Guest guest Posted July 16, 2006 Report Share Posted July 16, 2006 The Bamiyan Buddhas And The WTC: Two Perspectives Enlightenment vs. Entitlement By Ingmar Lee 16 July, 2006 Countercurrents.org When those two colossal structures representing the apogee of the human odyssey were exploded and reduced to a smouldering wreckage, the march of evolution reached an unequivocal turning point. The monumental structures that had stood sentinel at the gateway to the world's pre-eminent civilization symbolized the sublime consummate aspiration of the society that built them: ~that the supreme human attainment must be founded on universal rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. For 17 centuries the Bamiyan Buddhas had done their peaceful sentry duty at the geopolitical juncture where East met West. With an open palm radiating compassionate loving kindness, they proclaimed that the observance of basic moral precepts, freedom from attachment to material things, and quiet, equanimous personal introspection was the ultimate way to achieve these transcendent ideals. Nevertheless, since their construction, the Bamiyan Buddhas have simultaneously stood a stoic and silent vigil over humanity's inexorable slide into oblivion.Their destruction on March 11th, 2001 was a portentous warning signal of the final winking out of the myriad evolutionary processes that culminated with humans at the apex of a hierarchy of beings. The trajectory of the human experience has now plummeted into a fathomless nadir of greed, sloth, violence and corruption and has bottomed out at Bush America. The peaceful symbolism of the great Bamiyan Buddhas was not recognized by the steady progression of imperialist belligerents who visited an endless rain of terror on what is now known as Afghanistan. Afghans have endured successive invasions by legions of warmongers, the legacy of which has left their society as fractured and unstable as the rugged geography of their land. The ancient Aryans, Alexander, Genghis Khan, the British and the Russians all came; maiming, killing, and stealing to conquer this mountainous desert in order to forward their respective global domination schemes. And each in their turn was repulsed by the inimitable determination of fierce and courageous Afghan tribesmen. The Russians lost 15,000 soldiers before they limped away, but the Brits having been driven out three times, are back again with their NATO " coalition " of idiots, while the stupid Bush-lackey " Steve " Harper government of Canada contributes 2300 troops to the slaughter. In the repetitious staccatto of its blood-spattered history, America looms largest and most hideous in the annals of Afghanistan, with its surreptitious arrival on the scene in 1979. For 10 years America vicariously faced off the Russians in a vicious behind-the-scenes Superpower war, secretly building, financing and training the mercenary army of their Taliban proxy, and providing massive weapons shipments that terrorized the Afghan people and blasted apart their bleak and beautiful land. When the Russians finally quit, leaving millions of landmines strewn across the landscape in their wake, the USA abandoned Afghanistan too, leaving the exhausted, injured, destitute and ethnically disparate communities to themselves to try to repair their devastated land. Such negligent abuse inevitably has revolting consequences. Six months to the day, following the harbinger destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, another massive pair of towering structures that epitomized the zenith of the American way, were exploded and reduced to smouldering wreckage. The catastrophic destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas and the World Trade Centre are as intricately interrelated as the Yin and the Yang. The World Trade Center also represented a predominant ideal of that society: that the paramount human rights were life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, ~but exceptionally however, for Americans. These mammoth temples of Mammon proclaimed this edict from an entirely antipodean perspective from their Bamiyan counterparts: that unrestricted growth, rampant consumption and personal enrichment were the ways to achieve these lofty goals. For Bush America, the right to life is to bear arms that maim and kill, freedom is for the exploitation of others, and happiness is sought in hedonistic self gratification. Bush America's globe-gobbling profligacy is correlated to the abject poverty counterpart upon which it depends, and is perpetuated by its enforced exceptionalist sense of entitlement. Such arrogance always breeds resentment, and such violence always breeds vengeance, and predictably, a small group of skillful warriors thus empowered arose from the desert wastes of Afghanistan and in one fell swoop, felled the monstrous nerve-centre of the American global domination project. The litany of heinous crimes against humanity being committed by Bush America are far too numerous and well known to list here.That the destiny of our planet is in the hands of this criminal warmongering madman with the means to annihilate every living thing at his single command is an appalling testament to the greed and stupidity of the American people who elected him. But whether or not George W. Bush's hair-trigger finger ever pushes the button that destroys our world, other earthshattering catastrophes originating in Bush America threaten not only humanity, but all living things entirely. Bush America leads the world in changing the climate, contaminating and reducing biodiversity with GMO's, polluting the land air and water, stripping