America?s War with Itself
 

Bush?s attempt to wreck the climate talks follows an established pattern of self-destruction

By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 21st December 2004

I have a persistant mental image of US foreign policy, which haunts me even in my sleep. The vanguard of a vast army is marching around the globe, looking for its enemy. It sees a mass of troops in the distance, retreating from it. It opens fire, unaware that it is shooting its own rear.

Is this too fanciful a picture? Both Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were groomed and armed by the United States. Until the invasion of Iraq, there were no links between the Baathists and Al Qaeda: now Bush?s government has created the monster it claimed to be slaying. The US army developed high-grade weaponised anthrax in order, it said, to work out what would happen if someone else did the same. No one else was capable of producing it: the terrorist who posted envelopes of anthrax in 2001 took it from one of the army?s laboratories.(1) Now US researchers are preparing genetically modified strains of smallpox on the same pretext, and with the same likely consequences.(2) The Pentagon?s space-based weapons programme is being developed in response to a threat which doesn?t yet exist, but which it is likely to conjure up. The US government is engaged in a global war with itself. It is like a robin attacking its reflection in a window.

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Full article is at America?s War with Itself

George Monbiot is brilliant - read some of his other articles. By the way, he's as much critical of other nations as of the US, so this is not just another America ranting thing.

nice article

This is just another load of America hatred.

Monbiot is lying to you and you are buying it.

I'm bored with having to correct simple people but here are some main points: the US did not arm Osama. Al Qaeda and Saddam were co-operating on a "my enemy's enemy is my friend" basis for years.

Another one who relies on Fox News as his only source of information.

Of course the US armed Osama, when he was fighting against the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. This is even in the US a well-known fact.

Saddam was one of the biggest enemies of Osama as he locked up and killed Muslim fanatics.

And how would you explain all the pics of Rumsfield shaking hands with Saddam?

Maybe you're too young for historical facts...

the bush family and the bin laden family have been doing business for decades, much longer then they have been in bed with Saddam... And as a matter of fact, we DID arm them when afghanistan was at war with Russia.

Hi idiots.

Before I do what I do now I was an intelligence analyst for a number of years. I do know what I am talking about. I don't get Fox News in my country either.......

The USA supplied the Afghan Mujahidin with Stinger missiles with a limited shelf life (meaning that they could only be used for a limited period before they would "break" and could not be fired). These were not supplied to bin Laden but to another faction of the Muhajidin which was somehat more friendly. Almost all of the unused Stingers were bought back anyhow.

Saddam, (as well as being a major financier of international terrorism for decades), co-operated specifically with an al Qaeda group which installed itself within the Kurdish area of Iraq. This group (Ansar al Islam) were to take care of Saddam's "Kurdish problem" and were supplied with arms and backing on this basis.

Sorry to fact-check your asses like this on a public board but stupidisimos like you need to get your heads out of your asses. :) Fucking idiots.

if you could offer up some proof other then just your word...that you went from being a security analyst for the US to a porn slinger...then we might all believe you.

right now it is not too believable

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

How exactly exactly does one make that transistion?

Throwing some totally unproven nonsense at people and calling everyone names who doesn't share your crude ideas doesn't really qualify you as a reliable source of information. It's sad that you were never able to analyze your own intelligence. And you seem to have a problem with your eyes, too. Look at the pic.

Also try this:

Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed

Lala don't discuss this on GFY.. Leads to nothing! Noone wants to change his mind so don't try :D

You people have been watching too many Michael Moore movies.
Open up a book every once in a while and learn some history.
I'll recommend The Threatening Storm by Kenneth Pollack.
The book might be a little too thick for some of you who just
like to look at the headlines of The Post and then rehash
the same old America Bashing comments.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Kenneth Pollack? Now, that's a good one. The following is from an interview with him, check http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/magazine/24QUESTIONS.html?ex=1104642000&en=fd61534aea925865 &ei=5070

In your new book, ''The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America,'' you seem to have abandoned your hawkish stance. Your last one, ''The Threatening Storm,'' helped persuade many reluctant Democratic policy makers to support the invasion of Iraq.

I made a mistake based on faulty intelligence. Of course, I feel guilty about it. I feel awful.

