投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 12 月 02 日 17:13:15:
●小ブッシュが今後数ヶ月のうちに実行しそうな対イラク攻撃作戦
の概要が、英国『オブザーバー』紙によって暴露（？）されました。
それによれば、イラク周辺の反サダム勢力に武器を与えて
代理戦争をやらせ、サダムの首を取るのだとか……。
●これってソ連を叩くためにアフガンのゲリラ兵たちに軍事援助を
していた20年前のやりかたと一緒なんだよね。
●予想される展開―→これでうまくサダム打倒が出来ても、また
中東に新たな反米テロ勢力が生まれて、「テロ撲滅の戦争」は
半永久的に（？）続いていくでしょう……。 おいおいアメリカの
戦争屋さんたち、あんたがたバカじゃないの。（笑）
●これじゃ「国際テロ」の親玉はやっぱり米国だってことにしか
ならないよ。 ソ連が健在だった頃は、テロの親玉が２つ存在
していたけどさ。 同じやりかたをしたのでは、世界中から憎しみ
を買うのが関の山だって。 アッタマ悪いな〜、小ブッシュは。（笑）
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From The Observer,
http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,610461,00.html
Secret US plan for Iraq war
Bush orders backing for rebels to topple Saddam
War on Terrorism: Observer special
Peter Beaumont, Ed Vulliamy and Paul Beaver
Sunday December 2, 2001
The Observer
America intends to depose Saddam Hussein by giving armed support to
Iraqi opposition forces across the country, The Observer has learnt.
President George W. Bush has ordered the CIA and his senior military
commanders to draw up detailed plans for a military operation that
could begin within months.
The plan, opposed by Tony Blair and other European Union leaders,
threatens to blow apart the increasingly shaky international consensus
behind the US-led 'war on terrorism'.
It envisages a combined operation with US bombers targeting key
military installations while US forces assist opposition groups in the
North and South of the country in a stage-managed uprising. One
version of the plan would have US forces fighting on the ground.
Despite US suspicions of Iraqi involvement in the 11 September
attacks, the trigger for any attack, sources say, would be the
anticipated refusal of Iraq to resubmit to inspections for weapons of
mass destruction under the United Nations sanctions imposed after the
Gulf war.
According to the sources, the planning is being undertaken under the
auspices of a the US Central Command at McDill air force base in
Tampa, Florida, commanded by General Tommy Franks, who is leading the
war against Afghanistan.
Another key player is understood to be former CIA director James
Woolsey. Sources say Woolsey was sent to London by the hawkish Deputy
Defence Secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, soon after 11 September to ask
Iraqi opposition groups if they would participate in an uprising if
there was US military support.
The New York Times yesterday quoted a senior administration official
who admitted that Bush's aides were looking at options that involved
strengthening groups that opposed Saddam. Richard Armitage, the Deputy
Secretary of State, said that action against Iraq was not imminent,
but would come at a 'place and time of our choosing'.
Washington has been told by its allies that evidence it has presented
of an Iraqi link to 11 September is at best circumstantial. However,
US proponents of extending the war believe they can make the case for
hitting Saddam's regime over its plan to produce weapons of mass
destruction.
A European diplomat said last week: 'In the past week the Americans
have shut up about Iraqi links to 11 September and have been talking a
lot more about their weapons programme.'
The US is believed to be planning to exploit existing UN resolutions
on Iraqi weapons programmes to set the action off.
Under the pre-existing 'red lines' for military action against Iraq -
set down by Washington and London after the Gulf War - evidence of any
credible threat from weapons of mass destruction would be regarded as
sufficient to launch military strikes along the lines of Operation
Desert Fox in 1998, when allied planes made large-scale strikes
against suspected Iraqi weapons complexes.
Opposition by Blair and French President Jacques Chirac may not be
enough to dissuade the Americans. One European military source who
recently returned from General Franks's headquarters in Florida said:
'The Americans are walking on water. They think they can do anything
at the moment and there is bloody nothing Tony [Blair] can do about
it.'
Bush is said to have issued instructions about the proposals, which
are now at a detailed stage, to his Defence Secretary, Donald
Rumsfeld, three weeks ago. But Pentagon sources say that a plan for
attacking Iraq was developed by the time Bush's order was sent to the
Pentagon, drawn up by Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, chairman of the joint
chiefs General Richard Myers, and Franks.
The plan is to work with a combination of three political forces:
Kurdish rebels in the north of Iraq, radical Sunni Muslim groups in
and around Baghdad, and, most controversially, the Shia opposition in
the south.
The most adventurous ingredient in the anti-Iraqi proposal is the use
of US ground troops, Pentagon sources say. 'Significant numbers' of
ground troops could also be called on in the early stages of any
rebellion to guard oil fields around the Shia port of Basra in
southern Iraq.
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