reply to post by BMags
reply to post by BMags
Well why don't you take a few moments of your time and actually look up what the US government has been claiming for the past 10 years and the
reality on the ground.
I'm not versed with technical definitions of international law, but I certainly have capacity for common sense to determine right from wrong.
First off, the US has invaded, bombed, occupied and instilled proxy leadership in the countries of Afghanistan and Iraq.
They invaded Afghanistan under the pretense of stopping Bin Laden, and then changed stories when they brought in western contractors to take over
reconstruction of the infrastructure that they bombed. The US also gave lots of money to warlords non-aligned with the Taliban in hopes that they
would fight for them. Instead, they used the money to form private armies to protect their rebirth of opium production, which the Taliban abolished.
The US, knowing that they can't beat these tribal warlords, nor could they control Afghanistan without them, joined them. US military forces and
western contractors alike have been confirmed as guarding the opium crops.
The US also attacked the Afghan government, then the Taliban. They ousted them and replaced them with US-friendly government. Why? Because the
Taliban wouldn't allow a western oil pipeline throughout their country (Clinton even bombed them in the 90s because of this).
The US invaded Iraq. This involved total occupation, assassination of government officials and instilling a pro-US government. They did this after
threatening Iraq with invasion if they did not destroy a lot of their offensive weapon capability. This itself was based off of nothing but lies
about a fictional "WMD attack on US soil in 45 minutes" claim told by the CIA informant "Curveball". The lie was also claimed that Saddam was
involved with 9/11 somehow. Iraq complied with the resolution to destroy their missiles, only to be invaded anyways, now with their pants down.
During the Iraq occupation, a civil war broke out between Sunni, Shia and Kurd factions. The US was confirmed to have supported the Wolf Brigade, a
renegade police group that mercilessly executed Iraqi civilians on video to instill shock on the Iraqi people. This is all part of the shock and awe
strategy; this part itself was where the occupying force "tortures" the population into submission while their assets are taken over by the
occupiers. These assets were guarded by private mercenary corporations, of which their personnel numbers actually outnumbered the US force presence
itself. Remember, the actions of mercenaries are not accoutable by whoever hires them, hence why there were over a hundred thousand of them occupying
oil fields, stealing Babylonian treasure, etc.
On top of these, intelligence operations were working diligently to capture many Iraqis, torture them, place them in camps, and sometimes even watch
them die (I've heard of at least one instance in Afghanistan where CIA and Afghan soldiers stopped a train full of prisoners in the middle of a
desert and shot them in the train cars).
Drone operations have been conducted in many regional countries. Usually the targets are designated by the CIA paying stooges with a handful of cash
to deploy target transmitters. Many times they've simply taken the money and dumped the transmitter in say, a crowded market place. Many civilians
have died from such airstrikes. The CIA themselves have even targeted "suspicious looking" civilians from way up in the sky.
Oh, and there's Libya. As the US lead the whole UN humanitarian no fly zone declaration, even before the speech was over, US and British cruise
missiles were hitting government structures to assassinate government officials (especially Ghadaffi) and economic infrastructure. The US has
targeted and murdered a few of Ghadaffi's children also, along with bombing hundreds of civilians and rebels alike.
Oh, and the rebels also happen to be directly linked to Islamic militant groups classified as terrorists by Western countries (they even fought us in
Afghanistan and Iraq). This means the west is backing terrorists (along with Israel). I'm pretty sure thats considered illegal if any other
country, say Iran, did it.
And don't forget special forces mobilization in Libya before the no fly zone was even implemented. They consisted of at least JTF-2, CIA and SAS,
all there to assassinate government officials and support terrorists. They are also ground troops on foreign soil, which is an act of war.
The list goes on and on, and it's not just limited to the Bush regime.