Hillary Clinton’s Latest Lies
Posted By Paul Craig
Roberts On July 9, 2010 @ 11:00 pm In Uncategorized | 48 Comments
The BBC reported on July 4 that US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton said that the US ballistic missile base in Poland was not directed at
Russia. The purpose of the base, she said, is to protect Poland from the
Iranian threat.
Why would Iran be a threat to Poland? What happens to US
credibility when the Secretary of State makes such a stupid statement?
Does Hillary think she is fooling the Russians? Does anyone on
earth believe her? What is the point of such a transparent lie? To cover
up an act of American aggression against Russia?
In the same breath Hillary warned of a “steel vise” of repression
crushing democracy and civil liberties around the world. US journalists might
wonder if she was speaking of the United States. Glenn Greenwald reported in Salon
on July 4 that the US Coast Guard, which has no legislative authority, has
issued a rule that journalists who come closer than 65 feet to BP clean-up
operations in the Gulf of Mexico without permission will be punished by a
$40,000 fine and one to five years in prison. The New York Times and numerous
journalists report that BP, the US Coast Guard, Homeland Security, and local
police are prohibiting journalists from photographing the massive damage from
the continuing flow of oil and toxic chemicals into the Gulf.
On July 5 Hillary Clinton was in Tbilisi, Georgia, where,
according to the Washington Post, she accused Russia of “the invasion and
occupation of Georgia.” What is the point of this lie? Even America’s
European puppet states have issued reports documenting that Georgia initiated
the war with Russia that it quickly lost by invading South Ossetia in an effort
to destroy the secessionists.
It would appear that the rest of the world and the UN Security
Council have given the Americans a pass to lie without end in order to advance
Washington’s goal of world hegemony. How does this benefit the Security
Council and the world? What is going on here?
After President Clinton misrepresented the conflict between Serbia
and the Albanians in Kosovo and tricked NATO into military aggression against
Serbia and after President Bush, Vice President Cheney, the secretary of state,
the national security advisor and just about every member of the Bush regime
deceived the UN and the world that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass
destruction, thus finagling an invasion of Iraq, why did the UN Security
Council fall for Obama’s deception that Iran has a nuclear weapons program?
In 2009 all sixteen US intelligence agencies issued a unanimous
report that Iran had abandoned its weapons program in 2003. Was the
Security Council ignorant of this report?
The International Atomic Energy Agency’s weapons inspectors on the
ground in Iran have consistently reported that there is no diversion of uranium
from the energy program. Was the Security Council ignorant of the IAEA reports?
If not ignorant, why did the UN Security Council approve sanctions
on Iran for adhering to its right under the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty to
have a nuclear energy program? The UN sanctions are lawless. They violate
Iran’s rights as a signatory to the treaty. Is this the “steel vice” of which
Hillary spoke?
As soon as Washington got sanctions from the Security Council, the
Obama regime unilaterally added more severe US sanctions. Obama is using the UN
sanctions as a vehicle to which to attach his unilateral sanctions. Perhaps
this is the “steel vice of oppression” of which Hillary spoke.
Why has the UN Security Council given a green light to the Obama
regime to start yet another war in the Middle East?
Why has Russia stepped aside? At Washington’s insistence, the
Russian government has not delivered the air defense system that Iran
purchased. Does Russia view Iran as a greater threat to itself than the
Americans, who are ringing Russia with US missile and military bases and
financing “color revolutions” in former constituent parts of the Russian and
Soviet empires?
Why has China stepped aside? China’s growing economy needs
energy resources. China has extensive energy investments in Iran. It is
US policy to contain China by denying China access to energy. China is
America’s banker. China could destroy the US dollar in a few minutes.
Perhaps Russia and China have decided to let the Americans
over-reach until the country self-destructs.
On the other hand, perhaps everyone is miscalculating and more
death and destruction is in the works than the world is counting on.
Like the Gulf of Mexico.
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