B-Man
11-25-2002, 01:55 PM
November 25, 2002 --
NEWS of possible support by the Saudi royal family for the butchers of 9/11 and a new report on massive Serbian arm sales to Saddam Hussein should revise our membership list for the Axis of Evil.
When President Bush first used the phrase, he referred to Iraq, Iran and North Korea three rogue states that have assisted terrorists throughout the world. But Iraq is different from Iran and North Korea.
The latter two are tyrannies in crisis. In Tehran, reformers are locked in combat with reactionaries to redefine the nature of the Islamic republic. Further, Iran has indicated it would support our actions against Saddam Hussein. In Pyongyang, a brittle and impoverished experiment, more Confucian than Communist, has clearly failed.
Saddam Hussein is a fascist, and fascism is different from ordinary tyranny. Fascism has a stink that of chemical weapons used to massacre whole populations; of cut throats and spilled blood; of the wholesale degradation of society.
Tyranny may be tragic, but fascism is, simply, criminal.
Iran does not support Saddam, but Saudi Arabia does, if only backhandedly, by trying to divert our attention from the serial killer in Baghdad to the ongoing crisis in Israel.
And while our political and media geese cackle that there is no connection between Saddam and 9/11, more links between that horror and the Saudi regime are revealed daily. The latest: Federal authorities now have to decide how to investigate a monetary gift from Princess Haifa, wife of Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, to two of the 9/11 hijackers. (Fifteen of the 19 were Saudi subjects.)
Saudi Arabia and its Wahhabi death cult represent naked Islamofascism, with the same stink: The odor that hung in New York so long after 9/11; the unmistakable smell of the dead victims of Wahhabi/Saudi terrorism inside and outside the kingdom.
There is nothing surprising in finding a money trial from the 9/11 scum to the palatial residence of Prince Bandar. Fifteen of 19 was not a tactic by Osama bin Laden; it was the logical and inevitable product of Wahhabism, the state religion of the Saudi monarchy.
And who occupies third place in the fascist axis much more so than North Korea? The government of Serbia, no less, which only three years ago was busying itself with murdering Albanian children in Kosovo.
As detailed in a major report to be released today by the International Crisis Group, titled Arming Saddam: The Yugoslav Connection, Serbia has derived billions in income from the massive sale to Saddam of biological, chemical and missile technology for military use.
Serbia, the murderer of hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Albanians, is a natural partner for Saddam, the killer of the Kurds, and Saudi Arabia, patron of 9/11. The stink is identical.
Serbia reintroduced real fascism to Europe a decade ago, with all of the requisite props: concentration camps, mass rapes, liquidation of whole villages, the massacre of civilians. Serbian society is rotten to the core, and seems almost incapable of redeeming itself.
Saddam, Saudi Arabia and Serbia constitute a genuine fascist axis, and that is the real axis of evil. Is war necessary against all of them? No, Serbia has been defeated; what it needs is the purge of all fascist elements from its political and economic life, and their full punishment.
Nor is war needed in Saudi Arabia. We must compel the Saudis to come clean about their involvement in 9/11, thoroughly and truthfully. We must demand full and exemplary punishment of all the criminals behind 9/11. And we must compel the Saudi rulers to sever the links between the monarchy and state, on the one hand, and Wahhabism on the other.
This can be done. It must be done. With Wahhabism removed from power in Saudi Arabia, a transition to democracy may begin. War is not required for this to happen.
In Iraq, our president will, I believe, make the right decision, using the military technology we saw used so effectively in Kosovo.
But make no mistake: The real axis of evil stinks of fascism, of death and cruelty, from Belgrade to Baghdad, via Riyadh, and a war against fascism is a war we should all be ready to join.
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From the NY Post
NEWS of possible support by the Saudi royal family for the butchers of 9/11 and a new report on massive Serbian arm sales to Saddam Hussein should revise our membership list for the Axis of Evil.
When President Bush first used the phrase, he referred to Iraq, Iran and North Korea three rogue states that have assisted terrorists throughout the world. But Iraq is different from Iran and North Korea.
The latter two are tyrannies in crisis. In Tehran, reformers are locked in combat with reactionaries to redefine the nature of the Islamic republic. Further, Iran has indicated it would support our actions against Saddam Hussein. In Pyongyang, a brittle and impoverished experiment, more Confucian than Communist, has clearly failed.
Saddam Hussein is a fascist, and fascism is different from ordinary tyranny. Fascism has a stink that of chemical weapons used to massacre whole populations; of cut throats and spilled blood; of the wholesale degradation of society.
Tyranny may be tragic, but fascism is, simply, criminal.
Iran does not support Saddam, but Saudi Arabia does, if only backhandedly, by trying to divert our attention from the serial killer in Baghdad to the ongoing crisis in Israel.
And while our political and media geese cackle that there is no connection between Saddam and 9/11, more links between that horror and the Saudi regime are revealed daily. The latest: Federal authorities now have to decide how to investigate a monetary gift from Princess Haifa, wife of Saudi ambassador to the U.S. Prince Bandar bin Sultan, to two of the 9/11 hijackers. (Fifteen of the 19 were Saudi subjects.)
Saudi Arabia and its Wahhabi death cult represent naked Islamofascism, with the same stink: The odor that hung in New York so long after 9/11; the unmistakable smell of the dead victims of Wahhabi/Saudi terrorism inside and outside the kingdom.
There is nothing surprising in finding a money trial from the 9/11 scum to the palatial residence of Prince Bandar. Fifteen of 19 was not a tactic by Osama bin Laden; it was the logical and inevitable product of Wahhabism, the state religion of the Saudi monarchy.
And who occupies third place in the fascist axis much more so than North Korea? The government of Serbia, no less, which only three years ago was busying itself with murdering Albanian children in Kosovo.
As detailed in a major report to be released today by the International Crisis Group, titled Arming Saddam: The Yugoslav Connection, Serbia has derived billions in income from the massive sale to Saddam of biological, chemical and missile technology for military use.
Serbia, the murderer of hundreds of thousands of Bosnian Muslims and Albanians, is a natural partner for Saddam, the killer of the Kurds, and Saudi Arabia, patron of 9/11. The stink is identical.
Serbia reintroduced real fascism to Europe a decade ago, with all of the requisite props: concentration camps, mass rapes, liquidation of whole villages, the massacre of civilians. Serbian society is rotten to the core, and seems almost incapable of redeeming itself.
Saddam, Saudi Arabia and Serbia constitute a genuine fascist axis, and that is the real axis of evil. Is war necessary against all of them? No, Serbia has been defeated; what it needs is the purge of all fascist elements from its political and economic life, and their full punishment.
Nor is war needed in Saudi Arabia. We must compel the Saudis to come clean about their involvement in 9/11, thoroughly and truthfully. We must demand full and exemplary punishment of all the criminals behind 9/11. And we must compel the Saudi rulers to sever the links between the monarchy and state, on the one hand, and Wahhabism on the other.
This can be done. It must be done. With Wahhabism removed from power in Saudi Arabia, a transition to democracy may begin. War is not required for this to happen.
In Iraq, our president will, I believe, make the right decision, using the military technology we saw used so effectively in Kosovo.
But make no mistake: The real axis of evil stinks of fascism, of death and cruelty, from Belgrade to Baghdad, via Riyadh, and a war against fascism is a war we should all be ready to join.
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From the NY Post