Mark Robinowitz
RE: UNCOVERED: NOT QUITE THE WHOLE TRUTH
Wed Mar 17 02:39:15 2004
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Subject: RE: UNCOVERED: NOT QUITE THE WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT THE IRAQ WAR
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:44:06 -0800
From: Mark Robinowitz mark@oilempire.us
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MoveOn in Thirty Seconds

MoveOn's film "Uncovered: the whole truth about the Iraq war" ignores
the issues of oil, peak oil, war crimes, the plight of the Iraqi
civilians and US troops, the PNAC plan for global conquest (which
originated in the 1990s), and Bush's complicity in 9/11. The film
urges peace activists to support the war on terror and is a curious
mix of authentic dissent and CIA disinformation.

MoveOn also urges us to ask Congress to "censure" Bush for lying,
which is a great way to undermine the grassroots initiatives for
impeachment. Censure is not meaningful from a legal perspective -
impeachment would have consequences. Plus, this is the same remedy
that this group wanted for Clinton's lies about Monica, which
suggests that MoveOn thinks that lying about adultery and deception
used to start wars deserve the same punishment.

MoveOn is a great way to soak up activist money and energy with zero
accountability. Their website does not reveal any phone numbers or
physical addresses for this group. The flood of money sent to them is
not translated into any grassroots organizing efforts, funding of
investigative journalism or similar efforts that would have tangible
results. Sending emails to Congress is pretty low on the list of
effective tactics.

MoveOn will not touch the reason for the Iraq war - the fact that we
are near, if not at, the peak of global oil production. Nor will
MoveOn touch the issues of Bush's complicity with September 11 --
they still falsely claim that it was a surprise attack even though
there is zero evidence for that and it is proven beyond any
reasonable doubt that the kindest interpretation is that the Bush
regime let the attacks happen. (It is more likely, but harder to
prove, that the "attacks" were entirely a Bush administration staged
event, with supporting roles from various foreign "intelligence"
services - Britain, Israel, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia).

MoveOn is funded in large part by the multi-billionaire George
Soros, who recently helped topple a government in the path of an oil
pipeline that the US wants to control. See
http://www.oilempire.us/soros.html  for details.

Late in 2003, the internet organization Move On and the Center for
American Progress released the film "Uncovered: the whole truth about
the Iraq war" with a simultaneous showing at more than 2,600
locations across the country. This film is a systematic
deconstruction of many of the lies that were used to sell the Iraq
war, using interviews with Administration whistleblowers,
intelligence insiders, politicians and other officials. The film will
probably be extremely effective in re-mobilizing the energy of the
peace movement that had enormous demonstrations against the war into
energy to supporting the Democratic presidential campaign.

Move On, however, is a curious paradox. The group is becoming very
influential at mobilizing dissent. Move On is piggybacking on
widespread disgust with Bush while seeking to carefully circumscribe
the range of acceptable debate. It is also a sophisticated effort to
ensure that this dissent does not probe too deep into the current
realities of the Homeland Security States of America.

"Uncovered" did a great job in deconstructing some of the false
claims by the Bush administration to justify the invasion of Iraq.
However, it also disseminated a number of other lies and blatant
omissions.

This movie claims to be "the whole truth" about the Iraq war, but
does not mention O I L as a motivation for the war. This raises some
serious questions about the film's true purpose, especially since has
a number of CIA agents who have tactical disagreements with Bush's
approach but still support more wars for empire and oil domination.
Perhaps "The internecine fight between the Neo-Conservatives and the
Neo-Liberals over Bush's management of the War that Will Not End in
Our Lifetime" would be a better title for the film. It is not the
"the whole truth" about the Iraq war but instead has CIA agents
staging "limited hang outs" (fessing up to small crimes to avoid the
deeper scandals) that carefully avoids any of the core reasons for
the war.

