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The Moment of Lies Has Arrived
By Hwaa Irfan
Staff Writer – IslamOnline
There
is an African saying that you can only lie 99 times… but
the hundredth? Well it was “the moment of truth”
according to Colin Powell in his speech on the dawn of the
declared war on Iraq (March 17). Much can be said about
history repeating itself; however, when one goes through
historical speeches over the decades, one wonders how much
of history is but a point of reference. To give reality to
the idea of this war, at the last hour everything has been
cast to the wind until one reaches the point of being
convinced that maybe the front-man to the façade —
President Bush — is actually speaking the truth.
To
give credence and further confusion (just in case one has
settled one’s mind that it is all about Saddam Hussein,
Muslims, the
Middle East
or even oil) many things have let loose. Besides mysterious
viruses breaking-out in different countries we have:
Serbia
in a state of emergency after the assassination of one of
the top leaders who toppled Slobodan Milosevic (Zimonjic
p.1).
The
US
scaremongering in
East Africa
( a strategic
US
military post) about ‘possible’ new terrorist threats
that more probably are to do with US security services (IOL
p.1).
A
declaration that Usama bin Laden is still alive and kicking,
according to US and Pakistani sources (Guardian p. 1-3).
The
above might seem as if they have nothing in common and are
unimportant, but they add to the required myth necessary to
support the “war-on-terrorism” to distract voters away
from the US-led terrorist war. However, it has not
distracted enough people. Even as Colin Powell spoke, the
doubters went further to bring to light the forged Iraqi
documents – the documents that are supposed to provide
evidence for
Iraq
’s weapons of mass destruction (http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993485).
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These
are the same documents that only the select governments had
privy to and that were handed to the Director General
of the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Mohammed
el-Baradei. The fact alone that IAEA was given the
documents, when previously only a few select governments had
seen them, is suspect; but it is no problem because “It
was the information that we had. We provided it. If that
information is inaccurate, fine,” said Colin Powell to
NBC. Fine indeed, one supposes it is one way to try and save
face.
The
documents were based on a series of communications between
“Iraqi agents” and officials in
Niger
,
Central Africa
.
Niger
is the third largest producer of uranium. One of the
documents apparently was a uranium deal signed by
Niger
’s President Tandja Mamadou. Does the signature bear any
resemblance? Another document was from the 1980s, but for
evidence needed to prove
Iraq
’s deception on weapons of mass destruction, the same
document was dated October 2000. The signature belonged to a
Niger
foreign minister who has not been foreign minister for 14
years! (Ensor p. 1). In fact, Mohammed el-Baradei found no
evidence of banned weapons or nuclear material using
advanced radiation detectors across
Iraq
and reported as much to the Security Council.
The
leak to IAEA came from a 25-member group of former CIA
analysts and agents who call themselves the Veteran
Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). One could
probably think of a better name for their group, but maybe
after working for the CIA the name is a description of the
effect of working for the CIA. After 27 years of service,
former CIA agent Ray McGovern comments on the documents,
“It’s been cooked to a recipe, and the recipe is high
policy.” He went on to say, “It goes against the whole
ethic of secrecy and going through channels, and going to
the (inspector general). It takes a courageous person to get
by all that, and say, ‘I’ve got a higher duty.’” And
so it is, and so it will always be left for those who feel a
higher sense of responsibility to truth and justice (AP
p.1).
The
Washington Post investigation followed the trail of the
documents back to the intelligence agency of an “unnamed
country” other than the
US
and
Britain
(Shafer p.1). The documents were given to the gullible
British government (who, by the way, are running out of
gas), who did not even look to see that the stated names and
titles did not match with those who were in office in the
Niger
government at the time (Warrick p.2). Senator Jay
Rockefeller (of the Rockefeller empire (http://www.rense.com/general5/scheme.htm)
claimed in a letter to FBI Director Robert Mueller that the
US government had a hand in the creation of these documents,
as the FBI is set to task (publicly anyway) to investigate
the forgeries. Of course, this was refuted by Colin Powell
at a House Appropriations Subcommittee hearing early this
month (AP #2 p.1, 2).
There
are 16 other countries that have nuclear weapons, 25
countries may have chemical weapons, 19 other countries may
have biological weapons, 16 other countries may have missile
systems. So the biggest producer and inventor of all these
weapons, if desperate, should go and pick a fight elsewhere
and eliminate its false concern for democracy. “No” is a
misunderstood word for a power with a false sense of
security. “No” is what Saddam Hussein said to the
largest US and
UK
oil multinationals. “No” is what the world should be
saying not only to this war, but to the other methods of
domination (trade for example) sought by the
US
and its supporters.
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