Political Treason of the Century Deja Vous all Over Again

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Political Treason of the Century Deja Vous all Over Again

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Stop the Crime of the Century
SECRET MINUTES RELEASED - EVIDENCE OF
BUSH TREASON
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html

by David Michael Green

05/13/05 CommonDreams.org - In Iraq, there is a crime of breathtaking
proportions taking place. Breathtaking, but not necessarily
surprising. We know from the historical record that governments will
lie and deceive, and we've rarely seen one as immoral and venal as the
Bush administration. What has turned this crime into an astonishing
demonstration of the depth of American democracy's decay is the
complicity of the media establishment in hiding the original crime,
and in thus doing so, ripping a gaping hole in the fabric of our
political system.

Did you know that there now exists in the public domain a 'smoking
gun' memo, which proves that everything the Bush administration said
about the Iraq invasion was a lie? If you live in Britain you probably
do, but if you live in the United States, chances are minuscule that
you would be aware of this.

Think about that for a second.

Apart from 9/11, has there been a more important story in the last
decade than that the president lied to the American people about the
reasons for invading Iraq,

and then proceeded to plunge the country into an illegal war which
has alienated the rest of the world,

lit a fire under the war's victims and the Islamic world generally,
turning them into enemy combatants,

locked up virtually all American land forces in a war without end in
sight, cost $300 billion and counting, taken over 1600 American lives
on top of more than 15,000 gravely wounded,

and killed perhaps 100,000 or more Iraqis?

Could there be a bigger story? "How Do Japanese Dump Trash,? perhaps,
which ran on page one of today's (May 12) Times?

Of course not. But then,

How is it that this is not being reported in the American mainstream
media?

How is it that the two organs most responsible for coverage of
political developments in this country - The New York Times and The
Washington Post - have failed to splash this across their front pages
in bold headlines, despite the fact that they clearly know of the
story?

How, especially, could these two papers sit on a story like this after
both recently issued mea culpas for their respective failures to
critically cover administration claims of bogus Iraqi threats during
the period leading up to the war, thereby contributing to the war
themselves?

From the Bush administration and the current generation of
Republicans, I expect nothing but the most debased and vile politics.
And, of course, ditto for Fox News and the rest of the overtly right-
wing media. But I have been naive enough, until now, to believe that
at least some of the American mainstream media has not climbed
completely into bed with those destroyers of all that is decent about
American democracy. Apparently I've been a fool.

Here is the story we are not being told.

Several days before their election last week (May 5), a patriot within
the highest circle of British government leaked to the Times of London
a memo, which proves the degree of deceit to which both the Americans
and British publics have been subjected on the subject of the Iraq
war. You were never supposed to see this document (
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1593607,00.html ). It is
headlined in bold with this warning: "This record is extremely
sensitive. No further copies should be made. It should be shown only
to those with a genuine need to know its contents."

The memo provides minutes from a meeting of Tony Blair's most
exclusive war cabinet, held in July of 2002. In the meeting, two of
Blair's top officials report on discussions they had just held in
Washington with officials at the top levels of the Bush
administration.

Before describing the contents of the memo, it is important to note
that nobody in the British government has denied to even the slightest
degree the authenticity of this document. A highly placed American
source has verified, off the record, that it is completely accurate in
its recounting of the events described. And Tony Blair's only comment
has been that there is 'nothing new' contained in the memo. This could
not be more false. The memo proves beyond doubt the following:

The Bush administration had decided by July 2002, at the latest, to
invade Iraq. The memo says that "Military action was now seen as
inevitable. Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action..."
Later in the memo, it notes that "It seemed clear that Bush had made
up his mind to take military action." This means the claims that the
president did not have a war plan on his desk at that time are now
proven lies. It means that the whole kabuki dance of going to
Congress, going to the UN, sending over weapons inspectors, pulling
them out before they could finish their work, requiring Iraq to report
to the Security Council on its weapons of mass destruction, then
immediately rejecting their report as incomplete and deceitful - all
of this - was a completely counterfeit exercise conducted for public
relations purposes only. It also means that when former Treasury
Secretary Paul O'Neill and former terrorism czar Richard Clarke
reported that Bush had planned to attack Iraq from the beginning, they
- rather than the administration which was personally savaging them as
loonies - were telling the truth.

The Bush and Blair administrations knew that the argument for war
against Iraq was weak. As Foreign Secretary Jack Straw notes in the
meeting, "But the case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his
neighbors, and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North
Korea or Iran." This is proof that Iraq was never anything like the
serious threat it was portrayed to be before the war, and that both
administrations knew that it was no threat, but knowingly and
completely oversold the necessity for the war with their massive
phalanx of lies and distortions.

Because the case was thin, the war would have to be "...justified by
the conjunction of terrorism and WMD." This proves that former Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz wasn't kidding when he let slip that
the weapons of mass destruction argument was decided on by the
administration for "bureaucratic reasons," meaning a rationale that
all the leading actors within the administration could agree on as the
most effective public relations device for marketing the war.

