Cambodia: THE ILLEGAL BOMBING OF CAMBODIA. by Elizabeth Baker & William
Shawcross.
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia by William
Shawcross
Face of stan Henry Kissinger.Let us bury Henry Kissinger the evil destroyer of
the Khmer race.
May 9, 1969: Reporter breaks the news of secret bombing in Cambodia
May 9 ,1969
William Beecher, military correspondent for the New York Times, publishes a
front page dispatch from Washington, "Raids in Cambodia by U.S. Unprotested,"
which accurately described the first of the secret B-52 bombing raids in
Cambodia. Within hours, Henry Kissinger, presidential assistant for national
security affairs, contacted J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau
of Investigation, asking him to find the governmental sources of Beecher's
article. During the next two years, Alexander Haig, a key Kissinger assistant,
transmitted the names of National Security Council staff members and reporters
who were to have their telephones wiretapped by the FBI.
United States bombing of Cambodia -with no declaration of war for 14 months
United States official documents give a figure of 79,959 sorties by B-52 and
F-111 aircraft over the country, during which a total of 539,129 tons of
ordnance were dropped, about 350 percent of the tonnage (153,000 tons) dropped
on Japan during World War II.
Deaths from the bombing with UN and CIA estimates of 600,000 or more and
others 100,000. Whatever the real extent of the casualties, the Arclight
missions over Cambodia, which were halted in August 15, 1973, by the United
States Congress, delivered shattering blows to the structure of life in some of
the country's villages, and, according to some critics, drove the Cambodian
people into the arms of the Khmer Rouge.
The bombing was by far the most controversial aspect of the United States
presence in Cambodia.
In his book Sideshow, William Shawcross provides a vivid image of the hellish
conditions, especially in the months of January to August 1973, when the
Arclight sorties were most intense. He claims that the bombing contributed to
the forging of a brutal and single-mindedly fanatical Khmer Rouge movement.
Jul 16, 1973:
Senate begins investigations into secret bombing of Cambodia
July 16 ,1973
The Senate Armed Services Committee begins a probe into allegations that the
U.S. Air Force made thousands of secret B-52 raids into Cambodia in 1969 and
1970 at a time when the United States recognized the neutrality of the Prince
Norodom Sihanouk regime in Cambodia. The Pentagon acknowledged that President
Richard Nixon and Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird had authorized the raids
against Cambodia, but Sihanouk denied the State Department claim that he had
requested or authorized the bombing. Though it was established that the bombing
records had been falsified, Laird and Henry Kissinger, Nixon's National
Security Advisor, denied any knowledge of the falsification. The Senate
hearings eventually exposed the extent of the secrecy involved in the bombing
campaign and seriously damaged the credibility of the Nixon administration.
Within the next few months, the secret bombing of Cambodia would become far
more intense, and Colonel Sitton would be rewarded for his work with a
promotion to brigadier general; later he would become a lieutenant general, the
second-highest rank in the Air Force.
Sitton had been promoted for helping to institute a policy that would enable a
few men, operating without written instructions, to change the flight path and
bombing patterns of a Strategic Air Command bomber. In his view, he had been a
good officer, carrying out orders that he knew had come from the very top of
the government: "My job was picking the right target and putting the bombs
there. If the government chooses to bomb in secret, that's a political
decision."
Over a fourteen-month period, ending in April 1970, Nixon and Kissinger
authorized a total of 3,630 flights over Cambodia; by the Pentagon's count, the
planes dropped 110,000 tons of bombs.
Drone strikes have worsened diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Pakistan
1st Lt. Erik Evans controls an MQ-1B Predator for takeoff for a mission -
unmanned drones controlled in the U.S. have dealt huge damage on Pakistan's
borders
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377611/How-CIA-spies-deal-death-skies-Thousands-killed-U-S-unmanned-drones.html#ixzz1JwMIpyyN
Increased attacks: There was a rise in the number of drone strikes - and
resultant deaths - after President Barack Obama took office in January 2009
Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1377611/How-CIA-spies-deal-death-skies-Thousands-killed-U-S-unmanned-drones.html#ixzz1JwM9hQfx
Strike force: Predators that are remote-controlled from America have devastated
Pakistan's tribal border region
Subject: RE: Lesson 2 : parallel destructions Cambodia - Stocks : SOLUTION ?
WE HAVE ONE
Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2011 13:50:59 -0700
by STEPHEN L. BERNARD
Stocks tumbled Monday after Standard & Poor's cut its credit outlook on the
U.S. to negative, increasing the likelihood of a potential downgrade from its
triple-A rating. Paul Vigna, George Stahl, Kathleen Magigan and Jim McTague
discuss.NEW YORK—Ratings firm Standard & Poor's cut its outlook on U.S.
government debt to "negative" from "stable" for the first time in history,
citing ongoing concerns over the long-term fiscal health of the country.
S&P MOVES USA OUTLOOK TO NEGATIVE
LESSON 2: HOW TO RESTORE POSITIVE USA OUTLOOK WITH THE S & P ?
AMERICA & AMERICAN PEOPLE DON'T CRY ,WAKE UP & STAND UP
DO THIS .
A .ASK Gen. James Jones, THE PENTAGON, TO REDIRECT THE DRONE ATTACKS ON
1. THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK.
2. GOLDMAN SACH BANKS & NETWORK
3. J P MORGAN BANKS & NET WORK
B. ASK THE US CONGRESS TO DO THIS :
NULLIFY The Federal Reserve Act (ch. 6, 38 Stat. 251, enacted December 23,
1913, 12 U.S.C. ch.3) is the Act of Congress that created the Federal Reserve
System, the central banking system of the United States of America, and granted
it the legal authority to issue legal tender. The Act was signed into law by
President Woodrow Wilson.
C. CANCELLING THE US CITIZENSHIP OF HENRY KISSINGER AND GEORGE SOROS THE
TRAITORS TO AMERICA AND KICK THEM BACK TO WHERE THEY CAME FROM.
why ?
"During the 1930s and the 1940s, the ADL was generally filed by intelligence
groups under "KGB operation". Its activities in the United States were largely
confined to harassing, intimidating and defeating for public office anyone who
publicly criticized Communism."
When Nixon named Kissinger Secretary of State,As President Nixon's righthand
man in Washington, Henry Kissinger ran amuck. Not content with "cleaning out"
the State Department, that is, getting rid of the few oldtimers who still
grumbled about American tax support of the Soviet Union and Israel; he moved
on to build up the National Security Agency as the nation's primary
intelligence group, superseding the Central Intelligence Agency. He managed to
serve simultaneously as head of the State Dept. and the National Security
Agency, quickly building a circle of young protégés who have since dominated
the Washington scene;
DANGER ZONES: A Diplomat's Fight for America's Interests - Paperback (May 1,
2009) by John Gunther Dean
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