As usual, popular right wing Murdoch-press-patsy Andrew Bolt – deflects us from the facts. In his recent article,”Silence Fails In The Face Of Evil”, he prosecutes the Australian Greens, gay and lesbian organisations, Julian Burnside QC, Muslim leaders, Labor and others – for not enough condemnation of ISIS and it’s recent destruction of the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud.
We all know and agree that ISIS is a new brand of terror and destruction. But Andrew, what did you say when Prime Minister John Howard followed Blair and Bush into the most egregious war in modern history – all based on fraudulent Intel and motivations. During the occupation 1,455,590 Iraqis were killed, and war crimes of the worst kind were committed by the West (and by all sides).
In your article “No, there was no “lie” about Iraq – Andrew Wilkie should know better“, you proved you are just another mainstream media (MSM) presstitute – quoting Institutional presstitute, Gerard Henderson, to claim that Saddam was on the verge of using WMD’s.
What a dismal lot you popular journalists are.
On this site we are neither left, right, down or up. We will call the Green party yellow, if required, and we have called on the ABC to start reporting truthfully. But you are the expert in political flatulence – giving us the noise (and smells) of Canberra and beyond, but failing to give us truthful substance.
Lets start scratching the surface towards reality.
I suggest, Andrew, you listen to whistleblower Susan Lindauer, who was chief CIA asset for Iraq from 1995 – 2003. Lindauer’s book EXTREME PREJUDICE is an expose of the facts surrounding the CIA’s advance warnings of 9/11 and Iraq’s contributions to the 9/11 investigation. It reveals the existence of a comprehensive peace framework, which would have accomplished all major US objectives in Baghdad without a single casualty. She probably only touches on a fraction of the reality (as she was CIA), but an interesting introduction.
Andrew, you might then want to listen to Retired General Wesley Clark. I’m sure he knows more than your mate Gerard Henderson as he spent 34 years in the Army, became Supreme Allied Commander Europe of NATO from 1997 to 2000, received many military decorations, several honorary knighthoods, and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
And this is what he told us in 2007:
“About ten days after 9/11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the Joint Staff who used to work for me, and one of the generals called me in. He said, “Sir, you’ve got to come in and talk to me a second.”…”
“And he (a General) said, “I just got this down from upstairs” — meaning the Secretary of Defense’s office — “today.” And he said, “This is a memo that describes how we’re going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and, finishing off, Iran.” I said, “Is it classified?” He said, “Yes, sir.” I said, “Well, don’t show it to me.””
(I’ve mentioned Clark many times and feel like a stuck record)
Well, all this destruction has unfolded. (But I wonder why this cabal “insider” was “allowed” to provide this stunning information. Ed Snowden and Chelsea/Bradley Manning would have probably been prosecuted for “leaking” the same. More on gumshoenews.)
Andrew, then you might want to study just a little of what Zbigniew Brzezinski has said over the years. He served as counselor to Lyndon B. Johnson from 1966 to 1968 and national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter from 1977 to 1981. In 1981, he too, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Brzezinski has confirmed that the US began covert sponsorship of Muslim extremists (creating al Qaeda) five months before the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. He says:
“Actually it was on 3 July 1979 that president Carter signed the first directive for the secret support of the opposition (Mujahideen) against the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. ….I explained to the president that this support would in my opinion lead to a military intervention by the Soviets.”
And on Iraq, Brzezinski said this in 2014:
“I was against the war in which the United States attacked Iraq in 2003. I thought it was fraudulent and it has produced a mess in Iraq, which continues to perplex and engage us….”
Yes, ISIS was born out of the chaos in Iraq, and is blow-back and a spin-off of the West’s desire to destroy the Middle East – with Syria and Iran still in the cross hairs. Even General Clark admitted recently that “ISIS got started with funding from (America’s) friends and allies.”
Ben Swann gives a 101 background on ISIS below.
(By the way, Andrew, nineteen Muslims could not have been responsible for the complex 9/11 attacks, and the collapse of Building 7. So any Islamic terrorist organisation that takes credit for the assault is unfortunately misguided.
And finally – I point you to Dr. Paul Craig Roberts. He was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy (under Reagan) and associate editor of the Wall Street Journal.
He writes in an article entitled, “Crazed Washington Drives the World to the Final War” he writes:
“Like the fascism of the 1930s and 1940s, big lies are delivered with the precision of a metronome: thanks to an omnipresent, repetitive media and its virulent censorship by omission. Take the catastrophe in Libya.
Libyan president Muammar Gaddafi(‘s)…. murder, like the destruction of his country, was justified with a familiar big lie; he was planning “genocide” against his own people….
