Blood Ba'ath

Coming clean about the world's "peace" marches.

Editorial by James E. Ewart, author of
Money - Ye shall have honest weights and measures.

First released May 10, 2003
Updated December 20, 2009

Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq's Ba'ath Party, was a fond admirer of Russian communist dictator Joseph “Stalin” (born Josif Djugashvili). Thus it may come as no surprise that there are many similarities between Saddam's regime and communist tyranny – or "scientific socialism," to use the term preferred by many communists.

“Stalin,” of course, was possibly the most brutal leader of the Communist ("Red") terror that, beginning in 1917, engulfed Russia and its neighbors, dominated them for more than seven decades, and resulted in the unnatural death (murder) of an estimated 149 million innocent men, women, and children.

Indeed, scholars today peg the last century's murder-by-government at 169 million, an average of 5,700 innocent men, women, and children murdered by government workers – police or soldiers – every day for more than 80 years.

Actions speak louder than words.

Just like the KGB, the Russian ("Soviet") secret police, Saddam Hussein, his sons, and the Ba'ath Party operatives routinely used torture and murder to wipe out their real and imagined enemies. During the past 20 years or so, Iraq's government is thought to have murdered more than one million Iraqi citizens. Murdering one's political enemies is standard practice in communist countries. Those murders terrorize the population and shut off almost all dissent.

Saddam Hussein's socialist friends – the political leadership of France, Germany, and Russia – ably defended him recently in the United Nations. Of course it may be just a coincidence but the United Nations has been infamous for most of its 58 years, possibly because communist agent Alger Hiss – and perhaps one or two of his communist friends – helped organize and run it. That inauspicious beginning may also help explain why Libya now chairs the UN's committee on human rights, and why Saddam Hussein's Iraq heads the UN's committee on disarmament, and why the Undersecretary for Political and Security Council Affairs – considered by many as the world's most powerful political post because it controls all U.N. military action – is always a representative from a communist-bloc nation, often a Russian army general.

Following the "money" trail in all of this, we note that France, Germany, and Russia may incur serious financial loss as a result of Saddam's ouster from Iraq. For unpaid loans, and for lost contracts for products and services, Russia's loss may be more than $7 billion. Socialist France may lose about $5 billion. For socialist Germany, the losses may exceed $1 billion. It's no wonder these countries' socialist politicians worked so hard recently to preserve Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq.

Did you read about the Russian diplomats caught in crossfire from Coalition forces? They were first said to be transporting Saddam's private archives, including records of gassing the Kurds, torture methods and the names of victims, and progress regarding development and concealment of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons. But now we are told that Saddam's records were already in Moscow, spirited there for safe keeping a week or so before Coalition forces invaded Iraq. Safe-keeping in this instance means hidden from the view of those who might wish to investigate, charge, and prosecute those involved in crimes against humanity.

When one also considers recent reports that the Russians spied on Western leaders and then gave Saddam the fruits of that spying, it would appear that Saddam's Ba'ath regime was cozy with Russia's "former communist" leadership, especially with the "born-again Christian" Vladimir Putin.

Ba'ath cruelties.

Did you catch the story about the Iraqi prison for children? Coalition forces freed about 150 prisoners age eight to 14. Their crime? They were simply the son or daughter of someone the Ba'ath Party viewed with disfavor. Some of the children had been imprisoned for more than two years. Brutalizing children is just one way the world's totalitarian regimes suppress dissent.

How about the discovery of the suburban Iraqi warehouse holding about 200 boxes containing the remains of persons whose bodies were horribly damaged, strongly suggesting they had been tortured to death? Were they, as some allege, the remains of Iranian soldiers violently killed in the Iran-Iraq war? Or were they captured Iranian soldiers, or Iraqi dissidents, or both, tortured and murdered by Ba'ath operatives? Either way, what kind of person keeps corpses around for a decade or longer, above ground? For what purpose were those corpses kept?

