You sleazy, lying, paranoid delusional criminal terrorist scumbags Bush and Blair, You can run, but you cannot hide from the truth. The world's Bloggers ara a comin' after ya! Woooo Ha!
Count me in!
Wednesday, November 30, 2005
Blair Bush Al Jazeera Bomb Account... Watch this space!
You sleazy, lying, paranoid delusional criminal terrorist scumbags Bush and Blair, You can run, but you cannot hide from the truth. The world's Bloggers ara a comin' after ya! Woooo Ha!
Count me in!
Monday, November 28, 2005
There is no longer any justification for this
The invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq now has no legitimacy whatsoever. Lofty aims and claims of disarming Saddam of his WMD and then of spreading democracy have now been shown to be cruel deceptions.
The ever changing rationale for entering and then staying in Iraq cannot hide one underlying truth. Pre-emptive invasion of a non-threatening sovereign state is immoral, unethical, illegal and evil.
The invasion did not disarm Saddam, he was already disarmed, as our intelligence prior to the war suspected. Not one single pre-invasion claim of Saddam retaining his WMD capability has stood up to scrutiny. NOT ONE! In fact, every claim that he was was disproved BEFORE the invasion happened.
So we had to invade to protect the Iraqis from their brutal dictator. Saddam was another Hitler, threatening the entire world. This was bullshit too! Claims of his putting people through meat grinders proved to be just as false as his fantasy WMD arsenal. Yes he was a brutal dictator, but no worse than many, many others in the world, yet still, he was not a threat to us and in fact was becoming less dictatorial with every year that passed. As he feared assasination, he was becoming more and more reclusive and spent the majority of his time writing awful romance novels.
Now the UK/US have illegally invaded a nation that was no threat, used chemical weapons against civillians, set up torture facilities where innocent people where tortured to death and now we have, former Iraq Prime Minister, Allawi coming out and saying that the situation for Iraqis is now worse than under Saddam Hussien!
When will this madness end with the public trials of Tony Blair and George W Bush?
Saddam's trial rightly continues today, Bush' and Blair's MUST follow soon!
The ever changing rationale for entering and then staying in Iraq cannot hide one underlying truth. Pre-emptive invasion of a non-threatening sovereign state is immoral, unethical, illegal and evil.
The invasion did not disarm Saddam, he was already disarmed, as our intelligence prior to the war suspected. Not one single pre-invasion claim of Saddam retaining his WMD capability has stood up to scrutiny. NOT ONE! In fact, every claim that he was was disproved BEFORE the invasion happened.
So we had to invade to protect the Iraqis from their brutal dictator. Saddam was another Hitler, threatening the entire world. This was bullshit too! Claims of his putting people through meat grinders proved to be just as false as his fantasy WMD arsenal. Yes he was a brutal dictator, but no worse than many, many others in the world, yet still, he was not a threat to us and in fact was becoming less dictatorial with every year that passed. As he feared assasination, he was becoming more and more reclusive and spent the majority of his time writing awful romance novels.
Now the UK/US have illegally invaded a nation that was no threat, used chemical weapons against civillians, set up torture facilities where innocent people where tortured to death and now we have, former Iraq Prime Minister, Allawi coming out and saying that the situation for Iraqis is now worse than under Saddam Hussien!
When will this madness end with the public trials of Tony Blair and George W Bush?
Saddam's trial rightly continues today, Bush' and Blair's MUST follow soon!
Friday, November 25, 2005
Why? because we trusted lunatics?
So we went into a destructive, deadly debacle in Iraq because Saddam Hussien had WMD and was using them on his own people and torturing his own people to death.
Except; he didn't have them, and we've used them on his own people and, despite them having a very poor version of democracy, now Iraqi's are still being tortured to death.
Was it because we trusted in the paranoid delusions of lunatics?
How can we prevent the next mistake?
./ later
Except; he didn't have them, and we've used them on his own people and, despite them having a very poor version of democracy, now Iraqi's are still being tortured to death.
Was it because we trusted in the paranoid delusions of lunatics?
How can we prevent the next mistake?
./ later
A News Revolution Has Begun
by John Pilger
The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge." The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and to the World Wide Web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power. The great scandal of Iraq has accelerated this. In the United States, several senior broadcasters have confessed that had they challenged and exposed the lies told about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, instead of amplifying and justifying them, the invasion might not have happened.
More ...
by John Pilger
The Indian writer Vandana Shiva has called for an "insurrection of subjugated knowledge." The insurrection is well under way. In trying to make sense of a dangerous world, millions of people are turning away from the traditional sources of news and information and to the World Wide Web, convinced that mainstream journalism is the voice of rampant power. The great scandal of Iraq has accelerated this. In the United States, several senior broadcasters have confessed that had they challenged and exposed the lies told about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, instead of amplifying and justifying them, the invasion might not have happened.
More ...
Thursday, November 24, 2005
More proof of delusions? Are they mad?
In a follow up to my last post, I have linked to an article from the mainstream media, USA Today. This article is a must read. It shows clearly that the US Administration did NOT lie about Iraq's WMD. Much worse, they genuinely believed their own paranoid delusional fantasies and were determined and succeeded in launching a terrible war of conquest and then destruction upon a sovereign nation that was no threat.
