George W. Bush noemt terugtrekking van troepen uit Afghanistan een vergissing…..

Bij de strekking van de kop op dit bericht zou ik me normaal gesproken kapotlachen, echter deze zaak is te ernstig en te triest om te lachen….. Bush die normaal gesproken nooit een interview geeft, heeft een uitzondering gemaakt voor een Duitse prutser die zich als journalist verkoopt….. Logisch dat Bush geen interviews geeft aan journalisten die hem het vuur aan de schenen zouden kunnen leggen, immers daar heeft dit kwaadaardige leeghoofd geen verweer tegen…. 

Bush probeert op alle mogelijke manieren zijn presidentschap als een succes te doen voorkomen, daarvoor heeft hij zelfs een eigen bibliotheek laten bouwen (alweer: het is dat het zo triest is….) en een pruts ‘journalist’ is natuurlijk een uitgelezen kans om die pogingen meer houvast te geven…

Niet vreemd dan ook dat Bush de terugtrekking van troepen uit Afghanistan een vergissing noemt…. Een vergissing? Velen stellen dat de illegale oorlogen van de VS tegen Afghanistan en Irak een vergissing waren en dat ook nog eens gebaseerd op grove leugens, oorlogen die een paar miljoen mensen het leven hebben gekost, in Irak gaat het zelfs om meer dan 2 miljoen door de VS vermoordde mensen: kinderen, ouden van dagen, vrouwen en mannen….. (al hebben andere NAVO-lidstaten als Nederland meegewerkt aan de vreselijke oorlogsmisdaden in dat land….) Echter het gaat bij die illegale oorlogen, evenals die van Obama tegen Libië en Syrië niet om een ‘vergissing’, maar om een weloverwogen plan om macht uit te kunnen oefenen in het Midden-Oosten en Noord-Afrika, waarbij de VS tevens de beschikking kreeg over enorme voorraden aan olie en gas, voorts zijn landen als Irak, Syrië en Afghanistan van strategisch belang, zeker als de VS bijvoorbeeld een oorlog wil beginnen tegen Iran…. Voorts is Afghanistan van strategisch belang als het gaat om Rusland, echter de Taliban was figuurlijk een paar maten te groot voor de VS, zo heeft men na 20 jaar wel moeten concluderen….. In feite is de oorlog tegen Afghanistan een Vietnam oorlog in herhaling geworden, waarvoor de VS uit en te na voor werd gewaarschuwd alvorens deze terreurstaat dat land binnenviel….

Naast dit alles moet niet vergeten worden dat Bush in feite een marionet was voor de haviken in het Witte Huis: figuren als Dick Cheney en Donald Rumsfeld hadden al plannen voor Afghanistan en Irak voordat Bush tot president werd verkozen…….

Bush verkondigt nog steeds dat de ingreep van de VS in Afghanistan goed was voor het land en dat het leven veel beter was dan onder de Taliban, waarbij deze hufter voor het gemak vergeet hoe de ‘warlords’ dat land omtoverden tot de grootste heroïne leverancier van de wereld, waarbij deze warlords al evenzo terreur uitoefenden op de bevolking….. (toen de VS Afghanistan binnenviel had de Taliban de papaverteelt teruggebracht tot een niet eerder vertoond minimum, terwijl dit land nu weer de allergrootste is op dat gebied, dankzij de hulp van de VS en haar NAVO-partners…….)

Belachelijk ook dat Bush durft te zeggen dat het land zo ten goede is veranderd nadat de VS het land binnenviel, immers het zijn ronduit misdadigers die de regering van Afghanistan vormen en afgeleiden van de eerder genoemde warlords, voorts zijn ze zo corrupt als de pest…..

Bush durft zelfs te liegen dat hij de oorlog tegen Afghanistan niet is begonnen vanwege de Taliban die Al Qaida onderdak zou hebben geboden, maar om jongens en meisjes te emanciperen……. De schoft durfde verder op te merken dat hij bang is dat Afghaanse vrouwen en meisjes ongelofelijk zullen lijden (onder de Taliban), terwijl de naam Bush gelijk staat aan ongelofelijk lijden van Afghaanse meisjes, jongens, vrouwen, mannen en ouden van dagen….. 

Men durft te liegen dat er 100.000 Afghanen zijn omgekomen door de illegale oorlog van de VS, echter dat zijn er zeker 500.000 dit daar men ten eerste het cijfer zo laag mogelijk wil houden en ten tweede geen rekening houdt met het feit dat doden binnen 24 uur moeten worden begraven, waarbij de VS en de andere NAVO troepen geen toegang hadden tot een wisselend aantal gebieden….. Aan VS kant zijn er 2.500 militairen omgekomen in die illegale oorlog en aan Nederlandse kant 25, mensen die geheel voor niets zijn gestorven…..

Me dunkt dat de oorlogsmisdaden begaan in Afghanistan een onderzoek van het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) meer dan waard zijn, waarbij dit hof niet alleen degenen moet vervolgen die daadwerkelijk oorlogsmisdaden hebben begaan, maar zeker ook de politiek verantwoordelijken, daar zij door hun rol ook oorlogsmisdadigers zijn, immers zonder hun goedkeuring waren deze misdaden niet begaan!! Onder het te onderzoeken geteisem in de VS: Bush, uiteraard de nummer één oorlogsmisdadiger, plus de ooorlogshitsers Rumsfeld (jammer gernoeg al overleden) en Cheney, dan nog de oorlogsmisdadigers in ons land: CDA opperschoften: Balkenende, de Hoop Scheffer, Hillen, Bot, Verhagen, en Bijleveld; VVD ploerten: van Aartsen, de Grave, Rosenthal, Rutte, Hennis-Plasschaert, Blok, Kamp, Korthals, Zijlstra en Dijkhoff; PvdA hufters Bos, Timmermans en Koenders; hare D66 kwaadaardigheid Kaag en tot slot ChristenUnie sukkel Middelkoop….. (Hennis-Plasschart is als beloning voor de onder haar ministerschap begane oorlogsmisdaden, door NB de VN benoemd als speciale gezant voor Irak, een grove belediging voor het volk van Irak…..)

Vergeet na dit alles niet dat de oorlogen tegen Afghanistan en Irak, onderdeel van de War on Terror, juist terreur hebben gekweekt op de straten van Europa….

Het volgende artikel geschreven door Andrew Mitrovica werd gepubliceerd op Information Clearing House. Andrew maakt zich in zijn schrijven flink pissig op Bush en het is het lezen meer dan waard: 

George W. Bush Should Shut Up and Go Away

Bush is a mass murderer. He should be
sharing a bunk bed with Ratko Mladic at The
Hague, not giving interviews on Afghanistan
in Maine.

By Andrew Mitrovica


By now,
George W
Bush should have completed
volumes one and two of his prison letters.

But, as we know, the world is not a just
place. So, like all the other American
presidents who have avoided the dock despite
the crimes they have committed at home and
abroad, the former US president remains a
free, and, indeed, carefree, man.

I suspect that Bush is happy, too, biding
his time during his “golden years” painting
what can charitably be described as globby,
deformed “portraits” and tending to the
tangled bush on his Texas estate.

“With the eager help of
grovelling, amnesiac television hosts, Bush
has mounted a muted, yet determined campaign
to rehabilitate his foul reputation.”

It is inconceivable to me, though, that a
once immensely powerful man who is almost
singularly responsible for two calamitous
wars-of-choice which have caused such
immeasurable harm and suffering to so many
innocents, in so many places, could ever
experience a genuine moment of stillness,
let alone happiness.

I wonder, as well, if Bush ever pauses
from his painting and gardening to consider
the appalling measure of his guilt or
shudders at the unfolding and halting scope
of the profound, disfiguring consequences of
his many and manifest crimes against decency
and humanity.

That may well be a largely rhetorical
question since one of the principal
qualifications of becoming president is the
necessity to kill, maim, and traumatise
other human beings in the murderous pursuit
of the ever malleable US “national
interest”.

So, Bush likely finds
considerable solace in the slimy evasion
that being president is often a thankless,
dirty job that requires, on occasion, the
occupant to order “hits” – big and small –
against America’s “enemies” just like a
mafia don, but with a much larger, more
well-equipped army, of course.

I have pondered these questions lately
about this banal, unrepentant killer and
torture-approving thug with a presidential
library because, rather than finally doing
the world a smidgen of service by
permanently shutting up in lieu of being
charged, Bush continues to believe,
incredibly, that his musings on war and
diplomacy have serious merit and should be
heeded.

Earlier this month, Bush was interviewed
at his palatial summer home in
Kennebunkport, Maine, by a German
broadcaster with apparently nothing better
to do with its time and resources.

The agreeable tête-à-tête was billed as a
“rare” departure of form for Bush, who
reportedly avoids sit-down interviews with
journalists.

Gee, I wonder why?

Apart from briefly prying Bush away from
his juvenile tinkering with paint on a
canvas and taming his unruly hedges, an
interview conducted by an intrepid reporter
might cause the stammering, reclusive
ex-president a little discomfort and serve
as a mild, belated comeuppance of sorts.

Bush could, for once, have
been challenged to account finally for the
litany of lies he concocted and told to
start wars that he and his posse of criminal
“advisers” in slick suits and designer
outfits convinced themselves would be cheap,
easy and quick.

Two decades later, the cruel, lethal
folly of Bush’s cocky, catastrophic
delusions and fabrications is plain:
millions dead and scarred in body, mind and
spirit, countless other lives ruined or left
adrift in refugee camps where disease, want
and hopelessness are rampant, countries
engulfed by endless uncertainty, violence
and sectarianism and a patient, resurgent
Taliban poised to reimpose its malignant
dominion over Afghanistan.

Bush could also have been pressed about
his role in engineering an international
abduction racket – known as “renditions” –
that permitted America’s state-sanctioned
hoodlums to kidnap mostly Muslim men and
dump them into secret dungeons in Iraq and
beyond where they were bound, interrogated,
humiliated, electrocuted, attacked by dogs,
sexually assaulted, water-boarded and,
ultimately, murdered.

None of that appears to have happened.
Instead, Bush was given unfettered licence
to object to the withdrawal of the remaining
US and NATO troops from Afghanistan.

“The consequences are going to be
unbelievably bad,” Bush said, without, I
imagine, even a hint of irony.

That this callous cretin would suggest
anywhere, at any time, for any reason, that
the “consequences” of another president’s
actions “are going to be unbelievably bad”
for Afghanistan is blatant proof of Bush’s
genetically programmed stupidity and
obscene, near nauseating hubris.

