World History Class

Psalms 146:3-6 HCSB  Do not trust in nobles, in man, who cannot save.  (4)  When his breath leaves him, he returns to the ground; on that day his plans die.  (5)  Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,  (6)  the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them. He remains faithful forever,

Those of you who are familiar with world history know full well the lengths that men have gone to in order to maintain their powerful positions. Every nation, regardless of race, religion or governmental form has been lied to by their leaders.

The lie: In Genesis 34 the king of Shechem and his prince lied to their people, saying that a deal with Jacob’s family would be good for the city-state’s business.

  Genesis 34:2 HCSB  When Shechem son of Hamor the Hivite, a prince of the region, saw her, he took her and raped her.

The truth: The prince had raped Dinah, the daughter of Jacob and they were attempting to avert a war with a fierce nomadic tribe. 

The lie: In 2 Samuel 11 we read of David and Joab’s cover-up that involved placing a good and loyal soldier named Uriah at the bleeding edge of the battlefront and then pulling key units back, leaving him and the men around him to die.

The truth: David had had an affair with Uriah’s wife. She got pregnant and David’s initial attempt at a cover-up had failed. His second attempt, which involved murder and conspiracy to commit murder, only worked until El Rohi (All-Seeing God) decided to let the cat out of the bag.

The lie: On the 18th of July 64 A.D. a terrible fire broke out in Rome near the Jewish quarter and raged for seven days. Almost three-quarters of the city was destroyed. Emperor Nero accused the Christians of starting the fire and almost two thousand were arrested and executed.

The truth: Nero, the cruel, half-mad emperor then in power, started the fire himself so that he could rebuild Rome in more orderly Greek style. He then watched the conflagration from the Tower of Maecenas. Enraptured by what he called 'the beauty of the flames'; then put on his tragedian's costume played his fiddle and sang 'The Fall of Ilium'.

As he rebuilt Rome, he was criticized for the massive palace he built for himself. His popularity waned and, on June 9 68 A.D., he stabbed himself in the throat and died.

The lie: In 1096 the people of medieval Europe were encouraged by Pope Urban II to form a Crusade and liberate Jerusalem from the Muslims. Supposedly the Muslims were slaughtering Christians on a daily basis. They were accused of revolting atrocities. Racist stereotypes appeared in the art produced by the Church for the people.

The truth: Muslims, Jews and Christians had been living side by side in the Holy Land for centuries and Jerusalem accepted pilgrims from all three faiths. The real purpose was two-fold. First, the church, with estates spread across the whole of Western Europe, was a vast feudal corporation. Pope Urban proclaimed that the Church would care for the land of anyone who would go on the Crusades. When they didn’t return (which most did not) the land was turned over to the Church permanently.

Second, it was a way of diverting social discontent. Flood and plague in 1094 followed by drought and famine in 1095 had left millions impoverished and starving. Instead of the peasant’s anger being turned toward their wealthy feudal lords, it was directed toward the cursed Muslims. It also helped bleed the population so that there were fewer mouths to feed. Don’t believe me? Listen to Pope Urban II’s own words:

 “This land you inhabit is overcrowded by your numbers. This is why you devour and fight one another, make war and even kill one another. Let all dissensions be settled. Take the road to the Holy Sepulchre. Rescue that land from a dreadful race and rule over it yourselves.” – Pope Urban II; Robert of Rheim’s text; Riley-Smith 1981: 43-44

Many people today would like to automatically assume that our government tells us the truth. We pay our taxes, send our sons and daughters to war and hope that leaders who claim to be Christians are sending them to potential death and maiming for a good reason.

Unfortunately, our government has a long and sordid history of lying to its people. It actually gets away with this because our people fail to review their history. Allow me a few minutes to review how our country’s government has cared for its people in the past.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein

The lie: Harrison claimed he was born in a log cabin.

The truth: Actually, Harrison was born at Berkeley, Charles City county, Virginia, on the 9th of February 1773, the third son of Benjamin Harrison (c. 1740-91.) His father was long prominent in Virginia politics, and became a member of the Virginia House of Burgesses and was thus prominent and well off. Only a part of his home at North Bend, Ohio, had formerly been a log cabin. For this fib, and the one that cider, not wine, was served on his table, Harrison was derisively called by his opponents the "log cabin and hard cider" candidate. However, the term was eagerly accepted by the Whigs, in whose processions miniature log cabins were carried and at whose meetings hard cider was served, and the campaign itself has become known in history as the "log cabin and hard cider campaign."

 We berate George W. Bush for his casual disregard for the Constitution but he is not the first President to act this way. Lincoln used his power as Commander in Chief to tinker with institutions, such as slavery which were expressly acknowledged in the Constitution. He also suspended the writ of habeas corpus, perhaps the most fundamental bulwark of liberty in the Anglo-Saxon tradition. Only much later did Lincoln seek congressional authorization for the suspension of habeas corpus, despite the Constitution's explicit instruction that Congress must agree beforehand. And not until 1865 did the administration get around to pushing for the 13th Amendment officially ending slavery.

 The lie: President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War.

The truth: The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion. Guess what! New underwater technology has shown that the Maine actually blew up from the inside. Definitive scientific analysis says the Spaniards could not have sunk it. The explosion that brought it down most likely came from a faulty boiler or a munitions misfire, but definitely not from a Spanish mine or torpedo. There had been no mine.

However, having just conquered and annexed what had been the sovereign monarchy of Hawaii, the Americans now annexed Puerto Rico and installed colonial regimes in Cuba and the Philippines. But Filipino guerillas waged a jungle resistance that dragged into the new century. Thousands died in the quagmire. An angry anti-imperial movement sprung up here amongst farmers

The lie: The sinking of the passenger ship Lusitania on May 7, 1915 was portrayed as a barbaric crime by the Huns of Germany and was used to get the United States involved in World War I.

The truth: As it turns out, the Lusitania carried, under the guise of bales of fur and cheese boxes, 3 inch (76mm) shells and millions of rounds of rifle ammunition. These materials comprised a contraband and explosive cargo which was forbidden by American law and should never have been placed on a passenger liner, according to the historian Colin Simpson. John F. Leach, a second-cabin steward of the Lusitania told people in New York that the ship had been running guns, but soon thereafter denied having said this.

Deep sea divers recently found the Lusitania, its sunken hull laden with illegal armaments. As the Germans had claimed, the ship was violating international law. Like McKinley, Wilson had duped America into a catastrophic intervention based on a "faulty intelligence."

Immediately after the sinking, Germany accused Britain of deliberately conspiring to have the Lusitania sunk to draw the United States in World War I on the side of the Allies. A substantial majority of Americans angrily opposed US intervention, saying only bankers would profit from that war, adds Wasserman.

But in April 1917, reviving bloody images of the Lusitania, Wilson dragged the US into the slaughter. More than 100,000 Americans died. Under cover of war, federal marshals burned and blew up offices of the Socialist Party and radical unions like the Industrial Workers of the World. Wilson shredded the Bill of Rights and jailed, deported or killed thousands of organizers. Eugene V. Debs, the beloved leader of the American labor movement, was thrown in federal prison.

Woodrow Wilson won reelection with the prevaricating slogan, "He kept us out of the war." Well, at least he did until after the election. In typical politician manner, he quickly changed his tune. In 1917 he proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." 

According to John Loftus, a former U.S. Department of Justice Nazi War Crimes prosecutor, the President of the Florida Holocaust Museum and a highly respected author, the Bush family helped raise money for multibillionaire steel magnate Fritz Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the 1920’s; gave aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war; their bank helped the Thyssen’s make the Nazi steel that killed Allied soldiers.

Fritz Thyssen (and indirectly, the Nazi Party) had obtained their early financing from Brown Brothers Harriman, and its affiliate, the Union Banking Corporation. Union Bank, in turn, was the Bush family's holding company for a number of other entities, including the "Holland American Trading Company."

It was a matter of public record that the Bush holdings were seized by the US government after the Nazis overran Holland. In 1951, the Bush's reclaimed Union Bank from the US Alien Property Custodian, along with their "neutral" Dutch assets.

