A few days ago, President Bush discussed the Global War On Terror at the
Military Officers Association of America. In his speech, which was as littered
with nonsense and hyperbole, one paragraph stood out as an example of how large
the big lie has become and the recklessness with which the American president
spreads it. Bush stated:
"Last October, Iran's President declared in a speech that some people ask
-- in his words -- "whether a world without the United States and Zionism
can be achieved… I say that this… goal is achievable." Less
than three months ago, Iran's President declared to America and other Western
powers: "open your eyes and see the fate of pharaoh… if you do
not abandon the path of falsehood… your doomed destiny will be annihilation." Less
than two months ago, he warned: "The anger of Muslims may reach an explosion
point soon. If such a day comes… [America and the West] should know
that the waves of the blast will not remain within the boundaries of our
region." He
also delivered this message to the American people: "If you would like
to have good relations with the Iranian nation in the future… bow
down before the greatness of the Iranian nation and surrender. If you don't
accept [to do this], the Iranian nation will… force you to surrender
and bow down."
The strange thing is that the only references for the
above quotes come from the web
site of the White House itself, with no verifiable references supplied
for corroboration. During his speech, Bush made reference to a National
Security Council document posted on the White House website entitled:
"Strategy for Winning the War on Terror Long-term approach: Advancing effective
democracy". The document constitutes an outlining of the current state of the
"war on terror" and what the American government is doing to fight it. In the
interest of sanity, I took the time to answer the points and allegations in
each paragraph of the document with the result that, once again, simple logic
forces me to conclude that the entire "war
on terror" is nothing but one massive farce of global proprotions. The National
Security Council document text is in italics with my comments in blue:
The long-term solution for winning the War on Terror is the advancement of
freedom and human dignity through effective democracy. Elections are the most
visible sign of a free society and can play a critical role in advancing effective
democracy.
Immediate hypocrisy from the White House. It is beyond
dispute that a majority of Americans did not vote for Bush in the 2000 election
and that he was appointed to the Presidency by a few Judges. There is also
much evidence to suggest that his 2004 "win" was based on vote fraud.
Today the UK
Observer reports:
The myth of fair elections in America
Everyone remembers the debacle in Florida, 2000. The recounts, the law suits
and the eventual deciding of a presidential election - not by the voters -
but by the Supreme Court. The memory still causes a collective shudder to America's
body politic.
Which makes the fact that America's system of voting is now even more suspect,
more complicated, and more open to abuse than ever before so utterly shocking.
Across the country a bewildering series of scandals or dubious practises are
proliferating beyond control. The prospect of a 'second Florida' is now more
likely not less. There are many - and not all of them are conspiracy theorists
- who believed it may have happened in Ohio in 2004.
This week the venerable New York Times was the latest of many organisations
and institutions to declare that America's democratic system is simply starting
to fail. Not in terms of its democratic ideals, or some takeover by a Neocon
cabal, but by a simple collapse in its ability to count everyone's votes accurately
and fairly. [...]
The National Security Council Document continues:
But elections alone are not enough. Effective democracies honor and uphold
basic human rights, including freedom of religion, conscience, speech, assembly,
association, and press.
Guantanamo Bay, caged-in "protest zones", a mainstream
press that is clearly beholden to the government.
They are responsive to their citizens, submitting to the will of the people.
Effective democracies exercise effective sovereignty and maintain order within
their own borders, address causes of conflict peacefully
"Address causes of conflict peacefully"?! Clearly this
does not apply to the US government and its military.
protect independent and impartial systems of justice, punish crime, embrace
the rule of law, and resist corruption. Effective democracies also limit the
reach of government, protecting the institutions of civil society.
Right-wing cronies appointed to the Supreme Court by
Bush; Bush passing laws to ensure he is never brought to trial; Cheney and
Rumsfeld garnering massive government contracts for their friends in big
business. Need I say more?
In effective democracies, freedom is indivisible. They are the long-term antidote
to the ideology of terrorism today. This is the battle of ideas.
By their own actions then, the US government embraces the ideology of terrorism
today as they themselves define it.
To wage the battle of ideas effectively, we must recognize what does and does
not give rise to terrorism:
Terrorism is not the inevitable by-product of poverty. Many of the September
11 hijackers were from middle-class backgrounds, and many terrorist leaders,
like bin Laden, are from privileged upbringings.
