We are in Iraq for oil. Obama et al should be in jail
We must not let Obama send more troops to Iraq.
We must end America's occupation of the world.
The war against Iraq launched on 19 March 2003 was a criminal
war of aggression with many purposes. Chief among these was to
grab the complete oil resources of that country.
The invasion was meant to set up permanent military bases in Iraq
to help the US military control any rebellion. Though the political
and military leaders of the US call them insurgents they are freedom
fighters.
Remember our leaders tell us that to guarantee the freedom of Iraqis,
or Libyan's,or any country that we've invaded, plus America's freedom
depends on our being in the countries we've taken over.
In this case in Iraq the Obama administration sending troops to Iraq
may also be just another case of regime change.
We are in a permanent war. These are the words of Marine Corps
Major Smedley D. Butler in a speech given in 1933 on interventionism:
"War is
just a racket. A racket is best described, I believe, as something
that is not
what it seems to the majority of people. Only a small inside group
knows what
it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few at the
expense of
the masses.
There
isn't a trick in the racketeering bag that the military gang is blind to. It
has its "finger men" to point out enemies, its "muscle men"
to destroy enemies,
its "brain men" to plan war preparations, and a
"Big Boss"
Super-Nationalistic-Capitalism.
It may
seem odd for me, a military man to adopt such a comparison.
Truthfulness
compels me to. I spent thirty- three years and four months in
active military
service as a member of this country's most agile military force,
the Marine
Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant
to
Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high
class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short,
I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.
I
suspected I was just part of a racket at the time. Now I am sure of it. Like
all
the members of the military profession, I never had a thought of my own
until I
left the service. My mental faculties remained in suspended animation
while I
obeyed the orders of higher-ups. This is typical with everyone in the
military
service.
I helped
make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in
1914. I
helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank
boys to
collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American
republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long.
I helped
purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers
in 1909-1912.
I brought light to the
Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In
China I helped to
see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested."
A
preliminary point.
Any soldiers,
Marines, special forces, mercenaries et al that the United
States
government sends to Iraq or any country are not there to help
the
people. They are 'hired killers, trained killers' as I was in 1968
before
I went to Vietnam as a Marine 'grunt' (rifleman). They may
believe that they are there to help the people, but they are being used
by the bankers, oil men, and other corporate interests
I
was trained to kill people, and not think twice about it. But, I
had
and have a moral compass, and an ethical core. That is why
I
was shocked to read of the mass murder by US troops manning
checkpoints
in Iraq.
More
than any single series of events the killing of 680-700 Iraqi
civilians
and the wounding of 2,000 more at checkpoints between
2004
to 2010 'murder points' show that the
lives of Iraqi people
meant
nothing to those who prosecuted these wars, and those troops
who
were placed in combat, and as I was, in fear for my life.
See:
The Secret Iraq Files: The War Iraq files reveal checkpoint deaths
Almost
700 civilians, including pregnant women and the mentally ill,
killed
for coming too close to checkpoints.
Iraqi's who lived through this would know that
this was not liberation.
In
Vietnam we cleared areas of approaches
to our positions and set up
interlocking
machine gun fire that we called 'The Kill(ing) Zone(s).
That's
what the checkpoints became for ordinary Iraqi's.
There
is one truth in a war and a million lies. A mountain of lies.
In
1999 a Texas journalist writing a biography for George Bush (because
he
lacks some skills) had conversations with Bush in which he talked
about
invading Iraq. Two years before the False Flag attack on 9/11!
See:
'Two Years Before 9/11, Candidate Bush was Already Talking
Privately
About Attacking Iraq, According to His Former Ghost
Writer'
by Russ Baker
See: http://tinyurl.com/5ra7p
Also: Bush decided to remove Saddam 'on day one'
Former
aide says US president made up his mind to go to war with Iraq
long
before 9/11, then ordered his staff to find an excuse
What
were the lies Bush, Cheney and also blair used to drag their people into
the
Iraq War:
No.
1 Saddam was involved in 9/11. Lie
Cheney
had more involvement in 9/11 than anyone. Add General
Richard
B. Meyers. Both are traitors to America.
Lie
2. Saddam had WMD's and could strike NY and London within
45 minutes.
They knew that was Bull, and the Downing Street Memo
shows that
the concern was that the weapons inspectors would not find WMD's"
Lie
3. Niger Yellowcake. Another lie.
Lie
4. Saddam had ties to al-Qaeda. Lie
Lie
5. Saddam's a brutal dictator. So is President Karimov of Uzbekistan
President
Karimov of Uzbekistan. He has a unique way of defeating opposition
opponents.