The Bush's Union Bank had apparently bought the same corporate stock that the Thyssens were selling as part of their Nazi money laundering, and the Rotterdam Bank, far from being a neutral Dutch institution, was founded by Fritz Thyssen's father.

In 1945, the former Dutch manager of the Rotterdam bank resumed control only to discover that he was sitting on a huge pile of hidden Nazi assets. In 1947, the manager threatened to inform Dutch authorities, and was immediately fired by the Thyssens. The somewhat naive bank manager then fled to New York City where he intended to talk to Union Bank director Prescott Bush. As Gowen's Dutch source recalled, the manager intended "to reveal [to Prescott Bush] the truth about Baron Heinrich and the Rotterdam Bank, [in order that] some or all of the Thyssen interests in the Thyssen Group might be seized and confiscated as German enemy property. "The manager's body was found in New York two weeks later.

Similarly, in 1996 a Dutch journalist Eddy Roever went to London to interview the Baron, who was neighbors with Margaret Thatcher. Roever's body was discovered two days later. Perhaps, Gowen remarked dryly, it was only a coincidence that both healthy men had died of heart attacks immediately after trying to uncover the truth about the Thyssens.

The twin US Archives, Gowen's Dutch source, and the Thyssen family history all independently confirm that President Bush's father and grandfather served on the board of a bank that was secretly owned by the leading Nazi industrialists. Thus the Bush connection to these American institutions is a matter of public record.

The Bushes knew perfectly well that Brown Brothers was the American money channel into Nazi Germany, and that Union Bank was the secret pipeline to bring the Nazi money back to America from Holland. The Bushes had to have known how the secret money circuit worked because they were on the board of directors in both directions: Brown Brothers out, Union Bank in.

Moreover, the size of their compensation is commensurate with their risk as Nazi money launderers. In 1951, Prescott Bush and his father in law each received one share of Union Bank stock, worth $750,000 each. One and a half million dollars was a lot of money in 1951. But then, from the Thyssen point of view, buying the Bushes was the best bargain of the war.

The lie: "No American boy is going to fight a war on foreign soil."

The truth: F.D. Roosevelt made this promise during the 1940 campaign, specifically referring to the wars breaking out in Europe. Two years later American boys were in Europe fighting a country that never attacked the US.

In July of 1941, Roosevelt sent troops to occupy Iceland, putting US troops within the zone of operations of the German U-boats. In an August meeting with Churchill, Roosevelt stated that he felt this would lead to the US’ entry into the conflict. Inevitably a battle occurred between U-652 and the USS Greer which gave Roosevelt the excuse he needed to order the US Navy ships to fire upon German and Italian ships. Though Isolationists quickly demonstrated the fact that the incident had been manufactured, the people continued to support Roosevelt’s call for war.

The lie: September 11th, 1941, FDR announced on a national radio broadcast about the U.S.S. Greer incident, “I tell you the blunt fact that the German submarine fired first upon this American destroyer without warning and with deliberate design to sink her”.

The truth: The Greer had tracked the German submarine for 3 hours and directed a plane to drop 4 depth charges on it. After the Greer tracked it for a further 28 minutes, the sub fired and missed with one torpedo, whereupon the Greer dropped 8 depth charges. The Greer later attacked the U-boat again. In this speech FDR stated “We have sought no shooting war with Hitler” when that was exactly what he was seeking. On October 8th, 1941 The Navy got official orders to go to war against Germany in the Atlantic (dispatch 082335 executed 1400 G.C.T., Greenwich Civil Time).

The lie: FDR gave a radio speech to the nation about the U.S.S Kearny incident in which a destroyer had been torpedoed by a German submarine on Oct 16th.

The truth: It immediately leaked that the Kearny had been engaged for three hours in trying to sink a German U-boat wolf pack before she was hit by a torpedo. 

FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. It wasn’t. The United States saw war with Japan as the means to get into war with Germany, which Americans opposed. So Roosevelt needed Japan to appear to strike first. Following an eight-step plan devised by the Office of Naval Intelligence Roosevelt intentionally provoked Japan into the attack. Contrary to the official story, the fleet did not maintain radio silence, but sent messages intercepted and decoded by US intercept stations. Tricked by the lie of a surprise attack, Americans marched off to war.
"...everything that the Japanese were planning to do was known to the United States..." ARMY BOARD, 1944

In 1979 the NSA released 2,413 JN-25 orders of the 26,581 intercepted by US between Sept 1 and Dec 4, 1941. The NSA says
"We know now that they contained important details concerning the existence, organization, objective, and even the whereabouts of the Pearl Harbor Strike Force."

The lie: "The first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, a military base. That was because we wished in this first attack to avoid, in so far as possible, the killing of civilians."
The truth: Though Hiroshima was the headquarters of a number of military units, it was mostly a civilian city. 

After WWII ended in 1945, victorious Russian and American intelligence teams began a treasure hunt throughout occupied Germany for military and scientific booty. They were looking for things like new rocket and aircraft designs, medicines, and electronics. But they were also hunting down the most precious "spoils" of all: the scientists whose work had nearly won the war for Germany. The engineers and intelligence officers of the Nazi War Machine.

The U.S. Military rounded up Nazi scientists and brought them to America. It had originally intended merely to debrief them and send them back to Germany. But when it realized the extent of the scientists knowledge and expertise, the War Department decided it would be a waste to send the scientists home. Following the discovery of flying discs (foo fighters), particle/laser beam weaponry in German military bases, the War Department decided that NASA and the CIA must control this technology, and the Nazi engineers that had worked on this technology.

There was only one problem: it was illegal. U.S. law explicitly prohibited Nazi officials from immigrating to America--and as many as three-quarters of the scientists in question had been committed Nazis.

Convinced that German scientists could help America's postwar efforts, President Harry Truman agreed in September 1946 to authorize "Project Paperclip," a program to bring selected German scientists to work on America's behalf during the "Cold War"

However, Truman expressly excluded anyone found "to have been a member of the Nazi party and more than a nominal participant in its activities, or an active supporter of Naziism or militarism."

The War Department's Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency (JIOA) conducted background investigations of the scientists. In February 1947, JIOA Director Bosquet Wev submitted the first set of scientists' dossiers to the State and Justice Departments for review.

The Dossiers were damning. Samauel Klaus, the State Departments representative on the JIOA board, claimed that all the scientists in this first batch were "ardent Nazis." Their visa requests were denied.

Wev was furious. He wrote a memo warning that "the best intrests of the United States have been subjugated to the efforts expended in 'beating a dead Nazi horse.'" He also declared that the return of these scientists to Germany, where they could be exploited by America's enemies, presented a "far greater security threat to this country than any former Nazi affiliations which they may have had or even any Nazi sympathies that they may still have."

When the JIOA formed to investigate the backgrounds and form dossiers on the Nazis, the Nazi Intelligence leader Reinhard Gehlen met with the CIA director Allen Dulles. Dulles and Gehlen hit it off immediatly. Gehlen was a master spy for the Nazis and had infilitrated Russia with his vast Nazi Intelligence network. Dulles promised Gehlen that his Intelligence unit was safe in the CIA.

Apparently, Wev decided to sidestep the problem. Dulles had the scientists dossier's re-written to eliminate incriminating evidence. As promised, Allen Dulles delivered the Nazi Intelligence unit to the CIA, which later opened many umbrella projects stemming from Nazi mad research. (MK-ULTRA / ARTICHOKE, OPERATION MIDNIGHT CLIMAX)

Military Intelligence "cleansed" the files of Nazi refrences. By 1955, more than 760 German scientists had been granted citizenship in the U.S. and given prominent positions in the American scientific community. Many had been longtime members of the Nazi party and the Gestapo, had conducted experiments on humans at concentration camps, had used slave labor, and had comitted other war crimes.

In a 1985 expose in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Linda Hunt wrote that she had examined more than 130 reports on Project Paperclip subjects--and every one "had been changed to eliminate the security threat classification."

