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Ex-CIA director: U.S. faces 'World War IV' national |
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 Thursday April 03, 2003 14:50 by Matthew
 Telling it like it is. The US is waging war on the Arab world. With the support of Bertie. LOS ANGELES, California (CNN) -- Former CIA director James Woolsey said Wednesday that the United States is engaged in World War IV, and that it could continue for years. In the address to a group of college students, Woolsey described the Cold War as the third world war and said "This fourth world war, I think, will last considerably longer than either World Wars I or II did for us. Hopefully not the full four-plus decades of the Cold War." Woolsey has been named in news reports as possible candidate for a key position in the reconstruction of a post-war Iraq. He said the new war is actually against three enemies: the religious rulers of Iran, the "fascists" of Iraq and Syria, and Islamic extremists like al Qaeda. Woolsey told the audience of about 300, most of whom are students at the University of California at Los Angeles, that all three enemies have waged war against the United States for several years but the United States has just "finally noticed." "As we move toward a new Middle East," Woolsey said, "over the years and, I think, over the decades to come ... we will make a lot of people very nervous." It will be America's backing of democratic movements throughout the Middle East that will bring about this sense of unease, he said. "Our response should be, 'good!'" Woolsey said. Singling out Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and the leaders of Saudi Arabia, he said, "We want you nervous. We want you to realize now, for the fourth time in a hundred years, this country and its allies are on the march and that we are on the side of those whom you -- the Mubaraks, the Saudi Royal family -- most fear: We're on the side of your own people." Woolsey, who served as CIA director under President Bill Clinton, was taking part in a "teach-in" at UCLA, a series of such forums at universities across the nation. A group calling itself "Americans for Victory Over Terrorism" sponsors the teach-ins, and the Bruin Republicans, UCLA's campus Republicans organization, co-sponsored Wednesday night's event. The group was founded by former Education Secretary William Bennett, who took part in Wednesday's event along with Paul Bremer, a U.S. ambassador during the Reagan administration and the former chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism.
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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5was coined by the global movement against neo-liberal capitalism.
This movement called "anti-capitalist" by the Daily Telegraph and New York Times in 1998 is a functional alliance of leftwing ecological pacifist, liberation theologists and nationalist parties and non-governmental agencies throughout the planet.
WWIV is "our term".
there are t-shirts as well.
don't allow a CIA woolly to try and use it.
oh no.
:-)
¿....you know who is going to win WWIV don't you?
never doubt it...Yossarian lives!
What happens if the democracies then elect Islamic fundamentalists as in Algeria?
It is not strictly true to say they are Islamic fundamentalist (a largely western construction), as with most political islam movements they started off voicing the concerns of the disposessed where no-one else was, and tapped into widespread disillusionment with the corrupt secular establishment and its conservative "alternative". They were well respected because they were grassroots and hardworking and fought for everyday improvements in poor people's lives. The FIS's offence was not that it was religious (that was the excuse used by the FLN government to unleash the bloodbath) its offence was that it was pro-poor and undermined the bogus claim to legitimacy by the pro-western corrupt FLN Stalinist cronies. The banning of elections by the government and the unleashing of terror by pro government pseudo gangs split and radicalised the movement into something unrecognisable. Political Islam if it is grassroots based should be critically supported until it takes power, and then criticised from below.
This is REALLY creepy.
Euopeans take note.
The nuclear fallout will be very close to you.
Believe me, the Americans think they are safe in their splendid isolation.
STOP them in their tracks now, BEFORE they make the global disaster irreversible.
BOYCOTTS of goods and services is good place to start.
FORGET about the UN. It is controlled by the US