[toeslist] [PNEWS] WAR,PROPAGANDA: Special Ops 101
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Pakistan is on the American side because it has been bought with
a $2.5 billion IMF loan pushed through by the United States and
because sanctions against Pakistan for testing nuclear weapons from
three years ago has been dropped and obviously other promises were
also made to pay off the rulers of Pakistan.
"Vice President Taha Yassin Ramadan expresses Iraq's regret over
the Pakistani stance on the aggression being launched by the United
States and its ally Britain against Afghanistan." [Iraqi News
Agency]
The U.S. undoubtedly also gave some assurances to the military
dictatorship in Pakistan that it would protect it as a nuclear
power and support the current government against Islamic fundamentalists.
The U.S.
is using it's big stick and big carrot approach to hold the alliance
together.
Obviously much of what we find out about this war will trickle
through, if at all, much later than when they happen. Some things
will remain secret. On October 20th Twelve of our elite Delta
Force "commandos" were wounded by the Taliban and some seriously.
The chairman of JCS (Joint Chiefs of Staff) at first denied that
the raids into Afghanistan were met with heavy resistance, but
Seymour Hersh in the New Yorker magazine reported that the Delta
Force and the Pentagon was completely surprised by fierce firefighting
and very heavy resistance from the Taliban near Kandahar.
Seymour Hersh's source, an army officer close to the operation told
Hersh what really happened, that 12 U.S. commandos were wounded
and three of the soldiers were seriously wounded.
There is generally NO voluntary real flow of information anymore,
except for leaks like these. This isn't Vietnam. But, this is
supposedly a FREE society. Don't believe it. If not for the brave
officer who leaked this information to Seymore Hersh, we may never
have known the truth.
Information is regularly withheld or destroyed. As Michael Parenti
points out in "HISTORY AS MYSTERY" [1999], because of secrecy, and
coverups, there are serious "distorting the historical record at
the point of origin." He says, "Millions of U.S. government documents
have remained classified for fifty years or more. The War Department
records on the Abraham Lincoln assassination were kept secret for
sixy years, finaly placed in the public domain in the mid-1930s."
And, some records are still classified about the Lincoln Assassination
according to Theodore Roscoe who researched Army "secret" intelligence.
For those who want to read more about this, see Theodore Roscoe,
"THE WEB OF CONSPIRACY: The Complete Story of the Men who Murdered
Abraham Lincoln (Prentice-Hall, 1959,1960).
That question is, what do they want to keep secret and why? Why
after all those years? Was the assassination a government plot?
What possible question of national security exists now which could
justify redaction of some materials or complete maintaining the
secrecy of those documents?
Why are other documents classified and the truth withheld?
It was a complete shock to the America's "secret government" when
the "PENTAGON PAPERS" was published. That blew the lid on the
secrecy behind the coverups which cost over a million Vietamese
lives and 58,000 American lives. The stench from Washington is
still with them and many of us who remember it well were so changed
by Danial Ellsberg's disclosures and his risking his life to blow
the lid on the lies behind that war, yet there are still those who
refuse to believe the facts. I don't want to get into discussing
the Vietnam war here, but if anyone cares to, see the Vietnam
Message Board at: http://pnews.org/boards/vietnam/ or contact
Professor Grover Furr, who is a regular participant here in PNEWS-L
and has done extensive research on the Vietnam (undeclared) War.
There are many questions of our legitimacy in that war just as
there is in the Afghanistan war where we were the primary movers
and shakers behind the defeat of the Soviets with our support of
these fundamentalist Muslims.
We supplied and taught Osama bin Laden's "holy warriors" how to do
tricks with secret ghost companies and hide money and how to code
messages to communicate with his agents, which were in turn our
agents by proxy. They learned this terrorism trade from the CIA.
I'd like to see the secret classified docs for that operation,
which was the largest covert action program since WWII (Washington
Post, 7/19/92). Our "Freedom Fighters"
have now become our "terrorists." Or are they? Why did (if true)
the CIA recently meet with Osama bin Laden at the American Hospital
in Dubai as reported in Le Figero (a newspaper which is also owned
by the Carlyle Group, which the bin Laden family was invested and
so is king George's father, George Bush, Sr.)
Michael Parenti says about all this secrecy: "Suppressing documents
is a major industry of the national security state. In 1995, the
Department of Defense, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and
the Justice and State Departments performed some 3.6 million
classification acts. In 1996, the number climbed to more than 5.8
million, or about 21,500 classifications every workday of the year."
[See Information Security Oversight Office, Report to the President,
- 95 and 96) per Executive Order 12829, "National Industrial Security
Program) [IBID]
If a society is free and open there is no need to keep so much from
public view unless there is also a secret government which needs
to keep those things secret in order to do secret things which the
public would not approve of it doing. Parenti says this is "thwarting
democratic accountability."
And, even under the Freedom of Information Act, when we are able
to get documents declassified and released for public view so much
of them are redacted that many do not make any sense. There is much
they do not want us to know, like how we support genocide and
Parenti mentions the case of the Mayans "during the thirty-six-year
war against the poor in Guatemala.
The declassified documents revealed how the United States government
gave money and training to the Guatamalan military, and along with
U.S. private companies `exercised pressure to maintain the country's
archaic and unjust socio-economic structure.'"
"The Freedom of Information Act [FOI] `allows the [CIA] to be
exceedingly stingy in responding to request from historians,
journalists and citizens for documents.' [David Corn, "SECRETS FROM
THE CIA ARCHIVES," The Nation - November 29, 1993] Confronted with
an FOIA lawsuit regarding its role in the 1954 coup in Guatemala,
the CIA released barely 1,400 of 180,000 relevant pages, nearly
half a century of events. The agency reportedly destroyed most of
its files on other covert action int he 1950s and the 1960s,
including all records related to its role in the overthrow of
reformist prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh of Irawn in 1953.
[Stephen Schlesinger, "THE CIA CENSORS HISTORY, The Nation, July
14, 1997;
and Eric Alterman, "THE CIA'S FIFTY CANDLES, The Nation, Oct 6,
1997]
Michael Parenti writes in "HISTORY AS MYSTERY", "Throughout its
history, the agency [CIA] has resorted to every conceivable crime
and machination to make the world safe for the Fortune 500, using
false propaganda, economic warfare, bribery, rigged elections,
sabotage, demolition, theft, collusion with organized crime,
narcotics trafficking, death squads, terror bombings, torture,
massacres, and wars of attrition."
And, George Bush Senior, before he was the president was the head
of the CIA.
The official line about the Delta Force raid on Afghanistan from
Air Force Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
as told to reporters only hours after the Special Operations forces
left Afghanistan in October was that the raid was a success. There
was no mention of the 12 who were wounded, including the four who
were seriously wounded. However Myers did say:
"There were casualties on the other side," said Myers, who added
that there was only "light resistance" from Afghanistan's ruling
Taliban military to the raids. [Reuters]
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between liberalism in domestic policy and humaneness in foreign
policy. Some of our most grotesquely immoral deeds have been
committed by `liberals.' [Howard Zinn - Vietnam, a Moral Perspective]
He goes on to say, it is not that there was not a lot wrong with
other countries, it is just that "American policy-makers acted as
if there was not much that was wrong with the United States." [IBID]
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