True patriots fully support the war on Afghanistan, because it is a 'war against the terrorists who bombed the WTC.' We have been 'Pearl Harbored' and now 'America strikes back.' However the truth we are not being told here is that the planning for the war on Afghanistan was in full swing months before the WTC bombing. This something well known among the powerful in high positions in the region around Afghanistan who were 'brought on board' for the planned attack as early as last summer.

The following article from the end of June reports on the agreement of both India and Iran to be 'on board' for the attack on Afghanistan as the American government was already busy in the region building an anti-Afghanistan war coalition.

India in anti-Taliban military planIndia and Iran will "facilitate" the planned US-Russia hostilities against the Taliban.
By Our Correspondent

26 June 2001: India and Iran will "facilitate" US and Russian plans for "limited military action" against the Taliban if the contemplated tough new economic sanctions don't bend Afghanistan's fundamentalist regime ...

Indian officials say that India and Iran will only play the role of "facilitator" while the US and Russia will combat the Taliban from the front with the help of two Central Asian countries, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan, to push Taliban lines back to the 1998 position 50 km away from Mazar-e-Sharief city in northern Afghanistan. (Note that this is exactly what happened.) ...

Diplomats say that the anti-Taliban move followed a meeting between US Secretary of State Collin Powel and Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and later between Powell and Indian foreign minister Jaswant Singh in Washington. Russia, Iran and India have also held a series of discussions and more diplomatic activity is expected ...

Officials say that the Northern Alliance requires a "clean up" operation to reduce Taliban's war-fighting machinery to launch an attack against the Taliban advance to the Tajik-Afghan border. This "clean up" action is being planned by the US and Russia since the Taliban shows no "sign of reconciliation". (Note: once again everything went exactly as planned last summer)...

Such Central Asian countries as Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan are threatened by the Taliban that is aiming to control their vast oil, gas and other resources by bringing Islamic fundamentalists into power. Now all the CIS nations are seeking assistance of Russia's Federal Border Guard Service to overcome the Taliban threat ... India, Iran and Russia, for example, are working on a broad plan to supply oil and gas to south Asia and southeast Asian nations through India but instability in Afghanistan is posing a great threat to this effort ... India's official position is for a "peaceful and lasting solution" to the Afghan problem. But it strongly advocates strict economic sanctions against Taliban and is also not averse to a "limited military action" to weaken it. India plans to raise the Afghanistan issue in the forthcoming G-8 summit in Geneva in mid-July.



Now given that we are not, as patriotic sentiment has it, 'fighting in Afghanistan because of the terrlorist attacks,' the Twin Towers were still standing in June, this leaves a couple of other possibilities to consider. Perhaps the planning for an attack on Afghanistan was in the interests of 'human rights' and was being planned so that Afghan women would not have to wear their viels and Afghan men could finally enjoy the human right of shaving their beards. Or then perhaps it was being planned because of oil and gas pipelines. The Taliban, although being invited to Texas by officials of UNOCAL and wined and dined, had rejected overtures to develope a gas pipeline through the country, a requirement for Gas and oil from the Caspian to reach the sea.

"The twin towers attacks provided Bush's Washington with both a trigger and a remarkable coincidence. Pakistan's former foreign minister Niaz Naik has revealed that he was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. The US secretary of state, Colin Powell, was then travelling in central Asia, already gathering support for an anti-Afghanistan war 'coalition'. For Washington, the real problem with the Taliban was not human rights; these were irrelevant. The Taliban regime simply did not have total control of Afghanistan: a fact that deterred investors from financing oil and gas pipelines from the Caspian Sea, whose strategic position in relation to Russia and China and whose largely untapped fossil fuels are of crucial interest to the Americans. In 1998, Dick Cheney told oil industry executives: 'I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.'" John Pilger 'The truth they never told us'

You might also want to keep in mind here that we will be attacking '50 (or 60) countries' and that we will be 'warring for the rest of our lives' (at least, according to Dick Cheney as he repeated this statements numerous times over the last month to, I imagine, 'prepare the American people' for what is to come) ...

