America’s Hype over WMD: Five Invasion Plots, Three Continents,
Identical Lies
From Panama to Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria
By Felicity Arbuthnot
“I do
not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely
adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the
retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare…. I am strongly in favour of
using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes.” (Winston S. Churchill, 1874-1965, from War
Office minute, 12th May 1919.)
As the
sabre rattling against Syria gets ever louder, the allegations ever wilder and
double standards, stirring, plotting and terrorist financing (sorry: “aiding
the legitimate opposition”) neon lit, it is instructive to look at the
justifications presented by US Administrations for a few other murderous
incursions in recent history.
This month
is the twenty third anniversary of the US invasion of Panama on 20th December 1989, as
Panamanians prepared their Christmas celebrations. A quick check reminds the
late Philip Agee recalling President George H.W. Bush telling the American
people that the threat from Panama (pop: 3,571,185 – 2011) was such that: “our way of life is at stake.”
Agee referred to this in his aptly named talk “Producing the Proper Crisis.”(i)
Apt then as now. Nothing changes.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/five-invasion-plots-three-continents-identical-lies/5316537
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