President Truman, who had explicitly ordered no comitted Nazis to be admitted under Project Paperclip, was evidently never aware that his directive had been violated. State Department archives and the memoirs of officials from that era confirm this. In fact, according to Clare Lasby's book Operation Paperclip, project officials "covered their designs with such secrecy that it bedeviled their own President; at Potsdam he denied their activities and undoubtedly enhanced Russian suspicion and distrust," quite possibly fueling the Cold War even further.

A good example of how these dossiers were changed is the case of Wernher von Braun. A September 18, 1947, report on the German rcoket scientist stated, "Subject is regarded as a potential security threat by the Military Governor."

The following February, a new security evaluation of Von Braun said, "No derogatory information is available on the subject...It is the opinion of the Military Governor that he may not constitute a security threat to the United States."

The Eisenhower administration lied to the American people in 1954 regarding the US involvement in the invasion of Guatemala. This large-scale paramilitary operation involving US built assault bases in Nicaragua and Honduras.

The government failed in their attempt to overthrow the Indonesian president in 1958. 
The Lie: Secretary of State Dulles told the congressional committee that “we are not interested in the internal affairs of this country.” President Eisenhower said “Our policy is one of careful neutrality. We will not be taking sides where it is not our business.”

The Truth: Meanwhile the CIA’s own B26’s were bombing the constituted government of Sukarno as they spoke.

In 1960, when the Russians shot down Gary Powers' U2 spy plane, it was the Secretary of State, not President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who claimed a weather-research plane had gone off course. The government was caught in its mendacity when the Soviets produced the downed U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers. It was an international humiliation for the White House. Both the Soviet and the US governments knew of the overflights, yet the American people were lied to, not merely kept in the dark.

The lie: "We are now threatened with a missile gap that leaves us in a position of potentially grave danger."

The truth: Kennedy's assertions of a 'missile gap' during the 1960 election disappeared as soon as he won the Presidency. This is the phrase that gave birth to "credibility gap."

The lie: "I do not have Addison's disease."

The truth: J. F. Kennedy looked in the camera and boldly told this lie to Americans during a debate with Richard Nixon. He did, of course, have the rare gland disorder and knew he did. In fact newly disclosed medical files covering the last eight years of Kennedy's life, including X-rays and prescription records, show that he took painkillers, anti-anxiety agents, stimulants and sleeping pills, as well as hormones to keep him alive, with extra doses in times of stress.

The lie: "I have previously stated and I repeat now that the United States intends no military intervention in Cuba."
The truth: Not only was the Bay of Pigs invasion organized and funded by the CIA, but Americans flew combat missions as well. One day after Kennedy made the above statement, an American pilot was shot down on a bombing mission over Cuba. Castro recovered the pilot's body and kept it -- frozen -- for the next 18 years as proof. (He returned the body when he heard that the pilot's daughter was looking for her father who, she had been told, disappeared on a training flight.) Over 100 Cuban exiles, 14 Americans, and an unreported number of Cubans died in the aborted invasion.

As a result of the U.S. failure at Bay of Pigs and the diplomatic embarrassment that ensued, President Kennedy fired long-time CIA Director Allen W. Dulles, Deputy Director Charles P. Cabell, and the one principally responsible for the operation, Deputy Director Richard Bissell.

Covert operations against Cuba continued, however, and a crop of documents declassified in March 2002 shed light on a plan (approved by U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara) in which it would be made to appear that Cuba had attacked U.S. vessels and the military base at Guantanamo Bay. This would, according to the plan, open the door for a full U.S. invasion.

Regardless:
- Richard M. Nixon proposed it
- Dwight D. Eisenhower planned it
- Robert F. Kennedy championed it
- John F. Kennedy approved it
- The CIA carried it out
- 1,189 invaders were captured
- 200 of them had been soldiers in Batista's army (14 of those were wanted for murder in Cuba)
- One CIA soldier fired the first shot
- A volunteer teacher was the first Cuban casualty
- 4 American pilots and over 100 Cuban invaders were killed in battle
- One U.S. ambassador lied to the United Nations
- One U.S. president was embarrassed in front of the whole world 

We are asked to believe that a shot that was made from a sixth story window, entered Kennedy’s back yet rose and flew out the neck, altering it's trajectory to cause seven wounds in Kennedy and Governor Connally in the seat ahead of Kennedy. However, regardless of you opinion of the Kennedy assassination, our government is apparently incapable of giving us the truth even in so basic a thing as the physical evidence of the matter.

The lie: "A bullet had entered the base of the back of his neck slightly to the right of the spine."

The truth: In 1964 a Warren Commission staffer wrote that a bullet entered John F. Kennedy's back. In 1998 the National Archives showed that a change had been made in Gerald Ford's handwriting that placed the bullet in Kennedy's neck. This change was released in the official 1964 version of the Warren Report. Ford later admitted to the change. Photographs of Kennedy's shirt show a bullet hole through the middle-upper back.

The lie: "As President and Commander in Chief it is my duty to the American people to report that renewed hostile actions against United States ships on the high seas in the Gulf of Tonkin have today required me to order the military forces of the United States to take action in reply."

The truth: There was no unprovoked Vietnamese attack on a U.S. warship. There were no torpedoes in the water in the Gulf. President Johnson ran with the untrue story to gain support for American involvement in Vietnam. LBJ took advantage of an inexperienced sonar man's report to goad Congress into escalating the Vietnam War.

Prior to the U.S. air strikes, top officials in Washington had reason to doubt that any Aug. 4 attack by North Vietnam had occurred. Cables from the U.S. task force commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, referred to "freak weather effects," "almost total darkness" and an "overeager sonarman" who "was hearing ship's own propeller beat."

One of the Navy pilots flying overhead that night was squadron commander James Stockdale, who gained fame later as a POW and then Ross Perot's vice presidential candidate. "I had the best seat in the house to watch that event," recalled Stockdale a few years ago, "and our destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets -- there were no PT boats there.... There was nothing there but black water and American fire power."

In 1965, Lyndon Johnson commented: "For all I know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there." The press didn't follow up until after Johnson left office. There were no consequences for President Johnson. The lie resulted in the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which authorized the president to use "all necessary measures" to defend U.S. forces.

Johnson later compared the resolution to "grandma's nightskirt -- it covered everything." 58,214 Americans died in the Vietnam War.

The lie: "the North Vietnamese regime had conducted further deliberate attacks against U.S. naval vessels operating in international waters"

The truth: L. B. Johnson got Congress to pass the 'Gulf of Tonkin' resolution to send more troops to Vietnam in response to a non-attack after the Executive Branch had enacted a secret campaign to provoke the North Vietnamese into attacking US troops.

In the 1960s and '70s, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon misled the country over the progress of the Vietnam War, in the process deepening public suspicion of politicians in general.

Senator Kennedy was assassinated shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968. Senator Kennedy had promised to end the war in Vietnam if elected as President, as seemed likely to happen following his victory in the June 4 California Democratic Presidential primary election. At first glance, the RFK case seems open and shut. After all, Sirhan Sirhan was arrested with a gun in hand at the scene. There the simplicity ends, however. There is an abundance of evidence which refutes the official version of this crime.

Sirhan was out of position and out of range and therefore could not have shot Robert Kennedy. The Senator was shot from behind, but all witnesses place Sirhan in front of him in a face-to-face position. All witnesses placed Sirhan’s gun at between 1.5 and 5 feet from Senator Kennedy, but the autopsy findings clearly establish that the Senator was shot from a weapon held somewhere between less than 1 inch and no more than 3 inches away. All witnesses describe Sirhan’s gun as having been held horizontally in a normal standing position, but the autopsy report describes all bullet tracks in Senator Kennedy’s body as angled sharply upward, as though fired from below.

An armed security guard with strong anti-Kennedy views admitted that he was standing directly in contact with the Senator to the rear, that he dropped down when the shooting began and that he then pulled his gun. One witness ignored by police claimed that he saw the guard fire. The guard’s weapon was never checked. Meanwhile, the one person who photographed the assassination, Jamie Scott Enyart, was tackled and arrested at gun point. His camera was seized by police, and his photographs have never been recovered. Los Angeles Police secretly burned 2, 410 assassination-related photographs in a county hospital incinerator before Sirhan’s trial. An LA jury awarded Enyart a substantial verdict for the loss of his photographs.

