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Published: Monday, October 7, 2002
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Volume 1, No.31
Special Announcement:
Your Chance for a Dialogue with Lyndon LaRouche:
Next Saturday, October 12, 2002 3pm EDT . . . . . (1900-2000 UTC)
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The recent behavior of President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney—specifically, the formulations presented by the two, in draft resolutions before the U.S. Congress and the United Nations Security Council, on the pending preemptive war on Iraq—manifest clinical insanity. This judgment was stated urgently on Oct. 3 by Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche, who challenged any other explanation for what the President and the Vice President are doing. Bush and Cheney are launching a war of aggression, in violation of the U.S. Constitution, and in violation of post-World War II codes of international law, including the Nuremberg precedents, the London Charter of 1945, and the United Nations Charter.
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The type of preemptive invasion of Iraq being advocated by Bush and Cheney is precisely the kind of war crime, for which 12 defendants were convicted at the Nuremberg Trials of 1945-46. The principles of law, recognized in the judgments of that first Nuremberg Tribunal, were adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in 1950. This is the cornerstone of the post-World War II order, centered around relations among sovereign nation-states.
Could a President of the United States, LaRouche asked, who was not insane, proceed with such reckless abandon, to violate these principles of law which have been the foundation of the postwar international order? Never! He concluded that the United Nations Security Council must recognize this reality. It should suspend the current debate over the insane formulations included in the Anglo-American draft resolution—which carries the implied threat to assassinate Saddam Hussein, and any number of Iraqi scientists and engineers, in a sick replay of the Jacobin Terror in 1790s France.
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This week, we take the history-minded reader to Oct. 12, 1988, the date of Lyndon LaRouche's historic address at West Berlin's Kempinski Bristol Hotel. LaRouche's speech, which later appeared on a Presidential campaign broadcast in the United States, provided an outlook toward German reunification, which has been rightly called prophetic by many, in light of the subsequent events.
In his introduction to "Truth! In U.S. National Security Policy," published in last week's EIW, LaRouche himself located the significance of his proposal, and the battle which ensued around policy toward the East—one which forces of sanity at least temporarily lost. This week, we reproduce the full speech, as follows.
LaRouche's 1988 Forecast of German Reunification
I am here today, to report to you on the subject of U.S. policy for the prospects of reunification of Germany. What I present to you now, will be a featured topic in a half-hour U.S. television broadcast, nationwide, prior to next month's Presidential election. I could think of no more appropriate place to unveil this new proposal, than here in Berlin.
I am the third of the leading candidates for election as the next President of the United States. Although I shall not win that election, my campaign will almost certainly have a significant influence in shaping some of the policies of the next President.
Although we can not know with certainty who will be the winner of a close contest between Vice President George Bush and Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, it is the best estimate in the United States today, that Mr. Bush will win the largest electoral vote. Obviously, I am not supporting Mr. Bush's candidacy, and I am not what is called a "spoiler" candidate, working secretly on Mr. Bush's behalf. Nonetheless, should Mr. Bush win, it would be likely that I would have some significant, if indirect influence on certain of the policies of the next Administration. How this result would affect the destiny of Germany and Central Europe generally, is the subject of my report here today.
By profession, I am an economist in the tradition of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Friedrich List in Germany, and of Alexander Hamilton and Mathew and Henry Carey in the United States. My political principles are those of Leibniz, List, and Hamilton, and are also consistent with those of Friedrich Schiller and Wilhelm von Humboldt. Like the founders of my republic, I have an uncompromising belief in the principle of absolutely sovereign nation-states, and I am therefore opposed to all supranational authorities which might undermine the sovereignty of any nation. However, like Schiller, I believe that every person who aspires to become a beautiful soul, must be at the same time a true patriot of his own nation, and also a world-citizen.
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Strategic Studies:
A Boldly Modest U.S. Global Mission
by Lyndon H. LaRouche, Jr.
This riposte to the Bush Administration's September 2002 pre-emptive war doctrine called 'National Security Strategy of the United States of America,' was released Sept. 27 by Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's political committee, LaRouche in 2004.
