THE LIE OF THE CENTURY, and a few from history

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THE LIE OF THE CENTURY

The _Downing Street Memo_

(http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/dsmemo.pdf) is only the beginning of

the proof we were all lied to.

 

 

" All war is based on deception. " -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War

 

 

There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war.

Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death

in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their

people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible

choice they can make.

 

 

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President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk

in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this

apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The Captain of

the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion,

investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the case. There

had

been no mine.

 

 

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FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. It wasn't. The United States

saw war with Japan as the means to get into war with Germany, which

Americans opposed. So Roosevelt needed Japan to appear to strike first.

Following an

8-step plan devised by the Office of Naval Intelligence, Roosevelt

intentionally provoked Japan into the attack. Contrary to the official story,

the fleet

did not maintain radio silence, but sent messages intercepted and decoded by

US intercept stations. Tricked by the lie of a surprise attack, Americans

marched off to war.

 

 

 

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President Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin to send Americans off to

fight in Vietnam. There were no torpedoes in the water in the Gulf. LBJ took

advantage of an inexperienced sonar man's report to goad Congress into

escalating the Vietnam War.

 

 

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It is inescapable historical reality that leaders of nations will lie to

their people to trick them into wars they otherwise would have refused. It is

not " conspiracy theory " to suggest that leaders of nations lie to trick their

people into wars. It is undeniable fact.

 

This brings us to the present case.

 

Did the government of the United States lie to the American people, more to

the point, did President Bush and his Neocon associates lie to Congress, to

initiate a war of conquest in Iraq?

 

This question has been given currency by a memo leaked from inside the

British Government which clearly indicates a decision to go to war followed by

the

" fixing " of information around that policy. This is, as they say, a smoking

gun.

 

But the fact is that long before this memo surfaced, it had become obvious

that the US Government, aided by that of Great Britain, was lying to create the

public support for a war in Iraq.

 

 

First off is Tony Blair's " Dodgy Dossier " , a document released by the Prime

Minister that made many of the claims used to support the push for war. The

dossier soon collapsed when it was revealed that much of it had been

plagiarized from a student thesis paper that was 12 years old! The contents of

the

dossier, however much they seemed to create a good case for invasion, were

obsolete and outdated.

 

This use of material that could not possibly be relevant at the time is

clear proof of a deliberate attempt to deceive.

 

 

Then there was the claim about the " Mobile biological weapons laboratories " .

Proffered in the absence of any real laboratories in the wake of the

invasion, photos of these trailers were shown on all the US Mainstream Media,

with

the claim they while seeming to lack anything suggesting biological

processing, these were part of a much larger assembly of multiple trailers that

churned

out biological weapons of mass destruction.

 

The chief proponent of this hoax was Colin Powell, who presented

illustrations such as this one to the United Nations on February 5th, 2003. This

claim

fell apart when it was revealed that these trailers were nothing more than

hydrogen gas generators used to inflate weather balloons. This fact was already

known to both the US and UK, as a British company manufactured the units and

sold them to Iraq.

 

 

Colin Powell's speech to the UN was itself one misstatement after another.

Powell claimed that Iraq had purchased special aluminum tubes whose only

possible use was in uranium enrichment centrifuges. Both CIA and Powell's own

State Department confirmed that the tubes were parts for missiles Saddam was

legally allowed to have. Following the invasion, no centrifuges, aluminum or

otherwise were found.

 

 

Powell also claimed to the United Nations that the photo on the left showed

" Decontamination Vehicles " . But when United Nations inspectors visited the

site after the invasion, they located the vehicles and discovered they were

just firefighting equipment. Powell claimed the Iraqis had illegal rockets and

launchers hidden in the palm trees of Western Iraq. None were ever found.

 

Powell claimed that the Iraqis had 8,500 liters (2245 gallons) of Anthrax.

None was ever found.

 

Powell claimed that Iraq had four tons of VX nerve gas. The UN had already

confirmed that it was destroyed. The only VX ever found were samples the US had

left as " standards " for testing. When the UN suspected that the US samples

had been used to contaminate Iraqi warheads, the US moved quickly to destroy

the samples before comparison tests could be carried out. Powell claimed that

Iraq was building long-range remote drones specifically designed to carry

biological weapons. The only drones found were short-range reconnaissance

drones.

 

Powell claimed that Iraq had an aggregate of between 100 and 500 tons of

chemical and biological warfare agents. Powell gave no basis for that claim at

all, and a DIA report issued the same time directly contradicted the claim. No

biological or chemical weapons were found in Iraq following the invasion.

