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A lie of omission is a lie; it intentionally leaves out crucial information to create a false representation of reality. Obama lied in omission in his Orwellian Peace Prize acceptance speech by claiming, “America has never fought a war against a democracy.” Technically, a war is reciprocated armed conflict. However, the etymology of the word, “war” is “confusion,” which is part of the CIA role in wars against democracy in Iran in 1953, Guatemala in 1954, and Vietnam beginning with US support of French colonialism against Vietnamese independence and extending beyond US approval of election cancelation that began the Vietnam War.
I could go on with a history of US intervention in other countries’ governments, but that would be a book, not an article. Three examples that Obama lied is enough for clear and convincing evidence to consider my analysis and policy request that follow.
Iran 1953
The following is edited from my brief: War with Iraq and Afghanistan, rhetoric for war with Iran.
In 1953, the United States CIA led by one of President Theodore Roosevelt’s grandsons, initiated a coup in Iran (Operation Ajax [8]) to remove the democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. The Iranian government was understandably dissatisfied with the terms of its contract with the Anglo-Persian Oil Company that allowed British interests to claim 85% of the oil profit from Iran.[9] Iran voted to nationalize the oil industry in 1951 after the British declined to renegotiate the terms. The US-led coup was successful, and the royal monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi,[10] became virtual dictator. Fearing popular reprisal, Pahlavi’s government was supported by the CIA in creating the Iranian SAVAK, a vicious secret police for the Shah’s dictatorial government.[11] We can only assume that the oil revenue sharing agreement with the Shah was acceptable to the US and UK.
Under the Eisenhower administration, the US cooperated with the Shah’s government for the development of Iranian nuclear energy through the “Atoms for Peace” program.[12] President Ford agreed to US full cooperation to help Iran build about two dozen nuclear energy plants. When the Iranian people overthrew the Shah’s government in 1979, the US stopped cooperating. The US backed Iraq in their invasion of Iran in 1980 and throughout the war until 1988, seeking a more US-friendly Iranian government. The US provided Saddam Hussein with the chemical and biological weapons the W. Bush administration later used as justification for invading Iraq.[13] Since 1979, the US has worked to prevent Iran having a nuclear energy program, even under the legal provisions of the NPT, and reneged on a multi-billion dollar contract to deliver nuclear fuel to Iran without refunding Iran’s money.[14]
Vietnam
The following is conservatively accepted history of the Vietnam War; that is, information in agreement with admissions from our own government reports and unchallenged (as far as I know) by any professional historian. The understanding of this history by those of us who study it does not guarantee that many Americans will recognize the poignant facts. Please feel free to verify these high/low lights. In one paragraph:
After the “War to make the World Safe for Democracy,” Ho Chi Minh’s petition for a democratic Vietnam was denied by the victors of WW1. Vietnam remained under France’s dictatorship for economic and political colonial domination. The US supported Minh during WW2 in his guerilla warfare against Japan, only to deny his petition for Vietnam’s independence at the end of the war. The US paid for up to 80% of France’s military costs to keep Vietnam enslaved by the French. The US supported the cancellation of an ELECTION in Vietnam when it became clear that Minh’s socialistic economic plan was more popular than a Western-friendly leader. The Vietnam War exploded with McNamara’s contrived reporting of the Gulf of Tonkin incident; manipulated intelligence at best, and an outright false-flag attack at worst. The war escalated with invasions and attacks into Laos and Cambodia, dropping more bombs than from all sides of WW2 combined on a country smaller than California that killed perhaps 10% of their civilian population – 3.5 million. The irrational goal was to “defeat terrorism”, excuse me, “defeat communism” by winning the hearts and minds of civilians while we killed over 1,000 civilian children, women and the elderly daily through high-altitude bombing. The war only ended through massive US demonstrations.
Guatemala 1954
I’ll let John Perkins, bestselling author of Economic Hitman, tell the story of this coup in the video after he discusses the US coup of Iran in 1953. He also discusses US intervention in Ecuador in 1981, Panama in 1981, Venezuela in 2002 and Iraq in 2003.You can verify Perkins’ testimony from your own research. CIA coups in Iran and Guatamala are now unchallenged conservative history (here’s encyclopedic info on Guatamala to get you started). The 10-minute clip comes from the excellent video, Zeitgeist Addendum.
