American Hiroshima – the next 9/11?

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/D99265B2-4402-46FE-A905-1F086F513A3D.htm

Interview with David Dionisi author of American Hiroshima.

Quote "But when your country is fighting a war, you have an obligation to understand what's really going on. If you don't, you can become an agent of injustice. If people can find the time to watch baseball or soccer etc, they can make an effort to read, travel, talk and not be limited to the messages of fear.

They also need to understand their history. In 1962, the Joint Chiefs of Staff presented a plan called Operation Northwood, which is now declassified. It proposed conducting mass casualty attacks on American targets and blaming it on Cuba to rally public support for war against Fidel Castro. President Kennedy rejected the plan. So we shouldn't just assume any future attack on our soil is the work of al-Qaida."

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"The US fought the largest secret war in its history during the 1980s in Afghanistan - over $6bn was funnelled into that war. As a result, US collaboration with and responsibility for al-Qaida goes well beyond what most even informed Americans understand.

If you consider that there are over 500 prisoners in Guantanamo Bay from over 40 countries - though not a single one is from Iraq - and that the CIA recruited thousands of people from over 40 countries to be part of that war - none from Iraq - you can better understand how the US played a direct role in creating what became the Taliban and al-Qaida."

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"By 1982, Iran had recaptured lost territory and Saddam asked the US for help. So President Reagan signed a National Security Decision Directive - NSDD 114 - to provide all means of support to Saddam Hussein. Donald Rumsfeld then went on a very sensitive mission to deliver satellite intelligence, other forms of intelligence and weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

That's why the current Bush administration was so confident Saddam had chemical and biological weapons; they knew the US had supplied the ingredients in the 1980s.

Saddam broke with the US, however, when he found out we were selling weapons to Iran in the mid-1980s - the Iran-Contra affair. All this puts the invasion of Kuwait into perspective. Saddam got clear messages from the US saying he could invade; plus he felt the US owed him one after betraying him over Iran."

The repubs fueled the Iran-Iraq war from both ends. The repubs allowed the Taliban to come into power by ignoring Afghanistan after Russia left. The problem is the repubs.

In 2004, alot of people said they voted for Bush because he made them feel secure. As far as I'm concerned, as long as Bush is in office, I'm afraid we'll be punished by another 9/11 unless his ratings go up!

was joking. Yes, amazing how the repubs are the "security" party. Never did figure that out. There were two big buildings in NYC in 2000 and they were gone under * in less than a year and the repubs are going to make us secure!

"...So we shouldn't just assume any future attack on our soil is the work of al-Qaida."

I am not assuming the first one was the work (completely) of Osama. Too many indications otherwise for me to feel confident that our govt didn't LIHOP or MIHOP. I used to think the conspiracists were a bit whacky but the more I know and read, the more I doubt.

It is stunning to think how distorted and twisted the thinking gets when you actually have extremely broad options for power. Northwoods is one of the real outrages of our history. This was an act of treason. What's been done about it. Exactly nothing.

Thanks for this reminder of the corridors of power in bizarro world.