“U.S., UK Must Admit Defeat And Leave Iraq”
[www.tehrantimes.com]

Iraqi resistance fighters have a right to oppose the occupation and to force foreign troops out of their country, a former British army commander said.

General Sir Michael Rose, who commanded UN forces in Bosnia, urged the U.S. and its allies to "admit defeat" and stop fighting "a hopeless war" in Iraq, according to the BBC's Newsnight program.

More than 140 British troops and about 3,300 American soldiers have been killed in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. When asked whether he believes Iraqi fighters have a "right" to drive U.S. occupation forces out of Iraq, Sir Michael said: "Yes, I do."

"As Lord Chatham said, when he was speaking on the British presence in North America, he said 'if I was an American, as I am an Englishman, as long as one Englishman remained on American native soil, I would never, never, never lay down my arms," he told Newsnight.

Iraqi fighters feel the same way, he added.

Sir Michael also said it was time for foreign troops to leave Iraq and go back home. "It is the soldiers who have been telling me from the frontline that the war they have been fighting is a hopeless war, that they cannot possibly win it and the sooner we start talking politics and not military solutions, the sooner they will come home and their lives will be preserved." Asked if that meant admitting defeat, the general replied: "Of course we have to admit defeat. The British admitted defeat in North America and the catastrophes that were predicted at the time never happened.”

"The catastrophes that were predicted after Vietnam never happened. The same thing will occur after we leave Iraq," he added.

Sir Michael has written a book comparing the resistance fighters' tactics with those of George Washington's irregular forces in the American War of Independence.

Last year, he called for British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be impeached for going to war on "false pretences".

A two-day conference of world and regional powers aimed at stabilizing Iraq ended on Friday.

Iraq’s neighbors, including Iran and Syria, had joined ministers from the G8 nations and the EU at the conference in the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.

More than $30bn in aid and debt relief was pledged by donors on the first day of the summit.

According to the Iraqi finance minister, Egypt agreed to write off about $800m owed to it by Iraq while Slovenia, Bulgaria and Poland would cancel 80% of Iraq's debts.

The UK and European Union each pledged $200m in grants.

The participants also signed a five-year agreement offering financial aid but requiring Iraq to push towards political reform and reconciliation.

Already-strained troops are being put in great mental health problems by the military due to the repeated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, a Pentagon panel said Thursday, warning of an overburdened state of the military's health care system.

The 14-member task force issued an urgent warning, saying more than a third of U.S. troops and veterans already suffer from problems that include traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder.

It found that 38 percent of soldiers and 31 percent of Marines report psychological concerns.

Among members of the National Guard, the figures have reached 49 percent, with the numbers expected to grow because of repeated deployments.

The figures are likely to rise as the war in Iraq escalates, and that current staffing and budget levels won't be enough to meet the need, the group said in a preliminary report.

The task force also characterized current Pentagon policies as overly conservative and out-of-date. "The system of care for psychological health that has evolved in recent decades is not sufficient to meet the needs of today's forces and their beneficiaries, and will not be sufficient to meet the needs in the future." (Source: Aljazeera.com)

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=5/6/2007&Cat=4&Num=3

Final Part:
The Pivotal Import Of Yellowcake
False Flags And "Big Time" Evil

[forgingnewparadigms.blogspot.com]
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Never forget that the CIA repeatedly warned the [US] President not to use that information in his speeches, yet he and Cheney stubbornly and knowingly used easily proven forgeries as a linchpin of the lies used to sell the Iraq war!

Why were they so hell-bent on feeding already proven lies to the American public? Lies that were prepared before 9:11 and before Bush and Cheney were [s]elected. Are we to believe that Bush and Cheney are so clueless about the content of the speeches they practice repeatedly before giving them that it is somehow legitimate to blame others (Tenet, et al) for the lies they used to sell the wars they blatantly planned long before they were [s]elected to office?

Why do you think Cheney (aka 'Big Time") was so preoccupied with discrediting Joe Wilson? Why do you think Tenet referred to the outing of Valerie Plame as a “Big Time Wrong"?

There's much more to hide than a mere "intelligence failure" and a fake letter. Their attempts to prevent inquiries into the 9:11 attacks, coupled with the way those buildings collapsed, even though the fires were never hot enough to melt steel girders, along with a host of other glaring irregularities and near impossibilities, points to some very heinous deceptions.

Never forget that we were also lied to about the Gulf of Tonkin incident that was used to justify the Vietnam war, the cause of the Spanish American War, and the facts about Pearl Harbor. What's one more noble sacrifice in the causes of freedom, democracy, and military-industrial profiteering?