 

Powell claimed that " unnamed sources " confirmed that Saddam had authorized

his field commanders to use biological weapons. No such weapons were ever used

by the Iraqis to defend against the invasion and, of course, none were ever

found in Iraq.

 

Powell claimed that 122mm warheads found by the UN inspectors were chemical

weapons. The warheads were empty, and showed no signs of ever having contained

chemical weapons.

 

Powell claimed that Iraq had a secret force of illegal long-range Scud

missiles. None were ever found.

 

Powell claimed to have an audio tape proving that Saddam was supporting

Osama Bin Laden. But independent translation of the tape revealed Osama's wish

for Saddam's death.

 

Colin Powell's UN debacle also included spy photos taken from high flying

aircraft and spacecraft. On the photos were circles and arrows and labels

pointing to various fuzzy white blobs and identifying them as laboratories and

storage areas for Saddam's massive weapons of mass destruction program. Nothing

in the photos actually suggested what the blobby shapes were and during

inspections which followed the invasion, all of them turned out to be rather

benign. In at least one case, the satellite Powell claimed had taken one of the

pictures had actually been out of operation at the time. And many questioned why

Powell was showing black and white photos when the satellites in use at the

time over Iraq took color images.

 

Another piece of evidence consists of documents which President Bush

referenced as in his 2003 State of the Union Speech. According to Bush, these

documents proved that Iraq was buying tons of uranium oxide, called " Yellow

Cake "

from Niger. Since Israel had bombed Iraq's nuclear power plant years before,

it was claimed that the only reason Saddam would have for buying uranium oxide

was to build bombs.

 

This hoax fell apart fast when it was pointed out that Iraq has a great deal

of uranium ore inside their own borders and no need to import any from Niger

or anywhere else. The I.A.E.A. then blew the cover off the fraud by

announcing that the documents Bush had used were not only forgeries, but too

obvious

to believe that anyone in the Bush administration did not know they were

forgeries! The forged documents were reported as being " discovered " in Italy by

SISMI, the Italian Security Service. Shortly before the " discovery " the head of

SISMI had been paid a visit by Michael Ledeen, Manucher Ghorbanifar, and two

officials from OSP, one of whom was Larry Franklin, the Israeli spy

operating inside the OSP.

 

In July, 2005, the Italian Parliament concluded their own investgation and

named four men as suspects in the creation of the forged documents. Michael

Ledeen, Dewey Clarridge, Ahmed Chalabi and Francis Brookes. This report has been

included in Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the outing of Valerie

Plame, and Paul McNulty, the prosecutor of the AIPAC spy case.

 

A recently declassified memo proves that the State Department reported the

fact that the NIger documents were forgeries to the CIA 11 days before

President Bush made the claim about the Niger uranium based on those documents.

 

In the end, the real proof that we were lied to about Iraq's weapons of mass

destruction is that no weapons of mass destruction were ever found. That

means that every single piece of paper that purported to prove that Iraq had

weapons of mass destruction was by default a fraud, a hoax, and a lie. There

could be no evidence that supported the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass

destruction because Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. In a way, the

existence of any faked documents about Iraq's WMDs is actually an admission of

guilt. If one is taking the time to create fake documents, the implication

is that the faker is already aware that there are no genuine documents.

 

What the US Government had, ALL that they had, were copied student papers,

forged " Yellow Cake " documents, balloon inflators posing as bioweapons labs,

and photos with misleading labels on them. And somewhere along the line,

someone decided to put those misleading labels on those photos, to pretend that

balloon inflators are portable bioweapons labs, and to pass off stolen student

papers as contemporary analysis.

 

And THAT shows an intention to deceive.

 

Lawyers call this " Mens Rea " , which means " Guilty Mind " . TV lawyer shows

call it " Malice aforethought " . This means that not only did the Bush

Administration lie to the people and to the US Congress, but knew they were

doing

something illegal at the time that they did it.

 

All the talk about " Intelligence failure " is just another lie. There was no

failure. Indeed the Army agents who erroneously claimed that missile tubes

were parts for a uranium centrifuge received bonuses, while the Pentagon

smeared

Hans Blix, and John Bolton orchestrated the firing of Jose Bustani, the

director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, because

Bustani was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad.

 

The President of the United States and his Neocon associates lied to the

people of the United States to send them off on a war of conquest.

