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When
it comes, the U.S. assault on Iraq will explode as global spectacle,
an awesome pyrotechnic
display of rolling thunder and lightening death intended to
shock and cow the entire planet. The effect, the planners fervently
believe, will be comparable to that which occurred when cannon
clashed with spears and arrows on the ever-expanding frontiers
of European empire: incomprehensible devastation, soul-consuming
terror, complete political disintegration, followed by abject
submission. In the grand imperial scenario, the satraps and
sultans of the Earth, heads bowed at angles of unmistakable
subservience, will gather up their robes and beseech the Americans
for life on any terms.
Iraq's
oil is important, but not the real prize of war. If a sustained
flow of Iraqi oil were so vital to the U.S. and global economy,
the production infrastructure would not be put at such risk
of immediate immolation. Iraq's oil facilities can burn as easily
as did Kuwait's, in the last days of the previous Gulf War.
Capitalism went on to boom and bubble in the Nineties.
Dick
Cheney's Halliburton corporation and the rest of the pirate
pack are ready and eager to do a multi-billion dollar, postwar
makeover of Iraq's oil facilities, at U.S. taxpayer expense.
Invoices will be submitted to American Occupation authorities
- part of the "cost" of war that the White House refuses
to "speculate" about.
 Oil
is overrated as the root cause of the impending conflagration.
Saddam Hussein has always been eager to pump much more of it,
at no higher price than the next guy, while the U.S. has strangled
Iraqi production by every means at its disposal for over a decade.
The
prize is nothing less than world domination: all the riches
above and below the earth and seas.
The
real show is in the show, itself. The people who created George
Bush's ridiculous War Face are not just playing crazy
to gain transient advantage over Frenchmen and Russians. They
are Hell-bent on proving to the natives (all of us) that
they are capable of unimaginable destruction. We must see it
to believe it - which is why this war is all but inevitable.
In the aftermath of horror, the world will become malleable,
ready for reshaping in the not-yet-defined New Order.
That's
the plan. The pirates are confident they can improvise the post
war details at their leisure,  later.
What we are witnessing is essentially the buildup to a global
consciousness-searing U.S. military demonstration - the Mother
of All War Shows. If we search for the military or economic
objectives of the conflict on anything so crude as a map, we
have missed the point.
An
epochal announcement
The
Bush men intend to show the world what Armageddon looks like.
The time is nearly at hand, the clocks synchronized to the movements
of armies and fantastic machines that hold even their masters
in thrall. For the moment, Bush directs the world's attention
to Colin Powell's February 5 appearance at the United Nations,
in New York, where the game of diplomacy will lurch toward its
foreordained end.
Then
the event will occur, signaling the end of the Old Order.
The world will pause in "Shock and Awe."
The
War Party telegraphed its plans on January 24 - a practice they
indulge in to further the momentum of war and thus prevent the
timid from attempting last minute reversals in course. The Sydney
(Australia) Morning
Herald offered this concise account:
The
US intends to shatter Iraq "physically, emotionally and
psychologically" by raining down on its people as many
as 800 cruise missiles in two days.
The
Pentagon battle plan aims not only to crush Iraqi troops,
but also wipe out power and water supplies in the capital,
Baghdad.
It
is based on a strategy known as "Shock and Awe",
conceived at the National Defense University in Washington,
in which between 300 and 400 cruise missiles would fall on
Iraq each day for two consecutive days. It would be more than
twice the number of missiles launched during the entire 40
days of the 1991 Gulf War.
"There
will not be a safe place in Baghdad," a Pentagon official
told America's CBS News after a briefing on the plan. "The
sheer size of this has never been seen before, never been
contemplated before."
According
to the architect of "Shock and Awe", military strategist
Harlan Ullman, the plan would rely on an extensive array of
precision-guided weapons.
"We
want them to quit, not to fight," Ullman said, "so
that you have this simultaneous effect - rather like the nuclear
weapons at Hiroshima - not taking days or weeks but minutes."
A
senior Bush official confirmed that Shock and Awe "is the
concept on which the war plan is based," according to CBS
News.
Like
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, Vice President Cheney and the
entire pirate crew, strategist Harlan Ullman is in the business
of war. He and his colleagues at The
Defense Group Inc. have a contract to create the conditions
for a New World Order that no nation or combination of nations
can resist. Through its The Rapid Dominance Study Group, the
company has constructed an order of battle that closely resembles
the current U.S. forces surrounding Iraq, but is actually designed
for Permanent War:
The
Rapid Dominance Study Group has outlined a first cut Rapid
Dominance force for fighting and winning a major regional
conflict. That force design consists of roughly 250,000 personnel
and would be employed in five waves. These waves can be brought
to bear at any point in the peace, crisis and conflict continuum.
The first wave of a Rapid Dominance capability could strike
anywhere on the globe, within 30 to 40 minutes of being ordered,
regardless of whether U.S. forces were already deployed in
the crisis region. The subsequent waves would continue to
deploy power relentlessly on the adversary to affect his will
and perception through imposing a regime of "shock and
awe." The final wave could include deploying a heavy
corps or expeditionary force for physical occupation of territory.
 Ullman's
strategy - now the Pentagon's blueprint - is available to every
English reader in his book "Shock and Awe: Achieving Rapid
Dominance". The whole volume is posted on the site of the
Command and Control Research Program (CCRP) of the U.S. Department
of Defense. (Note: We are listing several links because in researching
this document we discovered for some unexplained reason the
Website appears unstable and the Table
of Contents page is not always available. If the Table of
Contents link does not work, try the Forward
or the Prologue.)
CBS
anchor Dan Rather tagged his "Shock and Awe" story:
"We assure you this report contains no information that
the Defense Department thinks could help the Iraqi military."
That's
the whole point. The War Party wants the world to know
that there is no escape from the raging superpower. Very soon,
the U.S. military will stage a show more shocking and awful
than can be imagined, for the benefit of a global audience.
As Ullman envisions, it will be "rather like the nuclear
weapons at Hiroshima." The intent is to break the will
of the species. Iraq is merely a convenient stage, Saddam Hussein
an extremely unfortunate prop.
A
kind of rapture
The
Bush cabal devoutly believe they are at a Hiroshima-like juncture
in history - that they have at their disposal the means to start
the world over in an apocalyptic spasm of swift and terrifying
violence. The War Party believes itself to be embarked on an
epochal, world-altering mission, and they are determined that
this moment not be squandered. In the interval, Colin Powell
can give his speech. When the set is ready, George Bush will
flip the switch and the sky will flash and glow over Iraq, a
warning to the world.
The
Bush men believe humanity will first recoil, then cower - that
the world has no choice but to surrender in "Shock and
Awe." The opposite is true. By initiating Permanent War,
Bush presents the world - including, ultimately, the American
people - with no choice but to turn on their tormentor, and
remove him and his pirate class.
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