Iraq Invasion Based on Lies

teleSUR ARTICLE Source Link - teleSUR Opinion Secret Document Shows CIA Reaction to Finding No WMD in Iraq This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english   Secret Document Shows CIA Reaction to Finding No WMD in Iraq The U.S. government invaded Iraq, devastated a society, killed upwards of a million people, wounded, traumatized, and displaced millions more. The National Security Archive has posted several newly available documents Monday, one of them an account by Charles Duelfer of the search he led in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, with a staff of 1,700 and the resources of the U.S. military This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english The U.S. government invaded Iraq, devastated a society, killed upwards of a million people, wounded, traumatized, and displaced millions more. The National Security Archive has posted several newly available documents Monday, one of them an account by Charles Duelfer of the search he led in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, with a staff of 1,700 and the resources of the U.S. military This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english Secret Document Shows CIA Reaction to Finding No WMD in Iraq This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english The U.S. government invaded Iraq, devastated a society, killed upwards of a million people, wounded, traumatized, and displaced millions more. The National Security Archive has posted several newly available documents Monday, one of them an account by Charles Duelfer of the search he led in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, with a staff of 1,700 and the resources of the U.S. military. EXTRACT - FULL AT SOURCE   Source Link - teleSUR The U.S. government invaded Iraq, devastated a society, killed upwards of a million people, wounded, traumatized, and displaced millions more. The National Security Archive has posted several newly available documents Monday, one of them an account by Charles Duelfer of the search he led in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, with a staff of 1,700 and the resources of the U.S. military This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english Secret Document Shows CIA Reaction to Finding No WMD in Iraq This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english Secret Document Shows CIA Reaction to Finding No WMD in Iraq This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english Secret Document Shows CIA Reaction to Finding No WMD in Iraq This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english The U.S. government invaded Iraq, devastated a society, killed upwards of a million people, wounded, traumatized, and displaced millions more. The National Security Archive has posted several newly available documents Monday, one of them an account by Charles Duelfer of the search he led in Iraq for weapons of mass destruction, with a staff of 1,700 and the resources of the U.S. military This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He is a 2015 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. This content was originally published by teleSUR at the following address: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Secret-Document-Shows-CIA-Reaction-to-Finding-No-WMD-in-Iraq-20150708-0032.html. If you intend to use it, please cite the source and provide a link to the original article. www.teleSURtv.net/english COMMENT Great article. Found out recently that the WMDs were fabricated, but I wasn't aware of how much deceit went into manufacturing an invasion: *Forged Documents *Going against advice of experts *Conning the UN *Embroidering an intelligence estimate, to make out Iraq 'threat' *Lying about peacemaking at a news conference, while attacking Recapping: USA invasion of Iraq, based on lies USA devastated a society USA killed over 1 million USA wounded, traumatised, & displaced millions more USA generated hatred for USA USA drained the US economy USA stripped away US civil liberties USA paved way for Islamic State Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. "From the foot of Saddam Hussein's summer palace a Humvee is seen driving down a road towards the left. Palm trees grow near the road and the ruins of Babylon can be seen in the background." U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Arlo K. Abrahamson. - This Image was released by the United States Navy with the ID 030529Source:  Wikipedia Saddam Hussein's summer palace overlooks the ruins of the ancient city of Babylon;  the seat of powerful empires which successively shone and eventually collapsed, many centuries before the rise of modern European powers. Saddam Hussein was hanged in a shabby spectacle by masked men, while masked psychopaths and war criminal front-men of a present-day empire continue to lie, deceive and destroy. All I can think is:  this is what evil looks like. WARNING Graphic Content Copyright Disclaimer under section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, education and research. Saddam Hussein's Execution  WARNING Graphic Content source:  here