away the forests, proliferating nuclear weapons and power, and in blatant military aggression. Its Brobdingnagian ecological footprint is crushing out the gossamer thin veil of the Earth's living blanket which distinguishes our planet so magnificently from all of its lifeless neighbours. But away and beyond all this, Bush's most stupendous criminal act against our biosphere has been the unleashing of Depleted Uranium (DU) nuclear weaponry in Afghanistan and Iraq. DU particles are circulating in the atmosphere and blanketting the planet in a miasma of radiological poison which is permeating into the DNA of all Earthly beings. Even now, genetic mutations are gestating in the reproductive processes of beings, which will propagate through generations and alter the very flow of evolution. Even now, whereever DU has been used, an unprecedented number of babies are born with bizarre and appalling never-before-seen deformities. Those which are not stillborn will face unimaginably painful and horrific lives.The enormity of Bush America's global DU fallout is now being discovered and geiger counters around the world are clicking off the scale. Never before has the fate of the world been in the hands of such a stupid and careless man, ~a pathetic little man who is so obsessed with his petulant Global War on Terror. It's so easy to understand the sole motivation of a person waking up to find their home and family destroyed by some push-button video-terminal warrior raining hell-fire from afar. With no available recourse through due process, when such injustice is done, revenge is the base and ignorant reaction, and where there's a human will, there's a way. There is no amount of military power that can stop a person with such a motivation. George Bush is losing his GWOT while stoking innumerable fires of vengeance. Bush America presents the greatest possible threat to the peace and welfare of all beings, but paradoxically, George W. Bush may be our only salvation. If Bush had not stolen his office from Mr. Kerry, the American status quo might have been preserved a little longer. This Earth cannot survive the prolonged death of America and Bush is destroying it faster. The enormous debt of America to the world, now doubled by Bush to $8,000,000,000,000, has brought their economy to the very brink of collapse, and its imminent crash will be yet another catastrophe for us all. Yet it is only by the immediate destruction of this greed-fuelled Bush American empire, that the beings of this beautiful Earth are offered any glimmer of hope. The Buddha's great and enduring message which rings true for all time, is that greed is the root cause of all suffering. This is alas, the antithesis of the George W. Bush version. Ingmar Lee writes from Pondicherry, India. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111 wrote: > > The Bamiyan Buddhas > And The WTC: Two Perspectives Enlightenment vs. Entitlement > > By Ingmar Lee > > 16 July, 2006 > Countercurrents.org > > When those two colossal structures representing the apogee of the > human odyssey were exploded and reduced to a smouldering wreckage, > the march of evolution reached an unequivocal turning point. The > monumental structures that had stood sentinel at the gateway to the > world's pre-eminent civilization symbolized the sublime consummate > aspiration of the society that built them: ~that the supreme human > attainment must be founded on universal rights to life, liberty and > the pursuit of happiness. For 17 centuries the Bamiyan Buddhas had > done their peaceful sentry duty at the geopolitical juncture where > East met West. With an open palm radiating compassionate loving > kindness, they proclaimed that the observance of basic moral > precepts, freedom from attachment to material things, and quiet, > equanimous personal introspection was the ultimate way to achieve > these transcendent ideals. Nevertheless, since their construction, > the Bamiyan Buddhas have simultaneously stood a stoic and silent > vigil over humanity's inexorable slide into oblivion.Their > destruction on March 11th, 2001 was a portentous warning signal of > the final winking out of the myriad evolutionary processes that > culminated with humans at the apex of a hierarchy of beings. The > trajectory of the human experience has now plummeted into a > fathomless nadir of greed, sloth, violence and corruption and has > bottomed out at Bush America. > > The peaceful symbolism of the great Bamiyan Buddhas was not > recognized by the steady progression of imperialist belligerents who > visited an endless rain of terror on what is now known as > Afghanistan. Afghans have endured successive invasions by legions of > warmongers, the legacy of which has left their society as fractured > and unstable as the rugged geography of their land. The ancient > Aryans, Alexander, Genghis Khan, the British and the Russians all > came; maiming, killing, and stealing to conquer this mountainous > desert in order to forward their respective global domination > schemes. And each in their turn was repulsed by the inimitable > determination of fierce and courageous Afghan tribesmen. The Russians > lost 15,000 soldiers before they limped away, but the Brits having > been driven out three times, are back again with their > NATO " coalition " of idiots, while the stupid Bush-lackey " Steve " > Harper government of Canada contributes 2300 troops to the slaughter. > > In the repetitious staccatto of its blood-spattered history, America > looms largest and most hideous in the annals of Afghanistan, with its > surreptitious arrival on the scene in 1979. For 10 years America > vicariously