- Bush's Preposterous New Doctrine
From 'The National Security Strategy of the United States of America,' issued by the White House over the Presidential seal, September 2002.
- Bush 41 Armed the Iraq, Which Bush 43 Wants To Destroy
President George H.W. Bush (Bush 41) in 1992: 'As you may remember in history, there was a lot of support at the time [the 1980s] for Iraq as a balance to a much more aggressive Iran under Khomeini. . . . So that was part of the policy of the Reagan Administration. I was very proud to support that.'
President George W. Bush (Bush 43) in 2002: 'Saddam Hussein launched a large-scale chemical attack against Iraq's Kurdish population in the late 1980s, killing thousands...."
- 'I Will Not Be Silenced'
Amidst the current circus-like preparation for war ongoing in the United States, insufficient attention has been given to the relevant statements of Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.V.).
- Despite Attacks, Dems Report Baghdad Visit
Three Democratic Congressmen refused to bow to the intense propaganda campaign supporting the Bush Administration's war plans, which is preventing clearer heads in the Congress from seriously discussing whether the President's war drive is sane or not.
- U.S. Ambassador Tells Egypt: Censor LaRouche
During the Clinton Administration, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright used to pop up in foreign capitals and preach the virtues of 'democracy,' American-style...Now, with the George W. Bush Administration, much haschanged—including, apparently, freedom of the press.
- U.S., Arab Ambassadors Question Iraq War
[E]xcerpts from two presentations to the conference of the National Council on U.S.-Arab Relations and the U.S.-Gulf Cooperation Council's Corporate Cooperation Committee, held in Washington on Sept. 8-9.
Economics:
LaRouche Called It: 'Hellish' September for Global Economy
The month of September was a wake-up call for all those citizens and policy-makers who have been merely watching, rather than joining, the LaRouche movement.
Italy's Vote for New Monetary System Can Start Coalition To Stop the Collapse
Helga Zepp-LaRouche: Another extremely important development happened in Italy this week. The Italian Parliament took a majority vote, on a resolution on the question of the New Bretton Woods—to have a new financial architecture.
(Two detailed background articles follow Mrs. LaRouche's assessment.)
Bush Demand for Shock Smashes Tokyo Market
On top of the Wall Street bubble crash decimating world markets, Tokyo stocks were further pushed to a 19-year low of 8,879 on Oct. 4, after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fired the head of the bank regulatory Financial Services Agency (FSA) and gave IMF shock therapist Heizo Takenaka the double portfolio of FSA head and chief economic advisor.
U.S. Credit Market Debt Grows by Record Amount
American indebtedness exploded in the second quarter of 2002, taking the U.S. debt bubble to unprecedented, and unsustainable, heights. The leading sectors increasing their debt load were the Federal government, households, and financial businesses.
Brazil Is Going to Default, No Matter Who Wins the Elections
Admittedly, competition for 'Greatest Threat to the System' was fierce at the annual International Monetary Fund/World Bank meetings Sept. 27-29, what with the state of the Japanese banking system, the United States' current account deficit, and the great mortgage debt bubble...
War on Iraq Already Begun, Can Still Be Stopped
The early October war moves of the U.S. and British governments, against strong internal and international opposition and amid economic collapse, point to the necessity of stopping a war that has already begun.
- 'War Over the War' In Blair's Britain
'You may have noticed our Prime Minister yesterday, going on and on about 'Britain's destiny.' My sense is that he's going insane, as all power-hungry British Prime Ministers do, in the end.'...
- Israelis Attack U.S. Chicken-Hawk Faction
Echoes of Lyndon LaRouche's Middle East initiatives are surfacing in Israeli political discourse, especially concerning the danger that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the U.S. 'Chicken-hawks' roosting under the wings of Vice President Dick Cheney, pose for the survival of Israel.
India Okays Pre-Emptive War: Threat or Support?
On Sept. 30, while attending the World Bank-International Monetary Fund jamboree in Washington, India's Finance Minister Jaswant Singh declared that every country has the right to pre-emptive war, and that this doctrine is not the prerogative of any one nation.
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