Lies, liars and onlookers of a tragic drama

LIES and liars holding seats of power have created a world of disorder. What is going on between Israel and Iran over the last couple of weeks which has dragged US also into this costly drama will eventually put the last nail on the so-called rules-based world order coffin.

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In the 1960s US citizens were lied to about an imminent Communist threat and their leaders in power took the country to an unwinnable war in Vietnam. The losses were colossal. In 2003 when George Bush was looking for an excuse to invade Saddam Hussain’s Iraq and he found it in the so-called weapons of mass destruction (WMD), he lied to the world that Iraq in league with Al-Qaida was stockpiling an arsenal of WMD to attack US. When UN weapons inspectors reported that they had found no evidence that Iraq possessed WMD, his Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld came with a baffling excuse that absence of evidence was no evidence of absence and went on to elaborate that “there are known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns, and effective intelligence work must consider them all”.

A few days later and on 5 February 2003 Bush’s Secretary of State Colin Powell even gave a power point presentation at the UN in which he held a model vial of anthrax to explain its destructive power to his audience. No wonder the music maestro Harry Bellefonte called him a “house slave” for serving as Bush’s propaganda tool. Much more shocking was the justification by Madelin Albright the death of 500,000 Iraqi children as “price worth” paying for that invasion.

Same sort of lies rehashed

Now, after more than two decades the same sort of lies are rehashed to justify Israel’s bombing on Iran. It was in 1992 without even a shred of evidence Netanyahu MP spoke in Israel’s Knesset and warned that “within three to five years, we can assume that Iran will become autonomous in its ability to develop and produce a nuclear bomb”. He repeated the same in his 1997 book ‘Fighting Terrorism’. More than 30 years on Iran still has not produced a nuclear bomb although it has nuclear facilities in three places.