EveryDay is 9/11

By Barrie Machin

The Iraq War and why Iran is pissed off with America and why it might be preparing nuclear weapons.
This book was the best available radical critique of US foreign policy in Iraq. Some content is not as relevant now but the main section about US support of Iraq in the terrible war against Iran explains a lot about current nuclear fears.the author proposes complete Nuclear disarmament.
In the Iraq instigated war against Iran, one of the most brutal of the twentieth century, President Reagan gave his full backing to Saddam Hussein. The west, as well as USSR, supported the Saddam Hussein and provided him with weapons and means of mass destruction and underground nuclear shelters.The US also exported 70 shipments of active biological agents including anthrax and West Nile Virus. The US actively supported Iraq’s program of WMD, including nuclear facilities.

Iran-Gate showed that five billion had been given in secret deals to finance the war indirectly (Friedman 1993 The Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq

• Language: English
• Publisher: Barrie Machin
• Release date: May 22, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476074962

Barrie Machin

Barrie Machin is an anthropologist, poet, artist and author, with several epublications to his credit.He has lectured at the University of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and the University of Western Australia and since 1989 has worked as an independent filmmaker and consultant. He made films in Greece, Sri Lanka, India, Brazil, Japan and Australia. His film Iramudun won the Blue ribbon in cultural studies at the American Film Festival in 1984 and a major prize at the International Anthropology Film Festival in Parnu Estonia.He was the first anthropologist to produce a single system super 8 full-length ethnographic documentary Passing Shadows: Death Ritual in Western Crete and the first to use video extensively in field research and film production. In 1989 He received the Anthropos-Omega award for lifetime contribution to visual anthropology at the same time as Jean Rouch, Claudine de France and Karl Heider. Altogether he has spent 34 years in field research.He has been President of the West Australian Anthropology Society, elected member of the Association of Commonwealth Anthropologists, elected Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Fellow of the Australian Anthropological Society.

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Every Day Is 9/11: The Iraq invasion, The Iran Iraq War and why Iran might be pissed off with America and feeling defensive

Barrie Machin 2012

Published by Shimmering Pioneer Books at Smashwords

INTRODUCTION

Front cover The Triumph Of Death Pieter Brueghal 1562

Other works at the end.

This book is about the U.S. coalition occupation of Iraq and the failure to rebuild the infrastructure of the country as promised. The war was started on the basis of a lie and is a continuation of a history of error. The American Middle East policy is a kind of Basil Fawlty escalation of compounding errors.

U.S. foreign policy is not consistently idealistic and in many examples of foreign policy since WWII it has subverted the ideals of democracy. The principles of American democracy, despite statements to the contrary, were abandoned in both Iraq wars. The U.S. supported Hussein_ in the past and currently supports tyrannical regimes.

How much better it would have been to remove Hussein at the beginning of the Iran-Iraq war instead of cynically supporting him and his tyrannical regime, aiding and abetting his genocidal acts and stimulating fundamentalism in Iran.

This book does not imply an objection to the trial and hanging of Hussein, in my view he got better than he deserved and much better than he gave to millions of people. As an admirer of many of the fundamental principles of Buddhism, Christianity and Islam, _ I believe that following the Koran and admiring Saddam Hussein are mutually contradictory. Hussein used religion when it suited him not because he believed. His actions were in direct contradiction to the fundamental tenets of the Koran.

I propose that the U.S. and other members of the coalition withdraw their troops now and instead concentrate on a vastly increased aid program not the paltry sum currently proposed by Bush. Initially this would replace the stolen 23 billion. The cost of the war so far is, as I write, $352,505,000,000. This is monstrous. A fraction of this could have been used to pay Saddam to leave and have money left over to totally transform the region. I suppose it is always easier to raise money for bullets than bread.

At the same time the Iraqi government should be encouraged to commence a program of consultation, with Iraqi anthropologists, sociologists, historians and all leaders of opposing groups and factions. The government can also, via mobile phone services, consult all Iraqis. There should be a regional summit with the leaders of all regional powers.

In other words I propose a radical change of U.S. foreign policy direction, back to the original intention of the Monroe Doctrine- no direct intervention in the affairs of other nations and the cessation of support for totalitarian regimes.

Most importantly, since the arms race is fuelling conflicts in the region and elsewhere, the coalition should pursue a universal reduction in arms sales and continued nuclear disarmament as proposed in the NPT.

To argue against the war and its fundamental perpetrators is not an attempt to demonize Americans. I argue against all demonization, including nations belonging to the so-called ‘the axis of evil’. There are good and bad regimes and demonstrably evil regimes like Fascism and Stalinism. _ But generic stereotyping serves little purpose especially when applied to a complex of different regimes and cultures.

Opposition to U.S. war actions does not imply approval of other murderous actions or terrorism. Nor does it forget the contribution America made in the Second World War or its opposition to Soviet Communism.

To be opposed to the U.S. occupation is not to despise America or Americans nor does such opposition presuppose an admiration of Hamas or Bin Laden or any other group. The Hamas_ failure to recognize Israel is both morally wrong and totally and suicidally unrealistic. Even if we can understand the context within which it operates the logical conclusion of Hamas policy is MAD (mutually assured destruction). Vendetta is out of place in the modern world; new-fashioned weapons scale it up to unimaginable horror. The choice is coexistence