Now even more "Big Time" lies, that will shake this world to its foundations, are being exposed. For example, follow the Medals of Freedom handed out by Little W.

The previous Pope received one as an excuse for Bush to complain, in person, that the Vatican wasn't being aggressive enough in helping him during the 2004 election.

Shortly thereafter, there were news stories about Bush's brain-dead requests for the Vatican's help. That was another impeachable offense never picked up by our so-called free press.

It is a treasonous act to conspire with a foreign potentate (the Pope) to manipulate the US election process.

Notice how the Vatican pretends to oppose the Iraq war while secretly supporting Bush and the Neo-cons? Notice how they pretend to oppose Freemasonry while belonging to the Neo-facist P2 lodge? Connect the dots.

And never forget that the Bin Laden's are very close associates of the Bushes, and were given a special pass to leave the country while all other flights were grounded after the 9:11 attacks.

How dumb can the American public remain and for how long? How many unlikely coincidences must occur before more people connect the dots to discern the patterns in the noise?

The Neo-cons and their supporters are now beginning to face the Truth and Justice they purposely denied the peoples of both East and West.

There are very few remaining on both sides of this so-called War on Terror, (aka the Neo-Crusades) who aren't aware of the great greed, duplicity, and Machiavellian character of the Bush-Cheney crew and their cohorts.

Now Iraq and the War on Terror are about to do for the USA and the Vatican what Afghanistan did for the Soviet Union.

And make no mistake about it, the ultimate driving force behind this latest convulsion of great evil has been the Vatican and its secret society cohorts.

The "yellow cake" lies that helped start this war have been traced back to Rome and the P2 lodge.

The time is long overdue to connect the dots and deliver long-overdue Truth and Justice to the Vatican, conspiring world leaders, and their criminal associations and organizations.

Be prepared for things to accelerate out of their control very soon...

posted by Seven Star Hand at 11:11 PM
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Malaysia Urges US
To Leave Iraq
And Make Amends

NUSA DUA (Bali), May 3 (Bernama) -- Malaysia wants the United States to leave Iraq and stop being the world's "policeman in all and every sense of the word", the 116th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting was told today.

This was conveyed by Malaysian Member of Parliament Datuk Dr Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar at the IPU's First Standing Committee on Peace and International Security.

He said that the nations involved in the prolonged Iraq war must admit their mistakes and seriously make amends.

"I know that it's not easy to be humble when you're victorious. I know too that it's not easy to be humble when your weaponry could annihilate the world 10 times over. But leave Iraq you must," he said.

Speaking on the fifth day of the IPU meeting here, he said the world knew that what was happening in Iraq was a manufactured war to control the country's resources and riches.

This could only result in mistrust and hatred in the hearts of the Iraqis who resented the colonisation of their homeland, he said.

Dr Wan Junaidi said that once the war started, no convention or rules could prevent those with the military might from carrying out violent acts, citing the harsh treatment of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay detention centres.

He pointed out that when pushed into a corner with their families and properties gone, those without any means to fight back would have nothing to lose by resorting to terrorism.

Terrorism, he said, was an ideology that could never be defeated by military might and that the aggrieved people could only be won over by capturing their hearts and minds through dialogues and discussions among equals.

Dr Wan Junaidi said Malaysia wanted the IPU, which comprises more than 140 parliaments in the world, to ensure that the right to life, liberty and happiness belongs to every citizen of the world and not just the people of any one country.

-- BERNAMA
http://www.bernama.com

Part One:

The Pivotal Import Of Yellowcake
False Flags And "Big Time" Evil

[forgingnewparadigms.blogspot.com]
Tuesday, May 01, 2007

The combination of George Tenet's book, At the Center of the Storm, Eisner & Royce's The Italian Letter and the books and research of many others in recent years now provides enough of a foundation for everyone to finally discern that 9:11 was a "false flag" operation against both the American public and the Muslim world.

Likewise, the uncanny synchronicity of Al Qaeda's videos and other activities perfectly timed to reinforce and support the Bush-Cheney administration's political needs coupled with the actions of the Bush administration actually serving to strengthen Al Qaeda's position, now makes perfect sense.

The apparent mistakes and chaos that have characterized the Iraq war, the easily prevented resurgence of the Taliban, and permitting Bin Laden to escape Tora Bora to a safe haven in Pakistan all fit the same pattern.

It's hard to maintain a state of continuous war if you allow your made-to-order enemies to be defeated too early. It is likewise hard to remain a "war president" if your wars end too soon!