Then, Bush proceeded to
demonstrate that he is damaged in ways that
only a psychologist could possibly decipher
and is incapable of introspection or remorse
for the horror he has wrought on so many
people, in so many places because of his
orders as commander-in-chief.

First, he told his German guests that the
Afghan withdrawal was a mistake.

Given his atrocious geopolitical record,
Bush should be banned from ever uttering,
under any circumstances and in any context,
the word: “mistake”.

Still, to define how Bush and equally
culpable company went about methodically
defacing Iraq and Afghanistan as “mistakes”
would, itself, be a mistake.

The injuries and atrocities Iraqis and
Afghans have endured in the long, bitter
aftermath of Bush’s decision to invade
cannot be diminished or dismissed simply as
errors.

They were and remain the inhumane
corollaries of the sinister, calculated
choices made by an inept president who was
convinced that it was his and America’s
destiny to “liberate” two distant lands for
the same evangelical reasons.

Second, remarkably, Bush
took implicit credit – amid all the death
and destruction the American-led invasion
has visited on Afghans – for brutally
refashioning Afghan society as a
recuperative antidote to the Taliban’s
brutality.

“It’s unbelievable how that society
changed from the brutality of the Taliban,”
Bush said.

No, what is unbelievable, is Bush’s
lunatic idea that the US military occupation
of Iraq and Afghanistan had any redeeming or
salutary impact on the fates of both
nations.

Finally, and so cynically, Bush attempted
to rewrite his incriminating history by
implying that he unleashed American forces
and drones on Afghanistan not to rout the
Taliban or punish it for harbouring
al-Qaeda, but to emancipate women and girls.

“All of a sudden – sadly – I’m afraid
Afghan women and girls are going to suffer
unspeakable harm,” Bush said from the
comfort of his picture-postcard oasis.

The name George W Bush is synonymous with
the suffering and unspeakable harm girls,
boys, women and men in Iraq and Afghanistan
have braved for decades.

With the eager help of
grovelling, amnesiac television hosts, Bush
has mounted a muted, yet determined campaign
to rehabilitate his foul reputation. In its
place, a new, gracious, if slightly awkward
and endearing caricature of Bush has
emerged.

It is a sick mirage.

Bush is an unindicted mass murderer. He
ought to be sharing a bunk bed with Ratko
Mladic at The Hague. Failing that, he should
keep monastically quiet and go away.

As penance, it is the least this
intolerable piece of crud could do.

Andrew Mitrovica is an award-winning
investigative reporter and journalism instructor.

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Zie ook:Donald Rumsfelds dood: het systeem is er niet om ons te beschermen tegen zware misdadigers maar om deze te beschermen tegen ons

Daniel Hale: 4 jaar gevangenisstraf voor het uitvoeren van zijn burgerlijke plicht: ernstige misdaden aan de kaak stellen

De VS heeft de meest agressieve regering

Je zou de regering niet moeten vertrouwen, zeker niet als er commentaar wordt geleverd op de sociale media‘ (zie ook de links in dat bericht naar artikelen over censuur!!)

Hoe schunnig de machthebbers in de VS ook handelen, openbaring daarvan verandert niets

Afghanistan: terugtrekking troepen gaat ten koste van collaborerende tolken‘ Een bericht van 14 juli jl., intussen is het de VS die de meeste tolken en ander personeel opneemt dat voor het terreurleger van de VS werkte, dan wel hen een thuis in een ander land geeft; moet zeggen dat me dit meevalt.

VS
rechtszaak tegen klokkenluider Daniel Hale: ondanks het feit dat hij
ook volgens de Biden administratie niemand in gevaar bracht

Daniel Hale: een klokkenluider die 10 jaar gevangenisstraf wacht voor het openbaren van VS drone terreur

Hypocriete demonisering van Ilhan Omar, lid VS Huis van Afgevaardigden: ze zou de VS hebben vergeleken met Hamas

Coronacrisis: Australische militairen moeten de straten en huizen van o.a. moslims in Sydney controleren‘ (dezelfde militairen die ernstige oorlogsmisdaden begingen in Afghanistan…..)

Antony Blinken (VS minister BuZa) leest de wereld de les over persvrijheid terwijl zijn eigen regering deze zwaar geweld aandoet (!!!!)
De vervolging van Hale is ook belangrijk voor de persvrijheid in de VS,
niet voor niets laat de VS overheid journalisten en nieuwsredacties van
vooral de alternatieve media afluisteren en aftappen, dit om
klokkenluiders te kunnen oppakken voor ze uit de kerk kunnen klappen en
zo negatief nieuws betreffende de overheid te kunnen blokkeren………
Zie wat dat betreft ook:

‘Klokkenluidersbescherming’ in VS: Obama en Biden lieten journalisten en redacties afluisteren om klokkenluiders te pakken
(reken maar dat dit nog steeds gebeurt) (en zie de links in dat bericht
naar meer artikelen over o.a. Julian Assange en de fascistische
opperschoft Navalny) En zie:

Snowden vindt het ongelofelijk dat de media VS politici niet aanspreken op totaal verschillende reacties n.a.v. ‘klokkenluiden’‘ (!!!!) (9 oktober 2019) (en zie de links in dat bericht!!) En zie voorts:

Het verschil tussen totalitaire regimes en ‘vrije democratieën’ flinterdun en soms zelfs niet bestaand….

Een tweede oorlog tegen terreur ligt op de loer, terwijl een film de ‘oorlogsmisdaden’ van de eerste laat zien‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

Opiaten doden in de VS jaarlijks 10 keer zoveel mensen, dan terroristen in de afgelopen 20 jaar..!!! 

Seymour Hersh
(gelauwerd journalist) met onthullingen o.a. over de VS plannen met het
Midden-Oosten en de vergiftiging van de Skripals
‘ (waarin o.a. de voorspelling van Hersh in 2007 dat het bewapenen door de VS van extremistische soennieten zou leiden tot een oorlog in Syrië) 

9/11 werd mede georganiseerd door Israël

Irak oorlog: 16 jaar na 20 maart 2003 ontkent de perschef van Bush dat er is gelogen om Irak binnen te vallen…..‘ (!!!!)

Neil deGrasse Tyson, de populaire astrofisicus, is grootlobbyist van het militair-industrieel complex‘ (Rumsfeld was ook groot voorstander van VS dominantie in de ruimte en de militarisering daarvan….)

9/11: professor stelt dat WTC-gebouwen gecontroleerd zijn gesloopt, de bewijzen daarvoor zijn overweldigend‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

Veteranen waarschuwen Trump voor desastreuze gevolgen in geval van oorlog tegen Iran

CIA erkent dat Israël samen met Saoedi-Arabië ‘vecht tegen terreur’, die ze NB zelf hebben georganiseerd……..‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!) en zie:

VS belastingbetalers
geven per dag $ 250 miljoen uit aan ‘oorlog tegen terreur…..’ Daarom
moeten wij meer uitgeven aan defensie………..

Joe Darby de klokkenluider van Abu Ghraib moet afgeschermd leven……‘ (daar opperschoft Rumsfeld zijn woonplaats bekend maakte…..)

Donald Rumsfelds dood: het systeem is er niet om ons te beschermen tegen zware misdadigers maar om deze te beschermen tegen ons

Het kan je bijna niet zijn ontgaan: de dood van psychopathische oorlogsmisdadiger Donald Rumsfeld, je kan gerust stellen dat hij de grootste oorlogsmisdadiger is van deze eeuw, dit daar hij de grote architect was van de illegale oorlogen tegen Afghanistan en Irak…… Daarbij is hij tevens mede hoofdverantwoordelijk voor het grootste deel van de leugens waarop de VS deze oorlogen aanging, oorlogen die aan meer dan 2,5 miljoen mensen het leven hebben gekost, ofwel Rumsfeld is daarmee niet alleen oorlogsmisdadiger, maar ook een massamoordenaar…… 

Over massa gesproken: de massamedia in de VS doen over de dood van Rumsfeld alsof er een gevierd koning is overleden en prijzen hem de hemel in, waarbij ik moet opmerken dat het hier niet veel beter is, hoewel men wel wat meer kritiek heeft op zijn handelen en men met name wijst op zijn verdediging van het martelen van gevangenen in de Abu Ghraib gevangenis (Irak) en in de gevangenis van Guantanamo Bay….. Ook de Volkskrant en andere Nederlandse mediaorganen hebben amper kritiek op Rumsfeld, de Volkskrant eindigt zelfs met de liefde die Rumsfeld had voor zijn vrouw……. (ongelofelijk, zeker als je bedenkt dat Rumsfeld verantwoordelijk is voor de moord op een enorm aantal geliefden van mensen die de VS terreur overleefden!!)

Eigenlijk wel logisch dat men weinig kritiek levert op Rumsfeld, immers de westerse media schaarden zich achter de oorlogen tegen Afghanistan en Irak, zonder enig journalistiek onderzoekswerk nam men de leugens over van Rumsfeld en de geheime diensten, terwijl men bijvoorbeeld wat betreft Irak had kunnen weten dat er geen massavernietigingswapens konden zijn: VN wapeninspecteur Blix liep zicht het vuur uit de sloffen in pogingen een oorlog tegen Irak te voorkomen en iedereen die het maar horen wilde te overtuigen dat het land geen massavernietigingswapens had……. 

Rumsfeld drong al jaren voor de illegale oorlog tegen Irak aan op het aanvallen van dat land en ondanks het gigantische aantal doden durfde deze ploert tot z’n dood toe vol te houden dat de wereld door de VS oorlog tegen Irak er veiliger en stabieler op is geworden….. (het is dat ‘t zo triest is anders zou je je kapotlachen) Overigens had men al bij de oorlog tegen Afghanistan grote vraagtekens moeten zetten, daar de geheime diensten van de VS, zwaar gesteund Rumsfeld meerdere maanden voor de aanslagen van 9/11 aandrongen op oorlog tegen Afghanistan, waarover Caitlin Johnstone in het hieronder opgenomen artikel volkomen terecht sarcastisch stelt dat niet vergeten moet worden dat alleen complottheorie-gekkies niet geloven in het officiële 9/11 verhaal…..* 

De reguliere westerse media die dondersgoed weten dat de oorlogen tegen Afghanistan en Irak op illegale manieren werden ‘gelegitimeerd’, een legitimatie die ze zoals gezegd met grote graagte hebben overgenomen, echter ondanks die kennis is er geen mediaorgaan die deze leugens plaatste overgegaan tot het maken van excuses en/of rectificatie….. Sterker nog: het liefst probeert men alsnog een legitimatie voor die oorlogen te vinden en een aantal houdt zelfs de oude leugens levend, zoals die van aanwezige massavernietigingswapens in het Irak van Saddam Hoessein…….Je kan dan ook stellen dat deze door de media gesteunde oorlogen definitief het figuurlijke failliet waren van de reguliere westerse media.

