THE MONTHLY SEARCH
FOR TRUTH IN NEWS
JUNE 2005
THIS MONTH’S
TOPICS:
IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN
TOTALITARIANISM
AND DICTATORSHIP
ISRAEL/PALESTINE
U.S.
ECONOMY
CHINA
IRAN/SYRIA
VENEZUELA
NORTH
KOREA
UZBEKISTAN
U.S. POLITICS
RELIGION
DO
THEY WANT TO SHUT DOWN THE INTERNET?
GOVERNMENTS
THREATENING THEIR OWN PEOPLE
CLIMATE
CHANGE/GLOBAL WARMING/NATURAL DISASTERS
ALIENS/UFOs
THE REAL IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN
Trend: stories
from around the world show a grim picture that is clearly at odds with
the "going smoothly" message that is the bottom line of the
government/military/industrial/media message.
Iraq: a Bloody Mess
“All the roads
leading out of the capital are cut. Iraqi security and US troops can
only get through in heavily armed convoys. There is a wave of assassinations
of senior Iraqi officers based on chillingly accurate intelligence.
A deputy police chief of Baghdad was murdered on Sunday. A total
of 52 senior Iraqi government or religious figures have been assassinated
since the handover. In June 2004 insurgents killed 42 US soldiers;
so far this month 75 have been killed… the
number of Iraqi military and police being killed every month has risen
from 160 at the handover to 219 today… Homes in Baghdad are
currently getting between six and eight hours' electricity a day. Nothing
has improved at the power stations since the hand-over of security
a year ago… In recent weeks there has also been a chronic shortage
of water… talks may indicate
a growing sense among US military and civilian officials that they
cannot win this war.”
Weeping Madman in Sweltering Baghdad
“Andy Mosher
and Bassam Sebti with Naseer Nouri draw the curtain back on the real
Baghdad, a Mad Max scene of unpredictable explosions, scattered
body parts, inadequate and undependable electricity, lack of refrigeration,
water sabotage, and weeping madmen: 'Nearby, a scruffy young
man in dirty pants and an unbuttoned shirt stood staring at vegetables
scattered on the ground by one of the explosions. Bending over and
picking up an onion spattered with blood, he began to cry. "Every
one of you in Karrada calls me Crazy Ali," he said to no one in
particular. "But I would never do such a thing. I am better than
you sane people. At least I do not hurt you.’”
Iraq 'no more safe than in 2003'
“US
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has acknowledged that security
in Iraq has not improved statistically since Saddam Hussein's fall
in 2003… More than 900 people, mostly Iraqis, have died in insurgent
attacks across the country since the government of Prime Minister Ibrahim
Jafaari took office six weeks ago.” Mr.
Rumsfeld also used the occasion to blame, in part, Syria and Iran for
this.
We shelter behind the myth that progress is being made
Baghdad Burning
US caused more deaths in Iraq than Saddam,
says anti-war tribunal
Suicide bomber kills dean of Iraq parliament
12 dead as bombs shatter Baghdad calm
"Almost 700 people died in a frenzy of car bombings
and other attacks in May, one of the bloodiest months since the US-led
invasion of Iraq in March 2003."
23 die in co-ordinated attacks in Baghdad - 'blood was everywhere'
Iraqis struggle to make ends meet as
food rations shrink
An Open Letter to US Troops in Afghanistan and Iraq
“I
was a soldier for most of the time between 1970 and 1996… Nowadays,
when I talk with some of you… I hear many who have very serious
reservations about these wars of occupation. I had more than reservations
from the get-go about Iraq and Afghanistan, and I opposed them as hard
as I could, and so did millions of other people around the world. But
that brain-dead… in the White House who is legally your boss,
and all his handlers, starting with Vice President Dick
"Halliburton" Cheney they sent you to do this thing anyway… A
young friend of mine… recently told me, ‘My platoon sergeant
tried to get us to violate the Geneva Convention, and when we resisted, he
threatened us with punishment. He told us that 'the Geneva Convention doesn't
exist in Iraq, and that is in writing at the Brigade level.’' … It
didn't come from the Brigade level, though; it came from… George W.
Bush's office. And it's a lie."
US lied to Britain over use of napalm
in Iraq war
“’The
US confirmed to my officials that they had not used MK77s [firebombs]
in Iraq at any time and this was the basis of my response to you,’ ... ‘I
regret to say that I have since discovered that this is not the case
and must now correct the position.’ … ‘The US has
used internationally reviled weapons that the UK refuses to use,
and has then apparently lied to UK officials, showing how little
weight the UK carries in influencing American policy.’"
FALLUJAH NAPALMED - US uses banned weapon
“News that President George W. Bush has sanctioned
the use of napalm, a deadly cocktail of polystyrene and jet fuel
banned by the United Nations in 1980, will stun governments around
the world.”
It's a Pentagon World and Welcome to It
U.S. now has 106 military
bases in Iraq, averaging 1500 troops each. Sturdier, more permanent
bases continue to be built on a plan that is being presented as a
"withdrawal strategy."
$1B spent on Baghdad embassy, $1.3B to go
Setting up permanent
shop. U.S. taxpayers forks over "$690 million for logistical
and security costs and $658 million for the construction of an embassy
compound to be built on an expedited schedule within two years." Some
contractors are earning quite a nice profit on this deal.
Religion, suicide terrorism link disputed in book
"Nearly all suicide
terrorist attacks are committed for a secular strategic goal -- to
compel modern democracies to withdraw military forces from territory
the terrorists view as their homeland." Bottom line: U.S. occupation strategy increases the number of
the suicide attacks. The DOD and DHS have the data. Does
this mean that they'll heed the data and change their strategy? President
Bush addressed the nation on June 28 and said nothing will change.
'Good and honest' Iraqis fighting US forces
"A senior US
military chief has admitted "good, honest" Iraqis are fighting
American forces." But evidence
to date suggests that the foreign fighters issue is blown way out of
proportion. On CNN, even Zbiniew Brzezinski said that we are "deceiving
ourselves" if we believe in this. Just look at the actual
number of foreign fighters captured in Iraq -- a tiny percentage. History
is an excellent guide, and it shows that what is called “insurgency” by
occupiers is simple occupation resistance -- people defending their
homes and wanting their lives back.
