By Felicity Arbuthnot
“I wonder now
how the foreign policies of the United States would look if we
wiped out the national boundaries of the world, at least in our
minds, and thought of all children everywhere as our own. Then
we could never drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, or napalm on
Vietnam, or wage war anywhere, because wars, especially in our
time, are always wars against children, indeed our children.”
- Howard Zinn, (1922-2010).
Oh dear. It’s the Hitler
thing again.
Considering the barely imaginable oceans of dollars US war departments spend on selling their newest illegal, manufactured war of aggression, they certainly spend little on wordsmiths.
In the UK the literacy level of the military has been lowered to seven years old. The juvenile limitation has clearly spread to their US allies massacre-marketing teams.
Considering the barely imaginable oceans of dollars US war departments spend on selling their newest illegal, manufactured war of aggression, they certainly spend little on wordsmiths.
In the UK the literacy level of the military has been lowered to seven years old. The juvenile limitation has clearly spread to their US allies massacre-marketing teams.
In
justifying the blitz on the population of the former Yugoslavia
in 1999, President Bill Clinton, comparing President Slobodan
Milosevic to Hitler, said: “What if someone had listened to
Winston Churchill and stood up to Hitler earlier? How many lives
would have been saved … how many American lives might have been
saved?”
In December 2002 on the
eve of a NATO summit, George W. Bush addressed students and: “ …
compared the challenge of the Iraqi President to the Nazi
invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1938, which led to World War II.
“We face … perils we’ve never seen before. They’re just as dangerous as those perils that your fathers and mothers and grandfathers and grandmothers faced.”
And in words near
identical to those being currently showered towards Syria’s
President Assad, he demanded that Saddam: “declare completely
and truthfully his arsenal of terror”, and threatened serious
consequences if he failed to meet the December 8 deadline to
disclose his weapons of mass destruction.
“Deception this time will
not be tolerated; delay and defiance will invite the severest of
consequences”, Mr Bush told the students. (i)
Saddam Hussein’s
Administration, of course, delivered a 12,000-plus page document
on what was no longer possessed to the UN weapons Inspectors in
New York, which was instantly stolen by the US delegation to the
UN, near decimated and never heard of again.(ii) The subsequent
destruction of Iraq is history. Syria needs to be very careful
indeed.
For Libya”s Colonel
Gaddafi, it was a defecting Minister, Mustapha Abdeljalil who
pulled the Hitler card (his alleged Western airline ticket
funders must have taught him well) who told Sweden’s Expressen.
“Gaddafi’s time is up. He is going to go like Hitler, he is
going to commit suicide”, the Hitler comparison was
enthusiastically picked up across the world’s mainstream media.
However he did add that
Gaddafi would to make good on his pledge to die on Libyan soil
rather than opt for exile. As vowed by Saddam Hussein, and as
has pledged President Assad. A courage their detractors – baying
from the safety of thousands of miles from the killing fields
they ferment – fail to exhibit.
On 2nd September,
Secretary of State John Kerry compared President Assad to both
Hitler and Saddam Hussein. By 7th September, speaking in Paris,
apparently emboldened by a “may be”, “sort of”, “perhaps”,
backing from President Hollande, Kerry lost the plot, describing
Syria as: ‘ “our Munich moment”, comparing possible military
intervention to the 1938 Munich Agreement, which ceded control
of part of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany.’ (BBC, 7th
September.)
Did any of his perhaps
year seven level advisers inform him that Syria’s population is
just 22.4 million, over a third – 33.9% – are aged just 0-14 and
that the median age 22.7.
At the
time of the attack on Iraq, America’s last imperial Middle East
slaughter, broadly half the population of then just 27 million
was under fifteen or sixteen, figures vary.
When they moved on to
Africa and Libya, they also attacked a country where nearly a
third of the miniscule population of just five and a half
million, was 0-14 and the median age was 24.7.
