[Peace] John Pilger in the New Statesman

[Marianne Brun]

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> > ====================================
> >
> > Wed, 15 Jan 2003
> >
> >
> > THE WORLD WILL KNOW THE TRUTH
> >
> >
> > "John Pilger in New Statesman (London) 16 December
> > 2002
> >
> >
> > "Two years ago a project set up by the men who now
> > surround George W. Bush
> > said what America needed was "a new Pearl Harbor".
> > It's clearly spelled out
> > aims have very conveniently come alarmingly true,
> > according to John Pilger in
> > the New Statesman.
> >
> >
> > "The threat posed by US state terrorism to the
> > security of nations and
> > individuals was outlined in prophetic detail in this
> > secret document written
> > more than a year before the Sept. 11 events, and
> > accidentally exposed
> > recently. What was needed for America to dominate
> > most of humanity and the
> > world's resources, it said, was "some catastrophic
> > and catalysing event - like
> > a new Pearl Harbor".
> >
> >
> > "The attacks of 11 September 2001 provided the "new
> > Pearl Harbor", described
> > as "the opportunity of ages". The extremists who
> > have since ruthlessly and
> > effectively exploited 11 September come from the era
> > of Ronald Reagan, when
> > far-right groups and "think-tanks" were established
> > to avenge the American
> > "defeat" in Vietnam.
> >
> >
> > "One of George W. Bush's "thinkers" is Richard
> > Perle. I interviewed Perle
> > when he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about
> > "total war", I then
> > dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term
> > again in describing America's
> > "war on terror". "No stages," he said. "This is
> > total war. We are fighting a
> > variety of enemies. There are lots of them out
> > there. All this talk about
> > first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will
> > do Iraq . . . this is
> > entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just
> > let our vision of the world
> > go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't
> > try to piece together
> > clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . .
> > our children will sing
> > great songs about us years from now."
> >
> >
> > "Perle is one of the founders of the Project for the
> > New American Century,the
> > PNAC. Other founders include Dick Cheney, now
> > vice-president, Donald
> > Rumsfeld, defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, deputy
> > defence secretary, Lewis
> > Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, William J Bennett,
> > Reagan's education
> > secretary, and Zalmay Khalilzad, Bush's ambassador
> > to Afghanistan. These are
> > the modern chartists of American state terrorism.
> >
> >
> > "The PNAC's seminal report, Rebuilding America's
> > Defences: strategy, force
> > and resources for a new century, was a blueprint of
> > American aims in all but
> > name. Two years ago it recommended an increase in
> > arms-spending by $48
> > billion so thatWashington could "fight and win
> > multiple, simultaneous major
> > theatre wars". This has happened. It said the United
> > States should develop
> > "bunker-buster" nuclear weapons and make "star wars"
> > a national priority.
> > This is happening.
> >
> >
> > "It said that, in the event of Bush taking power,
> > Iraq should be a target.
> > And so it is. As for Iraq's alleged "weapons of mass
> > destruction", these were
> > dismissed, in so many words, as a convenient excuse,
> > which it is.
> >
> >
> > "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides
> > the immediate
> > justification," it says, "the need for a substantial
> > American force presence
> > in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of
> > Saddam Hussein." How has
> > this grand strategy been implemented?
> >
> >
> > "A series of articles in the Washington Post,
> > co-authored by Bob Woodward of
> > Watergate fame and based on long interviews with
> > senior members of the Bush
> > administration, reveals how 11 September was
> > manipulated.
> >
> >
> > "On the morning of 12 September 2001, without any
> > evidence of who the
> > hijackers were, Rumsfeld demanded that the US attack
> > Iraq. According to
> > Woodward, Rumsfeld told a cabinet meeting that Iraq
> > should be "a principal
> > target of the first round in the war against
> > terrorism". Iraq was temporarily
> > spared only because Colin Powell, the secretary of
> > state, persuaded Bush that
> > "public opinion has to be prepared before a move
> > against Iraq is possible".
> > Afghanistan and the Talibans, created, trained and
> > funded by the CIA, was
> > chosen as the softer option.
> >
> >
> > "If Jonathan Steele's estimate in the Guardian is
> > correct, some 20,000 people
> > in Afghanistan paid the price of this debate with
> > their lives.
> >
> >
> > "Time and again, 11 September is described as an
> > "opportunity". In last
> > April's New Yorker, the  investigative reporter
> > Nicholas Lemann wrote that
> > Bush's most senior adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told
> > him she had called
> > together senior members of the National Security
> > Council and asked them "to
> > think about 'how do you capitalise on these
> > opportunities' ", which she
> > compared with those of "1945 to 1947": the start of
> > the cold war."