*NOTE The mainstream media SHOULD have been reporting this information all along, as I and hundreds of other bloggers WERE telling these truths as they came to light. During these last 2-3 years the mainstream media have been slagging off and ridiculing the blogs when we were doing THEIR JOB!!! Now they come clean(ish) and propose to tell us what we already knew all along. The mainstream media were still complicit in passing the government propaganda, without qualification, to the people as truth. They were NOT duped by the administration, or the intelligence services, they complied with them. Further, they would often not report the doubts that the intelligence community were raising prior to the invasion! I welcome the very late conversion of the mainstream media to reporting what really happened, (www.whatreallyhappened.com have already been doing this for some years as have rense.com, informationclearinghouse.info, prisonplanet.com davidicke.com antiwar.com amongst many others ) But now they need to look at the genuine, unanswered questions relating to 911 too, especially the controlled, pre-planned demolition of WTC7 and the prior arranged, multiple 'miitary exercises' taking place that day under the direct control of VP Dick Cheney. We are often told 'the world changed on 911, and 911 is constantly used to validate the on-going destruction of civil liberties at home, and creation of terrorist threat abroad. When the truth of 911 is generally acknowledged as an 'at least' assisted inside job engineered, or allowed, to succeed by the Neo-con cabal. Then, prehaps, the whole phoney war-on-terror house of cards may come crashing down and end this nightmare of delusion, destruction and death.*
I used to believed that Bush and Cheney lied us to war, and I argued that they were warned of the lack of evidence to support their arguments about Iraq's WMD and yet they continued to push those discredited and debunked claims. Thus supporting my argument that they deliberately lied.
I was wrong.
For them to lie, they would have to know that what they were saying was not true. They were told on many occasions by the UN, foreign intelligence and their own CIA, NSA and others that what they were claiming was not supported by evidence on the ground. That the intelligence could not be corroborated. However, they refused to even acknowledge for a nanosecond, that anything other than their fantasies could ever be real. They genuinely could not accept and therefore did not hear anything that contradicted their pre-created fantasy.
Worse, they created offices within the administration, The Office of Special Plans (under Rumsfeld), The Whitehouse Iraq Group (Under Cheney) that cherry picked and molded intelligence around their own delusional plans. How far did they go to create the reality they believed had to be real? The aluminum Tubes story was total nonsense and the Yellowcake Uranium from Africa was based on a known forgery, but still they believed this self-generated hallucination. The Mobile labs, were in fact Hydrogen balloon inflators, this was easily discoverable, they only had to look at the British receipts! Every single claim made by the administration in public in support of their fantasy world was very quickly proven wrong. How far did the administration go to create their reality? Was Valerie Plame outed as a CIA agent because her team uncovered and prevented the neo-cons from illegally smuggling WMD into Iraq to frame Saddam?
Like a teenager on LSD believing he could fly, they threw themselves off the roof of reality.
They did not therefore lie, but what they did do was far worse, they created policy that ultimately took us to a continuing quagmire of death and destruction based on their paranoid delusion. The Bush/Cheney administration in Washington and the Blair Government in London are not mentally fit to hold office. They are mentally unstable. In earlier, pre-politically correct days, they would be called lunatics. They are psychotic megalomaniacs with paranoid delusions and persecution complexes, add this to the Resident in thief's messianic delusion, linked to an over-compensation to his inferiority complex, and drug/alcohol brain damage and you get an administration that should not have control of a TV remote, let alone the worlds Weapons of Total Destruction.
They should be locked up in secure padded cells for their own, and for the rest of the planet's, safety.
The danger here is that if the level of delusional fantasy needed, (by the collective lunacy of the UK/US administrations), is one that has already created the disastrous Iraq war, then what's next?
These guys NEED to be locked up and QUICK!
Give me a liar over a lunatic everytime.
*NOTE The mainstream media SHOULD have been reporting this information all along, as I and hundreds of other bloggers WERE telling these truths as they came to light. During these last 2-3 years the mainstream media have been slagging off and ridiculing the blogs when we were doing THEIR JOB!!! Now they come clean(ish) and propose to tell us what we already knew all along. The mainstream media were still complicit in passing the government propaganda, without qualification, to the people as truth. They were NOT duped by the administration, or the intelligence services, they complied with them. Further, they would often not report the doubts that the intelligence community were raising prior to the invasion! I welcome the very late conversion of the mainstream media to reporting what really happened, (www.whatreallyhappened.com have already been doing this for some years as have rense.com, informationclearinghouse.info, prisonplanet.com davidicke.com antiwar.com amongst many others ) But now they need to look at the genuine, unanswered questions relating to 911 too, especially the controlled, pre-planned demolition of WTC7 and the prior arranged, multiple 'miitary exercises' taking place that day under the direct control of VP Dick Cheney. We are often told 'the world changed on 911, and 911 is constantly used to validate the on-going destruction of civil liberties at home, and creation of terrorist threat abroad. When the truth of 911 is generally acknowledged as an 'at least' assisted inside job engineered, or allowed, to succeed by the Neo-con cabal. Then, prehaps, the whole phoney war-on-terror house of cards may come crashing down and end this nightmare of delusion, destruction and death.*
I used to believed that Bush and Cheney lied us to war, and I argued that they were warned of the lack of evidence to support their arguments about Iraq's WMD and yet they continued to push those discredited and debunked claims. Thus supporting my argument that they deliberately lied.
I was wrong.
For them to lie, they would have to know that what they were saying was not true. They were told on many occasions by the UN, foreign intelligence and their own CIA, NSA and others that what they were claiming was not supported by evidence on the ground. That the intelligence could not be corroborated. However, they refused to even acknowledge for a nanosecond, that anything other than their fantasies could ever be real. They genuinely could not accept and therefore did not hear anything that contradicted their pre-created fantasy.