VIDEO - Sweden a voluntary vassal state of US

From Assange to NATO, Sweden a voluntary vassal state of US SOURCE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=085JbHikPyk [ Uploaded on 13 Feb 2011 ]  RT's Anissa Naouai interviews: Dr Brian Palmer "Dr Brian Palmer, a social anthropologist from Uppsala University, believes that Julian Assange is safer in the UK than in Sweden.  RT has asked him about why Sweden wants the WikiLeaks founder so badly and his fate if he were to be extradited." [ ... Introduction ... see particulars above ] Reporter Sweden has been in the spotlight quite a bit lately, with the WikiLeaks scandal and the spy and sex probes into Julian Assange.  Why does Sweden want Julian Assange to be extradited?  Is it just for - to be questioned, rather, for the sex crimes alleged against him? Dr Brian Palmer It's hard to say.  Certainly, sexual misconduct is taken seriously in Sweden, but few cases get anywhere near the kind of judicial energy behind them as this had.  So there seems to also be other factors at play.  It may be partly the prosecutors and lawyers involved, and issues of their careers.  It may also be that there's some pressure from the foreign policy establishment in Sweden and even from the United States that's played a role. Reporter Do you think that eventually Assange will, in fact, be extradited to Sweden? Dr Brian Palmer It wouldn't surprise me if he is in the end, but I would say that he and his lawyers have a fighting chance of keeping him there and suggesting that whatever questioning of him the Swedish prosecutors want to do can easily be done by video link. Reporter Many critics say that once, and if, Assange is extradited to Sweden that it would be very easy for the US to get him into custody.  Do you agree with that? Dr Brian Palmer I think that's quite right; that it would be easier to get him to the US from Sweden than from Britain.  The Swedish government has shown itself to be more pliant than the British, surprisingly, given the so-called special relationship of trust between Britain and the USA, and the Swedish press has been - and Swedish public intellectuals - have been less vocal in defending WikiLeaks than many people and many papers in Britain, so I think he's safer there. Reporter Why do you think that the media has been reluctant to - am I understanding correctly - openly cover WikiLeaks or cover it in a way that looks like Assange has a fair chance? Dr Brian Palmer There's been a lot of coverage of WikiLeaks and Assange in Sweden, but he doesn't have that many high profile champions.  It's partly because allegations of sexual misconduct weigh so heavily here, that it is a country where feminist ideals are maybe stronger than anywhere else on Earth and, one wishes that no-one would be judged in a case until they had been tried, but there's some hesitation to come to his defence on those grounds; and then, so much of our media in Sweden is owned by a few conservative leaning media houses, particularly Bonniers, a media group that's right leaning and has every interest in not raising these questions, and they're the largest player in the media market in Sweden. Reporter You wrote a biography of the Swedish Prime Minister [Fredrik Reinfeldt] and it's no secret you wrote about this:  that the Prime Minister has been - or is being advised - by US republican strategist Karl Rove.  Why one of America's most notorious neocons and the man, of course, most credited with getting Bush into the White House? Dr Brian Palmer It's an interesting question, because the conservative party (called the Moderates) have plenty of Machiavellian strategists of their own - plenty of Karl Roves of their own - but Rove has a long-term relationship with the Moderates.  Already in the 1980s he came to Sweden to advise them and then he's been back before the election in 2006 and even more recently.  He himself has some Swedish roots, and I think it may be partly initiative from his side that he wants to be involved in politics here.  And then what the Moderates accomplished before the 2006 election had something in common with Bush's electoral victory in 2000.  The problem for both George Bush and Fredrik Reinfeldt was to win the votes of groups who wouldn't necessarily benefit from having a right-wing, tax cutting regime in power.  Bush succeeded so well in wooing working-class votes that in the ... 2004 election, Bush won the white working-class by a 23% margin.  