Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Is the Bush Regime a Sponsor of State Terrorism?

FPF-fwd.: Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

Is the Bush Regime a Sponsor of State Terrorism?

THE EVIL WITHIN

"GENTLE READER, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE BUSH REGIME WILL NOT SHOOT YOU DOWN IN THE STREETS IF YOU HAVE A REBELLION?"

By Paul Craig Roberts

A powerful case can be made that it is.

In the past three years the Bush Regime has murdered tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians and an unknown number of Afghan ones.

US Marines, our finest and proudest military force, are under criminal investigation for breaking into Iraqi homes and murdering entire families. In an unprecedented event, General Michael Hagee, the Marine Corps commandant, has found it necessary to fly to Iraq to tell our best trained troops to stop murdering civilians.

General Hagee found it necessary to tell the U.S. Marines: "We do not employ force just for the sake of employing force. We use lethal force only when justified, proportional, and most importantly, lawful."

The war criminals in the Bush Regime have dismissed the murders as "collateral damage," but they are in fact murders. Otherwise, there would be no criminal investigations, and the Marine commandant would not be burdened with the embarrassment of having to fly to Iraq to lecture US Marines on the lawful use of force.

The criminal Bush Regime has now murdered more Iraqis than Saddam Hussen. The Bush Regime is also responsible for 20,000 US casualties (dead, maimed for life, and wounded).

BUSH DAMNS THE "AXIS OF EVIL." BUT WHO HAS THE "AXIS OF EVIL" ATTACKED?

Iran has attacked no one. North Korea has attacked no country for more than a half century. Iraq attacked Kuiwait a decade and a half ago, apparently after securing permission from the US ambassador.

Isn't the real axis of evil Bush-Blair-Olmert? Bush and Blair have attacked two countries, slaughtering their citizens. Olmert is urging them on to attack a third country--Iran.

Where does the danger to the world reside? In Iran, a small religious country where the family is intact and the government is constrained by religious authority and ancient traditions, or in the US where propaganda rules and the powerful executive branch has removed itself from accountability by breaking the constitutional restraints on its power?

WHY IS THE US SUPERPOWER ORCHESTRATING FEAR OF PUNY IRAN?

The US government has spent the past half century interfering in the internal affairs of other countries, overthrowing or assassinating their chosen leaders and imposing its puppets on foreign peoples. To what country has Iran done this, or Iraq, or North Korea?

Americans think that they are the salt of the earth. The hubris that comes from this self-righteous belief makes Americans blind to the evil of their leaders. How can American leaders be evil when Americans are so good and so wonderful?

How many Serbs were slaughtered by American bombs released from high above the clouds, and for what reason?

[FPF: Dutch war criminals support and bomb - 'Humanitarian Bombers in Court' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp]

WHO EVEN REMEMBERS THE PROPAGANDISTIC LIES THAT THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION TOLD US ABOUT WHY WE ABSOLUTELY HAD TO DROP BOMBS ON THE SERBS?

Wasn't it evil for the US to bomb Iraq for a decade and to embargo medicines for children? When US Secretary of State M. Albright was asked if she thought an embargo that resulted in the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children was justified, she replied, "yes."

The former terrible tyrant ruler of Iraq, Saddam Hussein, is on trial for killing 150 people. The US government murdered 500,000 Iraqi children prior to Bush's invasion. When the US government murders people, whether Serbs, Branch Davidians at Waco, or Iraqi women and children, it is "collateral damage." But we put Saddam Hussein on trial for putting down rebellions.

GENTLE READER, DO YOU BELIEVE THAT THE BUSH REGIME WILL NOT SHOOT YOU DOWN IN THE STREETS IF YOU HAVE A REBELLION?

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: paulcraigroberts@yahoo.com

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Iraq: Journalists killed - Is the Pentagon Propaganda Tactic Backfiring?

FPF-fwd.: Cheryl Seal

CBS NEWS CREW HIT: IS PENTAGON RESPONSIBLE? IS THE PENTAGON PROPAGANDA TACTIC BACKFIRING?

