Our Man in Karachi... the Dogs of War and their Lies

by Henk Ruyssenaars

May 10th - 2005 - Date and place I clearly remember; it was in Pakistan's capital Karachi. In one of the hotel bars on the night of my arrival, the 23d of April 1971, as one of my old passports shows. And the man I remember too, he was american and later on showed to be one of the many US NSA's 'Men in Karachi'.

We had had a couple of nightcaps together, after I had asked him whether he was an artist, because he had brought along a large portfolio; those large briefcases with a zipper going nearly all around, for carrying paintings, pictures or drawings.

And he gave me another harsh lesson confirming again reality and the lies that wars often are based upon: "No'', he said, ''I'm not an artist but an american geologist and those are satellite pictures, investigation and drilling reports and a lot of maps I'm flying home with. And, mark my words: this war in Vietnam and surroundings will soon be over when Washington and the Pentagon get this stuff, because there's not a drop of oil or other profitable natural resources to be found. We're going to get out and go home. They can keep their land."

We had to agree on the fact that there was hardly any difference whatsoever between american warfare and global scavenging for energy and profits, and I never saw him again.

Using his maps and pictures he had shown me first hand the global, space and maritime nightmare unfolding: the US's ability to - from a dominating position - invade, and when it's really not profitable to get out and wreck some other country and it's population elsewhere. Including the oceans and seabeds.

The US agencies working on laser weapons planned for further use in space domination, use the belligerent slogan: "Into your place, from outer space".* Human rights do never count and the laws they make themselves for others to obey. Already in the '60s and '70s the United States/United Nations organized and led a series of conferences on 'the Law of the Sea'.

LOST, as the 'Law Of the Sea Treaty' was named, had been hatched by a group of neocons who wanted to ensure the United States control of seven-tenths of the earth's surface area. An 'International Seabed Authority' under US supervision should make the rules for, and control the vast oceans and everything that might be profitable on and in the seabed, like oil, gas or resources like 'pellets', as well as everything that travels above or below their surfaces.

DARFUR/SUDAN LIES...

Again using the United Nations as their fig leaf, like now again in Darfur/Sudan where the Chinese can forget about their oil unless they see the need to start a war. Darfur has Africa's largest untouched natural resources which explains why the US and its allies - like the UN - are trying so hard to establish a stronghold in the region.

According to Al Jazeera, many others, locals and my own opinion after having covered Sudan too for 10 years, a lot of the 'information' - via the by the multinationals owned and shameless compliant mainstream media is - to say the least - not correct: http://tinyurl.com/cqhtk

The 'Man in Karachi" showed that many wars have been - and like in Afghanistan and Iraq right now - are founded on greed, and based on lies.

As also is very well shown in the article by Harvey Wasserman on "Four bloody lies of war, from Havana 1898 to Baghdad 2003", where he also refers to Vietnam: ''In 1964 North Vietnamese allegedly fired on two US ships in the Gulf of Tonkin. While campaigning as a peace candidate, Lyndon Johnson used the incident to win Congressional approval for unlimited intervention. By 1967 he'd sent some 550,000 US troops into Southeast Asia."

Wasserman writes that: "The Bush Administration's lies about its rationales for attacking Iraq fit a pattern of deceit that has dragged America into at least three other unjust and catastrophic wars. The "smoking gun" documents that emerged in the recent British election confirm the administration had decided to go to war and then sought "intelligence" to sell it.

But conscious, manipulative lies were also at the root of American attacks on Cuba in 1898, US intervention into World War I in 1917 and in Vietnam. These lies are as proven and irrefutable as the unconscionable deception that dragged the US into Iraq in 2003.

In each case, these lies of war have caused horrific human slaughter, the destruction of human rights and liberties, and financial disaster.

[ ] To which we now must add George W. Bush's lies of Iraq. The war was primarily sold as a way to destroy Saddam Hussein's Weapons of Mass Destruction. The world was also told Saddam was involved in the 9/11 attacks on the US, and was trying to get nuclear bombs. These were all lies. The British memos proving the Bush and Blair Administrations knew Saddam did not have WMD's, was not involved in 9/11 and had no way to make atomic weapons are now public monuments.''

Nixon's "dirty trickster" disciples Karl Rove and Dick Cheney have now poisoned this nation with yet another ghastly lie of war. Their hopeless Iraqi slaughter has become the modern definition of cynical deceit, human butchery and economic ruin.

Exactly what will happen to us, and to the liars that have draggedus into this latest bloody quagmire remains to be seen.

But history does not indicate a pretty outcome.

FPF - Footnotes:

[end item] - The whole story is at - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/a39rn

Darfur and Video fakes - url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqhtk

Darfur, the Chinese and the oil - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/59jb8

Treaty on Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Use of Outer Space, Including the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies - US Government - Bureau of Arms Control - Signed at Washington, London, Moscow - Entered into force October 10, 1967 - Url.: http://www.state.gov/t/ac/trt/5181.htm

Smedley Darlington Butler, Major General - United States Marine Corps: "WAR is a racket. It always has been." - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/22dlm

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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 1 - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism !

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