SUPPORT FOR IRAQ WAR OBTAINED BY DECEPTION
DECEPTION BEHIND THE WAR ON TERRORISM
The war on Iraq has been plotted for at least five years by an elite group of US politicians. They finally convinced everybody to accept their plan by exploiting the September 11 attacks, when they claimed that the conquest of Iraq was part of the war on terrorism.
As the Washington Post newspaper reports:
"longtime advocates of ousting Hussein pushed Iraq to the top of the agenda by connecting their cause to the war on terrorism."[1]
The US government's intention for a war with Iraq has been on record since early 1998, when President Bill Clinton was advised to invade Iraq in open letter written by ten people who now occupy key positions within the Bush administration. The letter was written by Donald H. Rumsfeld (Defense Secretary), Paul D. Wolfowitz (Deputy Defence Secretary), Zalmay M. Khalilzad (Special White House Envoy to the Iraqi Opposition), and other current US government personnel, and recommended "implementing a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power."
A year before the 9/11 attacks Vice President Dick Cheney claimed to be opposed to a regime change in Iraq because, so he said, America should not behave as "an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world, taking down governments." However the US military has now done exactly this in Afghanistan and are preparing to do the same in Iraq, because people have been deceived by an ingenious trick.
DECEPTION BEHIND THE CONQUEST OF AFGHANISTAN
The public were fooled by the same strategy when their support for the regime change in Afghanistan was won by disguising it as a response to September 11. The US government's foreign policy committee decided on 12 February 1998 that a major oil pipe-line planned for the region "can not begin construction until an internationally recognized Afghanistan Government is in place"[2] The US-led conquest of Kabul did not capture Osama bin Laden, and al-Qaeda was not found or destroyed, but the Afghan war did clear the route for the American-led oil and gas pipeline.
BRAINWASHING
We are witnessing the use of a well-known method for manipulating public opinion. In modern psychology it is referred to as "the engineering of consent". In the popular lexicon it is called "brain-washing".
SOURCES:
[1] Washington Post, "U.S. Decision On Iraq Has Puzzling Past", front-page, 12 January 2003. [ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43909-2003Jan11.html ]
[2] 105th Congress, 2nd Session, "U.S. Interests in the Central Asian Republics", 12 February 1998.
http://commdocs.house.gov/committees/intlrel/hfa48119.000/hfa48119_0.htm#3
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