Building Iraq's Army: Mission Improbable - Project in North
Reveals Deep Divide Between U.S. and Iraqi Forces
Good
article about the deep misunderstanding of Iraq by the West, and why
the “alleged
plans for a peaceful, democratic Iraq are ultimately foolish.”
Mother of dead soldier vilifies Bush
over war
“President
ridiculed at interfaith rally… ‘We're watching
you very carefully and we're going to do everything in our power
to have you impeached for misleading the American people,’… Quoting
scripture and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hinson suggested the nation
is greedy and morally bankrupt and warned that America's fear of
terrorism is excessive and unhealthy.”
US
Forces Try New Ploy to Combat Resistance
"US occupation
forces announced on their propaganda radio beamed at local residents
of ar-Ramadi that the US military would stop raiding houses and mosques,
would open roads to local people and turn the electricity and drinking
water supply in the city back on if local residents would cooperate by
informing the American occupation troops of the locations and bases
of Iraqi Resistance fighters operating in the city against the Americans." Please note that such collective punishments of civilians
are illegal and defined as terrorism by the Geneva Conventions. This
is clearly at odds with "spreading freedom," which we're
told the U.S. is doing.
US contractors probed over shooting
“Sixteen
private American security guards are under investigation for shooting
at US marines and Iraqi civilians during a three-hour period west of
Baghdad.”
A
Cover-Up as Shameful as Tillman's Death
“Father of prominent
soldier Pat Tillman details how the army lied in order to exploit
his son's death for propaganda purposes. No one has been
held accountable for the cover-up.”
The War Comes Home – Soldiers Suffer Post-Traumatic Stress
Disorder
“People who
are afflicted with war-related PTSD have different ways of coping,
and this is Jimmy Massey's way. Several times a month, he puts on his
old Marines uniform, his desert boots and his dark sunglasses. He throws
a big handwritten sign over his shoulder, and proceeds to walk down
the Main Street of Waynesville, North Carolina, population: 9,255. The
sign says: "I killed innocent civilians for our government." … When
Jimmy Massey walks down the Main Street, there are those who will spit
at him and call him a traitor. Twice, people have tried to run him
over in their cars.
… "You can call if fog of war if you wish but for me it was
murder," Massey says, "and I want Americans to know this."”
95 Days to Pre-Nixonize George Bush
“The war
in Iraq is degenerating... a lot. For American troops, Iraqi police,
and Iraqi civilians, the last two months have been filled with dread,
death, and disfigurement. In spite of around-the-clock spin by the
administration and show-dog obedience by the bouzhie-press, the reality
of the war is filtering into the public's consciousness.”
Just a Coincidence? Four of Jessica Lynch's Rescuers Have Died
Mysteriously
“When the
Department of Defense insisted on keeping up their official version
of the rescue, I knew that inevitably some of Lynch's rescuers would
be hushed.” The story of the sudden deaths of those who knew the truth of
the Lynch myth broke just months after the military’s phony
hero/rescue story. This article revisits it.
U.N.: Weapons Equipment Missing in Iraq
“U.N. reports
that bio/chemical weapons-making material has been "removed" from
109 sites in Iraq and is now missing.” Oil
wells are guarded, though, so it's clear where the priorities are.
Security contractor says Marines abused him and other contractors
in Iraq
"His head bounced
off the asphalt." Raiche said.
"He told me he heard one guard say to another, 'If he moves, let the dog
loose.'"
General admits to secret air war in Iraq
A greater threat now looms over mankind
"Russian Defence
Minister Sergei Ivanov spoke out against the U.S. Missile Defence
System, because it would set a dangerous precedent… America
has taken on the role that Nazi Germany had during World War II.
It has openly used torture and murder to attain what it cites as
information. But further than that, it has used Depleted Uranium
Shells against civilian men, women and children, knowing fully well,
that this is in violation of international agreements."
"In Venezuela,
that U.S. is bent on overthrowing the Bolivarian government of President
Hugo Chavez Frias, in an attempt to gain control of Venezuela's oil."
Administration's offenses impeachable
"Bush was determined
to go to war, "Intelligence and facts are being fixed around the
policy." "Fixed" means faked, manufactured, conjured,
hyped - the product of whole cloth fabrication."
Saddam faces trial for gassing Kurds
But,
what if he didn’t? Propaganda is composed of lies and half-truths
to effect an emotional reaction. Remember the story of Iraqis
breaking infant incubators in Kuwait in 1991? It was a lie.
YOU MEAN SADDAM DIDN'T GAS HIS OWN PEOPLE?
Iraq's Constitutional Process Slowing Down
"Sunni leaders,
meanwhile, are complaining that a counterinsurgency campaign by U.S.-backed
Iraqi forces has poisoned the political climate." [...] "Kurds
want federalism enshrined in the new constitution to protect the autonomy
they've enjoyed in their northern region since 1991. Shiites and
Sunni Arabs see a strong federal system as a prelude to Iraq's breakup."
Spain supports prosecution of US soldiers
"The Spanish
government supports a Spanish judge's investigation into and prosecution
of three US soldiers implicated in the shooting of a Spanish TV cameraman
two years ago in Baghdad, Spanish Minister of Justice Juan Fernando
Lopez Aguilar said Wednesday." Unfortunately,
few people realize that targeting journalists is part of every war. Suppressing
the truth and keeping up appearance is critical to every side in a
war.
Halliburton Hearing Unearths New Abuse - "Misplaced"
portable military bases, thousand-dollar VCRs, and expired food
“Billion
Dollar Overcharges” Halliburton profits by hiring poor, foreign
companies to do their work for them, and paying them a tiny fraction. Also, “… the company would sometimes supply
food that was over a year past the expiration date or had spoiled
due to inconsistent refrigeration. When the United States military
occasionally refused the spoiled food, Halliburton truckers were
instructed to take them to the next base in the hope that they would
escape scrutiny. Worst affected were the non-American workers.
Mayberry says that Halliburton was supposed to feed 600 Turkish and
Filipino meals. "Although KBR charged for this service, it
didn't prepare the meals. Instead, these workers were given leftover
food in boxes and garbage bags after the troops ate. Sometimes
there were not leftovers to give them…. ‘I can unequivocally
state that the abuse related to contracts awarded to KBR (Kellogg
Brown and Root) represents the most blatant and improper contract
abuse I have witnessed during the course of my professional career.’"
