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THE LIE OF THE CENTURY !!!!THE LIE OF THE CENTURY
Original message from Md Nor Othman received on 16.06.2005 09:17:03:
THE LIE OF THE CENTURY
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"All war is based on deception." -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War
There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a
war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific
death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to
their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only
possible choice they can make.
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President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had
been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by
this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The
Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin
explosion, investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the
case. There had been no mine.
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Hitler used this principle of lying to his own people to initiate
an invasion. He told the people of Germany that Poland had attacked first. The
Germans, convinced they were being threatened, followed Hitler into Poland and
into World War 2.
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FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. It wasn't. The
United States saw war with Japan as the means to get into war with Germany,
which Americans opposed. So Roosevelt needed Japan to appear to strike first.
Following an 8-step plan devised by the Office of Naval Intelligence, Roosevelt
intentionally provoked Japan into the attack. Contrary to the official story,
the fleet did not maintain radio silence, but sent messages intercepted and
decoded by US intercept stations. Tricked by the lie of a surprise attack,
Americans marched off to war.
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President Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin to send Americans
off to fight in Vietnam. There were no torpedoes in the water in the Gulf. LBJ
took advantage of an inexperienced sonar man's report to goad Congress into
escalating the Vietnam
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It is inescapable historical reality that leaders of nations will lie to
their people to trick them into wars they otherwise would have refused. It is
not "conspiracy theory" to suggest that leaders of nations lie to trick their
people into wars. It is undeniable fact.
This brings us to the present case.
Did the government of the United States lie to the American people, more
to the point, did President Bush and his Neocon associates lie to Congress, to
initiate a war of conquest in Iraq?
This question has been given currency by a memo leaked from inside the
British Government which clearly indicates a decision to go to war followed by
the "fixing" of information around that policy. This is, as they say, a smoking
gun.
But the fact is that long before this memo surfaced, it had become
obvious that the US Government, aided by that of Great Britain, was lying to
create the public support for a war in Iraq.
First off is Tony Blair's "Dodgy Dossier", a document released by the
Prime Minister that made many of the claims used to support the push for war.
The dossier soon collapsed when it was revealed that much of it had been
plagiarized from a 12-year old student thesis paper!
The contents of the dossier, however much they seemed to create a good
case for invasion, were obsolete and outdated.
This use of material that could not possibly be relevant at the time is
clear proof of a deliberate attempt to deceive.
Then there was the claim about the "Mobile biological weapons
laboratories". Proffered in the absence of any real laboratories in the wake of
the invasion, photos of these trailers were shown on all the US Mainstream
Media, with the claim they while seeming to lack anything suggesting biological
processing, these were part of a much larger assembly of multiple trailers that
churned out biological weapons of mass destruction.
The chief proponent of this hoax was Colin Powell, who presented
illustrations such as this one to the United Nations on February 5th, 2003.
This claim fell apart when it was revealed that these trailers were
nothing more than hydrogen gas generators used to inflate weather balloons.
This fact was already known to both the US and UK, as a British company
manufactured the units and sold them to Iraq.
Colin Powell's speech to the UN was itself one misstatement after
another. Powell claimed that Iraq had purchased special aluminum tubes whose
only possible use was in uranium enrichment centrifuges. Both CIA and Powell's
own State Department confirmed that the tubes were parts for missiles Saddam
was legally allowed to have. Following the invasion, no centrifuges, aluminum
or otherwise were found.
Powell also claimed to the United Nations that the photo at left
showed "Decontamination Vehicles". But when United Nations inspectors visited
the site after the invasion, they located the vehicles and discovered they were
just firefighting equipment.
Powell claimed the Iraqis had illegal rockets and launchers hidden in the
palm trees of Western Iraq. None were ever found.
Powell claimed that the Iraqis had 8,500 liters (2245 gallons) of
Anthrax. None was ever found.
Powell claimed that Iraq had four tons of VX nerve gas. The UN had
already confirmed that it was destroyed. The only VX ever found were samples
the US had left as "standards" for testing. When the UN suspected that the US
samples had been used to contaminate Iraqi warheads, the US moved quickly to
destroy the samples before comparison tests could be carried out.