PENTAGON: "IN THEIR EFFORTS TO MANIPULATE NEWS, THEY HAVE MADE NEWSFOLK MAJOR TARGETS. NEVER BEFORE HAS THE MEDIA BEEN SO CLOSELY PAIRED IN THE PUBLIC’S MIND WITH THE MILITARY."

CBS’s Kimberly Dozier Wounded, 2 Colleagues Killed By Roadside Bomb

CNN REPORTS: “Two members of a CBS News crew were killed Monday and correspondent Kimberly Dozier was seriously wounded when a roadside bomb* ripped through the U.S. military convoy in which they were traveling.CBS identified those killed as cameraman Paul Douglas, 48, who was based in London, and sound tech James Brolan, 42.

The U.S. military has not confirmed any casualties in the powerful bomb, which destroyed a U.S. military Humvee as the convoy passed through Tahariya Square, just across the river from the Green Zone, around 11 a.m. Monday.”

Just days before this incident occurred, Dozier reported on the investigation of the Haditha massacre on CBS Nightly News. During that segment, she repeated the Pentagon spin that all reports of other atrocities that have emerged are “Al Qaeda propaganda.”

''ALL REPORTS OF OTHER ATROCITIES THAT HAVE EMERGED ARE AL QAEDA PROPAGANDA''

This was the same story that the Pentagon gave out when first confronted over the Haditha incident. Week after week, the Iraqis hear these news reports, which often contrast sharply with their reality. The result is the reinforcement of the perception of Americans as heartless occupiers indifferent to Iraqi suffering.

The rage already felt is stoked even further. While an unprecedented number of journalists have died so far in Iraq trying to get at the truth, those working most closely with the Pentagon appear to have enjoyed special protection – mostly, no doubt, because they remained safe in the Green Zone.

But as conditions deteriorate in Iraq and Pentagon propaganda efforts are intensified, I fear that more journalists may be targeted – the “cut off the head of the messenger” syndrome. I hold the Pentagon totally responsible.

IN THEIR EFFORTS TO MANIPULATE NEWS, THEY HAVE MADE NEWSFOLK MAJOR TARGETS.

Never before has the media been so closely paired in the public’s mind with the military. There was time when journalists acted as crucially needed watchdogs of the military and spoke for the everyday soldier when no one else would (where are today’s Bill Mauldins and Ernie Pyles?). Yet in Iraq, the everyday soldier is completely barred from communicating with journalists, or only allowed to read prescripted lines provided on “cue cards.”

The responsibility for breaking this deadly, insane cycle rests on the Pentagon. A war run on propaganda and denial may have worked 50 years ago, or even 30, but not today. Access to the truth is too readily available in this age of the Internet, near-universal phone access, and real-time satellite broadcasting.

THE TRUTH WILL OUT, AS SHAKESPEARE OBSERVED.

Reporters must not be thwarted from reporting the truth, nor encouraged to be dishonest in the name of “security.” Until Iraqis are shown that the US cares about the truth and has an unflinching moral standard, trust will be impossible to build and the violence – which is being fueled by rage and suspicion, will only continue to escalate."

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RELATED:

* 'US Government Guide' - FPF: 'Pentagon condones killing journalists who report the truth journalist confirms.' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/no7n9

* Recently at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Eason Jordan, a CNN executive, told a panel that the U.S. military deliberately targeted journalists in Iraq. He said he "knew of about 12 journalistswho had not only been killed by American troops, but had been targeted as a matter of policy" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/hok5o

* Journalist killed after investigating US-backed death squads in Iraq - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/s6y6d

* Mainstream Media Monsters - Url.: http://69.28.73.17/thornarticles/monster.html

* Faking, Lying, bribing, killing journalists - Propaganda: The US' Military's Information War Is Vast and Often Secretive - By JEFF GERTH - The despicable war propaganda rag 'The New York Times' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/klue5

* Google selection - Date: May 30th 2006 - Results 1-10 of about 2,920 for Iraq +journalists +killed. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/px78e

* Google selection 'Roadside bombings' -  May 30th 2006 - Web Results 1-10 of about 66,900 for "Killed By Roadside Bomb" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/lpy8v

* Images: 'Roadside bomb killings' - Google - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/mnyau

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