Worse, they created offices within the administration, The Office of Special Plans (under Rumsfeld), The Whitehouse Iraq Group (Under Cheney) that cherry picked and molded intelligence around their own delusional plans. How far did they go to create the reality they believed had to be real? The aluminum Tubes story was total nonsense and the Yellowcake Uranium from Africa was based on a known forgery, but still they believed this self-generated hallucination. The Mobile labs, were in fact Hydrogen balloon inflators, this was easily discoverable, they only had to look at the British receipts! Every single claim made by the administration in public in support of their fantasy world was very quickly proven wrong. How far did the administration go to create their reality? Was Valerie Plame outed as a CIA agent because her team uncovered and prevented the neo-cons from illegally smuggling WMD into Iraq to frame Saddam?
Like a teenager on LSD believing he could fly, they threw themselves off the roof of reality.
They did not therefore lie, but what they did do was far worse, they created policy that ultimately took us to a continuing quagmire of death and destruction based on their paranoid delusion. The Bush/Cheney administration in Washington and the Blair Government in London are not mentally fit to hold office. They are mentally unstable. In earlier, pre-politically correct days, they would be called lunatics. They are psychotic megalomaniacs with paranoid delusions and persecution complexes, add this to the Resident in thief's messianic delusion, linked to an over-compensation to his inferiority complex, and drug/alcohol brain damage and you get an administration that should not have control of a TV remote, let alone the worlds Weapons of Total Destruction.
They should be locked up in secure padded cells for their own, and for the rest of the planet's, safety.
The danger here is that if the level of delusional fantasy needed, (by the collective lunacy of the UK/US administrations), is one that has already created the disastrous Iraq war, then what's next?
These guys NEED to be locked up and QUICK!
Give me a liar over a lunatic everytime.
Friday, November 18, 2005
I wanted to write this:
In this article, Justin Raimondo, again, succintly and with a deft attention to detail, manages to put into one column, what I would take 10 to cover in equal depth. Kudos to Justin.
I would simply take minor exception to one point. As I have come to realise over the recent past, reading as I have on the 'non-reality based' philosophy of the neo-cons, that the neo-cons did not actually lie us to war at all.
No, it is worse than that. For the situation to become as it is now, the neo-cons would either have had to not realise and be genuinely in error about the WMD and reception of the iraqis to the western invaders and so prove themselves to be too stupid to hold office, or they lied or worse, they knew they were wrong, but genuinely convinced themselves that they were right and so are dangerously delusional.
They claim that they are so big and powerful that they create the reality on the ground, international law and foriegn and domestic observers be damned! But when their delusional reality is tested by ACTUAL reality, there fake, wishfull thinking version becomes a disaster. Their delusions account for, 'no civilians targetted with white phosphorus', as there were no civilians in Fallujah. They were all enemy combatants in a free-fire zone. Unfortunately for the women, children, babies, elderly and infirm, the white phosphorus was only too real.
What we have in America and the UK at this time is not lying neo-cons, or sadly, even stupid neocons, but dangerously powerful, paranoid delusional neocons with nukes. These people are psychologically unfit to hold any position of power or influence anywhere in the world. I wouldn't even give them the remote control to the TV.
Shame the 25th ammendment only applies to the president and not the whole lunatic bunch of the neocon nutjobs. That include the neo-cons in the Senate, Congress, Parliament and the media too.
They have all rushed this world closer to the brink of a nuclear WW3 based on their paranoid delusions, creating fake terrorism, 911, 7/7, Afghanistan, Iraq, a global backlash against imperialist USA/UK et al in their wake.
Thankfully, we are just starting to see the beginning of the end for these psychopaths.
As the Plamegate controversy starts to eat away at their base and support like a cancer, I agree with Justin, Fetch the popcorn!
./ later.
I would simply take minor exception to one point. As I have come to realise over the recent past, reading as I have on the 'non-reality based' philosophy of the neo-cons, that the neo-cons did not actually lie us to war at all.
No, it is worse than that. For the situation to become as it is now, the neo-cons would either have had to not realise and be genuinely in error about the WMD and reception of the iraqis to the western invaders and so prove themselves to be too stupid to hold office, or they lied or worse, they knew they were wrong, but genuinely convinced themselves that they were right and so are dangerously delusional.
They claim that they are so big and powerful that they create the reality on the ground, international law and foriegn and domestic observers be damned! But when their delusional reality is tested by ACTUAL reality, there fake, wishfull thinking version becomes a disaster. Their delusions account for, 'no civilians targetted with white phosphorus', as there were no civilians in Fallujah. They were all enemy combatants in a free-fire zone. Unfortunately for the women, children, babies, elderly and infirm, the white phosphorus was only too real.
What we have in America and the UK at this time is not lying neo-cons, or sadly, even stupid neocons, but dangerously powerful, paranoid delusional neocons with nukes. These people are psychologically unfit to hold any position of power or influence anywhere in the world. I wouldn't even give them the remote control to the TV.
Shame the 25th ammendment only applies to the president and not the whole lunatic bunch of the neocon nutjobs. That include the neo-cons in the Senate, Congress, Parliament and the media too.
They have all rushed this world closer to the brink of a nuclear WW3 based on their paranoid delusions, creating fake terrorism, 911, 7/7, Afghanistan, Iraq, a global backlash against imperialist USA/UK et al in their wake.
Thankfully, we are just starting to see the beginning of the end for these psychopaths.
As the Plamegate controversy starts to eat away at their base and support like a cancer, I agree with Justin, Fetch the popcorn!
./ later.
Wednesday, November 16, 2005
The UK committed war crimes in Iraq too
This is more evidence of the mandacity, the lies and the evil depths to which our leaders have sunk.
We have liberated Iraq from an evil dictator to let them live under an avalanche of Crime, rapes, murders, kidnappings, terrorism and with a worse supply of power, food, water and medicines than under Saddam Hussien, We have used, or supported the use of, internationally banned chemical weapons against civillians.
Don't give me shit about white phosferous NOT being a chemical weapon! it's a chemical and it's a weapon! It's a fucking chemical weapon. PERIOD!!!