Since 1945, more than a third of the membership of the United Nations – 69 countries – have suffered some or all of the following at the hands of America’s modern fascism. They have been invaded, their governments overthrown, their popular movements suppressed, their elections subverted, their people bombed and their economies stripped of all protection, their societies subjected to a crippling siege known as “sanctions”.
Andrew, you are in such a powerful position to deliver truth and substance through your popular column. But unfortunately, you seem to be one of those very highly paid “metronomes” of the MSM, providing the Australian populous with your political flatulence.
Update: Mary Maxwell emailed me this picture of Zbigniew Brzezinski with Osama bin Laden – aka – Tim Osman.
Andrew, it is a pity you won’t be at our Adelaide Fringe show this week end.
Keep it up, Dee.
One day the world’s public will realise that the mainstream media and it’s cohort of shock jocks in Australia are simply; a deceitful warmongering cabal of aiders and abettors of killers and thieves and simply a fraud. Those who have covered for disgusting Paedophiles are nice people compared to the likes of those who lie for war and conflict with deceit and manipulation of truth.
BTW: nice to know more about the Israeli and US fellows arrested by Iraq forces the other day and who are alleged to be part of ISIL. Perhap the photos of ISIL heavies with a US politician might give a clue. Some US politician is recently reported as stating the he knows the ISIL leaders intimately? Tell us Andrew about the reports of the US arms supplies ending up with ISIL and the downing by Iraq of one or two aircraft with such Rms supplies for ISIL.
Who finances ISIL?
What Toyota sales team provided all those lovey yellow Toyotas suitable for mounting armaments in the back with the blue healer. Andrew do not forget the 400 million assessed by ISIL at the start, in a Mosul bank. Well we know that the appearance of ISIL was under the CIA radar and surprised all by taking Mosul.
Andrew. how about putting more effort into your reports please. Possible start with the information in the above article and Clark’s exposure. Your Tele readers and fellow journos might then get some value from the murdockracy.
What bullshit! Bolt calls a spade a spade. As far as the war against Saddam in Iraq went, Bush & co certainly had the moral high ground and were finally proven right in hindsight regarding chemical weapons, but it was a tactical blunder I would never have made.
re- Bolt. He may be calling a spade a spade – pity that he doesn’t recognise the manure he is spading. And what “high moral ground”? Over a million people were killed. You obviously didn’t listen to Clark or Lindauer. And I doubt Bolt would either.
But you wouldn’t have made the blunder—(so you are calling the death of 1.4 Million a blunder at least??? Could it be a war crime?)
Please define “chemical weapon.”
Just a reminder Ross “US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld helped Saddam Hussein build up his arsenal of deadly chemical and biological weapons” dailymail uk
Bottom line. Islam is off-the-scale evil and as Gladstone and Churchill pointed out well over a century ago – there will be no peace on earth while the doctrine of evil exists…
Ross, have you listened to Nabil Naim.
http://nodisinfo.com/nabil-naim-and-the-hoax-of-an-islamic-khalifa/
He punches a lot of holes in your argument.
He outlines a view that Zionists created Jihadi interpretations
to create mischief.
He might need sober scrutiny but a large body of information
unravels a murky political reality, not black and white as you
appear to adopt.
You may still claim Iraq was a threat to the world but the intelligent evidence to justify that view is non existent.
I noted your claim was unsupported by anything other than………….your claim.
Ned, the Mosul Bank looting was propaganda to generate plausible financing realities when none exist.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/0378d4f4-0c28-11e4-9080-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3U1KX8i40
This interview contains some half reasonable analysis but the logical extension of the discussion is absent.
Ta.
Nice to know that we are kindly and charitable democracies with God on our side…………………compared to those Moozies.
“The Price of Killing 500,000 Iraqi kids worth it…. RIGHT
But 20 kids at Sandy Hook ————NOOOOOO
Worth examining Sandy Hook in some detail with some research?? Exercise!!! No one dead?
I am certain they died, as I am certain that the stories indicating hoax were based on very misleading data. It must have been planned so we would come to feel there’s no way to be sure of anything anymore! Geez, they are so pathetic, having nothing better to do than manipulate us.
Ned, hark back to my Gumshoe article on Dunblane.
Prof Tim Anderson from the University of Sydney has collected all the threads on ISIS funding in this article.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-relationship-between-washington-and-isis-the-evidence/5435405
Anderson has a “controversial” history that I have no deep knowledge.
His contact at Sydney University is,
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/political_economy/staff/profiles/t.anderson.php