The official autopsy report devastated the prosecution theory that Sirhan shot Robert Kennedy. However, prosecutors illegally withheld this critical document from defense counsel for four months until after the defense had unnecessarily conceded Sirhan's identity as the killer during opening statements to the jury.

Bullet holes in a door frame at the crime scene which are documented in FBI photographs show that more bullets were fired than could have come from Sirhan's gun. The police never disclosed these bullets, even though their removal by LAPD criminalists was observed by other police personnel. The door frame in question was then destroyed under color of a court order issued immediately after Sirhan's trial without notice to the defense.

Police switched bullets in order to fabricate evidence lending apparent support to their theory of the case. As has been noted by Sirhan case researcher Lynn Mangan, Los Angeles police manufactured a comparison photomicrograph using substitute victim bullets and then falsely presented this photograph as evidencing a match between the bullet removed from Senator Kennedy's neck and a test bullet fired from "Sirhan's" gun. The use of substitute bullets in this exhibit (Special Exhibit 10) is clear from the fact that identifying markings on the bases of the involved bullets differ from those recorded by physicians when the bullets were recovered.

The CIA directed clandestine bombings and mercenary intervention in the Congo in 1964. 35 year old Patrice Lumumba was the  first democratic leader of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Lumumba was outspoken against the "violence & humiliation" of colonialism.  After he failed to get the Eisenhower administration to supply financial aid, he threatened to turn to the USSR. He also announced plans to unite the Congo by giving assistance to bordering nations still under European control. CIA Director Allen Dulles wrote: "We conclude that (Lumumba's) removal must be an urgent and prime objective". Shortly thereafter Lumumba was captured, beaten  and flown to the Katanga region in the southern Congo, where he was shot by a firing squad.

In fact, the United States has the dubious honor of being the leading international bomber. Since World War II we have bombed…
Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
Guatemala 1954
Indonesia 1958
Cuba 1959-1961
Guatemala 1960
Congo 1964
Laos 1964-73
Vietnam 1961-73
Cambodia 1969-70
Guatemala 1967-69
Grenada 1983
Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
Libya 1986French embassy in Libya. After the French government refused the use of its air space to US warplanes headed for a bombing raid on Libya, the planes were forced to take another, longer route; when they reached Libya they bombed so close to the French embassy that the building was damaged and all communication links knocked out.
El Salvador 1980s
Nicaragua 1980s
Iran 1987
Panama 1989
Iraq 1990-1991
Kuwait 1991
Somalia 1993
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Sudan 1998
Afghanistan 1998
Yugoslavia 1999
Yemen 2002
Iraq 2003- present
Afghanistan 2001-present

Here is the list as written in the VFW site.

1. Quemoy & Matsu Island
2. Taiwan Straits
3. Congo
4. Laos
5. Vietnam
6. Cuba
7. Dominican Republic
8. Korea
9. Cambodia
10. Thailand (in direct support of Cambodia Operation)
11. Operation Eagle Pull – Evacuation of Cambodia
12. Operation Frequent Wind – Evacuation of Vietnam
13. Mayaguez Operation
14. Operation Urgent Fury – Grenada
15. Lebanon
16. Germany (West Berlin)
17. Austria
18. Korea
19. Japan
20. Italy
21. Trieste
22. Germany (except West Berlin)
23. Austria
24. Asiatic Pacific
25. Korean Service Medal (Army, Navy, Air Force)
26. Berlin
27. Lebanon
28. Libyan Operation El Dorado Canyon
29. Persian Gulf Operation Earnest Will
30. Panama Operation Just Cause
31. Somalia-United Shield-Operation Restore Hope
32. Haiti – Operation Uphold Democracy
33. Operation Southern Watch (Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Oman, Gulf of Omen W. Of 62’ E. Long, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan)
34. El Salvador
35. Bosnia – Operation Joint Endeavor
36. Operation Joint Guard
37. Operation Vigilant Sentinel
38. Operation Northern Watch
39. Operation Maritime Intercept
40. Operation Joint Forge (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
41. Operation Desert Thunder
42. Operation Desert Fox
43. Thailand Military Operation
44. Cuban Military Operation
45. Iranian, Yemen & Indian Ocean Operation
46. Lebanon
47. Libyan Expedition
48. Panama – (pre and post invasion)
49. Liberia (Operation Sharp Edge)
50. Rwanda (Operation Distant runner)
51. Vietnam Service Medal
52. Operation Desert Storm/Operation Desert Shield
53. Combat Action Ribbon
54. Korean Service
55. Kosovo Campaign Medal (Allied Force)
56. Joint Guardian
57. Allied Harbor
58. Sustain Hope/Shining Hope
59. Nobel Anvil
60. Kosovo Task Force Hawk
61. Kosovo Task Force Saber
62. Kosovo Task Force Falcon
63. Kosovo Task force Hunter
64. Kosovo Air Campaign
65. Kosovo Defense campaign

Every one of these actions have been approved by Congress to qualify the combatants for members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States. I know some of these countries are repeated, but the dates of action are different. That means we have repeatedly returned to some countries for new engagements. So you'll pardon me if I snicker a little when I hear our politicians say we need to engage people like Hussein or Khadaffi because they're "warmongers." 

Incursions into Laos, China, and North Vietnam prior to the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution passed by Congress in 1964 were common. The US was never officially in Laos during the Vietnam War but bombed the Ho Chi Minh trail continually for 10 years. My difficulty lies not in the effort to close down this strategically critical supply line to our enemies. My difficulty is with the government assuring its people again and again that they were not invading Laos. 

In 2004, after forty years, CIA and White House documents on covert political intervention in the 1964 Chilean election were declassified. The documents, which detail Washington's political and operational decisions on covert action "directed at the defeat of Salvador Allende" by "increasing the organizational efficiency and campaigning ability of the Christian Democratic Party," provide a comprehensive historical record of U.S. efforts to sway the election to candidate Eduardo Frei between January and September 1964.

Though the CIA was not directly involved in the coup d'etat that overthrew Allende in 1973, their interventions so affected the internal dynamics of the Chilean political scene that it lent assistance to that event.

The Washington Post exposures by Laurence Stern nine years after the massive CIA effort in the 1964 Chilean election. 

Until the practice was outlawed in the mid 70s the CIA was directly involved in assassination attempts on Castro of Cuba and Congolese leader Lumumba.

The CIA also encouraged plots that resulted in the assassinations of Dominican Republic President Trujillo, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem in ‘63 and Chilean Rene Schneider in ‘73.

However, the most extensive assassination op was Operation Phoenix conducted during latter part of VN war.

From 1965 to 1968 the U.S. and Saigon intelligence services maintained an active list of VC cadre who were marked for assassination. The Phoenix Program was in operation between 1967 and 1972, but similar efforts existed both before and after this.

In 1969 the Phoenix Program quotas called for "neutralizing" 1,800 people a month. About one third of the VC targeted for arrest were summarily killed. According to official records, between 1968 and 1972 Phoenix neutralized 81,740 NLF members, of whom 26,369 were killed.

According to Defense Dept official speaking in 1973, 26,369 South Vietnamese civilians were killed under Phoenix while the op was under direct U.S. control (Jan 68 thru Aug 72 ). By same source, another 33,358 were detained without trial. Colby in ‘73 admitted 20,587 deaths occurred through the end of ‘71, 28,978 were captured, and 17,717 "rallied" to the Saigon government. Thus approximately 30% of the targeted individuals were killed.

Security committees established in provincial interrogation centers, outside of judicial controls, often determined the fate of VC suspects.

1970; Chile
Nixon lied publicly about the efforts of the US government, in concert with Anaconda Copper and ITT, to subvert the Chilean elections.

1971; Covert Theory Exposure
Confidential minutes of the Pratt House meeting of January 8, 1968 were discovered in 1971 by radical students who broke into Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs.

1972; Chilean Embassy
The American people were lied to about the break-in at the Chilean Embassy in Washington in May 1972.

1972; Watergate
Nixon lied about Watergate.

For a complete recording of Nixon denying involvement in the Watergate affair go here.

