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All this talk about supposed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq sent me scouring the shelves of the Huntington Beach Library.

I discovered that the presence of WMDs is anything but new to Iraq.

Indeed, even the Great Flood of ancient times, chronicled by Moses, appears not to be a freak natural disaster, but a deliberate, premeditated act of reprisal terrorism.

According to the King James Holy Bible, Iraq continued to suffer terrorist attacks even after the flood waters receded. Compare the wanton destruction of the twin cities of Sodom and Gomorrah with the infamous destruction of New York's Twin Towers. While two airplanes rained upon this New York building complex, killing more than 3,000 people, “the Lord rained upon Sod'om and Go-mo'rah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.” The attack killed every single person in these two cities (except for one family who managed to escape) and completely dismantled both cities' infrastructures (Genesis 19:24).

Although weapons inspectors have yet to find evidence of biological weapons in Iraq, ample evidence suggests that followers of an insurgent who successfully used biological weapons in the region later established a base within Iraq.

Moses-claiming to be instructed by God-produced biological weapons, which were used to infect humans, livestock and crops. He masterminded the infamous plagues of frogs, lice, flies, a mysterious disease which infected livestock (possibly anthrax?), hail, fire, locusts, and a blight which destroyed the wheat and flax crops.

These extremists were able to intimidate the Egyptian government into giving in to their terrorist demands, and they later sought refuge in Iraq (Exodus 7-12). For all we know, this terrorist network still has biological weapons capabilities.

The first case of modern WMDs in Iraq occurred shortly after the creation of modern “Iraq.” Splitting up the old Ottoman Empire after World War I, British and French cartographers, ignorant of tribal and traditional cultural divisions of the area, drew artificially colonially contrived borders around this territory that is now known as Iraq.
It was after this border drawing that modern chemical weapons first appeared in Iraq, when Winston Churchill began using them, throughout the 1920s, to punish ungrateful Iraqis who did not accept British rule.

Geoff Simons' Iraq quotes Churchill's thoughts on this tactic. “I am strongly in favor of using poisoned gas against uncivilized tribes…Gases can be used which spread a lively terror.”

Iraq remained under British domination until Abdul-Karim Qassim's successful coup in 1958. Iraq came under the influence of a new empire when the CIA helped change this regime by aiding the Baathist coup in 1963. Saddam Hussein eventually rose through the ranks of the Baath Party to rule Iraq. Hussein remained a United States ally until 1990. (For details on Hussein's close relationship with the U.S. check out Robert Fisk's Great War for Civilisation.)

Under the auspices of the U.S., Hussein continued Churchill's tradition of chemical weapons during the 1980-1988 war with Iran. His use of WMDs reached its zenith against rebellious Kurds in the Anfal campaign of 1988. According to David L. Phillips' Losing Iraq, “as many as 182,000 people perished during [this] campaign.”

Phillips is the former Senior Adviser to the U.S. Dept. of State. He resigned from this position upon realizing that the Bush administration was intent on ignoring his years of work planning. “That the Bush administration attacked Iraq without a strategy to win peace was a personal disappointment,” Phillips writes.

So, we know that Bush has discarded Phillips' plans. But what are Bush's plans for the continued occupation of Iraq? (“He who fails to plan, plans to fail,” goes the old adage.) That's a question whose answer is harder to find than WMDs, at least historically, in Iraq.

Check it out!:
Hanging out in the library with Scottie Dawg

This month: Searching for WMD's, an exit plan, and a good book.

by Scott Sink

Featured books:

Fisk, Robert. The Great War for Civilisation. New York: Knopf, 2005.
Holy Bible (King James Version). New York: World Publishing.
Phillips, David L. Losing Iraq. U.S.: Westview Press, 2005.
Simons, Geoff. Iraq: From Sumer to Saddam. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.

Plague of Boold: By James Tissot 1896

Plague of Hail: Unknown artist

Plague of Boils: Unknown artist

Plagues of Egypt by Joseph Turner 1800