French and American Judges Collaborate
on Haliburton Corruption INvestigation
UN alert as nuclear plans go missing
“Electronic
drawings that give comprehensive details of how to build and test equipment
essential for making nuclear bombs have vanished and could be put up
for sale on the international black market, according to UN investigators.”
France insists Iraqis need prospects
for full sovereignty
The War to Deceive America Into War -- And the War to Cover
Up the Deception
"Before America
went to war with Afghanistan, another war was underway -- against
its own people: the war to deceive America into attacking Iraq.
This is no longer a theory or conjecture; it is a documented fact." Read the article for a point-by-point summary to-date of
how this was waged.
More Rumsfeld Lies - Those
"Meetings" with Insurgents
“When Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made his scheduled appearances on the Sunday
morning talk shows he confirmed that the alleged meetings had taken
place saying, ‘Well, the first thing I would say about the meetings
is they go on all the time.’ Later, he would reinforce this suggestion
on Meet the Press when he was asked whether there had been ‘two
meetings between Iraqi and U.S. officials and some members of the insurgency.’ Rumsfeld
responded, "I think there have probably been many more than that." It
was all lies. When asked the next day whether such meetings
took place, US Commander in Iraq, Army Gen. George Casey said, ‘Not
yet. Not, to the best of my knowledge, yet. We may start moving
there, but the first thing we want to do is meet with Sunni leaders.
And a lot of these folks claim they have leverage over the insurgents
that we've yet to see realized, frankly. But, to characterize them
as negotiations with insurgents about stopping the insurgency, we're
not quite there yet.’ What, no meetings? […] By
now, every American who is capable of reading a newspaper or watching
a TV should know that Rumsfeld is a compulsive liar, a serial liar,
a pathological liar.”
Tortured Logic * Bush's Propaganda Rubicon
"See,
in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over
and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the
propaganda."
George W. Bush
Bush Speech Blurs Fact With Propaganda
“With five mentions
of September 11 in his 30-minute address, Mr
Bush attempted to weld the Iraq insurgency to the battle with al-Qaida
in the public's mind, where the two have been drifting apart.”
Bush Aide Boasts the White House Creates
Its Own Reality - Hysterica Passio
“Now we come
at last to the heart of darkness. Now we know, from their own words,
that the Bush Regime is a cult… You think this is an exaggeration?
Then heed the words of the White House itself: a ‘senior adviser’ to
the president, who, as The New York Times reports, explained the
cult to author Ron Suskind in the heady pre-war days of 2002. First,
the top Bush insider mocked the journalist and all those ‘in
what we call the reality-based community,’ i.e., people who ‘believe
that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.’ Suskind's
attempt to defend the principles of reason and enlightenment cut no
ice with the Bush-man. ‘That's not the way the world really
works anymore. We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our
own reality,’ he said. ‘And while you're studying that
reality, we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can
study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors
... and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.’
Iraq: Bush Myths vs. Reality
“public opinion
is turning against the administration and the president will be devoting
a good bit of his time trying to convince the American public that
our policy should not change… The Bush administration
needs to level with the public about the difficulty of the job ahead
in Iraq rather than making general statements indicating that all is
well.”
How Philosophy Overcomes Propaganda
“The present
enemies of truth and justice believe they can call a lie a truth;
an aggressive, senseless, unnecessary war a struggle against terrorism;
an illiterate moron a great leader; and the destruction of America
through fascism, deficit spending and militarism, sound policies.
They believe they can call anything whatever they want to and the
American people will accept it.”
The return of '1984'
“In
Orwell's profoundly pessimistic view: ''Political language . . . is
designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to
give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
[...]”
U.S. not losing Iraq war, Rumsfeld insists
Rumsfeld claims Iraq is not a quagmire
US General's Comments Suggest Iraq A
Quagmire
Iraq reality check: Americans go from
delusion to denial to depression
The tipping point
“US public
opinion on the Iraq war dips with every dead soldier, and plummets
at the first sniff of defeat… The last fortnight has
revealed a growing impatience with the military misadventure in the
Gulf and an irritation with the White House's persistent denials
that anything is wrong.”
Bush administration crafting new
message on Iraq
“The basic message,
as articulated by Rumsfeld, goes something like this:
1. "Progress
is being made politically and economically" in Iraq.
2. But the casualties
could get worse over the next six months, and fighting could go on
for "five, six, eight, 12 years."
3. And we have never
miscalculated, erred, or misled you.
[…] At
this point, 91.5 percent of all American military deaths have occurred
since Bush declared on May 1, 2003, that "major combat" was
over.
Worse yet, an administration
known for its message discipline has been plagued lately by top officials
sending contradictory signals.”
America turns on Bush over Iraq
Bush 'exploited 9/11' in Iraq plea
“…most Americans are aware that the hotbed
of terrorism never existed in Iraq until we got there."
Bush Criticized Over Speech About Iraq
War
"The president's
frequent references to the terrorist attacks of September 11 show
the weakness of his arguments,"
With support for Iraq war fading, Bush
tries to turn tide
“Another ABC
News/Washington Post poll found that for the first time most Americans
-- 57 percent -- believe the Bush administration
"intentionally misled" the public in going to war in Iraq… US
Vice President Dick Cheney recently said that the insurgency is currently in
its "last throes" but US military officials have been less sanguine… Senator
Chuck Hagel, a senior Republican, said last week that the White House had lost
touch with reality in its dealings over Iraq.”
Bush Flops in Prime-time
“’Terrorists’?
Even the polls show that most Americans now understand that the
insurgency is mainly comprised of Iraqis, so why invoke the terrorists?”
Bush rejects major changes to Iraq strategy
“The White House
has said that Bush's warnings of hard work ahead are not at odds with
Vice President Dick Cheney's assertion that the insurgency is in its ‘last
throes.’"
Troops Respond to President's Speech
“’We
need honest answers, not pep rallies’ […] Last week,
Vice President Cheney said the insurgency is in its last throes,
but this week we're told to dig in for a 12-year battle. Have you asked your Secretary of Defense and Vice
President to offer the Troops a straight answer? […] Are
you prepared to tell America's parents that their children will be
needed to finish the job?”
The 'Leave My Child Alone' Movement
“In addition
to falling recruitment numbers and the rising casualty list in Iraq,
it appears that military recruiters are now facing a new, aggressive
force on the home front: Mom and Dad.”