See:
'Our new best friends boil dissidents alive'
In
the 1980s the US gave Saddam anthrax, nerve agents and lots more. But,
he
was our ally!
The
US political and military leaders have shown no concern for the welfare of
the
Iraqi people. Donald Rumsfeld was all smiles when the video of the
massive
US bombings of Baghdad were shown. 'Shock and Awe.' He kept
saying
it. What did it mean? Massive civilian deaths!
The
US military made sure that the oil ministry was untouched by bombs and
guarded
by Marines whilst Iraqi museums were looted.
See: 'Oil ministry an untouched building in
ravaged Baghdad'
April
16 2003, 4:26 PM
The
US wanted every scrap of paper in the oil ministry preserved for
accounting
purposes. Now whilst troops were guarding the oil ministry the
hospitals,
museums, national museum, and libraries were looted!
Academics,
lawyers and others were killed in large numbers.
What
happened to Baghdad when the US invaded the city has an
eerie
resemblance to another invasion in 1258 by the Mongols.
It
was known as 'The Sack of Baghdad.'
Here
is a description of it:
The
Mongol Invasion and the Destruction of Baghdad
‘A
full week of pillage and destruction commenced. The Mongols showed
no
discretion, destroying mosques, hospitals, libraries, and palaces. The
books
from Baghdad’s libraries were thrown into the Tigris River in such
quantities
that the river ran black with the ink from the books. The world
will
never truly know the extent of what knowledge was lost forever when
those
books were thrown into the river or burned.’
Now
let's look at what happened in Baghdad while the US troops were
guarding
the all-important Oil Ministry.
U.S.
Charged With War Crimes
The Evidence File
Protection
and organization of Looting
1. The obligation to ensure public order and
security
'The
Fourth Geneva Convention states that an occupying power has
the duty "of
ensuring and maintaining, with the cooperation of national
and local authorities,
the medical and hospital establishments and
services, public health
and hygiene in the occupied territories."
2.
Freedom for the looters
'As
early as April 9 Veronique Taveau, spokeswoman for the United Nations
Office
of the Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq (UNOHCI), criticized U.S.-led
troops
for turning a blind eye to the lawlessness, saying it was a breach of their
obligations
as an occupying force under international law to prevent chaos.'
In
case you forget; this is what U.S.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said
of
the looting:
"It's
untidy. Freedom's untidy. Stuff happens. Free people are free to make
mistakes
and commit crimes and do bad things,"
Point
of clarification: The Iraqi people were not free; they had just been
invaded
and their country occupied!
Rumsfeld,
Bush, Blair, Cheney, the military leaders who planned and
executed
the invasion, and the neo-cons who pushed for it since the 1990s
deserve
to be hanging from the gallows like their predecessors at Nuremberg.
3.
Looting of hospitals
'The
occupying forces are also obliged to ensure the supply of food and medical
supplies.
On April 11 Islamonline reported that the Al-Kindi hospital in Baghdad
had
been looted the day before. Medicines and two ambulances were stolen and
all
staff had fled except for two American doctors.'
4.
Looting of museums
Before
the end of the war, The Sunday Herald reported: "US accused of plans to
loot
Iraqi antiques".
5.
The looting of the National Museum
The
National Museum of Iraq recorded a history of civilizations that
began to flourish
in the fertile plains of Mesopotamia more than 7,000
years ago… it took only
48 hours for the museum to be destroyed, with
at least 50,000 artifacts carried
away
by looters.
6.
Organising the looting
A
foreign observer, Khaled Bayomi, testified that he saw American troops
encourage
looting an unspecified administrative building and the Department
of
Justice.
Also: The Impact of War on Iraq's Cultural
Heritage
The United States has committed War crimes,
massacres, chemical
warfare
and nuclear warfare against the Iraqi people on a scale that
clearly
violates the
Convention
on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide,
9
December 1948.
Particularly
Article 2
In the present Convention, genocide means
any of the following
acts committed with
intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national,
ethnical, racial or
religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm
to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to
bring
about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent
births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the
group to another group.
The
use of depleted uranium and also 'enriched
uranium'-nukes'.
NUCLEAR
WEAPONS! OhMyGawd They Did it!
UnBelievable!