We are told by the Pentagon and the UK MOD and the UK Defense Secretary that these were not used against civilians, well that is PURELY a matter of cowardly and sickening semantics.
The US Military, supported by the UK military, cut off the water, sanitation, power and medication to an entire city. They then attacked the hospital, killing patients and doctors and nurses, this in itself was a warcrime. They then prevented women, children, elderly and disabled people from leaving the city. They shot and killed almost everything that moved, destroying Mosques, Clinics, museums and cultural and humanitarian facilities on their way to the total destruction of 75% of the city.
The US and UK uses weasel words to defend it's indefensible actions, words like enemy combatants, and free-fire zone. do you want to see an enemy combatant?
Here's one after the US finished with it:
After all those infants are a fearful enemy. A 300lb Marine with automatic weapons, air support, armoured vehicles and white phosferous needs to be very carefull with such a poweful enemy!
The whole city was turned into a free-fire zone, meaning that everything within the city and out including the Euphrates river, was thought of as having NO CIVILIANS in it. Women, children, babies, the elderly, the disabled, cats, dogs and any other living entity within Fallujah, whether a fighter or not, was DESIGNATED BY THE US AS AN ENEMY COMBATANT AND THEREFORE AS A LEGITIMATE TARGET!
the rules of engagement for a free-fire zone are "KILL EVERYTHING!!!"
Undoubtedly, there were civilians in Fallujah and they were targeted and killed with a weapon (that uses the effect of it's chemical interaction with the air to burn anything it meets so long as there is air present) that has also been banned by laws signed by many countries throughout the world.
Cowardly, deliberately misleading weasel words notwithstanding, civilians were targeted and killed with an internationally banned chemical weapon in Iraq by US troops supported by the US and UK Governments!
What happened in fallujah was as serious a war-crime as it gets (short of using nukes), and we are trying Saddam Hussien for lesser things right now.
ANYBODY that even attempts to describe what happened there as legal, necessary or right is a supporter of war crimes and is an enemy of humanity. Pure and Simple!
./later
We have liberated Iraq from an evil dictator to let them live under an avalanche of Crime, rapes, murders, kidnappings, terrorism and with a worse supply of power, food, water and medicines than under Saddam Hussien, We have used, or supported the use of, internationally banned chemical weapons against civillians.
Don't give me shit about white phosferous NOT being a chemical weapon! it's a chemical and it's a weapon! It's a fucking chemical weapon. PERIOD!!!
We are told by the Pentagon and the UK MOD and the UK Defense Secretary that these were not used against civilians, well that is PURELY a matter of cowardly and sickening semantics.
The defence secretary said he could not answer for the US use of the substance.
But he said: "We do not use white phosphorus, or indeed any other form of munition or weaponry, against civilians...
"We do not use it for anything other than a smokescreen to protect our troops when in action."
A smokescreen to defend the political crimes against humanity commited in Fallujah more like. Fallujah was a civilian center that was also home to Iraqis who believed they were fighting for their homeland against foreign invaders, much as I would similarly fight against anyone who invaded the UK. This is not praise or glorification of the resistance fighters, as many of their acts of violence and depravity can never be condoned or supported in any way, the City was a den of thieves and criminals and violent evil people. However it was also home to thousands and thousands of innocent civilians too, many of whom fled before the attacks, but many of whom also never managed to escape and were killed when they attempted to do so.
The US Military, supported by the UK military, cut off the water, sanitation, power and medication to an entire city. They then attacked the hospital, killing patients and doctors and nurses, this in itself was a warcrime. They then prevented women, children, elderly and disabled people from leaving the city. They shot and killed almost everything that moved, destroying Mosques, Clinics, museums and cultural and humanitarian facilities on their way to the total destruction of 75% of the city.
The US and UK uses weasel words to defend it's indefensible actions, words like enemy combatants, and free-fire zone. do you want to see an enemy combatant?
Here's one after the US finished with it:
After all those infants are a fearful enemy. A 300lb Marine with automatic weapons, air support, armoured vehicles and white phosferous needs to be very carefull with such a poweful enemy!
The whole city was turned into a free-fire zone, meaning that everything within the city and out including the Euphrates river, was thought of as having NO CIVILIANS in it. Women, children, babies, the elderly, the disabled, cats, dogs and any other living entity within Fallujah, whether a fighter or not, was DESIGNATED BY THE US AS AN ENEMY COMBATANT AND THEREFORE AS A LEGITIMATE TARGET!
the rules of engagement for a free-fire zone are "KILL EVERYTHING!!!"
Undoubtedly, there were civilians in Fallujah and they were targeted and killed with a weapon (that uses the effect of it's chemical interaction with the air to burn anything it meets so long as there is air present) that has also been banned by laws signed by many countries throughout the world.
Cowardly, deliberately misleading weasel words notwithstanding, civilians were targeted and killed with an internationally banned chemical weapon in Iraq by US troops supported by the US and UK Governments!
What happened in fallujah was as serious a war-crime as it gets (short of using nukes), and we are trying Saddam Hussien for lesser things right now.
ANYBODY that even attempts to describe what happened there as legal, necessary or right is a supporter of war crimes and is an enemy of humanity. Pure and Simple!
./later
Who bombed the Jordanian hotels?
Take a good look at this image:
supposedly this was the aftermath of a suicide bomber with an explosive belt tied to his chest. OK how come the tables where not blown to bits? it seems unlikely to me that the tables were moved there after the blasts and then placed in a crimescene.
