Playing "Let's Pretend"

by Emanuel A. Winston
August 4, 2003

The Bush Administration and part of Congress have entered into the
never-never land of "Let’s Pretend". The 'pretense' of Iraq is 
unraveling as Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld denies America is 
deeply immersed in a guerilla war Muslim-style. The simultaneous 
'pretense' was the presumption that Iraqi Muslims would be 
grateful for being rescued by America (whom they consider 
'infidels' as non-Muslims).

But, as predictable and as predicted (by some of us), the Arab 
Muslim world is not now nor ever has been a friend of America 
or the West. This is a cultural/religious phenomenon that 
Americans cannot grasp - even as the imposed friendship 
crumbles before our eyes. 

Yes, the Arab Muslims want our weapons, our technology and 
will happily pay us for it but, they don't want our friendship 
or our presence on their 'Muslim' land. They 'pretend'
friendship as they see us as a valued customer for oil but 
the force of 'Jihad' (holy war) against us runs too deep for 
real friendship.

The President and the Congress vote enormous sums for the 
Palestinians even as they march in the streets, pledging their 
loyalty to Yassir Arafat and various Terrorist groups. 
The Palestinian Arab Muslims have been in lock-step with 
Saddam Hussein and his murderous Ba'athist regime long before 
those Palestinian Arabs hosted in Kuwait betrayed that 
government as they guided Saddam's troops into Kuwait during 
Saddam's 1990 invasion of Kuwait.

Now the UN has declared the 80,000 Palestinian Arabs living 
in Iraq "special status" as refugees because, with Saddam gone, 
the Iraqi landlords forced by Saddam to give them special 
treatment in low cost housing, simply are kicking them out. 
This now allows UNRWA (United Nations Refugee Works 
Administration) to fund these Palestinians - just as they have 
funded the so-called refugee camps actually run by Yassir
Arafat's PLO organizations like Fatah, Hamas, Al Aksa Brigades, 
Tanzim, Islamic Jihad, etc.

The US Congress voted additional millions of American tax-payers'
dollars at the behest of the Arabist US State Department for 
Palestinian Arab Muslims in Gaza. Anyone with half a brain 
knows that Arafat's thugs skim most of the money and it all 
eventually funnels into Arafat's considerable bank accounts 
around the world. The claim by State, the UN and the EU that
all Donor Money is being monitored and there is accountability 
and transparency is a deliberate lie. Countless documents and 
Congressional hearings, fully public and not secret, have 
traced exactly where, who, how the money goes to Arafat's 
thugocracy and not the Palestinian people whom Arafat has 
impoverished since he was returned from exile in Tunis by Oslo
in 1993. Funding Arafat has been escalated to a high state of 
the art of bribery by the Arabist State Department.

Congress and the President know all of this but, they are 
playing "Let's Pretend". The Report just issued blames the 
CIA, FBI, NSA 'et al' for non-communication with each other 
about what they knew before 9/11 but, they left out the 
Saudi involvement and the bitter fact that the Arabist State 
Department protected the Saudis and intimidated the American
Intelligence Services to NOT investigate or arrest any Arab 
Muslim - especially not to expose the Saudis.

There was supposed to be an investigation of pre-9/11 and 
the Saudi involvement. But the Congress held secret sessions 
and anything about the Saudi covert assistance to the 9/11 
Terrorists was buried as classified. Remember that 15 out 
of the 19 Terrorists who murdered more than 3000 innocents 
on 9/11 were Saudis and the other 4 were Egyptian.

In Human-Speak that means that the Saudis will be protected 
by the Bush family, the oil maggots and the Arabist U.S. 
State Department. They will and are continuing to fund 
Terrorists, fund Muslim 'madrassas' in America (schools that 
teach only a radical fundamentalist Islam called 'Wahabi'ism'
like the Taliban) and our dim President and even dimmer 
Congress will continue to "Pretend" that they are America's 
friends and allies.

As for the Arab Muslim Palestinians, the President already 
knows that they have not and will not keep their word 
affirming his "sacred" Road Map. But, Bush will continue to 
"Pretend" that they are keeping the peace - even though the 
newly appointed-by-Arafat Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas
(aka Abu Mazen) has not made one move to disarm Hamas or 
any of the other Terrorists organizations - and he promises 
NOT to. What does he think is happening now? Abu Mazen is 
fearful of opposing Arafat's legions and he uses the pitiful 
excuse that taking away their illegal weapons will start
a civil war.

The 'pretense' is that Mazen and Bush will talk them into 
peace and ceasing of Terror attacks against the Jews. A key 
question: "Are Bush and Congress either stupid or malevolent 
as they demand that Israel withdraw from where the Terrorists 
assemble, build weapons, smuggle in weapons and plan their 
next move?" If you decide that George Bush, Father George 
Bush and James Baker are not stupid then, what they are doing 
is plain evil and subversive to American interests. We can 
now add to the "Let's Pretend" game that President Bush is 
following Secretary of State Powell and the Arabist State 
Department’s advice is to pretend that, Hamas and Al Aksa
(with the others) are political and NOT Terrorist organizations 
so Abu Mazen doesn't have to confront them as Terrorists.