> >
> >
> > Note: If anyone wishes to investigate in depth and
> > detail all the
> > >extraordinary unexplained anomalies and blatant
> > inconsistencies in the
> > official story about September 11, I recommend the
> > website
> > <http://208.187.163.46/completetimeline/index.htm>
> >
> >
> > "Since 11 September, America has established bases
> > at the gateways to all the
> > major sources of fossil fuels, especially central
> > Asia. The Unocal oil
> > company is to build a pipeline across Afghanistan.
> >
> >
> > "Bush has scrapped the Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse
> > gas emissions, the war
> > crimes provisions of the International Criminal
> > Court and the anti-ballistic
> > missile treaty. He has said he will use nuclear
> > weapons against non-nuclear
> > states "if necessary".
> >
> >
> > "Under cover of propaganda about Iraq's alleged
> > weapons of mass destruction,
> > the Bush regime is developing new weapons of mass
> > destruction that undermine
> > international treaties on biological and chemical
> > warfare.
> >
> >
> > "In the Los Angeles Times, the military analyst
> > William Arkin describes a
> > secret army set up by Donald Rumsfeld, similar to
> > those run by Richard Nixon
> > and Henry Kissinger and which Congress outlawed.
> > This "super-intelligence
> > support activity" will bring together the "CIA and
> > military covert
> > action,information warfare, and deception".
> > According to a classified
> > document prepared for Rumsfeld, the new
> > organisation, known by
> >
> > its Orwellian euphemism as the Proactive Pre-emptive
> > Operations Group, or
> > P2OG, will provoke terrorist attacks which would
> > then require
> > "counter-attack" by the United States on countries
> > "harbouring the
> > terrorists". "In other words, innocent people will
> > be killed by the United
> > States. This is reminiscent of Operation Northwoods,
> > the plan put to
> > President Kennedy by his military chiefs for a
> > phoney terrorist campaign -
> > complete with bombings, hijackings, plane crashes
> > and dead Americans - as
> > justification for an
> >
> > invasion of Cuba. Kennedy rejected it. He was
> > assassinated a few months
> > later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but
> > with resources undreamt
> > of in 1963 and with no global rival to invite
> > caution.
> >
> >
> > "You have to keep reminding yourself this is not
> > fantasy: that truly
> > dangerous men, such as Perle and Rumsfeld and
> > Cheney, have power. The thread
> > running through their ruminations is the importance
> > of the media: "the
> > prioritised task of bringing on board journalists of
> > repute to accept our
> > position".
> >
> >
> > "Our position" is code for lying. Certainly, as a
> > journalist, I have never
> > known official lying to be more pervasive than
> > today. We may laugh at the
> > vacuities in Tony Blair's "Iraq dossier" and Jack
> > Straw's inept lie that Iraq
> > has developed a nuclear bomb (which his minions
> > rushed to "explain"). But the
> > more insidious lies, justifying an unprovoked attack
> > on Iraq and linking it
> > to would-be terrorists who are said to lurk in every
> > Tube station, are
> > routinely channelled as news. They are not news;
> > they are black propaganda.
> >
> >
> > "This corruption makes journalists and broadcasters
> > mere ventriloquists'
> > dummies. An attack on a nation of 22 million
> > suffering people is discussed by
> > liberal commentators as if it were a subject at an
> > academic seminar, at which
> > pieces can be pushed around a map, as the old
> > imperialists used to do.
> >
> >
> > "The issue for these humanitarians is not primarily
> > the brutality of modern
> > imperial domination, but how "bad" Saddam Hussein
> > is. There is no admission
> > that their decision to join the war party further
> > seals the fate of tens or
> > even hundreds of thousands of innocent ordinary
> > people condemned to wait on
> > America's international death row. Their doublethink
> > will not work. You
> > cannot support murderous piracy in the name
> >
> > of humanitarianism. Moreover, the extremes of
> > American fundamentalism that we
> > now face have been staring at us for too long for
> > those of good heart and
> > sense not to recognise them.
> >
> >
> > "Remember, if you send this on to just 10 others and
> > all down the chain each
> > one follows the same simple procedure, THE WORLD
> > WILL KNOW THE TRUTH: That
> > the present US administration is threatening in an
> > unprecedented way not
> > only the peace and survival of millions, but the
> > entire planet and all life on
> >
> > it. Other nations MUST speak up to put a stop to
> > this madness. The press is
> > in the pay of the destructive powers and will not
> > tell us the truth, so the
> > Internet is our only way to access and spread the
> > truth. >>
> >
> >
>
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