So working-class voters were really the backbone of his victory.  Reinfeldt acknowledged that he was impressed by Bush's campaign and his struggle was also to get working-class voters to support his party (which they hadn't done in the past), and so it's logical that he would have wanted to bring in some of the people from Bush's campaign to help with that - and, not least, Karl Rove. Reporter You've said that the method is linguistic innovations, media manipulation and the art of bringing smear campaigns.  Is that what Sweden wants to take from a strategist like Karl Rove? Dr Brian Palmer The Moderates won the past two elections very much because of the negative image of Fredrik Reinfeldt's opponent in both elections.  It was very much the weakness of the opponent the people were voting against, rather than attraction to Reinfeldt.  And how to accomplish that through different kinds of negative campaigning, in the broad meaning of campaigning that focuses on the deficits of the other candidate, was something that Rove has been very good at, so he would be a relevant adviser there.  Another thing that Rove has been something of a genius at is finding peripheral issues that will mobilise the right voter groups to support the Republicans, and that strategy has also been somewhat effective in Sweden. Reporter Is it normal for Karl Rove to be doing this kind of international advising? Dr Brian Palmer No.  On his own website he notes that Sweden is his only international assignment.  The Moderate party in Sweden is the only foreign party that he's worked for; so, as far a I know, he's a pretty US-focused person.  But then again, as mentioned, he himself has Swedish roots and he may feel a particular obligation to be involved here - or interest to be involved here. Reporter How much influence do you think the US, on a whole - from Assange to NATO to asylum seekers being taken into custody - have on Sweden? Dr Brian Palmer Enormous influence and, in a way, almost puzzlingly so at this historical moment that Sweden should be so eager to host NATO military exercises in the north, to share intelligence information at a very high level with the US and NATO that Fredrik Reinfeldt was so very eager to visit Bush, it was one of his first major international visits after he became Prime Minister in 2006.  All of that is a bit puzzling when the US is no longer so central to Sweden's exports, for example, as it has been at certain periods, when European relations ought to be more central to Sweden in certain ways, and all of this is a far cry from the Sweden of the 1970s and early 80s when Olof Palme was Prime Minister and when the most important relations were often with developing nations - with the South African freedom movement; with India, with the Non-Aligned Movement - the once very progressive Sweden has become something of a voluntary apprentice state, some would say vassal state, of the USA. Reporter And why do you think Sweden took those kind of policy moves Dr Brian Palmer I think a lot of it is admiration for the United States among the foreign policy elite in Sweden,  many of whose members have studied at top universities in the US and had spent time there, and have a good network of personal friendships in the US, and now with the conservative governments in 2006 those ties have become even stronger.  The motto of one of the young people's divisions of the conservative party over many years was we would like things to be like in the USA - vi vill har du som USA, in Swedish - so an open wish to see a more Americanised Sweden, which is exactly what we're seeing. Reporter Thank you very much for being with us. Dr Brian Palmer My pleasure. COMMENT NOTE I don't speak Swedish, so 'Vi vill har du som USA' (referred to above) is just a best guess at what Palmer has said in Swedish. The transcription could do with one more check of audio against text, but I need to switch tasks because my brain's just about crawled to a stop.  LOL Will have to come back to check and comment. Before I split, I'll link an article that I also found interesting. Bush, Rove Tied to Effort to Dismantle Sweden’s Social Welfare Program Tuesday, December 9, 2008 http://www.democracynow.org/2008/12/9/bush_rove_tied_to_effort_to And one more ...      Partner At Firm Counseling Assange’s Accusers Helped In CIA Torture Rendition January 12, 2011 By Andrew Kreig http://ctwatchdog.com/govt/how-much-did-lawyer-for-wikileaks-accusers-help-cia-in-torture-rendition That's it.  I'm done for now.