The lie: "The American Petroleum Institute filed suit against the EPA [and] charged that the agency was suppressing a scientific study for fear it might be misinterpreted... The suppressed study reveals that 80 percent of air pollution comes not from chimneys and auto exhaust pipes, but from plants and trees." Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan, in 1979. 

The truth: There is no scientific data to support this assertion.

The lie: "I have flown twice over Mt St. Helens out on our west coast. I'm not a scientist and I don't know the figures, but I have a suspicion that that one little mountain has probably released more sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere of the world than has been released in the last ten years of automobile driving or things of that kind that people are so concerned about."

The truth: Actually, Mount St. Helens, at its peak activity, emitted about 2,000 tons of sulfur dioxide per day, compared with 81,000 tons per day by cars. Of course what do you expect from the man who said "Facts are stupid things." in 1988 as a misquote of John Adams’ slightly better, "Facts are stubborn things." Or how about "A tree is a tree. How many more do you have to look at?" a statement he made expressing his opposition to the expansion of Redwood National Park while governor of California.

Ronald Reagan's 1980 presidential campaign interfered with President Carter's negotiations to free 52 Americans held hostage in Iran. A mixed bag of Iranian officials, foreign intelligence agents and international arms dealers had alleged a Republican deal behind Carter's back. But the task force had decided there was "no credible evidence" to support allegations that the Reagan campaign had blocked Carter's possible "October Surprise" of an election-eve hostage return. Carter's failure to free those hostages over 444 days had sealed his political doom and boosted Reagan from a neck-and-neck race to a resounding electoral victory. The hostages' release, as Reagan was completing his Inaugural Address on Jan. 20, 1981, opened a floodgate of patriotic fervor that reshaped the political landscape and made Reagan a hero.

Moscow sent a cable to Washington. It was a response to a query dated Oct. 21, 1992, that Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., who headed the House task force, had sent to Sergey Vadimovich Stepashin, then chairman of the Supreme Soviet's Committee on Defense and Security Issues. Hamilton asked Stepashin -- whose job was roughly equal to chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee -- what information the Russian government had about the so-called "October Surprise" charges.

The Supreme Soviet's response was delivered to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow by Nikolay Kuznetsov, secretary of the subcommittee on state security. Kuznetsov apologized for the "lengthy preparation of the response." It was quickly translated by the U.S. embassy and forwarded to Hamilton. To the shock of the task force, the six-page Russian report stated that Casey, George Bush and other Republicans had met secretly with Iranian officials in Europe during the 1980 presidential campaign. The Russians depicted the hostage negotiations that year as a two-way competition between the Carter White House and the Reagan campaign to outbid one another for Iran's cooperation on the hostages. The Russians asserted that the Reagan team had disrupted Carter's hostage negotiations after all, the exact opposite of the task force conclusion.

As described by the Russians, the Carter administration offered the Iranians supplies of arms and unfreezing of assets for a pre-election release of the hostages. One important meeting had occurred in Athens in July 1980 with Pentagon representatives agreeing "in principle" to deliver "a significant quantity of spare parts for F-4 and F-5 aircraft and also M-60 tanks ... via Turkey," according to the Russian report. The Iranians "discussed a possible step-by-step normalization of Iranian-American relations [and] the provision of support for President Carter in the election campaign via the release of American hostages."

But the Republicans were making separate overtures to the Iranians, also in Europe, the Russians claimed. "William Casey, in 1980, met three times with representatives of the Iranian leadership," the Russians wrote. "The meetings took place in Madrid and Paris."

At the Paris meeting in October 1980, "R[obert] Gates, at that time a staffer of the National Security Council in the administration of Jimmy Carter and former CIA director George Bush also took part," the Russians said. "In Madrid and Paris, the representatives of Ronald Reagan and the Iranian leadership discussed the question of possibly delaying the release of 52 hostages from the staff of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran." Within minutes of President Reagan's Inauguration on Jan. 20, 1981, the hostages finally were freed.

In a two-page document titled “Talking Points”, Haig wrote that he was impressed with "bits of useful intelligence" that he had learned. "Both [Egypt's Anwar] Sadat and [Saudi Prince] Fahd [explained that] Iran is receiving military spares for U.S. equipment from Israel." This fact might have been less surprising to President Reagan, whose intermediaries allegedly collaborated with Israeli officials in 1980 to smuggle weapons to Iran behind President Carter's back.

But Haig followed that comment with another stunning assertion: "It was also interesting to confirm that President Carter gave the Iraqis a green light to launch the war against Iran through Fahd." In other words, according to Haig's information, Saudi Prince Fahd (now King Fahd) claimed that President Carter, apparently hoping to strengthen the U.S. hand in the Middle East and desperate to pressure Iran over the stalled hostage talks, gave clearance to Saddam's invasion of Iran.

If true, Jimmy Carter, the peacemaker, had encouraged a war. Iraq's invasion of Iran in September 1980 deteriorated into eight years of bloody trench warfare that did little more than kill and maim an estimated one million people. What little more the war did was to generate billions of dollars in profits for well-connected arms merchants -- and spawn a series of national security scandals.

The lie: “In England, if a criminal carried a gun, even though he didn’t use it, he was tried for first-degree murder and hung if he was found guilty,” Ronald Reagan claimed in April 1982.

The truth: When informed that the story was “just not true,” White House spokesman Larry Speakes said, “Well, it’s a good story, though. It made the point, didn’t it?” Reagan repeated the story again on March 21, 1986 during an interview with The New York Times

The lie: President Reagan told an interviewer that the "reformist administration" of South African president P.W. Botha has made significant progress on the racial front. "They have eliminated the segregation that we once had in our own," says the President, "the type of thing where hotels and restaurants and places of entertainment and so forth were segregated - that has all been eliminated."

The truth: In response to questions a few days later as to whether President Reagan actually thought racial segregation has been eliminated in South Africa, Larry Speakes said "Not totally, no."

The lie: "We did not -- repeat -- did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages -- nor will we."

The truth: Just four months later he admitted that "A few months ago, I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that's true, but the facts and the evidence tell me it is not."

Umm...what does that even mean? Reagan approved the sale of over 2,000 anti-tank weapons to Iran in return for promises to release the American hostages there. Money from the sale of those weapons went to support the Contras' war in Nicaragua. (The White House needed this backdoor method to fund the Contras because Congress had banned military aid to them.)

The excuse: "I'm afraid that I let myself be influenced by other's recollections, not my own."

The consequences: Reagan was a lame-duck president his last two years in office, but no administration official ever served prison time for the scandal. (The only person to serve time as a result of the scandal was Bill Breeden, who stole a "John Poindexter Street" sign in his town and held it for $30 million ransom, the amount of money made from weapons sales to Iran. He spent a few days in jail.) Over 70,000 Nicaraguans died in the war between the Contras and Sandinistas.

For a recording of Reagan apologizing for the Iran-Contra affair go here. 

The CIA hired known drug runners in its efforts to support the CIA-trained and backed Contras in Nicaragua in the 1980s. Arms for drugs, unauthorized activities, dealing with the enemy, hiding from Congress, flying drugs into the country to raise money for an illegal war... All of this happened in the Iran-Contra scandal. It was a freak accident, the drowning of Eugene Hasenfus,  that brought this story into the mainstream.

On August 18, at the 1988 Republican National Convention, as he accepted the nomination, George H. W. Bush stated “Read my lips: no new taxes.” For a recording of him stating this go here. As you listen note that the crowd is reciting the statement along with him like a mantra. This indicates that it was not simply a one-time slip of the tongue but a major issue of his campaign that was often repeated.

According to Wikipedia,

In September (1989), Bush released a new budget proposal, backed by the congressional leadership, which notably included an immediate five-cent per gallon increase on the federal gasoline tax, and a phased increase of even higher fuel taxes in subsequent years. To the surprise of the Bush administration, this plan was rejected in the House of Representatives. Over a hundred conservative Republicans, led by Gingrich, voted against it because of its tax increases, while liberal Democrats opposed it because the focus on excise taxes fell too heavily on the poor. Bush vetoed the continuing resolution, and thus on October 5 the federal government shut down for the Columbus Day long weekend.