faced off the Russians in a vicious behind-the-scenes > Superpower war, secretly building, financing and training the > mercenary army of their Taliban proxy, and providing massive weapons > shipments that terrorized the Afghan people and blasted apart their > bleak and beautiful land. When the Russians finally quit, leaving > millions of landmines strewn across the landscape in their wake, the > USA abandoned Afghanistan too, leaving the exhausted, injured, > destitute and ethnically disparate communities to themselves to try > to repair their devastated land. Such negligent abuse inevitably has > revolting consequences. > > Six months to the day, following the harbinger destruction of the > Bamiyan Buddhas, another massive pair of towering structures that > epitomized the zenith of the American way, were exploded and reduced > to smouldering wreckage. The catastrophic destruction of the Bamiyan > Buddhas and the World Trade Centre are as intricately interrelated as > the Yin and the Yang. The World Trade Center also represented a > predominant ideal of that society: that the paramount human rights > were life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, ~but exceptionally > however, for Americans. These mammoth temples of Mammon proclaimed > this edict from an entirely antipodean perspective from their Bamiyan > counterparts: that unrestricted growth, rampant consumption and > personal enrichment were the ways to achieve these lofty goals. For > Bush America, the right to life is to bear arms that maim and kill, > freedom is for the exploitation of others, and happiness is sought in > hedonistic self gratification. Bush America's globe-gobbling > profligacy is correlated to the abject poverty counterpart upon which > it depends, and is perpetuated by its enforced exceptionalist sense > of entitlement. Such arrogance always breeds resentment, and such > violence always breeds vengeance, and predictably, a small group of > skillful warriors thus empowered arose from the desert wastes of > Afghanistan and in one fell swoop, felled the monstrous nerve-centre > of the American global domination project. > > The litany of heinous crimes against humanity being committed by Bush > America are far too numerous and well known to list here.That the > destiny of our planet is in the hands of this criminal warmongering > madman with the means to annihilate every living thing at his single > command is an appalling testament to the greed and stupidity of the > American people who elected him. But whether or not George W. Bush's > hair-trigger finger ever pushes the button that destroys our world, > other earthshattering catastrophes originating in Bush America > threaten not only humanity, but all living things entirely. Bush > America leads the world in changing the climate, contaminating and > reducing biodiversity with GMO's, polluting the land air and water, > stripping away the forests, proliferating nuclear weapons and power, > and in blatant military aggression. Its Brobdingnagian ecological > footprint is crushing out the gossamer thin veil of the Earth's > living blanket which distinguishes our planet so magnificently from > all of its lifeless neighbours. > > But away and beyond all this, Bush's most stupendous criminal act > against our biosphere has been the unleashing of Depleted Uranium > (DU) nuclear weaponry in Afghanistan and Iraq. DU particles are > circulating in the atmosphere and blanketting the planet in a miasma > of radiological poison which is permeating into the DNA of all > Earthly beings. Even now, genetic mutations are gestating in the > reproductive processes of beings, which will propagate through > generations and alter the very flow of evolution. Even now, whereever > DU has been used, an unprecedented number of babies are born with > bizarre and appalling never-before-seen deformities. Those which are > not stillborn will face unimaginably painful and horrific lives.The > enormity of Bush America's global DU fallout is now being discovered > and geiger counters around the world are clicking off the scale. > > Never before has the fate of the world been in the hands of such a > stupid and careless man, ~a pathetic little man who is so obsessed > with his petulant Global War on Terror. It's so easy to understand > the sole motivation of a person waking up to find their home and > family destroyed by some push-button video-terminal warrior raining > hell-fire from afar. With no available recourse through due process, > when such injustice is done, revenge is the base and ignorant > reaction, and where there's a human will, there's a way. There is no > amount of military power that can stop a person with such a > motivation. George Bush is losing his GWOT while stoking innumerable > fires of vengeance. > > Bush America presents the greatest possible threat to the peace and > welfare of all beings, but paradoxically, George W. Bush may be our > only salvation. If Bush had not stolen his office from Mr. Kerry, the > American status quo might have been preserved a little longer. This > Earth cannot survive the prolonged death of America and Bush is > destroying it faster. The enormous debt of America to the world, now > doubled by Bush to $8,000,000,000,000, has brought their economy to > the very brink of collapse, and its imminent crash will be yet > another catastrophe for us all. Yet it is only by the immediate > destruction of this greed-fuelled Bush American empire, that the > beings of this beautiful Earth are offered any glimmer of hope. The > Buddha's great and enduring message which rings true for all time, is > that greed is the