Abstract
Most, if not all,
criticisms of the Bush administration's motivation for launching a
preemptive war on Iraq focus on a combination of the imperial world
views of conservative politicians in power in Washington, D.C., and
the corporate interests that drive the political agenda of the Bush
administration. This study will provide a radically different
political analysis of the Bush administration's motivation for going
war, and of the explanations offered by his critics.
This study provides an
exopolitical analysis of the policy dimensions of an historic
extraterrestrial presence that is pertinent to Iraq and a US led
preemptive attack. It will be argued that competing clandestine
government organizations are struggling through proxy means to take
control of ancient extraterrestrial (ET)
technology that exists in Iraq, in order to prepare for an impending
series of events corresponding to the 'prophesied return' of an
advanced race of ETs. The Columbia Space Shuttle may well
have been a high profile victim of such a proxy war intended to send
a message to US based clandestine organizations over the preemptive
war against Iraq.
In conducting this analysis, this study examines the available
evidence of an historical ET presence in Iraq, and then
applies this evidence to better understand the contemporary
political situation in
Iraq. The study will then analyze the motivations of the main
political actors in the prospective US led preemptive war against
Iraq. The study concludes by making some policy recommendations
concerning how to respond to the legacy of an ET presence in
Iraq and its contemporary political relevance.
Back
Introduction
In his 2003 State of the Union address President George W. Bush
declared "the gravest danger facing America and the world, is outlaw
regimes that seek and possess nuclear, chemical and biological
weapons."
(1) In his speech, President Bush
eloquently expressed his main motivation for launching a preemptive
war against Iraq in order to prevent "a day of horror like none we
have ever known." Critics of President Bush's preemptive policy,
including the political commentator, Robert Fisk, argue the
upcoming US led war against Iraq "isn't about chemical warheads or
human rights: it's about oil."
(2)
According to another prominent political commentator, Michael Lind,
the motivation lies in the preemptive military doctrine championed
by 'neo-conservatives' such as Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
Wolfowitz, whose policy views were given more prominence after
the September 11 attack.
(3)
Most, if not all, criticisms of the Bush administration's motivation
for going to war focus on a combination of the imperial world views
of conservative politicians in power in Washington, D.C., and the
corporate interests that drive the political agenda of the Bush
administration. This paper will provide a radically different
political analysis of the Bush administration's motivation for going
war, and of the explanations offered by his critics. It will be
argued that the focus on either the factors supporting a preemptive
war against an Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction; or on
criticisms against US imperialism and corporate interests, are not
so much wrong, but simply reflect a limited political paradigm for
understanding the motivations behind US foreign policy.
The political paradigm to be used in this paper is based on 'exopolitics'.
(4) This paradigm starts with the premise that there
exists an extraterrestrial (ET) presence on Earth
which clandestine government organizations have been withholding
knowledge of from the general public and elected public officials.
Rather than being an unsubstantiated 'conspiracy theory' with
little relevance to contemporary policy issues such as a preemptive
US war against Iraq, it will be argued that an exopolitical
analysis can provide a more comprehensive understanding of what
motivates the Bush administration in launching a preemptive attack
against Iraq.
Exopolitics as an emerging field of public policy is primarily
based on the evidence provided by a range of sources supporting the
idea of an ET presence that is known by clandestine
government organizations that suppress this from the general public
and elected political leaders.
(5) The most important evidence
comes from former military and government officials who have come
forward to give 'whistle blower' testimony in a number of
non-governmental initiatives to promote disclosure of the ET
presence.
(6) While many disagree over the
plausibility of the available evidence and take various positions
either for or against the existence of an ET presence and
government non-disclosure of this presence, exopolitics is based on
the premise that such debate ought not preclude discussion of the
implications of such a presence among policy makers and the general
public. Therefore when one examines contemporary international issue
such as a US led preemptive war in Iraq, one can explore the
viewpoints offered by those using an exopolitical analysis, and
consider the plausibility of these for a more comprehensive
understanding of foreign policy, irrespective of the ongoing debate
over the persuasiveness of the available evidence.
