{"id":10244,"date":"2011-02-21T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=10244"},"modified":"2011-02-18T13:48:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T12:48:18","slug":"the-shame-of-being-an-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2011\/02\/the-shame-of-being-an-american\/","title":{"rendered":"The Shame of Being an American&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The United States government has overestimated the amount of shame that it and American citizens can live down.\u00a0 On February 15 \u201cthe indispensable people\u201d had to suffer the hypocrisy of the U.S. Secretary of State delivering a speech about America\u2019s commitment to Internet freedom while the U.S. Department of Justice (sic) brought unconstitutional action against Twitter to reveal any connection between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, the American hero who, in keeping with the U.S. Military Code, exposed U.S. government war crimes and who is being held in punishing conditions not permitted by the U.S. Constitution. The corrupt U.S. government is trying to create a \u201cconspiracy\u201d case against Julian Assange in order to punish him for revealing U.S. government documents that prove beyond every doubt the mendacity of the U.S. government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">This is pretty bad, but it pales in comparison to the implications revealed on February 15 in the British newspaper, <em>The Guardian. <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?llr=o8b4necab&amp;et=1104554523606&amp;s=15730&amp;e=001Hv1l46oUi0XdFk8Nbv9kapCAUPb7Rpn72AgMwLnd89edJ6hueeuPPrwF02FBgQ1-_Zn1qxFpf56LgU3Wn7gHR3qjXZWyB4eG-7jsZAHqreJMjbAOU-J0rS-WGc2H2C3LQr8Mk8ivv3K6jtTw92N7xe3EaZe5ltTN8rkG7a65rEos2NB2y76veITUWq3x5Aj6HdRvtp0Iebo=\"  target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2011\/feb\/15\/curveball-iraqi-fantasist-cia-saddam<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The Guardian<\/em> obtained an interview with \u201cCurveball,\u201d the source for Colin Powell\u2019s speech of total lies to the United Nations about Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Colin Powell\u2019s speech created the stage for the illegal American invasion of Iraq.<em>The Guardian <\/em>describes \u201cCurveball\u201d as \u201cthe man who pulled off one of the greatest confidence tricks in the history of modern intelligence.\u201d As The Guardian puts it, \u201cCurveball\u201d \u201cmanufactured a tale of dread.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">U.S. \u201cintelligence\u201d never interviewed \u201cCurveball.\u201d\u00a0 The Americans started a war based on second-hand information given to them by incompetent German intelligence, which fell for \u201cCurveball\u2019s\u201d lies that today German intelligence disbelieves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As the world now knows, Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The Bush\/Cheney Regime, of course, knew this, but \u201cCurveball\u2019s\u201d lies were useful to their undeclared agenda. In his interview with <em>The Guardian, <\/em>\u201cCurveball,\u201d<em> <\/em>Rafid Ahmed Alwan al-Janabi, admitted that he made the whole story up. He wanted to do in Saddam Hussein and told whatever fantasy lie he could make up that would serve his purpose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">If the Bush\/Cheney Regime had really believed that Saddam Hussein had world-threatening weapons of mass destruction, it would have been a criminal act to concentrate America\u2019s invading force in a small area of Kuwait where a few WMD could have wiped out the entire U.S. invasion force, thus ending the war before it began.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Some Americans are so thoughtless that they would say that Saddam Hussein would never have used the weapons, because we would have done this and that to Iraq, even nuking Baghdad.\u00a0 But why would Saddam Hussein care if he and his regime were already marked for death? Why would a doomed man desist from inflicting an extraordinary defeat on the American Superpower, thus encouraging Arabs everywhere? Moreover, if Saddam Hussein was unwilling to use his WMD against an invading force, when would he ever use them?\u00a0 It was completely obvious to the U.S. government that no such weapons existed. The weapons inspectors made that completely clear to the Bush\/Cheney Regime.\u00a0 There were no Iraqi WMD, and everyone in the U.S. government was apprised of that fact.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why was there no wonder or comment in the \u201cfree\u201d media that the White House accused Iraq of possession of terrible weapons of mass destruction, but nevertheless concentrated its invasion force in such a small area that such weapons could easily have wiped out the invading force?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Does democracy really exist in a land where the media is incompetent and the government is unaccountable and lies through its teeth every time if opens its mouth?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cCurveball\u201d represents a new level of immorality.\u00a0 Rafid al-Janabi shares responsibility\u00a0 for one million dead Iraqis, 4 million displaced Iraqis, a destroyed country, 4,754 dead American troops, 40,000 wounded and maimed American troops, $3 trillion of wasted US resources, every dollar of which is a debt burden to the American population and a threat to the dollar as reserve currency, ten years of propaganda and lies about terrorism and al Qaeda connections, an American &#8220;war on terror&#8221; that is destroying countless lives in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and which has targeted Iran, and which has destroyed the Bill of Rights, the US Constitution, and the civil liberties that they guarantee. \u00a0And the piece of lying excrement, Rafid al-Janabi, is proud that he brought Saddam Hussein&#8217;s downfall at such enormous expense.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Now that Rafid al-Janabi is revealed in the Guardian interview, how safe is he?\u00a0 There are millions of Iraqis capable of exterminating him for their suffering, and tens of thousands of Americans whose lives have been ruined by Rafid al-Janabi\u2019s lies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Why does the U.S. government pursue Julian Assange and WikiLeaks for telling the truth when \u201cCurveball,\u201d whose lies wiped out huge numbers of people along with America\u2019s reputation, thinks he can start a political party in Iraq? If the piece of excrement, Rafid al-Janabi, is not killed the minute he appears in Iraq, it will be a miracle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So we are left to contemplate that a totally incompetent American government has bought enormous instability to its puppet states in the Middle East, because it desperately wanted to believe faulty \u201cintelligence\u201d from Germany that an immoralist provided evidence that Saddam Hussein had Weapons of Mass Destruction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">And America is a superpower, an indispensable nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">What a total joke!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/index.php?context=va&amp;aid=23237\" >Go to Original \u2013 globalresearch.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States government has overestimated the amount of shame that it and American citizens can live down.  On February 15 \u201cthe indispensable people\u201d had to suffer the hypocrisy of the U.S. Secretary of State delivering a speech about America\u2019s commitment to Internet freedom while the U.S. Department of Justice (sic) brought unconstitutional action against Twitter to reveal any connection between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning, the American hero who, in keeping with the U.S. Military Code, exposed U.S. government war crimes and who is being held in punishing conditions not permitted by the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglo-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}