After considering the ridiculous scenario of bombing in 50 or 60 countries and the even more unthinkable scenario of permanent, never ending warfare, and then try to imagine getting war support among the public for 'warring for the rest of their lives'. Ocer the course of the last century the United States has flouted democracy, overthrowing democratically elected leftist goverments around the world, were in deep in what the Indonesians called 'the year of living dangerously' when the Kap Gestapu, using lists of names supplied by U.S. intelligence, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Indonesian leftists. Whether it was overthrowing the governments of Iran, Nicaragua, or trying to defeat Ho Chi Mihn in Vietnam, again and again and again over the course of the last century the American government has sent a clear message around the world that peaceful change is not possible, and that the Empire will always strike back to protect the wealth of the oligarchs who control most of the money and almost all the land in the poorest nations on earth. And now with the pot apparently coming to a boil, we hear this chatter about 'warring against these people for the rest of our lives' with our gun sights on '50 or 60 nations' where, once again, following a long, long tradition of installing and supporting right wing dictators around the globe, the United States will once again send a very loud, and very clear message to the planet that oligarchs and wealthy interests will be protected at all costs, even the cost of perpetual warfare, and sending countless American sheep out to the slaughterhouse. At least you cannot say you are not being 'prepared' for what is being planned for you and your people. You cannot say you were not warned that you are sheep being led to the slaughterhouse. As you have been prepared by the secretary of defense, this will be, he has said repeatedly as well, 'a long, bloody, and messy war', not a short war, it won't be over soon, as the empire desperately tries to keep the lid on things, more of that send in the contras, topple the democratically elected leftist gov't stuff that characterized the last century, only this time without the contras, the marines will be needed instead) ...

The astonishing hypocrisy of patriotism

A history of U.S. invasions...

The U.S. State department tried to block release of the following documents revealing their complicity and the complicity of the CIA in the massacre of leftist Indonesian civilians (but now that the law is in the process of being changed, and we can no longer find out what President's were up to, I imagine soon enough we won't be able to find out what the CIA and the State Department were up to, so enjoy your 'right to know' and the 'freedom of information while you can...)

CIA and State department try to block documents showing their involvement in the slaughter in Indonesia

Now if Sept. 11th is not enough to shore up suipport for administration war policies (warring forever, something that would be real hard to justify and get support for) then one can easily imagine America being attacked by Poland, or getting another Gulf of Tonkin incident done on those niave patriotic Americans (love it and everything it does, or leave it, right?), or one can easily imagine America getting 'Pearl Harbored' while their innocent backs were turned to shore up support among the patriotic American public should they flag, and tire of endless warfare, lasting for years and years, for the rest of their lives as those sheep are led to the slaughterhouse. Given the history of the abuse of power throughout human history I assume that the American people will get just enough terrorism done to them to shore up support for war even it takes the rest of the natural lives. We are living in very dangerous times. The recent 'Bin Laden confession tape' was a fraud. But with digital computer technology improving soon Bin Laden will confess on cue, I'll confess, you'll confess if you need to as well, and patriotic Americans will buy it all, just as the Germans bought it all in the generation before them, phony Reichstag fires and phony attacks by Poland and what Hitler called 'the Communist terrorists' who were endangering Germany, something most of the German firmly believed was true, being those sheep being led off to the slaughterhouse.

Hitler's Anti-terrorism bill

The white Rose protests against the Nazis

"Do you want to know the cause of war? It is capitalism, greed, the dirty hunger for dollars. Take away the capitalist and you will sweep war from the earth." Henry Ford "Corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow ... until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln "I spent thirty- three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I served in all commissioned ranks from Second Lieutenant to Major-General. And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle- man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I could have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents." Marine Corps Commandant Smedley Butler More quotes from American traitors

Let me tell you, how unwelcome is the dissenting voice, how furiously angered those sheep become when they are confronted with the uncomfortable, the words that patriotic sheep just don't want to hear, how hard it is to pasture those sheep, those sheep destined for the slaughterhouse...

The shepherds slaughter them, and go unpunished ... A zip file, the first of many, so long as some freedom remains, containing photos of the slaughtered sheep of Afghanistan ... afghan_war_photos.zip (718 kb)

Zechariah 11
Thus said YAHWEH my God: "Become shepherd of the sheep doomed to the slaughterhouse. Those who buy them slaughter them and go unpunished; and those who buy and sell them say, ‘Praise the LORD, I have become rich’; even their own shepherds have no pity on them. For I will no longer have pity on the inhabitants of this land, says YAHWEH. Lo, I will cause them to fall under the power of their shepherds, and each into the hand of their king; and they shall crush the earth, and I will save none of these people from their hand." So I became the shepherd of the sheep doomed to be slaughtered for the benfit of those who trafficked in the sheep. And I took two staffs; one I named Grace, the other I named Union. And I tended the sheep... but they hated me. So I said, "I will not be your shepherd. What is to die, let it die; what is to be destroyed, let it be destroyed; and let those that are left devour the flesh of one another."