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05-27-2009, 01:52 PM
I found this article after typing in one of our affiliates names in google (oh my god, the borg has taken over!!!!). One of the first to pop up was a very interesting article that I had to share with the world.
The 'Hoax-Masters' who have seized America (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5391/is_200603/ai_n21387726/)
Cameron Duodu replies to Katie Phelps, an American resident in Johannesburg, South Africa, who wrote to complain in the February issue of New African that our November issue contained "overtly negative reports" about her "homeland, the United States".
I was amused by Ms Katie Phelps' complaint, for Africa is often maligned by the Western media. Now, I am not saying that just because they publish what we consider "overtly negative reports" about our continent, we too must do the same. What I would tell Ms Phelps is that if she had taken the trouble to read the articles she complained about, she might have found that they are all based on fact, not perceptions and prejudices, as Western reports on Africa tend to be. Aside from that, Ms Phelps ought to appreciate that because of the role that her "homeland" chooses to play in world affairs, it has made its internal affairs the concern of all the peoples of the planet. Since March 2003, the US invasion of Iraq has led to die death of an estimated 100,000 Iraqis. Many others have been maimed. Over 2,100 Americans, mostly young men, have also been killed in the war.
What makes these figures so appalling is that the war was conceived in secret by a cabal of neo-conservatives who are bent on creating an American empire. They call the 21st century 'The New American Century'. And they are so unscrupulous that they lied to the whole world that Iraq was building nuclear weapons, and that it already had an array of "weapons of mass destruction" which it could hand over to Al Qaeda to inflict another 9/11 disaster - probably a worse one - on the United States.
They left it to the one member of the US administration whom the world respected, then secretary of state, Colin Powell, to go and present the lies to the United Nations Security Council. Powell dutifully relayed the message - Iraq was a dangerous country and must be brought to heel. We now learn from the man who was Powell's chief of staff at the time, Lawrence Wilkerson, that the message was - in Wilkerson's own colourful language - "a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council". Interviewed on US Public Affairs Television, Wilkerson described how he was unwittingly made to "participate" in the obnoxious "hoax":
"I can tell you that having been intimately involved in the preparation of Secretary Powell for his 5 February 2003 presentation at the UN Security Council, [none of the dissents about weapons of mass destruction that were being expressed in some parts of the US intelligence community] were in any fashion or form registered with me or the secretary by the director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, by the deputy director, John McLaughlin, or by any of their many analysts who were in the room with us for those five, six days and nights at the Central Intelligence Agency... In fact it was presented in the firmest language possible that the mobile biological labs and the sketches we had drawn of them for the secretary's presentation were based on the iron-clad evidence of multiple sources...
"I've been a consumer, a user of intelligence, at the tactical, operational and strategic levels for close to 35, 36 years. And I've seen many errors in intelligence. And I know it's not a perfectible business... However, lam astonished at the failures of our intelligence community... We failed in terms of predicting Iraq's weapons of mass destruction... It could turn out to be one of the worst in our history."
The article continues on for 5 more pages. If I have intrigued you so far, please read the rest of it.
The 'Hoax-Masters' who have seized America (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5391/is_200603/ai_n21387726/)
Cameron Duodu replies to Katie Phelps, an American resident in Johannesburg, South Africa, who wrote to complain in the February issue of New African that our November issue contained "overtly negative reports" about her "homeland, the United States".
I was amused by Ms Katie Phelps' complaint, for Africa is often maligned by the Western media. Now, I am not saying that just because they publish what we consider "overtly negative reports" about our continent, we too must do the same. What I would tell Ms Phelps is that if she had taken the trouble to read the articles she complained about, she might have found that they are all based on fact, not perceptions and prejudices, as Western reports on Africa tend to be. Aside from that, Ms Phelps ought to appreciate that because of the role that her "homeland" chooses to play in world affairs, it has made its internal affairs the concern of all the peoples of the planet. Since March 2003, the US invasion of Iraq has led to die death of an estimated 100,000 Iraqis. Many others have been maimed. Over 2,100 Americans, mostly young men, have also been killed in the war.
What makes these figures so appalling is that the war was conceived in secret by a cabal of neo-conservatives who are bent on creating an American empire. They call the 21st century 'The New American Century'. And they are so unscrupulous that they lied to the whole world that Iraq was building nuclear weapons, and that it already had an array of "weapons of mass destruction" which it could hand over to Al Qaeda to inflict another 9/11 disaster - probably a worse one - on the United States.
They left it to the one member of the US administration whom the world respected, then secretary of state, Colin Powell, to go and present the lies to the United Nations Security Council. Powell dutifully relayed the message - Iraq was a dangerous country and must be brought to heel. We now learn from the man who was Powell's chief of staff at the time, Lawrence Wilkerson, that the message was - in Wilkerson's own colourful language - "a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council". Interviewed on US Public Affairs Television, Wilkerson described how he was unwittingly made to "participate" in the obnoxious "hoax":
"I can tell you that having been intimately involved in the preparation of Secretary Powell for his 5 February 2003 presentation at the UN Security Council, [none of the dissents about weapons of mass destruction that were being expressed in some parts of the US intelligence community] were in any fashion or form registered with me or the secretary by the director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet, by the deputy director, John McLaughlin, or by any of their many analysts who were in the room with us for those five, six days and nights at the Central Intelligence Agency... In fact it was presented in the firmest language possible that the mobile biological labs and the sketches we had drawn of them for the secretary's presentation were based on the iron-clad evidence of multiple sources...
"I've been a consumer, a user of intelligence, at the tactical, operational and strategic levels for close to 35, 36 years. And I've seen many errors in intelligence. And I know it's not a perfectible business... However, lam astonished at the failures of our intelligence community... We failed in terms of predicting Iraq's weapons of mass destruction... It could turn out to be one of the worst in our history."
The article continues on for 5 more pages. If I have intrigued you so far, please read the rest of it.