To be honest, none of the presidential candidates are going to do anything to change Iraq and withdraw troops. We all know that John McCain will keep American troops in Iraq for as long as 100 years. Of course, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton offered plans of withdrawing troops from Iraq soon after taking office, but they're very vague about the details.
This war, started on the basis of lies, has cost the lives of more than one million Iraqi citizens, the deposing and murder of its president in a fixed trial (controlled by the U.S. government), and the deaths of well over 4,000 U.S. troops. Journalists have been killed, Bush even made sure the al Jazeera building was bombed. Violations of international law and the Geneva Conventions have been and still is committed by U.S. forces and personnel with impunity.
I hope the people of the world are learning what real American morals, values and principles really are. War, torture, dehumanization, debauchery, rape, policies that crush and grind the poor peoples of the world is true American values. It's all about corporate capital and damn the expense in human lives. Damn the men, women and children who are killed by paramilitary death squads, trained and equipped by the United States.
In addition, we don't hear a whisper about Afghanistan at all. We hear no more reports about U.S. troops being killed and every now and then, we may hear about Iraqis and Afghans being killed by a car bomb or deadly shootout. In other rare instances, we may hear a report of U.S. planes "accidentally" bombing Iraqi and Afghan citizens.
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad warned us many years ago that the white man is the devil by nature. Democracy, is simply the rule of the devil. The United States government tells the American people that Saddam Hussein had to be removed from power because he was a bad guy, after that lie about weapons of mass destruction did not pan out. Going into war, the Bush Idiocracy knew that there were no weapons of mass destruction there in the first place. These people came up with the al Qaida/Saddam connection to September 11, which the corporate media fed to the American public. We know that al Qaida is not even a real organization that is controlled by Osama bin Laden, it was made up by the Bush and his neocon war hawks.
The events of 9/11 was an inside job. No other nations took part or had their hand in it. This is all about wars for empire. You cannot fathom the depth of Satan. These people are wicked. You think they won't knock down their own buildings, with people inside them and place blame on a foreign country in justify attacking them? These are the same people that fabricated the Gulf of Tonkin lie as a means to bomb North Vietnam. Even before the Iraq invasion, which was an act of aggression, Bush and his cabal wanted to paint a U.S. spy plane in United Nations colors in an effort to provoke Saddam Hussein to fire upon it. Thereby, the U.S. would have their excuse for war via "material breach" by Saddam.
This is the same moron of a president who says that God tells him what nations to attack and he does it. Like that idiot really worships and pray. Please!
So two nations have been devastated by war and bloodshed and death on the basis of lies. This time, the wars are being brought to them by the good ol' U.S. of A. The white man has no regard for the rule of law nor do they respect the sovereignty of other nations where the people want to control their own resources and destiny. If these governments don't cater to America's corporate interests, their leaders are murdered or removed from power via coup d' etats. It happened in Chile, Guatamala, El Salvador, Iran, Peru, Paraguay, Haiti and even Jamaica.
The war on terror is bogus. And if there needs to be a war on terror, then the U.S. needs to start war with herself. It's no secret that the United States has a history of training, funding and equipping terrorists. Ferdinand Marcos of the Phillipines was bad, Suharto of Indonesia, Pinochet of Chile, the Shah of Iran, Papa and Baby Doc Duvalier of Haiti, and Castillo Armas of Guatamala were all cool with the U.S. Pervez Musharaff of Pakistan is another. The so-called beacon of democracy will remove a democratically elected leader and put in his/her place a brutal dictator.
Human rights violations from torture to imprisonment was all supported by the U.S. The current military junta in Burma is alright with the U.S. As long as corporations have access to the natural resources of other lands, it don't matter who the leader of any country is and how brutal they are towards their own populations. This is reality. America has a history of doing this and you can look to Afghanistan and Iraq as a reference.
Bush said in his state of the union address, back in 2006 I believe, that "freedom is on the march. . ." It's fascism that is on the march. What we're seeing is the Third Reich all over again. This time the imperial power is the United States. Hitler would be very proud.
Until next time, this is Aquil Aziz.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
The CIA Destroys Tapes...(What's New?)
Just this past weekend (Sunday Feb 3), I saw a scrolling headline on ESPN that U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter wants to meet with NFL Commissioner Roger Gooddell about the destruction of the "Spygate" tapes, in which the New England Patriots were caught cheating by video taping the signals of the New York Jets. I find this quite disturbing when the CIA, in it's commission of war crimes, destroyed evidence of torturing "alleged terror detainees." Al Qaida does not exist, it's an organization that was made up by the Bush Idiocracy after September 11, 2001. Until the torture victims faces turn white, there will be no outrage by the American people. But it's just a matter of time before that starts happening.
* The CIA Destroys Tapes...(What's New?) *
* {col. writ. 12/9/07} (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal **
As news agencies and politicians express shock and awe over the destruction by the CIA of videotapes recording the interrogations of suspected numbers of Al Qaeda, I can't help but be surprised - by the surprise.