Activists tell parents to have schools
deny kids' data to military
“Nancy
Carroll didn't know schools were giving military recruiters her family's
contact information until a recruiter called her 17-year-old granddaughter. That
didn't sit well with Carroll, who believes recruiters unfairly target
minority students. President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act requires
school districts to provide military recruiters with student phone
numbers and addresses or risk losing millions in federal funds… ‘They're
not going to all the schools. They're going to the schools where they
figure the kids will have less chance to go to college,’
said Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.). ‘It's an insidious kind of draft,
quite frankly.’” Was this the real purpose of the NCLB Act, which has failed
in its higher-profile purpose because no support was given to it?
Pentagon creating student database
“The
Defense Department began working yesterday with a private marketing
firm to create a database of high school students ages 16 to 18 and
all college students to help the military identify potential recruits
in a time of dwindling enlistment in some branches. The program
is provoking a furor among privacy advocates. The new database will
include personal information including birth dates, Social Security
numbers, e-mail addresses, grade-point averages, ethnicity and what
subjects the students are studying... School systems that fail
to provide that information risk losing federal funds”
They Won't Go
“With
the war in Iraq going badly and allegations of abuse by military personnel
widespread, young men and women are increasingly deciding that there's
no upside to a career choice in which the most important skills might
be ducking bullets and dodging roadside bombs… The Army is
so desperate for even lukewarm bodies that it is reluctant to release
even problem soldiers, troops who are seriously out of shape, or pregnant,
or abusing alcohol or drugs. And it is lowering standards for admission
to the junior officer ranks. For example, minor criminal offenses that
previously would have been prohibitive can now be overlooked… Recruiters … go
into the schools with a glamorous pitch, bags full of goodies for the
kids … and a litany of promises they often can't keep… A
soldier's job is to kill. I can still hear the drill sergeants in basic
training screaming at us decades ago: ‘What are you? What are
you?’ And we'd scream back: ‘Killers! Killers!’ And
the sergeants would say, ‘What is your purpose?’ And we
would shout: ‘To kill! To kill!’)” I
think of this when I hear military officers on the news, assuaging
the public over the latest massacre, saying, “our men are not
killers.” But it seems people are driven to become such
when they need a paycheck badly enough.
When Marine recruiters go way beyond the call
"Marcia tried
using call blocking. And that's when she learned her first hard lesson.
You can't block calls from the government... 'You don't want to be
a burden to your mom,' they told him. "Be a man." "Make
your father proud.' ... This time, when Axel said, 'Not interested,' the
sarge turned surly, snapping, 'You're making a big (bleeping) mistake!' ...
Next thing Axel knew, the same sergeant and another recruiter showed
up at the LaConner Brewing Co., the restaurant where Axel works. And
before Axel...knew or understood what was happening, Axel was whisked
away in a car."
US army to face draft dilemma
“The United States will ‘have to face’ a
dilemma on restoring the military draft as rising casualties in
Iraq result in persistent shortfalls in military recruitment, a top US
senator has warned.”
Army Headed to Recruiting Shortfall
"The Army says
today's economy offers attractive alternatives to many high school
and college graduates." Just another reason to allow an
economic crash to happen.
Poll Finds Most Oppose Return to Draft
Draft system prepared for unlikely call
"If that downward
trend continues, the specter of a military draft to fill the ranks
with able bodies is likely to loom large in Washington once again...
Chatfield said modern technology would enable the Selective Service
to conduct specialized drafts in the event that people with specific
skills such as linguists, medical personnel or computer experts were
in critical demand by the military." This
story dovetails nicely with the fact that draft boards have been
quietly re-staffing for over two years now.
Mossad Chief: U.S. to Be Mired in Middle
East in Perpetuity
“According to
Ephraim Halevy, former chief of Israel's Mossad intelligence service
and current national security adviser to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon, plans have been made for a substantial U.S. military presence
in the Middle East lasting decades... U.S. entanglement
in the Middle East in the name of
"democracy" has further destabilized the region and made violent
fundamentalist revolution more likely, especially in Saudi Arabia.”
"Frontier Forts," a Bigger "Homeland," Billions
More for Pentagon
Neo-Con Thomas
Donnelly Unfurls the Big Picture…
Donnelly cites his goals for Bush Administration policy…
* "Build new
alliances," meaning bag Europe, embrace India, which will be needed
in the confrontation with China.
* "Expand active
duty army by at least 125,000 soldiers," but given the active
Army's current shrinkage given its recruitment problems driven
by current policy he didn't breath the
"d" word, which would seem to be an essential component.
* "Create naval
and air forces that reflect a
"high-low" mix of capabilities," meaning gun boats (Littoral
Combat Ships) for the Navy and more air transports for the "expeditionary
land forces."
* "Increase 'baseline'
defense spending by $100 billion per year," meaning in excess
of $600 billion for DoD per year (baseline plus Iraq) and build on
that as unfolding operations pose additional requirements
"Create new networks
of overseas bases," which is explained as a "semipermanent
ring of 'frontier forts' along the American security perimeter from
West Africa to East Asia."
Dumbocracy - The Silence Of Americans
“If the dead
of all those wars we entered into - to
"Make the World Safe for Democracy" were to be heard on this subject
the chorus would be deafeningly opposed to our present course of action.”
We are all complicit in these vile acts
of torture
“What
can we do? What can we do when an American president dispatches ‘suspects’ to
third world countries where they will be stripped, wired up, electrocuted,
ripped open and tortured until they wish they had never be born?”
US Soldiers Plant Weapons On Slain Iraqi Boys
American soldier kills little girl to win a bet
There is no Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi – he was reported
dead over two years ago, but that was small news then, forgotten
now in 1984-like fashion, but his specter rises seemingly whenever
blame for something big is demanded.
Abu's
Secret Syrian Rendezvous: Another Bush Lie
"Now they tell
us: 'U.S. intelligence has no evidence that terrorist Abu Musab
al Zarqawi visited Syria in recent months to plan bombings in Iraq,
and experts don't believe the widely publicized meeting ever happened,
according to U.S. officials,' reports Knight Ridder. [...] "Three
officials who said that the reports of Zarqawi's travels were apparently
bogus spoke on condition of anonymity because intelligence matters
are classified and because discussing the mistaken report could embarrass
the White House and trigger retaliation against them." [...]