Joint Mossad & CIA operation Killed Imad Mughniyeh

TIMES OF ISRAEL ARTICLE ‘Imad Mughniyeh killed in joint Mossad, CIA operation’ US operatives were on the ground, but the bomb was triggered in Tel Aviv, according to The Washington Post By Times of Israel staff January 31, 2015, 8:27 am Imad Mughniyeh, the senior Hezbollah commander who died in a bomb blast in Damascus on February 12, 2008, was reportedly assassinated in a joint Mossad-CIA operation that required approval from former president George W. Bush. The US built the bomb and had CIA spotters on the ground in the Syrian capital tailing Mughniyeh, but the explosion that killed him was triggered remotely from Israel, according to a report in The Washington Post late Friday. [Find that hard to believe.] “The way it was set up, the US could object and call it off, but it could not execute,” a former US intelligence official told the newspaper, adding that the CIA tested the bomb to ensure a contained blast that would cause no collateral damage. The US official said it was important for Israel to be the one to pull the trigger that killed Mughniyeh. “It was revenge,” he said. Mughniyeh, Hezbollah’s international operations chief, was implicated in some of the terror group’s major attacks including the 1992 bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, and the 1994 bombing of the AMIA building in the Argentinian capital, in which 85 were killed. The senior Hezbollah official was also involved in the 1983 bombing at the US embassy in Beirut, the killing in 1994 of the CIA’s Lebanon chief William F. Buckly and the 1996 bombing at the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia. In the years after the US invasion if Iraq, Mughniyeh was responsible for the arming and training of Iranian-backed Shiite militias in Iraq who carried out deadly attacks on American troops — all of which put him at the top of the US’s wanted list. The Bush administration regarded Hezbollah, and Mughniyeh, as a top threat to the US, according to the report. “There was an open license to find, fix and finish Mughniyeh and anybody affiliated with him,” a former US official who was stationed in Baghdad told The Washington Post. In a 2007 speech, Bush singled out Syria and Iran, Hezbollah’s backers and closest allies “These two regimes are allowing terrorists and insurgents to use their territory to move in and out of Iraq. Iran is providing material support for attacks on American troops. We will disrupt the attacks on our forces. We will interrupt the flow of support from Iran and Syria. And we will seek out and destroy the networks providing advanced weaponry and training to our enemies in Iraq,” he vowed. Nevertheless, the CIA had get to special approval from Bush to carry out the operation to kill Mughniyeh with the US attorney general, the director of national intelligence, the national security adviser and the Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department all signing off on the plan. One former intelligence official said getting the authorization was a “rigorous and tedious” process. Intelligence officials had to show that he, and Hezbollah were a continuing threat to the US. “The decision was we had to have absolute confirmation that it was self-defense,” was former US intelligence official was quoted as saying. “All I can say is that as long as he drew breath, he was a threat, whether in Lebanon, Iraq or anywhere else. He was a very intelligent, dedicated, effective operator on the black side,” former US ambassador to Iraq, Ryan C. Crocker, told the paper. http://www.timesofisrael.com/imad-mughniyeh-killed-in-joint-mossad-cia-operation/ COMMENT Getting various US departments to sign off on an assassination still makes it an assassination by USA, which is an extra-judicial killing, I believe. Find it hard to believe that guy was responsible for everything they claim he was responsible for, like he's some Middle Eastern super-villain. Assassinated at the flick of a switch from Tel Aviv just doesn't sound credible.  Whoever flicked that switch was there, I reckon.

UK & US - UK DIEGO GARCIA BASE - US-UK COLLUSION - RENDITION, TORTURE - UK COVER-UP

UK government attempts to conceal its involvement in rendition and torture By Robert Stevens 9 August 2014 The British government is seeking to cover up its role in the illegal “extraordinary rendition”—kidnappings and torture—programme run by the United States. Ahead of the delayed release of a US Senate report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) torture system, in place under the previous George W. Bush administration, the Observer revealed that the UK government has approached its US counterparts to censor information regarding Britain’s involvement in rendition and torture through the use of the Indian Ocean air base of Diego Garcia. Diego Garcia, a tiny atoll, is a British Overseas Territory that has been leased to the US for decades. It became a strategic base for the US military during the Cold War and was used to supply its forces in the Red Sea and Vietnam. It was also the only base used for air strikes against Iraq during the first Gulf War in 1991. It was used again by the US military for the “shock and awe” bombardment of Iraq in 2003 as well as the heavy bombardment of Afghanistan in 2001. The Observer cites a letter from former UK Foreign Secretary William Hague to the human rights organisation Reprieve. Hague was Foreign Secretary for four years in the government of Prime Minister David Cameron until last month’s cabinet reshuffle. Hague informed Reprieve that, “We have made representations to seek assurances that ordinary procedures for clearance of UK material will be followed in the event that UK material provide[d] to the Senate committee were to be disclosed.” The meaning is clear: the UK government is insistent that details of its active participation in an illegal global kidnapping and torture network, in close collaboration with the US, remain under lock and key. The censoring being demanded by the British is just part of an overall mass of redactions being put in place by the US military-intelligence apparatus prior to the report’s release. Last Friday, Senator Dianne Feinstein said the Senate Intelligence Committee would delay the release of the declassified summary of its voluminous report on the CIA torture system, due to the scale of redactions being made. Successive UK governments have denied accusations that Diego Garcia was used as a “black site” prison and that rendition flights landed there. As far back as 2002, the Washington Post reported that Diego Garcia was “one of a number of secret detention centers overseas.” In 2008 then British Home Secretary David Miliband told parliament that two US flights each containing a prisoner did refuel on the island in 2002, but claimed those detained remained on board and that the “US Government has assured us that no US detainees have ever been held on Diego Garcia.” Andrew Tyrie, a Conservative MP, is the founder and chairman of Parliaments all-party group on rendition. [...] Tyrie has called for an inquiry in Britain’s involvement in rendition and torture on the basis that without this happening, the UK’s ability to portray itself as an upholder of democracy on the international stage is vastly undermined. “With the truth established, Britain can draw a line under these allegations and demonstrate that we abide by the values that we expect of others.” The lies that Diego Garcia has played no role in rendition and torture continue to unravel. An account by freelance investigative journalist Andy Worthington, published on Al-Jazeera last month noted, “In October 2003, Time reported that ‘a regional intelligence official’ had stated that Hambali, a ‘high-value detainee’ seized in Thailand two months earlier, was being held and interrogated on Diego Garcia, and in the years that followed, other claims were made, both by journalists and by retired US general Barry McCaffrey, who, in May 2004 and December 2006, referred to prisoners being held on Diego Garcia.” [...] continued @ source link http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/09/rend-a09.html