This is necessary since
those actively involved in a non-disclosure program will be
use disinformation, intimidation and other strategies to deter
witnesses, distort evidence, and deter public attention from the
ET presence and how it pertains to a range of contemporary
policy issues. Finally, a clandestine campaign of non-disclosure
needs to be considered in conducting exopolitical analysis in terms
of the likelihood of this influencing and/or compromising available
empirical evidence that otherwise would confirm an ET presence.
Therefore, exopolitical analysis has some key differences from more
conventional approaches to political analysis which are based on a
traditional social scientific method of a value free, objective
analysis of available processes, institutions and actors in the
public policy arena.
What follows is an exopolitical analysis of the policy dimensions of
an historic ET presence that is pertinent to Iraq and
a
US led preemptive attack on the regime of Saddam Hussein.
In conducting this analysis, I will first examine the available
evidence of an historical ET presence in Iraq; then apply
this evidence to better understand the contemporary political
situation in Iraq; I will then analyze the motivations of the main
political actors in the prospective US led preemptive war against
Iraq; and finally conclude by making some policy recommendations.
Back
What's the Evidence for an
historic ET presence in Iraq?
The strongest available evidence for an historical ET presence in Iraq
comes from cuneiform tablets directly recording the
beliefs and
activities of the ancient Sumerians whose civilization began almost
overnight in 3800 BC. Most of these cuneiform tablets relate stories
of the Sumerians interacting with their 'gods'. Most archeologists
initially accepted that these were merely myths and attached little
importance to them other than giving insight into the mytho-religious beliefs of the ancient Sumerians.
That viewpoint received a major challenge in 1976 when the Sumerian
scholar, Zecharia Sitchin, published the first of a series of
books on his translations of thousands of Sumerian tablets.
(7) Rather than treating the
stories of the gods as myths that had little empirical relevance,
Sitchin interpreted the tablets as literal
descriptions of events as
they occurred in the time.
Sitchin's translations of Sumerian cuneiform tablets revealed precise
information on a range of topics that he argues could not have been
possible for a civilization at the initial stages of its development
with no obvious predecessor civilization to borrow from. According
to
Sitchin, the Sumerians had detailed knowledge of all the
planets in the solar system, understood the precession of the
equinoxes, and also had an understanding of complex medical
procedures.
(8)
(An Akkadian
cylinder depicting the solar system as the Sumerians knew it,
including an extra planet - Nibiru. 1= Sun; 2= Mercury; 3=
Venus; 4 = Earth; 5 = Moon; 6 = Mars; 7 = Nibiru; 8 =
Jupiter; 9 = Saturn; 10 = Pluto (previously a .satellite of
Saturn); 11 = Uranus; 12 = Neptune, according to the research of
Zecharia Sitchin)
As to where they could have gained this detailed knowledge,
Sitchin's translations suggest that the Sumerians provided a clear
answer for its ultimate source. They revealed in their tablets that
all their knowledge came from a race of extraterrestrial visitors
the 'Anunnaki' ('those who from heaven to Earth came')
who were not only teachers for the Sumerians, but also played a role
in the creation of the human race.
The origin of this ET race was a planet called Nibiru
that had a long elliptical journey around the sun, and returned to
this region of the solar system every 3,600 years.
(9)
When Sitchin's innovative work was first published, it raised
great controversy and intense debate between those either for or
against his main thesis of an historic ET presence in Sumer that was
responsible for starting the remarkable Sumerian civilization. Among
those responding favorably to Sitchin's thesis included established
popular authors such as Erik Von Danniken who had himself
written in 1969, the best selling book, Chariots of the Gods,
that proposed an historic ET presence in different parts of the
planet.
(10) Another popular author,
David Hatcher Childress, outlines with great detail the ET
technology possessed by ancient civilizations in his various books.
(11) Less well known authors such
as
William
Henry have similarly published books supporting
Sitchin's thesis.
(12)
To support Sitchin's thesis, many authors typically cite biblical
texts that make reference to the 'gods' that resided on Earth and
interacted with humanity. The biblical text most referred to is the
apocryphal book of Enoch.