Indeed. Many of the September 11th hijackers area also still alive. And it
is a matter of public record that Bin Laden was at one time a CIA asset.
Terrorism is not simply a result of hostility to U.S. policy in Iraq.
The United States was attacked on September 11 and many years earlier, well
before we toppled the Saddam Hussein regime. Moreover, countries that did
not participate in Coalition efforts in Iraq have not been spared from terror
attacks.
Indeed. Many armed groups have existed over the course
of the last 100 years, and those that claimed America as their enemy did
so because of the many transgressions of successive US governments against
the populations of countries all over the world. From the installation of
Pinochet in Chile to the assisting of the Tamil Tigers in Indonesia, US governments
have made enemies and provoked (and often manipulated) grass roots organisations
all over the world. Iraq is but the latest in a long list of brutal US government
actions in the name of "freedom".
Terrorism is not simply a result of Israeli-Palestinian issues. Al-Qaida
plotting for the September 11 attacks began in the 1990s, during an active
period in the peace process.
Israel was created in 1948 by way of massacre and expropriation of Palestinian
land with the direct help of the then US government. Most Middle Eastern resistance
groups are indeed a direct result of the clear injustice of the creation of
the state of Israel and the ongoing American support of that corrupt little
statelet.
Terrorism is not simply a response to our efforts to prevent terror attacks.
The al-Qaida network targeted the United States long before the United States
targeted al-Qaida. Indeed, the terrorists are emboldened more by perceptions
of weakness than by demonstrations of resolve. Terrorists lure recruits by
telling them that we are decadent, easily intimidated, and will retreat if
attacked.
Arab or Islamic "terrorism" in terms of "al-Qaeda" is
to a large extent manufactured by agents of the US British and Israeli governments.
In any case, as noted, there is more than enough justified resentment in the
Arab world to American, British and Israeli imperialist designs on their land
dating back to the beginning of the 20th century.
The terrorism we confront today springs from:
Political alienation. Transnational terrorists are recruited from populations
with no voice in their own government and see no legitimate way to promote
change in their own country. Without a stake in the existing order, they
are vulnerable to manipulation by those who advocate a perverse political
vision based on violence and destruction.
Real modern day "terrorism" (justified resistance to
oppression), specifically that arising in the Middle East, has been all but
neutralized by the American and Israeli government's stranglehold on the
region and their tactic of managing any genuine resistance to their oppression
by staged terror attacks i.e. attacks on civilian populations carried out
by agents of the American, British and Israeli governments themselves.
Grievances that can be blamed on others. The failures the terrorists
feel and see are blamed both on others and on perceived injustices from the
recent or sometimes distant past. The terrorists’ rhetoric keeps wounds
associated with this past fresh and raw, a potent motivation for revenge
and terror.
There is nothing "perceived" about the injustices meted out by the
American and Israeli government in the Middle East and around the world. Palestinians
are still confined to their "ghettos", their land confiscated and
their lives in daily peril. The most recent wounds of the Palestinian and Lebanese
people are still very much raw and very real.
Subcultures of conspiracy and misinformation. Terrorists recruit more
effectively from populations whose information about the world is contaminated
by falsehoods and corrupted by conspiracy theories. The distortions keep
alive grievances and filter out facts that would challenge popular prejudices
and self-serving propaganda.
"Terrorists" (justified resistance fighters) have no need of "conspiracy
theories". The entire Arab population of the Middle East have ample evidence
of American and Israeli designs on their land and resources in the form of
American-made bombs dropping on their homes and heads. This is clear evidence
of conspiracy that these people have lived with for at least the last 60 years.
We should note also that the above claim, according
to the Bush government, that conspiracy theories are one of the sources of "terrorism" is
more than likely a direct reference to US-based 9/11 researchers and other
exposers of government conspiracy. In essence, the US government has effectively
defined the at least 30% of the American population who believe that the Bush
government knew in advance about the 9/11 attacks, terrorists.
An ideology that justifies murder. Terrorism ultimately depends upon the
appeal of an ideology that excuses or even glorifies the deliberate killing
of innocents. Islam has been twisted and made to serve an evil end, as in
other times and places other religions have been similarly abused.
Not in other times and places, in America, today, Christianity
is being used by the White House to justify the murder of 250,000 Iraqi civilians.
We need only remember that Bush claimed that "god told me to invade Iraq".