In context, the
population of the global bully on the block is 315 million, with
a median age of 37 – old enough to know better.
Did Kerry think up the
farcical Munich nonsense all on his own? Or perhaps he is trying
to out-do his assassination addicted predecessor Hillary Clinton
who laughed as she said of Quaddafi’s appalling,
US-NATO-implicated lynching: “We came, we saw, he died.”
According
to a detailed article (iii) Kerry does have killer credentials.
During his time in Vietnam as a Swift boat operative:
“Day after day, night after night, the Swift boats plied the waters, harassing and often killing villagers, fishermen and farmers. In this program, aimed at intimidating the peasants into submission, Kerry was notoriously zealous. One of his fellow lieutenants, James R. Wasser, described him admiringly: ‘Kerry was an extremely aggressive officer and so was I. I liked that he took the fight to the enemy … not afraid to spill blood for his country.’ “
In an
incident involving the: “kidnapping of two villagers (one of
them a young woman) from their hut, they’d seen four people in a
sampan and promptly killed them.
The two prisoners were
‘body-snatched’ as part of a regular schedule of such seizures,
the victims would be taken to (a detention centre holding 30,000
people) for interrogation and torture.”
Shades of Abu Ghraib.
“Kerry’s term … for such outings – and there were many in his brief time in Vietnam – is ‘accidental atrocities’.”
In
“Operation Sea Lords”, patrolling the canals and streams of the
Mekong Delta:
“The basic plan: “was to terrorize the peasants … the entire area … was a free fire zone, meaning the Americans could shoot at will and count anyone they killed as (the enemy.)”
In
America’s assaults on the international community, by land,
waterway, missile or drone, nothing changes.
Further, in 1970 the Senate reported: “The US has dumped on Vietnam a quantity of toxic chemical (dioxin) amounting to six pounds per head of population” in ‘Operation Hades’, the source of what Vietnamese doctors call a “cycle of foetal catastrophe”, resulting in ongoing generations of children with monstrous deformities.
In
the manual of sick names for US “Operations”, “Hades” must come
high in obscenity ratings.
Between 1962 and 1971 the
U.S. Military Dumped 20 Million Gallons of Chemicals on Vietnam,
Laos and Cambodia.(iv)
According to the Mines Advisory Group,
Laos (population at the time less than 3 million) was bombed
with 3 million tons of chemicals and ordnance. Over a million
tons a head.
For eight years of this
chemical carnage (1969-1977) Henry Kissinger, the man now
“mentoring” John Kerry on Syria’s alleged chemical weapons, was
National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
Even the
usually restrained (London) Independent commented on: “ … a
90-year-old ‘war criminal’ helping to frame” the Syria policy of
the Obama administration. (13th September.) In the
circumstances, “to frame” should surely be regarded in the
criminal context, ie., to set up someone for a crime they did
not commit.
In context, in “ …
several serious studies of Syria’s weapons program, have been
done over the past few years by American and other experts. As a
study published by the European Union’s non-proliferation
consortium in July 2012, concluded, ‘Syria’s chemical weapons
are not tactical or battlefield weapons, but rather a strategic
deterrence against Israel’s conventional superiority and its
nuclear weapons arsenal.’ “(v)
Further:
“A newly-discovered document of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency revealed on Monday by Foreign Policy magazine shows that
the U.S. agency had decisive evidence dating back to at least
the 1980s that Israel had a stockpile of chemical and biological
weapons.”
Israel
has: “never ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. Israel
has never opened its nuclear facility or its chemical weapons
stockpile to international inspections.”(vi)
Moreover, the Conservative
Center for Arms Control and Proliferation has issued its 2013
report on Global Nuclear Weapons Inventory. It relies on US
intelligence for its report on Israel because Israel uses the
identical “don’t confirm, don’t deny” policy the US denounced
with menaces, when Syria used it:
“Israel’s policy of opacity regarding its nuclear program means that it has never revealed any details of its nuclear program, or even acknowledged that it possesses nuclear weapons.U.S. intelligence believes that Israel possesses an estimated stockpile of 80 nuclear warheads. However, they are believed to possess sufficient fissile material to increase that total to 200, should they desire.”
