Holland - an American 'Lapdog of War'

Today: Dutch F-16 fighter bombers arrived at 15,30 hrs on the 'Killing Air Fields' of Afghanistan, assisting Dutch 'Special Forces with a License to Kill'.* - [*=Footnote]

by Henk Ruyssenaars March 29 - 2005

The Netherlands - Bush's wife Laura will get all the attention, but she's not the only one on the tarmac in besieged Kabul. With hardly a word being said, and keeping the information out of the dutch 'news', some hours ago four Dutch F-16 bomber fighters landed at Kabul air base in Afghanistan.

They are supposed to stay at least a year, and help in what in dutch parliament was called American "Kill and Destroy" actions. Afghanistan has never attacked Holland nor given a 'Declaration of War', and according to the Geneva Convention and international law, the
war and occupation is illegal. As illegal as the war in Iraq.*

Ergo: like the Americans, the Dutch are war criminals.*

'Expected war criminals', according to the american government's information service 'Associated Press' today*: "American officials say fixing the runway at Bagram will make it suitable for Dutch F-16 fighters expected to deploy this year to support the separate NATO-run security force in Afghanistan. U.S. forces have begun vacating Shindand Air Base, near the Iranian border, as NATO expands its 8,500-strong force into the west."

Contrary to European thinking and wishes, pro-US criminals within NATO are secretly drawing Europe further into the american quagmires; to fight, get killed and have the taxpayers foot the (secret) bill: "The United States is pouring $83 million into upgrading its main military bases in Afghanistan, an Air Force general said Monday, in a sign that American forces will likely be needed in the country for years to come as al-Qaida remains active in the region."

[Killing fields Afghanistan: http://tinyurl.com/2l8ku ]

The fact that NATO 'expands' and is misused to guard US oil pipelines and kill local people has only been possible because the US neocons have been putting the 'National Shame of the Netherlands' - mr. Jaap de Hoop Scheffer - as super stooge at the top of NATO, a spineless figure with brain nor shame.

AP: "Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in Kabul this month that Washington had not decided how long to keep troops in the country, which neighbors Iran,
Pakistan and oil rich Central Asia."

It is a known fact that the whole country - one of the poorest in the whole world - is unsafe for any foreign human being. As is shown daily by attacks, like yesterday's explosion which damaged a Canadian Embassy vehicle and injured one Canadian. The bomb left a five-foot-wide crater next to the road. Even the capital Kabul is off limits and out of bounds after dark.

So much for all the 'freedom'...

WRONG ABOUT THE DUTCH NEOCONS

In many headlines critical of the war in Iraq it's often referred to the information that: "Italy, Holland, Ukraine and Poland are all set to withdraw troops from Iraq this year. But one nation has marched out of step with them. In this respect we shall look at one headline. In February Australian Prime Minister John Howard announced that he will double his "boots on the ground" in Iraq."

Worse than the Australian crooks: the dutch 'managers' have with a lot of fanfare and media noise pulled back a few troops from South Iraq, but will go on there with military police and supposedly training local police.

Worse however still is the fact that Holland is sending hundreds of 'commandos', Special Dutch/US trained Forces, with a 'license to kill'. [http://tinyurl.com/5vhq6]

So instead of winding down the war in Iraq, the multinational 'managers' of the Netherlands, with their compliant and industrial media keep faking, or don't give any news at all. The result being that the dutch taxpayers don't have a clue and are not even informed about what you've been reading here; about the squandering of millions of their Euros on inhumane
war actions in Afghanistan.

With only a few members of parliament asking ''Why we should take part in those illegal Kill and Destroy actions''?

They never get an answer, the media keep lying and the Afghanis die.

The Dutch government caricatures and their warmongering 'managers' ought to end up in court soon; for their despicable media, and war criminal behavior.

The 'US neocon blueprint' all over the country has to be torn apart: for the benefit of the Dutch and of all people in the many US-war beseeched countries.

The for this killing held responsible 'government' in the Netherlands calls itself 'Christian' too, but represents just an 'American Lapdog of War.'

Those collaborators are a shame for humanity.

But their turn will come.

Henk Ruyssenaars

* Dutch 'Special Forces' Kill and Destroy for the US - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/6mpw2

* Afghanistan - Torturing and killing for 'Freedom'? - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4nf2b

* AP - English - - Dutch F-16's at the Bagram base Url.: http://tinyurl.com/47zvr

* Dutch Air Force web site confirming F-16 arrival in Kabul (in Dutch) - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/4wc52

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*The Dutch author this far has worked abroad 4 decades for international
media as a fully independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years -
also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing
worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

*At present 'Persona non Grata' in Holland :-) - because:

He who travels far will often see things

Far removed from what he believed was the Truth.

When he talks about it in the fields at home,

He is often accused of lying,

For the obdurate people will not believe

Inexperience, I believe,

Will give little credence to my song.

'Journey to the East' - Hermann Hesse

*'The war in Iraq is illegal' says United Nation's Secretary
General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

*England's legal advise by the Foreign Office: the Iraq war is
a 'crime of aggression' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/44nhn

*A 55' seconds 'sound bite' concerning the US-Israeli 'Dogs of War'
- 'bringing democracy' everywhere. Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v

*Imagine the good which could have been done with so much money:
'The $Cost of War' to the US - Url.: http://www.costofwar.com/

*Colin Powell: ''It is not anti-Semitic to criticize the policies of the
state of Israel' - Said as 'US Secretary of State' in a speech at the
'Conference on Anti-Semitism of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe' German Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Berlin
- April 28th - 2004 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22p6c

*Former PM Wim Kok, and other Dutch Govt's War criminals
in Court - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/662pp

*Sued: Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Over U.S. Torture Policies:
Url. http://tinyurl.com/3tgo3

*It can and must be done !

*Help the troops come home! Url.: http://www.bringemhome.org
- We need them badly to fight our so called 'governments' - Url.:
http://www.bringthemhomenow.org/

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