Several thousand civilians died in the collapse of
the WTC towers, and hundreds of military personnel were killed in
the attack on the Pentagon - though the numbers are small compared to
- the hundreds of thousands of civilians incinerated in
the U.S. fire bombings of Hamburg, Dresden and Tokyo, and in the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki;
- the two to five million post-World-War-II refugees from the Soviet
Union who were forcibly returned to Stalin, to face either immediate
execution or a slow death in the Gulag, on the orders of Roosevelt and
Eisenhower in
Operation Keelhaul;
- the millions of civilians who died from hunger and disease as
a result of U.S.-instigated
mass starvation of
Germans during 1945-1950 under the Morgenthau Plan;
- the millions of Native Americans killed by soldiers and occupiers of
their land in the 19th Century or allowed to starve to death by the U.S.
government in the 20th (a clear case of genocide);
- the thousands of Iranians tortured and murdered by SAVAK, the secret
police of the regime installed in 1953 as a result of a CIA-led coup
which overthrew the popular Iranian Premier, Mossadegh);
- the murder of between 20,000 and 40,000 Vietnamese from 1968 to 1971
by the CIA in their political assassination program
Operation
Phoenix;
- the million or so Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians killed by
the American military in the 1960s and 70s whilst defending their
countries from American domination (or simply because they happened to
be where the Americans carried out their carpet bombings);
- the tens of thousands of civilians who were tortured and
murdered by CIA-installed dictatorships in Central and South America;
- the 200,000 people (all civilians) killed (using
U.S.-supplied equipment) as a result of Indonesia's invasion of East
Timor in 1975 for which prior approval was given by the then U.S.
President and U.S. Secretary of State (Ford and Kissinger);
- the six million Brazilian Indians who have died as a result of the
policies of multinational corporations;
- the 10,000 to 20,000 people, mostly civilians, killed in
the U.S.-supported 1982 invasion of Lebanon by Israel;
- the 300,000 Iranians killed in the Iran/Iraq war, which was started
by Iraq at the instigation of the U.S. (which supplied Iraq with the
weapons it used);
- the 180,000 civilians killed by Reagan's CIA-cocaine-funded
Contras in Nicaragua and El Salvador in the 1980s;
- the 6,000 (perhaps as many as 20,000) Iraqi civilians killed
during the 41 days and nights of bombing by the British and the
Americans in 1991 (during which time the civilian infrastructure was
targeted, a war crime), including:
- the 500 civilians (including whole families) burnt alive and turned
into cinders when American missiles penetrated a shelter in Baghdad;
- the tens of thousands of Iraqi conscripts slaughtered on
the "Highway of Death" by U.S. Navy pilots during their attempted
retreat from Kuwait in 1991 (another war crime because the soldiers
killed were not in a combat situation);
- the tens of thousands of Kurdish civilians killed in
South-East Turkey during the 1990s by Turkish government soldiers using
weapons and equipment supplied to them by the U.S. (which knew exactly
what they were doing with them);
- the tens of thousands of civilians in Sudan who have died due
to the absence of medicines resulting from the destruction of the
Sudanese pharmaceutical plant by American cruise missiles in 1998 and
from the economic sanctions imposed on Sudan;
- the one to two million Iraqi civilians, two-thirds of them
children, who have died in the last ten years as a result of the effects
of the hundreds of tons of cancer-causing depleted uranium left over
from the million or so exploded rounds of DU ammunition used in attacks
by American warplanes in the 1991 American/British 6-week terrorist
campaign against Iraq and from the subsequent U.S./British-imposed
economic blockade and
criminally punitive sanctions (not to mention those killed by
the bombing raids which
occur every week);
- and the tens of millions of civilians who die every year in
Third World countries from starvation, disease and despair because their
countries are mired in poverty and corruption as a result of economic
exploitation by American multinationals acting with the support and
approval of the American government.
To those in the higher echelons of a government of a terrorist state
which, by means of its military and its CIA, has killed tens of millions
of civilians in foreign countries, the killing of a few thousand of their
fellow citizens is simply another exercise in mass murder, needing a
little more planning, but not much different to what they and their
predecessors have done before.
This is a crazy world. What can be done? Amazingly, we have been mislead. We have been taught that
we can control government by voting. The founder of the Rothschild dynasty, Mayer Amschel Bauer,
told the secret of controlling the government of a nation over 200 years ago. He said, "Permit me
to issue and control the money of a nation and I care not who makes its laws." Get the picture?
Your freedom hinges first on the nation's banks and money system. Freedom is connected with Debt Elimination for each individual. Not only does
this end personal debt, it places the people first in line as creditors to the National Debt ahead
of the banks. They don't wish for you to know this. It has to do with recognizing WHO you really
are in A
New Beginning: A Practical Course in Miracles, an informational study.
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