Jammer dat Caitlin alles toeschrijft aan Rumsfeld, terwijl hij nauwe contacten had met de geheime diensten in de VS die de leugens voor een deel verzonnen waarmee hij deze oorlogen als onontkoombaar en legitiem verkocht aan het volk, al heeft ze het gelijk aan haar kant als het gaat om de wil van Rumsfeld om zowel Afghanistan als Irak aan te vallen en dat respectievelijk al maanden en jaren voor de VS deze illegale oorlogen begon.

Gezien het voorgaande is de strekking van de kop op het artikel dat Caitlin schreef terecht dat het systeem er niet is om ons te beschermen tegen (grote) criminelen, maar er juist op is gericht om deze criminelen te beschermen tegen ons (en nogmaals: met de hulp van de andere westerse politici en de westerse reguliere media…..)…… Aan de andere kant worden bekende VS politici en bekende figuren afgekamd die zich tegen oorlog hebben verzet, zoals de onlangs overleden Mike Gravel overkwam, hetzelfde kan je uiteraard over Julian Assange zeggen, al leeft deze gelukkig nog en verzwijgen de media zaken die in diens voordeel zijn…. (Julian Assange moet zo snel mogelijk worden vrijgelaten, zeker nadat bekend werd gemaakt dat de belangrijkste getuige voor de VS heeft toegegeven zijn getuigenis te hebben verzonnen…..**)

Lees het artikel van Caitlin en vergelijk dat eens met wat bijvoorbeeld de Nederlandse media daarover hebben geschreven of gezegd:

The System Isn’t There To Protect Us From Criminals, It’s To Protect Criminals From Us

by Caitlin Johnstone


Listen to a reading of this article:

Iraq war architect Donald Rumsfeld has died.
Not in a prison cell in The Hague, not murdered by bombs or bullets,
but peacefully in his home, surrounded by loved ones, a week and a half
shy of his 89th birthday.

The imperial media are giving their fallen master a king’s tribute, with headlines describing the psychopathic war criminal as “a cunning leader“, “a man of honor and conviction“, or simply as “Former defense secretary at helm of Iraq, Afghanistan wars“.

The cancerous Washington Post, who just the other day mocked the life of the late antiwar hero Mike Gravel with an obituary branding him the “gadfly senator from Alaska with flair for the theatrical,” describes the child killer Rumsfeld as the “influential but controversial Bush defense secretary” in its headline about his death. 

The New York Times wasn’t much better. Take the headline “Mike Gravel, Unconventional
Two-Term Alaska Senator, Dies at 91 — He made headlines by fighting for
an oil pipeline and reading the Pentagon Papers aloud. After 25 years
of obscurity, he re-emerged with a quixotic presidential campaign.”
Compare this to the headline “Donald Rumsfeld, Defense Secretary During Iraq War, Is Dead at 88 — Mr.
Rumsfeld, who served four presidents, oversaw a war that many said
should never have been fought. But he said the removal of Saddam Hussein
had ‘created a more stable and secure world.’”


The New York Times



@nytimes

Donald Rumsfeld had the distinction of being the only defense chief to serve two nonconsecutive terms: 1975 to 1977 under Gerald Ford, and 2001 to 2006 under George W. Bush. He also was the youngest, at 43, and the oldest, at 74, to hold the post. https://nyti.ms/2UOUaaJ

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There’s
been criticism as well, of course; online sentiments about Rumsfeld’s
death have not been nearly as worshipful and hagiographic as they’ve
been toward other disgusting war whores like John McCain. But in the end
all that matters is that he lived a long, full life, without ever
having faced even the slightest single consequence for the horrors he
unleashed upon our world; without even so much as sustaining any
meaningful damage to his reputation.

This
despite the fact that it’s been public knowledge for years that
Rumsfeld began orchestrating the unforgivable invasion of Iraq within hours of the 9/11 attacks and told numerous lies
in order to set that invasion in motion. He also oversaw the
intervention in Afghanistan which he and his Bush administration cohorts
had been planning before 9/11, beginning a decades-long occupation about which the public has been pervasively lied to from the very beginning by US officials in general and by Rumsfeld in particular. (But remember kids, only crazy conspiracy theorists question the official narrative about 9/11.)

When
we are little, we are taught that we live in a nation of laws, where
bad guys are thrown in prison by the good guys who are in charge of
things. Because our mental programming continues for the rest of our
lives in the form of mass-scale propaganda
designed to manufacture consent for the status quo, most of us tend to
hold onto this childish model of the world to some extent throughout
adulthood.

In
reality, exactly zero percent of the world’s worst people are in
prison, but some of the best people are. The fact that Donald Rumsfeld
lived a long life of freedom while Julian Assange wastes away in
Belmarsh Prison proves the world doesn’t work the way we were taught in
school. The very worst bad guys are not put in prison by the good guys who run things, because the very worst bad guys are the ones who run things.


nashwa



@nashwakay

1 in every 5 Iraqis has someone in their family who died because of the invasion of Iraq.
More than half of all babies born in Fallujah between 2007 and 2010 were born with a birth defect.
The average lifespan in Iraq is 70.
Rumsfeld died at 88 peacefully in his sleep.

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The
system isn’t designed to protect us from society’s worst, it’s designed
to protect society’s worst from us. It’s designed to keep us turning
the gears of industry without looking around and noticing that we’re all
getting fucked in the ass by an alliance of plutocrats and security
state insiders who only care about power and money. It’s designed to
keep us too busy and propagandized to use the power of our numbers to
take back what the bastards have stolen from us, and to make sure
there’s enough guns on their side to kill us all dead if we try.

Donald
Rumsfeld was all the worst things about our world. He perfectly
embodied the corrupt, bloodthirsty, ecocidal, omnicidal, oppressive,
exploitative, deceitful status quo that is driving humanity toward
extinction. The US-centralized empire is Donald Rumsfeld. It might as well have his face and his name.

Don’t
let his passing fool you: Donald Rumsfeld is dead, but he is also as
alive as ever. He lives on in the continued violence he helped initiate
in the Middle East. In the death and destruction rained down by the US
and its allies in the name of preserving a unipolar world order that
none of us ever asked for. In the dying gasps of starving children under
imperial blockades in Yemen and Venezuela. In the thousands of US
military bases encircling our planet like a noose. In the war ships and
missiles pivoting toward China in preparation for a long-anticipated confrontation which should terrify us all.

Unless
we can purge from our cells everything within us that resembles Donald
Rumsfeld, there is no future for Homo sapiens on this planet. We must
evolve beyond everything he stood for, as individuals, as a society, and
as a species, and move into a peaceful and collaborative relationship
with each other and with our ecosystem.

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Ofwel
9/11 werd als excuus gebruikt om Afghanistan (en later Irak) aan te vallen, niet
vreemd dan ook dat er na intensief onderzoek van o.a. echte
journalisten, een dossierkast vol bewijzen bestaat waaruit maar één
conclusie is te trekken: 9/11 werd voorbereid en geregisseerd door de
VS zelf, e.e.a. aangevuld met een enorm aantal wetenschappelijke
onderbouwingen……. Dat bewijs is intussen zo groot dat juist het
officiële 9/11 verhaal is verworden tot een meer dan belachelijke
complottheorie…….  
 

** Zie: ‘Zaak van VS tegen Assange gestrand op de belangrijkste getuige, westerse media aandacht: nul komma nada‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

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Zie ook: ‘9/11 werd mede georganiseerd door Israël

Irak oorlog: 16 jaar na 20 maart 2003 ontkent de perschef van Bush dat er is gelogen om Irak binnen te vallen…..

Neil deGrasse Tyson, de populaire astrofisicus, is grootlobbyist van het militair-industrieel complex‘ (Rumsfeld was ook groot voorstander van VS dominantie in de ruimte en de militarisering daarvan….)

9/11: professor stelt dat WTC-gebouwen gecontroleerd zijn gesloopt, de bewijzen daarvoor zijn overweldigend‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

Seymour Hersh (gelauwerd journalist) met onthullingen o.a. over de VS plannen met het Midden-Oosten en de vergiftiging van de Skripals

Veteranen waarschuwen Trump voor desastreuze gevolgen in geval van oorlog tegen Iran

CIA erkent dat Israël samen met Saoedi-Arabië ‘vecht tegen terreur’, die ze NB zelf hebben georganiseerd……..‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht!!)

Joe Darby de klokkenluider van Abu Ghraib moet afgeschermd leven……‘ (daar opperschoft Rumsfeld zijn woonplaats bekend maakte…..)

Laatste kjleine aaanpassing op 9 augustus 2021, het woord ‘sarcastisch’ bij complottheorie-gekkies en bij de noot over 9/11, ook: ‘later Irak’ toegevoegd tussen haakjes.

Irak oorlog: 16 jaar na 20 maart 2003 ontkent de perschef van Bush dat er is gelogen om Irak binnen te vallen…..

Het gore
lef wat sommigen hebben is niet zelden ten hemel schreiend, zoals de
perschef van president Bush (deze oorlogsmisdadiger en top-idioot mag zich president blijven noemen). Ari Fleischer (de perschef) nam het besluit e.e.a. via Twitter de wereld in
te helpen, waarschijnlijk als reactie op de dreigementen van de VS
tegen het Internationaal Strafhof dat men actie zal nemen tegen de
functionarissen, die zich bezig houden met onderzoek naar VS
oorlogsmisdaden…….

Ongelofelijk wat ploert Fleischer durft te zeggen, terwijl de hele wereld weet (of kan weten) dat de
VS heeft gelogen, leugens die meer dan 2 miljoen Irakezen het leven
heeft gekost, ofwel die mensen zijn in feite vermoord door de
VS……

Fleischer
doet net of de geheime diensten van de VS, Israël en nog een paar
landen zeker wisten dat er massavernietigingswapens lagen in Irak,
weliswaar klopte dit niet, maar dat is iets anders dan liegen, aldus de hufter….. ha!
ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha! ha!

Alsof
die geheime diensten ook maar de neiging hebben om de waarheid te vertellen,
jezus!!