Feinstein's report's been delayed because they're whiting out the British, huh?

Wasn't democracy supposed to be transparent?

Kidnapping and torture ... lawlessness ... even terrorism  ... isn't that what the powers that be supposedly stand 'against'.  LOL

Hypocrisy, inscrutability and lawlessness is how you maintain an empire.

Propaganda - Goebbel's Principles

PROPAGANDA GOEBBEL'S PRINCIPLES Hitler's Basic Principles These principles are abstracted from Jowett & O'Donnell.     Avoid abstract ideas - appeal to the emotions.     Constantly repeat just a few ideas. Use stereotyped phrases.     Give only one side of the argument.     Continuously criticize your opponents.     Pick out one special "enemy" for special vilification. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.     They must evoke responses which the audience previously possesses.     They must be capable of being easily learned.     They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations.     They must be boomerang-proof. SOURCE - http://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Propaganda/goebbels.html ................................................................. Should be a fun game picking off phrases and slogans. 'Boomerang proof' must be the final step, when everyone's sucked up the smear campaign, and they're ready to believe anything by virtue of the subject being the personification of 'evil'. Hey, check this out: Bush Copied Hitler’s Propaganda Technique The “preventive war” propaganda used by President Bush to justify his attack on Iraq in 2003 copied that used by Hitler when he invaded Russia in 1941. Starting a preventive war was a foundation of the “Bush Doctrine.” David Walsh, a contributor to the World Socialist Web Site, writes in a new book that the Nazi regime asked the German press to portray Hitler’s invasion of Soviet Russia as a “preventive war” that was “forced” on Germany. Walsh adds this propaganda tactic “did not originate with (George W.) Bush, (Dick) Cheney, or (Donald) Rumsfeld.” It was used by Hitler. ... [the media] long ago abandoned any sense of responsibility for educating and informing the public or carrying out the critical democratic function traditionally assigned to the ‘Fourth Estate’, i.e., serving as a watchdog and check on government abuses and falsifications.” Walsh goes on to say that, “Instead it (the media) slavishly carries out the function assigned it by the ruling elite: to confuse, terrorize and intimidate the American public.” He explains how the TV networks and major dailies “are the prime source of news and information for tens of millions of people in the U.S” and are “in the hands of giant firms, controlled by fabulously wealthy individuals who will stop at nothing to defend their profits and property. The corpses of thousands, or, if necessary, millions of Iraqis, Syrians, Iranians and others are a small price to pay, as far as the media billionaires are concerned, for achieving American military and economic domination of the globe.” [Source - VeteransToday - here] ................................................................. So are Obama's bosses planning on using the Hitler-GWBush technique on Russia? Check out what David Walsh has to say about media ownership and how the media's used by the elite. Think he might have a point. edit:  oops.   Looks like I forgot link the VeteransToday article those extracts are from.  Linked to article today (Sept 2015).