Hi
he is right,
we all know for it:
we all know that everything what is happening there is prepared and planned
in USA and London:
but like I say people mustn't talk about it,
if they are talk about that you know what is happening:
you are terrorist you are agenst western country and so on so on,
so best way is bee quiet and if you are live next day good if not than who
care.
everything is
-----Original Message-----
From: Miriam Vieni
Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 3:14 PM
To: blind-democracy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [blind-democracy] From Pol Pot to ISIS: The Blood Never Dried
Coincidentally, this article states, better than I did to Bob, what needs to
be done to keep the world safe from Jihadis.
Miriam
Pilger writes: "As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim
world since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Francois Hollande
promises a 'merciless' attack on that the rubble of Syria, the orchestrated
hysteria and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous
honesty."
An Islamic State militant stands in front of an ISIS flag. (photo: Al Hayat
Media)
From Pol Pot to ISIS: The Blood Never Dried
By John Pilger, CounterPunch
17 November 15
In transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of
Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything
that moves". As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world
since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Francois Hollande promises a
"merciless" attack on that the rubble of Syria, the orchestrated hysteria
and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.
As a witness to the human consequences of aerial savagery - including the
beheading of victims, their parts festooning trees and fields - I am not
surprised by the disregard of memory and history, yet again. A telling
example is the rise to power of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, who had much in
common with today's Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They, too, were
ruthless medievalists who began as a small sect. They, too, were the product
of an American-made apocalypse, this time in Asia.
According to Pol Pot, his movement had consisted of "fewer than 5,000 poorly
armed guerrillas uncertain about their strategy, tactics, loyalty and
leaders". Once Nixon's and Kissinger's B-52 bombers had gone to work as part
of "Operation Menu", the west's ultimate demon could not believe his luck.
The Americans dropped the equivalent of five Hiroshimas on rural Cambodia
during 1969-73. They leveled village after village, returning to bomb the
rubble and corpses. The craters left giant necklaces of carnage, still
visible from the air. The terror was unimaginable. A former Khmer Rouge
official described how the survivors "froze up and they would wander around
mute for three or four days. Terrified and half-crazy, the people were ready
to believe what they were told. That was what made it so easy for the Khmer
Rouge to win the people over." A Finnish Government Commission of Inquiry
estimated that 600,000 Cambodians died in the ensuing civil war and
described the bombing as the "first stage in a decade of genocide". What
Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot, their beneficiary, completed. Under
their bombs, the Khmer Rouge grew to a formidable army of 200,000.
ISIS has a similar past and present. By most scholarly measure, Bush and
Blair's invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to the deaths of at least 700,000
people - in a country that had no history of jihadism. The Kurds had done
territorial and political deals; Sunni and Shia had class and sectarian
differences, but they were at peace; intermarriage was common. Three years
before the invasion, I drove the length of Iraq without fear. On the way I
met people proud, above all, to be Iraqis, the heirs of a civilization that
seemed, for them, a presence.
Bush and Blair blew all this to bits. Iraq is now a nest of jihadism.
Al-Qaeda - like Pol Pot's "jihadists" - seized the opportunity provided by
the onslaught of Shock and Awe and the civil war that followed. "Rebel"
Syria offered even greater rewards, with CIA and Gulf state ratlines of
weapons, logistics and money running through Turkey. The arrival of foreign
recruits was inevitable. A former British ambassador, Oliver Miles, wrote,
"The [Cameron] government seems to be following the example of Tony Blair,
who ignored consistent advice from the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6 that our
Middle East policy - and in particular our Middle East wars - had been a
principal driver in the recruitment of Muslims in Britain for terrorism
here."
ISIS is the progeny of those in Washington, London and Paris who, in
conspiring to destroy Iraq, Syria and Libya, committed an epic crime against
humanity. Like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, ISIS are the mutations of a
western state terror dispensed by a venal imperial elite undeterred by the
consequences of actions taken at great remove in distance and culture. Their
culpability is unmentionable in "our" societies, making accomplices of those
who suppress this critical truth.