De
wapeninspecteurs van de VN, o.l.v. Blix, hebben uit en te na gewezen op
het feit dat Irak (onder Saddam Hoessein) geen
massavernietigingswapens had en deze zelfs niet voor hen verborgen kon
hebben…..

Overigens liet de Hoop Scheffer, oorlogsmisdadiger van het CDA, vorig jaar weten nog steeds achter de illegale oorlog tegen Irak te staan, ondanks het enorme aantal slachtoffers, een land dat voor een groot deel in puin ligt en waar de oorlog nog lang niet is afgelopen…… Irak, een land waarnaar Nederland vluchtelingen deporteert, rechtstreeks de oorlog in, dit op basis van ambtsberichten van Buitenlandse Zaken, terwijl hetzelfde ministerie nog steeds een negatief reisadvies voor Irak afgeeft….

Caitlin
Johnstone schreef op haar site een uiterst scherp artikel over
deze zaak en laat van Fleischer en anderen geen spaan heel, lezen
mensen, het gaat hier om geschiedvervalsing van de eerste orde, ook
de reguliere (massa-) media doen net of hun neus bloedt als het om de
illegale Irak oorlog gaat, terwijl zij deze oorlog op valse feiten
van A tot Z hebben gepropageerd, waar de kennis over het tegendeel voor het oprapen lag…….. (over het brengen van fake news gesproken….)

On
the Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion, Bush Press Secretary Claims
Bush Didn’t Lie

by Caitlin
Johnstone

On
the sixteenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as the US
government 
threatens
punitive action
 against International
Criminal Court investigators for attempting to look into US war
crimes, former George W Bush administration Press Secretary Ari
Fleischer has decided to 
publish
a Twitter thread
 claiming
that Bush did not lie to the world about Iraq.

Here
is a transcript of the full thread by Fleischer:

The
Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the
war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs
were found, the left claimed “Bush lied. People died.” This
accusation itself is a lie. It’s time to put it to rest.
 

The
fact is that President Bush (and I as press secretary) faithfully and
accurately reported to the public what the intelligence community
concluded. The CIA, along with the intelligence services of
Egypt, France, Israel and others concluded that Saddam had WMD. We
all turned out to be wrong. That is very different from lying.
 

After
the war, a bipartisan group was created to determine what went wrong,
particularly why the intelligence community’s conclusions about Iraq
were so different from what was found on the ground after the
war. The group of experts was named the Robb-Silberman
commission. It’s report was issued in March 2005. 
It
can be found in full here
.
Its key finding was that that a “major intelligence failure”
took place. It also stated that no intelligence service was pressured
by the Bush Administration to conclude that Saddam had WMDs.
 

Here
are the key quotes from their report:
 

“Overall
Commission Finding: The Intelligence Community’s performance in
assessing Iraq’s pre-war weapons of mass destruction programs was a
major intelligence failure.
 

Nuclear
Weapons Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community seriously
misjudged the status of Iraq’s alleged nuclear weapons program in the
2002 NIE* and other pre-Iraq war intelligence products. This
misjudgment stemmed chiefly from the Community’s failure to analyze
correctly Iraq’s reasons for attempting to procure high-strength
aluminum tubes.
 

Biological
Warfare Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community seriously
misjudged the status of Iraq’s biological weapons program in the 2002
NIE and other pre-war intelligence products. The primary reason
for this misjudgment was the Intelligence Community’s heavy reliance
on a human source–codenamed ‘Curveball’–whose information later
proved to be unreliable.
 

Chemical
Warfare Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community erred in its 2002
NIE assessment of Iraq’s alleged chemical warfare program. The
Community’s substantial overestimation of Iraq’s chemical warfare
program was due chiefly to flaws in analysis and the paucity of
quality information collected. In the case of Iraq, collectors of
intelligence absorbed the prevailing analytic consensus and tended to
reject or ignore contrary information. The result was ‘tunnel vision’
focusing on the Intelligence Community’s existing assumptions. The
Intelligence Community did not make or change any analytic judgments
in response to political pressure to reach a particular conclusion,
but the pervasive conventional wisdom that Saddam retained WMD
affected the analytic process. The CIA took too long to admit
error in Iraq, and its Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and
Arms Control Center actively discouraged analysts from investigating
errors.
 

Finally,
we closely examined the possibility that intelligence analysts were
pressured by policymakers to change their judgments about Iraq’s
nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs. The analysts
who worked Iraqi weapons issues universally agreed that in no
instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter any of
their analytical judgments.”
 

That
is what the investigators reported, after been given full access to
people throughout the intelligence community. Which leads me to
conclude that there was a liar and his name was Saddam Hussein. He
created an elaborate system of lies to fool western intelligence
services and he succeeded. He wanted us to believe he had WMDs.
 

The
allegaton that “Bush lied. People died” is a liberal myth
created to politically target President Bush. I understand the anger
that was felt after no WMDs were found. But that doesn’t justify
calling the President a liar. I can only hope that serious historians
and other experts do their homework and resist falling for this myth.

Ari Fleischer
@AriFleischer

The Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed “Bush lied. People died.” This accusation itself is a lie. It’s time to put it to rest.

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Ari
Fleischer is lying. It is an absolute proven fact that George W Bush
and his administration 
lied
extensively
 about
the degree of certainty in intelligence regarding Saddam Hussein
possessing weapons of mass destruction, having ties to Al Qaeda, and
seeking nuclear weapons, all of which (along with Vice President
Cheney’s claim that the US invaders would be “
greeted
as liberators
“)
proved false. The Bush administration did not know the things they
claimed to know with any degree of certainty, but they claimed that
they were certain in order to manufacture support for war. Claiming
to know something you do not know is lying, especially when it’s to
advance an ulterior motive.

“Evidence
from intelligence sources, secret communications and statements by
people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids and protects
terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda,” Bush 
claimed
in January 2003
.
“Secretly, and without fingerprints, he could provide one of his
hidden
 
weapons
to terrorists, or help them develop their own.”

“Simply
stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass
destruction,” Cheney 
claimed
in August 2002
.
“There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our
friends, against our allies, and against us.”

“The
United States knows that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction,”
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld 
said
in December 2002
.
“Any country on the face of the earth with an active
intelligence program knows that Iraq has weapons of mass
destruction.”

“We
are absolutely sure they have continued to develop weapons of mass
destruction, and we are sure they have in their possession weapons of
mass destruction,” Secretary of State Colin Powell 
said
in December 2002
.

“My
colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources,
solid sources,” Powell told the United Nations Security Council
in his infamous 
Iraq
presentation
 in
February 2003. “These are not assertions. What we’re giving
you are facts and conclusions based on solid intelligence.”

“People
will continue to debate this issue, but there is no doubt in my
mind,” Powell said in the same presentation. “These illicit
procurement efforts show that Saddam Hussein is very much focused on
putting in place the key missing piece from his nuclear weapons
program, the ability to produce fissile material.”

Powell was
not nearly as certain
 as
he claimed to be. None of them were. Facts revealed after the
invasion prove that for all their public claims of complete and total
certainty that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, was aiding and
abetting Al Qaida, and was developing nuclear weapons, behind the
veil of government secrecy there was nothing like certainty at all.

For
starters, Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, who was cited in Powell’s
presentation and who Fleischer refers to by the code name “Curveball”
in the above thread, 
was
known to have been lying
 about
bioweapons long before the invasion. Despite the confident assertions
made by the Bush administration about Janabi’s claims to the public,
no American personnel were present when he made those claims, and
he 
told
the 
Guardianin
2011
 that
the BND (the German intelligence agency who interrogated him) had
known he was lying all along.

“The
BND [German intelligence] knew in 2000 that I was lying after they
talked to my former boss, Dr Bassil Latif, who told them there were
no mobile bioweapons factories,” Janabi said. “For 18
months after that they left me alone because they knew I was telling
lies even though I never admitted it.

Believe
me, back then, I thought the whole thing was over for me. Then all of
a sudden [in the run up to the 2003 invasion] they came back to me
and started asking for more details about what I had told them. I
still don’t know why the BND then passed on my information to the CIA
and it ended up in Powell’s speech.”

Colonel
Lawrence Wilkerson was Powell’s chief of staff and helped him prepare
his UN presentation on Iraq. When asked on MSNBC if he believed he
was lied to about Janabi following the 2011 revelation,
Wilkerson 
told
Cenk Uygur
 that
“I cannot come to any other conclusion, especially when I have
discovered that no US personnel were present when Curveball was
interrogated by the BND, the German intelligence service. That we
accepted that, that we even had a head of the European division for
the CIA, Tyler Drumheller, who at the last minute during Powell’s
preparation, during my preparation of the secretary, had told both
Tenet and McLaughlin that Curveball might not be reliable. That
information was never relayed to the Secretary of State, or to me. I
have some serious doubts about it now. I think there was some
manipulation of this material, and there was some outright lying.”

When asked
by Uygur
 who
he thought lied to him, Wilkerson said one of WINPAC’s two WMD
experts at the time may have been answering directly to Dick Cheney’s
office.

declassified
report from 2002
 titled Iraq:
Status of WMD Programs 
reveals
that while the Bush administration was making its claims of absolute
certainty regarding the dangers posed by the Iraqi government, behind
the scenes it was damn near the opposite. Some choice excerpts:

Our
assessments rely heavily on analytic assumptions and judgment rather
than hard evidence. 

The evidentiary base is particularly sparse for
Iraqi nuclear programs.”

We
range from 0% to about 75% knowledge on various aspects of their
program.”

“Our
knowledge of the Iraqi (nuclear) weapons program is based
largely—perhaps 90%—on analysis of imprecise intelligence.”

“We
cannot confirm the identity of any Iraqi facilities that produce,
test, fill, or store biological weapons.”

Our
knowledge of what biological weapons the Iraqis are able to
produce is nearly complete. Our knowledge of how and where they
are produced is nearly 90% incomplete.”

We
do not know the status of enrichment capabilities. We do not know
with confidence the location of any nuclear-weapon-related
facilities.”

Please
take a look at this material as to what we don’t know about WMD. It
is big.” (That one was from Rumsfeld.)

We
don’t know with any precision how much we don’t know.”

This
is not the language of certainty. Yet certainty was presented to the
public to manufacture support for a war which murdered a million
Iraqis.

