Just the other day I was telling a friend I was expecting to read
soon that these horrible bombings and rocket attacks in Iraq, blamed
on "insurgents" are really us, the U.S. The following article comes
close to saying just that.
Dan Scanlan
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Slaughterhouse
By Mike Whitney
04/25/06 "ICH" -- -- It is astonishing how many Americans believe
that Iraq is in a civil war.
Haven’t we already proved to everyone’s satisfaction that the
storyline leading up to the war was entirely false; that all of the
charges and claims of WMD and connections to 9-11 were completely
baseless?
And wasn’t “alleged” terrorist mastermind, Abu Musab al Zarqawi
exposed last week in a Washington Post article as a fraud; a shabby
invention of the fertile imaginations of Pentagon planners and their
surrogates in the media?
Colonel Derek Harvey candidly admitted that the military
intentionally “enlarged Zarqawi’s caricature” to create the
impression that the struggle against occupation was really a fight
against terrorism.
What more proof do we need?
Didn’t the Bush administration adopt a strategy produced by the right-
wing think tank, Rand Corp. for exploiting the ideological and
religious differences of the Iraqi people, even though Iraq has no
history of sectarian violence?
So why are the American people so eager to accept the Pentagon-media
analysis of the present conflict in Iraq? Every part of the narrative
so far has been exposed as a lie. Are we to believe that the media
has suddenly “seen the light” and decided to record the facts as
objectively as possible?
Are we to believe that the Pentagon has decided to “be straight” with
the public about the current state of affairs in Iraq?
Let us at least agree on the one basic axiom that underscores all
corporate journalism; the media never tells the truth.
Sure, stories break that shed light on some area of government waste,
fraud or abuse, but the really big stories (independent
investigations of 9-11, the destruction of Falluja, the 2004 Ohio
election fraud, the Downing Street memo, “Able Danger”) simply
disappear behind a wall of disinformation. The truth only leaches out
through its corporate spigot as a way of lending credibility to the
“prevailing lie” which animates every area of the corporate
information–system.
This is THEIR system, not yours or mine; and it is their narrative
that appears on the front page of the New York Times or the headline
story on CNN. That storyline is always skewed in favor of those who
have a vested interest in persuading the public that their
perspective is correct, which takes us back to our original axiom;
the media never tells the truth.
The civil war storyline is intended to divert attention from the
bloody subjugation of the Iraqi people by a foreign military. This is
the real story of the Iraqi conflict. The current malaise in Iraq is
reducible to three bullet-points; occupation, occupation, and
occupation. Any departure from this essential narrative is simply false.
American Intelligence services are involved in every area of the
present hostilities. Author Max Fuller (“Crying Wolf: Media
disinformation and Deaths squads in Occupied Iraq”) has documented
how CIA operatives have not only trained the Iraqi death squads
operating in the Interior ministry, but created a high-tech facility
with data banks of the names of potential targets for future attacks.
Does that sound like civil war or a pretty well-thought out scheme
for plunging the country into chaos?
And how does one explain the fact that there have been three separate
incidents where occupation forces have been either caught or
connected to bombings in Iraq?
The first was the famous incident in Basra where two British
paramilitaries were caught disguised as Arabs with a truck-full of
explosives in their vehicle. Panicky British forces destroyed the
Basra jail to release the two captured SAS soldiers clearly afraid
that their involvement in setting off bombs would be exposed.
Another report that appeared in Reuters “American arrested with
weapons in Iraq” confirmed that an American “security contractor
working for a private company, possessed explosives which were found
in his car.” He was arrested by Iraqi security guards.
The bombing of the Golden-domed mosque also establishes links between
the sporadic bombing in Iraq and American clandestine operatives. The
AFP reported that the bombing “was the work of specialists” and the
“placing of explosives must have taken at least 12 hours”. The report
continues:
“Construction Minister Jassem Mohammed Jaafar said, “Holes were dug
into the mausoleum’s four main pillars and packed with explosives.
Then charges were connected together and linked to another charge
placed just under the dome. The wires were then linked to a detonator
which was triggered at a distance.”
Clearly the bombing was not carried out by rogue elements in the
disparate Iraqi resistance but highly trained saboteurs executing a
precision demolition to incite sectarian violence. The blast bears
all the hallmarks of a covert Intelligence agency operation.
Eyewitness accounts verify that American troops and Iraqi National
Guard were active in the area throughout the night and that their
cars could be heard running “the whole night until next morning”.
People living around the mosque were told “to stay in your shop and
don’t leave the area”.
At 6:30 AM the American troops left, just 10 minutes before the bombs
went off.
Since the bombing, the media has universally adopted the approach
that the destruction of the mosque was the “catalyzing event” which
put Iraq on the pat to civil war.
It is utter nonsense.
The story is just as bogus as the earlier fabrications about WMD or
al Zarqawi. In fact, if it was the truth, we can be reasonably
certain that it would not appear in the headlines, as per our
original axiom that “the media never tells the truth”.
The rationale leading up to the war was a lie. The justification for
the ongoing occupation as a fight against terrorism (al Zarqawi) was
a lie. The fairy tale about an Iraqi civil war is a lie. And,
presumably, all the future stories diverting attention from America’s
bloody occupation will be lies.
Iraq is subsumed by a wave of violence which radiates directly from
the White House. Don’t blame the Iraqis. The world’s most ancient
civilization is being systematically obliterated to feed the
insatiable greed of Washington warlords and their constituents in the
corporate boardrooms across America.
Iraq is America’s slaughterhouse; the Iraqi people have no part in
this crime.
Don’t call it civil war.