It is 23 years since a holocaust enveloped Iraq, immediately after the first
Gulf War, when the US and Britain hijacked the United Nations Security
Council and imposed punitive "sanctions" on the Iraqi population -
ironically, reinforcing the domestic authority of Saddam Hussein. It was
like a medieval siege. Almost everything that sustained a modern state was,
in the jargon, "blocked" - from chlorine for making the water supply safe to
school pencils, parts for X-ray machines, common painkillers and drugs to
combat previously unknown cancers carried in the dust from the southern
battlefields contaminated with Depleted Uranium. Just before Christmas 1999,
the Department of Trade and Industry in London restricted the export of
vaccines meant to protect Iraqi children against diphtheria and yellow
fever. Kim Howells, parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Blair
government, explained why. "The children's vaccines", he said, "were capable
of being used in weapons of mass destruction". The British Government could
get away with such an outrage because media reporting of Iraq - much of it
manipulated by the Foreign Office - blamed Saddam Hussein for everything.
Under a bogus "humanitarian" Oil for Food Programme, $100 was allotted for
each Iraqi to live on for a year. This figure had to pay for the entire
society's infrastructure and essential services, such as power and water.
"Imagine," the UN Assistant Secretary General, Hans Von Sponeck, told me,
"setting that pittance against the lack of clean water, and the fact that
the majority of sick people cannot afford treatment, and the sheer trauma of
getting from day to day, and you have a glimpse of the nightmare. And make
no mistake, this is deliberate. I have not in the past wanted to use the
word genocide, but now it is unavoidable." Disgusted, Von Sponeck resigned
as UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq. His predecessor, Denis Halliday, an
equally distinguished senior UN official, had also resigned. "I was
instructed," Halliday said, "to implement a policy that satisfies the
definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that has effectively killed well
over a million individuals, children and adults."
A study by the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, found that between
1991 and 1998, the height of the blockade, there were 500,000 "excess"
deaths of Iraqi infants under the age of five. An American TV reporter put
this to Madeleine Albright, US Ambassador to the United Nations, asking her,
"Is the price worth it?" Albright replied, "We think the price is worth it."
In 2007, the senior British official responsible for the sanctions, Carne
Ross, known as "Mr. Iraq", told a parliamentary selection committee, "[The
US and UK governments] effectively denied the entire population a means to
live." When I interviewed Carne Ross three years later, he was consumed by
regret and contrition. "I feel ashamed," he said. He is today a rare
truth-teller of how governments deceive and how a compliant media plays a
critical role in disseminating and maintaining the deception. "We would feed
[journalists] factoids of sanitised intelligence," he said, "or we'd freeze
them out." Last year, a not untypical headline in the Guardian read: "Faced
with the horror of Isis we must act." The "we must act" is a ghost risen, a
warning of the suppression of informed memory, facts, lessons learned and
regrets or shame. The author of the article was Peter Hain, the former
Foreign Office minister responsible for Iraq under Blair. In 1998, when
Denis Halliday revealed the extent of the suffering in Iraq for which the
Blair Government shared primary responsibility, Hain abused him on the BBC's
Newsnight as an "apologist for Saddam". In 2003, Hain backed Blair's
invasion of stricken Iraq on the basis of transparent lies. At a subsequent
Labour Party conference, he dismissed the invasion as a "fringe issue".
Here was Hain demanding "air strikes, drones, military equipment and other
support" for those "facing genocide" in Iraq and Syria. This will further
"the imperative of a political solution". The day Hain's article appeared,
Denis Halliday and Hans Von Sponeck happened to be in London and came to
visit me. They were not shocked by the lethal hypocrisy of a politician, but
lamented the enduring, almost inexplicable absence of intelligent diplomacy
in negotiating a semblance of truce. Across the world, from Northern Ireland
to Nepal, those regarding each other as terrorists and heretics have faced
each other across a table. Why not now in Iraq and Syria? Instead, there is
a vapid, almost sociopathic verboseness from Cameron, Hollande, Obama and
their "coalition of the willing" as they prescribe more violence delivered
from 30,000 feet on places where the blood of previous adventures never
dried. They seem to relish their own violence and stupidityso much they want
it to overthrow their one potentially valuable ally, the government in
Syria.
This is nothing new, as the following leaked UK-US intelligence file
illustrates:
"In order to facilitate the action of liberative [sic] forces. a special
effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals [and] to proceed
with internal disturbances in Syria. CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will
attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main [sic] incidents within
Syria, working through contacts with individuals. a necessary degree of
fear. frontier and [staged] border clashes [will] provide a pretext for
intervention. the CIA and SIS should use. capabilities in both psychological
and action fields to augment tension."
