World War

Posted by sakerfa on August 14, 2010

Afghanistan

(InfoClearingHouse) – Allies No Longer Willing To Cover Up Inevitable Defeat

With the Dutch troops’ pullout, Canada has reopened talks of quick Afghanistan withdrawal ahead of schedule as its nation strongly opposes the Afghan war and prefers a road to peace. To make the matter
worse, the US’s closest ally country, Pakistan’s president was quoted in
an interview published in France as saying” Coalition forces are losing
war against Taliban in Afghanistan.” Read More Here

Iraq

(GlobalResearch) Mr Blair : About Your Book Signing : Dedication Suggestions… Every letter of Every Word is Written in a Child’s Blood

For your years as an enthusiastic partner in the silent slaughter of Iraq’s children under the embargo, a dedication to the seventeen infants in the neo-natal unit of Basra’s formerly fine
maternity hospital, all who died on the very threshold of life due to
your representative at the UN, with his US counterpart, vetoing
importation of oxygen. You were jointly responsible for denying even the
air that we breathe to Iraq’s newborn. Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – “Routine” Massacre of Civilians in Iraq: Former GIs Describe US Policy of Firing on Civilians

Three former U.S. soldiers involved in the infamous “Collateral Murder” helicopter gunship attack on Baghdad civilians in July 2007, say that attack was nothing out of the ordinary. The massacre—that
killed more than a dozen Iraqis, two of them employed by Reuters—ignited
a wave of international revulsion against the U.S. military in Iraq
when a video of the massacre was released by WikiLeaks last April.

“What the world did not see is the months of training that led up to the incident, in which soldiers were taught to respond to threats with a barrage of fire—a “wall of steel,” in Army parlance—even if it
put civilians at risk,” report Sarah Lazare and Ryan Harvey in the
August 16th issue of The Nation magazine. Read More Here

(StopNATO) – Iraq: NATO Assists In Building New Middle East Proxy Army – Rick Rozoff – Read More Here

Iran

(DebkaFile) – Russian S-300s in Abkhazia block possible Israeli air route to Iran

US and Israeli military sources told debkafile Thursday, Aug. 12, that a threat from Georgia was not the reason why Russian posted advanced S-300 interceptor batteries Russia in Abkhazia and air defense
weapons in South Ossetia on the northern shore of the Black Sea -as
Moscow officially maintained, but rather possible moves by the US and/or
Israel against Iran and its nuclear facilities. Read More Here

(InfoClearingHouse) – A Neocon Preps US for War with Iran – Ray McGovern

I guess I was naïve in thinking that The Atlantic and its American-Israeli writer Jeffrey Goldberg might shy away from arguing for yet another war — this one with Iran — while the cauldrons are still
boiling in Afghanistan and Iraq.

It’s worth remembering how Goldberg helped to make the case for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. For instance, on Oct. 3, 2002, as America’s war fever was building, Goldberg wrote in Slate, the online magazine: Read More Here

(GlobalResearch) – Is Obama Playing with Nuclear Fire in Iran and Korea? – Shamus Cooke

Fidel Castro came out of political retirement to warn the world that a nuclear war between the U.S. and Iran or North Korea is a very real possibility. The U.S. media either ignored the warning, minimized
it, or ridiculed Castro.

Is there a basis for Castro’s “alarmism”? Read More Here

(Salon) – How propagandists function: Exhibit A – Glenn Greenwald

Jeffrey Goldberg, in the new cover story in The Atlantic, on an Israeli attack on Iran:

Israel has twice before successfully attacked and destroyed an enemy’s nuclear program. In 1981, Israeli warplanes bombed the Iraqi reactor at Osirak, halting — forever, as it turned out — Saddam
Hussein’s nuclear ambitions; and in 2007, Israeli planes destroyed a
North Korean-built reactor in Syria. An attack on Iran, then, would be
unprecedented only in scope and complexity.

Good news! Israel can successfully end a country’s nuclear program by bombing them, as proven by its 1981 attack on Iraq, which, says Goldberg, halted “forever, as it turned out — Saddam Hussein’s
nuclear ambitions.”

Jeffrey Goldberg, The New Yorker, 2002, trying to convince Americans to fear Iraq:

Saddam Hussein never gave up his hope of turning Iraq into a nuclear power. After the Osirak attack, he rebuilt, redoubled his efforts, and dispersed his facilities. Those who have followed Saddam’s
progress believe that no single strike today would eradicate his nuclear
program.

When it suited him back then, Goldberg made the exact opposite claim, literally, of the one he makes today. Back then, Goldberg wouldn’t possibly claim what he claims now — that the 1981 strike
permanently halted Saddam’s “nuclear ambitions” — because, back then,
his goal was to scare Americans about The Threat of Saddam. So in 2002,
Goldberg warned Americans that Saddam had “redoubled” his efforts to
turn Iraq into a nuclear power after the Israeli attack, i.e., that
Saddam had a scarier nuclear program than ever before after the 1981
bombing raid. But now, Goldberg has a different goal: to convince
Americans of the efficacy of bombing Iran, and thus, without batting an
eye, he simply asserts the exact opposite factual premise: that the
Israelis successfully and permanently ended Saddam’s nuclear ambition
back in 1981 by bombing it out of existence (and, therefore, we can do
something similar now to Iran). Read More Here