SO HERE IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO

"All war is based on deception."
Sun Tzu, The Art of War

There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make.

resident McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion, investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the case. There had been no mine.

Hitler used this principle of lying to his own people to initiate an invasion. . He told the people of Germany that Poland had attacked first. The Germans, convinced they were being threatened, followed Hitler into Poland and into World War 2.

FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. It wasn’t. The United States saw war with Japan as the means to get into war with Germany, which Americans opposed. So Roosevelt needed Japan to appear to strike first.
Following an 8-step plan devised by the Office ofNaval Intelligence, Roosevelt intentionally provoked Japan into the attack. Contrary to the official story, the fleet did not maintain radio silence, but sent messages intercepted and decoded by US intercept stations. Tricked by the lie of a surprise attack, Americans marched off to war.

President Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin to send Americans
off to fight in Vietnam. There were no torpedoes in the water in the
Gulf. LBJ took advantage of an inexperienced sonar man’s report to goad
Congress into escalating the Vietnam

It is inescapable historical reality that leaders of nations will
lie to their people to trick them into wars they otherwise would have
refused. It is not "conspiracy theory" to suggest that leaders of
nations lie to trick their people into wars. It is undeniable fact.

This brings us to the present case.

Did the government of the United States lie to the American people,
more to the point, did President Bush and his Neocon associates lie to
Congress, to initiate a war of conquest in Iraq?

This question has been given currency by a memo http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/...
leaked from inside the British Government which clearly indicates a
decision to go to war followed by the "fixing" of information around
that policy. This is, as they say, a smoking gun.

But the fact is that long before this memo surfaced, it had become
obvious that the US Government, aided by that of Great Britain, was
lying to create the public support for a war in Iraq.

First off is Tony Blair’s "Dodgy Dossier" http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/...

a document released by the Prime Minister that made many of the claims
used to support the push for war. The dossier soon collapsed when it
was revealed that much of it had been plagiarized from a 12-year old
student thesis paper! The contents of the dossier, however much they
seemed to create a good case for invasion, were obsolete and outdated.

This use of material that could not possibly be relevant at the time is clear proof of a deliberate attempt to deceive.

Then there was the claim about the "Mobile biological weapons
laboratories". Proffered in the absence of any real laboratories in the
wake of the invasion, photos of these trailers were shown on all the US
Mainstream Media, with the claim they while seeming to lack anything
suggesting biological processing, these were part of a much larger
assembly of multiple trailers that churned out biological weapons of
mass destruction.

This claim fell apart when it was revealed that these trailers were
nothing more than hydrogen gas generators used to inflate weather
balloons. This fact was already known to both the US and UK, as a
British company manufactured the units and sold them to Iraq.

Our third piece of evidence consists of documents which President
Bush referenced as in his 2003 State of the Union Speech. According to
Bush, these documents proved that Iraq was buying tons of uranium
oxide, called "Yellow Cake" from Niger. Since Israel had bombed Iraq’s
nuclear power plant years before, it was claimed that the only reason
Saddam would have for buying uranium oxide was to build bombs.

This hoax fell apart fast when it was pointed out that Iraq has a
great deal of uranium ore inside their own borders and no need to
import any from Niger or anywhere else. The I.A.E.A. then blew the
cover off the fraud by announcing that the documents Bush had used were
not only forgeries, but too obvious to believe that anyone in the Bush
administration did not know they were forgeries!

Along with forged "Yellow Cake" documents and balloon inflators
posing as bioweapons labs, the US was shown a steady barrage of spy
photos taken from high flying aircraft and spacecraft. On the photos
were circles and arrows and labels pointing to various fuzzy white
blobs and identifying them as laboratories and storage areas for
Saddam’s massive weapons of mass destruction program. Nothing in the
photos actually suggested what the blobby shapes were and inspections
which followed the invasion, all of them turned out to be rather
benign. One purported biological weapons lab turned out to be a bakery,
and a claimed nuclear facility turned out to be a commercial mushroom
farm. Not a single one of the photographed targets proved to be what
the labels claimed that they were.

In the end, the real proof that we were lied to about Iraq’s
weapons of mass destruction is that no weapons of mass destruction were
ever found. That means that every single piece of paper that purported
to prove that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was by default a
fraud, a hoax, and a lie. There could be no evidence that supported the
theory that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because Iraq did not
have weapons of mass destruction. In a way, the existance of any faked
documents about Iraq’s WMDs is actually an admission of guilt. If one
is taking the time to create fake documents, the implication is that
the faker is already aware that there are no genuine documents.