"It is not so much that "some officials are still quick to embrace
dubious intelligence," but rather that they purposely create "flimsy
and bogus intelligence" (lies) as a matter of course." [...] "In
fact, there is no proof al-Zarqawi is doing anything-expect possibly pushing
up a tombstone somewhere in the Sulaimaniyah mountains of northern Iraq."
Zarqawi and the Scarlett Pimpernel
“Bill
Montgomery's ‘Form over Substance’ goes
beyond expressing skepticism about the shadowy stories coming out of
Iraq about top aides of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi being arrested. He suggests
that the stories are a combination black psy-ops operation to influence
public opinion, and scripted Hollywood entertainment value. I would
only add that it is now often forgotten that the major politicians
running Iraq are the same people who lied to the US public about Saddam's
WMD and about Baath links to terrorism, etc.”
THE SPECTER OF TOTALITARIANISM AND DICTATORSHIP
Psychology
has shown us that power-hunger is a disease, that lust for power-and-control
over others is the mark of serial killers. Many who seek power
and become leaders actually continue to lust to control absolutely
everything they can. Throughout history, leaders effect change
by fostering a climate of fear or emergency, then impose solutions
to alleviate the public fear, usually resulting in a loss of some freedoms. It
is done gradually, step-by-step, stripping away liberties in a fashion
that doesn’t affect everyone at once, and is orderly enough not
to provoke widespread resistance. This is always presented as
a
"benefit" or as a necessity for "security" of the people. It
has occurred countless times throughout history. Study ancient Rome,
Napoleonic France, Shogunate Japan, Nazi Germany, Stalinist North Korea. The TIA (Total
Information Awareness) network | 2 | 3 | 4 started
by the U.S. administration in 2002 already gathers data from myriad sources
about you and your activities. More visibly, a gradually worsening human-rights
record is a negative sign, but the U.S. criticizes others for the same offenses. The
vast network of US prisons worldwide is not yet well known among U.S. public,
nor is the vast number of U.S. military bases, nor the activities of the CIA,
nor the activities of the military on the ‘black budget,’ nor the
depth of the worldwide economic hegemony that the U.S. enjoys. Frighteningly,
the administration has now identified American animal-rights and environmental
activists to be the greatest terrorist threat in the U.S. – should this
escalate, could it mean bringing troops against Americans on U.S. soil?
The Power of Nightmares is a documentary TV series that explores how leaders use
fear to further their goals -- and how they create or vastly inflate
threats to do it. It's a very old, well-worn psychological
strategy, and, thanks to "faith in our leaders," it continues
to work today.
Remembering the lessons of Germany's past
“how the
good people of Germany could allow someone such as Adolph Hitler
to lead them into what became World War II. After all, before Hitler's rise
to power, Germany had a rich Christian heritage… Obviously,
one does not gain the trust and confidence of people by portraying
himself as a monster. Does anyone truly believe that the German
people would have supported Hitler if they had thought he was some
kind of ogre? As with most leaders, Hitler preached faith, family,
and patriotism. His speeches were laced with references to God. He
personally claimed Christ to be his Savior.” This
article details many more eerie parallels.
What Price Freedom?
Most
Americans still don't realize that they are videotaped numerous times
every day. Their phone conversations are monitored. Their
computer activity is recorded. Train, plane, and hotel reservations
as well as all credit-card purchases are forwarded to a central database. In
the UK, cameras watch every busy city square. What about your
phone calls? "A series of sophisticated computer programs listens
to your phone conversation and looks for
"keywords" that suggest suspicious activity... We have a police
state far beyond anything George Orwell imagined in his book 1984," says
privacy expert Susan Morrissey. "The everyday lives of virtually every
American are under scrutiny 24-hours-a-day by the government."
Police State
“Some really
scary things are happening around here these days. ...perhaps the most
frightening prospect for Americans is an unfettered national police
force with the sole discretion to determine who can be investigated
as a potential terrorist. That's the impact of little-known proposals
to greatly expand the powers of the FBI... the government can label
almost any group or individual a terrorist threat…”
We must be alert to rise of fascism
“fascism
is totalitarianism marked by forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism,
regimenting all industry and commerce, and bellicose nationalism… Fascism
reflects the constant use of patriotic mottoes, slogans, symbols, songs
and other paraphernalia, and flags are seen everywhere including flag
symbols on clothing. Fascism uses fear and the need for security as
its motivating force to persuade individuals that human rights can
be ignored in certain cases because of "need." Fascism
rallies individuals into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need
to eliminate a perceived threat whether it is racial, ethnic, religious,
sexual orientation, conservatives, liberals, communists, socialists
or any other group. Fascism controls the privately-owned
media through government regulation. Fascism uses the most common
religion in a nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion even when
the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to a fascist
government's policies and/or actions.“
FREEDOM OF THOUGHT? NOT IN BUSH'S AMERICA
“Bush
administration's desire to stifle dissent is going beyond herding protesters
into fenced-off and distant "free speech zones" during presidential
visits. They apparently view any and all opponents of President Bush
as criminals at best and terrorists at worst…. the message to
potential dissenters is crystal clear: If you disagree with what
your government is doing in your name, keep it to yourself. If you
wish to be vocal and visible in your opposition, the cops will do whatever
is necessary to shut you up.”
Who will save nation from Bush 'police state'?
"For the life
of me I can't imagine why the media in the U.S. is so immobilized by
the Bush administration... Republicans believe everything Bush says.
When he tells them he needs a police state to save them from terrorists,
they believe him."
The Undertow of Totalism
“The success
or failure of any kind of totalitarianism always comes down to the
symbiotic relationship between them, that is, how skilled the would-be
leaders are at gathering and maintaining a flock of True Believers. This
depends not only on the leaders' skills, but on how many people
are willing to become followers… These followers are totalists, and
recent events make clear that American society is increasingly awash
in them….”
Stockholm
syndrome
"The Stockholm
syndrome is a psychological state in which the victims of a kidnapping,
or persons detained against their free will
prisoners develop a relationship with their captor(s). This solidarity
can sometimes become a real complicity, with prisoners actually helping
the captors to achieve their goals..."
AP: Federal Agency Collected Extensive
Personal Data About Airline Passengers Despite Pledge
“A federal agency
collected extensive personal information about airline passengers although
Congress told it not to and it said it wouldn't, according to documents
obtained Monday by The Associated Press. A Transportation Security
Administration contractor used three data brokers to collect detailed
information about U.S. citizens who flew on commercial airlines in
June 2004 in order to test a terrorist screening program called Secure
Flight,”
Voluntary Security ID to Debut in Florida
It’s
voluntary but it offers a ‘reward’ for giving up your privacy.