Similarly, the teaching of the very earthly Zionist religious texts the Talmud
and Torah have been used for decades to sanction the murder of innocent Palestinian
and other Arab peoples of the Middle East by successive Israeli governments.
Real "terrorism" (properly described as 'justified resistance to
oppression') has no history of targetting innocent civilians but rather the
Western governments that have always been the source of oppression and injustice
around the world.
Defeating terrorism in the long run requires that each of these factors be
addressed. Effective democracy provides a counter to each, diminishing the
underlying conditions terrorists seek to exploit.
In place of alienation, democracy offers an ownership stake in society,
a chance to shape one’s own future.
Not in America, where poverty has never been so widespread and the alienation
of minorities appears to be an official government policy.
In place of festering grievances, democracy offers the rule of law, the
peaceful resolution of disputes, and the habits of advancing interests through
compromise.
Not in America, a country with the highest number of incarcerated citizens
per capita in the world
In place of a culture of conspiracy and misinformation, democracy offers
freedom of speech, independent media, and the marketplace of ideas, which
can expose and discredit falsehoods, prejudices, and dishonest propaganda.
Not in America, where the mainstream media simply parrots government propaganda
and millions of Americans have been effectively brainwashed into supporting
illegal wars and simply ignoring evidence that their government is lying to
them.
In place of an ideology that justifies murder, democracy offers a respect
for human dignity that abhors the deliberate targeting of innocent civilians.
The history of America over the past 100 years is the
history of repeated violations of the sovereignty of other nations together
with the terrorising of their populations in order to "secure American interests".
America stands for the denigration of human dignity, both in the US and around
the world.
Democracy is the antithesis of terrorist tyranny, which is why the terrorists
denounce it and are willing to kill the innocent to stop it.
We need only look to current American actions in Iraq. 10 permanent US military
bases around the country, a 100 acre US embassy in the middle of Baghdad. An
Iraqi government that can do nothing without agreement from the White House.
American democracy is tyranny and terrorism, yet the White House, as the psychopathic
mind so often does, projects its actions on to others.
Democracy is based on empowerment, while the terrorists’ ideology
is based on enslavement. Democracies expand the freedom of their citizens,
while the terrorists seek to impose a single set of narrow beliefs. Democracy
sees individuals as equal in worth and dignity, having an inherent potential
to create, govern themselves, and exercise basic freedoms of speech and conscience.
The terrorists see individuals as objects to be exploited, and then to be
ruled and oppressed.
Again, we find the truth at 180 degrees from the assertions of the White House.
The truth is that American Democracy is based on enslavement. American Democracy
seeks to impose a single set of narrow beliefs. American Democracy sees individuals
as objects to be exploited, and then to be ruled and oppressed.
Democracies are not immune to terrorism. In some democracies, some ethnic
or religious groups are unable or unwilling to grasp the benefits of freedom
otherwise available in the society. Such groups can evidence the same alienation
and despair that the transnational terrorists exploit in undemocratic states.
This accounts for the emergence in democratic societies of homegrown terrorists – even
among second- and third-generation citizens. Even in these cases, the long-term
solution remains deepening the reach of democracy so that all citizens enjoy
its benefits. We will continue to guard against the emergence of homegrown
terrorists within our own Homeland as well.
Notice the inherent racism in the comment that: "In some democracies,
some ethnic or religious groups are unable or unwilling to grasp the benefits
of freedom". This is an attitude that goes to the heart of the US government's
idea of "democracy". Talk of alienation as a source of "terrorism" is
hubris and an invention of the US government. Genuine resistance groups form
for one reason and one reason only - to resist oppression. The fact that the
raison d'etre of the US and Israeli governments is to infiltrated, manipulate
and oppress the populations of other countries to safeguard its interests,
which gives rise to resistance groups, requires that the US and Israeli governments
label such groups "terrorists".
Consider the following news article from Sept 6th 2006:
Government
Terror Alerts Aid Terrorist Goals, Study Finds
SF Chronicle
07/09/2006
Intense media scrutiny and politicians' rhetoric heighten sense of fear, researchers
say.
With the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks fast approaching, President
Bush took to the podium Tuesday to speak to Americans about his administration's
global war on terror.
Three things can be expected from Bush's speech, according to a new study by
three Columbia University researchers: The media will repeat the president's
remarks. Public fear of terrorism will increase. And the president's poll numbers
will rise.