Did you notice the report of the Iraqi citizens held at gunpoint and forced to watch Ba'ath operatives feed prisoners into a huge commercial paper shredder? Some of the victims were fed into the machine feet first so their screaming would last longer and thus be even more terrifying to those compelled to witness these monstrous cruelties.

Did you see the recent story of the 17 Iraqi workmen who, with a former Iraqi cabinet minister, a month or two ago buried several tons of bacterial or chemical warfare material in a secret location in the Iraqi desert? When the workers returned to Baghdad, Saddam had them shot, to make sure the secret site could not be disclosed. When the cabinet minister realized that he was likely the next to be shot, he tried to flee Iraq. Saddam's agents caught the man, brought him back to Baghdad, beat him mercilessly, then tied him to a post, cut out his tongue, and let him bleed to death. This is how the Ba'ath Party – and other dictators – handle internal security.

Did you hear about the horror story CNN sat on for a decade? It seems a young Kuwaiti woman displeased the occupying Ba'ath Party by speaking to a journalist. For this so-called crime she was arrested and, every day for the next two years she was beaten while her father was forced to watch. Finally Ba'ath Party operatives killed the woman, tore her body apart, put the parts in a plastic garbage bag, and then placed it on the front porch of the woman's family.

Do Saddam's friends include the world's "peace" marchers?

And now let's consider the world's "peace" marchers, the core of whom – in the United States and elsewhere – are widely recognized as the adult versions of the pro-Communist hippies of the 1960s and 1970s. These folks, many supposedly students at the time, supported North Viet Nam's Communist leader “Ho Chi Minh” (a communist tyrant born under two different names and who, according to a recent Internet search using Google, used at least five other false names during his adult life). The so-called students’ supposed opposition to “war” was really just a manifestation of their support for their hero, Communist dictator “Ho Chi Minh.” Thus the world ultimately learned that the “college students” opposed the war in Viet Nam, verbally abused and spat on U.S. military personnel, and burned the U.S. flag, not because they were peace-loving individuals but mainly because they opposed individual freedom and supported Communist tyranny.

Today the world's dominant media would seem to have us believe that today's so-called peace marches are spontaneous demonstrations of public opposition to the war in Iraq. Spontaneous? Public opposition? Hardly. Most of the demonstrations can easily be seen to be organized and led by "former communist" agitators and orchestrated by "former communist" senior political leaders in "former communist" Russia. For a short but incisive expert's look at the communist core of the demonstrations, you may wish to read the recent editorial item by Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest-ranking Soviet-bloc intelligence agent to defect to the West. This outstanding article, "Still Red: More spontaneous anti-American demonstrations," is in National Review (www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-pacepa041403.asp).

Those "peace marches" were organized, in just a few days, simultaneously but not spontaneously all over the world – largely by communists.

Local support for communists.

And what might be the best recruiting centers for these "peace" marches? Consider the largest and most-active communist-oriented action organizations in almost every major city in the world: the colleges and universities.

Immature, gullible students – and many ill-informed members of the community – make up the bulk of the marches. The protesters are manipulated by confused or malicious "former communist" or socialist academics. These professors inculcate their followers to stand on street corners and chant socialist slogans. Then the dominant media gives equal time to the protesters. Media reps say their broadcast of the communist's psychological-warfare arguments is simply good journalism, presenting both sides of an issue. Nonetheless, some critics now quietly suggest that the so-called peace marching (and dominant media promotion of it) may really be close to treason – aiding and abetting psychological warfare against the United States of America and the U.S. Constitution – by a vicious enemy that has simply wrapped itself in a flag labeled "free speech."

Is there a hidden agenda?

What do you think is the main purpose of the protest marches? Since most of the world’s population already abhors war, there's obviously no rational need for anti-war protest marches. Nonetheless, we in the West in particular, as a People, are willing to take up arms in the defense of innocent life. That’s because we recognize and appreciate that the protection of innocent life is the hallmark of civil society, and that a disregard for innocent life is the hallmark of the world's brutes. So although we may readily defend ourselves and our honored institutions, we simply do not go around starting wars. Doesn't this clearly obvious fact make you wonder what's really behind the sudden outpouring of "peace" marches?