(13) While the Book of Enoch
was excluded in most versions of the Old Testament, it was
nevertheless part of ancient Hebrew scholarship and indeed is
included in the Ethiopian and Slavic versions of the Old Testament.
The Book of Enoch describes a rebel group of angels, the 'Nephilim',
who numbered 200, who settled the Earth and interbred with the human
population before being recalled and punished by their superiors,
the 'Elohim'.
(14) The Book of Enoch provides
contextual detail for mysterious verses in the Book of Genesis which
describes a time when the 'sons of gods', the
Nephilim/Anunnaki, interbred with humanity, and created
a race of giants/heroes that ruled over the rest of humanity:
"The Nephilim were on the
earth in those days-and also afterwards-when the sons of God went to
the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes
of old, men of renown."
(15)
Supporters of the
Sitchin thesis
say that this is part of the biblical evidence that an advanced ET
race did in fact exist on Earth, had a long interaction with
humanity, and even played a role in the creation of the human race.
In addition to the growing number of authors, independent
archaeologists and biblical commentators supporting Sitchin's
thesis, there are a burgeoning number of individuals who claim to be
in telepathic communication with ET races who reveal information on
the historic ET presence in Sumer. One of these ET 'channels', is
Jelaila Starr who claims to be in touch with beings from
Nibiru itself, and she regularly releases online information
from the Anunnaki themselves on her website.
(16) Another is Sheldan Nidle
who 'channels' an ET race from the star system Sirius gives
extensive information on the historic presence and influence of the
Anunnaki in his books and website.
(17)
There is great controversy over the extent to which such a
disparate collection of evidentiary sources can substantiate the
Sitchin thesis
of an historic ET presence in Sumer. Despite the controversy generated
by such sources, they provide a wealth of information that merits
closer examination in terms of their public policy implications.
Given that exopolitics is based on the premise of an
ET presence that is subject to non-disclosure by clandestine
government organizations, it is possible to provide an exopolitical
perspective on Sitchin's thesis
despite the ongoing debate over the consistency and accuracy of the
available evidence.
Zecharia Sitchin videos on
his theory of
the 10th planet
Documentary where Zecharia
Sitchin shows how life on Earth was affected when an unknown planet hit
Earth on the past.
("click" on photo to
see Video on
Real One Player)
|
Does Planet Nibiru
exist? |
Is Hussein Owner of Crashed UFO?.
(See below report)
Back
How Does the Historic ET
presence relate to US policy in Iraq?
An independent archaeologist that discusses a direct link between the
ancient ET presence in Sumer (southern Iraq) and current US focus on
the regime of Saddam Hussein, is William Henry.
Henry's main thesis is that there existed in Sumerian times a
technological device which he describes as a 'Stargate',
that the Anunnaki/Nephilim used to travel back and forth from
their homeworld and the Earth, and also how they travel around the
galaxy.
(18) Henry focuses on the following scene described by
Sitchin's interpretation of a cuneiform tablet of an
Uruk
ritual text:
Depictions have been found
that show divine beings flanking a temple entrance and holding up
poles to which ringlike objects are attached. The celestial nature
of the scene is indicated by the inclusion of the symbols of the Sun
and the Moon.... depicting Enlil and Enki flanking a gateway through
which Anu is making a grand entrance.
(19)
Rather than a simple
temple scene involving the chief Anunnaki of the Sumerians,
Anu and his two sons, Enlil and
Enki, Henry proposes that the above scene represents a
transportation device used by Anu and others from the elite
Anunnaki. If so, then such a device is most likely located in the
Sumerian city of Uruk
which was the founding city of the Sumerian civilization and the
home of Gilgamesh, the famed king of the Epic of
Gilgamesh.
(20)
Sitchin, and authors such as David Childress who discuss the various
technologies used by ETs and ancient civilizations, missed the
significance of the Stargate in their own translations of the above
texts and investigations of ET transportation. Both operated in a
conventional paradigm where transportation occurs through rocket
propelled vehicles.