Supreme Court Rules Cities May Seize
Homes
“The U.S.
Supreme Court destroyed everybody's lives today, everybody who owns
a home," … “the
decision favors rich corporations.”
Chicago pairing surveillance cameras
with gunshot recognition systems
Police may be handed new powers
“Scottish
police may be handed powers to store DNA profiles and fingerprints
of anyone they have arrested.”
FBI Turned Loose
“Privacy rights
may disappear if a new Senate Intelligence Committee bill passes… The
FBI will write its own subpoenas - just as British customs officials
in the colonies did before the American Revolution - using general
search warrants (writs of assistance) to go into homes and offices
at will to look for contraband. These raids so inflamed 18th-century
Americans that the "general search warrant" was one of the
precipitating causes of our revolution.”
Social Security files opened to FBI
“The Social
Security Administration has relaxed its privacy restrictions and searched
thousands of its files at the FBI's request as part of terrorism investigations
since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, newly disclosed records and interviews
show. The privacy policy typically bans the sharing of such sensitive
information, which includes home addresses, medical information and
other personal data. But Social Security agency senior officials
agreed to an "ad hoc" policy that authorized the release
of information to the FBI for Sept. 11-related investigations because
officials saw a "life-threatening" emergency, internal
memos say... ‘But an ad hoc policy like this is so broad
that it allows law enforcement to obtain really sensitive information
by merely claiming that the information is relevant to the 9/11 investigation,’ Hofmann
said.
‘There appears to be very little oversight.’”
High court rejects enemy combatant appeal
“The
Supreme Court refused Monday to be drawn into a dispute over President
Bush's power to detain American terror suspects and deny them traditional
legal rights… A year ago, the court ruled the Bush
administration was out of line by locking up foreign terrorist suspects
at the Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, without access to lawyers
and courts. But justices declined to address a separate issue:
whether American citizens arrested on U.S. soil can be designated "enemy
combatants" and held without trial... Solicitor General
Paul Clement, the Bush administration's top Supreme Court lawyer, said
the lower court ruling ‘marks a substantial judicial intrusion
into the core presidential function of determining how best to ensure
the nation's security.’” They’ve
been working steadily toward this power for years. If not already,
soon it will be perfectly legal for masked men simply to take you away,
as long as someone declares you to be an “enemy combatant.”
U.S. Campaign Produces Few Convictions
on Terrorism Charges
“In
the end, most cases on the Justice Department list turned out to have
no connection to terrorism at all.” Evidence
suggests that the war on terrorism is a lot of “show.” But
we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars on it. Who
is getting that money?
Homeland Security Conspiracy Against America
"A recent Report
of the Homeland Security Council entitled 'Planning Scenarios' describes
in minute detail, the Bush administration's preparations in the
case of a terrorist attack by an outside enemy called the Universal
Adversary... includes the following categories of potential "conspirators": "foreign
[Islamic] terrorists", "domestic radical groups", [antiwar
and civil rights groups], "state sponsored adversaries" ["rogue
states", "unstable nations"], "disgruntled employees" [labor
and union activists]."
Bush pressures Congress to renew Patriot act
PATRIOT ACT PROVISIONS:
· Broad
new authority to compel information from ISPs, friends, relatives, businesses
and others, all without informing you.
· Immunity
for businesses that voluntarily turn over your information to law enforcement.
· Extra
punishment for use of cryptography-- no connection to terrorism needed.
· Instant
police access to your credit reports … no connection to terrorism
needed.
· Relaxed
requirement of specificity for warrants for multi-use devices like
PDAs and computers with telephonic capabilities.
· DNA
collected from all terrorism suspects/DNA database information open
to all law enforcement.
· Less
judicial oversight of surveillance.
Federal, state and
local officials can now freely share information, regardless of the
original reason for gathering it. This includes information in your
credit reports, educational records and visa records. It also includes
information obtained by administrative subpoenas of any business, from
your ISP to your credit card company to your grocer. It also includes
DNA database information and information obtained through the secret
court processes of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
Much of this sharing need not have any relationship to terrorism investigation... USAPA
II allows gag orders for subpoenas that force third parties to turn
over information about their friends, loved ones or customers while
making it unlawful for them to tell anyone except their lawyers about
the subpoena. In a similar vein, the law creates broad new exceptions
to the Freedom of Information Act for terrorism detainee information,
prevents the Environmental Protection Agency from warning the public
about environmental dangers from chemical releases and reduces the
ability of judges to force the government to present its evidence in
open court. Be careful what you read on the Internet. The
government may now monitor the online activities of innocent Americans,
and perhaps even track what Web sites you read, by merely telling a
judge anywhere in the U.S. that the spying could lead to information
that is "relevant" to an ongoing criminal investigation.
The person spied on does not have to be the target of the investigation.
This application must be granted and the government is not obligated
to report to the court or tell the person spied upon what it has done. Nationwide
roving wiretaps. FBI and CIA can now go from phone to phone, computer
to computer without demonstrating that each is being used by a suspect
or target of an order, or even specifically identifying the person
targeted. The government may now serve a single Title III wiretap,
FISA wiretap or pen/trap order on any person or entity nationwide,
regardless of whether that person or entity is named in the order.
The government need not make any showing to a court that the particular
information or communication to be acquired is relevant to a criminal
investigation. As with its predecessor, USAPA II contains many provisions
that appear to be nothing more than an opportunistic attempt to
increase governmental powers in areas unrelated to terrorism. In
other areas, while terrorism is included, the provisions are not limited
to terrorism-related investigations. These include government access
to credit reports, sentence enhancements for using encryption, and
sharing of some FISA-obtained information…”
GOP
Chairman Walks Out of [PATRIOT Act] Meeting
"The House Judiciary
Committee hearing, with the two sides accusing each other of being
irresponsible and undemocratic, came as President Bush was urging Congress
to renew those sections of the post-Sept. 11 counterterrorism law set
to expire in September." Of
course, the act will be renewed. It seems that there is merely
an illusion of debate about important legislation these days.
