Newsgroup: it.politica.internazionale
Titolo: Politica estera USA: buffonate degne di Hollywood

Axis of Evil Philosophy Revisited
27.05.2003 [18:21]
 The rhetoric continues and the "evidence" begins to appear. After
Washington's "hard evidence" that Iraq had active nuclear and biological
warfare programmes, which turned out to be documents lifted from the
Internet, the same sounds are starting to be made about Iran and the DPRK.
Regarding Iran, Washington claims that intercepted telephone calls prove
that there is an Al Qaeda cell working in Iran which coordinated the Riyadh
bombing on may 12th. Lakhdar Brahimi, a senior UN official, was asked to
convey Washington's "deep, deep concern that individuals associated with Al
Qaedaplanned and directed the attack in Saudi Arabia from inside Iran".
These are serious allegations, wholly refuted by Teheran, which claims to be
working against terrorism within the framework of UN guidelines, the
institution derided and humiliated by Washington in its murderous and
illegal campaign in Iraq.
Despite the denials, a senior figure in the Bush administration was quoted
by the New York Times last week, claiming that the USA has "hard evidence"
that a cell of some 12 Al Qaeda members are hiding in Iran, having come over
from Afghanistan, and include Saif Adel and Saad bin Laden, the son of
Osama. This allegation has been confirmed by Donald Rumsfeld, who stated at
a Pentagon press conference that "There is no question but that there are Al
Qaeda in Iran". As there were in New York also, and possibly still are.
?owever, when the United States of America starts speaking about "hard
evidence" the eyebrows start to lift and the suspicion begins to arise that
Washington and the Pentagon are yet again lying. Before the illegal attack
on Iraq, there was a ludicrous attempt in December 2002 to denigrate the
Baghdad regime by claiming that yellowcake uranium had been shipped
illegally to Iraq from Niger. There were even documents to back up the
claim, complete with ministers' signatures on official note-paper.
Upon close examination, Mohammed El Baradei, Director of the International
Atomic Energy Agency, declared the signatures to be forgeries and the paper
not that in use by the Niger government. Forged documents and false
accusations.
Coluin Powell's lies to the United Nations Security Council, with his
"magnificent" evidence proving that Iraq had WMD, which turned out to be a
doctorate thesis written twelve years previously, lifted from the Internet,
was yet another sign of the Bush administration's lack of credibility, as it
stooped to ever lower levels in its desperate quest to frame Saddam Hussein.
Two months on, where are the Weapons of Mass Destruction?
Against the DPRK, the armaments argument falls flat because Pyongyang openly
admits that it has missiles and nuclear fuel, denying however, that it is
fabricating nuclear missiles. Here, Washington uses another ploy, reports
from a dissident who claims that the government is cultivating heroin
producing methamphetamine to sell abroad abnd bolster the country's hard
currency. The defector appeared in a Senate Committee hearing wearing a
black hood, looking like some wort of medieval hangman. There is no way to
back up his "evidence" nor even to ascertain who he is, whether he is from
Pyongyang or Portland, Korea or Kentucky.
However, his "evidence" led the Senate Subcommittee on financial management,
budget and international security to claim that there should be a "naval
quarantine" imposed on Pyongyang to seize shipments. First forgery, then
lies, then war crimes against civilians in Iraq and now piracy. The list
grows.
The statement of Senator Peter Fitzgerald (Republican, Illinois) is a
telling and chilling reminder of the naieve mindset of the Bush
administration, a glimpse into how hearsay and gossip can be turned into
foreign policy which shapes the lives of hundreds of thousands of people:
"I think the process of the drug ventures are in part funding their weapons
programs, therefore their drug trafficking needs to be stopped in order to
protect our own national security".
I think? The Bush administration looks more and more like a club of
Hollywood script writers whose copy is sent on to make the film; the
difference with the real Hollywood being that these films are video nasties,
the murders, the war crimes, the assassinations and the mutilation being
real.
  ????????: Timothy Bancroft-Hinchey/Pravda.ru

 
Se lo dice l'autore come non credergli :)
-Stefano