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December 29th 2003 

Next time you say to someone 'Happy New Year' you may want to stop and
think... what IS actually looming as we begin the third year of the 21st
century.  How happy will this year be for those people across whose lives war
is casting it's menacing shadow.

As we sit here in our comfy homes, our bellies filled with christmas fodder
as we anticipate the fun of getting on with our comfy lives..we cannot ignore
the fact that millions of people in this world are on the verge of death,
famine and economic disaster because some men want to go to war.     Today I came across an article from the New Statesman, Dec 16th by John Pilger.  As I read it it I was struck with the full horror of what is boiling up...

The full text of the article appears below this, please read it and pass it
on if you see fit.

I grew up in the era of flower power..  Our byline was 'Make Love not War!' 
How the silent majority laughed at these silly hippies who got stoned and
stuck flowers down the barrels of guns.  

Silly they might have appeared, but they were also the generation responsible
for the biggest anti-war movement the world has ever known.      In their
droves, young people refused to cooperate with their government's decisions
to go to war in Vietnam.  They were berated by the 'moral majority' as
cowards for running away.  The 'righteous ones' boldly marched to war waving
flags in the name of honour and glory.    One friend of mine set off for his
tour of duty  an innocent patriotic flag waving 19 year old.  One year later
he returned, his innocence lost after having taken part in and witnessed
unspeakable horrors.  And, he told me, what was even more difficult to take,
was that he had been duped into believing he was doing something good and
right.   When he awoke from his hypnotic reverie, he was sickened.    

Young, innocent patriotic Americans fuelled by the legacy of  McCarthy's
propaganda campaign believed that they had a duty to purge the world of the
'evil monster' communism.     Like many generations before them, they were
hypnotised by government propaganda.    Today innocent Americans and Brits who listen to President Blair, are being fuelled in exactly the same way, only this time the enemy isn't presented as communism.  Public enemy no 1, we are told is Terrrorism.

My belief is that we are all in a vulnerable state generated by the events of 9/11.  From this place of shock and horror and fear, we are being manipulated by powermongers and large corporations whose only interest is profit and power.  These are the people who are about to unleash the horrors of another war...and if it happens it will be far more horrific than anything that went on that dark day in September.   YOU CAN HELP STOP THIS HAPPENING

Maybe it's time to reach inside and ask ourselves deeply and honestly whether we can stand back and let it happen.... I don't know what else I can do except pass on information and raise awareness... and if that means putting it on this website, so be it..      I believe it's important to raise awareness in any way I can.   PLEASE READ THIS ARTICLE...

with much love and blessings for a PEACEFUL and loving New Year..

peta


From the New Statesman
New Statesman (London) 16 December 2002 :

John Pilger reveals the American plan

Two years ago a project set up by the men who now surround George W Bush said what America needed was "a new Pearl Harbor". Its published aims have come alarmingly true, writes John Pilger

The threat posed by US terrorism to the security of nations and individuals
was outlined in prophetic detail in a document written more than two years
ago and disclosed only recently. What was needed for America to dominate much
of humanity and the world's resources, it said, was "some catastrophic and
catalysing event - like a new Pearl Harbor".

The attacks of 11 September 2001 provided the "new Pearl Harbor", described as "the opportunity of ages". The extremists who have since exploited 11 September come from the era of Ronald Reagan, when far-right groups and "think-tanks" were established to avenge the American "defeat" in Vietnam.

In the 1990s, there was an added agenda: to justify the denial of a "peace
dividend" following the cold war. The Project for the New American Century
was formed, along with the American Enterprise Institute, the Hudson
Institute and others that have since merged the ambitions of the Reagan
administration with those of the current Bush regime.

One of George W Bush's "thinkers" is Richard Perle. I interviewed Perle when
he was advising Reagan; and when he spoke about "total war", I mistakenly
dismissed him as mad. He recently used the term again in describing America's "war on terror". "No stages," he said. "This is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to piece together clever diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

Perle is one of the founders of the Project for the New American Century,
the PNAC. Other founders include Dick Cheney, now vice-president, Donald
Rumsfeld, defence secretary, Paul Wolfowitz, deputy defence secretary, I
Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff, William J Bennett, Reagan's education
secretary, and Zalmay Khalilzad, Bush's ambassador to Afghanistan. These are the modern chartists of American terrorism.

The PNAC's seminal report, Rebuilding America's Defences: strategy, forces
and resources for a new century, was a blueprint of American aims in all
but name. Two years ago it recommended an increase in arms-spending by $48bn so that Washington could "fight and win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars". This has happened. It said the United States should develop
"bunker-buster" nuclear weapons and make "star wars" a national priority.
This is happening. It said that, in the event of Bush taking power, Iraq
should be a target. And so it is.