Justice Abused Terror-Fighting Tools,
Report Says - A Kafkaesque world of indefinite
detention
“In
one case, a 68-year-old physician and U.S. citizen was hauled away
in handcuffs after his suspicious neighbors broke into his apartment
and discovered literature on flying. Another man, also a U.S. citizen,
was locked up after his wife was seen videotaping boats on Chesapeake
Bay by other drivers who thought she might be scouting the Chesapeake
Bay Bridge as a target…. ‘The material witness law has
been twisted beyond recognition,’”
Patriot Act Push Angers Some on Right
“the
USA Patriot Act is prompting sharp criticism from some conservative
leaders who are otherwise among the most vocal allies of President
Bush and the Republican leadership in Congress… said conservative
activist Grover Norquist, every major conservative grass-roots organization
has expressed concern about expanding the Patriot Act.”
US considering making flag burning a
crime
If Congress Has It's Way, This Site Could
Be Cause for Arrest--Yours and Mine
“Warren Apel,
a civil libertarian, has produced a website, The Burning Flag Page, which does an excellent job of
explaining the threat to liberty that is posed by the Congressional
move to ban flag-burning.”
Enabling Evil: Bush's Willing Executioners
“Americans
are complicit in the deaths and maiming of thousands of American
soldiers for no valid purpose. Americans are complicit in the
deaths of tens of thousands of Iraqi women and children as
"collateral damage." No one knows how high the number is because
the Bush administration does not regard Iraqi lives as worth counting.”
US senator stands by Nazi remark
“A
US senator has refused to apologise for comparing the actions of US
soldiers at Guantanamo Bay to those of Nazis, while others have decried
or defended the mandate and method used to hold prisoners there. US
Senator Dick Durbin on Wednesday refused to apologise for comments
he made on the Senate floor referring to Nazis, Soviet gulags and a ‘mad
regime’ like Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.”
Gitmo called death camp
“The
Senate's No. 2 Democrat has compared the U.S. military's treatment
of a suspected al Qaeda terrorist at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo
Bay with the regimes of Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Pol Pot, three
of history's most heinous dictators, whose regimes killed millions… Mr.
Durbin said, ‘If I read this to you and did not tell you that
it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners
in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been
done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime’”
Torture Gone Wild: the Camp Gitmo Reality
Show
Halliburton to build new $30 mln Guantanamo
jail
Affront to our civil liberties
“The more we
learn about the Government's plan for pay-per-mile motoring, the more
shocking and frightening it becomes. This project will involve the
most intrusive system for spying on the citizens ever proposed in a
civilised state. Hitler and Stalin would have relished such a scheme. High
overhead, 24 hours a day, satellites will monitor the movements of
all 30 million vehicles in Britain... You may wish to see a new
church, join a social club or visit the headquarters of a political
party. All will be known. All will be logged.”
Antiwar protesters face federal conspiracy
charges
“The U.S. federal
government is prosecuting four Catholic peace activists from Ithaca,
N.Y., after a state court jury refused to convict them last year for
their antiwar protest at a local U.S. military recruiting station… ‘The
federal government is clearly trying to make an example of these people
and to intimidate future nonviolent protestors by charging these folks
with conspiracy," said Bill Quigley, a law professor at Loyola
University’ … ‘It is never OK to kill another
of God's children and it is especially grievous to send one's children,
our children to another land to kill other children,’ said
Clare Grady, a mother of two.” Have
you thought about why spreading a peace message can now get you prosecuted
by the federal government? Is this the “American way?”
Bush OKs Shake-Up of Spy Agencies
“The White
House ordered the creation of a National Security Service inside
the FBI. And Bush sought to strengthen the hand of the new national
intelligence director over the FBI, giving him expanded budget and
management powers over the bureau. In a statement, the American
Civil Liberties Union said the FBI's new security service would lead
to an ‘erosion of constitutional protections against law enforcement
actions.’”
The Facebook.com: Big Brother with a smile
"The Beast system
is here right now. And worst of all, people are voluntarily giving
up this information, with some updating their profile every day with
their latest personal details... TheFaceBook.com’s connections
to the shadowy world of black ops don’t stop there. They recently
received $13 million in venture capital backing from Accel Partners.
James Breyer, the manager of Accel, sits on the board of National Venture
Capital Association (NVCA) alongside Gilman Louie, head of In-Q-Tel.
The CIA set up In-Q-Tel in 1999, with the goal of fostering companies
that provide “data warehousing and mining” in a “secure
community of interest.”"
CIA
chief says he has 'excellent idea' where Osama bin Laden is
CIA 'knows Bin Laden whereabouts'
“If a TV
station can get in touch with them, how can the intelligence service
of a country which has nuclear bombs and a lot of security and military
forces not find them?”
Bin Laden's, CIA roots. How We Created Our Own Terror
Debunk the myth of Al Qaeda
Disinformation: CIA Posing as Al-Qaeda?
German court orders acquittal of Sept 11 attacks suspect
"The appeals
court on Thursday rejected an appeal from federal prosecutors for a
new trial, citing a lack of evidence." That's right, folks,
still not a single person convicted of the massive plot that was required
to carry out the 9/11 attacks. Could it be because it didn't
happen anything like we were told it did?
Manufactured
Terrorism: The Truth About Sept. 11
Former Bush Team Member Says WTC Collapse
Likely A Controlled Demolition And 'Inside Job'
“Highly recognized
former chief economist in Labor Department now doubts official 9/11
story, claiming suspicious facts and evidence cover-up indicate government
foul play and possible criminal implications.” This article lists some of the impressive evidence that suggests
that the story is not what it seems. After all, there was no
real investigation. All the conclusions were presented within
days of the attacks and have been stuck to ever since.
THE MOTHER OF ALL HOAXES? - World Trade
Tower 'Controlled Demolition'?
“Without
9/11, it would have been politically impossible for the government
to embark on military interventions in Central Asia and the Middle
East and launch an unprecedented attack on civil liberties at home.”
WTC Basement Blast And Injured Burn Victim
Blows 'Official 9/11 Story' Sky High; Eye Witness Testimony Is
Conclusive That North Tower Collapsed From Controlled Demolition
“Rodriguez's
story is so damaging – so damning – it literally blows
the lid off the government story, literally exposing the whole 9/11
investigation as a sham and a cover-up of the worst kind. And
it appears the cover-up also extends to the media.”