The blast is powerful enough to rip a human to shreds, blast through the ceiling of the room, but, yet, not disturb the tablecloth? and how considerate of the suicide bomber not to get any of his blood on the walls. Oh, and how considerate of the Jordanian security forces to evacuate all the Israeli guests, but why did they forget the Jordanian guests or the other nationalities:
However, the other article appeared earlier and in my opinion is more reliable due to the fact that the other evidence in this case refutes later testimony and media assertions.
This LA Times article states:
The patsy is created and led before the worlds media so that we know who to blame.
Dig deeper people, the truth is not so hard to find. This was a wet false flag psy-op to create support, in the west, for the war on terror.
See This article for more...
./ later
supposedly this was the aftermath of a suicide bomber with an explosive belt tied to his chest. OK how come the tables where not blown to bits? it seems unlikely to me that the tables were moved there after the blasts and then placed in a crimescene.
The blast is powerful enough to rip a human to shreds, blast through the ceiling of the room, but, yet, not disturb the tablecloth? and how considerate of the suicide bomber not to get any of his blood on the walls. Oh, and how considerate of the Jordanian security forces to evacuate all the Israeli guests, but why did they forget the Jordanian guests or the other nationalities:
33 Jordanians
6 Iraqis
2 Bahrainis
1 Saudi
1 American
1 Indonesian
2 Chinese
(Note, no Israeli's in that list from the bbc website)
This Haaretz article denies the earlier claims.
(Note, no Israeli's in that list from the bbc website)
A number of Israelis staying yesterday at the Radisson SAS were evacuated before the bombing by Jordanian security forces, apparently due to a specific security alert. They were escorted back to Israel by security personnel.
This Haaretz article denies the earlier claims.
However, the other article appeared earlier and in my opinion is more reliable due to the fact that the other evidence in this case refutes later testimony and media assertions.
This LA Times article states:
The image at the top of this article clearly shows the aftermath of an explosive planted ABOVE the room, Israelis are forwarned and evacuated,
Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations.
"It means there was excellent intelligence that this thing was going to happen," said Guiora, a former leader of the Israel Defense Forces who now heads the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. "The question that needs to be answered is why weren't the Jordanians working at the hotel similarly removed?"
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The patsy is created and led before the worlds media so that we know who to blame.
Dig deeper people, the truth is not so hard to find. This was a wet false flag psy-op to create support, in the west, for the war on terror.
See This article for more...
./ later
What a load of CRAP!
ITN News: Jack Straw shocked by Baghdad abuse allegations
7.59AM, Wed Nov 16 2005
OK so Mr Straw is shocked? really? I wonder why he hasn't expressed the same outrage against VP Dick Cheney? It is Cheney after-all that wants the CIA to be exempt from torture.The Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has condemned the alleged abuse of 170 detainees held by Iraqi security forces in Baghdad.
He said he was "deeply shocked" after US troops discovered the malnourished inmates at an interior ministry detention centre on Sunday.
Washington has also said it's troubled by the discovery after some of the inmates were found to be showing signs of apparent torture. Iraqi's prime minister has ordered a full investigation.
He said: "Such behaviour is totally unacceptable. I very much welcome the immediate investigation announced by Iraqi prime minister Ja'afari today and his confirmation that such practices are completely contrary to Iraqi government policy.
"Whoever carried out this abuse must be caught and brought to justice, regardless of rank or background. We look forward to seeing the results of this investigation as soon as possible.
"Steps must be taken to prevent this sort of incident happening again."
Or what about the President, GW Bush?
Those limitations do not extend to the CIA, however. Citing “national security”, the Bush administration has vigorously argued that the CIA be excluded from the restrictions. Bush has threatened to veto a Senate bill to ban torture - McCain is its chief proponent.Jack straw should, perhaps, aim his shock and revulsion at the administration that supported and encouraged torture in the first place.
Now I ask myself, Why did we replace Saddam and in what way are Iraqis better off?
Friday, November 11, 2005
Remember
Today at the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month we fall silent to remember the sacrifice of our forefathers who gave their lives to defeat tyranny and fascism. To fight against police states, to fight against detention without trial, to fight against states that use torture and murder as a main plank of policy.
I Remember those heroes and their fight. As the UK and the US routinely use intelligence taken from torture victims, use internationally banned chemical weapons against civilians and desperately attempt to gain total surveillance and detention without trial here, I think their fight continues; not in a physical or violent way, but in a democratic way.
Those MP's who voted against the detention without trial are continuing that fight and those heroes who sacrificed so much for so many would, I believe, be rightly proud that their sacrifice has not been wasted.
Never forget, Never Give Up, Never Surrender.
I Remember those heroes and their fight. As the UK and the US routinely use intelligence taken from torture victims, use internationally banned chemical weapons against civilians and desperately attempt to gain total surveillance and detention without trial here, I think their fight continues; not in a physical or violent way, but in a democratic way.
Those MP's who voted against the detention without trial are continuing that fight and those heroes who sacrificed so much for so many would, I believe, be rightly proud that their sacrifice has not been wasted.
Never forget, Never Give Up, Never Surrender.
Thursday, November 10, 2005
How delusional can they be?
So now the UK Labour party cabinet believe that Blair's authority has been enhanced by losing the terrorism vote and being kicked in the balls by his own back-benchers!
If anyone can explain to me how this can be, email me, because according to John Reid, Bliar's reputation and authority is enhanced when he loses votes. Sorry, I just don't get it!!!
Interestingly, John Major survived 5 years with a much smaller majority, and even a minority government for a while and only lost 4 votes in all that time, That was after an economic recession, and a 4th election victory.
By contrast, Blair with a majority of 66 has been defeated after a few months.
He is a weaker and poorer leader than John Major. Any one can seem like a strong leader with a Government majority of 160+ as were Blairs first two terms.