root cause of all suffering. This is alas, the > antithesis of the George W. Bush version. > > Ingmar Lee writes from Pondicherry, India. > The United States is not unique. The history of life is a blood bath. For centuries the peaceful rivers of Hawaii ran red. The Amarican Indians killed and tortued each other with no mercy. Anemonies take up to ten years to surround a competing species....and kill it. Nothing has changed. There will never be peace within the dream of separation. It is simply not designed that way. toombaru Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 17, 2006 Report Share Posted July 17, 2006 Nisargadatta , " toombaru2006 " <lastrain wrote: > > Nisargadatta , " roberibus111 " <Roberibus111@> > wrote: > > > > The Bamiyan Buddhas > > And The WTC: Two Perspectives Enlightenment vs. Entitlement > > > > By Ingmar Lee > > > > 16 July, 2006 > > Countercurrents.org > > > > When those two colossal structures representing the apogee of the > > human odyssey were exploded and reduced to a smouldering wreckage, > > the march of evolution reached an unequivocal turning point. The > > monumental structures that had stood sentinel at the gateway to the > > world's pre-eminent civilization symbolized the sublime consummate > > aspiration of the society that built them: ~that the supreme human > > attainment must be founded on universal rights to life, liberty and > > the pursuit of happiness. For 17 centuries the Bamiyan Buddhas had > > done their peaceful sentry duty at the geopolitical juncture where > > East met West. With an open palm radiating compassionate loving > > kindness, they proclaimed that the observance of basic moral > > precepts, freedom from attachment to material things, and quiet, > > equanimous personal introspection was the ultimate way to achieve > > these transcendent ideals. Nevertheless, since their construction, > > the Bamiyan Buddhas have simultaneously stood a stoic and silent > > vigil over humanity's inexorable slide into oblivion.Their > > destruction on March 11th, 2001 was a portentous warning signal of > > the final winking out of the myriad evolutionary processes that > > culminated with humans at the apex of a hierarchy of beings. The > > trajectory of the human experience has now plummeted into a > > fathomless nadir of greed, sloth, violence and corruption and has > > bottomed out at Bush America. > > > > The peaceful symbolism of the great Bamiyan Buddhas was not > > recognized by the steady progression of imperialist belligerents who > > visited an endless rain of terror on what is now known as > > Afghanistan. Afghans have endured successive invasions by legions of > > warmongers, the legacy of which has left their society as fractured > > and unstable as the rugged geography of their land. The ancient > > Aryans, Alexander, Genghis Khan, the British and the Russians all > > came; maiming, killing, and stealing to conquer this mountainous > > desert in order to forward their respective global domination > > schemes. And each in their turn was repulsed by the inimitable > > determination of fierce and courageous Afghan tribesmen. The Russians > > lost 15,000 soldiers before they limped away, but the Brits having > > been driven out three times, are back again with their > > NATO " coalition " of idiots, while the stupid Bush-lackey " Steve " > > Harper government of Canada contributes 2300 troops to the slaughter. > > > > In the repetitious staccatto of its blood-spattered history, America > > looms largest and most hideous in the annals of Afghanistan, with its > > surreptitious arrival on the scene in 1979. For 10 years America > > vicariously faced off the Russians in a vicious behind-the-scenes > > Superpower war, secretly building, financing and training the > > mercenary army of their Taliban proxy, and providing massive weapons > > shipments that terrorized the Afghan people and blasted apart their > > bleak and beautiful land. When the Russians finally quit, leaving > > millions of landmines strewn across the landscape in their wake, the > > USA abandoned Afghanistan too, leaving the exhausted, injured, > > destitute and ethnically disparate communities to themselves to try > > to repair their devastated land. Such negligent abuse inevitably has > > revolting consequences. > > > > Six months to the day, following the harbinger destruction of the > > Bamiyan Buddhas, another massive pair of towering structures that > > epitomized the zenith of the American way, were exploded and reduced > > to smouldering wreckage. The catastrophic destruction of the Bamiyan > > Buddhas and the World Trade Centre are as intricately interrelated as > > the Yin and the Yang. The World Trade Center also represented a > > predominant ideal of that society: that the paramount human rights > > were life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, ~but exceptionally > > however, for Americans. These mammoth temples of Mammon proclaimed > > this edict from an entirely antipodean perspective from their Bamiyan > > counterparts: that unrestricted growth, rampant consumption and > > personal enrichment were the ways to achieve these lofty goals. For > > Bush America, the right to life is to bear arms that maim and kill, > > freedom is for the exploitation of others, and happiness is sought in > > hedonistic self gratification. Bush America's globe-gobbling > > profligacy is correlated to the abject poverty counterpart upon which > > it depends, and is perpetuated by its enforced exceptionalist sense > > of entitlement. Such arrogance always breeds resentment, and such > > violence always breeds vengeance, and predictably, a