The Logic of Kissinger's Mass-Murder Campaign (Greenwald)
Mort Zuckerman
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Subject: The Logic of Kissinger's Mass-Murder Campaign (Greenwald)
Date: Aug 26, 2010 5:49 AM
ARTICLE BELOW
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*Heiney* *Said*:
On 911 at about 11:30 in the AM,
Heiney called CNN from Europe and his
phone call was played on CNN. His
statement was that "whoever is not
with us is against us," and that
"countries that even *harbor* terrorists
will be the subjects of our [bombings]" or
terror, or more correctly, Rain of Terror
from drones.
In 2007 or so in an interview with
Charley Rose he said, "At some point
the people of the Middle East are
going to grow tired of waking up to
uncertainty and [Accept the New World
Order/Bend to the Will of the Perverted
West]:"
http://www.actionlyme.org/KISSINGER_TERROR.htm
So, the purpose of our oil wars and
Rain of Terror - the objective, the goal
of our AmerIsraeli 911-Stunt-and-Terror -
is to convince people in the Middle East
to bend to our AmerIsraeli will:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bKwH3kJew4
Start at ^^^ 4 minutes if you are impatient.
The financial collapse was also part of
the plan. It was meant to assure that
Americans thrown out into the street would
also take the bait. Or join Team America
and drop cluster bombs on oil and mineral
rich lands and peoples...
Do not expect that any of these global
shenanigans actually mean anything. It's
certainly not about Iran or Muslims or threats
or "security" other than for the Trilateral
Gang, the Banksters, the CEOs.
We all know that the Global Bankster-Military-
Industrial Complex must have a target. 'Best
that it's one that has the oil we need to run
the craft that deliver the bombs and sell the
bomb sites and the "security" services.
The gig is totally transparent.
It is as transparent as WTC7 going down
on 911 at the acceleration due to gravity.
Pundits everywhere refuse to mention
the physics of the 911 stunt. Yet that's
the one thing that allows anyone to make
any sense of the, um, performances of the
last 9 years.
http://www.actionlyme.org
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http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/08/25/yemen/index.html
Glenn Greenwald
Wednesday, Aug 25, 2010 09:26 ET
An exciting new Muslim country to drone attack
By Glenn Greenwald
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(updated below - Update II)
Could Barack Obama become the first person in history to win the Nobel
Peace Prize two consecutive years? It is hard to dispute the premise
that awarding him the Prize this year would be every bit as
justifiable as last year's award. Fresh off his Nobel-winning
escalation of the war in Afghanistan, we now have this monument to
world peace:
Amnesty International, June 7, 2010:
Amnesty International has released images of a US-manufactured
cruise missile that carried cluster munitions, apparently taken
following an attack on an alleged al-Qa’ida training camp in Yemen
that killed 41 local residents, including 14 women and 21 children.
The 17 December 2009 attack on the community of al-Ma'jalah in the
Abyan area in the south of Yemen killed 55 people including 14 alleged
members of al-Qa’ida.
VOA News, July 30, 2010:
The Convention on Cluster Munitions goes into force Sunday, August
1, with 107 signatories agreeing to ban the use of cluster
munitions . . . . Cluster bombs are damaging because they contain
hundreds of smaller explosives, or submunitions, that detonate across
a wide area. The submunitions that fail to explode on impact can then
act as landmines, posing a threat to civilian populations long after a
conflict is over.
U.S. President Barack Obama has signed a law banning the export of
cluster munitions that do not meet a certain standard. But the United
States has not signed the cluster bomb ban. China, Israel, India and
Pakistan are among other countries that have not agreed to the treaty.
Neither Georgia nor Russia has signed the treaty.
The Washington Post, today:
For the first time since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, CIA analysts
see one of al-Qaeda's offshoots -- rather than the core group now
based in Pakistan -- as the most urgent threat to U.S. security,
officials said.
The sober new assessment of al-Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen has
helped prompt senior Obama administration officials to call for an
escalation of U.S. operations there -- including a proposal to add
armed CIA drones to a clandestine campaign of U.S. military strikes,
the officials said.
"We are looking to draw on all of the capabilities at our
disposal," said a senior Obama administration official, who described
plans for "a ramp-up over a period of months" . . . .
The CIA has roughly 10 times more people and resources in Pakistan
than it does in Yemen. There is no plan to scale back in Pakistan, but
officials said the gap is expected to shrink.
Wall St. Journal, today:
U.S. officials believe al Qaeda in Yemen is now collaborating more
closely with allies in Pakistan and Somalia to plot attacks against
the U.S., spurring the prospect that the administration will mount a
more intense targeted killing program in Yemen.
Such a move would give the Central Intelligence Agency a far
larger role in what has until now been mainly a secret U.S. military
campaign against militant targets in Yemen and across the Horn of
Africa. It would likely be modeled after the CIA's covert drone
campaign in Pakistan. . . . Authorizing covert CIA operations would
further consolidate control of future strikes in the hands of the
White House, which has enthusiastically embraced the agency's covert
drone program in Pakistan's tribal areas.
Reuters, yesterday:
Missiles fired from a U.S. pilotless drone aircraft killed 13
militants [sic] and 7 civilians in Pakistan's North Waziristan on
Monday, Pakistani intelligence officials said. . . . Four women and
three children were among the dead, said the officials.
Al Jazeera, today:
Yemen's government has sacrificed human rights to preserve
security in its battle against Shia rebels in the north and al-Qaeda
fighters in the south, a new report by Amnesty International has
alleged.