Analysis: We live under a fascist government in the United States. Click here to understand how I’m informing you of a political definition, not an emotional rant.
Policy response:Gandhi and Martin Luther King advocated public understanding of the facts and non-cooperation with evil. I’m among hundreds who advocate:
- Understand the laws of war. These were legislated after WW2 and are crystal-clear that only self-defense, in a narrow legal meaning, can justify war. This investment of your time takes less than an hour and empowers you to legally stand for ending these Wars of Aggression.
- Refuse and end all orders and acts associated with these unlawful wars and constant violation of treaties. Those involved with US military, government, and law enforcement have an oath to protect and defend the US Constitution. Unlawful acts only move forward with sufficient cooperation and public tolerance. Stop cooperating with the most vicious crime a nation can commit: war. Stop tolerating it.
- Prosecute the war leaders for obvious violation of the letter and spirit of US war laws. You can only understand how these wars are specifically unlawful by investing the time to do so. Because the crimes are so broad and deep, I recommend Truth and Reconciliation (T&R) to exchange full truth and return of stolen US assets for non-prosecution. This is the most expeditious way to understand and end all unlawful and harmful acts. Those who reject T&R either by volunteering their name and/or responding when named are subject to prosecution after the window of T&R closes.
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[8] Future of Freedom. Hornberger, J.G. An Anti-democracy Foreign Policy: Iran. Jan. 31, 2005: http://www.fff.org/comment/com0501i.asp , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ajax .
[9] Democracy Now: http://www.democracynow.org/2003/8/25/50_years_after_the_cias_first , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Iranian_Oil_Company .
[10] New York Times. Risen, J. April 16, 2000. The CIA in Iran: http://www.nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Reza_Pahlavi .
[11] Federation of American Scientists. Pike J. Ministry of Security: SAVAK. Jan. 16, 2000: http://www.fas.org/irp/world/iran/savak/index.html ,Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK .
[12] World Nuclear University. President Eisenhower’s speech to the UN General Assembly. Dec. 8, 1953: http://world-nuclear-university.org/html/atoms_for_peace/ , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran .
[13] Iran Chamber Society. King, J. Arming Iraq: A Chronology of US Involvement. March, 2003: http://www.iranchamber.com/history/articles/arming_iraq.php , Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_iraq_war .
[14] Antiwar. Prather, G. ElBaradei Isn’t Perfect. Dec. 27, 2005: http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=8308 , and background: Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran#After_the_1979_Revolution .
Comments
You are A BLESSING
But in many Democracies she has tried to prop up Dictators with a coup.In India during the peak of the Cold War,during the time Mrs Indira Gandhi,the CIA had many times enticed Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw, as per the latter's memoir.
It's great there are writers out there taking the time to inform us of the 'behind the scenes' views. Thank you for sharing this important info.
Vietnam under Ho Chi Minh was NOT a democracy, Herman. Not when its benefactors were the Soviet bloc and China. Not with only the Communist Party allowed, and all other parties proscribed.
South Vietnam's regime was a dictatorship as well - the only difference in the two dictatorships was in their economic systems.
Luis: The US approved cancellation of the election to unify the country in a democracy. We then fought on behalf of dictatorship and called Ho Chi Minh “communist” rather than support his democratic country under whatever economic policy and lawful foreign relations they would choose.
Mr. Louis 14 dec 11:47 said that Viet-Nam wasn't a democracy. Free-elected presidents aren't always democratic AFTER ELECTIONS: "president"Hitler, now Obama, BUSH, Jeltzin, all your friends in Suth-America ..
Well, that vietnamese NOT-democracy was MORE democratic than that piggy marionettes-regime in SAIGON, so as the Soviets under Brejneew had a BETTER live than under the Western-"democratic" (in south-american style CIA-copyright) drunkiard pig Boris Yeltsin.
I'm a right-wing-voter but TRUTH must be said, if I like it or not.
And dear Mr. Louis let that zionist-methodist-GW Dubya-Bush-like propaganda.
