Monday, June 17, 2019
The Trump-Bolton Duo is just
like the Bush-Cheney Duo: Warmongers Using Lies to Start Illegal Wars.
By Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay
Author of the books “The
Code for Global Ethics”,
[False
flag operations:] “The powers-that-be
understand that to create the appropriate atmosphere for war, it’s necessary to
create within the general populace a hatred, fear or mistrust of others
regardless of whether those others belong to a certain group of people or to a
religion or a nation.” James Morcan
(1978- ), New
Zealander-born Australian writer.
[Definition: A ‘false flag operation’ is a horrific, staged event—blamed on a
political enemy—and used as pretext to start a war or to enact draconian laws
in the name of national security].
“Almost all wars begin
with false flag operations.” Larry Chin (d. of b. unknown), North American author, (in ‘False Flagging the World towards War. The CIA Weaponizes Hollywood’, Dec. 27, 2014).
“Definition of reverse projection: attributing
to others what you are doing yourself as the reason for attacking them.”
John McMurtry (1939- ), Canadian philosopher, (in ‘The Moral Decoding of 9-11: Beyond the U.S.
Criminal State’, Journal of 9/11
Studies, Feb. 2013).
“That there are men in all
countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of
nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the
government of a country, make it their study to sow discord, and cultivate
prejudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.” Thomas Paine (1737-1809), American Founding father, pamphleteer, (in ‘The Rights of Man’, c. 1792).
“I was the CIA director. We lied, we cheated, and we stole. It was like — we had entire training courses. It reminds you of the glory of the
American experiment.” Mike Pompeo (1963- ), former CIA director and now Secretary of State in
the Trump administration, (in April 2019, while speaking at Texas A&M University.)
History repeats
itself. Indeed, those who live by war are at it again. Their crime: starting
illegal wars by committing false flag attacks and blaming other
countries for their own criminal acts. On this, the Donald Trump-John Bolton
duo is just like the George W. Bush-Dick Cheney duo. It is amazing that in an
era of 24-hour news, this could still going on.
We recall that in 2002-2003, the latter duo, with the help of U.K.’s
Tony Blair, lied their way into a war of aggression against Iraq, by pretending
that Saddam Hussein had a massive stockpile of “weapons of mass destruction” and that he was ready to attack the United States
proper. On October 6, 2002, George W. Bush scared Americans with his big Mushroom
Cloud analogy. —It was all bogus.
—It was a pure fabrication that the gullible (!) U.S. Congress, the corporate
media, and most of the American public, swallowed hook, line and sinker.
Now, in 2019, a short sixteen years later, the same stratagem seems to
being used to start another illegal war of aggression, this time against the
country of Iran. The masters of deception are at it again. Their secret agents
and those of their Israeli and Saudi allies, in the Middle East, seem to have
just launched an unprovoked attack, in international waters, against a Japanese
tanker, and they have rushed to the cameras to accuse Iran. They claim that the
latter country used mines to attack the tanker.
This time, they were unlucky. —The owner
of the Japanese tanker, the Kokuka Courageous, immediately rebuked
that “official” version. Yutaka
Katada, president of the Kokuka Sangyo shipping company, declared that the
attack came from a bombing from above the water. Indeed, Mr. Katada
told reporters: “The crew are saying it
was hit with a flying object. They say something came flying toward them, then
there was an explosion, then there was a hole in the vessel.” His company issued a
statement saying that “the hull (of the ship) has been breached above the waterline on the
starboard side”, and it was not hit by a mine below the waterline, as
the Trump administration has insinuated. —[N. B.: There was also a less serious
attack on a Norwegian ship, the Front Altair.]
Thus, this time the false flag makers have not succeeded. But, you can
be sure that they will be back at it, sooner or later, just as they, and their well
financed al-Qaeda allies, launched a few false flag “chemical”
attacks in Syria, and blamed them on the Syrian Assad government.
Donald Trump has too much to gain personally from a nice little war to
distract the media and the public from the Mueller
report and from all his mounting political problems. In his case, he surely would
benefit from a “wag-the-dog”
scenario that John Bolton and his friends in the Middle East
could easily invent. As a matter of fact, two weeks ago, warmonger John Bolton was coincidently in
the Middle East, in the United Arab Emirates, just
before the attacks!
Besides the Japanese ship owner’s denial, it is important to point out
that at the moment of the attack
on the Japanese tanker, the Japanese
Prime Minister, Mr. Shinzo Abe, was in Iran, having talks with the Iranian
government about economic cooperation between the two countries about oil
shipments. Since Iran is the victim of unilateral U. S. economic sanctions, to
derail such an economic cooperation between Japan and Iran could have been the
triggered motivation to launch a false flag operation. It did not work. But you
can be sure that the responsible party will not be prosecuted.
Conclusion
We live in an era when people with low morals, sponsored by people with
tons of money, can gain power and do a lot of damage. How our
democracies can survive in such a context remains an open question.
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International economist Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is the author of
the book “The
Code for Global Ethics, Ten Humanist Principles”, of the book “The
New American Empire”, and the recent book, in
French « La
régression tranquille du Québec, 1980-2018 ».
Please visit Dr. Tremblay’s site:
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