THE WAR ON TERROR CHARADE
Why was the current Director of National
Intelligence's criticism only a face-washing performance for her new employer
in The White House?
By Dany Smith
We have seen what the appointment of former Lt. Col. Tulsi Gabbard as Director of National Intelligence (DNI) meant and the details aired before her confirmation hearing before the Senate Intelligence Committee when she questioned the Obama-Biden administration's secret policy of supporting terrorist groups like Al Qaeda, ISIS and all their branches with the aim of overthrowing the Syrian government of Bashar Al Assad.
Gabbard seemed to portray herself as the truth-teller
and the calling card of an administration that will not do the same led by
Donald Trump.
Although that seemed to shock the dinosaurs on the
Committee and exposed the blatant political contradiction to public opinion, it
was only a performance that only showed a tiny part of the truth about the Deep
State's involvement in the so-called “war on terror”.
From a distance Obama was a great hoax, a
disappointment to Americans and to his own voters but even more so, to the
promises he made in Egypt to harmonize relations between the US and the
Arab-Islamic world. It was not necessary for Gabbard to tell us that the CIA at
the command of John Brennan and the Pentagon generals gave support to gangs
like Al Qaeda, Al Nusra and others planted in Syria and to the magical
emergence of “Daesh” (ISIS) in Iraq. You only had to stand on one of the main
streets of Samarra and Tikrit in July 2014 to see these strange guys dressed in
black parading around in all sorts of armored vehicles and U.S. weaponry that
had been delivered by the Saudis.
Gabbard missed the inaugural and momentous chapter,
the genesis of the creation of these “pseudo-Islamist” monsters and I don't
think she missed it. Rather, she said only the part that suited her and nothing
more and that does not mean that she has tried to save the memory of bastards
like George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and all the
neoconservatives who concocted this evil strategy, she has only performed a
performance to impost a transparency to the incoming administration that in
reality, there is nothing transparent about it.
Gabbard knows very well that going back to the
beginning of all this garbage, he should talk about many ugly things, very ugly
things that have sunk the USA in the deserved disrepute it has today within the
international concert. And if not, how do you accommodate democracy and values
such as freedom and human rights with aggressions against other countries,
military interventions and occupations, secret CIA prisons, tortures,
executions and disappearances of thousands of human beings?
The subject is far from being forgotten. We have seen
how several of these elements moving in the shadows have also been present
advising with their unpleasant knowledge the neo-Nazi regime of Mr. Volodymyr
Zelensky who has been the best and the most daring collaborator of NATO's plans
by pretending to raze the Ukrainians of Donbass for the simple fact of being
Russian-speaking. In that plan, Washington and its European partners encouraged
Kiev to violate the Minsk agreements while silently arming the AFU.
But going back to the genesis of Al Qaeda's “Islamist
terrorism” and its alleged connections with secular Arab governments such as
Saddam Hussein's Iraqi government, we saw how that argument, besides being
false, was, in the eyes of the most experienced analysts, an impossible relationship
to conceive and even, in some cases, stupid.
Gabbard served in the invasion of Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and it does not seem credible that her memory has been erased. Although she was in a medical unit, it is possible that she was covertly serving in intelligence and it is therefore not credible that she would not have been aware, even if it was a rumor, of the dirty work being done by the military intelligence guys in Abu-Graib or Bucca.
Just as she does not close her personal story at the
time, much less her biased view of the spontaneous flowering of terrorism
supported from Washington to overthrow Syria. She only talks about what we all
already know. You either see it all, or you see nothing.
In reality, Gabbard doesn't get to the post of
Director of National Intelligence because of her beauty or her apparent
outburst of brutal sincerity to the system she serves. She is more astute than
many of her detractors give her credit for, and this performance before the
committee proves it.
If she had been really upset about this alliance of
the US government with the enemies of the country and with the knowledge she must
have about the dark and dirty underbelly of the intelligence community, she
would have had to talk about George W. Bush himself and his sinister partner
Dick Cheney, creators of the mega business of the “fight against terrorism”, as
the minimum references to the whole hoax that meant orchestrating the invasions
of the Middle East and Central Asia by means of falsifications and lies.
Perhaps she was not even born or was just a child when
the initial mastermind George H. Bush, in his years as head of the CIA, already
knew what the “Al Qaeda” program was all about, the Saudi connections (which
went beyond Osama Bin Laden and his family) and the Afghan mujahideen who were
prepared by the Pakistani ISI under the Agency's direction. But it was ripe
enough to know what senior intelligence officers and especially General David
Petraeus were deploying in Iraq and that was nothing more than recruiting
assassins and mercenaries trained in camps in Jordan, to form groups like “Al
Qaeda-Iraq” under the leadership of a disposable puppet (an Agency asset) named
Abu Muzab Al Zarqawi and who was conveniently eliminated to enhance Bush's bid
for re-election.
Undoubtedly, the “war on terror”, besides being a
dialectical inconsistency in its meaning, was a screen to cover the big
business of the arms industry and whose benefits reach the political elite.
Thus, without the Bushes, Cheney and the neocon war mongers, there would have
been no Osama´s, Al Baghdadi, Petraeus or Zarqawi´s and without them, they
would not have been able to invent such a sinister elaboration.
We should not sleep and all the more so with Trump's
foreign policy. Gabbard may be planning a far worse farce than his predecessors
and it will be too late when you realize it.