(21) Sitchin focuses on rocket
propelled spacecraft in his description of the Anunnaki and their
various trips to and from the Earth. For example, describing the
transportation used by the Anunnaki in moving between their earth
and space based locations, Sitchin wrote: "The texts reveal that
three hundred of them - The "Anunnaki of Heaven," or Igig - were
true astronauts who stayed aboard the spacecraft without actually
landing on Earth. Orbiting Earth, these spacecraft launched and
received the shuttle craft to and from Earth."
(22)
It therefore can be concluded that there were two forms of
transportation used by the Anunnaki. One was a form of rocket
technology familiar to us which was used by the resident Anunnaki on
Earth who Sitchin, described as the "rank and file Anunnaki"
who administered the Earth and humanity according to the dictates of
their space based compatriots.
(23) Another transportation technology was the
Stargate which presumably was used only by the highest class
of Anunnaki, who dispensed the tasks of harvesting the Earth's
resources to the resident and space based Anunnaki (lessor
gods/rebel angels). Interpreting the Babylonian Epic of Creation,
one gains an idea of the way tasks were allotted and the hierarchy
of the Anunnaki in the way the 'supreme god' Marduk,
dispensed tasks to his subordinate Anu, chief of the Anunnaki:
Assigned to Anu, to heed
his instructions, Three hundred in the heavens he stationed as a
guard; the ways of Earth to define from the Heaven; And on Earth,
Six hundred he made reside. After he all their instructions had
ordered, to the Anunnaki of Heaven and of Earth he allotted their
assignments.
(24)
Thus the Anunnaki operated
outposts both on Earth and in Space to maintain their control over
the planet. Given the strict hierarchy of authority described by
Sitchin in his detailed analysis of the Anunnaki and their
interactions with one another and humanity, it is likely that the
Stargate would have been revered and a subject of awe by the
resident Anunnaki and humanity who could only observe its operation
but were not allowed to use it themselves. As such, there would have
been only a limited number of Stargates around the planet, with the
Sumerian Stargate being located in the most important of the ancient
Sumerian cities - the most likely being the ancient capital of Uruk,
home of the ancient kings, which is located in Southern Iraq.
Significantly, after a 12 year lull in excavations, a team of German
researchers in 2002 resumed excavations in the buried city of Uruk.
Using a magnetometer which is able to detect the presence of
man-made objects beneath the soil, and a powerful computer system in
Germany, German geophysicists were able to map out the buried
structures of the sprawling ancient capital of 5.5 km2 that was
where Sumerian civilization began.
(25)
An important event in the Sumerian descriptions of
the Anunnaki, was the latter's final departure
from the planet during a series of cataclysmic events that
culminated in the period 1800-1700 BC.
(26)
Indeed, conventional archeologists support the view that there was a
regional cataclysmic event that occurred at that time.
(27) If in fact there were two
modes of transportation used by the Anunnaki, when most of the
resident/lessor Anunnaki left by conventional rocket ships, elite
Anunnaki most likely left by the Stargate and closed it down.
Predictably, given the reverence and awe surrounding the Stargate,
it would not have been left unprotected in the interim period
between their departure and its reactivation with the prophesied
return of the Anunnaki.
A wide number of sources describe the present era in terms of a 'prophesied
return of the gods/Anunnaki'. The notion of a 'prophesied
return' in the context of the former Anunnaki presence varies in
meaning according to three different perspectives. The first
perspective is based simply on the idea of the gods or 'Anunnaki'
physically returning to resume a prominent role in influencing human
affairs and overseeing the use of resources of the planet.
(28) In such a scenario, the first
wave of Anunnaki would arrive to create the favorable conditions for
the anticipated return of the Anunnaki elite. This would involve the
lessor Anunnaki first returning and activating the Sumerian
Stargate that would be required for the return of their leaders.
Presumably, this would be heralded as a sacred event that should be
celebrated by all humanity. The authors, Clive Prince and
Lyn Picknett, argue that there has been an identifiable chain of
global events involving key religious and political actors preparing
humanity for just such a return.