Those have been the effects of presidential pronouncements on terrorism since
the Sept. 11 attacks, according to political scientists Brigitte Nacos, Yaeli
Bloch-Elkon and Robert Shapiro, in a report prepared for this month's annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association.
"These are interesting findings, and confirm what many of us had suspected," said
Mark Juergensmeyer, director of Global and International Studies at UC Santa
Barbara, who reviewed the research at the request of The Chronicle.
"This public panic benefits the terrorists whose work is made easier by
an overactive government response that magnifies their efforts. In
an odd way this puts the government and the terrorists in league with one
another," he
said. "The main loser, alas, is the terrified public."
The National Security Council continues:
The strategy to counter the lies behind the terrorists’ ideology and
deny them future recruits must empower the very people the terrorists most
want to exploit: the faithful followers of Islam. We will continue to support
political reforms that empower peaceful Muslims to practice and interpret
their faith. We will work to undermine the ideological underpinnings of violent
Islamic extremism and gain the support of non-violent Muslims around the
world. The most vital work will be done within the Islamic world itself,
and Jordan, Morocco, and Indonesia, among others, have begun to make important
strides in this effort. Responsible Islamic leaders need to denounce an ideology
that distorts and exploits Islam to justify the murder of innocent people
and defiles a proud religion.
Islam has been co-opted by the American and Israeli
governments and turned into a religion of terrorists. The US government has
wasted no opportunity to talk up the "threat from Islamic terrorism" and then connected
Islamic terrorism to ordinary Muslims by murdering 250,000 innocent Iraqi civilians.
Note the 2006 terror alerts in the UK and many previous such alerts in the
US which have created a climate of fear and racism and ultimately hate towards
Muslims in those countries. Note the continuing demonisation of Palestinians,
Lebanese, Syrians and Iranians as "terrorists" by the US and Israeli
governments. The US, Israeli and British governments have waged a conscious
and determined policy to no only create "Islamic terrorism" but to
associate that concept with the 1 billion people of Muslim faith who whom we
share this world. Once ordinary people like you and I, now "terrorists" slated
for summary execution at the whim of Western and Israeli "leaders".
Many of the Muslim faith are already making this commitment at great
personal risk. They realize they are a target of this ideology of terror.
Everywhere we have joined in the fight against terrorism, Muslim allies
have stood beside us, becoming partners in this vital cause. They know
the stakes – the
survival of their own liberty, the future of their own region, the justice
and humanity of their own traditions – and the United States is proud
to stand beside them. Not only will we continue to support the efforts of our
Muslim partners overseas to reject violent extremism, we will continue to engage
with and strengthen the efforts of Muslims within the United States as well.
Through outreach programs and public diplomacy we will reveal the terrorists’ violent
extremist ideology for what it is – a form of totalitarianism following
in the path of fascism and Nazism.
Only in the lexicon of the White House could "Islamic terrorists" be
a threat to Islamic people. In the reality being crafted by the Neocons and
the Zionists, up is down, left is right and black is white. How gullible
is the American and world public? How far can the big lie be pushed?
Over the short term: Four priorities of action
The advance of freedom, opportunity, and human dignity through democracy
is the long-term solution to the transnational terror movement of today.
To create the space and time for this long-term solution to take root,
we are operating along four priorities of action in the short term.
Prevent attacks by terrorist networks. A government has no higher obligation
than to protect the lives and livelihoods of its citizens. The hard core among
our terrorist enemies cannot be reformed or deterred; they will be tracked
down, captured, or killed. They will be cut off from the network of individuals,
institutions, and other resources they depend on for support and that facilitate
their activities. The network, in turn, will be deterred, disrupted, and disabled.
Working with committed partners across the globe, we continue to use a broad
range of tools at home and abroad to take the fight to the terrorists, deny
them entry to the United States, hinder their movement across international
borders, and establish protective measures to further reduce our vulnerability
to attack.
As noted in the previously mentioned article, the Bush
government is in fact fulfilling the alleged goals of the "terrorists" they claim to be
fighting. Far from tracking down and killing hard core "terrorists",
Bush himself has stated that Osama Bin laden, the alleged mastermind of the
9/11 attacks, is no longer interesting to the White House. Instead, the Bush
government along with the Zionist Israeli government, is waging a campaign
of death and destruction in the Middle East against ordinary innocent Muslim
Arab peoples.