Yemen's catalogue of human-rights abuses over the past two years
includes unlawful killings, arbitrary arrest, torture, unfair trials
and enforced disappearances, Amnesty said.
The report, "Yemen: Cracking Down Under Pressure," says that
Yemeni authorities have bowed to pressure from the United States and
Saudi Arabia to deal harshly with the twin threats of Yemen's local al-
Qaeda branch - al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) - and the
Houthi rebels in the north.
What's going on here seems fairly obvious. The absurdity of
escalating a war in Afghanistan by pointing to The Scary Al Qaeda
Menace -- when there is virtually no Al Qaeda presence in that country
-- is becoming increasingly apparent. Just yesterday, a Washington
Post article documented -- using the WikiLeaks war documents (which,
remember, told us absolutely nothing worth knowing) -- that Al Qaeda
is virtually non-existent in the war in Afghanistan. So now,
administration officials -- hiding behind the anonymity which these
media outlets naturally provided -- fanned out to announce a new,
Growing, Scary Al Qaeda Threat in Yemen, which, they boast, now needs
its own escalated bombing attacks and CIA operations. The goal is
that the War never ends; the only variable is where it happens to
increase on any given day.
The illogic and propaganda driving this is so familiar because it's
what has been driving the American National Security State for the
last decade. There is anti-Americanism and radicalism in Yemen;
therefore, to solve that problem, we're going to bomb them more with
flying killer robots, because nothing helps reduce anti-American
sentiments like slaughtering civilians and dropping cluster bombs from
the sky. Who could have watched the last decade and have doubts about
that brilliant strategic insight? As Yemen expert Gregory Johnson
told The Christian Science Monitor in June, after reports of the use
of American cluster bombs:
It is incredibly dangerous what the US is trying to do in Yemen at
the moment because it really fits into AQAP’s broader strategy, in
which it says Yemen is not different from Iraq and Afghanistan. They
are able to make the argument that Yemen is a legitimate front for
jihad. They’ve been making that argument since 2007, but incidents
like this are all sort of fodder for their argument.
Just imagine how helpful a new, escalated drone campaign in Yemen will
be -- on top of the U.S.-backed abuses from their own government --
for helping extremists in that country make the argument that Yemen is
a new front in the American crusade against Muslims, similar to what
is happening in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. Of course none of
this is new. A Rumsfeld-commissioned report from all the way back in
2004 identified the "underlying sources of threats to America's
national security" and emphasized among the leading threats the
"negative attitudes" towards the U.S. in the Muslim world and "the
conditions that create them." That report specifically explained:
American direct intervention in the Muslim world has paradoxically
elevated the stature of and support for radical Islamists, while
diminishing support for the United States to single-digits in some
Arab states. Muslims "do not hate our freedom," but rather, they
hate our policies.
Personally, I wouldn't call that a "paradox": nothing is easier to
understand than why American bombings in the Muslim world increase
anti-American hatred and thus fuel anti-American Terrorism and swell
the ranks of extremists. It'd be a "paradox" if that didn't happen.
And it's therefore unsurprising that the 2009 Nobel Peace laureate is
rapidly becoming as disliked in the Muslim world as the prior U.S.
President: what looks to five Norwegians sitting in Oslo to be a Man
of Peace looks much different in the region where his bombs are
falling, his hit squads deploying, his war commitments expanding, and
his sky robots multiplying.
There's a particularly bitter irony here. The campaign against the
Park51 community center in Lower Manhattan is being condemned,
rightfully so, because it is driven by a desire to stigmatize all
Muslims and even institute a generalized war against Islam as American
policy. But far from Ground Zero, having nothing whatsoever to do
with the warped right-wing fanatics driving that campaign, we're
increasingly engaging in actions perceived -- understandably so -- to
be exactly the War against Muslims which, with our pretty presidential
words, we renounce. Escalation in Afghanistan, a sustained bombing
campaign in Pakistan, all sorts of increased covert actions in
multiple Muslim countries, the ongoing imprisonment with no charges of
Muslims around the world, bellicose threats to Iran, and now a
proposed expansion of our drone campaign into Yemen: we can insist
all we want that we are not waging a War Against Muslims, but it's
going to look to a huge number of people as though we're doing exactly
that.
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Also, be sure to remember: WikiLeaks has blood on its hands.
UPDATE: When I wrote the prior post this morning -- featuring the
Onion's mockery of Time Magazine's child-level commentary -- I had
intended it to be a stand-alone, amusing item to be read as I finished
this Yemen piece. But I now realize it directly relates to the points
raised here: the reason the Obama administration can so easily expand
our War to yet another Muslim nation, and escalate in Afghanistan with
an indefinite commitment notwithstanding our ever-worsening economic
crisis, is because the discussion never really advances beyond this:
there are Bad Guys there, and we have to get them!! That, of course,
is the same thought which dominates the mindset of six-year-olds as
they watch adventure films or cartoons, and the fact that our
discourse never advances beyond that -- courtesy of outlets such as
Time -- is the reason these blatantly counterproductive policies can
be pursued with so little trouble, despite how illogical and obviously
contradictory is the offered rationale.
UPDATE II: Chris Floyd notes that, as reported by The Los Angeles
Times, Fred Kagan -- supreme neocon war cheerleader and architect of
the Bush Surge in Iraq -- has now been hired to work with Gen. David
Petraeus in Afghanistan. That's a powerful reflection of how much has
changed.
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