The
2002 
Downing
Street memo
,
made public in 2005, reveals a secret meeting between senior
officials of the British government, intelligence and defense
agencies discussing what they knew about America’s plans for war.
The 
text
of the document
 contains
an assertion by the head of MI6 that Bush had already determined that
the invasion of Iraq would take place, and it was only a matter of
fixing bits of intelligence around a narrative to make the case.

“Military
action was now seen as inevitable,” the document reads. “Bush
wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the
conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were
being fixed around the policy. The NSC had no patience with the UN
route, and no enthusiasm for publishing material on the Iraqi
regime’s record. There was little discussion in Washington of the
aftermath after military action.”

“It
seemed clear that Bush had made up his mind to take military action,
even if the timing was not yet decided,” the document quotes
Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as saying. “But the case was thin.”

In
2008
hearing before the House Judiciary Committee
,
attorney and author Vincent Bugliosi pointed out that the fact
that Bush lied about Iraq could be proven by the difference between
the classified 2002 National Intelligence Estimate and its
declassified white paper which was made available to the public.
 
The
classified version contained dissents from the consensus and language
which made it clear that the reader was reading assessments and
opinions by the CIA and other intelligence agencies, whereas the
unclassified version saw these things deleted, presenting the
assessments as absolute fact.

“The
evidence that he lied about weapons of mass destruction, by the way,
which is not the basis for this book, are right in front of
me,” 
Bugliosi
said
.
“I have it right here. Here is the evidence. This document here
is the National Intelligence Estimate. I didn’t name it before. I
talked about a classified report. This is it right here. October 1st,
2002, classified NIE report. It is called Iraq’s Continuing
 
Programs
of Weapons of Mass Destruction. In this document right here, the CIA
and 15 other U.S. intelligence agencies use words like this, ‘we
assess that’ or ‘we judge that’ Hussein has weapons of mass
destruction. This document here is the white paper that was given to
you folks here in Congress and the American people. And the words ‘we
assess that’ or ‘we judge that’ were removed, meaning that you folks
here heard a fact, and in fact, it was only an opinion.

“Number
two, on nuclear weapons, this document right here, the classified
report has several important dissents. This document right here, the
white paper that you folks were given and the American people, all of
those dissents were deleted.”

Over
and over and over again we saw the same thing: uncertainty presented
as certainty. Guesses presented as fact. Opinions presented as proof.
That’s a lie. Bush lied. We know this with as much certainty as his
administration was pretending to have in the lead-up to the Iraq
invasion. There was a pre-existing agenda to invade Iraq, and
justifications were advanced to provide an excuse for that invasion
with such extreme aggression that now-National Security Advisor John
Bolton literally 
threatened
to murder an international official’s children
 for
making diplomacy work with Saddam.

Here
are a few more 
courtesy
of 
Vox
:

In
October 2002, Bush said that Saddam Hussein had a 
“massive
stockpile”
 of
biological weapons. But as 
CIA Director
George Tenet
 noted
in early 2004, the CIA had informed policymakers it had “no
specific information on the types or quantities of weapons agent or
stockpiles at Baghdad’s disposal.” The “massive stockpile”
was just literally made up.

In
December 2002, Bush declared, 
“We
do not know whether or not [Iraq] has a nuclear weapon.”
 That
was not what the National Intelligence Estimate said. As Tenet would
later testify, “We said that Saddam did not have a nuclear weapon
and probably would have been unable to make one until 2007 to 2009.”
Bush did know whether or not Iraq had a nuclear weapon — and lied
and said he didn’t know to hype the threat.

On
CNN in September 2002, Condoleezza Rice claimed that aluminum tubes
purchased by Iraq were “only really suited for nuclear weapons
programs.” This was 
precisely
the opposite of what nuclear experts at the Energy Department
 were
saying; they argue that not only was it very possible the tubes were
for nonnuclear purposes but that it was very likely they were too.
Even more dire assessments about the tubes from other agencies were
exaggerated by administration officials — and in any case, the
claim that they’re “only really suited” for nuclear weapons is
just false.

On
numerous occasions, Dick Cheney cited a report that 9/11 conspirator
Mohammed Atta had met in Prague with an Iraqi intelligence officer.
He said this after 
the
CIA and FBI concluded that this meeting never took place
.

More
generally on the question of Iraq and al-Qaeda, on September 18,
2001, Rice 
received
a memo summarizing intelligence on the relationship
,
which concluded there was little evidence of links. Nonetheless Bush
continued to 
claim
that Hussein was “a threat because he’s dealing with
al-Qaeda”
 more
than a year later.
 

In
August 2002, 
Dick
Cheney declared
,
“Simply stated, there’s no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has
weapons of mass destruction.” But as 
Corn
notes
,
at that time there was “no confirmed intelligence at this point
establishing that Saddam had revived a major WMD operation.” Gen.
Anthony Zinni, who had heard the same intelligence and attended
Cheney’s speech, would 
later
say in a documentary
,
“It was a total shock. I couldn’t believe the vice president was
saying this, you know? In doing work with the CIA on Iraq WMD,
through all the briefings I heard at Langley, I never saw one piece
of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program.”

In
2007 General Wesley Clark 
told Democracy
Now
 that
he’d actually been informed of the decision to invade Iraq
immediately after 9/11, while the crosshairs were turning on
Afghanistan and well before the public narrative was being amped up
in demand of an invasion of Iraq. His comments read as follows:

About
ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary
Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to
say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work
for me, and one of the generals called me in.
 

He
said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.”
I said, “Well, you’re too busy.” He said, “No, no.”
He says, “We’ve made the decision we’re going to war with Iraq.”
This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, “We’re going
to war with Iraq? Why?” He said, “I don’t know.” He
said, “I guess they don’t know what else to do.” So I said,
“Well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to
al-Qaeda?” He said, “No, no.” He says, “There’s
nothing new that way. They just made the decision to go to war with
Iraq.” He said, “I guess it’s like we don’t know what to do
about terrorists, but we’ve got a good military and we can take down
governments.” And he said, “I guess if the only tool you
have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail.”
 

So
I came back to see him a few weeks later, and by that time we were
bombing in Afghanistan. I said, “Are we still going to war with
Iraq?” And he said, “Oh, it’s worse than that.” He
reached over on his desk. He picked up a piece of paper. And he said,
“I just got this down from upstairs” — meaning the
Secretary of Defense’s office — “today.” And he said,
“This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven
countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon,
Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is
it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well,
don’t show it to me.” And I saw him a year or so ago, and I
said, “You remember that?” He said, “Sir, I didn’t
show you that memo! I didn’t show it to you!”

Iraq,
Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran. If you’ve been
following the behaviors of the US war machine, Iraq won’t be the only
painfully familiar name on that list.

Ari Fleischer
@AriFleischer

It remains important to learn what we’ve attacked and where. How widespread?
In addition to military targets, I hope we targeted Assad’s palace in Damascus. Leave him alive but destroy his prestige. Leave him without a home, as Assad has left millions of Syrians w/o theirs.

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@AriFleischer

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Ari
Fleischer is a liar. He 
was
in the thick
 of
the Bush administration’s campaign to sell the Iraq war to the
American public, and to this day he 
continues trying to
sell
 them
on 
new
acts
 of depraved
US interventionism
.
He’s just as much a warmongering neocon inside as he was when he was
behind a podium defending Bush’s wars in the press room, so it’s no
wonder he wants to preserve the image of his insatiable death cult.
Fleischer wants to preserve his legacy, yes, but he also wants to
preserve support for the war machine whose feet he worships at, hence
his ham-fisted attempt at narrative manipulation regarding the
unforgivable Iraq invasion.

The
responses to Fleischer’s Twitter thread have been overwhelmingly
negative, though, so it doesn’t look like anyone’s buying it. In our
new political landscape, where the image of George W Bush is
being 
continually
rehabilitated
,
that gives me a bit of hope.

These
monsters lied to start a war which snuffed out a million human lives
and destabilized an entire region, and they did it right in front of
our faces. The fact that they’re now trying to lie about the thing we
all watched them do is as insulting as it is infuriating. Never let
them pull the wool over your eyes, and never forget what they did.
Forgiveness is 
highly
overrated
.

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Voor meer berichten over de illegale oorlog tegen Irak, klik op het labels Irak, direct onder dit bericht. Let
wel: na een aantal berichten wordt het laatst gelezen bericht telkens
herhaald, dan onder het laatst gelezen bericht even opnieuw op het
gekozen label klikken, enz. enz.

9/11: professor stelt dat WTC-gebouwen gecontroleerd zijn gesloopt, de bewijzen daarvoor zijn overweldigend

Robert Korol, professor aan de Canadese McMaster Universiteit, stelt ten overvloede nog eens dat de 3 torens van het World Trade Center (WTC) op 11 september 2001, hoogstwaarschijnlijk met thermiet gecontroleerd zijn gesloopt…….

Volgens Korol wijzen de feiten naar deze moedwillige sloop, waarmee nogmaals de verantwoordelijkheid voor de aanslagen op het WTC en het Pentagon bij organisaties als de CIA en NSA komt te liggen (de aanslag op het Pentagon kan niet eens met een vliegtuig zijn gepleegd, zo blijkt uit een aantal onderzoeken die buiten de VS overheid om werden uitgevoerd naar de feiten over die ‘aanslag…’)

Gezien het enorme aantal feiten over deze aanslagen, kan je bijna niet anders concluderen dan dat de 9/11 aanslagen een door de VS georganiseerde false flag operatie was…… Dit roept de vraag op wie er nu werkelijk belang had bij deze aanslagen, ofwel wie profiteerden daar het meest van?  Hier een paar antwoorden:

  • het militair-industrieel complex, dat hevig behoefte had aan nieuwe vijanden, nadat Rusland geen bedreiging meer vormde voor de VS……. 
  • George W. Bush die qua populariteit meer was gezakt dan welke andere president voor hem, met een kleine uitzondering: president Nixon, maar dat was veel later en pas in zijn tweede termijn…. Waar nog bijkomt dat de psychopaten die Bush om zich heen had verzameld, zoals Cheney, Rumsfeld en Rove, Irak al lang op het verlanglijstje hadden staan als land om aan te vallen…. Waar de oorlog tegen Afghanistan in feite ook illegaal was (hoewel gedoogd door zo ongeveer de hele wereld), dubbelop als je ervan uitgaat dat de VS zelf verantwoordelijk was voor het onderuithalen van het WTC……
  • Uiteraard had ook de bouwmaffia in de VS belang bij het instorten van het WTC….. 
  • Tot slot: de geheime diensten van de VS, die na 9/11 hun bevoegdheden fiks hebben kunnen uitbouwen, natuurlijk gepaard gaand met een flinke verhoging van het budget….. (zoals je begrijpt geldt dit ook voor het leger van de VS)

Er zijn meer belanghebbenden te noemen, maar de hiervoor genoemde president en organisaties zijn wel de belangrijkste.