Of course the Labour party barely won the election anyway with 35% of the voting electorate and only 22% of the adult population supporting Blair, a massive majority went against Blair at the election. He only got 66 seat majority due to the skewed seating boundries that gave labour 60+ seats based on what could have been equal vote numbers against the tories. had the boundries been accurate, labour should have a minority Government.
Blair is now a wounded lame duck with no real power, his political future is in the hands of his back-benchers and he has ZERO authority. The Blatant lies and arrogance of the Labour cabinet will turn even more people off labour.
It was breath-taking arrogance and sleaze that finished the tories. Labour are already much worse than the tories at their worst.
How can the cabinet ministers who trotted out onto the media's screens today say what they do with a straight face? How stupid do they think we are?
I am just glad that I am now, finally, witnessing the end of the delusional, discredited, disrespectful, venal, dishonest, corrupt, obnoxious, catastrophic, quasi-fascist murdering criminals, hell bent on invading a country that was according to their own internal, draft dossiers, NO THREAT TO US OR IT'S OWN NEIGHBOURS!
Now they are sliding slowly into their own pit of paranoid delusional incomprehensible lies and ultimately their own destruction, I am satisfied and enjoying watching their slow demise. When they hit the bottom and are thrown from power under a wave of public revulsion, we should charge them with their crimes and bring them to justice.
I urge all people who have agreed with my writing in the past, to manifest this reality for themselves too. Believe in it. It IS happening.
./later
If anyone can explain to me how this can be, email me, because according to John Reid, Bliar's reputation and authority is enhanced when he loses votes. Sorry, I just don't get it!!!
Interestingly, John Major survived 5 years with a much smaller majority, and even a minority government for a while and only lost 4 votes in all that time, That was after an economic recession, and a 4th election victory.
By contrast, Blair with a majority of 66 has been defeated after a few months.
He is a weaker and poorer leader than John Major. Any one can seem like a strong leader with a Government majority of 160+ as were Blairs first two terms.
Of course the Labour party barely won the election anyway with 35% of the voting electorate and only 22% of the adult population supporting Blair, a massive majority went against Blair at the election. He only got 66 seat majority due to the skewed seating boundries that gave labour 60+ seats based on what could have been equal vote numbers against the tories. had the boundries been accurate, labour should have a minority Government.
Blair is now a wounded lame duck with no real power, his political future is in the hands of his back-benchers and he has ZERO authority. The Blatant lies and arrogance of the Labour cabinet will turn even more people off labour.
It was breath-taking arrogance and sleaze that finished the tories. Labour are already much worse than the tories at their worst.
How can the cabinet ministers who trotted out onto the media's screens today say what they do with a straight face? How stupid do they think we are?
I am just glad that I am now, finally, witnessing the end of the delusional, discredited, disrespectful, venal, dishonest, corrupt, obnoxious, catastrophic, quasi-fascist murdering criminals, hell bent on invading a country that was according to their own internal, draft dossiers, NO THREAT TO US OR IT'S OWN NEIGHBOURS!
Now they are sliding slowly into their own pit of paranoid delusional incomprehensible lies and ultimately their own destruction, I am satisfied and enjoying watching their slow demise. When they hit the bottom and are thrown from power under a wave of public revulsion, we should charge them with their crimes and bring them to justice.
I urge all people who have agreed with my writing in the past, to manifest this reality for themselves too. Believe in it. It IS happening.
./later
Wednesday, November 09, 2005
Rejoice, yet beware
Rejoice that the House of Commons has finally found the will to be democratic. Blair defeated, now let's impeach him and try him for war crimes.
However, let's not loose sight of the fact that the extent of the detainment without charge within our quazi-police state has just been doubled.
If this law passes, Innocent people can be removed from society, without being charged of any crime, for 28 days.
Blair has tried to drag the UK further into a totalitarian police state. He has used the problem reaction solution tactic, and terrorism (sponsored by elements within our own security services) to try to justify it. It is a tactic dictators have used for centuries. Our Historic Parliament has given a small way in to this, but stopped at full complience. Let's hope they can do even better with ID cards and other draconian and un-necessary legislation and reject that outright.
I am very happy tonight, but, We are actually closer to the total police state, but the commons has, at least, slowed the charge.
./ later
However, let's not loose sight of the fact that the extent of the detainment without charge within our quazi-police state has just been doubled.
If this law passes, Innocent people can be removed from society, without being charged of any crime, for 28 days.
Blair has tried to drag the UK further into a totalitarian police state. He has used the problem reaction solution tactic, and terrorism (sponsored by elements within our own security services) to try to justify it. It is a tactic dictators have used for centuries. Our Historic Parliament has given a small way in to this, but stopped at full complience. Let's hope they can do even better with ID cards and other draconian and un-necessary legislation and reject that outright.
I am very happy tonight, but, We are actually closer to the total police state, but the commons has, at least, slowed the charge.
./ later
It's time for honesty
The LA Times article shows the US and UK LIED about iraq's WMD. The mainstream media ought now to grow the balls to actually ask questions of the liars and publicly hold them to account for their lies. Not ask them a question and accept their answer as truth, but the actually listen to the answer and ask themselves, hang on, does this tie in with what we already know to be true?
For example, let's not get lost in this bullshit about intelligence failures!
THE INTELLIGENCE DID NOT FAIL! IT WAS ACCURATE! IT SAID THE CLAIMS OF BUSH AND BLAIR ET AL WERE BULLSHIT AND COULD NOT STAND UP TO SCRUTINY.
The time has come for the mainstream media to attempt to get back to even the slightest amount of integrity it had and now ask about the leadership ignoring intelligence and deliberately lying about intelligence to further their agenda of illegal regime change in Iraq.