It was still better in the Soviet-Union than homeless and hungry in your so-called New-Order democracies rulled centralized like a "NEW Soviet Union" by the Bankers & Zionist World-Gouvern :-)
The Peoples Republic of North Vietnam was a communist dictatorship that could in no wise be construed a democracy. The Republic of South Vietnam was formed by a referendum as a ploy by Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem to oust the ex emperor of the State of Vietnam, who was President.(see WIKI) His rejection and ejection of communist elements in the government began a civil war that was backed by the US as part of the SEATO resolution. The History Channel claims 31 million people died in this conflict form beginning to end including the prior colonial wars and WWII.
You might say Indochina is the middle east of the Far East, a crossroads between mainland Asia and Oceania, almost always in conflict thru out its bloody history. At one time after a thousand years of fighting they defeated the Han Dynasty and ruled China for period.
Diems bloody Catholic minority regime brutally repressed the Budhist majority and he was assassinated by order of JFK only two weeks before his murder in 1963.
Much confusion exists in the historical record about what happened to South Vietnamese President Diem. President Kennedy ordered Diem's evacuation from Vietnam. Somebody at the airport told Diem not to get on the plane and that changed the outcome for his country in a big way. Here are details on the subject from Joseph Trento:
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Who changed the coup into the murder of Diem, Nhu and a Catholic priest?
From "The Secret History of the CIA" by Joseph Trento
Who changed the coup into the murder of Diem, Nhu and a Catholic priest accompanying them? To this day, nothing has been found in government archives tying the killings to either John or Robert Kennedy. So how did the tools and talents developed by Bill Harvey for ZR/RIFLE and Operation MONGOOSE get exported to Vietnam? Kennedy immediately ordered (William R.) Corson to find out what had happened and who was responsible. The answer he came up with: “On instructions from Averell Harriman…. The orders that ended in the deaths of Diem and his brother originated with Harriman and were carried out by Henry Cabot Lodge’s own military assistant.”
Having served as ambassador to Moscow and governor of New York, W. Averell Harriman was in the middle of a long public career. In 1960, President-elect Kennedy appointed him ambassador-at-large, to operate “with the full confidence of the president and an intimate knowledge of all aspects of United States policy.” By 1963, according to Corson, Harriman was running “Vietnam without consulting the president or the attorney general.”
The president had begun to suspect that not everyone on his national security team was loyal. As Corson put it, “Kenny O’Donnell (JFK’s appointments secretary) was convinced that McGeorge Bundy, the national security advisor, was taking orders from Ambassador Averell Harriman and not the president. He was especially worried about Michael Forrestal, a young man on the White House staff who handled liaison on Vietnam with Harriman.”
At the heart of the murders was the sudden and strange recall of Sagon Station Chief Jocko Richardson and his replacement by a no-name team barely known to history. The key member was a Special Operations Army officer, John Michael Dunn, who took his orders, not from the normal CIA hierarchy but from Harriman and Forrestal.
According to Corson, “John Michael Dunn was known to be in touch with the coup plotters,” although Dunn’s role has never been made public. Corson believes that Richardson was removed so that Dunn, assigned to Ambassador Lodtge for “special operations,” could act without hindrance.
SOURCE:
“The Secret History of the CIA.” Joseph Trento. 2001, Prima Publishing. pp. 334-335.
thanks, octafish :)
JR:
After the French left, the US-supported South cancelled the election to unify Vietnam in 1956 when it was clear the Northern leader Ho Chi Minh would win. The US allowed the cancellation and then escalated troops and money to keep the dictatorship in the South. The US caused this revolution, JR; don’t blame it on “they” “always in conflict” in its “bloody history.” This war was the US bloody hands imposing its dictatorial will upon a new democracy. This is another example of an unlawful War of Aggression.
Jacobo Árbenz Guzmán acted upon several communist ideas during his presidency. The fact is the man was a Marxist.
“Reasoning”:
“Acted upon” “communist ideas” means what to you? All you have now is ad hominem insult to justify overthrowing a democracy that took on United Fruit in order for Guatemala to belong to them instead of US corporatocracy. Interested readers should look-up this history.
“Reasoning” must explain himself to have any credibility.
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