Het volgende artikel heb ik overgenomen van ‘9 for News‘:

WTC-gebouwen
zijn gecontroleerd gesloopt. Volgens deze professor is het bewijs
overweldigend

Afbeeldingsresultaat voor WTC-gebouwen zijn gecontroleerd gesloopt. Volgens deze professor is het bewijs overweldigend

in Het
Complot
 29
augustus 2018 12:00

Een
professor van de Canadese McMaster University is ervan overtuigd dat
de drie World Trade Center-torens op 11 september 2001 gecontroleerd
zijn gesloopt.

Dit
heeft me al heeft wat hoofdbrekens bezorgd,” zei hoogleraar civiele
techniek Robert Korol. “Ik kon maar niet begrijpen hoe die gebouwen
waren ingestort. Het klopte gewoon niet.”

WTC
7 werd niet door een vliegtuig geraakt, maar zakte toch als een
kaartenhuis in elkaar, aldus Korol, toevoegende dat er kantoren van
de CIA en Secret Service gevestigd waren.

Explosieven

Nooit
eerder stortte een hoog gebouw met een stalen constructie in als
gevolg van brand, met uitzondering van de aardbeving in Mexico-Stad
in 1985, merkte hij op.

Het
enige fenomeen dat dergelijke gebouwen op deze manier kan doen
instorten is normaal gesproken gecontroleerde sloop, waarbij
explosieven worden gebruikt.

Alleen
de bovenste verdiepingen stonden in brand en dus is de kans klein dat
de hitte zich naar beneden heeft verspreid om de stalen constructie
te verzwakken,” zei hij tegen de Daily Commercial News.

Vlamvertragers

Verder
werden de brandhaarden behandeld met vlamvertragers waardoor ze zich
niet verder konden verspreiden,” klonk het.

Kolos
wees erop dat verpulverd beton van de Twin Towers tot op 370 meter
afstand van de torens is gevonden. Dat moet met explosieve kracht uit
de gebouwen zijn geslingerd.

De
meest voor de hand liggende verklaring is gecontroleerde sloop en
hoogstwaarschijnlijk is er thermiet gebruikt,” zei hij.

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Zie ook:

9/11 forum geblokkeerd, de waarheid mag niet gezegd worden……..

9/11: de leugens over smeltend staal van de Twin Towers

9/11 getuigen totaal genegeerd door media (en overheid)

9/11 Israël nogmaals aangewezen als hulp- bij het neerhalen van de Twin Towers en gebouw 7 van het WTC

9/11: Al Qaida tjokvol agenten van Saoedi-Arabië, VS, Israël en Egypte

9/11 voorafgegaan door CIA visa fraude…..

9/11: Palestijnen hebben niet gejuicht voor de aanslagen op de Twin Towers

9/11 eerst de explosie waarna de ‘vliegtuigen’ de Twin Towers raken

Pearl Harbor (7 december 1941) en de aanslagen van 9/11 hebben veel overeenkomsten………

9/11 de verklaring van de VS overheid aangaande het instorten van WTC gebouw 7 is vals……….

911 samenzweringstheorie wint nog meer aan geloofwaardigheid……

911, de beurs en geschiedvervalsing…….

9/11, WikiLeaks, Prism en ‘complottheorieën’

911, een ‘leuk’ feit

Seymour Hersh (gelauwerd journalist) met onthullingen o.a. over de VS plannen met het Midden-Oosten en de vergiftiging van de Skripals

Seymour
Hersh, de gelauwerde journalist die wereldwijd bekend werd door zijn
verslag over het My Lai-bloedbad tijdens de Vietnam oorlog en de
manier waarop de VS destijds deze enorme oorlogsmisdaad, zelfs een
misdaad tegen de menselijkheid, in de doofpot probeerde te
stoppen…..

Hersh
ligt onder vuur vanwege de vragen en kritiek die hij heeft over het officiële verhaal aangaande de gevangenneming en moord op Osama bin
Laden. Het bewuste artikel van Hersh over deze zaak vind je als
vierde link in het begin van het artikel dat Tyler Durden schreef
over Hersh (de link vind je onder de volgende woorden ‘Osama bin
Laden death narrative’ >> lezen mensen!!)

Hersh
schreef een biografie waarin hij tien onthullingen doet, o.a. -het
plan van de VS om hegemonie van de VS in het Midden-Oosten te vestigen, -de eerste plannen
voor een VS invasie van Syrië, -de zogenaamde manipulatie van de VS
presidentsverkiezingen door de Russen (waar de NSA zelfs toegeeft niets te weten >> lees het artikel bij onthulling nummer vier) en -de ‘vergiftiging van de Skripals’.

Ondanks
dat veel zaken al bekend waren is dit artikel en de biografie die
Hersh schreef, ‘Reporter: A Memoire’ (klik op de eerste rode link met
die titel in het Anti-Media artikel* hieronder voor de gegevens over dat boek)
uiterst verhelderend (en wat mij betreft zijn een paar feiten zelfs
schokkend), bovendien hoe meer bevestigingen voor de enorme terreur die de VS her en
der uitoefende en uitoefent, hoe beter! 

10
Bombshell Revelations From Seymour Hersh’s New Autobiography

August
8, 2018 at 10:11 pm

Written
by 
Tyler
Durden

(ZHE) — Among
the more interesting revelations to surface as legendary
investigative journalist Seymour Hersh continues a book tour and
gives interviews discussing his newly published
autobiography, 
Reporter:
A Memoir
, is
that he never set out to write it at all, but was actually deeply
engaged in writing a massive exposé of Dick Cheney 
— a
project he decided 
couldn’t
ultimately be published in the current climate of aggressive
persecution of whistleblowers which became especially intense
during the Obama years
.

Hersh
has pointed out he worries his sources risk exposure while taking on
the Cheney book, which ultimately resulted in the famed reporter
opting to write an in-depth account of his storied career
instead 
— itself full
of previously hidden details connected with major historical
events and state secrets
.

In
a recent wide-ranging interview with 
the
UK 
Independent
, Hersh
is finally asked to discuss in-depth some of the controversial
investigative stories he’s written on 
SyriaRussia-US
intelligence sharing
,
and the 
Osama
bin Laden death narrative
which
have gotten the Pulitzer Prize winner and five-time Polk Award
recipient essentially blacklisted
 from
his regular publication, 
The New Yorker magazine,
for which he broke stories of monumental importance for decades.

Though
few would disagree that Hersh 
has
single-handedly broken more stories of genuine world-historical
significance than any reporter alive (or dead, perhaps)”
 — as The
Nation
 put
it
 — the
man who exposed shocking cover-ups like the My Lai
Massacre, the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, and the truth
behind 
the
downing of Korean Air Flight 007
,
has lately been shunned and even attacked by the American mainstream
media especially over his controversial coverage of Syria and the bin
Laden raid in 2011.

But
merely a few of the many hit pieces written on this front
include 
The
Washington Post’s 
Sy
Hersh, journalism giant: Why some who worshiped him no longer
do,”
 and
elsewhere 
“Whatever
happened to Seymour Hersh?”
 or “Sy
Hersh’s Chemical Misfire”
 in Foreign
Policy — 
the
latter which was written, it should be noted, by a UK blogger who
conducts chemical weapons “investigations” via YouTube and Google
Maps (and this is not an
 exaggeration).

The Post story begins
by acknowledging
, But
Sy Hersh now has a problem: He thinks 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
lied about the death of Osama bin Laden, and it seems nearly everyone
is mad at him for saying so”
 — before
proceeding to take a sledgehammer to Hersh’s findings while
painting him as some kind of conspiracy theorist (Hersh
published the bin Laden story for the 
London
Review of Books
 after
his usual 
New
Yorker 
rejected
it).

Seymour
Hersh broke the story of CIA’s illegal domestic operations with a
front page story in the New York Times on December 22, 1974.

However,
the mainstream pundits piling on against his reporting of late ignore
the clearly establish historical pattern when it comes to Hersh:
nearly all of the biggest stories of his career 
were
initially met with incredulity and severe push back from both
government officials and even his fellow journalists
,
and yet he’s managed to emerge proven right and ultimately
vindicated time and again.

* *
*

Here
are ten bombshell revelations and fascinating new details to lately
come out of both Sy Hersh’s new book, 
Reporter,
as well as 
interviews he’s
given since publication…

1)
On a leaked Bush-era intelligence memo outlining the neocon plan to
remake the Middle East

(Note:
though previously alluded to only anecdotally by General Wesley
Clark 
in
his memoir and in a 2007 speech
,
the below passage from Seymour Hersh is to our
knowledge 
the
first time this highly classified memo has been quoted
.
Hersh’s account appears to corroborate now retired Gen.
Clark’s assertion that days after 9/11 a classified memo outlining
plans to foster regime change in 
“7
countries in 5 years”
 was
being circulated among intelligence officials.)

From Reporter:
A Memoir
 pg.
306 
— A
few months after the invasion of Iraq, during an interview overseas
with a general who was director of a foreign intelligence service, I
was provided with a copy of a Republican neocon plan for American
dominance in the Middle East. The general was an American ally, but
one who was very rattled by the Bush/Cheney aggression. 
I
was told that the document leaked to me initially had been obtained
by someone in the local CIA station.
 There
was reason to be rattled: 
The
document declared that the war to reshape the Middle East had to
begin “with the assault on Iraq. The fundamental reason for this…
is that the war will start making the U.S. the hegemon of the Middle
East. The correlative reason is to make the region feel in its bones,
as it were, the seriousness of American intent and
determination.”
 Victory
in Iraq would lead to an ultimatum to Damascus, the “defanging”
of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Arafat’s Palestine Liberation
Organization, and other anti-Israeli groups. America’s enemies must
understand that “they are fighting for their life: Pax Americana is
on its way, which implies their annihilation.” I and the foreign
general agreed that America’s neocons were a menace to
civilization.

