(This is a duplicate of the static copy of this posting listed under the Pages heading to the right.)
Here’s something we should all familiarize ourselves with: A 370-page report recently declassified, cited in the mainstream media, issued by the U.S. Justice Department’s Inspector General implicates the U.S. for complicity in torture in reference to Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan and Iraq. It directly points a finger at the FBI’s involvement (which really shouldn’t be that surprising considering the bureau’s track record). Notice on pages 350-351, only a couple of paragraphs are provided for allegations of electro-shock therapy, with the majority of the content blacked out to where we have no idea what transpired. Pages 339-342 list allegations of food and water deprivation as well as sleep deprivation, but, again, most of the content is blacked out.
Dr. Ian Douglas, with Abdul Ilah Albayaty and Hana Al Bayaty, produced these Notes on Genocide, using international law and UN Conventions as their guide, and have established that the U.S. is deliberately committing genocide in Iraq while at the same time manipulating and diverting the world away from its crimes. This is an extremely important piece, detailing information on why the Neoconservative movement took interest in Iraq, because of its resources and strategic location, as early as 1991 or before. Pages 16-22 set out the reasons for American interest in Iraq, with pg. 21 calling specific attention to the OPEC agreement:
US economic vulnerability is not only centered on the supply of oil. The entire entity of the United States is wagered on the use of the dollar as the primary currency of oil transactions. The US long forced OPEC oil sales to be transacted only in dollars, establishing the dollar as the global currency of reserve. Indeed, the global oil industry is the guarantor and engine of the global dollar economy. Any alteration of this arrangement threatens to explode the illusion on which American economic prowess is built. If dollars were to flood back into the United States, hyperinflation would take hold, followed by industries collapsed. As consciousness of the approaching end of the age of oil sinks in, and as others powers — the EU and China — rise, this monetary consideration is a second level to the US national emergency.
By 1997, the PNAC understands well the twin levels of the US national emergency and commits itself to address it.
PNAC refers to the neoconservative think tank Project for the New American Century based in Washington D.C. After its creation in 1997, nine of its members went on to occupy senior positions in the W. Bush Administration’s first term. These include:
- Elliot Abrams (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security Council for Near East and North African Affairs)
- Dick Cheney (Vice President)
- Paula Dobriansky (Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs)
- Francis Fukuyama (member of the President’s Council on Bioethics)
- Zalmay Khalilzad (Ambassador to Afghanistan, currently the Ambassador to Iraq)
- I. Lewis Libby (Chief of Staff for the Vice President)
- Peter W. Rodman (Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security)
- Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense)
- Paul Wolfowitz (Deputy Secretary of Defense)
Other signatories include former vice president for George H.W. Bush, Dan Quayle, and George W. Bush’s brother, Jeb Bush, as well as editor-in-chief of business magazine Forbes, Steve Forbes.
The ideology and economic teachings embraced by this group have, needless to say, had a profound impact on the current administration and the illegal invasion we’re currently involved in. To read more, check the link above or click here to read about PNAC on the Project for the OLD American Century’s (POAC) blog. (I would offer a link directly to the Project for a New American Century’s site, but alas, the site has been suspended.)
Articles that discuss and criticize the U.S invasion of Iraq are plentiful, though difficult to find via mainstream channels. One titled “Iraq’s Occupation: A Form of Terrorism” is definitely worth reading. Another titled “Where is the Outrage?” focuses on the contents of the Justice Department’s recently-declassified report and asks the important question of why Americans are allowing this to continue.
With a better understanding of what’s really going on, how can we remain silent and not demand answers and accountability?
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