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The Emperor Has No Clothes
by US Senator Robert Byrd
US Senate, Senate Floor Remarks, 17 October 2003
www.globalresearch.ca 20 October 2003
The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/BYR310A.html


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In 1837, Danish author, Hans Christian Andersen, wrote a wonderful fairy tale
which he titled The Emperor's New Clothes. It may be the very first example
of the power of political correctness. It is the story of the Ruler of a
distant land who was so enamored of his appearance and his clothing that he
had a different suit for every hour of the day.

One day two rogues arrived in town, claiming to be gifted weavers. They
convinced the Emperor that they could weave the most wonderful cloth, which
had a magical property. The clothes were only visible to those who were
completely pure in heart and spirit.

The Emperor was impressed and ordered the weavers to begin work immediately.
The rogues, who had a deep understanding of human nature, began to feign work
on empty looms.

Minister after minister went to view the new clothes and all came back
exhorting the beauty of the cloth on the looms even though none of them could
see a thing.

Finally a grand procession was planned for the Emperor to display his new
finery. The Emperor went to view his clothes and was shocked to see
absolutely nothing, but he pretended to admire the fabulous cloth, inspect
the clothes with awe, and, after disrobing, go through the motions of
carefully putting on a suit of the new garments.

Under a royal canopy the Emperor appeared to the admiring throng of his
people - - all of whom cheered and clapped because they all knew the rogue
weavers' tale and did not want to be seen as less than pure of heart.

But, the bubble burst when an innocent child loudly exclaimed, for the whole
kingdom to hear, that the Emperor had nothing on at all. He had no clothes.

That tale seems to me very like the way this nation was led to war.

We were told that we were threatened by weapons of mass destruction in Iraq,
but they have not been seen.

We were told that the throngs of Iraqi's would welcome our troops with
flowers, but no throngs or flowers appeared.

We were led to believe that Saddam Hussein was connected to the attack on the
Twin Towers and the Pentagon, but no evidence has ever been produced.

We were told in 16 words that Saddam Hussein tried to buy "yellow cake" from
Africa for production of nuclear weapons, but the story has turned into empty
air.

We were frightened with visions of mushroom clouds, but they turned out to be
only vapors of the mind.

We were told that major combat was over but 101 [as of October 17] Americans
have died in combat since that proclamation from the deck of an aircraft
carrier by our very own Emperor in his new clothes.

Our emperor says that we are not occupiers, yet we show no inclination to
relinquish the country of Iraq to its people.

Those who have dared to expose the nakedness of the Administration's policies
in Iraq have been subjected to scorn. Those who have noticed the elephant in
the room

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Faszysci mieli Zydow, komunisci mieli kapitalistow, kapitalisci mieli
komunistow, buszysci maja Arabow, Rzymianie mieli chrzescijan.....

Straszenie rzesz wiecznie zywe.
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The return of Arabophobia

Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden are only the latest in a long line of Arab
bogeymen

Neil Clark
Monday October 20, 2003
The Guardian

First, they tried to dismiss Iraqi resistance as the work of "Saddam
loyalists". Then they sought to blame "outside forces". Now, as it becomes
clear that Iraqis of all sects oppose the occupation, a third explanation has
arisen. Terrorism, anarchy and criminality are prevalent in Iraq because ...
er ... terrorism, anarchy and criminality are what Iraqis do.
Arabophobia has been part of western culture since the Crusades, with Saddam
Hussein and Osama bin Laden only the latest in a long line of Arab bogeymen.
For centuries the Arab has played the role of villain, seducer of our women,
hustler and thief - the barbarian lurking at the gates of civilisation.

In the 20th century new images emerged: the fanatical terrorist, the stone-
thrower, the suicide bomber. Now, as the Project for a New American Century
suffers its first major setback in the back streets of Baghdad and Basra,
Arabophobia has been given a new lease of life. "I read TE Lawrence before I
came here," a British officer was quoted in the Mail on Sunday. "A century ago
he recognised dishonesty was inherent in Arab society. Today is the same. They
do nothing for love and nothing at all if they can help it."

The attitudes of the officer, shocking though they are, only mirror those of
the people who sent him to war. Scratch a neo-con and you find an Arabophobe.
Condoleezza Rice, President Bush's national security adviser, has berated Arabs
on the "need to change their behaviour". Douglas Feith, the undersecretary of
defence for policy, has talked of Israel's "moral superiority" over its
neighbours. And the veteran foreign policy hawk Richard Perle, when asked about
the fears Egyptians had of the Iraq war provoking an Arab backlash,
replied: "Egyptians can barely govern their own country, we don't need advice
on how to govern ours."

For the first time, we have an American administration that talks of "de-
Arabising" the Middle East - the ultimate Perleian dream of Arab nations
governed by clones of Ahmed Chalabi, their bazaars buried under shopping malls
and Arab hospitality (not good for business) replaced by western corporate
ethics.

It is not hard to find evidence of the increased pervasiveness of neo-con-
induced Arabophobia in our media, whether intentional or not. Contrast Jeremy
Paxman's handling of Ruth Wedgewood, an American neo-conservative, and Imad
Moustapha, Syria's deputy ambassador to the US, on Newsnight recently.
Professor Wedgewood was treated with a deference you would expect Paxman to
reserve for his great aunt, Dr Moustapha with a withering contempt and studied
condescension (why should we believe you, "old chap"?). But with respect,
Jeremy, why should we not believe Dr Moustapha? Wedgewood was speaking for a
nation that launched an illegal war of aggression on grounds which have proved
to be false. Moustapha was the representative of a country which is in no
breach of international law and has called for the removal of all WMD from the
Middle East.

Issues of mendacity have, of course, been a major theme in international events
this year. The British public had to decide who was telling the truth: Tony
Blair, with his claim that Iraq posed "a very real threat to Britain", or
Saddam, with his repeated denials. The neo-cons knew that their case for war
was painfully thin. But they banked on Arabophobia - stoked by their allies in
the media - to do the rest: Tony, the white, middle-class churchgoer, or
Saddam, the swarthy Arab? For many, there was no contest. Of course, Saddam
couldn't possibly be telling the truth about not possessing WMD. He's an Arab.
Arabs lie. We know this from TE Lawrence.

Critical to the neo-con plan to obtain control of the resources of the Middle
East is a need to portray Arabs not just as mendacious, but also as "barely
capable" of running their own countries without benign outside interference.
The neo-con notion that Arabs need "civilising" and "assistance" in shaping
their future differs very little from the attitudes of the first British
imperialists in Africa more than a century ago. The British and American
officers who now talk of Iraqi "dishonesty", and seek to portray Iraq as a
backward and savage land, would rather we forget that up until the imposition
of sanctions by Britain and the US, independent Ba'athist Iraq, although a
dictatorship, had the most developed infrastructure, the best healthcare and
the best universities of any country in the Middle East.

"Iraqis are the world's best dodgers and thieves - they are descended from a
direct line of Ali Babas," says Corporal Kevin Harnley of the Royal Engineers,
bemoaning the black market in British-issue police uniforms. The irony, that he
himself has been an accomplice to one of the most audacious smash-and-grab
enterprises in the history of thievery, seems to have been lost on him.

· Neil Clark is a writer and journalist specialising in Middle Eastern and
Balkan affairs