Three days later, Bush agreed to a new resolution, and soon after the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1990 was finally passed. This new proposal replaced some of the fuel taxes with a 10% surtax on the top income tax bracket (thus raising the top marginal tax rate to 31%) and also included new excise taxes on alcohol and tobacco products, automobiles and luxury yachts. It also included the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990 which established the "pay-as-you-go" or PAYGO process for discretionary spending and taxes, which resulted in a budget surplus by the end of the decade.

These events delivered a severe blow to Bush's popularity. From the historic high of 79% early in his term, Bush's approval rating had fallen to 56% by mid-October 1990. This was a blow to Republicans generally, who lost ground in both the House and Senate in the 1990 midterm elections. Soon after, however, the events of the Gulf War pushed such issues out of the news, and Bush's approval rating rose to even higher levels.

The lie: "This is crack cocaine," Bush solemnly announced, holding up a plastic bag filled with a white chunky substance in his Sept. 5 speech on drug policy. It was "seized a few days ago in a park across the street from the White House .... It could easily have been heroin or PCP."

The truth: White House speech-writers thought it was the perfect visual for President Bush's first prime-time address to the nation--a dramatic prop that would show how the drug trade had spread to the president's own neighborhood. But obtaining the crack was no easy feat. To match the words crafted by the speechwriters. Drug Enforcement Administration agents lured a suspected District drug dealer to Lafayette Park four days before the speech so they could make what appears to have been the agency's first undercover crack buy in a park better known for its location across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House than for illegal drug activity, according to officials familiar with the case.

In fact, when first contacted by an undercover DEA agent posing as a drug buyer, the teenage suspect seemed baffled by the agent's request.

'Where the [expletive] is the White House?" he replied in a conversation that was secretly tape-recorded by the DEA.

"We had to manipulate him to get him down there," said William McMullan, assistant special agent in charge of DEA's Washington field office. "It wasn't easy."

Re: Military deferment

The lie: "It was just a pure fluke that I was never called."

The truth: Clinton told The Washington Post in 1991 that "The rule was there was no graduate deferment, but you got to finish the term you were in . . . I wound up just going through the lottery, and it was just a pure fluke that I was never called." In real life, Clinton got an induction notice and pretended to join the ROTC to evade it.
 

Re: Troop deployment

The lie: In 1993 Clinton pledged never to deploy American troops overseas unless U.S. strategic interests were threatened and there was a clear military goal with a firm exit strategy.
In 1995 Clinton said he would deploy troops to Bosnia for only 18 months, and then they would come home.
The truth: But in 1998 the Clinton administration confirmed plans to maintain thousands of troops on an open-ended peacekeeping mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina with no exit strategy stating, `The policy is to remain there. It's open-ended.'

Re: Gennifer Flowers

The lie: In 1992 Clinton emphatically denied having affair with Gennifer Flowers
The truth: In 1998 Clinton admitted in deposition to having sexual affair with Gennifer Flowers  

Re: the “100 DAY PLAN”
The lie: June 23, 1992, Bill Clinton: "I intend to have a legislative program ready on the desks of Congress on the day after I'm inaugurated. I intend to have an explosive 100 day action period. Why do I think it will pass? Well, first of all, I'm running on it."

The truth: Jan 14, 1993 a member of the press asked, "We were originally led to believe you would have an outline for congress even before the inauguration and presented on day one or shortly thereafter - and now we're told it may be a couple weeks down the road with a full plan ready in March. When will it be ready?"
Reply by Bill Clinton: "Well, I don't know who led you to believe that, but I'm the only one who's authorized to talk about that ---"  

Re: Racial wars

The lie: Bill Clinton, June 8 1996 "I have vivid and painful memories of black churches being burned in my own state when I was a child."
The truth: NOT A SINGLE BLACK CHURCH BURNED IN ARKANSAS WHEN HE WAS GROWING UP. 

Re: Iowa caucuses

The lie: Bill Clinton, Feb 12, 1996 "Since I was a little boy, I've heard about the Iowa caucuses. That's why I would really like to do well in them."
The truth: THE IOWA CAUCUSES DIDN'T BEGIN UNTIL 1972 when Clinton was at Oxford in England.

Re: taxes

The lie: Bill Clinton, 1992 “I will not raise taxes nor I will impose tax cuts for the American People

The truth: In 1993, Clinton's "tax cut" was the single largest tax increase in American history.

Re: China

The lie: Bill Clinton, 1992 "The [Bush] administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform"
The truth: Bill Clinton, 1994 “I have decided that the United States should renew Most Favored Nation trading status toward China. I am moving, therefore, to delink human rights from the annual extension of Most Favored Nation trading status for China."

Re: Balanced budget amendment

The lie: Bill Clinton, 6/11/92 "I would support a balanced-budget amendment"

The truth: Bill Clinton, 2/28/95 "Obviously, I don't support it [a balanced budget amendment]." 

Re: Gas taxes

The lie: Bill Clinton, 1992 “[We] Oppose federal excise gas tax increases. Instead of a backbreaking federal gas tax, we should try conservation, increased use of natural gas, and increased use of alternative fuels."

The truth: 1996, President Clinton raised the federal gasoline tax a total of 6.8 cents per gallon. 

Re: Monica Lewinsky

The lie: Bill Clinton, January 1998 “I did not have sex with that woman.”

The truth: In July the FBI began tests on a Navy blue cocktail dress rumored to have been worn by Ms Lewinsky during an encounter with the president, during which it was said to have been stained with semen. This was compared with a sample of Mr. Clinton’s DNA - it later proved to be a match.

Dick Cheney, apparently didn't see either Iraq or Saddam as a big problem when he was making billions for Halliburton Inc. and millions for himself in the 90s. Halliburton's role, under Cheney's direction, was first outlined in a detailed story in the San Francisco Bay Guardian during the 2000 election campaign and has since been reported in other publications.

"During former Defense Secretary Richard Cheney's five-year tenure as chief executive of Halliburton Inc., his oil services firm raked in big bucks from dubious commercial dealings with Iraq. Cheney left Halliburton with a $34 million retirement package," the Guardian's Martin Lee wrote.

"Of course, U.S. firms aren't generally supposed to do business with Saddam Hussein," he continued. "But thanks to legal loopholes large enough to steer an oil tanker through, Halliburton profited big-time from deals with the Iraqi dictatorship. Conducted discreetly through several subsidiaries in Europe, the transactions helped Saddam Hussein retain his grip on power."

He went on to explain that Halliburton was among more than a dozen American firms that supplied Iraq's petroleum industry with spare parts and helped retool its oil rigs after the Gulf War and after U.N. sanctions were eased in 1998.

The Financial Times of London has estimated that between September of 1998 and the winter of 1999-2000, Cheney, as CEO of Halliburton, oversaw $23.8 million of business contracts for the sale of oil-industry equipment and services to Iraq through two of its subsidiaries, Dresser Rand and Ingersoll-Dresser Pump.

Under Cheney, Halliburton became the United States' largest oil services company and the fifth largest military contractor…

…while building the Iraqi regime. 

The lie: “Donald Rumsfeld will stay in his job come hell or high water”

The truth: On the day after the election, Bush explained to the media that the discrepancy between his insistence just a few days earlier to reporters that Donald Rumsfeld would stay in his job come hell or high water while, in fact, he had already started the process to replace Rumsfeld with Robert Gates could be explained by... well, heck, Bush just felt like lying about it. His exact words: "I didn't want to inject a major decision about this war in the final days of a campaign. And so the only way to answer that question, and to get you on to another question, was to give you that answer."

Now that Bush has come out and all but said, "I lie because I feel like it," nothing he says can be taken on faith. Some will no doubt resist this. But he has even deprived us of the "It's not a lie if the liar believes his own lie" argument that had previously proven so popular.

We were told over and over again, thousands of times, ad infinitum ad nauseum that we had to take the war on terrorism to Afghanistan because the Taliban were harboring Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the 9/11 attacks.

However, the facts are that the U.S. government had already planned to invade Afghanistan long before 9/11.