They have missapropriated govenment funds, lied to Parliament and To Congress and the Senate, Lied to the public, commited mass murder and attrocities and scapegoated and persecuted anyone who has got in their way.
They lied, innocents died!
As Jon Stewart wished, "If only lies left semen stains!"
I re-produce the article below as I hold it to be too important to not risk it being lost in the memory hole.
Lying with intelligence
WHO IN THE White House knew about DITSUM No. 044-02 and when did they know it?
That's the newly declassified smoking-gun document, originally prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency in February 2002 but ignored by President Bush. Its declassification this weekend blows another huge hole in Bush's claim that he was acting on the best intelligence available when he pitched the invasion of Iraq as a way to prevent an Al Qaeda terror attack using weapons of mass destruction.
The report demolished the credibility of the key Al Qaeda informant the administration relied on to make its claim that a working alliance existed between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. It was circulated widely within the U.S. government a full eight months before Bush used the prisoner's lies to argue for an invasion of Iraq because "we've learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gases."
Al Qaeda senior military trainer Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi — a Libyan captured in Pakistan in 2001 — was probably "intentionally misleading the debriefers," the DIA report concluded in one of two paragraphs finally declassified at the request of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and released by his office over the weekend. The report also said: "Ibn al-Shaykh has been undergoing debriefs for several weeks and may be describing scenarios to the debriefers that he knows will retain their interest."
He got that right. Folks in the highest places were very interested in claims along the lines Libi was peddling, even though they went against both logic and the preponderance of intelligence gathered to that point about possible collaboration between two enemies of the U.S. that were fundamentally at odds with each other. Al Qaeda was able to create a base in Iraq only after the U.S. overthrow of Hussein, not before. "Saddam's regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements," accurately noted the DIA.
Yet Bush used the informant's already discredited tall tale in his key Oct. 7, 2002, speech just before the Senate voted on whether to authorize the use of force in Iraq and again in two speeches in February, just ahead of the invasion.
Leading up to the war, Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to sell it to the United Nations, while Vice President Dick Cheney, national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith repeated it breathlessly for homeland audiences. The con worked, and Americans came to believe the lie that Hussein was associated with the Sept. 11 hijackers.
Even CIA Director George Tenet publicly fell into line, ignoring his own agency's dissent that Libi would not have been in a position to know what he said he knew. In fact, Libi, according to the DIA, could not name any Iraqis involved, any chemical or biological material used or where the training allegedly occurred. In January 2004, the prisoner recanted his story, and the next month the CIA withdrew all intelligence reports based on his false information.
One by one, the exotic intelligence factoids Bush's researchers culled from raw intelligence data files to publicly bolster their claim of imminent threat — the yellowcake uranium from Niger, the aluminum tubes for processing uranium, the Prague meeting with Mohamed Atta, the discredited Iraqi informants "Curveball" and Ahmad Chalabi — have been exposed as previously known frauds.
When it came to selling an invasion of Iraq it had wanted to launch before 9/11, the Bush White House systematically ignored the best available intelligence from U.S. agencies or any other reliable source.
It should be remembered that while Bush and his gang were successfully scaring the wits out of us about the alleged Iraq-Al Qaeda alliance, U.N. weapons inspectors were on the ground in Iraq. Weapons inspectors Hans Blix and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei promised they could finish scouring the country if given a few more months. But instead, they were abruptly chased out by an invasion necessitated by what the president told us was a "unique and urgent threat."
Bush exploited the worldwide horror felt over the 9/11 attacks to justify the Iraq invasion. His outrageous claim, repeated over and over before and after he dragged the nation into an unnecessary war, was never supported by a single piece of credible evidence. The Bush defense of what is arguably the biggest lie ever put over on the American people is that everyone had gotten the intelligence wrong. Not so at the highest level of U.S. intelligence, as DITSUM No. 044-02 so clearly shows. How could the president not have known?
For example, let's not get lost in this bullshit about intelligence failures!
THE INTELLIGENCE DID NOT FAIL! IT WAS ACCURATE! IT SAID THE CLAIMS OF BUSH AND BLAIR ET AL WERE BULLSHIT AND COULD NOT STAND UP TO SCRUTINY.
The time has come for the mainstream media to attempt to get back to even the slightest amount of integrity it had and now ask about the leadership ignoring intelligence and deliberately lying about intelligence to further their agenda of illegal regime change in Iraq.
They have missapropriated govenment funds, lied to Parliament and To Congress and the Senate, Lied to the public, commited mass murder and attrocities and scapegoated and persecuted anyone who has got in their way.
They lied, innocents died!
As Jon Stewart wished, "If only lies left semen stains!"
I re-produce the article below as I hold it to be too important to not risk it being lost in the memory hole.
Lying with intelligence
By Robert Scheer:
WHO IN THE White House knew about DITSUM No. 044-02 and when did they know it?That's the newly declassified smoking-gun document, originally prepared by the Defense Intelligence Agency in February 2002 but ignored by President Bush. Its declassification this weekend blows another huge hole in Bush's claim that he was acting on the best intelligence available when he pitched the invasion of Iraq as a way to prevent an Al Qaeda terror attack using weapons of mass destruction.
The report demolished the credibility of the key Al Qaeda informant the administration relied on to make its claim that a working alliance existed between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. It was circulated widely within the U.S. government a full eight months before Bush used the prisoner's lies to argue for an invasion of Iraq because "we've learned that Iraq has trained Al Qaeda members in bomb making and poisons and deadly gases."
Al Qaeda senior military trainer Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi — a Libyan captured in Pakistan in 2001 — was probably "intentionally misleading the debriefers," the DIA report concluded in one of two paragraphs finally declassified at the request of Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.) and released by his office over the weekend. The report also said: "Ibn al-Shaykh has been undergoing debriefs for several weeks and may be describing scenarios to the debriefers that he knows will retain their interest."
