America/NATO: Failure at every turn - International Peace/War

Recall the period just prior to the illegal invasion of Iraq. Remember all the demonstrations/spin of American ‘super weapons’ on CNN and other compliant American media? These weapons/war toys were meant to demonstrate American invincibility; techno-toys against which no enemy could prevail – CAN YOU HEAR THE RESISTANCE LAUGHING?

Someone forgot the FIRST LESSON of guerilla warfare – ‘IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO DEFEAT AN INVISIBLE FORCE ON ITS OWN SOIL, AS IT ALWAYS POSSESSES THE PREROGATIVE TO ATTACK ON WHATEVER TERMS IT CHOOSES!’ Please refer to every text ever written on guerilla warfare! Texts of course the PENTAGON high command FAILED to read!

YOU HAVE FAILED THE NATION AND YOUR CODE gentlemen, primarily because you failed to honour YOUR DUTY to protect the nation from its enemies, INTERNAL – Bush/Cheney -- and external!

The Founding Fathers were acutely aware that commercial interests could one day hijack government; they provided for a response in the Constitution – the document Bush regards as a “piece of paper!”

Redemption comes in the form of arresting Bush and his neocons for war crimes and other crimes against the American people. Take comfort in the knowledge that the entire world knows Bush and his neocons are war criminals – the case is easily proven.

Self-deception, delusion and sheer criminality culminated in the “mission accomplished” mentality that imagined a war had been won when in fact it hadn’t even started! Nevertheless, commercial interests didn’t miss a beat in appropriating hundreds of billions in now untraceable funds. The final cost to the nation will be crippling; the economic fallout has only just begun. Perhaps regulators may choose to investigate and pursue Halliburton and all its subsidiaries; their brazen profiteering in Iraq and other war zones is scandalous. Lost records are not an excuse they’re damning evidence!

Skill and innate intelligence wins wars, gentlemen; there are no mysteries in this universe only ignorance, incompetence and dereliction of DUTY!

When government and other regulatory social institutions fail the people, responsibility falls on the shoulders of the military, gentlemen; you have shamed a proud and honourable tradition by allowing the nation to be hijacked by criminal interests!

Attached is a basic manual on guerrilla warfare for those in need of a read!

It has been 81 months since Osama bin Laden attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, but only now — with just seven months left in his term, George Bush has become desperate to capture the terror overlord.

If you factor in the fact that Pres. Bill Clinton tried to kill bin Laden in August 1998, a case could be made that Bush should have started the search for bin Laden on his first day in office, which adds another nine months to the total. That’s 90 months — seven and a half years — during which bin Laden has been at large in the mountains of Pakistan.

With his polling down to a 24 percent approval rating and his legacy in a shambles, Bush is making one last “hail Mary” bid to to capture the 9/11 mastermind before he leaves office.

Traveling in Europe, Bush has now enlisted the aid of British special forces in the hunt, according to the conservative Times of London:

It is no secret that American military personnel at Guantanamo Bay and other US-run prisons have stripped detainees naked, used dogs to scare them, hooded them, and deprived them of sleep.

But an 18-month-long US Senate investigation has been trying to get to the bottom of who thought of these techniques, and who authorised them.

Documents have been uncovered showing that senior Pentagon officials played a more active role than previously thought in developing some of the methods.

A senior staffer for Vice-President Dick Cheney also went to Guantanamo Bay to discuss how interrogations were conducted.

But the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Democrat Carl Levin, says it is not simply a case of a few bad apples acting on their own.

"The truth is that senior officials in the US Government sought information on aggressive techniques, twisted the law to create the appearance of their legality, and authorised their use against detainees," Senator Levin said.

The Senate investigation shows that military officials, including psychologists, who had the job of training US troops to resist enemy interrogations, were asked to give Pentagon lawyers a list of tactics that could be used in prisons like Guantanamo Bay.

Previously secret memos also show that in July 2002 the Pentagon's former top civilian lawyer directed his staff to start researching the use of practices like stress positions and sensory deprivation.

William Haynes then went to Guantanamo a few months later, with the vice-president's senior counsel, to talk about the techniques.

A month later, the top US military lawyer at the prison wrote a memo recommending the use of interrogation methods like removing clothing, forcing shaving of facial hair, and the use of a wet towel and dripping water to induce fear of suffocation.

Now retired, Colonel Diane Beaver says she was "shocked" that no one questioned her recommendation and that many of her suggestions were approved in late 2002 by the then-defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"I never received a phone call; I never received an email; I never received anything. Asking me anything, like are you a lunatic? What were you thinking? Or great opinion," Colonel Beaver said.

Senator Levin was scathing in his appraisal of what the new techniques led to.

"When Secretary Rumsfeld approved the use of abusive techniques against detainees he unleashed a virus which ultimately infected interrogation operations conducted by the US military in Afghanistan and Iraq," Senator Levin said.

While it has been known for some time that military lawyers voiced strong objections to the harsh interrogation techniques in early 2003, for the first time the new memos show that those concerns were being raised in November 2002 before Mr Rumsfeld officially approved them.

The White House says the abuse of detainees has never been the policy of the Bush administration and that all detainees have been treated humanely, and in accordance with the law.

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