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"The Lie of the 21st Century: How Mainstream Media "Fake
News" Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
By Timothy Alexander Guzman
August 4, 2017, TLB Staff
. . . After the September 11th attacks, the George W. Bush
administration made a false accusation that the Iraq government had
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) which led to a U.S. invasion
eventually toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The U.S. led war
turned out to be a calculated plan by The Project for the New American
Century (PNAC), a neo-conservative think-tank who wrote the secretive
blueprint called 'Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces
And Resources For A New Century' to remove Saddam Hussein and the
Ba'ath party from power. The blueprint was originally written for the
neocon lunatics who served under then-President George W. Bush
including Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld to establish an "international Security order" dominated by
the United States. According to the document:
In broad terms, we saw the project as building upon the
defense strategy outlined by the Cheney Defense Department
in the waning days of the Bush Administration. The Defense
Policy Guidance (DPG) drafted in the early months of 1992
provided a blueprint for maintaining U.S. preeminence,
precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the
international security order in line with American
principles and interests
PNAC was founded by neoconservatives William Kristol, a
political analyst, media commentator (Fox News, ABC News)
and the founder and editor of The Weekly Standard and Robert
Kagan, an author, columnist, and foreign-policy commentator
who is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR)
and a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Kagan is also the
husband of Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State
for European and Eurasian Affairs appointed by President
Obama who helped orchestrate a coup against the Ukrainian
government of the democratically elected President Viktor
Yanukovych. The blueprint for regime change in Iraq was
planned way before George W. Bush became President in 2001:
Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play
a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the
unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate
justification, the need for a substantial American force
presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of
Saddam Hussein
However, Judith Miller (who is currently an adjunct fellow
at the Manhattan Institute) and The New York Times played a
crucial role for the Bush administration. Miller wrote one
of the main articles on Iraq's "WMDs" that justified the
Bush administration's agenda to topple Saddam Hussein and
the Ba'ath party. The article was not just "fake" news
telling a lie that deceived the public, it destroyed a
sovereign nation. The U.S. war against Iraq killed more than
1.4 million Iraqis (according to www.justforeignpolicy.org
estimates) and more than 4,400 U.S. troops and tens of
thousands permanently injured. The Iraq War also displaced
millions of Iraqis thus creating a refugee crisis in
neighboring countries including Syria. The destabilization
of Iraq has also created a terrorist recruiting base that
has spread throughout the Middle East including Syria.
The New York Times published Miller's article on April 21st,
2003 'AFTER EFFECTS: PROHIBITED WEAPONS; Illicit Arms Kept
Till Eve of War, An Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert' which
claimed that an Iraqi scientist confirmed that the Iraqi
government had WMDs . . .
The problem with Miller's assertion that Iraq had WMDs is that it
relied on an Iraqi exile named Ahmed Chalabi . . .
The New York Times admittance that their journalistic
principals had failed was too little and too late. The MSM
in particular The New York Times relied on "fake" evidence
from Ahmad Chalabi for years (since 1991 to be exact). The
MSM failed the Iraqi people who suffered enormously under a
pack of lies that destroyed their country. When Washington
uses "propaganda" or fake news reports against a sovereign
nation, the outcome is always "regime change" that sometimes
leads to an all-out war. The MSM has time and time again
been guilty of perpetrating fake news stories to assist in
Washington's Imperial agenda. The Iraq War was the biggest
lie of the 21st century. What other fake news stories will
appear on the MSM websites and newspapers in the future
regarding Syria, Russia, China, Iran, the Palestinians,
Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and even the U.S.
President-elect, Donald Trump? To answer that, we just don't
know, but it is up to the alternative media to decipher the
"fake" stories and bring out the truth. . . ."
---------------------------------------
"It is startling to realize how much
unbelief is necessary to make belief
possible."
--Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
News" Led to the U.S. Invasion of Iraq
By Timothy Alexander Guzman
August 4, 2017, TLB Staff
. . . After the September 11th attacks, the George W. Bush
administration made a false accusation that the Iraq government had
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) which led to a U.S. invasion
eventually toppling Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. The U.S. led war
turned out to be a calculated plan by The Project for the New American
Century (PNAC), a neo-conservative think-tank who wrote the secretive
blueprint called 'Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces
And Resources For A New Century' to remove Saddam Hussein and the
Ba'ath party from power. The blueprint was originally written for the
neocon lunatics who served under then-President George W. Bush
including Vice-President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld to establish an "international Security order" dominated by
the United States. According to the document:
In broad terms, we saw the project as building upon the
defense strategy outlined by the Cheney Defense Department
in the waning days of the Bush Administration. The Defense
Policy Guidance (DPG) drafted in the early months of 1992
provided a blueprint for maintaining U.S. preeminence,
precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the
international security order in line with American
principles and interests
PNAC was founded by neoconservatives William Kristol, a
political analyst, media commentator (Fox News, ABC News)
and the founder and editor of The Weekly Standard and Robert
Kagan, an author, columnist, and foreign-policy commentator
who is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR)
and a fellow at the Brookings Institution. Kagan is also the
husband of Victoria Nuland, the Assistant Secretary of State
for European and Eurasian Affairs appointed by President
Obama who helped orchestrate a coup against the Ukrainian
government of the democratically elected President Viktor
Yanukovych. The blueprint for regime change in Iraq was
planned way before George W. Bush became President in 2001:
Indeed, the United States has for decades sought to play
a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the
unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate
justification, the need for a substantial American force
presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of
Saddam Hussein
However, Judith Miller (who is currently an adjunct fellow
at the Manhattan Institute) and The New York Times played a
crucial role for the Bush administration. Miller wrote one
of the main articles on Iraq's "WMDs" that justified the
Bush administration's agenda to topple Saddam Hussein and
the Ba'ath party. The article was not just "fake" news
telling a lie that deceived the public, it destroyed a
sovereign nation. The U.S. war against Iraq killed more than
1.4 million Iraqis (according to www.justforeignpolicy.org
estimates) and more than 4,400 U.S. troops and tens of
thousands permanently injured. The Iraq War also displaced
millions of Iraqis thus creating a refugee crisis in
neighboring countries including Syria. The destabilization
of Iraq has also created a terrorist recruiting base that
has spread throughout the Middle East including Syria.
The New York Times published Miller's article on April 21st,
2003 'AFTER EFFECTS: PROHIBITED WEAPONS; Illicit Arms Kept
Till Eve of War, An Iraqi Scientist Is Said to Assert' which
claimed that an Iraqi scientist confirmed that the Iraqi
government had WMDs . . .
The problem with Miller's assertion that Iraq had WMDs is that it
relied on an Iraqi exile named Ahmed Chalabi . . .
The New York Times admittance that their journalistic
principals had failed was too little and too late. The MSM
in particular The New York Times relied on "fake" evidence
from Ahmad Chalabi for years (since 1991 to be exact). The
MSM failed the Iraqi people who suffered enormously under a
pack of lies that destroyed their country. When Washington
uses "propaganda" or fake news reports against a sovereign
nation, the outcome is always "regime change" that sometimes
leads to an all-out war. The MSM has time and time again
been guilty of perpetrating fake news stories to assist in
Washington's Imperial agenda. The Iraq War was the biggest
lie of the 21st century. What other fake news stories will
appear on the MSM websites and newspapers in the future
regarding Syria, Russia, China, Iran, the Palestinians,
Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, Nicaragua, and even the U.S.
President-elect, Donald Trump? To answer that, we just don't
know, but it is up to the alternative media to decipher the
"fake" stories and bring out the truth. . . ."
---------------------------------------
"It is startling to realize how much
unbelief is necessary to make belief
possible."
--Eric Hoffer, The True Believer