The US is Using Nuclear Weapons in Central Asian War
Thursday,
November 3rd, 2011
By
Bob Nichols
See: Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse
than
Hiroshima'
The
shocking rates of infant mortality and cancer in Iraqi city raise new
questions
about battle
By
Patrick Cockburn Saturday, 24 July 2010
A
War Crime Within a War Crime Within a War Crime
Posted
November 22, 2005
The
revelations from Falluja are piling up
By
George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 22nd November 2005
The
media couldn’t have made a bigger pig’s ear of the white phosphorus story.
So
before moving on to the new revelations from Falluja, I would like to try to
clear
up the old ones.
Fallujah
- The Hidden Massacre
Veteran
admits: Bodies melted away before us. Shocking revelation
RAI
News 24
THE
USE OF NAPALM
US
lied to Britain over use of napalm in Iraq war
By
Colin Brown
Deputy
Political Editor
06/17/05
"The Independent" - - American officials lied to British ministers
over
the
use of "internationally reviled" napalm-type firebombs in Iraq.
Incinerating
Iraqis; the napalm cover up
by
Mike Whitney
06/27/05
"ICH"
And
the United States admitted it. Here is an article from August 2003
See: http://tinyurl.com/ogvucxy
by
Andrew Buncombe for The Independent
Us
Admits It Used Napalm Bombs in Iraq
American
pilots dropped the controversial incendiary agent napalm on Iraqi troops
during
the advance on Baghdad. The attacks caused massive fireballs that obliterated
several
Iraqi positions. The Pentagon denied using napalm at the time, but Marine
pilots
and their commanders have confirmed that they used an upgraded version of
the
weapon against dug-in positions. They said napalm, which has a distinctive
smell,
was
used because of its psychological effect on an enemy. A 1980 UN convention
banned
the use against civilian targets of napalm, a terrifying mixture of jet fuel
and
polystyrene
that sticks to skin as it burns.
The Mahmudiyah killings
On 12 March 2006
some members of the 502nd Infantry Regiment had discussed plans to rape a 14 year old
Iraqi girl. 14! They had been drinking alcohol, but that cannot be used to explain
away what happened. They gang-raped her, then murdered her and her family and
set her body afire to hide their crimes
HADITHA:
A MASSACRE of Children, an old man in a wheel chair, and more.
See:
The
Haditha Massacre
by
MARJORIE COHN
They
ranged from little babies to adult males and females.
I’ll
never be able to get that out of my head. I can still smell the blood.
This
left something in my head and heart.
–Lance
Cpl. Roel Ryan Briones
What
was the Haditha Massacre? On November 19, 2005, US Marines from
Kilo
Company, Third Battalion, First Marine Division killed 24 unarmed civilians
in
Haditha, Iraq, execution-style, in a three to five hour rampage. One victim was
a
76-year-old amputee in a wheelchair holding a Koran. A mother and child bent
over
as if in prayer were also among the fallen. “I pretended that I was dead when
my
brother’s body fell on me and he was bleeding like a faucet,” said Safa Younis
Salim,
a 13-year-old girl who survived by faking her death. Other victims included
six
children ranging in age from 1 to 14. Citing doctors at Haditha’s hospital, The
Washington
Post reported, “Most of the shots … were fired at such close range that
they
went through the bodies of the family members and plowed into walls or the
floor.
An
Iraqi Massacre, a Light Sentence and a Question
of Military Justice
By
CHARLIE SAVAGE and ELISABETH BUMILLER
Published:
January 27, 2012
'The
2005 massacre, which came after a roadside bombing of a Marine convoy,
killed
24 Iraqis, including women, children and a man in a wheelchair.
By
the time of the trial last week, charges against six Marines had been dropped,
and a seventh Marine had been acquitted in a
court martial. After several days of
spotty
testimony about the last remaining defendant, Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, 31,
who
admitted telling his men to “shoot first and ask questions later” after the
bombing,
the
military agreed to a plea deal allowing him to avoid prison time.
The US Marine Corps covered up the Haditha
massacre from the beginning.
Then
their PR talked about the extreme stress that the troops were under.
Bull.
Yes, they were because Bush and Cheney put them there. But they
did
what the Nazis used to do. It's called reprisals and 'Collective punishments.'
The US and UK used collective penalties in WW II with the horrific fire bombings
of Japanese cities, especially Tokyo and the nuclear detonations at Hiroshima and
Nagasaki.