In general, there seems little question that the recent protest marches' clear and overriding intent has been to irritate the public. No march focused on making a measured, mature appeal to logic or reason. The typical march has been an "in your face," vulgar attempt to trigger public hostility. This clear insult to public decency has made some observers offer that the marches may be part of a highly devious plan to build popular (but horribly misguided) support for freedom-eroding legislation such as the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act, two of the most unconstitutional and dangerous pieces of legislation ever passed in the United States of America.

Are the recent "peace marches" part of someone's secret plan to trick those of us in the free world into legislating away our freedoms? If yes, that means the world's free peoples might do well to remember the sage warning of William Pitt: "Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."

Support from monopoly capitalists?

Were Saddam Hussein and his Ba'ath Party put into power more than 20 years ago, and kept there, by those who might profit from Saddam's criminal insanity? Is there a pattern in all of this global turmoil? Scholars have discovered or confirmed the accuracy of the following important facts:

In 1917, "Lenin" (born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov) received significant financial support from New York.

In the 1920s and 1930s, Adolf Hitler received significant financial support from New York.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Joseph “Stalin” received significant financial and other support directly or indirectly from financiers in New York. In particular, in 1948 a very prominent New York financier gave the United Nations the funds it needed to buy the land on which the U.N. building now sits. Now isn't that a remarkable coincidence?

In the 1950s and 1960s, more communist and other totalitarian regimes received significant financial support from financiers in New York.

In the 1970s and 1980s, significant financial support for Saddam Hussein (and Osama bin Laden and the Taliban) came from New York financiers.

In 2003, it appears that significant financial and other support for the "peace" demonstrations may have come, directly and indirectly, from New York financiers.

Important facts give rise to difficult questions.

Intelligent voters in every country might do well to consider at least some of the following questions:

After the attack of September 11, 2001, did certain New York financiers decide that the world's terrorist carnage was hitting a little too close for comfort?

After September 11, 2001, did certain corporate intelligence networks uncover solid and disturbing facts about Saddam's chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons development program?

After September 11, 2001, did certain New York financiers become increasingly concerned about losing control of Iraq's oil reserves?

Did certain corporate decision-makers then decide that their man Saddam was getting a little too big for his britches?

Did certain heavyweight financiers in New York then tell President George W. Bush that Saddam and his Ba'ath Party must be removed from power?

Did New York financiers eventually order the Bush administration to use the U.S. military to clean up the mess in Iraq – and arrange for the U.S. taxpayer to pay the bill?

And finally, did certain New York financiers very recently also arrange for the world's "peace" marches to agitate the U.S. public so it would solidly support U.S. military action against Saddam Hussein, and support the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Act, and support future freedom-limiting and unconstitutional laws?

How big is the problem?

Perhaps some of the most important questions thoughtful people can ask today are:

How many middle-eastern countries might be run by criminal dictators acting under the aegis of a supposedly Islamic religion?

How many of the world's billion or so Muslims are actually misguided victims or outright slaves of criminal "Islamic" dictators?

How many of those dictators are secretly controlled by New York's financiers?

And how many other countries might be secretly controlled or heavily influenced by New York's financiers?

A look at the big picture.

Let's consider the known facts. Hallmarks of communism ("scientific socialism") are torture, imprisoned children, terror, tongues cut out, merciless beatings, gang rape, slaughter of innocents, slavery, "student" demonstrations and "peace" marches, government orchestrated "popular support" demonstrations, endless official lies, war, hatred, and genocide.

These horrors may have been made possible by significant funding and other support from New York financiers.

And these horrors have been and still are defended in the free world by a relative handful of terribly confused Hollywood and media personalities, academics, clergy, and corrupt (or stupid) politicians.