 

Defenders of the government will point to the cases listed at the top of the

page as proof that lying to the people is a normal part of the leader's job

and we should all get used to it. And because " Everybody does it " that we

should not single out the present administration. But this is madness. We do

not

catch all the murderers, yet when we catch a murderer, we deal with them as

harshly as possible, in order to deter more murderers.

 

Right now, we have the criminals at hand. and, while other leaders in

history have lied to start wars, for the first time in history, the lie stands

exposed while the war started with the lies still rages on, to the death and

detriment of our young men and women in uniform. We cannot in good moral

conscience ignore this lie, this crime, lest we encourage future leaders to

continue

to lie to us to send our kids off to pointless wars. Lying to start a war is

more than an impeachable offence; it the highest possible crime a government

can commit against their own people. Lying to start a war is not only

misappropriation of the nation's military and the nation's money under false

pretenses, but it is outright murder committed on a massive scale. Lying to

start a

war is a betrayal of the trust each and every person who serves in the

military places in their civilian leadership. By lying to start a war, the Bush

administration has told the military fatalities and their families that they

have no right to know why they were sent to their deaths. It's none of their

business.

 

Our nation is founded on the principle of rule with the consent of the

governed. Because We The People do not consent to be lied to, a government that

lies rules without the consent of the governed, and ruling without the consent

of the governed is slavery.

 

You should be more than angry. You should be in a rage. You should be in a

rage no less than that of the families of those young men and women who have

been killed and maimed in this war started with a lie.You need to be in a rage

and you need to act on that rage because even as I type these words, the same

government that lied about Iraq's nuclear weapons is telling the exact same

lies about Iran's nuclear capabilities. The writing is on the wall; having

gotten away with lying to start the war in Iraq, the US Government will lie to

start a war in Iran, and after that another, and after that another, and

another and another and another because as long as you remain silent, and as

long

as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.

 

As long as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.

 

None.

 

It is time to fire the liars.

 

" The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do

nothing " . --Edmund Burke

 

 

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U.S.C. TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 47 § 1001.

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, WHOEVER, in any matter

within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or judicial branch of

the

Government of the United States, knowingly and willfully—

(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by ANY trick, scheme, or device a

material fact;

(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or

representation; or

(3) makes or USES any false writing or document knowing the same to contain

any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent statement or entry; shall be

fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both.

(b) Subsection (a) does not apply to a party to a judicial proceeding, or

that party's counsel, for statements, representations, writings or documents

submitted by such party or counsel to a judge or magistrate in that proceeding.

 

© With respect to any matter within the jurisdiction of the legislative

branch, subsection (a) shall apply only to—

(1) administrative matters, including a claim for payment, a matter related

to the procurement of property or services, personnel or employment

practices, or support services, or a document required by law, rule, or

regulation to

be submitted to the Congress or any office or officer within the legislative

branch; or

(2) any investigation or review, conducted pursuant to the authority of any

committee, subcommittee, commission or office of the Congress, consistent

with applicable rules of the House or Senate.

 

 

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SO HERE IS WHAT WE ARE GOING TO DO

 

The Bush administration and their friends in the media want this story to go

away. More than want it to go away, they are in a panic, and will do

everything they can to stop it. They will use every dirty trick, every paid

shill,

every presstitute that they can. Already there is a report that the Michael

Jackson jury is " expected " to reach a verdict just before the Conyers hearings.

 

So, I want YOU to copy this article off, post it everywhere. This article is

placed in the public domain. Mail it to your friends. Then send it to your

local media and your Congresscritters and have everyone you know do the same.

Get on the phones. Flood their offices.

 

The term is " Viral Marketing " where you get the people who need a product to

market it for you. Well, this nation NEEDS this " product " . It needs to know

that this war was started with lies. INTENTIONAL lies. And they need to know

there is something they can do about it, and that is to start pounding on the

doors of power.

 

Because when a flood of such messages reaches the Congress and the media,

what they will hear is that there is no more time. Either they will deal with

these lies and the liars, in full, or they will lose all credibility as a

government and as media.

 

A government that lies to the people cannot be the legal government of this

land. Make sure that they understand that YOU understand that the Constitution

does not allow the government to lie to the people. Calling themselves the

government does not make it so if they act unconstitutionally and illegally.

The Constitution is the original " Contract with America " and a government that

lies stands in clear breach of that contract.

 

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But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the

same Object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is

their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new

Guards for their future security. -- " The Declaration of Independence "

 

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