(29)
The second perspective on the "return of the gods/Anunnaki' is
the return of their home world, the planet
Nibiru. Indeed, there has been much interest generated by a
range of books and online web sites devoted to the topic of the
return of Nibiru, the home world of the Anunnaki. Many
authors cite a variety of astronomical evidence supporting the idea
of a tenth planet that has long been speculated to influence the
orbits of Uranus and Neptune ever since it was found that Pluto
(discovered in 1930) could not account for these perturbations. In
the late1970's two astronomers from the US Naval Observatory, Tom
van Flandern and Richard Harrington, begun publishing a
series of papers supporting the existence of a tenth planet.
(30)
The most widely cited reference to support the thesis of a tenth
planet that is known but not released to the general public, is
a series of press releases by the astronomical team that were
searching a part of the sky which calculations by van Flandern
and Harrington
suggested would be where the tenth planet was. In December 1983, the
chief astronomer in charge of the Infrared Astronomical Satellite
(IRAS) run by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Dr Gerry Neugebauer,
announced possible confirmation of such a planet. The Washington
Post Reporter summarizing the announcement wrote:
"[a] heavenly body
possibly as large as ... Jupiter and possibly ... part of this solar
system has been found in the direction of the constellation of Orion
by an orbiting telescope..."
(31)
After a total of six major
newspapers covered the announcement, there was a retraction of the
announcement and public silence by astronomers on the possible
existence of a tenth planet. Rumors began to emerge of an active
campaign of suppression of information and intimidation by
clandestine government organizations.
(32) For example, one of the
astronomers at the US Naval Observatory, Dr Richard Harrington,
spoke publicly and wrote articles on the hypothetical Planet X
and there has been speculation that this directly contributed to his
untimely death by 'natural causes' in 1992.
(33)
A third perspective on what the 'prophesied return of the
gods/Anunnaki' means can be found in authors who
focus on the significance of the upcoming end of the current
Mayan 5,200 year cycle. According to
John Major Jenkins, the Mayans were aware of the way the solar
ecliptic plane comes into alignment with the galactic plane on
periodic basis. This makes it possible for more intense cosmic
energies to reach the earth from the galactic core. There is then a
corresponding increase or decrease in the level of human
consciousness, i.e., parts of the brain either go online or
off-line, as these Mayan cycles go through their different
phases. According to Jenkins, the year 2012 corresponds to the end
of the current Mayan cycle and will lead to a rapid transformation
of global consciousness.
(34) Numerous authors refer to this
as a New Age of more enlightened global thinking and
increased human potential.
(35) The 'prophesied return of the
gods' may therefore signify a rapid in human consciousness as
dormant parts of the brain come on line when the solar ecliptic
comes into alignment with the galactic plane. In this explanation,
humanity itself would develop 'god-like' powers which
spontaneously become accessible to large numbers of humanity. A
number of authors, for example, have been describing the amazing
abilities and psychic powers of an increasing number of children
world wide.
(36)
In sum, the available information on the 'prophesied return of the
gods' can be understood to signify an important milestone in the
growth of human civilization. The 'prophesied return' can be
interpreted either literally or metaphorically to mean either
- a physical return
of the 'gods'/Anunnaki;
- the return of a
mysterious
10th planet
to the solar system;
- or a rapid growth
in the consciousness of humanity as the solar plane comes into
alignment with the galactic plane.
Despite the controversy
over what precisely such a 'prophesied return' signifies, the
factors in such a return that most pertain to the current political
situation in Iraq and preemptive military intervention by the US can
be identified and analyzed. The first factor is that an ET
transportation device, a Stargate, or some other important ET
artifact, may lie buried in the desert of Southern Iraq which
presumably will play a role in the 'prophesied return of the gods'.
Second, it is possible that there will be a return of a tenth planet
that plays a critical role in return of
the Anunnaki
and/or which significantly impacts on the global environment. Finally,
there is the potential for a rapid acceleration of human
consciousness as the end of the Mayan Calendar, 2012, approaches.
Back
|