That was written in 1957, although it could have been written yesterday. In
the imperial world, nothing essentially changes. In 2013, the former French
Foreign Minister Roland Dumas revealed that "two years before the Arab
spring", he was told in London that a war on Syria was planned. "I am going
to tell you something," he said in an interview with the French TV channel
LPC, "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other
business. I met top British officials, who confessed to me that they were
preparing something in Syria. Britain was organising an invasion of rebels
into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer Minister for
Foreign Affairs, if I would like to participate. This operation goes way
back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned."
The only effective opponents of ISIS are accredited demons of the west -
Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and now Russia. The obstacle is Turkey, an "ally" and
a member of Nato, which has conspired with the CIA, MI6 and the Gulf
medievalists to channel support to the Syrian "rebels", including those now
calling themselves ISIS. Supporting Turkey in its long-held ambition for
regional dominance by overthrowing the Assad government beckons a major
conventional war and the horrific dismemberment of the most ethnically
diverse state in the Middle East.
A truce - however difficult to negotiate and achieve - is the only way out
of this maze; otherwise, the atrocities in Paris and Beirut will be
repeated. Together with a truce, the leading perpetrators and overseers of
violence in the Middle East - the Americans and Europeans - must themselves
"de-radicalise" and demonstrate a good faith to alienated Muslim communities
everywhere, including those at home. There should be an immediate cessation
of all shipments of war materials to Israel and recognition of the State of
Palestine. The issue of Palestine is the region's most festering open wound,
and the oft-stated justification for the rise of Islamic extremism. Osama
bin Laden made that clear. Palestine also offers hope. Give justice to the
Palestinians and you begin to change the world around them.
More than 40 years ago, the Nixon-Kissinger bombing of Cambodia unleashed a
torrent of suffering from which that country has never recovered. The same
is true of the Blair-Bush crime in Iraq, and the Nato and "coalition" crimes
in Libya and Syria. With impeccable timing, Henry Kissinger's latest
self-serving tome has been released with its satirical title, "World Order".
In one fawning review, Kissinger is described as a "key shaper of a world
order that remained stable for a quarter of a century". Tell that to the
people of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Chile, East Timor and all the other
victims of his "statecraft". Only when "we" recognise the war criminals in
our midst and stop denying ourselves the truth will the blood begin to dry.
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An Islamic State militant stands in front of an ISIS flag. (photo: Al Hayat
Media)
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never-dried/
From Pol Pot to ISIS: The Blood Never Dried
By John Pilger, CounterPunch
17 November 15
n transmitting President Richard Nixon's orders for a "massive" bombing of
Cambodia in 1969, Henry Kissinger said, "Anything that flies on everything
that moves". As Barack Obama wages his seventh war against the Muslim world
since he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and Francois Hollande promises a
"merciless" attack on that the rubble of Syria, the orchestrated hysteria
and lies make one almost nostalgic for Kissinger's murderous honesty.
As a witness to the human consequences of aerial savagery - including the
beheading of victims, their parts festooning trees and fields - I am not
surprised by the disregard of memory and history, yet again. A telling
example is the rise to power of Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge, who had much in
common with today's Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS). They, too, were
ruthless medievalists who began as a small sect. They, too, were the product
of an American-made apocalypse, this time in Asia.
According to Pol Pot, his movement had consisted of "fewer than 5,000 poorly
armed guerrillas uncertain about their strategy, tactics, loyalty and
leaders". Once Nixon's and Kissinger's B-52 bombers had gone to work as part
of "Operation Menu", the west's ultimate demon could not believe his luck.
The Americans dropped the equivalent of five Hiroshimas on rural Cambodia
during 1969-73. They leveled village after village, returning to bomb the
rubble and corpses. The craters left giant necklaces of carnage, still
visible from the air. The terror was unimaginable. A former Khmer Rouge
official described how the survivors "froze up and they would wander around
mute for three or four days. Terrified and half-crazy, the people were ready
to believe what they were told. That was what made it so easy for the Khmer
Rouge to win the people over." A Finnish Government Commission of Inquiry
estimated that 600,000 Cambodians died in the ensuing civil war and
described the bombing as the "first stage in a decade of genocide". What
Nixon and Kissinger began, Pol Pot, their beneficiary, completed. Under
their bombs, the Khmer Rouge grew to a formidable army of 200,000.