* *
*

2)
On early regime change plans in Syria

From Reporter:
A Memoir
 pages 306-307 — Donald
Rumsfeld was also infected with neocon fantasy. Turkey had refused to
permit America’s Fourth Division to join the attack of Iraq from
its territory, and the division, with its twenty-five thousand men
and women, did not arrive in force inside Iraq until mid-April, when
the initial fighting was essentially over. I learned then that
Rumsfeld had asked the American military command in Stuttgart,
Germany, which had responsibility for monitoring Europe, including
Syria and Lebanon, 
to
begin drawing up an operational plan for an invasion of Syria.
 A
young general assigned to the task refused to do so, thereby winning
applause from my friends on the inside and risking his career.
The
plan was seen by those I knew as especially bizarre because Bashar
Assad, the ruler of secular Syria, had responded to 9/11 by sharing
with the CIA hundreds of his country’s most sensitive intelligence
files on the Muslim Brotherhood in Hamburg, where much of the
planning for 9/11 was carried out… Rumsfeld eventually came to his
senses and back down, I was told…

3)
On the Neocon deep state which seized power after 9/11

From Reporter:
A Memoir
 pages 305-306 
I
began to comprehend that eight or nine neoconservatives who were
political outsiders in the Clinton years had
 essentially
overthrown the government of the United States — with
ease
.
It was stunning to realize how fragile our Constitution was. The
intellectual leaders of that group — 
Dick
Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard Perle — had not hidden
their ideology and their belief in the power of the executive but
depicted themselves in public with a great calmness and a
self-assurance that masked their radicalism
.
I had spent many hours after 9/11 in conversations with Perle that,
luckily for me, helped me understand what was coming. (Perle and I
had been chatting about policy since the early 1980s, but he broke
off relations in 1993 over an article I did for The New Yorker
linking him, a fervent supporter of Israel, to 
a
series of meetings with Saudi businessmen in an attempt to land a
multibillion-dollar contract from Saudi Arabia
.
Perle responded by publicly threatening to sue me and characterizing
me as a newspaper terrorist. He did not sue. 

Meanwhile,
Cheney had emerged as a leader of the neocon pack. From 9/11 on he
did all he could to undermine congressional oversight. I learned a
great deal from the inside about 
his
primacy in the White House
,
but once again I was limited in what I would write for fear of
betraying my sources…

I
came to understand that Cheney’s goal was to run his most important
military and intelligence operations with as little congressional
knowledge, and interference, as possible. I was fascinating and
important to learn what I did about 
Cheney’s
constant accumulation of power and authority as vice president
,
but it was impossible to even begin to verify the information without
running the risk that Cheney would learn of my questioning and have a
good idea from whom I was getting the information.

4)
On Russian meddling in the US election

From
the recent 
Independent
interview
 based
on his autobiography — 
Hersh
has vociferously strong opinions on the subject and smells a rat. He
states that there is 
a
great deal of animosity towards Russia. All of that stuff about
Russia hacking the election appears to be preposterous.”
 He
has been researching the subject but is not ready to go public…
yet.

Hersh
quips that the last time he heard the US defense establishment have
high confidence, it was regarding weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq. He points out that the 
NSA only
has moderate confidence in Russian hacking. It is a point that has
been made before; there has been no national intelligence estimate in
which all 17 US intelligence agencies would have to sign off. “When
the intel community wants to say something they say it… High
confidence
 effectively
means that they don’t know.”

5)
On the Novichok poisoning
 

From
the recent 
Independent
interview
 — Hersh
is also on the record as stating that the official version of
the 
Skripal
poisoning
 does
not stand up to scrutiny. He tells me: 
The
story of novichok poisoning has not held up very well. He
[Skripal] was most likely talking to British intelligence
services about Russian organised crime.”
 The
unfortunate turn of events with the contamination of other victims is
suggestive, according to Hersh, of organised crime elements
rather than state-sponsored actions –though this files in the face
of the UK government’s position.

Hersh
modestly points out that these are just his opinions. Opinions or
not, he is scathing on 
Obama – “a
trimmer … articulate [but] … far from a radical … a middleman”.
During his Goldsmiths talk, he remarks that liberal critics
underestimate Trump at their peril.

He
ends the Goldsmiths talk with an anecdote about having lunch with his
sources in the 
wake
of 9/11
.
He vents his anger at the agencies for not sharing information. One
of his CIA sources fires back: 
Sy
you still don’t get it after all these years – the FBI catches
bank robbers, the CIA robs banks.”
 It
is a delicious, if cryptic aphorism.

*
* *

6)
On the Bush-era ‘Redirection’ policy of arming Sunni radicals to
counter Shia Iran, which in a 
2007 New
Yorker 
article
 Hersh
accurately 
predicted would
set off war in Syria

From
the 
Independent
interview
[Hersh]
tells me it is 
amazing
how many times that story has been reprinted”
.
I ask about his argument that US policy was designed to neutralize
the Shia sphere extending from Iran to Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon
and hence redraw the Sykes-Picot boundaries for the 21st century.

He
goes on to say that Bush and Cheney “had it in for
Iran”, although he denies the idea that Iran was heavily
involved in Iraq: “They were providing intel, collecting intel
… The US did many cross-border hunts to kill ops [with] much more
aggression than Iran”…

He
believes that the Trump administration has no memory of this
approach. I’m sure though that the military-industrial complex has
a longer memory…

I
press him on the RAND and Stratfor reports including 
one
authored by Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz in which they envisage
deliberate ethno-sectarian partitioning of Iraq
.
Hersh ruefully states that: 
The
day after 9/11 we should have gone to Russia. We did the one thing
that George Kennan warned us never to do – to expand NATO too far.”

Tony Cartalucci@TonyCartalucci

Keep in mind this 2007 article by Sy Hersh – “The Redirection” – predicted the US & Saudis using extremists to start a regional war vs & : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/03/05/the-redirection 

Well worth reading again to see just how prophetic it was.


The Redirection

Is the Administration’s new policy benefitting our enemies in the war on terrorism?

newyorker.com

* *
*

7)
On the official 9/11 narrative

From
the 
Independent
interview
We
end up ruminating about 9/11, perhaps because it is another narrative
ripe for deconstruction by skeptics. Polling shows that a significant
proportion of the American public believes there is more to the
truth. These doubts have been reinforced by the declassification of
the suppressed 28 pages of the 9/11 commission report last year
undermining the version that a group of terrorists acting
independently managed to pull off the attacks. The implication is
that 
they
may well have been state-sponsored
 with
the Saudis potentially involved. 

Hersh
tells me: 
I
don’t necessarily buy the story that Bin Laden was
responsible for 9/11. We really don’t have an ending to the story.
I’ve known people in the [intelligence] community. We don’t know
anything empirical about who did what”
.
He continues: 
The
guy was living in a cave. He really didn’t know much English.
 He
was pretty bright and he had a lot of hatred for the US. We respond
by attacking the Taliban. Eighteen years later… How’s it
going guys?”

8)
On the media and the morality of the powerful

From
a recent 
The
Intercept 
interview
 and book
review
  If
Hersh were a superhero, this would be his origin story. Two hundred
and seventy-four pages after the Chicago anecdote, he describes
his 
coverage of
a massive slaughter of Iraqi troops and civilians by the U.S. in 1991
after a ceasefire had ended the Persian Gulf War. America’s
indifference to this massacre was, Hersh writes, “a reminder of the
Vietnam War’s MGR, for Mere Gook Rule: If it’s a murdered or
raped gook, there is no crime.” It was also, he adds, a reminder of
something else: “I had learned a domestic version of that rule
decades earlier” in Chicago.

Reporter”
demonstrates that Hersh has derived three simple lessons from that
rule:

    1.The
    powerful prey mercilessly upon the powerless, up to and including
    mass murder.

    2.The
    powerful lie constantly about their predations.

    3.The
    natural instinct of the media is to let the powerful get away with
    it.

* *
*

9) On
the time President Lyndon B. Johnson expressed his displeasure
to a reporter over a Vietnam piece by defecating on the ground
in front of him

From Reporter:
A Memoir
 pages
201-202 
— Tom
[Wicker] got into the car and the two of them sped off down a dusty
dirt road. No words were spoken. After a moment or two, Johnson once
again slammed on the brakes, wheeling to a halt near a stand of
trees.

Leaving
the motor running, he climbed out, walked a few dozen feet toward the
trees, 
stopped,
pulled down his pants, and defecated, in full view. The President
wiped himself with leaves and grass, pulled up his pants, climbed
into the car, turned in around, and sped back to the press
gathering.
 Once
there, again the brakes were slammed on, and Tom was motioned out.
All of this was done without a word being spoken.

…”I
knew then,” Tom told me, “that the son of a bitch was never going
to end the war.”

10)
On Sy’s “most troublesome article” for which his own
family received death threats

From Reporter:
A Memoir
 pages
263-264 

The
most troublesome article I did, as someone not on the staff of the
newspaper, came in June 1986 and dealt with American signals
intelligence showing that General Manuel Antonio Noriega, the
dictator who ran Panama, 
had
authorized the assassination of a popular political opponent
.
At the time, Noriega was actively involved in supplying the Reagan
administration with what was said to be intelligence on the spread of
communism in Central America. Noriega also permitted American
military and intelligence units to operate with impunity, in secret,
from bases in Panama, and the Americans, in return, 
looked
the other way while the general dealt openly in drugs and arms
The
story was published just as Noriega was giving a speech at Harvard
University and created embarrassment for him, and for Harvard, along
with a very disturbing telephone threat at home, directed not at me
but at my family.
 

* *
*

By Tyler
Durden
 /
Republished with permission / 
Zero
Hedge
 / Report
a typo

===============================

* Het originele artikel werd op Zero Hedge gepubliceerd.

Veteranen waarschuwen Trump voor desastreuze gevolgen in geval van oorlog tegen Iran

Veteranen
verenigd in de VIPS (Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity) hebben VS president Trump de waarschuwing gestuurd, vooral géén oorlog met Iran aan te gaan.

Ze
wijzen daarbij o.a. op de desastreuze illegale oorlog die de VS in 2003 tegen
Irak begon (een oorlog die in feite nog steeds voortduurt en aan meer
dan 1,5 miljoen mensen het leven heeft gekost…..). Terwijl de zogenaamde
bewijzen voor een voortdurend nucleair programma van Iran nog veel zwakker in
elkaar steken, dan de ‘bewijzen’ die de VS destijds aan de wereld toonde aangaande Iraakse massavernietigingswapens…….

De
bedenkers van die oorlog, Cheney, Rumsfeld en Bush (hoewel de laatste min of meer een als marionet fungeerde) en andere oorlogsmisdadigers,
stelden later dat er een vergissing was gemaakt wat betreft de
inlichtingen…….. Daar wijzen deze ‘veteranen’ in hun brief aan Trump nu ook op: het was een
willens en wetens in elkaar gedraaid lulverhaal om Irak aan te kunnen
vallen (en zo controle te krijgen over de olie- en gasvelden in Irak…)…..