small group of > > skillful warriors thus empowered arose from the desert wastes of > > Afghanistan and in one fell swoop, felled the monstrous nerve- centre > > of the American global domination project. > > > > The litany of heinous crimes against humanity being committed by Bush > > America are far too numerous and well known to list here.That the > > destiny of our planet is in the hands of this criminal warmongering > > madman with the means to annihilate every living thing at his single > > command is an appalling testament to the greed and stupidity of the > > American people who elected him. But whether or not George W. Bush's > > hair-trigger finger ever pushes the button that destroys our world, > > other earthshattering catastrophes originating in Bush America > > threaten not only humanity, but all living things entirely. Bush > > America leads the world in changing the climate, contaminating and > > reducing biodiversity with GMO's, polluting the land air and water, > > stripping away the forests, proliferating nuclear weapons and power, > > and in blatant military aggression. Its Brobdingnagian ecological > > footprint is crushing out the gossamer thin veil of the Earth's > > living blanket which distinguishes our planet so magnificently from > > all of its lifeless neighbours. > > > > But away and beyond all this, Bush's most stupendous criminal act > > against our biosphere has been the unleashing of Depleted Uranium > > (DU) nuclear weaponry in Afghanistan and Iraq. DU particles are > > circulating in the atmosphere and blanketting the planet in a miasma > > of radiological poison which is permeating into the DNA of all > > Earthly beings. Even now, genetic mutations are gestating in the > > reproductive processes of beings, which will propagate through > > generations and alter the very flow of evolution. Even now, whereever > > DU has been used, an unprecedented number of babies are born with > > bizarre and appalling never-before-seen deformities. Those which are > > not stillborn will face unimaginably painful and horrific lives.The > > enormity of Bush America's global DU fallout is now being discovered > > and geiger counters around the world are clicking off the scale. > > > > Never before has the fate of the world been in the hands of such a > > stupid and careless man, ~a pathetic little man who is so obsessed > > with his petulant Global War on Terror. It's so easy to understand > > the sole motivation of a person waking up to find their home and > > family destroyed by some push-button video-terminal warrior raining > > hell-fire from afar. With no available recourse through due process, > > when such injustice is done, revenge is the base and ignorant > > reaction, and where there's a human will, there's a way. There is no > > amount of military power that can stop a person with such a > > motivation. George Bush is losing his GWOT while stoking innumerable > > fires of vengeance. > > > > Bush America presents the greatest possible threat to the peace and > > welfare of all beings, but paradoxically, George W. Bush may be our > > only salvation. If Bush had not stolen his office from Mr. Kerry, the > > American status quo might have been preserved a little longer. This > > Earth cannot survive the prolonged death of America and Bush is > > destroying it faster. The enormous debt of America to the world, now > > doubled by Bush to $8,000,000,000,000, has brought their economy to > > the very brink of collapse, and its imminent crash will be yet > > another catastrophe for us all. Yet it is only by the immediate > > destruction of this greed-fuelled Bush American empire, that the > > beings of this beautiful Earth are offered any glimmer of hope. The > > Buddha's great and enduring message which rings true for all time, is > > that greed is the root cause of all suffering. This is alas, the > > antithesis of the George W. Bush version. > > > > Ingmar Lee writes from Pondicherry, India. > > > > > The United States is not unique. > > The history of life is a blood bath. > > For centuries the peaceful rivers of Hawaii ran red. > > The Amarican Indians killed and tortued each other with no mercy. > > Anemonies take up to ten years to surround a competing species....and > kill it. > > Nothing has changed. > > There will never be peace within the dream of separation. > > It is simply not designed that way. > > > toombaru well I don't believe that anything is Designed whatsoever...not by anything nor anyone...not within a dream of seperation or togetherness or unity.... nor without such dreaming.......however the designs of the U.S.A. are as you say hardly new or even newsworthy...but they do be SOMEWHAT unique in scale, size and origin of formation, yet.......nothing changes......to wit: The Middle East Agenda: Oil, Dollar Hegemony & Islam Posted: 2006/07/06 ICH Transcript - Public Lecture - Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 By Prof. Francis A Boyle Kuala Lumpur - Little has changed in the imperialist tendencies of American foreign policy since the founding of the United States of America in seventeen eighty-nine. The fledgling United States opened the nineteenth century by stealing the continent of North America from the Indians, while in the process ethnically cleansing them and then finally deporting the pitiful few survivors by means of death marches (a la Bataan) to Bantustans, which in America we call reservations, as in instance of America's manifest destiny to rule the world. Then, the imperial government of the United States opened the twentieth century by stealing a colonial empire from Spain - in Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines, then inflicting a near- genocidal war against the Filipino people. While at the same time, purporting to annex, the kingdom of Hawaii and subjecting the native Hawaiian people to near-genocidal conditions from which they still suffer today- all in the name of securing America's so-called place in the sun. And today at the dawn of the twenty first century, the world witnesses the effort by the imperial government of the United States of America to steal a hydrocarbon empire from the Moslem states and peoples, surrounding central Asia and the Persian Gulf under the pretext of fighting a war against international terrorism or eliminating weapons of mass destruction or promoting democracy which is total nonsense. For the past two hundred and sixteen years, the imperialist foreign policy of the United States of America since its foundation, has been predicated upon racism, aggression, genocide, ethnic cleansing, crimes against humanity, war crimes and outright genocide. At the dawn of the third millennium of humankind's parlous existence, nothing has changed about the operational dynamics of American imperial policy. And we see this today in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and what appears to be an illegal attack upon Iran. Now the topic today is the Middle East Agenda : Oil, Dollar Hegemony and Islam. So, I'm only going to limit my comments to that subject. We have to begin the story with the Arab oil embargo in nineteen seventy-three. As you know in nineteen sixty-seven, Israel launched an illegal and preventive war against the surrounding Arab states, stole the land and ethnically cleansed the people. But eventually Egypt offered a Peace Treaty to Israel which Israel rejected and the Egyptians and the Arab states decided then to use force to recover their lands. Israel almost collapsed, the United States and Europe came to their support by providing weapons and in reaction the Arab states imposed an oil embargo on the United States and Europe, and brought their economies to their knees. Whereupon, the then U.S Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger threatened them and said, this will never happen again, and if you do, we will prevent it. And it was not just a threat. The United States government then at that time, planned, prepared and conspired, to steal the oil of the Persian Gulf. They did not have the military capability to do this at that time, to carry out the Kissinger threat, which was also then repeated by the Ford administration, and the Carter administration under Harold Brown and Brzezinski. So they put into planning an interventionary force, designed expressly for the purpose of stealing Arab oil fields, and that was called the rapid deployment force. And it took ten years of training, planning, positioning, and supply to build that interventionary force of that capability and eventually it was called the U.S. Central Command. The purpose of the U.S. Central Command is to steal and control and dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. And that's exactly what the U.S. Central Command proceeded to do in the Bush Sr. war against Iraq, their first military expedition. And as we know, that war exterminated probably two hundred thousand Iraqis. Half of them innocent civilians. Simply wiped out in a bombing campaign and a military expedition of unprecedented dimensions. But remember, it took fifteen years for the Pentagon and three different administrations both Republicans and Democrats to get the capability to do this. And then, when that genocide or conflict was over, what happened? The United States carved Iraq up into three pieces with their air force, the so-called no-fly zones, a zone for the Kurds in the North, a zone for the Shi'ah in the South, and the Sunni in the middle. Why? To destroy Iraq as an effectively viable state. In his book, Clash of Civilizations, Huntington from Harvard who advised the Pentagon and advised the state department pointed out that the only Arab state with the capability to lead the Arab world and challenge the United States and Israel was Iraq. And so Iraq had to be destroyed, to maintain the domination of the United States and its proxy, Israel. And remember after nineteen seventy-three, whatever it was before then, Israel is nothing more than a catspaw of the United States. They do what America tells them to do. Otherwise Israel is nothing more than a failed state. In addition then, to destroying Iraq as a state, carving it up into three pieces, was the decision to debilitate and destroy the Iraqi people. And so they continued the genocidal economic sanctions on the people of Iraq, that my colleagues, Denis Halliday, Hans Von Sponeck, so courageously resisted and finally resigned as a matter of principle, calling them by what they really were, genocide. The United States and Britain maliciously and criminally imposed genocidal sanctions on the people of Iraq, that killed approximately 1.5 million Iraqis, all of whom were innocent civilians. And when U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was asked about the five hundred thousand dead children, she said that she thought the price was worth it. Now, I could have taken that statement to the International Court of Justice, and filed it against the United States as evidence of genocidal intent against the people of Iraq in violation of the 1948 Genocide Convention. And indeed I offered to do so to the then President of Iraq, but for whatever reasons he decided not to take these claims to the International Court of Justice. And now, as you see, he is on trial in a total kangaroo