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Duped by the 'Emperor's New Clothes' — WMD Lev Navrozov The Emperor's New Clothes? Donald Trump on CNN: "The Emperor Is Naked!" In Andersen's tale "The Emperor's New Clothes," the emperor was naked, but the assertion that he was wearing "new clothes" was not just a lie, but a general pretense or conformity until a child shouted that the Emperor was naked. The "war in Iraq" was a set of many pretenses. The head and members of the U.S. government initiated these pretenses for their private purposes. But what about the mass information media some of whose "hosts" have annual salaries of millions or dozens of millions of dollars and can be expected to be as unprejudiced as that boy in Andersen's tale. Or surely they could find such "guests" for their programs. Last March Donald Trump appeared on a CNN program and refused to pretend to see the "The Emperor's New Clothes." But where had CNN been before? Surely Donald Trump had existed when George Bush Sr. provoked Saddam Hussein (through April Glaspie, the ambassador Bush Sr. appointed to Iraq) to invade Kuwait, and thus made Hussein a diabolical war enemy of the United States, instead of a friend that he had been when he defended Iraq against Iran, including the suppression of the Iraqi Kurds, many of whom sided with Iran. Apart from his villainous invasion of Kuwait, the newly discovered villain Hussein was sure to use against the United States "weapons of mass destruction" just as 19 suicidal terrorists (most Saudis) used U.S. airliners to ram the Trade Center towers and the Pentagon. How can the U.S. government prevent such attacks? By destroying all the U.S. airliners, for surely they were in the present case "weapons of mass destruction"? Even if Hussein had had "weapons of mass destruction," left over from the war against Iran when they had been used against Iraqi Kurds, with U.S. approval (and U.S. sale to Hussein of chemical weapons, for example). Many or most Iraqi Kurds sided with Iran in the Iran-Iraq war, while the U.S. government did not want Iraq to be swallowed by Iran. How did the Emperor's "new clothes" — "Hussein's weapons of mass destruction" — originate? Story Continues Below
The goal of many Shia had been to create a Shia dictatorship and to destroy if necessary the Sunnis, as Hitler destroyed those German citizens who were Jews. The Shia goal had called for a U.S. invasion to overthrow Hussein, a Sunni, and a lawyer (since just like Jews in Germany, many Sunni were lawyers, doctors, etc.). There were enough Shia to spin tales to the CIA and the British Intelligence Service about the Sunni Hussein's possession of "weapons of mass destruction" and his intention to produce even the atom bomb! The CIA and the British Intelligence Service had enough ink to put these tales down as "secret documents" — from Hussein's safes, no doubt. The U.S. and British governments were only too glad to take the Shia tales for the Sunni Hussein's top secret information. A motivation was the $4.6 trillion of oil discovered in Iraq plus $6 trillion of it likely to be discovered there. It is pleasant to become, especially in retirement after government chores for a modest salary, an oil trillionaire, or even billionaire, especially after George W. Bush failed in Texas even as an oil millionaire. On May 20, 2003, he signed his Executive Order 13 303, to grant the immunity to U.S. oil corporations in Iraq from both criminal prosecution and civil litigation! The only U.S. media outlet that published this extraordinary document was "Los Angeles Times" of Aug. 7, 2003. Though it came to be generally recognized in this case that the emperor was naked, that is, Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction in 2003, the war continued just as before. What were the Emperor's still newer clothes? Democracy in Iraq as in Afghanistan (thought to be the best country for an important oil pipeline). As for democracy in Afghanistan, a Christian Bible found in the dwelling of an Afghani condemned him to death. No book, be it even "The Communist Manifesto," found in a German home, automatically condemned its tenant to death at any time under Nazism. The Emperor's new clothes called "the war in Iraq" (was it a war or just a mess?) are now seen by most Americans as having demonstrated the catastrophic ineptness of the U.S. establishment. The "war" against a small technologically and scientifically backward Third-World country has lasted as long as World War I or World War II. And the result? The invaders are worse off than they were five years ago. The question is, What about China's attack on the United States with weapons the existence of which no one has even suspected in Iraq, whose population amounts to about 1 percent of that of China and is divided into three hostile groups at war with one another? When I lectured at the East-Side Conservative Club, Donald Trump granted free of charge premises to the Club for lectures. What I said in my lecture seemed to many insane, but Donald said to me, "Good for you, Lev!" and Tom Bolan, the chairman of the Club, immortalized the moment in a photograph, which I keep for history. In March 2007 Donald said on CNN that he did not want to run for the presidency, but many of his supporters believe that he should. Why didn't CNN interview him earlier, but waited for March 2007, when the emperor's nakedness had become a publicly pronounceable fact? After the March interview Donald has disappeared from the cynosure of the media attention as a potential presidential candidate. Hence I want to offer my plan I have been working on for several years. It is necessary to have an outfit, producing independent television programs and movies opening the eyes of Americans to the geostrategic realities of today I have been describing in my weekly columns and interesting to as many Westerners as possible. The presidential vision of Donald Trump and of his supporters is correct: Only such a president can save the West from the annihilation by Sino-Russian post-nuclear superweapons or from unconditional surrender. And the new presidency requires the new electorate. Not that one which elected twice an "Emperor," assuming that if he has, in his Oval Office, an (extramarital) affair with a White House intern (how very Democratic!), she would not blab to her girlfriends about her "affair with the president of the United States." And no, not that (so very Republican!) electorate that twice elected an "Emperor," assuming that Iraq has been the gravest mortal danger to the United States, and owing to the "Emperor's New Clothes," the United States will, in another x years, defeat "the terrorists" as the "Emperor" calls the Sunni for their resistance to the Shia dictatorship. But how to bring this column of mine for NewsMax.com and WorldTribune.com to Donald's attention? He has probably forgotten me in the awesome dynamics of his multifarious activity. Any ideas?
You can e-mail me at navlev@cloud9.net. Editor's note: Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
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