Attack terrorists and their capacity to operate. The United States and
our partners continue to take active and effective measures against our primary
terrorist enemies and certain other violent extremist groups that also pose
a serious and continuing threat. We are attacking these terrorists and their
capacity to operate effectively at home and abroad. Specifically, through
the use of all elements of national power, we are denying or neutralizing
what our terrorist enemies need to operate and survive:
As can be clearly seen, the only net result of the alleged
American "war
on terror" has been a decimation of civil liberties in America, an encroaching
fascist police state in the US where every citizen is a potential "terrorist"
unless they adhere to government dictates, and the murder of hundreds of thousands
of Arab civilians in the Middle East. precious few alleged "terrorists" have
been captured, yet the US and Israeli government's continue to torture and
kill innocent individuals in their internment camps in Guantanamo bay and
elsewhere.
Leaders, who provide the vision that followers strive to realize. They
also offer the necessary direction, discipline, and motivation for accomplishing
a given goal or task. Most terrorist organizations have a central figure
who embodies the cause, in addition to several operational leaders and managers
who provide guidance on a functional, regional, or local basis. The loss
of a leader can degrade a group’s cohesiveness and in some cases may
trigger its collapse. Other terrorist groups adapt by promoting experienced
cadre or decentralizing their command structures, making our challenge in
neutralizing terrorist leaders even greater.
As noted, the ideology of alleged "terror leaders" dovetails
with that of the American government to the point that the actions of the
American government in its war on terror is achieving the alleged goals of
the alleged terrorists.
Foot soldiers, which include the operatives, facilitators, and trainers
in a terrorist network. They are the lifeblood of a terrorist group – they
make it run. Technology and globalization have enhanced the ability of groups
to recruit foot soldiers to their cause, including well-educated recruits.
We and our partners will not only continue to capture and kill foot soldiers,
but will work to halt the influx of recruits into terrorist organizations
as well. Without a continuing supply of personnel to facilitate and carry
out attacks, these groups ultimately will cease to operate.
There is much evidence to suggest that the alleged terror training camps in
countries like Pakistan are being run directly or by proxy by intelligence
agencies affiliated with the US government. The Pakistani ISI for example
is widely understood to be an arm of the CIA. The alleged al-Qaeda
training camps in Pakistan are reported
to be run by the Pakistani intelligence agency ISI, which is fully supported
by the CIA.
Weapons, the tools of terrorists and the means by which they murder
to advance their cause. Terrorists exploit many avenues to develop and
acquire weapons, including through state sponsors, theft or capture, and
black market purchases. Our enemies employ existing technology – explosives, small arms, missiles
and other devices – in both conventional and unconventional ways to
terrorize and achieve mass effects. They also use non-weapon technologies
as weapons, such as the airplanes on September 11. Our greatest and gravest
concern, however, is WMD in the hands of terrorists. Preventing their acquisition
and the dire consequences of their use is a key priority of this strategy.
The international proliferation of weapons, particularly
WMDs, is rigorously controlled by the governments of Western countries. American
possesses the largest stockpile of both nuclear bombs and banned chemical
and biological weapons on the planet. If "terrorists" obtain any such weapons,
it can only be with the sanction of Western powers, particularly America.
Indeed, there exists the distinct possibility that if a nuclear or other
WMD attack is carried out against the population of a Western nation, it
will in fact have been the work of covert intelligence assets of the Western
nation itself, or Israel's Mossad. Israel possesses at least 200 nuclear
weapons and is a non-signatory to the Nuclear Non-proliferation agreement.
It is Israel therefore that poses the greatest threat to world peace due
to its long-held goal to remove, by any means, any threat to its Imperialist
designs on the Middle East.
Propaganda operations, which are used by terrorists to justify violent action
as well as inspire individuals to support or join the movement. The ability
of terrorists to exploit the Internet and 24/7 worldwide media coverage allows
them to bolster their prominence as well as feed a steady diet of radical ideology,
twisted images, and conspiracy theories to potential recruits in all corners
of the globe. Besides a global reach, these technologies allow terrorists to
propagate their message quickly, often before an effective counter to terrorist
messages can be coordinated and distributed. These are force multipliers for
our enemy.
A better example of utter fantasy and nonsense you are unlikely to find. Between
them, Israel and the US have effectively neutered the worldwide mainstream
media. Evidence of this can be found in the fact that for decades the reality
of Israel's brutal treatment of Palestinians was utterly denied to Western
audiences, leading them to believe that Israel was in fact that victim in the
Middle East rather than the aggressor - which it clearly is. We should again
take note however of the mention here of the internet and terrorism and 'conspiracy
theory'. This appears to be a clear warning to US-based internet conspiracy
theorists that their government has them in its sights.