We like to think (or pretend to think) that the CIA is merely an intelligence (or information gathering ) agency, which dutifully reports back to the government on events transpiring around the globe.
Instead, they are more like the Praetorian Guard of Rome, who did anything and everything they were told to do.
And I /do/ mean everything.
As noted by investigative journalist John Kelly, in his article, "Crimes and Silence: The CIA's Criminal Acts and the Media's Silence" [published in Kristina Borjesson's (ed.) Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of the Free Press. {Amherst, N. Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002} pp.311-322] the agency doesn't engage in occasional lapses of judgment, but commits thousands of crimes a year all over the earth. Kelly cited as his source the CIA itself, as it reported to the House Intelligence Committee.
A committee staff study on the CIA report found, " The CS (Clandestine Service of the CIA), is the only part of the IC (Intelligence Community), indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries around the world. "
The staff study went on to estimate that these actions occur "several hundred times every day," or several hundred thousand times a year (p.311)
What was the government's legislative response when such news saw the light in House Intelligence Committee documents?
The Senate Intelligence Committee proposed a mass immunization bill for CIA employees, that would make the commission of crime legal. Kelly wrote, "This is the Nazi rationale, plain and simple." On Dec. 27, 2000, then president Bill Clinton signed the bill into law, as the Intelligence Authorization Act.
Under the law, the CIA could violate international law and treaties, as long as they were following orders.
In the past, according to intrepid journalists, researchers and former CIA officials themselves, the agency has toppled governments, staged assassinations, supported terrorists who unleashed waves of violence against their people (they called them 'contras'), bombed people, undermined national economies and democracies, and a host of other crimes - because they were told to do so.
In this context, compare that they destroyed tapes - even tapes of torture! Why is this objectionable, yet all else that they do isn't even worthy of reporting?
That's because the major corporate media doesn't seriously question what the government does. We saw this when the government sold the People a bill of goods to start the Iraq war. At a time when the American people really needed their press, they were compliant, quiescent, and servile.
The US media hasn't yet come to terms with what the CIA either does, or actually is. They are Praetorian Guards, obeying the Emperor, whose word is law.
Why should we be surprised?
Weren't they 'chust followink Orders?'
--(c) '07 maj
* The CIA Destroys Tapes...(What's New?) *
* {col. writ. 12/9/07} (c) '07 Mumia Abu-Jamal **
As news agencies and politicians express shock and awe over the destruction by the CIA of videotapes recording the interrogations of suspected numbers of Al Qaeda, I can't help but be surprised - by the surprise.
We like to think (or pretend to think) that the CIA is merely an intelligence (or information gathering ) agency, which dutifully reports back to the government on events transpiring around the globe.
Instead, they are more like the Praetorian Guard of Rome, who did anything and everything they were told to do.
And I /do/ mean everything.
As noted by investigative journalist John Kelly, in his article, "Crimes and Silence: The CIA's Criminal Acts and the Media's Silence" [published in Kristina Borjesson's (ed.) Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of the Free Press. {Amherst, N. Y.: Prometheus Books, 2002} pp.311-322] the agency doesn't engage in occasional lapses of judgment, but commits thousands of crimes a year all over the earth. Kelly cited as his source the CIA itself, as it reported to the House Intelligence Committee.
A committee staff study on the CIA report found, " The CS (Clandestine Service of the CIA), is the only part of the IC (Intelligence Community), indeed of the government, where hundreds of employees on a daily basis are directed to break extremely serious laws in countries around the world. "
The staff study went on to estimate that these actions occur "several hundred times every day," or several hundred thousand times a year (p.311)
What was the government's legislative response when such news saw the light in House Intelligence Committee documents?
The Senate Intelligence Committee proposed a mass immunization bill for CIA employees, that would make the commission of crime legal. Kelly wrote, "This is the Nazi rationale, plain and simple." On Dec. 27, 2000, then president Bill Clinton signed the bill into law, as the Intelligence Authorization Act.
Under the law, the CIA could violate international law and treaties, as long as they were following orders.
In the past, according to intrepid journalists, researchers and former CIA officials themselves, the agency has toppled governments, staged assassinations, supported terrorists who unleashed waves of violence against their people (they called them 'contras'), bombed people, undermined national economies and democracies, and a host of other crimes - because they were told to do so.
In this context, compare that they destroyed tapes - even tapes of torture! Why is this objectionable, yet all else that they do isn't even worthy of reporting?
That's because the major corporate media doesn't seriously question what the government does. We saw this when the government sold the People a bill of goods to start the Iraq war. At a time when the American people really needed their press, they were compliant, quiescent, and servile.
The US media hasn't yet come to terms with what the CIA either does, or actually is. They are Praetorian Guards, obeying the Emperor, whose word is law.
Why should we be surprised?
Weren't they 'chust followink Orders?'
--(c) '07 maj
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