ISIS has a similar past and present. By most scholarly measure, Bush and
Blair's invasion of Iraq in 2003 led to the deaths of at least 700,000
people - in a country that had no history of jihadism. The Kurds had done
territorial and political deals; Sunni and Shia had class and sectarian
differences, but they were at peace; intermarriage was common. Three years
before the invasion, I drove the length of Iraq without fear. On the way I
met people proud, above all, to be Iraqis, the heirs of a civilization that
seemed, for them, a presence.
Bush and Blair blew all this to bits. Iraq is now a nest of jihadism.
Al-Qaeda - like Pol Pot's "jihadists" - seized the opportunity provided by
the onslaught of Shock and Awe and the civil war that followed. "Rebel"
Syria offered even greater rewards, with CIA and Gulf state ratlines of
weapons, logistics and money running through Turkey. The arrival of foreign
recruits was inevitable. A former British ambassador, Oliver Miles, wrote,
"The [Cameron] government seems to be following the example of Tony Blair,
who ignored consistent advice from the Foreign Office, MI5 and MI6 that our
Middle East policy - and in particular our Middle East wars - had been a
principal driver in the recruitment of Muslims in Britain for terrorism
here."
ISIS is the progeny of those in Washington, London and Paris who, in
conspiring to destroy Iraq, Syria and Libya, committed an epic crime against
humanity. Like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, ISIS are the mutations of a
western state terror dispensed by a venal imperial elite undeterred by the
consequences of actions taken at great remove in distance and culture. Their
culpability is unmentionable in "our" societies, making accomplices of those
who suppress this critical truth.
It is 23 years since a holocaust enveloped Iraq, immediately after the first
Gulf War, when the US and Britain hijacked the United Nations Security
Council and imposed punitive "sanctions" on the Iraqi population -
ironically, reinforcing the domestic authority of Saddam Hussein. It was
like a medieval siege. Almost everything that sustained a modern state was,
in the jargon, "blocked" - from chlorine for making the water supply safe to
school pencils, parts for X-ray machines, common painkillers and drugs to
combat previously unknown cancers carried in the dust from the southern
battlefields contaminated with Depleted Uranium. Just before Christmas 1999,
the Department of Trade and Industry in London restricted the export of
vaccines meant to protect Iraqi children against diphtheria and yellow
fever. Kim Howells, parliamentary Under-Secretary of State in the Blair
government, explained why. "The children's vaccines", he said, "were capable
of being used in weapons of mass destruction". The British Government could
get away with such an outrage because media reporting of Iraq - much of it
manipulated by the Foreign Office - blamed Saddam Hussein for everything.
Under a bogus "humanitarian" Oil for Food Programme, $100 was allotted for
each Iraqi to live on for a year. This figure had to pay for the entire
society's infrastructure and essential services, such as power and water.
"Imagine," the UN Assistant Secretary General, Hans Von Sponeck, told me,
"setting that pittance against the lack of clean water, and the fact that
the majority of sick people cannot afford treatment, and the sheer trauma of
getting from day to day, and you have a glimpse of the nightmare. And make
no mistake, this is deliberate. I have not in the past wanted to use the
word genocide, but now it is unavoidable." Disgusted, Von Sponeck resigned
as UN Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Iraq. His predecessor, Denis Halliday, an
equally distinguished senior UN official, had also resigned. "I was
instructed," Halliday said, "to implement a policy that satisfies the
definition of genocide: a deliberate policy that has effectively killed well
over a million individuals, children and adults."
A study by the United Nations Children's Fund, Unicef, found that between
1991 and 1998, the height of the blockade, there were 500,000 "excess"
deaths of Iraqi infants under the age of five. An American TV reporter put
this to Madeleine Albright, US Ambassador to the United Nations, asking her,
"Is the price worth it?" Albright replied, "We think the price is worth it."
In 2007, the senior British official responsible for the sanctions, Carne
Ross, known as "Mr. Iraq", told a parliamentary selection committee, "[The
US and UK governments] effectively denied the entire population a means to
live." When I interviewed Carne Ross three years later, he was consumed by
regret and contrition. "I feel ashamed," he said. He is today a rare
truth-teller of how governments deceive and how a compliant media plays a
critical role in disseminating and maintaining the deception. "We would feed
[journalists] factoids of sanitised intelligence," he said, "or we'd freeze
them out." Last year, a not untypical headline in the Guardian read: "Faced
with the horror of Isis we must act." The "we must act" is a ghost risen, a
warning of the suppression of informed memory, facts, lessons learned and
regrets or shame. The author of the article was Peter Hain, the former
Foreign Office minister responsible for Iraq under Blair. In 1998, when
Denis Halliday revealed the extent of the suffering in Iraq for which the
Blair Government shared primary responsibility, Hain abused him on the BBC's
Newsnight as an "apologist for Saddam". In 2003, Hain backed Blair's
invasion of stricken Iraq on the basis of transparent lies. At a subsequent
Labour Party conference, he dismissed the invasion as a "fringe issue".
