THIRD WORLD WAR vs Iraq in 1991 with 2003 EPILOGUE

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Former CIA Director James Woolsey, in a recent speech in
Los Angeles, said: "The Iraq campaign is really just the start of the
Third World War and one that may well last for decades."
http://www.americanfreepress.net/06_29_03/Global_War_Looms_/global_war_looms
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               ANDRE    GUNDER      FRANK

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A decade ago I wrote a long detailed piece arguing why that War Against
Iraq was the beginning of THE THIRD WORLD WAR. The present war is a
continuation, and so were the ones against Yugoslavia and
Afghanistan.  Below are the opening paragraphs of the 1991 essay
copied here as an abstract of the whole thing, which is at

http://csf.colorado.edu/agfrank/gulf_war.html

But I am now adding an EPILOGUE to that abstract and when technicallly
able to the paper itself.
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   INTRODUCTION TO THIRD WORLD WAR

The Gulf War may be termed THIRD WORLD WAR in two senses of this title:
First, this war aligned the rich North, the rich oil emirates or kingdoms,
and some bribed regional oligarchies against a poor Third World country.
In that sense, the Gulf War was a THIRD WORLD war by the North against the
South. It was massively so perceived throughout the Third World South, not
only in Arab and Muslim countries but also elsewhere in Asia, Africa and
Latin America. Masses of people in the Third World manifested their
opposition to this war and the North, even if it meant taking sides with
the dictator Saddam Hussein, for whom little love was lost. Indeed, the
popular expressions of racism and xenophobia in the North also were
manifestations of this same perception that this was a war between "us" in
the North and "them" in the Third World South.

The second sense of THIRD WORLD WAR is that the Gulf War may dangerously
mark the brutal beginning of a THIRD World War, following upon the First
and Second World Wars. Not only was the tonnage of bombs dropped on Iraq
of world war proportions. The Gulf War and the New World Order it was
meant to launch signify the renewed recourse by a world wide "coalition of
allies" to mass destruction of infrastructure and mass annihilation of
human beings. The allies led by the United States chose to wage a major
destructive, brutal and unnecessary war and renounced dialogue and
negotiation as their preferred instrument to settle a relatively minor
international dispute. In so doing moreover, they clearly signalled their
threat to build the New World Order on repeated recourse to this same
military force and annihilation against any other recalcitrant country or
peoples -- as long as they are poor, weak, and in the Third World South.

With the conclusion of the cold war, the Third World [Hot] War is not to
be fought between East and West, or West and West, but between the North
and the South. Since the Second World War, West- West wars have been
obviated, and the East-West cold war has been fought out in regional hot
wars in Korea, Vietnam, Angola, Nicaragua, and other parts of the Third
World. Now, West-West cold conflicts are also to be transmuted, as in the
Gulf War against Iraq, into the ever existing North-South conflict and
into Third World War at the expense of Third World peoples on Third World
soil. Of course, the North-South gap and conflict itself is also becoming
ever acuter. The Gulf War signals that in the New World Order the North
reserves the right and threat to turn any Old World Order North-South cold
conflict into a North-South hot war at the expense of Third World people
on Southern soil at any time of Northern choosing. Therefore, the world is
threatened with THE THIRD WORLD WAR.

This essay examines the Gulf War and the New World Order in this global
context. However, it also concentrates on the political economic motives,
actions and their consequences of the major actors in the unfolding of this 
tragic drama. THE major actor in the Gulf War for a New World Order
certainly was President George Bush. However, he has never told the truth
about his reasons, actions, or purposes in promoting and fighting the Gulf
War. Indeed, George Bush deceived the American public and the world already 
earlier on.... 

2003 EPILOGUE

Three  main reasons and grounds were supplied to the world in
''justification"" of the US and allied attack on Iraq.