The letterhead used to forge the "Yellowcake letter" that was then used to help "sell" the Iraq war was stolen in Rome on 1/1/2001, more than nine months before 9:11 and before Little W. became president.

Consequently, the use of the "Yellow-Cake Lie" was obviously discussed and planned before then! The import of this fact is that the Niger embassy in Rome was burglarized, before Bush became president, to lay the groundwork for the web of deception used to sell the Iraq War, after 9:11.

More importantly, it is highly unlikely that the Iraq war could ever have been sold to the American public, without something like 9:11 happening first.

Any excuses of other uses for the stolen letterhead are laughable since the letterhead burglary would have been pointless, without 9:11. This evidences foreknowledge of those attacks, a full nine months before they occurred, among other things!

It is well known that Neo-con think tanks were advocating war with Iraq and Iran during the Clinton years, long before Little W. was [s]elected.

Years later, this administration has yet to tell the truth to the American public about far too many things, even though lie after lie have been exposed.

Consequently, the fact that 9:11 was also used as a prime reason for the Iraq war and is likewise mired in a web of deception and misdirection, leaves little doubt that the two events were part of the same deception.

Regardless of the many disingenuous denials, the Bush-Cheney administration, Neo-cons, and their supporters were openly pushing for war with Iraq long before 9:11.

They also quickly blamed Iraq and publicly called for war with them in the hours following the 9:11 attacks; even though the hijackers were mostly Saudis and Bin Laden was based in Afghanistan.

[Google : "Yellow Cake" "False Flag" P2. Also Google Panorama Burba Yellow cake Berlusconi and do a little more digging from those results.]

Most people don't understand that Berlusconi was also involved in this deception, which helps explain his coziness with the Neo-cons and Bush-Cheney administration, as well as the Italian participation in the Iraq War, though it was paltry, mostly symbolic, and against overwhelming Italian anti-war opinion.

The forged "Yellowcake Letter" affair pulls together actors from Watergate, Iran-Contra, and the Vatican Bank scandal, which means the P2 Masonic lodge in Rome, where the Niger embassy letterhead was stolen.

Since Cheney and the Neo-cons were actively planning the war in Iraq before Little W was [s]elected, and the stolen Niger embassy letterhead was used as a pivotal component of the "sales job" for the war, Cheney and cohorts were undeniably linked to that deception, before 9:11, and before January 1, 2001.

[to continue in the final part to be published tomorrow.]

posted by Seven Star Hand at 11:11 PM
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Final Part:
Ex-CIA Director Tenet
Admits Lies Told On War

By Bill Van Auken

For all of his claims that he has been made a scapegoat, Tenet’s own memoir confirms the indisputable fact that he shares major culpability for preparing the criminal war against Iraq.

He accepts blame for the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) issued in 2002, which sought to make the case for war with Iraq by deliberately exaggerating and even falsifying Iraq’s alleged WMD capabilities.

Tenet describes the 2002 NIE as “one of the lowest moments of my seven-year tenure,” and expressed regrets that the document was not “more nuanced.”

But it was this document - far more than any “slam dunk” comment at the White House - that served as the foundation for the drumbeat of warnings from Bush, Cheney and Rice about the imminent threat of Iraqi attacks and even “mushroom clouds” if Iraq was not invaded.

It likewise was the justification given by congressional Democrats for voting for the resolution authorizing Bush to launch a war of aggression.

False Charges

As for the lack of “nuance,” this is precisely what Tenet himself had demanded. As USA Today reported in February 2004, the CIA director “pushed [those who drafted the NIE] to avoid wishy-washy conclusions.”

Thrown into the document were false charges that Iraq had resumed its nuclear program, had imported aluminum tubes for uranium enrichment and was seeking “yellowcake” in Africa.

Tenet then had a declassified version of the NIE issued, which eliminated all dissenting views from intelligence professionals who challenged the phony charges against Iraq.

Yet, while he was director of the CIA, Tenet repeatedly went to Capitol Hill to make the Bush administration’s fabricated case of an Iraqi-Al-Qaeda connection.

And in his book, he acknowledges that in October 2002, at Rice’s request, he called up a New York Times reporter covering the congressional debate on impending war to falsely claim that nothing that the CIA had learned contradicted the Bush administration’s claims.

Partisan

“In retrospect,” he writes. “I shouldn’t have talked to...the reporter at Condi’s request. By making public comments in the middle of a contentious public debate, I gave the impression that I was a partisan player.”

This is precisely what he was, and a valuable one at that, given both his supposedly “above politics” post as CIA director and his personal past as a Democrat.