Here was Hain demanding "air strikes, drones, military equipment and other
support" for those "facing genocide" in Iraq and Syria. This will further
"the imperative of a political solution". The day Hain's article appeared,
Denis Halliday and Hans Von Sponeck happened to be in London and came to
visit me. They were not shocked by the lethal hypocrisy of a politician, but
lamented the enduring, almost inexplicable absence of intelligent diplomacy
in negotiating a semblance of truce. Across the world, from Northern Ireland
to Nepal, those regarding each other as terrorists and heretics have faced
each other across a table. Why not now in Iraq and Syria? Instead, there is
a vapid, almost sociopathic verboseness from Cameron, Hollande, Obama and
their "coalition of the willing" as they prescribe more violence delivered
from 30,000 feet on places where the blood of previous adventures never
dried. They seem to relish their own violence and stupidityso much they want
it to overthrow their one potentially valuable ally, the government in
Syria.
This is nothing new, as the following leaked UK-US intelligence file
illustrates:
"In order to facilitate the action of liberative [sic] forces. a special
effort should be made to eliminate certain key individuals [and] to proceed
with internal disturbances in Syria. CIA is prepared, and SIS (MI6) will
attempt to mount minor sabotage and coup de main [sic] incidents within
Syria, working through contacts with individuals. a necessary degree of
fear. frontier and [staged] border clashes [will] provide a pretext for
intervention. the CIA and SIS should use. capabilities in both psychological
and action fields to augment tension."
That was written in 1957, although it could have been written yesterday. In
the imperial world, nothing essentially changes. In 2013, the former French
Foreign Minister Roland Dumas revealed that "two years before the Arab
spring", he was told in London that a war on Syria was planned. "I am going
to tell you something," he said in an interview with the French TV channel
LPC, "I was in England two years before the violence in Syria on other
business. I met top British officials, who confessed to me that they were
preparing something in Syria. Britain was organising an invasion of rebels
into Syria. They even asked me, although I was no longer Minister for
Foreign Affairs, if I would like to participate. This operation goes way
back. It was prepared, preconceived and planned."
The only effective opponents of ISIS are accredited demons of the west -
Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and now Russia. The obstacle is Turkey, an "ally" and
a member of Nato, which has conspired with the CIA, MI6 and the Gulf
medievalists to channel support to the Syrian "rebels", including those now
calling themselves ISIS. Supporting Turkey in its long-held ambition for
regional dominance by overthrowing the Assad government beckons a major
conventional war and the horrific dismemberment of the most ethnically
diverse state in the Middle East.
A truce - however difficult to negotiate and achieve - is the only way out
of this maze; otherwise, the atrocities in Paris and Beirut will be
repeated. Together with a truce, the leading perpetrators and overseers of
violence in the Middle East - the Americans and Europeans - must themselves
"de-radicalise" and demonstrate a good faith to alienated Muslim communities
everywhere, including those at home. There should be an immediate cessation
of all shipments of war materials to Israel and recognition of the State of
Palestine. The issue of Palestine is the region's most festering open wound,
and the oft-stated justification for the rise of Islamic extremism. Osama
bin Laden made that clear. Palestine also offers hope. Give justice to the
Palestinians and you begin to change the world around them.
More than 40 years ago, the Nixon-Kissinger bombing of Cambodia unleashed a
torrent of suffering from which that country has never recovered. The same
is true of the Blair-Bush crime in Iraq, and the Nato and "coalition" crimes
in Libya and Syria. With impeccable timing, Henry Kissinger's latest
self-serving tome has been released with its satirical title, "World Order".
In one fawning review, Kissinger is described as a "key shaper of a world
order that remained stable for a quarter of a century". Tell that to the
people of Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, Chile, East Timor and all the other
victims of his "statecraft". Only when "we" recognise the war criminals in
our midst and stop denying ourselves the truth will the blood begin to dry.
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