De
informatie die nu voorhanden is over het atoomprogramma van Iran, komt
zelfs uit de koker van de CIA en is al eens als waardeloos
beoordeeld. Het gaat hier om dezelfde informatie die Netanyahu
gebruikte toen hij stelde dat Iran ondanks de Iran-deal toch nog
steeds op weg was een kernwapen te fabriceren……..

Lees
de brief die deze ‘veteranen’ aan Trump hebben gestuurd en geeft het
door! Nog steeds doet men (in de politiek en de media, ook in Nederland) maar al te
graag of er voldoende reden was om Irak (‘van Saddam Hoessein’) aan te vallen, zelfs na 1,5
miljoen doden en een land dat grotendeels in puin ligt…….. Tja, als deze media toegeven dat ze helemaal fout zaten, zouden ze in feite toegeven ‘fake news’ (‘nepnieuws’) te hebben gebracht, zoals daadwerkelijk gebeurde (en dat op zeer grote schaal!)…….

Overigens
heeft de Trump administratie aangeboden te praten met Iran, maar wel
met van te voren door Iran te nemen acties, waarop Iran uiteraard ‘de
boot heeft afgehouden..’**

VIPS
to Trump:  Intel on Iran Could be CATASTROPHIC

August
1, 2018

As
drums beat again for war — this time on Iran—-the VIPS’ warning
is again being disregarded as it was before the Iraq debacle
and this time VIPS fear the consequences will be all-caps
CATASTROPHIC. 


August
1, 2018


MEMORANDUM
FOR:
 The President



FROM: Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

SUBJECT: 
Intelligence
on Iran Fails the Smell Test


Mr.
President:


As
the George W. Bush administration revved up to attack Iraq 15 years
ago, we could see no compelling reason for war.  We decided,
though, to give President Bush the benefit of the doubt on the chance
he had been sandbagged by Vice President Dick Cheney and others. 
We chose to allow for the possibility that he actually believed the
“intelligence” that Colin Powell presented to the UN as providing
“irrefutable and undeniable” proof of WMD in Iraq and a “sinister
nexus” between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.


To
us in VIPS it was clear, however, that the “intelligence” Powell
adduced was bogus.  Thus, that same afternoon (Feb. 5, 2003) we
prepared and sent to President Bush a Memorandum like this 
one,
urging him to seek counsel beyond the “circle of those advisers
clearly bent on a war for which we see no compelling reason and from
which we believe the unintended consequences are likely to be
catastrophic.”


We
take no satisfaction at having been correct — though disregarded —
in predicting the political and humanitarian disaster in Iraq. Most
Americans have been told the intelligence was “mistaken.” It was
not; it was out-and-out fraud, in which, sadly, some of our former
colleagues took part.


Five
years after Powell’s speech, the Chair of the Senate Intelligence
Committee minced few words in announcing the main bipartisan finding
of a five-year investigation. He 
said
“In making the case for war, the Administration repeatedly
presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was
unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent.  As a
result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from
Iraq was much greater than actually existed.”



Iran
Now in Gunsight


As
drums beat again for a military attack — this time on Iran, we
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity and other experienced,
objective analysts are, by all appearances, being disregarded again. 
And, this time, we fear the consequences will be all-caps
CATASTROPHIC — in comparison with the catastrophe of Iraq.


In
memoranda to you over the past year and a half we have 
pointed
out
 that
(1) Iran’s current support for international terrorism is far short
of what it was decades ago; and (2) that you are being played by
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims about Iran’ they are
based on intelligence exposed as fraudulent several years ago. 
Tellingly, Netanyahu waited for your new national security adviser to
be in place for three weeks before performing his April 30 slide
show alleging that Iran has a covert nuclear weapons program. 
On the chance that our analysis of Netanyahu’s show-and-tell failed
to reach you, please know that the Israeli prime minister was
recycling information from proven forgeries, which we reported in a
Memorandum to you early last spring.


If
our 
Memorandum of May
7 fell through some cracks in the West Wing, here are its main
findings:


The
evidence displayed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
on April 30 in what he called his “Iranian atomic
archive” showed blatant signs of fabrication. That evidence is
linked to documents presented by the Bush Administration more than a
decade earlier as “proof” of a covert Iran nuclear weapons
program. Those documents were clearly fabricated, as well.


In
our May 7, 2018 Memorandum we also asserted: “We can prove that the
actual documents originally came not from Iran but from Israel.
Moreover, the documents were never authenticated by the CIA or the
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).”



Iran:
Almost Targeted in 2008


There
was a close brush with war with Iran a decade ago.  Bush and
Cheney, in close consultation with Israel, were planning to attack
Iran in 2008, their last year in office.  Fortunately, an honest
National Intelligence Estimate of November 2007 concluded that Iran
had stopped working on a nuclear weapon in 2003, and that key
judgment was made public.  Abruptly, that NIE stuck an iron rod
into the wheels of the juggernaut then speeding downhill to war.


The
key judgment that Iran had stopped work on a nuclear weapon was the
result of the painstakingly deliberative process that was customarily
used, back in the day, to produce an NIE. After that process —
which took a full year —  the Nov. 2007 NIE was was approved
unanimously by all U.S. intelligence agencies.


(In
other words, it was decidedly NOT a rump “assessment” like the
one cobbled together in a couple of weeks by “handpicked”
analysts from three selected, agenda-laden agencies regarding Russian
meddling. We refer, of course, to the evidence-impoverished and
deceptively labeled “Intelligence Community Assessment” that the
directors of the FBI, CIA, and NSA gave you on January 6, 2017. The
Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Department intelligence
bureau were among the other 13 agencies excluded from that
“Intelligence Community Assessment.”)


As
for the Bush/Cheney plans for attacking Iran in 2008, President
George W. Bush, in his autobiography, Decision Points,
recorded his chagrin at what he called the NIE’s “eye-popping”
intelligence finding debunking the conventional wisdom that Iran was
on the verge of getting a nuclear weapon.  Bush added
plaintively, “How could I possibly explain using the military to
destroy the nuclear facilities of a country the intelligence
community said had no active nuclear weapons program?”


Mr.
President, we do not know whether a fresh National Intelligence
Estimate has been produced on Iran and nuclear weapons — or, if one
has been produced, whether it is as honest as the NIE of Nov. 2007,
which helped prevent the launch of another unnecessary war the
following year.  We stand on our record.  In sum, if you
believe that there is credible evidence that Iran has an active
secret nuclear weapons program, we believe you have been misled. 
And if you base decisions on misleading “intelligence” on Iran,
the inevitable result will be a great deal worse than the Bush/Cheney
debacle in Iraq.


For
the Steering Group



Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity


William
Binney
, former NSA Technical Director for World Geopolitical &
Military Analysis; Co-founder of NSA’s Signals Intelligence
Automation Research Center (ret.)

Sen.
Richard H. Black
, 13th District of Virginia; Colonel US Army
(ret.); former Chief, Criminal Law Division, Office of the Judge
Advocate General, Pentagon (associate VIPS)

Kathleen
Christison
, Senior Analyst on Middle East, CIA (ret.)

Bogdan
Dzakovic
, former Team Leader of Federal Air Marshals and Red
Team, FAA Security (ret.) (associate VIPS)

Philip
Giraldi, 
CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)

Larry
C. Johnson, 
former CIA and State Department
Counter-terrorism officer

Michael
S. Kearns
, Captain, Wing Commander, RAAF (ret.); Intelligence
Officer & ex-Master SERE Instructor

Linda
Lewis, 
WMD preparedness policy analyst, USDA (ret.)
(associate VIPS)

Edward
Loomis, 
NSA Cryptologic Computer Scientist (ret.)

David
MacMichael, 
Capt., USMC (ret.); former Senior Estimates
Officer, National Intelligence Council

Ray
McGovern
, former US Army Infantry/Intelligence Officer & CIA
analyst; CIA Presidential briefer (ret.)

Elizabeth
Murray, 
former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the
Near East, National Intelligence Council & CIA political analyst
(ret.)

Todd
E. Pierce, 
MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)

Gareth
Porter, 
author/journalist (associate VIPS)

Coleen
Rowley
, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal
Counsel (ret.)

Robert
Wing, 
former Foreign Service Officer (associate VIPS)

Ann
Wright, Colonel, 
US Army (ret.); Foreign Service Officer
(resigned in opposition to the war on Iraq)

Tags: Colin
Powell
 Donald
Trump
 Iran VIPS

* Waar Hans Blix, destijds hoofd-wapeninspecteur van de VN, de wereld bij wijze van spreken tot vervelens toe voorhield dat Irak geen massavernietigingswapens had, noch ergens verborgen kon hebben…… In 2004 beschuldigde hij in zijn boek, ‘Disarming Iraq’ de VS volkomen terecht van vals spel…….


** Zie: ‘As US Adds Preconditions, Iran Rejects Offer of Talks

Mijn excuus voor de belabberde weergave.

Joe Darby de klokkenluider van Abu Ghraib moet afgeschermd leven……

Nog een klokkenluider, die het slachtoffer werd van zijn terechte actie: Joe Darby een sergeant van de militaire politie, die de foto’s onder ogen kreeg, van het vreselijke misbruik en marteling van gevangenen in de Iraakse Abu Ghraib gevangenis. Superschoft Rumsfeld maakte zijn woonplaats in de VS bekend, terwijl Darby anonimiteit werd beloofd, toen hij met de foto’s naar buiten trad. Rumsfeld is zo’n ongelofelijke psychopaat, dat hij Darby vroeg verder te zwijgen over de misdadige streek, die hij Darby leverde (het openbaar maken van zijn adres)…….. Darby werd met de dood bedreigd, zelfs door ‘vrienden’ en kennissen en moest vertrekken uit zijn woonplaats, om onder te duiken (hij weigerde zijn naam te veranderen)………..

Wat een wereld mensen……..

In Nederland weten we na meer dan 25 jaar nog steeds niet, hoe we klokkenluiders moeten beschermen, sterker nog: klokkenluiders zijn voortdurend de klos, hoeveel goeds zij ook deden/doen met hun openbaarmaking van misstanden, schande!!!

Zie ook: ‘Plasterk adviseert klokkenluidershuis niet onder te brengen bij ombudsman