April 23, 2007
"We
know where [the weapons of mass destruction] are. They’re
in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."
Donald
Rumsfeld, (March 30, 2003)
"The intelligence and facts were being fixed
around the policy [to invade Iraq]."
Downing
Street Memo (July 2002)
"Next
the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is
attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities,
and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them;
and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will
thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque
self-deception."
Mark Twain. The Mysterious Stranger 1916
Now Karl Rove, Bush's political brain, says that the Iraq War
was "Osama bin Laden’s Idea." —This is crazy.
The fact is that
the world was ready to accept a case for destroying and eradicating the
terrorist-training camps located in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, after 9/11.
That is the reason the United Nations Security Council passed two resolutions
to that effect in the fall of 2001 and in early 2002. These were Resolution 1373, adopted
on September 28, 2001, and Resolution 1390,
passed on January 16, 2002.
But the case for going to war against Iraq is entirely
different: It was a fabrication from
day one. That is the reason the United Nations Security Council refused to pass
a resolution authorizing it, in January 2003. The Bush-Cheney regime nevertheless
went ahead with this illegal war and will carry the historical opprobrium for
having done so. It took the low moral road, thus reducing the moral stance of
western civilization in the world and doing irreparable damage to international
law and order. It has also brought discredit on the very institution of representative government and on democracy in
general. This is a scandal of high proportions, above and beyond all the crimes
being carried out on the ground in Iraq.
The British ambassador to
Australia and former British
cabinet minister Helen Liddell
recently rendered a service to many when she stated the obvious, i.e. that the
Bush-Cheney war of aggression against Iraq had little to do with a war against
terrorism. The Bush-Cheney regime is marketing any imperialistic and
colonialist adventure around the world as an "anti-terrorist"
mission and a push for democracy. —This is a lie. It is a propaganda
trick to silence critics and chloroform the American public. All these wars of
aggression are illegal attempts by the United States and its willing co-conspirators
to dominate militarily the strategic oil-rich Middle East and Caspian region in
order to displace Russia, China and even Western Europe from this region of the
world. It has nothing to do with fighting Islamist terrorism. In fact, it feeds
and exacerbates terrorism. Iraq has become a "university of terror".
Therefore, the historical reality remains that the
Bush-Cheney regime disregarded truth and international law in order to justify
taking military control of oil-rich Iraq, without provocation, even though it
knew perfectly well that this country had no ties to the 9/11 attacks nor to
bin Laden's terrorist organization, and that it had no weapons of mass
destruction. In the process, however, this Karl Rove-inspired Republican regime
took partisan advantage of the anger present in America after 9/11 to run two elections, in 2002 and in 2004,
on the theme of national security and on a platform of war hysteria, thus
profiting immensely politically from this propaganda scam.
Now that hundreds of people die
daily in occupied Iraq, that they have triggered a religious and sectarian civil war,
and that a majority of Americans have seen through their lies and
machinations, the architects of this disaster are trying to shift blame and
find new excuses. But to no avail. The truth is now too powerful to be
extinguished by crude propaganda tricks and by lies.
For a while, however, the campaign of disinformation and
propaganda worked remarkably well. For example,
immediately after the events of 9/11, only three percent (3%) of Americans made
a link between the terrorist attacks and Iraq; by February 2003, weeks before
the March 20, 2003 onset of the Iraq War, a whopping seventy-two percent (72%)
of Americans had been persuaded by the Bush-Cheney regime and their sycophants
in the media that the president of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, had been personally
involved in the 9/11 attacks. Political analysts will study this propaganda
coup for decades to come.
Even the Democrats in Congress—goaded
by the pro-Israel Lobby—were
suicidally content to go along with the Bush-Cheney's scam until the 2006
elections. They now adopt the majority view that there is no military solution
in Iraq, that to believe so will only lead to bad policies and make matters
worse, and that a promise to withdraw all American troops from this country is
a prerequisite to reintroduce some stability in this ravaged country.
But how many thousands more deaths must occur before
sanity prevails?
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Rodrigue
Tremblay lives in Montreal and can be reached at rodrigue.tremblay@yahoo.com
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