Both the Bush and Blair administrations manipulated intelligence to
get what they wanted in order to justify the war, and knew that they
were doing precisely that. As the memo states, "...the intelligence
and facts were being fixed around the policy." This is the most
remarkable statement of all, as it makes clear that the decision to
invade had nothing to do with facts or any sort of real threat.
Rather, it was simply a preference of the Bush administration (and
probably just a personal one for Bush), which then became its policy,
for which they then twisted and fabricated information and
disinformation in order to sell the war to a rightly skeptical public.

The war was illegal. Kofi Annan and the international community
clearly believed that the war was a violation of international law.
But we now also know that the British Attorney-General, who has to
rule on this point (the question of the legality of launching a war is
far less significant, unfortunately, in the American political
tradition), "said that the desire for regime change was not a legal
base for military action. There were three possible legal bases: self-
defense, humanitarian intervention, or UNSC authorization [which was
never ultimately obtained from the Security Council]. The first and
second could not be the base in this case. Relying on UNSCR 1205 of
three years ago would be difficult. The situation might change of
course." Yes, of course. Then, again, if it didn't, one could always
just lie about it.

Knowing that the war was neither legal nor morally justifiable, the
American and British governments therefore sought to find a way to
make the war politically acceptable by baiting Saddam. As the memo
notes, "We should work up a plan for an ultimatum to Saddam to allow
back in the UN weapons inspectors. This would also help with the legal
justification for the use of force." And, "The Prime Minister said
that it would make a big difference politically and legally if Saddam
refused to allow in the UN inspectors." And, "If the political context
were right, people would support regime change."

Well before the war was 'justified,' even in the bogus sense of
Washington's and London's inspections and UN resolutions game, it had
already begun. The memo states that the "U.S. had already begun
'spikes of activity' to put pressure on the regime."

Finally, it is worth noting that, even putting legal and moral
questions aside, the memo also substantiates the sheer strategic
incompetence of the administration, a failure which has, of course,
produced excessive loss of life. It states that "There was little
discussion in Washington of the aftermath after military action."

Let's review the bidding here. We now have definitive, verified and
undenied evidence documenting a panoply of lies told to the American
and world publics about the invasion of Iraq, a bloody war which was
neither legally nor morally justified, despite overt attempts to make
it so by those who wished to launch it.

On top of that crime, we can now also add that of America's fourth
estate, which has completely abdicated its role and responsibility to
present this crucial bombshell of information to the public.

It gets worse, however. Eighty-nine members of Congress have taken
note of the items described above, as well as a separate secret
briefing for Blair's meeting, in which it was agreed that "Britain and
America had to 'create' conditions to justify a war", and have sent a
letter to the president demanding a response.
http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/letters/bushsecretmemoltr5505..pdf

And, yet, still there is no coverage from our press! It appears that
demanding that the government respect the will of the people is no
longer enough in American democracy. We must now also carry the burden
of demanding that the media do its job and cover developments, which
are unfavorable to the national kleptocracy of which these giant media
corporations have become a part.

That noise you hear? It's the sound of America's Founders spinning in
their graves. And well they should, for this scenario is precisely the
massive concentration of power they most feared. All branches of the
government are now in the hands of the same party (meaning,
effectively, there virtually are no branches any longer).

The so-called opposition party facilitates Republican rule through the
flattery of imitation, when it hasn't gone into hiding instead. The
public is frightened and ill-informed. And now this. To this hall of
shame list must be added a mainstream press which a week ago seemed
only biased and intimidated, but now appears entirely complicit. We
are now living precisely the nightmare of Washington, Jefferson,
Madison and the rest. It must stop. We cannot have a prayer of an
informed public curbing the worst excesses of American government if,
in fact, that public is not informed. Sad as it is, if we ever hope to
reclaim American democracy, it appears we must now fight for
outrageous news to be aired, if we ever expect that news to outrage.

Notwithstanding our worst horrors and fears these last four years,
American democracy is in deeper trouble than we knew. Now is the time
for patriots to act.

We must begin by demanding coverage of this explosive evidence by the
leading organs of American journalism. If the American people remain
too jaded or frightened to demand the heads of those who deceived them
so thoroughly, they're entitled to inherit the consequences of their
own failures. However, they cannot make that choice until they know
the facts.

Please therefore, for the sake of innocent Iraqis, for the sake of
American soldiers, and for the sake of American democracy, do two
things 'write now:'

First, send a message to The New York Times and The Washington Post,
demanding that they cover this most significant of stories. Top brass
at The New York Times can be e-mailed at the following addresses:

Executive Editor Bill Keller: executive-editor@nytimes.com Managing
Editor Jill Abramson: managing-editor@nytimes.com

The Washington Post, try National Editor Michael Abramowitz:
abramowitz@washpost.com Associate Editor Robert Kaiser:
robertgkaiser@yahoo.com

Next, forward this article on to everybody you know, and ask them to
write the Times and the Post as well, and then to forward this article
in turn to everyone they know. With some luck, perhaps we can achieve
a critical mass which can no longer be ignored by these papers, with
the electronic media then to follow.

In any case, we are evidently going have to take this country back
ourselves, without even the benefit of a competent media to report the
news.

Fortunately, we possess the greatest weapon of all, the truth.

David Michael Green ( pscdmg@hofstra.edu ) is a professor of political
science at Hofstra University in New York.




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