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Subject: Government lies abound
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2000 19:08:35 -0700
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The laws of nature are the laws of God, whose
authority can be superceded by no power on earth.
A legislature must not obstruct our obedience to Him
from whose punishment they cannot protect us. All
human laws which contradict His laws we are in conscience
bound to disobey. — Colonist George Mason
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>From the WorldNetDaily:
Government lies abound
Here it is 10 years after the Gulf war, and the lies told by the U.S.
government are still pouring in. Most recently, Seymour Hersh writes in the
New Yorker that a two-star general ordered a massacre against a five-mile
line of retreating Iraqi soldiers and did so two days after a ceasefire went
into effect. Hundreds of soldiers were murdered, men and boys who posed no
threat and didn't know the war was still on. Many civilians, including
children, were also shot. The numbers are still unclear because the corpses
were buried quickly by the tank-bulldozers.
This is no speculative piece. Hersh quotes many eyewitnesses to the attack
and the carnage on the record, one of whom was very close to the general,
and musters irrefutable evidence, gleaned from more than 300 interviews, of
war crimes (a phrase used by an anonymous leaker inside the military).
American soldiers called it a turkey shoot that ended up destroying 700
tanks, armored cars, and trucks. The allegations have been made before and
examined in four separate government reports. But Hersh goes through them
and, in the course of an exhaustive and terrifying 25,000-word article,
shows that each one is a whitewash.
Why was this bloodshed not reported at the time? There were no media around
to witness it. They were operating under the military's rules -- accepted by
a press said to be jealous of its liberties -- against any unsupervised
reporting in post-war Iraq. The general, meanwhile, told journalists about
the incident and spoon-fed them tales about dangerous Iraqis attempting
suicidal post-ceasefire attacks. He said it was a proportional retaliation,
a claim that Hersh completely demolishes with the help of people inside the
military who could be silent no longer.
Is it any wonder that the U.S. is hated in huge swaths of the Gulf region?
So much for George Washington's ideal of being a beacon of liberty to the
world. To many, the U.S. is nothing but a torrent of helicopter gunships
unleashing hell on retreating soldiers and innocent civilians. This is not
only a repudiation of America's founding principles; it is a flagrant
violation of every rule of warfare agreed upon by every civilized country
from the Middle Ages to the present day. This is the behavior of a murderous
rogue state, not an indispensable nation.
And who is the two-star, now four-star, general responsible for the war
crimes? None other than Clinton drug czar Barry McCaffrey, the man charged
with using government power to keep drugs from besotting American society.
It is an interesting change of jobs: from one hot war to another. Just as he
was careless with the rules of war during battle, he has been careless with
liberties in the drug war. And just as the Iraq war did not achieve its
objective of ousting Saddam, but has resulted in the deaths of millions of
civilians, the drug war has not achieved its objective, but has resulted in
the jailing and looting of innocents.
The lasting effect of the Gulf war has been to spread disease and death all
over Iraq via a cruel policy of sanctions punctuated by periodic bombings.
The final domestic effect was to prop up military spending at home at a time
when it should have and could have been cut. It's still a dangerous world
out there, we are constantly told, so we need the firepower to blow away
retreating soldiers anytime we wish. Then there's the Oklahoma bombing:
Timothy McVeigh learned how to devalue life during his stint as a tank
operator in the Iraq war.
But here's what really interests me. This is only the latest report of lies.
For 10 years, we've had streams of reports that together show that the U.S.
lied about nearly every aspect of that war. We were told about the
effectiveness of U.S. smart bombs, when in fact most didn't work or didn't
hit their targets. We were told that civilians weren't targeted, when they
were. We were told that Iraq had nukes but none have been found. We were
told that Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was a surprise, but it turned out the
U.S. had effectively given the go ahead.
And it's not only the Iraq war. The same pattern repeats itself on Kosovo. A
recent report from Newsweek showed that the U.S. did very little damage to
the Serbian military and instead smashed the civilian sector (another war
crime). Other reports have shown that U.S. atrocity stories were trumped up,
that the mass graves were mostly filled with Serbs whom we declared to be
the enemy, that the most dangerous element in the postwar period has proven
to be the KLA -- our ally in the war.
Again and again, the truth about U.S. wars has turned out to be exactly the
opposite of Pentagon press releases. And yet, these credible revisionist
accounts don't make interesting reading for the masses. The American public
long ago lost interest in Iraq and Kosovo. Once the propaganda engines were
turned off, most people stopped paying attention. Hence, the version of
events that continues to survive in the popular mind is one of a heroic and
spotless U.S. laying waste to a demonic enemy.
If we were to develop an axiom about war informed by the last several, it
would be this: Believe nothing (nothing!) that the government tells you
while the war is going on. Assume that it is all a lie, that the enemy is
not nearly as evil as the Pentagon says, and that the U.S. is behaving a
darn-sight worse than the evening news claims. Go ahead and believe the
worst about the U.S. while the battle is going on and, 10 years hence, you
won't be far off the mark.
That the U.S. is lying after the war must also be presumed. But the tendency
is exactly the opposite. During and after war, government controls the news.
The media echo government reports because those are the only kind of reports
there are, because they know that any questioning of the Official Line of
the day will lead to a loss of access, and because they are fundamentally
pro-state.
Of course there will always be debunkers during war, a handful of people who
will say outrageous things like: "Mass graves? I don't believe it";
"Milosevic is no Hitler"; "The Kosovars are ruled by a criminal band of drug
runners." During the war, these debunkers are denounced as unpatriotic and
told to produce their sources. But sometimes they cannot. They doubt the
Official Line because they have developed an instinct for spotting the
wartime lie.
The evidence to back their claims only starts pouring in a year and 10 years
after discussion about the war has been closed down. Fair? Certainly not.
But it is the reality. And tragically, the feds can count on this holding
true for any war they start.
There is, however, something that can be done about it. Hold McCaffrey
responsible for the massacre, and don't let the man who employs him off the
hook either. Bone up on past wars and acquaint yourself with the lies and
the new truths about those wars. Stand up for journalists who dare to stand
up to the power elite; Lord knows it doesn't happen very often. Examine the
history of warfare to understand how the state uses it to destroy liberty.
And when the next war breaks out, prepare to discount every bit of
information you hear about it. Read Antiwar.com. Speak out on behalf of
writers and commentators who take an independent stand. Oppose U.S. military
intervention in any foreign conflict. Above all, ascribe no decent motives
to the federal government. Always and everywhere, it is the enemy of truth.
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Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. is president of the Ludwig von Mises Institute in
Auburn, Alabama. He also edits a daily news site,
http://www.LewRockwell.com
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