In similar vein, an Observer overview of Western relations with Iraq since
1920, submits this entry for 1998:
"Iraq ends all co-operation with the UN Special Commission to Oversee the
Destruction of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Unscom). US and Britain
launch Desert Fox, a bombing campaign designed to destroy Iraq's nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons programmes." ('From friend to foe', The
Observer, March 17, 2002)
There is no mention of claims of deliberate US provocation, of a conflict
manufactured for domestic political reasons. Again, the infiltration of
inspectors by CIA spies has been airbrushed from history. There is no
mention of the fact that the information gained by the spies was then used
to blitz Iraq. US military analyst William Arkin suggests that the primary
goal of Operation Desert Fox was to target Saddam Hussein's internal
security apparatus using information gathered specifically through Unscom.
(see Milan Rai, War Plan Iraq, Verso, 2002) One might think that this would
be significant in an honest appraisal of why Iraq is reluctant to readmit
inspectors on the basis of "unfettered access - any time, any place,
anywhere", as the US/UK have been demanding. But for our utterly compromised
'free press', truth of this kind is deemed mere pro-Iraqi propaganda, best
quietly omitted.
1920, submits this entry for 1998:
"Iraq ends all co-operation with the UN Special Commission to Oversee the
Destruction of Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction (Unscom). US and Britain
launch Desert Fox, a bombing campaign designed to destroy Iraq's nuclear,
chemical and biological weapons programmes." ('From friend to foe', The
Observer, March 17, 2002)
There is no mention of claims of deliberate US provocation, of a conflict
manufactured for domestic political reasons. Again, the infiltration of
inspectors by CIA spies has been airbrushed from history. There is no
mention of the fact that the information gained by the spies was then used
to blitz Iraq. US military analyst William Arkin suggests that the primary
goal of Operation Desert Fox was to target Saddam Hussein's internal
security apparatus using information gathered specifically through Unscom.
(see Milan Rai, War Plan Iraq, Verso, 2002) One might think that this would
be significant in an honest appraisal of why Iraq is reluctant to readmit
inspectors on the basis of "unfettered access - any time, any place,
anywhere", as the US/UK have been demanding. But for our utterly compromised
'free press', truth of this kind is deemed mere pro-Iraqi propaganda, best
quietly omitted.