Jane’s Defense reported in April that in March India had joined Russia, the USA and Iran in a concerted front against Afghanistan's Taliban regime. India confirmed this on June 26 2001. Indian officials publicly stated that India and Iran would "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action".

The BBC reported that Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. Mr Naik was told that if the military action went ahead it would take place before the snows started falling in Afghanistan, by the middle of October at the latest. He further reported being told it was doubtful that Washington would drop its plan even if Bin Laden were to be surrendered immediately by the Taleban.

U.S. and foreign sources told NBC News that Afghanistan war plans were on Bush's desk on 9/9/2001, two days before the fateful plane crashes.

So just when the government was planning to invade another country, for the express purpose of removing that government, a convenient "terrorist" attack occurred to anger Americans into support for an invasion. Can anyone remember Pearl Harbor or the Lusitania? 
By the way, Secretary Naik was found dead in at his house in Sector F-7/3 of the capital in the jurisdiction of Police Station Kohsar. When they arrived, the police knocked on the door and waited for some time but eventually had to break down the door. They discovered the body of the former Foreign Secretary in a condition which led the police to believe he had been dead for three or four days already. The postmortem report revealed that Ex-foreign secretary Niaz A Naik was subjected to torture before his death. The postmortem report further revealed four of his ribs and his jaw were fractured.

Consider the guidelines for a CIA paper produced in June 2002, entitled “Iraq and al-Qa’ida: Interpreting a Murky Relationship.”

The CIA study was designed to assess the Iraqi government’s links to al-Qaeda. But the analysts were given unusual instructions, told to be “purposely aggressive in seeking to draw connections, on the assumption that any indication of a relationship between these two hostile elements could carry great dangers to the United States.”

A former CIA deputy director of intelligence told the Senate Intelligence Committee that the paper’s authors were ordered to “lean far forward and do a speculative piece.” The deputy director told them, “if you were going to stretch to the maximum the evidence you had, what could you come up with.”

In other words, the CIA analysts set out to hype any evidence of possible links between Iraq and al-Qaeda. So, if some piece of information contained even a remote possibility of a connection, the assumption had to be that the tie-in was real and substantive.

Even after the falsity of the intelligence was known, Bush gave CIA Director George Tenet, the bureaucrat who oversaw this perversion of intelligence, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor that can be bestowed on an American civilian.

September 18, 2002; Bush was told there were no WMD
On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.

Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq.

September 28, 2002; Saddaam loves to link up with Al Qaida

The lie: "a man who loves to link up with al- Qaida, a man who is a true threat to America."

The truth: G.W. Bush said this about Saddam Hussein on Sept. 28, 2002. There is no evidence that Hussein ever supported Al-Qaeda cells. The Wall Street Journal reported before Bush's comment that "Few U.S. officials believe that any real alliance between Iraq and al-Qaida ever emerged... The two groups share few aims and have very different motivations." US senior intelligence officials told the NYT in May 2005 that "they have not yet found any new and conclusive evidence inside Iraq of connections between Mr. Hussein's government and al-Qaida."

October 7, 2002; Saddam/Al Qaida connection

The lie: "very senior al-Qaida leader who received medical treatment in Baghdad this year."

The truth: G.W. Bush gave a speech on Oct. 7, 2002 that tied Abu Musab Zarqawi to a Baghdad hospital visit. 4 months later, the Washington Post reported that Washington Post reported that senior U.S. officials acknowledged Zarqawi " is not under al-Qaida control or direction ." Their report quotes one intelligence analyst saying: "U.S. intelligence officials acknowledged that the terrorist, Abu Musab Zarqawi, was no longer in Iraq and that there was no hard evidence Hussein's government knew he was there or had contact with him."

January 28, 2003; The British intelligence.

Lie: "The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."

Truth: This statement is a 'lie of omission,' since it is technically true, since British intelligence did make such reports. However, US intelligence had debunked the claims and the CIA only allowed those infamous '16 words' in Bush's State of the Union address when he attributed the intelligence to Britain.

February 8, 2003; Bush insists there are WMD

Here is a recording of Bush insisting that Iraq did have both WMD and considerable ties to Al Qaida and calling for war.

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The lie: Nayirah, a supposedly normal fifteen year old Kuwaiti girl, claimed to witness Iraqi soldiers come into the Al-Addan hospital with guns and go into the room where 312 babies were in incubators. They took the babies out of the incubators, took the incubators and left the babies on the cold floor to die.

The truth: As it turns out, Nayirah was a member of the Kuwaiti royal family. Her father was Saud Nasir al-Sabah, Kuwait’s ambassador to the US. He sat listening in the hearing room as she gave her testimony. Nayirah’s tearful story was a lie fabricated by Hill & Knowlton, then the world’s largest PR firm, in collusion with California Democrat Tom Lantos and Illinois Republican John Porter. Three months passed between Nayirah’s testimony and the start of the war. During those months the story of babies torn from their incubators was repeated over and over again. President Bush himself told the story. It was recited as fact in Congressional testimony, on TV and radio talk shows and at the UN Security Council. Of all the accusations made against Hussein, none had more impact on the American public opinion than the one about the Iraqi soldiers removing 312 babies from their incubators and leaving them to die on the cold hospital floors of Kuwait City.

May 29, 2003; Bush “we found them”

Lie: "We found the weapons of mass destruction."

Truth: G.W. Bush told Polish television that " We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons." Powell and other top Administration officials have since acknowledged that US troops have never found WMD in Iraq. http://www.whitehouse.gov/g8/interview5.html

2003; Colin Powell

Mobile Germ Warfare trucks

The CIA and other government agencies made false claims in May of 2003 that two trucks found by US troops in northern Iraq were “mobile germ-weapon factories.” However, in an interview with an engineer who managed the government contract for maintaining the vehicles, he confirmed that they were used to manufacture hydrogen used in weather balloons, an explanation US officials had dismissed as a “cover story.” A former senior manager at the firm that held the contract—now the US-appointed director of the same company—gave the same account.

This fact was already known to both the US and UK, as a British company manufactured the units and sold them to Iraq.

The chief proponent of this hoax was Colin Powell. For the complete slideshow He presented to the United Nations on February 5th 2003 go here. Colin Powell's speech to the UN was itself one misstatement after another. Powell claimed that Iraq had purchased special aluminum tubes whose only possible use was in uranium enrichment centrifuges. Both CIA and Powell's own State Department confirmed that the tubes were parts for missiles Saddam was legally allowed to have. Following the invasion, no centrifuges, aluminum or otherwise were found.

Decontamination Vehicles

Powell also claimed to the United Nations that the photo on the left showed "Decontamination Vehicles". But when United Nations inspectors visited the site after the invasion, they located the vehicles and discovered they were just firefighting equipment. 

Illegal Rockets and Launchers

Powell claimed the Iraqis had illegal rockets and launchers hidden in the palm trees of Western Iraq. None were ever found. 

Anthrax

Powell claimed that the Iraqis had 8,500 liters (2245 gallons) of Anthrax. None was ever found.

VX Gas

Powell claimed that Iraq had four tons of VX nerve gas. The UN had already confirmed that it was destroyed. The only VX ever found were samples the US had left as "standards" for testing. When the UN suspected that the US samples had been used to contaminate Iraqi warheads, the US moved quickly to destroy the samples before comparison tests could be carried out. 

Remote Drones

Powell claimed that Iraq was building long-range remote drones specifically designed to carry biological weapons. The only drones found were short-range reconnaissance drones. 

100-500 tons of Chemical and Biological Weapons

Powell claimed that Iraq had an aggregate of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical and biological warfare agents. Powell gave no basis for that claim at all, and a DIA report issued the same time directly contradicted the claim. No biological or chemical weapons were found in Iraq following the invasion. 

Troops threatened by biologicals

Powell claimed that "unnamed sources" confirmed that Saddam had authorized his field commanders to use biological weapons. No such weapons were ever used by the Iraqis to defend against the invasion and, of course, none were ever found in Iraq. 

122mm Warheads

Powell claimed that 122mm warheads found by the UN inspectors were chemical weapons. The warheads were empty, and showed no signs of ever having contained chemical weapons. 