1.A UN Security Council Resolution, pushed through by the United States,
that allegedly authorized and legitimated the use of ''any means
necessary'' to oblige Iraq to pull its troops out of Kuwait.  Hidden was,
as documented in my  1991 essay,  was the fact that going to war with this
''legitimation" still violated 7 separate Articles of the UN Charter and
that the then UN Secretary General Javier Perez de Cuellar said  "This is
NOT a UN war; it is a US WAR." He should have resigned to underline his
point, but he did not; as his successor today Kofi Anan should have, but
did even less so in the also US WARS against Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and
again Iraq.

2.The military invasion and take-over of Kuwait by Iraq. Hidden were the
facts, some documented in my essay and others not, that the very existence
of Kuwait had never been accepted by any Iraqi government. The reason is
that Kuwait had been ''created'' by British colonial map-makers by drawing
straight And where necessary crooked lines on a map to deny Iraq the
access to the Sea at the ""Persian"" Gulf, which had begun already in
ancient Mesopotamian times.  Additionally, as documented below, the US
Ambassador to Baghdad had recently given Saddam Hussein the ''green light"  
by saying that the US would have NO objections to any such move by Iraq.
After all, The US and Iraq were allies by vitue of US support of Iraq's 8
year war against Iran for which, it has since been revealed, the US and
the UK had supplied Iraq with chemical warfare capabilities and even sent
a 60 man mission of technical experts to Iraq to train its forces to use
them.

3.The story, circulated around the world by the US media, that the Iraqis
had entered Kuwaiti hospitals and had removed all baby incubators to
Baghdad, thus denying them to Kuwaiti babies, including those that were
taken out of them. It was revealed only long after the war that the entire
story had been invented by the daughter of the Kuwaiti Ambassador in
Washington.

These three ''reasons'' also reveal  three important object lessons to
all, but the American people themselves.  One is that the most dangerous
move on earth is to become a US stooge. You will be stabbed in the back as
soon as you are no longer useful, as was learned to their regret by
Batista, Trujillo, Somoza, Noriega [there are fotos of him with Busch
Sr. who then killed 7,000 people in one night to capture him in a ''war
against narco-terrorism" which INCREASED the flow of drugs through Panama]
and others in Latin America [as did the production and sale of opium in
Afghaninstan, eliminated by Taliban, but restored by the US].  So did US
allies elsewhere, like the Dayton Agreement guarantor Milosevic in
Yugoslavia, and  the Taliban creation by the CIA and the Pakistani SIS in
Afghanistan [ how long will the latter yet survive]?  The US government
manipulates the UN and the media in its own momentary interests in total
disregard of the UN Charter, international law, and the most elementary
truth. In  President Bush Jr 's address to the UN, he even had the gall to
tell it that it would lose ''legitimacy" if it failed to underwrite the
second US WAR against Iraq,  when any school child could - but does  not -
know that the principal UN, and especially Security Council purpose, is to
KEEP THE PEACE, not to make war. That is why it is called world
"SECURITY" Council. Both Bushes and Clinton in between replaced it by
''The Law of the West,"  that is the lynching posses of 19th century US
Western vigilante law. 

Thirdly,  ficticious reasons are invented again and again to ''justify and
legitimize" US wars, but really to lie to and manipulate American and
world public opinion and Congress itself: '' Remember the Maine'' in the
1898 War over Cuba; the Pearl Harbor that actually did happen but has
since been revealed as having been deliberately provoked by FDR who with
his inner council had ample warning of the coming attack;  the Tonkin Gulf
incident in Vietnam in 1968 that led to the so-named Congressional blank
check resolution, and the invisible destroyers in the bay south of
Cambodia  in 1970;  the massacre in Kosovo  in 1999 that hardly took place
and the 10 to 100 [alleged by British then Defense Secretary Robertson
promoted to  head of  NATO for his efforts] THOUSAND Albanian victims at
the hands of Milosevic, of whom all post war forensic teams put together
were able to discover no more than TWO thousand remains, which include KLA
combatants and Serbs themselves;  non-existent uranium purchases in Niger
by Iraq, which had no Weapons of Mass Destruction, while the US and UK
government did practice Weapons of Mass Deception of their people, their
legislature, and their ever-willing press and other media - as well on
literally countless other occasions.