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He wasn't making the quote based on the totality of the book. The book is factual and lays out the history of Iraq and US from an insider perspective. His comments are referring to his Hawkish stance and he is a man and admits he was wrong. That is all the more reason why you should read both the books. Again, it is history and before everyone start flapping at the jaw they should try to learn some.

maxxxxx,
Do you talk to Baby Jesus every day?
Cuz, you sure know a lot :warning
Playing your Bush is not giving enough money game is a DISGRACE AND TOTAL LACK OF RESPECT TO THE VICTIMS OF THE TSUNAMI. !!!! :mad:

By the way, I also was an intelligence analyst for over 3 years, and I am now a PROUD PORN SLINGER :321GFY

Too many James Bond movies and Michael Moore propaganda have presented you intelligence analyst as some glamourous job when all it is, is a bunch of intelligent people looking over confidential intel and writing scenarios of possible future events.

But I think I am giving you too much credit you acne infested teen piece of lard :321GFY

idiot, we've been arming the mujahideen since the carter years with Various Items. Then beginning in 1985, the CIA supplied mujahideen rebels with extensive satellite reconnaissance data of Soviet targets on the Afghan battlefield, plans for military operations based on the satellite intelligence, intercepts of Soviet communications, secret communications networks for the rebels, delayed timing devices for tons of C-4 plastic explosives for urban sabotage, and sophisticated guerrilla attacks, long-range sniper rifles, a targeting device for mortars that was linked to a U.S. Navy satellite, wire-guided anti-tank missiles, and other equipment.
Between 1986 and 1989, the mujahideen were also provided with more than 1,000 state-of-the-art, shoulder-fired Stinger antiaircraft missiles.
By 1987, the annual supply of arms had reached 65,000 tons, and a "ceaseless stream" of CIA and Pentagon officials were visiting Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) headquarters in Rawalpindi and helping to plan mujahideen operations.

No wonder not an "intelligence agent" anymore, hell man we even gave binladen (himself) and his buddies 25 sniper rifles around 10 years ago.

funding afghan army
http://www.fas.org/terrorism/at/docs...an%20Army.html

if there were a "stupidity agency" i'd believe you were a member of that, but intelligence? :1orglaugh

Well, then you should not blame people of having seen too many Michael Moore movies if your own picture is based on a book that even the author said was based on faulty intelligence. I certainly do not take everything that Morre says as the ultimate truth but you people should at least try to see that starting a war in Iraq was just one of several options, and probably the worst.

There is acually a lot more in George Monbiot's article(s) that at least deserves to be reflected upon.

:1orglaugh :1orglaugh :1orglaugh
This is so poor...

L.O.L.H.M.R*


* Holding My Ribs....

Oh, please stop.
You are going to make Baby Jesus cry :sadcrying :sadcrying

Love your sig... :1orglaugh

Of course you do, you flea infested burka hippie :321GFY

Ok, PussyMan, really sorry that I have to leave you and your kindergarten friends in this thread but I have to talk to some adult people now. By the way, did you already donate for the victims? I did.

A Happy New Year to everyone.

My dear maxxxxx,
When I go to the zoo and look at the monkeys, I do not try to address them in English or any other language for that matter, as I know they would not understand me.
Well, when addressing people like you, I must follow the same route as you obviously suffer from some mental conditions and are obviously not one of brightests.
So, please go to your adult doctor so he can fix you up.
There is more to life than hatred, thinking of it, you may suffer from OCD as your few posts are all about your hate for one person and one country.

Amen.....

damn...it is new year eve...fuck bush for this night pls:)

got bored while working at the computer one day or something :1orglaugh :1orglaugh

Fortunately, I actually read and study history and then base my views on what I have learned. Too many pick a view point and then look for information to support that view point. I would say Michael Moore lovers, maybe yourself included, are on the top of that list.

The bottom line is the US has chosen to reshape the middle-east. We won't know if what the US is doing will be successful for about 20 - 25 years. If successful, defined by however you would like to define it, then the US will come out looking good. If not successful then you and all of your cohorts will be vindicated.

By who's authority ????

The same one that gave Hitler the mission to create a Big Germany ???

Go back to your readings, and please leave the Marvel "books" on the shelves ...

I thouguht they were looking for WMD's? No wait... they were looking for terrorists? No wait....

I'm confused.