Long Range Scuds

Powell claimed that Iraq had a secret force of illegal long-range Scud missiles. None were ever found. 

Sadam and Osama

Powell claimed to have an audio tape proving that Saddam was supporting Osama Bin Laden. But independent translation of the tape revealed Osama's wish for Saddam's death

Colin Powell's UN debacle also included spy photos taken from high flying aircraft and spacecraft. On the photos were circles and arrows and labels pointing to various fuzzy white blobs and identifying them as laboratories and storage areas for Saddam's massive weapons of mass destruction program. Nothing in the photos actually suggested what the blobby shapes were and during inspections which followed the invasion, all of them turned out to be rather benign. 

In at least one case, the satellite Powell claimed had taken one of the pictures had actually been out of operation at the time. And many questioned why Powell was showing black and white photos when the satellites in use at the time over Iraq took color images.

Another piece of evidence consists of documents which President Bush referenced as in his 2003 State of the Union Speech. According to Bush, these documents proved that Iraq was buying tons of uranium oxide, called "Yellow Cake" from Niger. 

Since Israel had bombed Iraq's nuclear power plant years before, it was claimed that the only reason Saddam would have for buying uranium oxide was to build bombs.

This hoax fell apart fast when it was pointed out that Iraq has a great deal of uranium ore inside their own borders and no need to import any from Niger or anywhere else. The I.A.E.A. then blew the cover off the fraud by announcing that the documents Bush had used were not only forgeries, but too obvious to believe that anyone in the Bush administration did not know they were forgeries! The forged documents were reported as being "discovered" in Italy by SISMI, the Italian Security Service. Shortly before the "discovery" the head of SISMI had been paid a visit by Michael Ledeen, Manucher Ghorbanifar, and two officials from OSP, one of whom was Larry Franklin, the Israeli spy operating inside the OSP. 

In July, 2005, the Italian Parliament concluded their own investgation and named four men as suspects in the creation of the forged documents. Michael Ledeen, Dewey Clarridge, Ahmed Chalabi and Francis Brookes. This report has been included in Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation into the outing of Valerie Plame, and Paul McNulty, the prosecutor of the AIPAC spy case. 

A recently declassified memo proves that the State Department reported the fact that the NIger documents were forgeries to the CIA 11 days before President Bush made the claim about the Niger uranium based on those documents. 

In the end, the real proof that we were lied to about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction is that no weapons of mass destruction were ever found. That means that every single piece of paper that purported to prove that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction was by default a fraud, a hoax, and a lie. There could be no evidence that supported the claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction because Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction. In a way, the existence of any faked documents about Iraq's WMDs is actually an admission of guilt. If one is taking the time to create fake documents, the implication is that the faker is already aware that there are no genuine documents. 

What the US Government had, ALL that they had, were copied student papers, forged "Yellow Cake" documents, balloon inflators posing as bioweapons labs, and photos with misleading labels on them. And somewhere along the line, someone decided to put those misleading labels on those photos, to pretend that balloon inflators are portable bioweapons labs, and to pass off stolen student papers as contemporary analysis. 

And THAT shows an intention to deceive. Lawyers call this "Mens Rea", which means "Guilty Mind". TV lawyer shows call it "Malice aforethought". This means that not only did the Bush Administration lie to the people and to the US Congress, but knew they were doing something illegal at the time that they did it. 

All the talk about "Intelligence failure" is just another lie. There was no failure. Indeed the Army agents who erroneously claimed that missile tubes were parts for a uranium centrifuge received bonuses, while the Pentagon smeared Hans Blix, and John Bolton orchestrated the firing of Jose Bustani, the director of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical weapons, because Bustani was trying to send chemical weapons inspectors to Baghdad.

January 2004; the WMD team sneaks out of Iraq

The Pentagon carried out the furtive withdrawal from Iraq of a 400-member military unit assigned to hunt for stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) just as a series of reports surfaced definitively exposing the Bush administration’s claims about alleged Iraqi WMD.

A 107-page report issued by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington-based establishment think tank, presented a documented case that “Administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat from Iraq’s nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and ballistic missile programs.”

When questioned at a news conference about whether he regretted making his fraudulent claims about WMD and Baghdad-terrorist ties before the United Nations Security Council in February 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell acknowledged: “I have not seen a smoking gun, concrete evidence about the connection,” between Al-Qaeda and the Saddam Hussein regime that he and others in the administration claimed in the run-up to the war.

Another 1,400-member unit, the Iraq Survey Group, remained in Iraq with the mission of disposing of chemical and biological weapons, but a member of the group confirmed that it is “still waiting for something to dispose of.”

An internal Iraqi government memo established that Iraq had destroyed all of its biological weapons in 1991, in the aftermath of the Persian Gulf War.

October 2004; G. W. Bush concerning Senator Kerry

The lie: "Senator Kerry last night said that America has to pass some sort of global test before we can use American troops to defend ourselves. He wants our national security decisions subject to the approval of a foreign government."

The truth: The day after the first Bush-Kerry debate, G.W. Bush made this statement in a stump speech. What Kerry actually said was "The president always has the right, and always has had the right, for preemptive strike. That was a great doctrine throughout the Cold War. And it was always one of the things we argued about with respect to arms control. "No president, through all of American history, has ever ceded, and nor would I, the right to preempt in any way necessary to protect the United States of America. "But if and when you do it, Jim, you have to do it in a way that passes the test, that passes the global test where your countrymen, your people understand fully why you're doing what you're doing and you can prove to the world that you did it for legitimate reasons."

2005; Al Qaida’s goals in Iraq

The lie: “In Washington, the Democrats say [Iraq is] not a part of the war against the terrorists, it’s a distraction.” Bush told that crowd in Sellersburg, Indiana. “Well, don’t take my word for it – listen to Osama bin Laden. He has made it clear that Iraq is a central part of this war on terror. He and his number two man, Zawahiri have made it abundantly clear that their goal is to inflict enough damage on innocent life and damage on our own troops so that we leave before the job is done.”

The truth: That isn’t what the latest intelligence on al-Qaeda’s goals shows. Indeed, U.S. intelligence has intercepted communiqués from al-Qaeda leaders to Zarqawi in 2005 that actually reveal their alarm at the possibility of a prompt U.S. military withdrawal and their goal of “prolonging the war” by keeping the Americans bogged down in Iraq.

In a Dec. 11, 2005, letter, a senior al-Qaeda leader known as “Atiyah” lectured Zarqawi on the need to take the long view and build ties with elements of the Sunni-led Iraqi insurgency that had little in common with al-Qaeda except hatred of the Americans.

“The most important thing is that the jihad continues with steadfastness and firm rooting, and that it grows in terms of supporters, strength, clarity of justification, and visible proof each day,” Atiyah wrote. “Indeed, prolonging the war is in our interest.” 

Atiyah’s worries reiterated concerns expressed by bin Laden’s deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri in another intercepted letter from July 7, 2005. In that letter, Zawahiri fretted that a rapid U.S. pullout could cause al-Qaeda’s operation in Iraq to collapse because foreign jihadists, who flocked to Iraq to fight Americans, would give up the fight and go home.

“The mujahaddin must not have their mission end with the expulsion of the Americans from Iraq, and then lay down their weapons, and silence the fighting zeal,” wrote Zawahiri, according to a text released by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence.

Adolph Hitler is quoted as having said
"If you tell a lie long enough, loud enough and often enough, the people will believe it. The secret to get someone to believe a lie is constant repetition. Just tell it over, and over, and over again." – Adolph Hitler

In an oddly reminiscent tone, President Bush said,
"See in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."- George W. Bush, Greece New York, May 24th 2005

Let’s go back to what the Bible has to say about human governments, shall we?

•   Psalms 146:3-6 HCSB  Do not trust in nobles, in man, who cannot save.  (4)  When his breath leaves him, he returns to the ground; on that day his plans die.  (5)  Happy is the one whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the LORD his God,  (6)  the Maker of heaven and earth, the sea and everything in them. He remains faithful forever,