In another significant statement, Tenet confirms that the administration essentially looked the other way during the summer of 2001, when intelligence reports about impending Al Qaeda terrorist attacks within the United States should have set off alarm bells.

He describes a meeting on July 10, 2001 at the White House, where he gave Rice a briefing in which he warned of “multiple, spectacular attacks against the United States.”

Terrorism

He said he told her: “We believe these attacks are imminent. Mass casualties are likely.” He also claims he urged preemptive strikes inside Afghanistan.

In his book, he states that Rice essentially discounted the warning, delegating it to lower-ranking functionaries.

Rice responded on CBS “Face the Nation” Sunday, declaring, “Well, it’s very interesting because that’s not what George told the 9/11 Commission at the time. He said that he felt that we had gotten it.”

It is true that Tenet told a different story to the 9/11 Commission, but it is his current version that rings true. The shift only underscores the whitewash character of the 9/11 report, which portrayed the Bush administration as giving sporadic and insufficient attention to terrorism, rather than deliberately turning its back on the probable Al Qaeda strike, in order to obtain the necessary pretext for military action.

Suspicion

Tenet’s book only provides more grounds for suspicion that elements within the US government deliberately prevented the foiling of the terrorist plot, because such an attack was needed to provide a pretext for long-planned military interventions in the oil-rich Middle East and Central Asia.

One other aspect of Tenet’s book and TV appearance has been less noted in the media, but clearly bears examination. That is his vigorous defense of “enhanced interrogation techniques” - i.e., torture - which he claimed was more effective than any other terrorism-related intelligence activities.

“I know that this program alone is worth more than the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency put together, have been able to tell us,” he said on “60 Minutes.”

Here is an apt yardstick for measuring the moral stature of the advocates of “freedom” and “democracy” in the White House, Pentagon, State Department and CIA.

Tenet adamantly defends the systematic use of kidnapping, illegal detention and torture - as well as systematic lying to the American people to engineer an illegal war. His outrage is sparked only when his fellow war criminals turned on him and threw him to the wolves, in order to buy time to continue and deepen the military aggression in Iraq.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/tene-m01.shtml

Part One:
Ex-CIA Director Tenet
Admits Lies Told On War

By Bill Van Auken

With the publication of his new memoir, At the Center of the Storm, released Monday, and in an appearance on the CBS television new program “60 Minutes”, former CIA director George Tenet has become the latest former official to admit publicly that the Bush administration launched its war against Iraq based upon false pretenses and manipulated intelligence.

Tenet’s CBS interview was a display of moral cowardice and self-righteousness. The former CIA director hailed the day-to-day work of the organization of spies, torturers and assassins that he headed for seven years, passed over the horrific death toll in the Iraq war with mild tut-tutting, and reserved his real passion for complaints about backstabbing against himself by former partners in crime like Vice President Cheney and Condoleezza Rice.

It made for a degrading spectacle, with Tenet sounding like nothing so much as third-rate Mafia hitman whining about how the big shots had sold him out after all his loyal service.

Nonetheless, the former CIA director’s comments have an objective significance. One of the inner circle of war conspirators has now testified publicly that the Bush administration had decided on war with Iraq from its inception, and seized on the 9/11 attacks as a pretext for the action.

“There was never a serious debate that I know of within the administration about the imminence of the Iraqi threat,” Tenet writes in his memoir, according to advance press reports.

Strategy

Rather than discussing whether or not to invade Iraq, Tenet says, the highest circles in the Bush administration were preoccupied with how to sell the war to the American public, using the deaths of 3,000 people at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon to justify killing tens and hundreds of thousands more people in Iraq who had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks.

The marketing strategy adopted by the administration had two components: claiming that Saddam Hussein had vast stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, and claiming that Hussein had active, ongoing ties to Al Qaeda, to make its convoluted and preposterous argument that there was a real danger that the Iraqi leader would supply WMD for a terrorist attack on the United States.

Both legs of this construct were false, as Tenet now admits, although he claimed that only the second, the Iraq-Al Qaeda “connection” was deliberately fabricated. He writes in the memoir, “Let me say it again. CIA found absolutely no linkage between Saddam and 9/11.”

As for the Saddam WMD claim, Tenet clings to the “we were all mistaken” mantra that the Bush administration has employed ever since its failure to find any shred of such weapons in post-invasion Iraq.

Pretext

But he confirms the role of Cheney and other officials in deliberately exaggerating the WMD issue and seizing on it as a pretext for war.

Tenet’s main complaint in his “60 Minutes” interview, as well as in the book, was over the supposed distortion of his use of the words “slam dunk” in relation to evidence of the existence of Iraqi WMD.