Clearly, the actions of Saddam Hussein's Ba'ath Party – and the world's other tyrannical institutions, paralleling the communist's horrific way of life and death – underscore the profound truth of Lord Acton's famous warning: "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

Welcome to the world of 2003 – but resist every attempt to trick you into supporting a legislative "blood Ba'ath" in your country.

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Postscript, Sunday, August 10, 2003.

In recent days, the world has learned several new and important facts about the Saddam Hussein regime. Here are a few of those facts.

1. About a dozen high-performance jet fighters have been found buried in the Iraqi desert. The Ba'ath Party's efforts to hide these weapons (of mass destruction!) were successful in the sense that the site was not detected by U.S. or allied searchers. An Iraqi who knew about the burial site finally overcame his or her fears of retaliation and disclosed the site to Coalition personnel. One of the buried aircraft was a top-of-the-line MiG 29 Foxbat, a Russian high-performance fighter aircraft capable of 3,000 mph. This aircraft was outfitted with the latest-technology reconnaissance systems.

2. Saddam’s eldest son, Uday, according to the Sunday Times of London, July 27, 2003, may have been even more deranged than first thought by some Western observers. In an interview with a person the Times describes as “a chief executioner” for Uday, the executioner said Uday ordered him to seize two 19-year old students. He took the youths to Uday’s private zoo where he (Uday) kept two lions. The executioner forced the youths into the cage, and then watched the lions kill and devour the two young men. According to the Times story, the two young men had competed with Uday for the attention of some young ladies.

3. The executioner also reported that, under Uday’s direct orders, he had taken part in mass beheadings. In one afternoon he said he decapitated 36 people, including one pregnant woman. He was also involved in numerous executions where victims were forced to kneel, their heads were then placed in a special fixture, and then they were split down the middle. After being split, another executioner cut the torso into halves crosswise, quartering the victim.

4. Uday did not watch the executions. Instead, he had them video-taped. That way he could view the tapes or show them to others later. In many cases, to further terrorize the victim's family (and indirectly, all of the Iraqi people), the beheading victims’ head and body were returned to their families in separate bags. This tactic helped assure that all members of the family, including the youngest children, were immediately and unmistakably aware that their relative had been dismembered.

5. Another source recently reported that Uday had had the letter “U” (in Arabic script) branded into a buttock of each of his sexual conquests.

The reader should note that psychopathic behavior is the rule, and not the exception, today in every totalitarian state: Cuba, North Korea, Red China, Russia, and Vietnam. Psychopathic behavior is also the rule with terrorists operating today in the Philippines, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and in several countries in South and Central America, and Africa.

The reader may also wish to consider joining the growing number of thoughtful observers who suggest that totalitarian states (Russia, Red China, North Korea, etc.) are not run by Socialists, Communists, or advocates of any other political or economic view. Not at all. The facts clearly show that Russia, Red China, North Korea, and all other totalitarian states today are countries temporarily dominated by groups of psychopathic criminals.

End of Postscript dated Sunday, August 10, 2003 (edited slightly November 29, 2003).

Postscript, Sunday, June 6, 2004.

Scattered news reports in early 2004 revealed how Saddam Hussein trained his personal “Fayadden” security forces, the “elite” guards who were responsible for guarding and protecting him. To help them become utterly ruthless, they were forced to watch, without flinching or otherwise showing emotion, as a group of average Iraqi families – fathers, mothers, and their children – were tied to posts in a fenced-in area. Then vicious dogs were turned loose on the prisoners, to attack and bite them until they died.

[Such evil is the rule, not the exception, in “socialist” countries. We often don’t hear about the atrocities until long after they take place because the few witnesses are terrified of talking about what they’ve seen, sometimes even long after they’ve lived in this or other safe country. Terror tends to guarantee long-term silence in many people. Je.]

End of Postscript dated Sunday, June 6, 2004.

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