The United States government has overestimated the amount of shame that it and American citizens can live down. On February 15 “the indispensable people” had to suffer the hypocrisy of the U.S. Secretary of State delivering a speech about America’s commitment to Internet freedom while the U.S. Department of Justice (sic) brought unconstitutional action against Twitter to reveal any connection between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, the American hero who, in keeping with the U.S. Military Code, exposed U.S. government war crimes and who is being held in punishing conditions not permitted by the U.S. Constitution. The corrupt U.S. government is trying to create a “conspiracy” case against Julian Assange in order to punish him for revealing U.S. government documents that prove beyond every doubt the mendacity of the U.S. government.
This is pretty bad, but it pales in comparison to the implications revealed on February 15 in the British newspaper, The Guardian.
The Guardian obtained an interview with “Curveball,” the source for Colin Powell’s speech of total lies to the United Nations about Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction. Colin Powell’s speech created the stage for the illegal American invasion of Iraq. The Guardian describes “Curveball” as “the man who pulled off one of the greatest confidence tricks in the history of modern intelligence.” As The Guardian puts it, “Curveball” “manufactured a tale of dread.”
U.S. “intelligence” never interviewed “Curveball.” The Americans started a war based on second-hand information given to them by incompetent German intelligence, which fell for “Curveball’s” lies that today German intelligence disbelieves.
As the world now knows, Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Bush/Cheney Regime, of course, knew this, but “Curveball’s” lies were useful to their undeclared agenda. In his interview with The Guardian, “Curveball,” Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, admitted that he made the whole story up. He wanted to do in Saddam Hussein and told whatever fantasy lie he could make up that would serve his purpose.
If the Bush/Cheney Regime had really believed that Saddam Hussein had world-threatening weapons of mass destruction, it would have been a criminal act to concentrate America’s invading force in a small area of Kuwait where a few WMD could have wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force, thus ending the war before it began.
Some Americans are so thoughtless that they would say that Saddam Hussein would never have used the weapons, because we would have done this and that to Iraq, even nuking Baghdad. But why would Saddam Hussein care if he and his regime were already marked for death? Why would a doomed man desist from inflicting an extraordinary defeat on the American Superpower, thus encouraging Arabs everywhere? Moreover, if Saddam Hussein was unwilling to use his WMD against an invading force, when would he ever use them? It was completely obvious to the U.S. government that no such weapons existed. The weapons inspectors made that completely clear to the Bush/Cheney Regime. There were no Iraqi WMD, and everyone in the U.S. government was apprised of that fact.
Why was there no wonder or comment in the “free” media that the White House accused Iraq of possession of terrible weapons of mass destruction, but nevertheless concentrated its invasion force in such a small area that such weapons could easily have wiped out the invading force?
Does democracy really exist in a land where the media is incompetent and the government is unaccountable and lies through its teeth every time if opens its mouth?
“Curveball” represents a new level of immorality. Rafid al-Janabi shares responsibility for one million dead Iraqis, 4 million displaced Iraqis, a destroyed country, 4,754 dead American troops, 40,000 wounded and maimed American troops, $3 trillion of wasted US resources, every dollar of which is a debt burden to the American population and a threat to the dollar as reserve currency, ten years of propaganda and lies about terrorism and al Qaeda connections, an American “war on terror” that is destroying countless lives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and which has targeted Iran, and which has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution, and the civil liberties that they guarantee. And the piece of lying excrement, Rafid al-Janabi, is proud that he brought Saddam Hussein’s downfall at such enormous expense.
Now that Rafid al-Janabi is revealed in the Guardian interview, how safe is he? There are millions of Iraqis capable of exterminating him for their suffering, and tens of thousands of Americans whose lives have been ruined by Rafid al-Janabi’s lies.
Why does the U.S. government pursue Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for telling the truth when “Curveball,” whose lies wiped out huge numbers of people along with America’s reputation, thinks he can start a political party in Iraq? If the piece of excrement, Rafid al-Janabi, is not killed the minute he appears in Iraq, it will be a miracle.
So we are left to contemplate that a totally incompetent American government has bought enormous instability to its puppet states in the Middle East, because it desperately wanted to believe faulty “intelligence” from Germany that an immoralist provided evidence that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction.
And America is a superpower, an indispensable nation.
What a total joke!
Come to see what lies fabricated in USA did to Serbia.
Only then one will get a complete picture.
Well, I always opposed the war in Iraq. But of which country am I proud, then if I am to be ashamed of the US? Turkey killed 1 million christian Armenians for islam. Pakistan killed 3 million Hindus and other for its islam. Indonesia attempted to destroy the Hindu population of E timor. China killed tens of millions of its own and doesn’t even trust its people enough to free the internet. Any state in Africa running to aid of genocide after genocide from christian and muslim groups? France? England? Germany?
I am proud to be an American because what makes US is the idea the government comes from We the People, the idea that government respects the rights of individuals to press, speech, etc. The idea that government must transition peacefully for We the People to prosper. I am far less ashamed of having provided Iraq a chance to form itself into a democracy (Mr Sadr nor Alqaeda didn’t mind Hussein killing a few million people) than of the treatment of blacks and native americans within America. Humanity has much to be ashamed of. Most of it comes from mono-ideological constructs of a single god, a single prophet, a single book, a single truth as defining humanity. When we have no monotheistic religions or ideologies, we will have restored balance between man and the divine. But that solution is an eternal solution to an eternal problem.
In the mean time, we can together find ways to propagate the importance of human freedom (not as a shaming attempt but as a recognition that government can at best provide a substrate by which human freedom can grow in an individual – consider what the US did for Germany, Japan, South Korea, England, …). And of course, let us celebrate the hope and wishes of the rising masses against the tyranny of ancestral islamic and / or despotic control for more freedoms and human brotherhood.
The 21st century has spiraled into mayhem because international elites whose greed and ambition knows no bounds conspired to wreak havoc on the planet. Warfare for the sake of stealing resources and destroying economies, masked as religious or national disputes, were concocted as a whim and a ploy to conceal grave misdeeds by individuals and corporate entities, and these will continue to plunder the earth to profit the selfsame bloated ghouls until they are exposed and forced to make redress. The false terror of the decade can be traced to representatives of the violent, nihilistic cabal of deceitful sociopaths, orchestrated by media bigots with bullhorns, and as the blowback of their sham attacks incite the very hatred they claimed at the start, the defense strategies they promoted enrich these vicious lunatics even as their monstrous methods murder the planet itself.
Well said, Normajean! I have to question the author’s questions in the last two paragraphs, though. Why is he so focused on “Curveball’s” lies, when he also admits that Bush and Cheney knew all along they weren’t true? Why is Roberts saying the government was “incompetent”, when he’s also admitting they willfully manipulated congress and the American people (including Colin Powell) to justify an invasion that would primarily benefit the oil- and war-profiteers within, and behind, their own administration? Who is more to blame, the liar from Iraq, or the blatantly deceitful commander-in-chief who executed a bloody invasion and occupation based on a corrupt agenda of personal gain? And why do Bush and Cheney also continue to enjoy so much freedom, respect and celebrity in this country, despite their mass-murder for profit?
It is the Zionists that are behind all of America’s troubles. When Congress legislated the authority to print our sovereign currency to the private bankers with the Federal Reserve Act, the fate of America was sealed. From here forward, America will sink like a stone. Because of the US Constitution, America must fall for these wicked oligarchs to take total control.. A new world order with a single currency is just around the corner. The elite have an arsenal at their disposal, so resistance will only bring out he big guns. A false flag biological attack is my guess. No time to worry about tomorrow when staying alive just one more day will become the challenge.