The
Hydra
By Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
11 October, 2007
Countercurrents.org
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect
the soul with evil." Plato
Legend
has it that the Hydra with the body of a serpent and numerous heads,
could never be harmed by any weapon, and if any of the other heads were
severed another would grow in its place. Attacking cattle and local
villagers, it devoured them with its numerous heads, totally terrorizing
the vicinity for many years. According to legend, Heracles defeated
the Hydra.
The reality we live in is
that a far worse creature than the legendry hydra is terrorizing the
global village. As one head is de-commissioned, another replaces it;
Rumsfeld with Gates, Casey with Petraeus, and so on. Its contemptuous
greed unfulfilled, the Iraqi devastation only vetted the appetite of
the ungodly creature; and so venomous lies spew out in preparation for
an attack on the next country – Iran, with 72 innocent lives waiting
to be annihilated.
Failing to prove Iran’s
nuclear program as a threat to world security as the IAEA would not
be party to another mass murder and lie to further the ambitions of
the White House, Mr. Bush is now commanding his generals to inform the
American public that Iran is responsible for arming Iraqis that are
killing Americans. Randomly, he takes pleasure in having Iranian diplomats
arrested by his thugs in Iraq, the same people who murder Iraqi civilians,
women and children.
Having buried himself in
the darkness of deception, the White House occupant forgets that the
truth occasionally leaks out and he ‘can’t fool all the
people all the time’. Indeed, in the “Teicher Affidavit:
Iraq-Gate” of 1/31/95, it was revealed by former NSC official
Howard Teicher that during the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88, the U.S. provided
Saddam Hossein with weaponry including anti-armor penetrators –
one of the weaponry Iran is accused of providing to the Iraqis.
During the 8-year war, much
of the weapons supplied to Iraq by the United States and its CIA department,
was through a cleverly devised program called “Bear Spares”.
The program made sure that spare parts and ammunition for Soviet or
Soviet-style weaponry was made available to countries which sought to
reduce their dependence on the Soviets for defense needs. If the "Bear
Spares" were manufactured outside the United States, then the United
States could arrange for the provision of these weapons to a third country
without direct involvement.
Due to its various wars,
Israel has a large stockpile of captured Soviet weaponry and ammunition.
At the suggestion of the United States, the Israelis would transfer
the spare parts and weapons to third countries or insurgent movements.
Egypt manufactured weapons and spare parts from Soviet designs and provided
these weapons and ammunition to the Iraqis and other countries. Egypt
also served as a supplier for the Bear Spares program. The United States
approved, assisted and encouraged Egypt's sale of weaponry, munitions
and vehicles to Iraq.
Mr. Bush’s generals
have been told to play politics instead of soldiers. Neglecting their
duty to protect their country, they are obeying a man who is jeopardizing
peace in violation of Chapter VII of the United Nations Security Council
. These generals, more versed in lying than in protecting the Americans,
as with their commander-in-chief, would have the nation believe that
weapons killing Americans are coming from Iran. America and the CIA,
masters of deception, eager to start another war at any cost, even at
the cost of American patriots who are dying in Iraq, are hard at work
convincing the nation that Iran is arming Iraqis, attempting to make
us forget the 190,000 assault rifles and pistols that the Pentagon ‘lost’
(while under the watchful eye of KBR, Mr. Cheney’s old company).
One must wonder what else may be ‘lost’ or otherwise, and
blamed on Iran?
In the reality we live in,
this Hydra too, has its weakness and its strength. What empowers and
feeds it is apathy. Its weakness is the collective will of a well-informed
nation. The arrow that will rid that nation of its destructive ways,
is the Constitution of the United States. Failure to do this, will be
the destruction of the U.S. as we know it.
Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich
has studied in Iran, UK, France, and the US. She obtained her Bachelors
Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California,
Los Angeles. She has done extensive research on US foreign policy towards
Iran and Iran’s nuclear program. She is currently a graduate student,
peace activist, public speaker, and radio commentator.
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