Listening to the BBC this morning was sickening.
The USA and BRITAIN and others unleashed a war on Afghanistan murdering men, women and children in far greater numbers than those murdered in the United States in September 2001 by Arab fanatics who had no connection with Afghanistan
When Britain’s Lt,Col McNally, in accordance with his duty briefed a woman on the number of civilians killed in the onslaught he was arrested for breaching the Official Secrets Act and flown home to Britain. If he was court martialed the details have not been divulged. But a PsyOps officer put it about that he was having an affair with the woman. A blatant lie, like most of what passes for news in the western media.
The late Robert Fisk, a journalist of brilliance, intelligence and integrity, who reported conflicts he witnessed in Ireland, Afghanistan and the Middle East for nearly 50 years was badly beaten up by Afghan women, whose families had just been obliterated by Western bombs in 2001. He understood their fury but did not return in on them. He was furious at the crimes of Bush, Blair and the other thieving, lying, cowardly murderous scoundrels who launched such wars and the sycophantic media which supported them.
In the (London) Independent 22 December 2001 when the Taliban had been driven from power, by what Fisk described as the Northern Alliance of (Afghan) Mobsters, Fisk wrote-
“One of the untold stories of this conflict is the huge amount of money handed out to militia leaders to persuade them to fight for the US. When Taliban leaders changed sides for an Alliance payment of $250,000 we all dwelt on their treachery. None of us asked how the Alliance, which didn’t have enough money to pay for bullets a few weeks earlier, could afford to throw a quarter of a million bucks at the Taliban in the middle
of a fire-fight…”
“Fortunately for us (in the West) the civilian victims of America’s B-52s will remain unknown in their newly dug graves. Even before the war ended, around 3,700 0f them, not counting Mullah Omar’s and bin Laden’s gunmen – had been ripped to pieces in our War for Civilisation. A few scattered signs of discontent – the crowd who assaulted me a few weeks ago, for example, outraged at the killing of their families- can be quickly erased from the record”
QUOTATIONS FROM THE AGE OF THE WARRIOR SELECTED WRITING by Robert Fisk
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