court proceeding in Baghdad that is completely controlled and dominated by the United States government. So, 1.5 million Iraqis died as the result of these genocidal sanctions. And then came September 11. And we know for a fact that the Bush Jr. administration knew that a major terrorist attack was going to be launched on the United States. And they let it happen anyway deliberately and on purpose. Why? They wanted a pretext for war. And not just one war but for a long war which they are talking about today. Indeed, from my research the war plans drawn up by the Pentagon for the war against Afghanistan were formulated as early as 1997. Enormous military forces fielded by that same U.S. Central Command, were already in and around and surrounding the Persian Gulf and the Indian Ocean before September 11. This war had been planned against Afghanistan. And armed, equipped, supplied, trained and war-gamed and ready to go. They just needed the pretext and that was September 11. Why? The United States wanted access to the oil and natural gas of Central Asia. That had been a Pentagon objective since at least before the collapse of the Soviet Union in nineteen ninety-one. And the Nine Eleven attack gave them the pretext to make this major grab for the oil and gas of Central Asia. And they are there today with their bases, with their troops, in the surrounding countries in Central Asia. And of course in the process, obliterated, we don 't even have an estimate of the Muslims in Afghanistan who were killed in the air bombardment, twenty, twenty five thousand, maybe more, and tens of thousands of others starved to death and still suffering today. But that, as we know from all the records was only the first step in the process. They wanted to finish the job in Iraq. And so immediately after September 11, Bush ordered Rumsfeld to update and operationalize the plans for attacking and invading Iraq. It had nothing at all to do with weapons of mass destruction. We in the peace movement in America had been saying that all along. The United Nations had determined there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. These were lies designed to scaremonger the American people and Congress into supporting an illegal war of aggression, a Nuremberg crime against peace, against Iraq. And they told whatever lies and broke what international laws they had to break in order to attack Iraq. And today the estimate, again we don't know. Perhaps two hundred thousand people in Iraq had been killed outright by the United States, Britain, its allies, Australia in Iraq. And again, most of them civilians. Clearly if you add up what United States government has done to Iraq from August of 1990, when it imposed the genocidal economic embargo until today. The United States and Britain have inflicted outright genocide on the Muslim and Christian people of Iraq and they are predominately Muslim as we know. Now comes the third step in the Pentagon's pre-existing plan, to control and dominate the oil and gas resources of the Persian Gulf and Central Asia. It' s sounds a bit like the plan that Hitler and the Nazis had in the 1930 " s. Does it not? First go into Austria, then go into Czechoslovakia, then go into Poland. So first Afghanistan, then Iraq, and now Iran. And so now Iran is going to be the next victim of these outright criminals unless you and I can stop them. Right now there are three aircraft carrier task forces in the Persian Gulf. And whenever they had put three aircraft carrier task forces over there, it' s always to prepare for an attack. And according to Seymour Hersch, the award winning journalist, it will probably be an aerial bombardment, along the lines of what they did to Yugoslavia in 1999. As you remember there, seventy eight days of aerial bombardment by the United States and NATO with no authorization from the Security Council. Clearly illegal. Killing again, we don't know the exact number outright, four to five thousand innocent civilians. And targeting civilian infrastructure, all up and down, from which the people still suffer today. The use of depleted uranium ammunitions, outbreaks of cancer are documented today. So this is what, is being planned right now as we speak; an attack upon Iran. Using jet fighter aircraft, fighter bombers, on these three aircraft carrier task forces, using cruise missiles on submarines and of course Israel will be involved and have a role to play, doing exactly what the Americans tell them to do. In addition, it appears that if they attack Iran, they will also attack Syria. Yesterday, if you heard President Bush's press conference in Vienna, he threatened Syria, right? There's no other word for it. He threatened Syria. These Neo-Conservatives want to take out Syria as a favour to Israel. Remember, many of these Neo-Conservatives are affiliated personally and professionally with the Likhud Party in Israel and Ariel Sharon, the butcher of Beirut, the man who exterminated twenty thousand Arabs in Lebanon, most of them, not all of them were Muslims. And in addition, slaughtered two thousand completely innocent Palestinian women, children and old men at Sabra and Shatila. Ariel Sharon, the man who went to Haram Al-Sharif, the third holiest site in Islam, where Muhammad, (Peace Be Upon Him) ascended into heaven, and desecrated the Haram on September 28th, 2000, and deliberately provoked the start of the Al-Aqsa Intifada and has inflicted death and destruction on the Palestinian people since then. Close to thirty seven hundred Palestinians since then alone have been killed..most of them shot down like dogs in the street, and what has the Muslim world done