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What kind of fantastic lie or gross incompetence caused a 12-year war to be marketed as a 3-week war
by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 29 June 20051 comment
Wars and conflicts International USA
A Defeat Bred in Deceit
Paul Craig Roberts
“Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
When Bush decided, prior to September 11, to attack Iraq, he committed himself to lies and deceit. As his British co-conspirators realized, only victory could save them from the consequences.
On June 27, General George Casey, US commander of the “multinational coalition” in Iraq, told morning TV audiences that the conflict in Iraq “will not be settled on the battlefield.” On June 26, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told TV audiences that “coalition forces, foreign forces are not going to repress that insurgency.” The insurgency, Rumsfeld said, might “go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years.”
These admissions give the lie to Vice President Cheney’s claim that the insurgency is in “its last throes.”
Would Congress have let Bush invade Iraq if Congress had known that it would not be a 3-week war but a 12-year war?
What kind of fantastic lie or gross incompetence caused a 12-year war to be marketed as a 3-week war?
How can any people, no matter how deceived and deluded, support a government capable of such miscalculation or deceit?
Would the Washington Post and the New York Times have been such willing conduits of neoconservative propaganda against Iraq it anyone on either paper had enough education to realize the catastrophe that hubris was creating? What if either paper had possessed enough of a reporter’s skepticism to ask a question?
General Casey’s and Secretary Rumsfeld’s remarks make it clear that the Defense Department has given up the prospect of military victory: The situation in Iraq, Gen. Casey said, “will ultimately be settled by negotiation and inclusion in the political process.” Rumsfeld says the US troops are being killed and maimed in order to “create an environment that the Iraqi people and the Iraqi security forces can win against that insurgency.”
After three years of fighting, Rumsfeld still doesn’t understand that the Iraqi people are the insurgency. Is Rumsfeld still clinging to the myth that the insurgency is an outside element injected into Iraq?
When will the moronic Bush administration realize that it is creating the environment in which the insurgency is prevailing?
Many readers write to me that Bush and his neocon crazies are Israel’s patsies. An equally good case can be made that Bush and his crazy neocons are Osama bin Laden’s agents. In a recent speech at the American University in Cairo, Egypt, Secretary of State Condi Rice repudiated America’s 60-year-old policy of Middle East stability and declared: “Now, we are taking a different course.”
Rice, being completely ignorant of the Middle East, believes that the path to democracy is through instability. But, of course, instability is exactly what bin Laden wants. The instability that the Bush administration is creating will unseat our puppets in Egypt, Pakistan, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Bin Laden intends to pick up the pieces.
The Bush administration has squandered America’s diplomatic, economic, and military power and is heading for defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, and throughout the Middle East. Bush’s invasion of Iraq is fast becoming one of the greatest strategic blunders in history.
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29 June 2005, 02:35
Yes folks its not bad for business. Not if you are in the business of making war products. Shit this is the most record profits ever scene by these companies all nicely taken with the help of the propaganda machine marketing the latest military mind control product. The "War on Terror". And boy is it selling. Congress bought it. The people and the media bought it. And the Corporations who are directly marketing it to the rest of the world through their world wide psychic mind control media network of affiliates who have all been bought or are under the direct control of the media oligachy and their brothers in the oil, weapons, and advertising busniess all suprisingly part of what control behaviors most
1. Oil is enrgy and it is imposible for any economy to do with out
2. Weapons production and use represents agendas being acted on with the use of lies and violence to take resources using the Death Dealing Approach
3. Advertising and Media are thier mouthpieace passing on the lies needed to disable the democracy and to enable the geopolitcial extention of corporate profit military poilcy.
We the people must take responsiblity and take over the minds of these organizations and not all their membership to fall prey to the false power of the money changers and their vile ways of dominating humanity through lies and violence.
Remeber none of the people talking to you about the agenda in the war have ever risked a single thing, family member or resource in this war. This war is a war for your mind. And should you believe without proof, and refuse to act to disengage our military then you are by taking no action to stop it leading yourself to your own death by creating the percieved enemy of other peoples, as did the german people when they were misled by the propaganda ministers using the german people as foder for a war whose pretext was sought not to stop Nazim, but to build the atomic bomb under the pretext of a greater control of the world, its people, the money, and finally the mind of humanity to the fear of death to the most powerful weapons in the world. The use of fear to disable your ablity to think and act clearly. It is the oldest trick of the agressor and the killer. To stop it you must remain composed and do what is most effective and in the name of maintaining a civil and peace oriented social goal system, so as not to feed the foder of war and their profit machines.
Refuse to use their money. Refuse their orders of death. Act to build peace. Live with others in Love. Ignore the Call to Violence. Accept others and differences as normal not a reason to discriminate and dominate. Foster friendship, and do not follow men. Take responsiblity for our own destiny by teaching yourself and practiciing with others the human way of love, peace, and the global earth life support system.
peace out 7b