FBI inspector general's report: more evidence of government
complicity in 9/11 attacks
“The FBI
inspector general's report is, like all previous official investigations
into the events of 9/11, a cover-up for the state apparatus. These
investigations share one common feature: they completely exclude,
a priori, any question of government complicity in terrorist attacks. Instead,
we have the familiar litany of breast-beating over mistakes, complacency,
inattention and inadequate resources… The Democratic Party
is deeply implicated, supporting both the war in Iraq and the cover-up
of the role of the state in the 9/11 attacks. The Clinton administration
sought to provoke a confrontation with Iraq in 1998, but had to back
off in the face of public opposition to a new war in the Middle East—opposition
that was only overcome in the wake of September 11.”
Hustler asks "What if Everything You Know about 9/11 is
Wrong?"
TV show depicts 9/11 as Bush plot
Bush Insider Claim WTC Collapse Bogus Gets 'Huge Response'
And Read By Millions Worldwide
“When Morgan
Reynolds called the official story about 9/11 bogus, it seemed like
the whole world stopped for a moment to listen. […]Two weeks
ago, the former chief economist in the Labor Department during President
Bush’s first term told the world he thought the WTC fell
from a controlled demolition, indicating 9/11 was ‘an inside
government job.’ ‘I never imagined how much support
there was out there for what I was suggesting occurred on 9/11… It’s
nothing new. The government has always lied about so many things. Look
at the Downing Street Memo, for example, the document confirming that
the Bush administration lied to us about its motives for getting into
the war. If they lied to us about this, what else? Well, 9/11
is just another example.’"
Morgan Reynolds' Nine Eleven Inside Job:
Corporate Media Silence is Golden
“Are
you surprised? The Morgan Reynolds story about nine
eleven being an "inside job" has received nada
coverage beyond the original UPI story”
The
MOSSAD Happy Dance – the story of the dancing Israelis on 9/11
Tricks of the 9/11 conspiracy debunkers: The Mechanical
Popularity of Lies
The Fix Was In - Did Bush Deliberately Deceive America About Iraq?
"...the analysts
who pushed the now discredited claim that Iraq's purchase of aluminum
tubes was for the purpose of furthering a nuclear weapons program,
have been richly rewarded for this conspicuous failure, receiving job
performance rewards in each of the three years since this grave error." Rich reward suggests that their jobs were very well done.
THE DOWNING STREET MEMO
“Anyone
who still believes all the Anglo-American propaganda about the Iraq
invasion is now faced by deep disillusionment… Translation:
the US and British governments would concoct false charges against
Iraq to justify war. After Britain’s Attorney General warned
unprovoked invasion of Iraq would violate international law, Dearlove
noted with oily cynicism, `If the political context were right, people
would support regime change.’ Translation: use propaganda and
scare tactics to whip up war fever... Nazi leader Herman Goering
correctly observed, a government can get way with anything provided
it scares its citizens enough.”
Backstory: Confirming the Downing Street
documents
The Real News in the Downing Street Memos
“It
said that Blair agreed at Crawford that
"the UK would support military action to bring about regime change." Because
this was illegal, the officials noted, it was "necessary to create
the conditions in which we could legally support military action."”
Could memo sink Bush?
“The release
of an explosive piece of paper called the Downing Street Memo has
Hinchey, almost 90 members of Congress and people around the world
in an uproar… Blair that Bush had already decided to attack
Iraq –
months before Bush brought the question to the U.N., and while he continued
to deny, both to Congress and publicly, any plans to do so… The
Times of London made the memo public May 1, and has continued to hammer
it in its pages… Until now, the story has been largely ignored
by the U.S. news media and dismissed by the Bush administration… calls
for a congressional inquiry into the questions raised by the memo are
growing louder, with some even discussing a Bush impeachment.”
Downing Street Is For Liars
“Why aren't the media screaming about the latest proofs of Bush's war
scams? Don't you know?”
Democrats call for inquiry into 'Downing
Street Memo'
“could
be the first documentary proof that Bush deceived the American people.”
Bush and Blair Committed to War in April,
2002 Leaked Cabinet Briefing Shows British Knew War was Illegal
Yes, Virginia, There Really Are Downing Street Memos
Papers
Reach Iraq Boiling Point
"...this past
week, widely scattered newspaper editorialists roused themselves from
seeming acceptance of the continuing slaughter in Iraq to voice, for
the first time in many cases, outright condemnation of the war... some
at least are finally using the "L"
word, for lies... the latest Gallup polls find that 57% feel the war
is
"not worth it," ... The Minneapolis Star-Tribune called Iraq "an
unnecessary war based on contrived concerns. ... President Bush and those around
him lied, and the rest of us let them. ... Bush insists on clinging to the
thoroughly discredited notion that there was any connection between the old
Iraqi regime -- no matter how lawless and brutal -- and the terrorist attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001."
The Downing Street Fixation - Fixing to Fix "Fixed"
“With Blair
forced to acknowledge that the documents are authentic, the White House
could hardly label them spurious.”
Ministers were told of need for Gulf
war 'excuse'
“Ministers were
warned in July 2002 that Britain was committed to taking part in an
American-led invasion of Iraq and they had no choice but to find a
way of making it legal. The warning, in a leaked Cabinet Office
briefing paper, said Tony Blair had already agreed to back military
action to get rid of Saddam Hussein at a summit at the Texas ranch
of President George W Bush three months earlier. The briefing
paper, for participants at a meeting of Blair's inner circle on July
23, 2002, said that since regime change was illegal it was "necessary
to create the conditions" which would make it legal… Bush
and Blair agreed on regime change in April 2002 and then looked
for a way to justify it.”
Perle's confession
[Former Chief Advisor
to the Secretary of Defense] “Richard Perle has now admitted
that the invasion of Iraq was illegal according to the tenets of
international law, acknowledging that ‘international law ... would have required us to leave
Saddam Hussein alone.’”
War critics astonished as US hawk admits
invasion was illegal
Web of cold-blooded lies
“In
July 2002, the head of MI-6, Britain's secret intelligence service,
briefed Prime Minister Tony Blair and his cabinet on U.S. plans to
attack Iraq. Sir Richard Dearlove ("M" to James Bond
fans) reported that U.S. President George Bush had decided to invade
oil-rich Iraq in March 2003, in a war "to be justified by the
conjunction of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The intelligence
and facts are being fixed around the policy." Translation:
The U.S. and British governments would concoct charges against Iraq
to justify war... British and U.S. intelligence agencies were
ordered to produce "evidence" to justify a war. In the U.S.,
faked
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