Vijay Prashad
Do you remember Richard Armitage? He is best known for telling Robert
Novak that Valerie Plame was a CIA agent. This was part of his overall
effort to hobble opposition to Bush’s invasion of Iraq. Plame’s husband
was Joseph Wilson, a diplomat who insisted that Saddam Hussein was not
trying to import uranium from Niger to make a WMD.
Armitage was always looking for ways to build support for the “war on
terror”, even from countries with no apparent interest in Bush’s war.
China was one of those countries. As a keen deal-maker who might be
described as a bargain basement version of Henry Kissinger, Armitage
calculated that China might give its benediction to Bush’s filthy war
even if it kept its troops out. There was a perfect bargaining chip. The
USA would henceforth endorse the forced assimilation of Uyghurs on the
basis that they were allied with al-Qaeda in exchange for China’s
backhanded support for the destruction of Iraq. Did it matter that this
was as big a lie as the Niger-Iraq connection?
full:
https://louisproyect.org/2021/05/04/what-richard-armitage-and-vijay-prashad-have-in-common/
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