Powell claimed that Iraq was building long-range remote drones
specifically designed to carry biological weapons. The only drones found were
short-range reconnaissance drones.
Powell claimed that Iraq had an aggregate of between 100 and 500 tons of
chemical and biological warfare agents. Powell gave no basis for that claim at
all, and a DIA report issued the same time directly contradicted the claim. No
biological or chemical weapons were found in Iraq following the invasion.
Powell claimed that "unnamed sources" confirmed that Saddam had
authorized his field commanders to use biological weapons. No such weapons were
ever used by the Iraqis to defend against the invasion and, of course, none
were ever found in Iraq.
Powell claimed that 122mm warheads found by the UN inspectors were
chemical weapons. The warheads were empty, and showed no signs of ever having
contained chemical weapons.
Powell claimed that Iraq had a secret force of illegal long-range Scud
missiles. None were ever found.
Powell claimed to have an audio tape proving that Saddam was supporting
Osama Bin Laden. But independent translation of the tape revealed Osama's wish
for Saddam's death.
Colin Powell's UN debacle also included spy photos taken from high
flying aircraft and spacecraft. On the photos were circles and arrows and
labels pointing to various fuzzy white blobs and identifying them as
laboratories and storage areas for Saddam's massive weapons of mass destruction
program. Nothing in the photos actually suggested what the blobby shapes were
and inspections which followed the invasion, all of them turned out to be
rather benign. In at least one case, the satellite Powell claimed had taken one
of the pictures had actually been out of operation at the time. And many
questioned why Powell was showing black and white photos when the satellites in
use at the time over Iraq took color images.
Another piece of evidence consists of documents which President Bush
referenced as in his 2003 State of the Union Speech. According to Bush, these
documents proved that Iraq was buying tons of uranium oxide, called "Yellow
Cake" from Niger. Since Israel had bombed Iraq's nuclear power plant years
before, it was claimed that the only reason Saddam would have for buying
uranium oxide was to build bombs.
This hoax fell apart fast when it was pointed out that Iraq has a great
deal of uranium ore inside their own borders and no need to import any from
Niger or anywhere else. The I.A.E.A. then blew the cover off the fraud by
announcing that the documents Bush had used were not only forgeries, but too
obvious to believe that anyone in the Bush administration did not know they
were forgeries!
In the end, the real proof that we were lied to about Iraq's weapons of
mass destruction is that no weapons of mass destruction were ever found. That
means that every single piece of paper that purported to prove that Iraq had
weapons of mass destruction was by default a fraud, a hoax, and a lie. There
could be no evidence that supported the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction because Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. In a way,
the existence of any faked documents about Iraq's WMDs is actually an admission
of guilt. If one is taking the time to create fake documents, the implication
is that the faker is already aware that there are no genuine documents.
What the US Government had, ALL that they had, were copied student
papers, forged "Yellow Cake" documents, balloon inflators posing as bioweapons
labs, and photos with misleading labels on them. And somewhere along the line,
someone decided to put those misleading labels on those photos, to pretend that
balloon inflators are portable bioweapons labs, and to pass off 12-year old
stolen student papers as contemporary analysis.
And THAT shows an intention to deceive.
Lawyers call this "Mens Rea", which means "Guilty Mind". TV lawyer shows
call it "Malice aforethought". This means that not only did the Bush
Administration lie to the people and to the US Congress, but knew they were
doing something illegal at the time that they did it.
All the talk about "Intelligence failure" is just another lie. There was
no failure. Indeed the Army agents who erroneously claimed that missile tubes
were parts for a uranium centrifuge received bonuses, while the Pentagon
smeared Hans Blix, and John Bolton orchestrated the firing of Jose Bustani, the
director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, because
Bustani was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad.
The President of the United States and his Neocon associates lied to the
people of the United States to send them off on a war of conquest.
