The Butcher, the Barbarian and Operation Cutting Edge (re:Webb)

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http://www.counterpunch.com/beisler11172006.html


What Webb Knows

The Butcher, the Barbarian and Operation Cutting Edge


There is a sordid history behind James Webb's election to the Senate representing Virginia that brings hope for spotlighting the insane Bush Family rule of brutality, destruction and death.

Remember how Bush the Butcher duped the American people in Gulf War I with "Saddam has missiles that can reach Kansas City" or we need a small force to protect our regional allies and thus "Desert Shield?"

During this hype and b.s., James Webb, the Reagan administration's Secretary of the Navy, stood before the TV news cameras and warned that the Soviet Union was countering with "Operation Cutting Edge." In Operation Cutting Edge, Webb stated that the Soviets were wiring the oil fields with explosives and if the United States went beyond removing Iraq from Kuwait by threat, diplomacy or military force and actually invaded Iraq, the Soviets would blow up the oil fields. The ensuing inferno would stop any advancing army. Hence the operational name "Cutting Edge."

Between the Kuwait border and Iraq were known to be pitiful Kurdish conscripts who had been starving on scraps for weeks with little weaponry or ammunition. The Butcher had bulldozer blades welded onto tanks and buried them alive.

Twelve miles into Iraqi territory rolls the American army. The fields are torched and a generation's worth of oil is turned into hellfire.

Soon thereafter, The Butcher would truly earn his "historical honorarium" when the U.S. dropped incendiary devices on downtown Panama City as a diversion to snatch one former CIA asset, Manuel Noriega. Five thousand innocent Panamanians were fried for the "diversion" while sleeping.

The Senator-elect knows these facts and more.


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