15 jaar
geleden begon de regering van George W. Bush de oorlog tegen Irak.
Geheel op leugens gebaseerd was dit de aanzet tot een illegale oorlog
die intussen aan meer dan 1,5 miljoen burgers het leven heeft gekost.
Deze
oorlog was niet mogelijk geweest, als de reguliere (massa-) media
niet de leugens van de Bush administratie hadden overgenomen en dat op de
voorpagina’s en prominent in nieuws en actualiteiten uitzendingen, of dat nu op de
radio of tv was. De term ‘fake news’ bestond destijds nog niet, maar
werd wel degelijk op grote schaal gemaakt door de hiervoor genoemde
media. Vergeet niet dat meerdere deskundigen en wapeninspecteurs van
de VN, zoals Blix, keer op keer stelden dat Irak niet meer in het
bezit was van massavernietigingswapens…….
Het
volgende artikel gaat Ron Paul dieper in op alle gevolgen van
deze illegale oorlog die de VS 15 jaar geleden begon. Voorts noemt
hij het huidige tromgeroffel o.l.v. De VS tegen Noord-Korea, waar
senator Graham een paar dagen geleden stelde dat een paar miljoen
doden geen probleem zijn, als met een oorlog tegen dit land ‘stabiliteit’ in de regio wordt bereikt………..
Jammer
dat Paul niet alle andere oorlogsdreigingen van VS en NAVO zijde noemt, zoals een dreigende oorlog tegen Syrië, Iran en Libanon (deze o.l.v. Israël met steun van de VS), waar
nog Oekraïne aan toegevoegd kan worden, daar de VS daar niet alleen
meer ‘militaire adviseurs’, maar ook zware wapens levert aan dit intussen zo
goed als failliete land. Dit nog buiten alle militaire oefeningen
langs de Russische grens, waar de VS in feite oefent op een oorlog
tegen Rusland…….
Hetzelfde geldt voor China, waar de VS dit land voor een groot deel heeft omringd met militaire bases en waar de Trump administratie dit land meer en meer met militair geweld bedreigt (zoals over de eilandjes die China claimt in de Zuid-Chinese Zee…)…….
Ron
Paul: 15 Years After the US Invaded Iraq, It’s Time to Listen to
the Iraqi People
March
5, 2018 at 1:04 pm
Written
by Ron
Paul
(RPI Op-ed) — This
month marks the 15th anniversary of the US war on Iraq. The “shock
and awe” attack was launched based on “stove-piped”
intelligence fed from the CIA and Pentagon through an uncritical and
compliant US mainstream media. The US media was a willing accomplice
to this crime of aggression committed by the George W. Bush
Administration.
Despite
the lies we were constantly bombarded with, Iraq never presented a
threat to the United States. Iraq never had the weapons of mass
destruction that the neocons used to frighten Americans into
supporting the war. How many of them knew all along that there were
no WMDs? We’ll never know. Attacking Iraq and overthrowing its
leader was long a plan in the neocon playbook and they used the 9/11
attack on the US as an excuse to pull the plan off the shelf and put
it into action.
The
US “regime change” war on Iraq has directly resulted in the death
of at least a quarter of a million civilians, and indirectly perhaps
a million Iraqis have been killed. The Iraqi infrastructure was
destroyed and the country was set back many decades in development.
Far from the democratization we were promised, Iraq has been turned
into a hell on earth. Due to the US use of depleted uranium and other
chemical weapons like white phosphorus, Iraqis will continue to
suffer from birth defects and other related illnesses for
generations.
How
did we get there? War propaganda was essential in paving the way for
the Iraq war. Americans are generally skeptical about launching new
wars, so it takes a steady media bombardment about the alleged
depravities of any targeted regime before public opinion begins to
shift in favor of war.
Because
the neocons who helped launch the war have never had to face the
consequences of their actions, they continue to promote war with
impunity. Just this past week, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) was pushing
for a US attack on North Korea in which millions may be killed. He
said this weekend, “All the damage that would come from a war would
be worth it in terms of long-term stability and national security.”
That’s just what they said before the US attacked Iraq, and how did
that turn out? I find it disgusting that the media continues to give
airtime almost exclusively to those who promote more US disasters
like Iraq.
The
Iraqi parliament did something extraordinary last week. A majority of
elected Iraqi representatives voted to demand that their prime
minister draw up a timetable for the withdrawal of US troops from the
country. President Obama had withdrawn US troops from Iraq in 2011,
after a status of forces agreement could not be reached with the
Iraqi government, but he returned the US military to Iraq under the
auspices of fighting ISIS.
We
had no business going into Iraq in the first place and we have no
business remaining in Iraq. Al-Qaeda and ISIS emerged in Iraq because
our attack and occupation of the country 15 years ago created fertile
fields for extremism. Nothing will be achieved if we remain. Let’s
listen to the Iraqis and just come home!
Op-ed
by Ron
Paul /
Republished with permission / RPI / Report
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