believe for one moment that a US-led attack would liberate the much-abused people of Iraq. Moreover, the very high profile and virtually endless preparation for war against Iraq creates support for the most reactionary forces among Muslims. It seems rather obvious that the US policies of a) saber rattling against and perhaps attacking Iraq, which strengthens terrorist forces, while at the same time b) pushing for a Palestinian state, can only lead to mayhem on a grand scale. Moreover, the saber rattling (or worse, a real war) disguises and paradoxically dovetails with the continued US/European Empire's sponsorship of Islamic Fundamentalist terror. For example, Saudi Arabia and the emirates still fund many thousands of Islamist schools indoctrinating young men in fanaticism and terror around the world (including in Arab countries!). This takes place without US government interference even though we were told by Mr. Bush that those who aid terrorism will have "no safe harbor." The US itself continues to ship millions of Islamic Fundamentalist textbooks into an Afghanistan that is now run, under US control, by the mujihadeen. And Mr. Bush has publicly praised the contents of these textbooks, lying, as usual. (3) We have no reason to doubt the accuracy of the text you quoted. Saddam Hussein was raised in the household of his uncle Khayrallah Tulfah. Tulfah participated in the pro-Nazi coup and subsequent slaughter of Jews in Iraq in 1941. This was organized by that Nazi, the Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini.
According to the Wiesenthal Center:
The Baath Party has a history of this sort of thing. After Iraq lost to Israel in the 1967 war, the Baath regime hanged as spies fourteen people, eleven of them from the ruthlessly persecuted and always-spied-on Jewish community. The Baath Party called on people to "come and enjoy the feast" and paraded 500,000 chanting demonstrators past the bodies, which were swinging on ropes. There was an international outcry, to which Baath radio responded, "We hanged spies, but the Jews crucified Christ." (5) And that is aside from slaughtering socialists and communists and persecuting Shiites, Kurds, Assyrians - in other words, most people - and all opponents in the country. Nevertheless some non-Iraqis on the Left pay homage to Iraq and allow themselves to be used in Iraqi communiqués. And they wonder why the Left has scant credibility! This echoes the unfortunate Soviet policy of endorsing some of the worst forces in the Middle East. As for the oft-repeated description of Iraq as a secular state, perhaps it is secular in the sense that the government is not dominated by religious leaders. But you wouldn't know it from Mr. Hussein's speeches. E.g., at the end of one speech, which includes statements such as:
Hussein concludes with:
If this be secular, may God defend us from religion. We are preparing a position paper explaining some of our thoughts on the current world situation. As we see it, there are two acceptable camps right now. Both are partly right and partly wrong and we are in neither. For example, we entirely oppose Mr. Hussein and we entirely oppose war against Iraq. But rather than try to explain, in a few words, the complicated matter of the two camps, I will go back to drafting our paper on this subject, from which difficult task I have escaped by answering your passionate letter. Best regards, Footnotes and Further Reading follows Judgment!
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your check to: ================================= (1) Milosevic's 1989
speech has been entirely and consistently misrepresented.
See (2) "Media in
Serbia," by Diana Johnstone can be read at (3) "Bush & the Media Cover up the Jihad
Schoolbook Scandal," by
Jared Israel can be read at (4) In response to the massive campaign underway spreading the "Protocols of Zion" hoax in the Arab world, Emperor's Clothes has produced some materials on the subject. * We have re-published
Philip Graves famous London Times articles showing how
"The Protocols of Zion" was plagiarized from
Maurice Joly's "Dialogues in Hell." We both
scanned the originals as pdf files and transcribed them
as normal text. See "The Source of "Protocols of Zion," at We have published four pieces of our own on the Protocols: * "'The Protocols of Zion' - Part One, Weapon
Against Democracy," by
Jared Israel at * "'The Protocols of Zion,' Part Two, Illogical,
Sloppy and Incoherent...,"
by Jared Israel at * A discussion
of why
it is that to some people, who are not anti-Semites, some parts of
"The Protocols" ring true. At * A discussion of whether we are correct in saying that the Egyptian TV series, "Horseman Without a Horse," was based on the anti-Semitic hoax, the "Protocols of Zion." (5) Judith Miller and Laurie Mylroie (1990), Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf, NY, USA: Random House, p. 34 (6) For the full text
of Hussein's speech go to http://www.iraqi-mission.org/prs080802.htm
[Note added April 5, 2008: That
link no longer works. The speech, with 52 references to "Allah," can currently be found at
Iraq Watch at
http://snipurl.com/23k6q and
Fox News at http://snipurl.com/23k6r
(7) Milosevic's famous
1989 speech can be read at To Subscribe to the Emperor's Clothes
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