What the US Government had, ALL that they had, were copied student
papers, forged "Yellow Cake" documents, balloon inflators posing as
bioweapons labs, and photos with misleading labels on them. And
somewhere along the line, someone decided to put those misleading
labels on those photos, to pretend that balloon inflators are portable
bioweapons labs, and to pass off 12-year old stolen student papers as
contemporary analysis.

And THAT shows an intention to deceive.

Lawyers call this "Mens Rea", which means "Guilty Mind". TV lawyer
shows call it "Malice of forethought". This means that not only did the
Bush Administration lie to the people and to the US Congress, but knew
they were doing something something illegal at the time that they did
it.

All the talk about "Intelligence failure" is just another lie.
There was no failure. Indeed the FBI agents who erroneously claimed
that missile tubes were parts for a uranium centrifuge http://perspectives.com/... received bonuses, while the Pentagon smeared Hans Blix http://news.bbc.co.uk/... and John Bolton orchestrated the firing http://www.btcnews.com/...
of Jose Bustani, the director of the Organization for the Prohibition
of Chemical Weapons, because Bustani was trying to send chemical
weapons inspectors to Baghdad.

The President of the United States and his Neocon associates lied
to the people of the United States to send them off on a war of
conquest.

Defenders of the government will point to the cases listed at the
top of the page as proof that lying to the people is a normal part of
the leader’s job and we should all get used to it. And because
"Everybody does it" that we should not single out the present
administration. But this is madness. We do not catch all the murderers,
yet when we catch a murderer, we deal with them as harshly as possible,
in order to deter more murderers.

Right now, we have the criminals at hand. and, while other leaders
in history have lied to start wars, for the first time in history, the
lie stands exposed while the war started with the lies still rages on,
to the death and detriment of our young men and women in uniform. We
cannot in good moral conscience ignore this lie, this crime, lest we
encourage future leaders to continue to lie to use to send our kids off
to pointless wars. Lying to start a war is more than an impeachable
offence; it the highest possible crime a government can commit against
their own people. Lying to start a war is not only missapropriation of
the nation’s military and the nation’s money under false pretenses, but
it is outright murder committed on a massive scale. Lying to start a
war is a betrayal of the trust each and every person who serves in the
military places in their civilian leadership. By lying to start a war,
the Bsuh administration has told the military fatalities and their
families that they have no right to know why they were sent to their
deaths. It’s none of their business.

Our nation is founded on the principle of rule with the consent of
the governed. Because We The People do not consent to be lied to, a
government that lies rules without the consent of the governed, and
ruling with the consent of the governed is slavery.

You should be more than angry. You should be in a rage. You should
be in a rage no less than that of the families of those young men and
women who have been killed and maimed in this war started with a
lie.You need to be in a rage and you need to act on that rage because
even as I type these words, the same government that lied about Iraq’s
nuclear weapons is telling the exact same lies about Iran’s nuclear
capabilities. The writing is on the wall; having gotten away with lying
to start the war in Iraq, the US Government will lie to start a war in
Iran, and after that another, and after that another, and another and
another and another because as long as you remain silent, and as long
as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.

As long as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.

None.

It is time to fire the liars.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is

for good men to do nothing" .
—Edmund Burke

SO HERE IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO.

The Bush administration and their friends in the media want this
story to go away. More than want it to go away, they are in a panic,
and will do everything they can to stop it. They will use every dirty
trick, every paid shill, every presstitute that they can. Already there
is a report that the Michael Jackson jury is "expected" to reach a
verdict just before the Conyers hearings.

So, I want YOU to copy this article off, post it everywhere. This
article is placed in the public domain. Mail it to your friends. Then
send it to your local media and your Congresscritters and have everyone
you know do the same. Get on the phones. Flood their offices.

The term is "Viral Marketing" where you get the people who need a
product to market it for you. Well, this nation NEEDS this "product".
It needs to know that this war was started with lies. INTENTIONAL lies.
And they need to know there is something they can do about it, and that
is to start pounding on the doors of power.

Because when a flood of such messages reaches the Congress and the
media, what they will hear is that there is no more time. Either they
will deal with these lies and the liars, in full, or they will lose all
credibility as a government and as media.

A government that lies to the people cannot be the legal government
of this land. Make sure that they understand that YOU understand that
the Constitution does not allow the government to lie to the people.
Calling themselves the government does not make it so if they act
unconstitutionally and illegally. The Constitution is the original
"Contract with America" and a government that lies stands in clear
breach of that contract.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing
invariably the same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under
absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off
such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
— "The Declaration of Independence"

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