It also
counts Israel and Egypt as the only military allies of the US
among “A relatively small number of countries … still suspected
of harboring offensive biological and chemical weapons programs
at various stages of development.”
The Center
also ignores the delays in eliminating US stockpiles and its
opposition to inspections.(vii) The United States is cited as
having 5,449 metric tons in its chemical weapons arsenal, which
due to the acute hazards of disposal, will not have the relevant
disposal facilities in place until 2021.(Japan Times, 12th
September 2013.).
Of Syria
of course, it is demanded that their alleged stocks are disposed
of in just months, whilst a ruthless and vicious insurgency
rages – funded by the demanders – or face an Iraq, Libya or
Balkans type decimation.
Also,
according to a Russian Report, the US is “undertaking research
on smallpox, which is prohibited by the World Health
Organization” and is accused of undertaking biological weapons
research, in possible contravention of Article 1 of the
Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention. (viii)
Double standards rule
supreme.
Kerry , of course, talked
of the need for “credible” and “quick” investigations of
Chemical Weapons in Syria. The inspectors went to just one site,
hopelessly time limited by being pulled out early. The arm
twisting can only be imagined. We have been here before.
As
Scott Ritter, former lead weapons inspector in Iraq commented of
the December 1998 Iraq bombings, justified by more lies and
false pretext: “The U.S. has perverted the U.N. weapons process
by using it as a tool to justify military actions, falsely so. …
The U.S. was using the inspection process as a trigger for war.”
(NBC Today show, December 17, 1998.)
Syria has surely noted
that: “The U.S. team includes officials who worked on inspection
and removal of unconventional weapons from Libya after 2003 and
in Iraq after the first Gulf War.” Both were disarmed. Both
became destroyed sitting ducks.
Remembering the theft of Iraq’s accounting of their weapons, or
non weapons, Syria’s UN delegation will surely need no reminder
to make the handing over of theirs very public – and retain
plenty of copies.
Ironically, in December 2003, Syria tabled a UN Security Council
Resolution calling for a biological and chemical weapons free
Middle East. When the US threatened to veto it, it was consigned
to the trash bin.
Oh, the hypocrisy.
As
Stephen Zunes has written in an aptly entitled article, The US
and Chemical Weapons: No Leg to Stand On: “U.S. policy
regarding chemical weapons has been so inconsistent and
politicized that the United States is in no position to take
leadership in response to any use of such weaponry by Syria.”(x)
Notes
Copyright ©
Felicity Arbuthnot, Global Research
Talented Mr Kerry
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Syria claims rebels
behind chemical weapon attack, gives
evidence to Russia:
Evidence supporting the claim has been given
to Russia, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei
Ryabkov said on Wednesday.
Russia claims
chemical attack in Syria provocation, calls
for investigation:
“There is a wide variety of evidence that a
large-scale provocation was organised in
Ghouta on August 21 in order to encourage
foreign military intervention in the Syrian
conflict,” Russian Permanent Representative
to the United Nations said
Turkey confirms
Syrian rebels with Al Qaida ties sought
chemical weapons:
This marked the first time that Turkey
confirmed claims by Russia and Syria that Al
Qaida-aligned rebel militias were acquiring
CW precursors for attacks against the Syrian
Army and security forces.
Russia demands
‘immediate return’ of UN inspectors to
Syria:
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said the UN
inspection mission should also investigate
“the incident on March 19 near Aleppo as
well as incidents of intoxication of Syrian
government troops on August 22 and 24-25.”
Obama
waives ban on arming terrorists to allow aid
to Syrian opposition:
President Obama waived a provision of
federal law designed to prevent the supply
of arms to terrorist groups.
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