PressTV... The release of Taliban prisoners from Guantanamo Bay on the orders of President Obama, in accordance with a prisoner exchange agreement negotiated in Qatar, is having broad political implications in America today.
In new levels of hypocrisy sweeping America, much of which is being generated by the AIPAC war lobby, demands are now being made for President Obama’s resignation or impeachment. It isn’t for supporting al-Qaeda in Syria and giving them air defense missiles. It isn’t for staging a military coup led by ethnic cleansing fascist fanatics in the Ukraine.
The Wall Street/Tel Aviv nexus, supported by the lunatic fringe of the press, both the right wing controlled press and the “orchestrated” conspiracy blogosphere are now enraged that Obama ordered the release of five Taliban members held for years after being illegally kidnapped, tortured and denied Geneva Convention guarantees.
It wasn’t that long ago that this same group attacked Obama for not closing Guantanamo and releasing everyone anyway. Now, when he does release 5 people, it begins, hypocrites attacking a world champion hypocrite.
As American humorist Jim W. Dean so often states, “You just can’t make things like this up.”
BERGDAHL Another round of hypocrisy is storming America. “Heroic” members of the military, current and foreign, including Senator John McCain, are attacking Obama because former Taliban prisoner Bergdahl has not been arrested and tried for making dozens of propaganda broadcasts and training enemy troops to attack and kill Americans.
No, wait a minute, that wasn’t Bergdahl that is what Senator John McCain did when he was a prisoner of war. His reward for treason, including 32 propaganda broadcasts made for the North Vietnamese and his months training their air defense commands, crediting him personally with the destruction of 60 American combat aircraft and the capture of deaths of their crews (more America flyers killed by McCain than any enemy pilot in history), was a seat in the US Senate and 14 medals.
Let’s look at Bergdahl himself. For years American troops in Afghanistan has murdered civilians, assisted in the production, processing and distribution of over $500 billion dollars in heroin.
There have been hundreds, even thousands of rapes with American service men and women being victims of over 3,000 sexual assaults at the hands of their fellow troops, and those are just those reported. The real numbers are staggering.
Street gangs from across the United States have sent members into the US military to serve in Afghanistan to be trained in using weapons and explosives, skills they now use on a daily basis on America’s streets, to help them defend themselves while selling heroin for the CIA.
Bergdahl is accused of “walking off” and being captured. What if he did sympathize with armed Pashtun tribesmen fighting the drug dealers and warlords of the Northern Alliance and their CIA/Mossad masters?
At least he served in combat. Take the clock back to the late 1960s. Former president George W. Bush faced military service during the Vietnam War. Instead, he was placed using the highest imaginable authority and influence into an elite all homosexual Texas National Guard unit that trained its pilots to fly an antique jet aircraft unusable in combat.
While there, Bush failed a drug test, was taken off flight status and had his father transfer him two states away to a small base where he was supposed to serve overseeing mail delivery.
He never showed up. Instead, he simply “quit” the military during wartime and was never heard from again, was never legally discharged from service and his father had all records of his service expunged or classified. In fact, a majority of American politicians of age to have served in Vietnam, including former Vice President Dick Cheney and a majority of legislators did even less, openly avoiding military service through corruption and bribery.
These politicians along with pro-war Zionist religious leaders and right wing commentators favoring war with Iran and Russia, like Rush Limbaugh, were all investigated and categorized as “Chickenhawks,” a term given for war mongering cowards.
All those same individuals, and the younger generation as well, are among those demanding that Bergdahl be prosecuted, a man who spent 5 years dodging America’s murderous drone war while living under some of the most hostile conditions on this planet.
GUANTANAMO One of the great failings of the Obama administration was when his promise to close the concentration camp in Guantanamo was broken.
In November, 2013, Obama told an American television audience that he had not been able to keep that promise, one he believe consistent with international law, because he had been “prevented by congress.”
The real hypocrisy, of course, is that if, as Obama said, the actions of illegally keeping prisoners in conditions inconsistent with the tenets of the Geneva Conventions is a war crime, then why did Obama never, in any way, at any time; attempt to redress this by seeking an inquiry into those responsible?
It would seem Obama is being “hoisted on his own petard” as it were, having failed to, as chief law enforcement officer of the United States, seek prosecution of those responsible for creating America’s worldwide “gulag” system, he is now being held to account for, ironically, what may well be an attempt to actually comply with international law.
The election year political climate in the US reflects a sea of candidates, each competing for campaign cash from the AIPAC/ADL lobby, each statement more and more divorced from reality, each pronouncement more foolish and bellicose than the last.
CONCLUSION Today, the pro-Israeli extremist website, Breitbart.com, demanded the arrest of Bergdahl, citing that they believe him to be a high-level spy sent by the Taliban to turn the United States to radical Islam and begin plummeting aircraft into unsuspecting buildings.
Their rationale, repeated continually in America’s press is that no American who may have converted to Islam as a “true believer,” whether born a Jew as with Bergdahl or not, whether held prisoner by the Taliban for five years as with Bergdahl or not, should be allowed into the United States.
Between five and ten million Muslims live in the United States, a group with the lowest crime and unemployment statistics and highest educational levels of any Americans. Bergdahl is under attack, not just by the press but by dozens of elected officials specifically for what they guess may be his religious beliefs, attacks in direct violation of US constitutional guarantees and those oaths made to protect and defend same.
Similarly, after well over a decade of drone killings, kidnappings, torture and wars of aggression, the release of five prisoners who have suffered unimaginable terror at the hands of the American military justice system is being cited as “the crime of the century.”
With millions dead and no one facing consequences, now with the lives of six lone individuals in the balance, freedom and survival at hand, persecuting these six, with endless insane zeal, seems an interesting way of redressing America’s onslaught of global horror.
GD/NN
Gordon Duff is a Marine Vietnam veteran, a combat infantryman, and Senior Editor at Veterans Today. His career has included extensive experience in international banking along with such diverse areas as consulting on counter insurgency, defense technologies or acting as diplomatic representative for UN humanitarian and economic development efforts. Gordon Duff has traveled to over 80 nations. His articles are published around the world and translated into a number of languages. He is regularly on TV and radio, a popular and sometimes controversial guest. More Press TV articles by Gordon Duff
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If you must know
The bullet that blew JFKs brains to the back of the limousine, which Jackie instinctively tried to retrieve, was fired by an agent under the command of Rabin who is confirmed to have been in Dallas the day before, Mossad simply backed on the conspiracy to make sure the southern hillybillys did not fail. It has all been downhill and into the pocket of AIPAC for America ever since.
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They probably infected the 5 released detainees with something to keep them busy for a few months and then finish them off. I'll be surprised if they didn't.