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The U.S. Has Repeatedly Lied About Satellite Photographs as a Justification for War
The U.S. government claims that satellite photographs prove Russian separatists are responsible for the shootdown of the Malaysian airplane over Ukraine, and that Russia has fired artillery into Ukraine.
Russia claims that the photos are fake.
While we don't have the necessary expertise to know who's right, it's worth noting that the U.S. government has repeatedly been caught lying about satellite photos as a basis for war.
For example, the U.S. lied about satellite photographs in the run up to the first Gulf War. The Christian Science Monitor reported in 2002:
And the same thing happened in the first Gulf War. The Christian Science Monitor reported in 2002:
When George H. W. Bush ordered American forces to the Persian Gulf to reverse Iraq's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait part of the administration case was that an Iraqi juggernaut was also threatening to roll into Saudi Arabia.
Citing top-secret satellite images, Pentagon officials estimated in midSeptember that up to 250,000 Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks stood on the border, threatening the key US oil supplier.
But when the St. Petersburg Times in Florida acquired two commercial Soviet satellite images of the same area, taken at the same time, no Iraqi troops were visible near the Saudi border just empty desert.
"It was a pretty serious fib," says Jean Heller, the Times journalist who broke the story.
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Shortly before US strikes began in the Gulf War, for example, the St. Petersburg Times asked two experts to examine the satellite images of the Kuwait and Saudi Arabia border area taken in mid-September 1990, a month and a half after the Iraqi invasion. The experts, including a former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst who specialized in desert warfare, pointed out the US build-up jet fighters standing wing-tip to wing-tip at Saudi bases but were surprised to see almost no sign of the Iraqis.
"That [Iraqi buildup] was the whole justification for Bush sending troops in there, and it just didn't exist," Ms. Heller says. Three times Heller contacted the office of Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney (now vice president) for evidence refuting the Times photos or analysis offering to hold the story if proven wrong.
The official response: "Trust us." To this day, the Pentagon's photographs of the Iraqi troop buildup remain classified.
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"This administration is capable of any lie ... in order to advance its war goal in Iraq," says a US government source in Washington with some two decades of experience in intelligence, who would not be further identified.
(And see this report from the Guardian.)
And - in the run up to the Iraq war - the U.S. claimed that satellite images showed that Saddam possessed bunkers and trucks loaded with chemical weapons. This was later debunked, and no chemical weapons were found.
Indeed, U.S. intelligence agencies have REPEATEDLY lied as a way to justify war, and on other issues of vital national concern.
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Every Native American can vouch that the USSA LIES, not only that but they KILL and STEAL
It puzzles me that you guys only assassinate presidents (usually the wrong ones) when you have such a rich and growing list of worthwhile targets, you are forever bumming your chat about all the guns and lead you have, then use it just to kill school kids......most strange!
Dugald, don't mind your first response from a known mental case.
As to your point, what you don't seem to realize is that it is agents of the Banksters doing the assassinations. The 1st one they tried to wack was Old Hickory, Andrew Jackson, but the assassin's pistols misfired, for which he promptly got a beat down from Old Hickory. To get some background on .gov inspired mass shootings and assasinations in America in general, look into MKULTRA.
lol..."Dugald, don't mind your first response from a known mental case."
...and then proceeds to try and redirect the conversation away from inalienable self defense rights, actual dead presidents (and their assassins true motives) and the known school shooters (who are all verifiable nutcases, who had been or were under, a psychiatrists care and/or on medication when they started killing kids).
Yes of course, Lanza, Holmes, Booth, Guiteau etal were all bankster assassins.
And you call me a mental case, son get back on your meds before you hurt someone.
"It puzzles me that you guys only assassinate presidents (usually the wrong ones) ..."
Is that right, you saying only republican presidents usually deserve to be assassinated?
"...when you have such a rich and growing list of worthwhile targets, you are forever bumming your chat about all the guns and lead you have, then use it just to kill school kids......most strange!"
Not at all, the ones killing the kids are "usually" the same type who assassinate presidents.
Limey, socialist fucktard.
"But if the government lied and faked the evidence the TV and newspapers would have published the story. Since they have not there obviously were no lies by the government." - Average head-in-the-sand American consumer.
If you say it enough times , it's no longer a lie...
Gulf of Tonkin, Remember the Maine, Ft.Sumpter, Lusitania, Auschwitz propaganda (to justify end of war, post war German civlian extermination - repeatedly replaced the plaques decrying mythical deaths - from alleged 4 mill to about a mill - Red Cross: about 35,000 for all causes - including Allied military action against manufacturing facilities), weapons fo mass destruction, etc etc.
When one realizes that all actions by pols, crats and banksters is about stealing more money and power from them, and that all utterances are cover for their crimes, then, and only then does one truly begin to understand.
"It is all one big criminal forest, but one must look beyond the lies, trees, to see it."
"My guillotine can cut through the lies."
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This looks like a job for the rainforest bulldozers.
Just out of curiosity, you think it could be adapted to clear cutting?
CUBA, no war, just a show of forces.
Since, as Romney stated during his presidential campaign, "corporations are people," I have an idea - form a non-profit corporation and that corporation runs for president during the next election. Start with a kickstarter project to get some basic funding to hire a PR firm to develop a name that the democrat and republican sheeple are likely accept, then file the paperwork for Super PAC for campaign financing.
What was the name of Colbert's Super PAC "Americans for a Better Tomorrow Today" ?
I would vote for a company named Thurston Howell, III. Sounds rich and well educated.
John Q. Public, in which all Americans have a tradeable share with other Americans. If you sell it, you effectively secede and are free to organize with other Americans as you see fit, without the "protection" of, nor with any fealty to, the United States Government.
Black Box Proves Missile Didn’t Do It
He who lies first lies best.
Hey If you cannot see a difference between
BUSH CHENEY NEOCONS WE WANT WAR NOW...
And OBAMA GET HELL OUT NOW REBUILD USA...
Then retire. Now. Please.
Your stupid mother fucking political anaylis is a joke. Like Dyler Turden.
Your words are certainly.... BOLD
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I'm sensing 'issues' here...
Evidence Conclusive: Ukraine Military Shot Down MH17 In False Flag Operation
In retaliation the Russians will probably fabricate evidence that the US has tortured terrorist suspects.
Oh wait....
Wait a minute...folks not suspects.
Barry said only Folks and Suspects, top Taliban Commanders can be released. All things weighed, I'd still take my chances in surviving Gitmo over Siberia.
authenticated visual proof of where the missiles came from
http://i.imgur.com/Z1JaCJv.png
that should settle the debate
hugs,
josh earnest