Smoking Mirrors
Today is March 19th. We celebrate five years of bloody war and torture based on lies. These lies came from Michael Ledeen and various neo-con insurgents like Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Pearle, Douglas Feith and Dick Cheney, operating in the United States government at various agencies. Well… the Afghan war began on October 7th, 2001 and that was also based on a lie so actually we have had around 6.5 years of bloody war and torture.
The Afghan war came about because America was attacked on September the 11th at several locations. It was said that the attack was orchestrated by Bin Laden who was residing in Afghanistan at the time. It seemed reasonable to attack the country hosting him. But Bin Laden denied attacking the United States. This made no difference in the face of a concerted propaganda effort by the same neo-con operatives already mentioned. None of the alleged perpetrators were ever apprehended. The Afghan war was for geo-political advantage and to liberate the opium trade; nothing more.
As time passed it became clear, to anyone who was interested enough to inquire, that the 9/11 attack was engineered by the same neo-cons who blamed the attack on Bin Laden. They have since used this non-existent threat from a small group of rag tag, Stone Age Arabs to justify plunging the United States into fear and fascism while looting the countries coffers. As brief as this may be, it is the truth, just as nearly everything reported by the government and collaborating media is a lie.
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