Deny terrorists entry to the United States and disrupt their travel internationally.
Denying our enemies the tools to travel internationally and across and within
our borders significantly impedes their mobility and can inhibit their effectiveness.
They rely on illicit networks to facilitate travel and often obtain false
identification documents through theft or in-house forgery operations. We
will continue to enhance the security of the American people through a layered
system of protections along our borders, at our ports, on our roadways and
railways, in our skies, and with our international partners. We will continue
to develop and enhance security practices and technologies to reduce vulnerabilities
in the dynamic transportation network, inhibit terrorists from crossing U.S.
borders, and detect and prevent terrorist travel within the United States.
Our efforts will include improving all aspects of aviation security; promoting
secure travel and identity documents; disrupting travel facilitation networks;
improving border security and visa screening; and building international
capacity and improving international information exchange to secure travel
and combat terrorist travel. Our National Strategy to Combat Terrorist Travel
and our National Strategy for Maritime Security will help guide our efforts.
We are still waiting on an explanation as to how and why alleged chief hijacker
Mohammed Atta (whose father claimed he was alive on September 12th 2001) was
enrolled
as a student at the International Officer’s School
of Maxwell Airforce Base, with witnesses recalling him having been introduced
around at an officers' club party. Also unanswered is the question of why many
members of the bin Laden family were given permission by US government authorities
to fly out of the US on September 11th 2001 when suspicion had already fallen
on Osama. We are also none the wiser as to why the five Israeli Mossad agents
who were caught dancing and cheering and filming the collapse of the WTC were
held for two months and then expelled from the US to Israel on "immigration
violations". Apparently America's borders are only secure when the US government
wants them to be secure.
Defend potential targets of attack. Our enemies are opportunistic, exploiting
vulnerabilities and seeking alternatives to those targets with increased
security measures. The targeting trend since at least September 11 has been
away from hardened sites, such as official government facilities with formidable
security, and toward softer targets – schools, restaurants, places
of worship, and nodes of public transportation – where innocent civilians
gather and which are not always well secured. Specific targets vary, but
they tend to be symbolic and often selected because they will produce mass
casualties, economic damage, or both.
Here we are reminded of
the July 2006 case of the 'Miami
Seven' in the US, where an undercover FBI agent, posing as an
'al-Qaeda' operative, approached a group of apparently incompetent half-wits
living in a warehouse in Florida. The group's name was "the Sea of David' and
far from having anything to do with 'Islamic terrorism' they all claimed to
be Christians who "trained through the bible". In a perfect example
of how agents of the US government are actively attempting to manufacture Islamic
terrorism, the undercover FBI agent:
approached the group and asked them if they wanted to join 'al-Qaeda'
'swore one of them in' as an 'al-Qaeda' member
offered them $50,000
provided them with army boots and a video camera
suggested that they might want to blow up some government buildings
suggested that they wanted to blow up the Sears tower
suggested to them that they wanted to wage "full ground
war against the United States."
identified that one of them knew what the Sears tower was and had actually
been to Chicago - once
All of this was trumpeted in the mainstream press as
evidence of an "Islamic
terror cell" working out of Florida and planning attacks against the American
people. I kid you not, and not once was the most appropriate word used - entrapment.
The National Security Council document continues:
Deny WMD to rogue states and terrorist allies who seek to use them. Weapons
of mass destruction in the hands of terrorists is one of the gravest threats
we face. We have taken aggressive efforts to deny terrorists access to WMD-related
materials, equipment, and expertise, but we will enhance these activities through
an integrated effort at all levels of government and with the private sector
and our foreign partners to stay ahead of this dynamic and evolving threat.
In July 2006, the United States and Russia launched the Global Initiative to
Combat Nuclear Terrorism to establish an international framework to enhance
cooperation, build capacity, and act to combat the global threat of nuclear
terrorism. This initiative will help drive international focus and action to
ensure the international community is doing everything possible to prevent
nuclear weapons, materials, and knowledge from reaching the hands of terrorists.
No effort however, has ever been made to do anything about the REAL nuclear
threat to the world - America and Israel's massive stockpiles of nuclear weapons.