He got that right. Folks in the highest places were very interested in claims along the lines Libi was peddling, even though they went against both logic and the preponderance of intelligence gathered to that point about possible collaboration between two enemies of the U.S. that were fundamentally at odds with each other. Al Qaeda was able to create a base in Iraq only after the U.S. overthrow of Hussein, not before. "Saddam's regime is intensely secular and is wary of Islamic revolutionary movements," accurately noted the DIA.
Yet Bush used the informant's already discredited tall tale in his key Oct. 7, 2002, speech just before the Senate voted on whether to authorize the use of force in Iraq and again in two speeches in February, just ahead of the invasion.
Leading up to the war, Secretary of State Colin Powell tried to sell it to the United Nations, while Vice President Dick Cheney, national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer and Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith repeated it breathlessly for homeland audiences. The con worked, and Americans came to believe the lie that Hussein was associated with the Sept. 11 hijackers.
Even CIA Director George Tenet publicly fell into line, ignoring his own agency's dissent that Libi would not have been in a position to know what he said he knew. In fact, Libi, according to the DIA, could not name any Iraqis involved, any chemical or biological material used or where the training allegedly occurred. In January 2004, the prisoner recanted his story, and the next month the CIA withdrew all intelligence reports based on his false information.
One by one, the exotic intelligence factoids Bush's researchers culled from raw intelligence data files to publicly bolster their claim of imminent threat — the yellowcake uranium from Niger, the aluminum tubes for processing uranium, the Prague meeting with Mohamed Atta, the discredited Iraqi informants "Curveball" and Ahmad Chalabi — have been exposed as previously known frauds.
When it came to selling an invasion of Iraq it had wanted to launch before 9/11, the Bush White House systematically ignored the best available intelligence from U.S. agencies or any other reliable source.
It should be remembered that while Bush and his gang were successfully scaring the wits out of us about the alleged Iraq-Al Qaeda alliance, U.N. weapons inspectors were on the ground in Iraq. Weapons inspectors Hans Blix and 2005 Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei promised they could finish scouring the country if given a few more months. But instead, they were abruptly chased out by an invasion necessitated by what the president told us was a "unique and urgent threat."
Bush exploited the worldwide horror felt over the 9/11 attacks to justify the Iraq invasion. His outrageous claim, repeated over and over before and after he dragged the nation into an unnecessary war, was never supported by a single piece of credible evidence. The Bush defense of what is arguably the biggest lie ever put over on the American people is that everyone had gotten the intelligence wrong. Not so at the highest level of U.S. intelligence, as DITSUM No. 044-02 so clearly shows. How could the president not have known?
We surrender our freedoms at great peril.
Re the have your say debate linked above:
I greatly respect democracy, freedom of speech and having differing opinions from others, and those differing from mine. In light of this I add the following: After Reading comments like, "90 days is worth it for our security", I now fully understand how Hitler came to power. Induhviduals, too cowardly to demand freedom, crawl to their political masters and beg for protection, reducing all our freedoms and destroying our way of life in a way that terrorists could only dream of. Where Hitler and the IRA failed, the British Public succeeds. Surrendering before fake threats, we spit in the face of the sacrifice of our forefathers in 2 world wars.
These heroes fought and died to protect our freedoms and our system of polititians remaining public SERVANTS. We, the public, pay for them to serve us; not for them to be our masters dictating to us when we can be free or not on a whim.
The neocon class of polititian in the US and the UK will not use these laws to protect us, but to protect themselves. They plan to subjugate us and control us through these laws. To prevent dissent to their appocolyptic visions of the future according to the PNAC principles being played out in the theatre of the governing western elite.
Thousands of people have been stopped, intimately searched, detained without charge and questioned under the terrorism act already and the vast majority of these actions have had nothing at-all whatsoever to do with terrorism. The terrorism act is a tool for the police to do what they like under the veneer of legal officialdom. The 90-day detention, unlimited house arrest, and ID Cards will be more tools in the totalitarian toolkit that they must be be allowed to use.
Demand your Freedom now and refuse to have any part of the neocon agenda.
See whare we are heading:
Fallujah nightmares: download the video and spread the link everywhere.
I greatly respect democracy, freedom of speech and having differing opinions from others, and those differing from mine. In light of this I add the following: After Reading comments like, "90 days is worth it for our security", I now fully understand how Hitler came to power. Induhviduals, too cowardly to demand freedom, crawl to their political masters and beg for protection, reducing all our freedoms and destroying our way of life in a way that terrorists could only dream of. Where Hitler and the IRA failed, the British Public succeeds. Surrendering before fake threats, we spit in the face of the sacrifice of our forefathers in 2 world wars.
These heroes fought and died to protect our freedoms and our system of polititians remaining public SERVANTS. We, the public, pay for them to serve us; not for them to be our masters dictating to us when we can be free or not on a whim.
The neocon class of polititian in the US and the UK will not use these laws to protect us, but to protect themselves. They plan to subjugate us and control us through these laws. To prevent dissent to their appocolyptic visions of the future according to the PNAC principles being played out in the theatre of the governing western elite.
Thousands of people have been stopped, intimately searched, detained without charge and questioned under the terrorism act already and the vast majority of these actions have had nothing at-all whatsoever to do with terrorism. The terrorism act is a tool for the police to do what they like under the veneer of legal officialdom. The 90-day detention, unlimited house arrest, and ID Cards will be more tools in the totalitarian toolkit that they must be be allowed to use.
Demand your Freedom now and refuse to have any part of the neocon agenda.
See whare we are heading:
Fallujah nightmares: download the video and spread the link everywhere.
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