The Lie of the Century
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 student thesis paper that was 12 years
old!
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 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 photos 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
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 families 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 § 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"