The best disinformation is mostly correct, since that makes the lies
more palatable. This "anti-war" film which urges peace activists to
support the "war on terror" is a phony opposition to the war.

http://www.counterpunch.org/christison12132003.html
December 13 / 14, 2003
Chickenhearts at Notre Dame
The Pervasive Fear of Talking About the Israeli Connection
By BILL and KATHLEEN CHRISTISON

[Uncovered] does a superb job in demonstrating how administration
leaders from Bush to Cheney to Powell to Rumsfeld to Rice used the
issue of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) as the main pretext to
generate popular support in the U.S. for the war. The film is a
high-quality production that everyone should see.
But--this piece of art is subtitled The Whole Truth About the Iraq
War, and it by no means lives up to that billing. The reason is that
the Israeli connection is nowhere mentioned. Once again, the subject
is taboo.
Although the war was sold to Congress and the public on the basis of
the WMD issue, many of us believed for months before the war that the
actual reasons the Bush administration invaded Iraq were the U.S.
drive for global domination, oil--and Israel.

What is uncovered in "Uncovered"

The most amazing fact about Uncovered is that it did not even hint at
OIL as a factor in the war. There was no mention of the economic
battle between petro-dollars and petro-euros (Iraq had started
selling its oil in Euros, which threatened to undermine the dollar).
In the long run, the worst omission is the failure to discuss the
fact that we are near, if not at, the peak of global oil production,
since that is the reason the US has not designed an "exit strategy"
-- the occupation (and eventual replacement by a puppet regime) will
continue for the remaining decades of the Petroleum Era.

While a one hour film is obvious inadequate to discuss all of the
aspects of a very complex issue, to avoid any mention of OIL as a
motivation for the war raises serious questions about Move On and
their allies (and their funders' political goals).

An obvious lie from the Bush regime that should have been included
was the May 2003 claim that the war was over. Bush was flown to an
aircraft carrier off the coast of San Diego to be photographed in
front of a banner stating "Mission Accomplished." This is probably
the most ridiculous visual from the regime that could be pilloried as
blatant propaganda.

Uncovered did not include any discussion of US war crimes against
civilians and the military murder of journalists, nor did it discuss
the Pentagon's use of uranium tipped weapons (euphemistically called
"depleted uranium"), which will cause disease and death for
generations to come. Dropping uranium weapons is a form of genocide
(the Genocide convention prohibits "Imposing measures intended to
prevent births within the group," and uranium weapons used in the
1991 Gulf War have already caused substantial numbers of severe birth
defects among Iraqi children). US strategies against civilians
resemble Israeli "collective punishment" waged against the
Palestinian population - and it is well documented that the American
and Israeli militaries are strategizing together to perfect the new
occupation.

Move On claims that the Bush administration decision to invade Iraq
was made after 9/11. In reality, the Bush administration made up its
mind to seize Iraq before they stole the White House. "Rebuilding
Ameirca's Defenses," a September 2000 report from the Project for a
New American Century -- essentially the blueprint for the current
wars -- stated that the US should attack Iraq and occupy the Middle
East, even if Saddam Hussein was deposed.

Iraq is a critical part of the PNAC plan for world conquest, and the
main question now is which country will be the next target. Will it
be Iran or North Korea (the other member of the so-called "Axis of
Evil"), Syria (perhaps the preferred target of Israel), or Saudi
Arabia (the only country that still has spare capacity to increase
daily oil extraction rates, which have become more critical as a
resource now that the world has arrived at peak oil, Iraqi oil
production is a shambles and the hoped for Saudi-sized oil riches of
Central Asia now seem to have been exaggerated by about 80%).

Uncovered echoed the tired, false official claims that 9/11 was a
surprise attack. While Move On's "misleader.org" division has
published a report that shows that the Bush administration did have
some prior knowledge of the "attack," that report still doesn't go
beyond the "incompetence" theory of 9/11. After more than two years
of leaks, connecting the dots, and numerous serious independent
investigations it is clear that the only possible accurate debate
would be whether the Bush regime merely let 9/11 happen for political
benefits or actually engineered the attacks. Discussion of whether
Bush's assistants were lying when they claimed that they couldn't
have envisioned a plane-into-building scenario are a distraction from
deeper, more compelling evidence of complicity, especially since the
CIA and National Reconnaissance Office were practicing a
plane-into-building emergency exercise in Virginia on the morning of
9/11.
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Films about September 11 - the psychological pretext arranged to
enable the US invasion of the Middle East
http://www.oilempire.us/movies.html