Some examples by both sides:
Kassel (February 1942-March 1945) – 10,000 killed
Pforzheim (April 1944-March 1945) – 21,200 killed
London (September 1940-May 1941) – 20,000 people killed
Berlin (1940-1945) – 20,000-50,000 killed
Dresden (October 1944-April 1945) – 25,000 killed
13 and 15 February 1945
Hamburg (September 1939-April 1945) – 42,600 killed
Tokyo (November 1944-August 1945) – 100,000-plus killed
Osaka (March-August 1945) – 10,000 killed
Article
33 of Convention (IV) relative to the Protection
of Civilian Persons in
Time
of War. Geneva, 12 August 1949.
'Individual
responsibility, collective penalties, pillage, reprisals'
States:
'No
protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not personally
committed.
Collective penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of
terrorism
are prohibited.
Pillage
is prohibited.
Reprisals
against protected persons and their property are prohibited.'
Let
us not forget Afghanistan!!
'The US Has Bombed at Least Eight Wedding
Parties Since 2001'
The
Scorecard: At least 263 dead, blown to bits, shot up at Wedding parties!
December
29, 2001,Paktia Province, Afghanistan (more than 100 revelers die
in
a village in Eastern Afghanistan after an attack by B-52 and B-1B bombers);
May
17, 2002, Khost Province, Afghanistan (at least ten Afghans in a wedding
celebration
die when US helicopters and planes attack a village);
July
1, 2002, Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan (at least thirty, and possibly forty,
celebrants
die when attacked by a B-52 bomber and an AC-130 helicopter);
May
20, 2004, Mukaradeeb, Iraq (at least forty-two dead, including “27 members
of the
[family hosting the wedding ceremony], their wedding guests, and even
the band of
musicians hired to play at the ceremony” in an attack by American
jets);
July
6, 2008, Nangarhar Province, Afghanistan (at least forty-seven dead,
thirty-nine of
them women and children, including the bride, among a party
escorting that
bride to
the groom’s house—from a missile attack by jet aircraft);
August
2008, Laghman Province, Afghanistan (sixteen killed, including twelve
members
of the family hosting the wedding, in an attack by “American bombers”);
June
8, 2012, Logar Province, Afghanistan (eighteen killed, half of them children,
when
Taliban fighters take shelter amid a wedding party. This was perhaps the only
case
among the eight wedding incidents in which the United States offered an
apology).
'The
Massacre of the Afghan 17 and the Obama Cover-Up'
By
James Petras
March
27, 2012 "Information Clearing House" --- The March 11 Massacre
of
the 17
Afghan citizens, including at least nine children and four women,
raises many fundamental
issues about the nature of a colonial war, the practices
of a colonial army
engaged in a prolonged (eleven-year) occupation and the
character of an
imperial state
as it commits war crimes and increasingly relies
on arbitrary dictatorial
measures to
secure public compliance and suppress dissent.
After
the cold-blooded murder of the 17 Afghan villagers in Kandahar Province
the US
military and the ever-complicit Obama regime constructed an elaborate
cover-up,
exposing
the Administration up to charges of conspiracy to suppress
essential facts,
falsify
data and obstruct justice: All are grounds for criminal
prosecution and
impeachment.
This is what war is mass slaughter where our
politicians tell us we aren't
after their natural
resources. Oh no. Heaven forbid. No we are there to
liberate the Iraqi and Afghan
people.
The first title, or operational name given to the Invasion of Iraq by
the
Pentagon was 'Operation Iraqi Liberation'
OIL !
So, as you can see that name with the acronym 'OIL' seemed odd; it
drew attention to what the invasion was all about so the Pentagon
changed it to 'Operation Iraqi Freedom' OIF. OIL I was more than
a bit awkward.
As
Major General SmedleyD. Butler said in 'War is a Racket' (I think)
'War do
not occur; they are made by men.'
And those men should either face life in
prison without any chance of parole,
or
the preferred option..hang on the gallows like the Nazi forbearers!
Only the Iraqi people have the right to and the ability to settle their own own
affairs and determine their destiny. It is called the Right of Self Determination.
When America gets involved the only sure thing is that more Iraqis will die.
What America owes Afghanistan, Iraq, the Palestinian people (because we
fund Israel's occupation of Palestine), the Libyan, Syrian and many more people
is war reparations.
The American people owe the world and themselves a proper war crimes tribunal
and to put our war criminals on trial as far back as Henry Kissinger to Obama, and
they should come to the same end as the Nazis did in Nuremberg.
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