The game of "Let's Pretend" has been going on for 20 to 30 
years. The Arabist State Department, in lock-step with the 
oil industry, plays a see-no-evil game when it comes to Arabs 
and oil. This is how our nation has been flooded with radical 
Islamists causing a clear and present danger. Islam is on the 
march globally for world dominance and our current President 
and a lacksidaisical Congress, willing to sit back and let
others take the heat by 'pretending' it isn't happening - 
just 'biznis as usual'.

Syria has been coddled for decades as they built advanced 
chemical capabilities. Now, several years after Bashar Assad 
became President of Syria, we are told that it's his 
Father's left over generals who are running Syria. (The day 
Bashar Assad took office, I wrote an article which forecast 
that the Ba'athist Generals who run Bashar and Syria would 
remain as dangerous as ever.) The coddling by State continued 
and Syria continued to expand their Chemical arms capability. 
Add to that, the U.S. government and State Department were 
blinking and winking at Syria's connection to Iraq which only 
became public after 9/11 and the American invasion as we
watched Saddam's guys head for Syria - along with weapons.

Iran has been accumulating nuclear technology from China, 
North Korea, Russia and, when they have sufficient nuclear 
weapons and the missiles to carry them, Islam will 
aggressively challenge American and Europe. Both will, as they 
already have, try to appease the Muslims as they (American
and Europe) retreat and give up - their assets and their 
allies. This is, of course, what they demand of the Israelis, 
Eg.,: appease the Terrorists for the good of everybody.

For many years both the U.S. State Department, the FBI and 
CIA knew that radical Islamists were raising money in America 
for transfer to Terrorists in the Middle East. For the State 
Department, they were untouchable before 9/11. 
The Intelligence Agencies knew they would be in hot water if 
they actually investigated these organizations often located 
in Mosques. 

Even after 9/11, the President, in deference to Saudi Arabia 
assured us that the Muslims were peaceful and that Islam was 
a peaceful religion but, he knowingly lied. "Islam" means 
"submission" to the Laws of Islam. These Laws are very strict 
and mandated that Muslims had to spread Islam by the sword to 
the rest of the world. 

Meanwhile, Attorney General John Ashcroft was spreading the 
net for Islamists in Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles and 
wherever else Muslims created a power base of critical mass 
in America. 

While the President and his Father played "Let's Pretend", 
the Muslim Islamists were developing both a Political and 
a Terrorist Power Base in America. Is this President any 
different from the Clintons who invited many of the Muslims 
fund raisers to the White House.

Both Presidents Bush and Clinton knew where the money was 
going but, it just didn't matter until 15 Saudis and 
4 Egyptians hit the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and 
were aiming probably for the White House but were knocked out 
by the passengers and all died in a field in Pennsylvania.

But, the Terrorists need not worry that their funds will be 
cut off.

Congress and the current Administration are scheduled to 
provide the Palestinian Authority with several hundred million 
American tax-payers' dollars which, as I said earlier, will 
end up in the hands of Arafat's organization.

A bill called "Project Bio-Shield" has passed the House of 
Representatives authorizing $4-5 Billion to research 
counter-measures to Bio-Terror. This bill now goes to the 
Senate. Guess who we are scared of in terms of who will attack 
Americans with Bio Agents? Sleeper Muslim cells in America,
Chemical and Biological Agents passed to various Terrorist 
groups by Saddam before he had to flee (or was killed). 

Syria with its advanced Chemical armory....Iran who has 
crossed the spectrum with NBC (Nuclear, Biological and 
Chemical) WMD (Weapons of Mass Destruction). In a word, 
America is spending billions of dollars on antidotes and 
vaccines because primitive Muslim nations and their Terrorists 
have gotten their hands on the most deadly substance,
Americans, Russians, Chines, North Korea could invent and 
distribute. 

All of these deadly agents were developed in our laboratories 
and we allowed the Arabs access. Now, we must spend Billions 
to protect ourselves from our own greedy stupidity.

But, we go right on pretending that Islam and the Muslims are 
people who we can do 'biznis' with. 

At the moment, bubbly Blair is telling anyone who will listen 
that the genie of Muslim Terror can be put back in the bottle - 
if only Israel will give the Palestinian Terrorists whatever 
they want. This is from a man whose nation and companies were 
selling Saddam any weapon or pre-cursor Chemicals all during 
the 10 year embargo.
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Emanuel A. Winston, a Middle East analyst & commentator
gwinston@interaccess.com