Defenders of the government will point to the cases listed at the top of
the page as proof that lying to the people is a normal part of the leader's job
and we should all get used to it. And because "Everybody does it" that we
should not single out the present administration. But this is madness. We do
not catch all the murderers, yet when we catch a murderer, we deal with them as
harshly as possible, in order to deter more murderers.
Right now, we have the criminals at hand. and, while other leaders in
history have lied to start wars, for the first time in history, the lie stands
exposed while the war started with the lies still rages on, to the death and
detriment of our young men and women in uniform. We cannot in good moral
conscience ignore this lie, this crime, lest we encourage future leaders to
continue to lie to use to send our kids off to pointless wars. Lying to start a
war is more than an impeachable offence; it the highest possible crime a
government can commit against their own people. Lying to start a war is not
only misappropriation of the nation's military and the nation's money under
false pretenses, but it is outright murder committed on a massive scale. Lying
to start a war is a betrayal of the trust each and every person who serves in
the military places in their civilian leadership. By lying to start a war, the
Bush administration has told the military fatalities and their fami
lies that they have no right to know why they were sent to their deaths. It's
none of their business.
Our nation is founded on the principle of rule with the consent of the
governed. Because We The People do not consent to be lied to, a government that
lies rules without the consent of the governed, and ruling without the consent
of the governed is slavery.
You should be more than angry. You should be in a rage. You should be in
a rage no less than that of the families of those young men and women who have
been killed and maimed in this war started with a lie.You need to be in a rage
and you need to act on that rage because even as I type these words, the same
government that lied about Iraq's nuclear weapons is telling the exact same
lies about Iran's nuclear capabilities. The writing is on the wall; having
gotten away with lying to start the war in Iraq, the US Government will lie to
start a war in Iran, and after that another, and after that another, and
another and another and another because as long as you remain silent, and as
long as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.
As long as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.
None.
It is time to fire the liars.
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is
for good men to do nothing" .
--Edmund Burke
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U.S.C. TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 47 ยง 1001.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, WHOEVER, in any matter
within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of
the Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully-
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by ANY trick, scheme, or device a
material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or
representation; or
(3) makes or USES any false writing or document knowing the same to
contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.
(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a party to a judicial proceeding, or
that party's counsel, for statements, representations, writings or documents
submitted by such party or counsel to a judge or magistrate in that proceeding.
(c) With respect to any matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative
branch, subsection (a) shall apply only to-
(1) administrative matters, including a claim for payment, a matter
related to the procurement of property or services, personnel or employment
practices, or support services, or a document required by law, rule, or
regulation to be submitted to the Congress or any office or officer within the
legislative branch; or
(2) any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of
any committee, subcommittee, commission or office of the Congress, consistent
with applicable rules of the House or Senate.
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SO HERE IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO
The Bush administration and their friends in the media want this story to
go away. More than want it to go away, they are in a panic, and will do
everything they can to stop it. They will use every dirty trick, every paid
shill, every presstitute that they can. Already there is a report that the
Michael Jackson jury is "expected" to reach a verdict just before the Conyers
hearings.
So, I want YOU to copy this article off, post it everywhere. This article
is placed in the public domain. Mail it to your friends. Then send it to your
local media and your Congresscritters and have everyone you know do the same.
Get on the phones. Flood their offices.
The term is "Viral Marketing" where you get the people who need a product
to market it for you. Well, this nation NEEDS this "product". It needs to know
that this war was started with lies. INTENTIONAL lies. And they need to know
there is something they can do about it, and that is to start pounding on the
doors of power.
Because when a flood of such messages reaches the Congress and the media,
what they will hear is that there is no more time. Either they will deal with
these lies and the liars, in full, or they will lose all credibility as a
government and as media.
A government that lies to the people cannot be the legal government of
this land. Make sure that they understand that YOU understand that the
Constitution does not allow the government to lie to the people. Calling
themselves the government does not make it so if they act unconstitutionally
and illegally. The Constitution is the original "Contract with America" and a
government that lies stands in clear breach of that contract.
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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is
their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new
Guards for their future security.
-- "The Declaration of Independence"
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