Deny terrorists the support and sanctuary of rogue states. The United States
and its allies and partners in the War on Terror make no distinction between
those who commit acts of terror and those who support and harbor terrorists.
Any government that chooses to be an ally of terror has chosen to be an enemy
of freedom, justice, and peace. The world will hold those regimes to account.
To break the bonds between rogue states and our terrorist enemies, we will
work to disrupt the flow of resources from states to terrorists while simultaneously
working to end state sponsorship of terrorism.
Notice how "America" suddenly becomes "the world" in
this paragraph. Quite clearly, almost every American and British, and certainly
every Israeli, administration over the past 50 years have consistently used
acts of unmitigated terrorism against other nations and their peoples to
achieve their political objectives. See this
link for a video of the testimony of ex CIA member
John Stockwell on the secret wars of American governments that have caused
the death of 6 million innocent people around the world. For committing acts
of terrorism therefore, America Britain and Israel stand alone as the most
brutal and ruthless perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
End state sponsorship of terrorism. State sponsors are a critical resource
for our terrorist enemies, often providing funds, weapons, training, safe
passage, and sanctuary. Some of these countries have developed or have the
capability to develop WMD and other destabilizing technologies that could
fall into the hands of terrorists. The United States currently designates
five state sponsors of terrorism: Iran, Syria, Sudan, North Korea, and Cuba.
We will maintain sanctions against them and promote their international isolation
until they end their support for terrorists, including the provision of sanctuary.
To further isolate these regimes and persuade other states not to sponsor
terror, we will use a range of tools and efforts to delegitimate terrorism
as an instrument of statecraft. Any act of international terrorism, whether
committed by a state or individual, is reprehensible, a threat to international
peace and security, and should be unequivocally and uniformly rejected. Similarly,
states that harbor and assist terrorists are as guilty as the terrorists,
and they will be held to account.
Notice how CUBA is now a "terrorist nation" and potential possessor
of WMDs. The Bush administration appears confident that it can simply include
any nation it chooses in the "terror grouping", and feel no responsibility
to provide one shred of evidence. What needs to be understood is that both
the US and Israel are in full control of the bogus terrorist threat - they
created it and are actively using it to justify their imperialistic designs
on many parts of the world. It is an age-old ploy that eminently logic from
the point of view of a fighting strategist of a decidedly evil persuasion.
Iran remains the most active state sponsor of international terrorism. Through
its Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security,
the regime in Tehran plans terrorist operations and supports groups such as
Lebanese Hizballah, Hamas, and Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Iran also remains
unwilling to account for and bring to justice senior al-Qaida members it detained
in 2003. Most troubling is the potential WMD-terrorism nexus that emanates
from Tehran. Syria also is a significant state sponsor of terrorism and thus
a priority for concern. The regime in Damascus supports and provides haven
to Hizballah, Hamas, and PIJ. We will continue to stand with the people of
Iran and Syria against the regimes that oppress them at home and sponsor terror
abroad.
Such claims are spurious and not backed up by any evidence
whatsoever save that which the US and Israeli governments invent and peddle
as fact. Iran and Syria may be supporting Hizb'allah for example, but they
do so simply in an attempt to stave off Israeli and American predatorial
designs on the Iranian and Syrian nations, their resources and peoples. Their
resistance is a just resistance, yet the American and Israeli governments
call such resistance "terrorism",
simply because it suits them.
Deny terrorists control of any nation they would use as a base and launching
pad for terror. Our terrorist enemies are striving to claim a strategic country
as a haven for terror. From this base, they could destabilize the Middle East
and strike America and other free nations with ever-increasing violence. This
we can never allow. Our enemies had established a sanctuary in Afghanistan
prior to Operation Enduring Freedom, and today terrorists see Iraq as the central
front of their fight against the United States.
We can wager that most Iraqi citizens also see Iraq
as the central front of their fight against the United States, and they understand
with equal clarity that it is the US that is engaging in terrorism against
the Iraqi people. It is said that 'one man's terrorist is another man's freedom
fighter', yet this concept can be further refined with the addition of the
ideas of right and wrong and justice. Logically we can surely come to a consensus
that terrorists are wrong and unjust and freedom fighters are right and justified.
While the American government may claim that its troops are freedom fighters
and the Iraqi resistance "terrorists", the actions of American troops in
Iraq in occupying the country and murdering 250,000 Iraqi civilians are clearly
wrong and unjust, leaving it clear just who the real terrorists are.
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