The ex-CIA director admits that he used the basketball metaphor, but claims it was not an affirmation that Iraq actually had such weapons, but rather expressed his certainty that the administration could use WMD as an effective argument to stampede the American people into war.

“We can put a better case together for a public case. That’s what I meant,” Tenet told “60 Minutes.”

Afterwards, the ex-CIA director complained, administration officials, including Vice President Cheney, falsely twisted his words into a supposed confirmation by the CIA that the Iraqi threat was real, and therefore going to war justified.

Slam Dunk

“The hardest part of all this has been just listening to this for almost three years, listening to the vice president go on ‘Meet the Press’ on the fifth year of 9/11 and say, ‘Well, George Tenet said slam dunk,’ as if he needed me to say ‘slam dunk’ to go to war with Iraq,” said Tenet.

Tenet claims that what was merely a passing comment on his part became turned into a main line of defense for the administration’s decision to go to war.

He casts himself as a scapegoat, claiming that the false allegations had injured his “reputation” and “personal honor.”

Tenet refers to the December 2002 Oval Office session in which he made his “slam dunk” remark as “essentially a marketing meeting.”

This cynical language was typical of the administration in the run-up to the war of aggression against Iraq. In September 2002, then-White House chief of staff Andrew Card told the New York Times in relation to the war buildup, “From a marketing point of view, you don’t introduce new products in August.”

Target

Tenet writes in his book: “I told the president that strengthening the public presentation was a ‘slam dunk,’ a phrase that was later taken completely out of context. If I had simply said, ‘I’m sure we can do better,’ I wouldn’t be writing this chapter - or maybe even this book.”

In other words, if only he had avoided trying to impress the president with sports jargon and his name had not been bandied about on television talk shows, Tenet would presumably be enjoying his retirement. What can one say? This, after playing a central role in promoting a war that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and more than 3,300 American troops.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who as former national security adviser is one of the main targets of Tenet’s ire, appeared on talk shows Sunday morning to counter Tenet’s charges. She called his claim in the memoir that the administration had plans for war on Iraq pre-dating 9/11, “Flat out wrong.”

Probed on the question of whether there was a debate on the “imminence of the Iraqi threat,” Rice responded with a reaffirmation of the administration’s doctrine of preventive war of aggression.

Imminence, she proclaimed is not a question of “if somebody is going to strike tomorrow.” Rather, she insisted, “It’s whether you believe you’re in a stronger position today to deal with the threat, or whether you’re going to be in a stronger position tomorrow.”

Based upon this same logic, the US could launch unprovoked wars against Iran, Russia, China or any other perceived current or future enemy.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2007/may2007/tene-m01.shtml

Israel:
1000 Missiles Raid
Would Hit Iran

[Persian Journal – April 29, 2007]

Iran's disputed nuclear programme could be severely hit by firing 1,000 cruise missiles in a 10-day attack, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was quoted as saying on Saturday. Asked in an interview with Germany's Focus magazine whether military action would be an option if Iran continued to defy the United Nations, Olmert said:

"Nobody is ruling it out. It is impossible perhaps to destroy the entire nuclear programme but it would be possible to damage it in such a way that it would be set back years," Olmert said.

"It would take 10 days and would involve the firing of 1,000 Tomahawk cruise missiles."

Meanwhile, Olmert's spokeswoman, Miri Eisin, said the prime minister had spoken to the author of the Focus article, but she said Olmert did not make the comments that were attributed to him. Eisin said the meeting was not an interview and was conducted for background purposes, on the understanding it would not be used.

"The prime minister did not say these things," Eisin said.

Ulrich Schmidla, a foreign affairs editor at Focus magazine, said he would try to contact the reporter who conducted the interview, who was a regular contributor.

Iran says it is developing nuclear technology for power generation, but the West fears it is trying to build a bomb and two sets of UN sanctions have been imposed on Tehran. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana urged Washington on Friday to speak directly to Iran over its nuclear programme and said he was sure Tehran was ready for such talks.

Focus quoted Olmert as saying UN sanctions should be given a chance to work before military action was considered.

"We must give the (UN) process time to take effect," he said. "We have no intention of attacking Iran at the moment."

Olmert said he doubted whether Iran's nuclear programme was as far advanced as Tehran said. "I don't think that Iran is about to cross the nuclear technology threshold as its leaders claim," he said. "We still have time to stop them."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has proclaimed Iran's ability to enrich on an "industrial scale", but UN inspectors say it remains at test level. Iran would face further sanctions if it has not stopped enrichment by a new Security Council deadline of May 24.

www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_21708.shtml
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=6469