As for Iraq's alleged "weapons of mass destruction", these were dismissed,
in so many words, as a convenient excuse, which it is. "While the unresolved
conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification," it says, "the need
for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of
the regime of Saddam Hussein."

How has this grand strategy been implemented?

A series of articles in the Washington Post, co-authored by Bob Woodward of Watergate fame and based on long interviews with senior members of the Bush administration, reveals how 11 September was manipulated.

On the morning of 12 September 2001, without any evidence of who the
hijackers were, Rumsfeld demanded that the US attack Iraq. According to
Woodward, Rumsfeld told a cabinet meeting that Iraq should be "a principal
target of the first round in the war against terrorism". Iraq was temporarily
spared only because Colin Powell, the secretary of state, persuaded Bush that "public opinion has to be prepared before a move against Iraq is possible". Afghanistan was chosen as the softer option.

If Jonathan Steele's estimate in the Guardian is correct, some 20,000
people in Afghanistan paid the price of this debate with their lives.

Time and again, 11 September is described as an "opportunity". In last
April's New Yorker, the investigative reporter Nicholas Lemann wrote that
Bush's most senior adviser, Condoleezza Rice, told him she had called
together senior members of the National Security Council and asked them "to
think about 'how do you capitalise on these opportunities'", which she
compared with those of "1945 to 1947": the start of the cold war.

Since 11 September, America has established bases at the gateways to all
the major sources of fossil fuels, especially central Asia. The Unocal oil
company is to build a pipeline across Afghanistan. Bush has scrapped the
Kyoto Protocol on greenhouse gas emissions, the war crimes provisions of
the International Criminal Court and the anti-ballistic missile treaty. He
has said he will use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear states "if
necessary". Under cover of propaganda about Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, the Bush regime is developing new weapons of mass destruction that undermine international treaties on biological and chemical warfare.

In the Los Angeles Times, the military analyst William Arkin describes a
secret army set up by Donald Rumsfeld, similar to those run by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger and which Congress outlawed. This "super-intelligence support activity" will bring together the "CIA and military covert action, information warfare, and deception". According to a classified document prepared for Rumsfeld, the new organisation, known by its Orwellian moniker as the Proactive Pre-emptive Operations Group, or
P2OG, will provoke terrorist attacks which would then require
"counter-attack" by the United States on countries "harbouring the
terrorists".

In other words, innocent people will be killed by the United States. This is
reminiscent of Operation Northwoods, the plan put to President Kennedy by his military chiefs for a phoney terrorist campaign - complete with bombings,
hijackings, plane crashes and dead Americans - as justification or an
invasion of Cuba. Kennedy rejected it. He was assassinated a few months
later. Now Rumsfeld has resurrected Northwoods, but with resources undreamt of in 1963 and with no global rival to invite caution.

You have to keep reminding yourself this is not fantasy: that truly dangerous
men, such as Perle and Rumsfeld and Cheney, have power. The thread running through their ruminations is the importance of the media: "the prioritised task of bringing on board journalists of repute to accept our position".

"Our position" is code for lying. Certainly, as a journalist, I have never
known official lying to be more pervasive than today. We may laugh at the
vacuities in Tony Blair's "Iraq dossier" and Jack Straw's inept lie that Iraq
has developed a nuclear bomb (which his minions rushed to "explain").  But
the more insidious lies, justifying an unprovoked attack on Iraq and linking
it to would-be terrorists who are said to lurk in every Tube station, are
routinely channelled as news. They are not news; they are
black propaganda.

This corruption makes journalists and broadcasters mere ventriloquists'
dummies. An attack on a nation of 22 million suffering people is discussed by liberal commentators as if it were a subject at an academic seminar, at which pieces can be pushed around a map, as the old imperialists used to do.

The issue for these humanitarians is not primarily the brutality of modern
imperial domination, but how "bad" Saddam Hussein is. There is no admission that their decision to join the war party further seals the fate of   perhaps thousands of innocent Iraqis condemned to wait on America's international death row. Their doublethink will not work. You cannot support murderous piracy in the name of humanitarianism. Moreover, the extremes of American fundamentalism that we now face have been staring at us for too long for those of good heart and sense not to recognise them

Peta's comment.  Why not just use the CIA in the way it's been trained to 'take out' Saddam.  One man's life could be sacrificed for 22 million potential martyrs.  Why not? Because this doesn't meet the agenda of the warmongers and industrialists who make all those weapons and provide oil for the war machine.

Copyright © 2002 John Pilger, The New Statesman except where stated otherwise

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