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There is a current trend of trying portray Iraq as a territory inhabited by Saddam Hussein, and nobody else. Dick Cheney spoke of  wilful blindness being utilized by those opposed to an attack on Iraq, but anyone trying to justify the imminent slaughter of hundreds of thousands of innocent people must surely being exercising some of that himself. One of the main reasons that the US is despised by much of the middle east is due to it s policy on the Israel - Palestine conflict. Although Israel continuously breaks UN Security Council resolutions by occupying Palestinian land, it still receives over 3 billion dollars a year, mainly in the form of weapons, from the US. When people in Arab countries see their cousins, brothers, or mothers killed with bombs sporting the Boeing label and nice big  Made in USA tag, it must surely breed resentment. The people on the receiving end of these reckless and murderous policies certainly understand where the root source of their plight is, as it is in the best interest of heartless dictators, like Hussein, to direct attention away from himself. In fact, there is a valid argument that embargoes against Cuba and sanctions against Iraq are one of the main things keeping their respective leaders in power. Iraq has become a hot topic these days with the US preparing for a major assault. The official line is that democracy must be upheld, all weapons of mass destruction are to be disarmed, Saddam must be overthrown and a US friendly puppet government will be installed. Ulterior motives include a need to control Persian gulf oil and a desire to strike fear into any  rogue nation that may feel the need to oppose the US in the future. 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Recently, the US failed to condemn a botched coup d etat designed to oust Hugo Chavez, democratically elected President of Venezuela. Whitehouse officials came under fire from much of Latin America when comments blaming street protestors for the attempt were seen to fuel an already dangerous situation. It seems that the US commitment to democracy is only  an ironclad one when it suits them. Due to neglectful coverage of US actions abroad by mainstream media, there is underlying sense that American lives are more important than the lives of those in the countries it is in conflict with. Large tributes to the victims of the terrorist attacks of September 11th are quite appropriate, but has anyone stopped for a second or two, to ponder the fact that 3,125 innocent Afghanis were killed by US bombs? Of course, most American citizens would be appalled that their government has murdered that many people but no one has told them. The media in the US does an admirable job of dancing around the issue while encouraging the blind patriotism that is a necessityof weapons of mass destruction motive is that these are the very same weapons that the US was selling to Iraq from 1985 to 1990 (in early September the Sunday Herald of Glasgow, Scotland reported the sales of the deadly materials including anthrax, VX nerve gas, West Nile fever germs, botulism and other germs similar to tuberculosis and pneumonia to Iraq). When George W. Bush pounds the podium and tells us about Hussein s use of chemical weapons he, quite happily, neglects to tell us that the US was allied to Iraq at this time and refused to condemn its actions. In fact, it seems that the only time that Hussein was bold enough to commit some of his more horrific atrocities was when he had the US backing him. His attempted genocide of Kurdish people was overlooked in the eighties in an act of  wilful blindness designed to keep Turkey, a country dealing with it s own  problem with the Kurds and a key NATO ally, content. It appears as if the US is trying to anger as many Middle Eastern factions as it can. It s clear that people who are oppressed will always try to strike back, be it through non-violent political resistance as most do or through the violent acts that small percentages of every society see as the only means of attaining justice. There are extremists in every culture, religion and nation and to act shocked that these attacks were carried out is self-deception by most Whitehouse senior officials. 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