about this? My Palestinian friends tell me that they are worried that the government of Malaysia might recognize Israel and establish diplomatic relations with Israel. I certainly hope this is not true. We must treat the criminal apartheid regime in Israel, the same way the world treated the criminal apartheid regime in South Africa. If the United States attacks Iran, they will probably attack Syria with the Israeli air force and they will attack Lebanon to take out the Islamic resistance movement in southern Lebanon - Hezbollah that defended the legitimate rights of Lebanon and the Lebanese people and expelled the invading longstanding occupying Israeli army that had the full support of the United States government for over twenty years. So they could attack Iran, Syria, Southern Lebanon and inflict yet another round of ethnic cleansing on the suffering Palestinian people. Remember Sharon and Likhud believe that Jordan is Palestine. And they want to drive as many Palestinians as possible out of their homes and into Jordan. So if the United States as reported by Hersh and other reliable sources, goes ahead and attacks Iran, we could see warfare erupt all the way from Egypt to the border with India. This whole area convulsed in warfare. And who will be the primary victims of this war? Muslims. The United States could not care less about Muslim life. Look at the demonisation and victimisation of Muslims that we have seen inflicted by the United States and its surrogate, Israel. Look at Guantanamo, where six hundred Muslim men have been treated like dogs in a kennel. Pretty much the way the Nazis treated the Jews. Look at Abu Ghraib and the sadism and sexual exploitation and perversion of Muslims by their American captors. And the same thing has been done in Baghram in Afghanistan. And when Professor Sharif Bassiouni, the UN special rapporteur filed the report with the Security Council against US practices in Afghanistan, the Americans had Kofi Annan fire him. Just as they had Kofi Annan fire Mary Robinson, the UN high commissioner for human rights, when she protested what was going on down in Guantanamo. The United States could not care less about Muslim life. And the same is true for the genocidal apartheid regime in Israel. They would be happy to use nuclear weapons against Iran. They would be happy to break the taboo of Hiroshima and Nagasaki against Muslims in Iran. It would create no problem at all for them. Indeed, I went to school with these Neo-Conservatives at the University of Chicago. Wolfowitz was there, Chalabi, Khalilzad, Shulsky, all the rest of them. I went through the exact same programme. Their mentor, Professor Leo Strauss. And who was his teacher in Germany and his sponsor? Professor Carl Schmitt who went on to become the most notorious Nazi law Professor of his day, justifying every atrocity that the Nazis inflicted on everyone. We must understand that these Neo- Conservatives are in fact Neo-Nazis. They have espoused the Nazi doctrine of Schmitt and Strauss and Machiavelli and Nietzsche, the 'superman'. They are the supermen, and the Muslims are the scum of the earth. Now, I do not believe the United States will initially start bombing Iran with nuclear weapons. But if things get out of control they are fully prepared to use tactical nuclear weapons. And here in our materials, you have the Pentagon's Joint Publication 3-12, which you can get on the internet.. just do a Google search and read it. And you will see there dated fifteenth March 2005; nuclear, tactical nuclear weapons have been fully integrated into United States conventional forces. So if Iran were to defend itself, human wave attacks, whatever, they will be happy to use nuclear weapons, tactical nuclear weapons against Iran. Remember, these Neo-Nazis, Neo-Cons want to break the taboo of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. They want to use tactical nuclear weapons, to be able to say to the rest of the world, you do what we tell you to do or else look what we did to the Iranians. It's a very serious situation. And this could even get further out of control. Remember that before Bush invaded Iraq, President Putin of Russia said that if he invades Iraq he could set off World War Three. Well, I interpreted that as an implicit threat. Even the famous American news broadcaster Walter Cronkite said that if Bush invaded Iraq he could set off World War Three. Two weeks ago we had the meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization; China, Russia and Iran. So again, if Bush were to attack Iran, he very well could set off a Third World War, a nuclear war. And that is where you come in. Dr. Mahathir has had the vision to call for this conference to alert the entire world to the existential dangers presented by a US attack on Iran that could readily become nuclear, regional and global. And I am calling upon you to do whatever you can in cooperation with Dr. Mahathir and the Perdana Global Peace Foundation to head this off. Allah has given each and everyone of you skills that can be used in this endeavour. I can't tell you what they are, but you yourself know what they are. And you must go to Dr. Mahathir. You must go to the Perdana Peace Foundation and say, " This is what I can do. These are my talents. These are my professional qualifications. These are my skills. This is my cheque book. Let me help. Let me prevent, let me help prevent a nuclear war, a possible final, cataclysmic Third World War. " Transcript - Public Lecture - Perdana Global Peace Forum 2006 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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