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May
31, 2003
Ayatollah Rumsfeld's Busy Week
Defense
Chief Seizes Baghdad Diplomatic Mission and Plots Overthrow Iranian
Government
by WAYNE MADSEN
America's Ayatollah, Secretary of Defense Donald
Rumsfeld, has borrowed liberally from the late Iranian Ayatollah
Khomeini in ordering the Palestinian Authority's diplomatic mission
to be seized by American troops. On May 29, U.S. troops in Baghdad
illegally entered the Palestinian mission, arrested and detained
at a U.S. military compound the diplomatic staff, including the
charge d'affaires, and stole diplomatic papers. U.S. troops,
who behaved like common criminal gang members, even stole the
mission's food, water, security weapons, and Palestinian flags
after ransacking the compound. It is a sad day when the U.S.
troops emulate the Chinese Red Guards, who, in the late 1960s,
showed similar disregard for foreign missions in Beijing during
the Cultural Revolution. Thankfully, for China, those days are
past. For the United States, however, it seems that such days
are only beginning.
It does not matter to the Pentagon war
criminals, but the Palestinian Authority is an internationally-recognized
entity that not only enjoys official observer status at the United
Nations and its specialized agencies but maintains diplomatic
relations with over 100 nations, including the United Kingdom,
Spain, Italy, Australia, and Japan. The Palestinian Authority
also maintains a diplomatic mission in Washington, DC headed
up by a full ambassador. However, noting the treatment by the
Bush regime of the diplomats assigned to the Cuban Interests
 Section at the Swiss Embassy in Washington
and the Palestinian Mission in Baghdad, the security of many
embassies and missions in Washington and New York is now in doubt.
Given the disregard by the Bush regime for the Vienna Convention
on Diplomatic Relations, the French, Canadian, Mexican, Russian,
Belgian, German and other embassies in Washington and New York
should increase their own security and obtain, via secure diplomatic
pouch, the weapons and equipment necessary to fend off any American
paramilitary attack in enough time to at least destroy classified
material, including codes and ciphers.
It is so fitting that the Pentagon neo-cons
(I'm sorry, some well-meaning conservatives have criticized me
for using that term, let's just call them Nazis, because that
is the philosophy that these civilian chicken hawks imbue and
promote) are now calling for the U.S. war machine to arm Iran's
leftist Mujaheddin e Khalq (after a name change and political
makeover) and overthrow the government of Iran. The Pentagon
Nazis have no moral ground to attack Iran. Some of them claim
that such an intervention is payback for the Iranian mullah's
seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Teheran in 1979. How can they
even talk about embassy seizures when they orchestrated a similar
seizure of the Palestinian diplomatic mission in Baghdad? Furthermore,
the present Iranian government of President Mohammed Khatami
is moderate and in no way represents the same policies of the
old Khomeini regime. It's apples and oranges, but then again,
so were Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda. The Pentagon Nazis continue
to apply their Big Lie t alents garnered from the late neo-Nazi
philosopher Leo Strauss.
Colin Powell, who is acting just like
the type of antebellum Southern plantation servant described
by singer Harry Belafonte, will not put his foot down and prevent
the Pentagon Nazis from disrupting U.S. foreign policy. Powell
has had enough chances to redeem himself, but he always chooses
to remain sheepishly silent in the face of the bellicosity from
the Pentagon. What the Pentagon Nazis have done, in effect, is
to now place every U.S. diplomat and diplomatic compound around
the world in danger of retaliation. By occupying a foreign diplomatic
mission in Baghdad and seizing its staff, the Pentagon Nazis
are flagrantly violating the Vienna Convention, not that international
treaties and conventions means anything to the illegal gang that
has seized power in Washington.
The day after the burglarizing of the
Palestinian mission, Powell's watchers and handlers within the
State Department attempted to explain the actions by stating
that no diplomatic mission in Iraq is accredited until the United
States installs a puppet regime. That means that U.S. troops
are apparently now free to rummage through foreign embassies
in the same manner they rummaged and pillaged private homes,
government ministries, museums, and libraries in Baghdad and
other cities.
But when the United States tried to seat
a representative of its rump Baghdad regime at an OPEC meeting
in Doha, Qatar, the international oil cartel rebuffed the attempt,
claiming that the person the U.S. selected to head Iraq's oil
ministry did not represent a sovereign internationally-recognized
state. And who forced the issue against the United States? Our
"Coalition of the Willing" allies, Kuwait and Saudi
Arabia.
The world can ill afford to live with
a rogue superpower like the United States constantly ignoring
international standards and norms of behavior. There have been
some recent electoral successes that suggest the political pendulum
around the world is swinging back to some semblance of normalcy.
Bush's "Coalition of the Willing" allies, the neo-fascist
Prime Ministers of Italy and Spain, suffered significant defeats
in recent local and regional elections in their countries. The
Socialist parties in  both countries scored
some important gains. It must have been a bit unsettling for
the Pentagon's leading Nazis, Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, and Richard
Perle (who remains a member of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board),
to have attended the recent secret Bilderberg meeting at the
Trianon Palace in Versailles. The Versailles royal complex was
where French revolutionaries arrested King Louis XVI and Marie
Antoinette before transporting them to a Paris prison where they
were eventually executed for their crimes against the French
people.
The International Criminal Court in The
Hague is now in full operation and its staff is busy collecting
evidence against international war criminals. With more and more
facts emerging about how the United States and its coalition
of the willing accomplices lied about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction,
Saddam Hussein's links to Al Qaeda, and U.S. military attacks
on foreign journalists and civilians in Iraq, there are a number
of international criminal prosecutors who would dearly love to
get their hands on Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Perle, Doug Feith, Abram
Shulsky, and the other Pentagon Nazis and their cohorts in other
government agencies. And with General Tommy Franks announcing
his retirement (a surprise considering he was offered the Army
Chief of Staff and Joint Chiefs Chair jobs), international prosecutors
might have a major ace-in-the-hole witness.
If Franks; the routinely abused and outgoing
Army Chief of Staff, General Eric Shinseki; his deputy, General
John Keane, who decided to turn down Rumsfeld's offer of becoming
Army Chief of Staff because he can't stand him; the fired Army
Secretary and former Enron executive, retired General Tom White,
who had it out repeatedly with Rumsfeld; and other American flag
rank officers decide to talk to international prosecutors, there
may be dark days ahead for the Pentagon Nazis and even their
protectors in the White House: our Johnny-one-note President
and his corrupt string pullers, Dick Cheney and Karl Rove. In
any event, the unformed military and career civil service employees
within the Pentagon have had a very tough going. They should
not hesitate to see their corrupt and criminal bosses eventually
brought to justice in The Hague.
The Central Intelligence Agency might
also be in a position to provide international prosecutors with
evidence from their ongoing investigation of whether the Pentagon
cooked the books on intelligence about Iraq to justify an illegal
war. Attention is focusing on Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans,
a Rumsfeld creation that is rife with Pentagon Nazis, as the
primary culprit behind the intelligence disinformation and misinformation.
A note for the Pentagon Nazis: you might
want to brush up on your Serbo-Croatian. Those winters in The
Hague can be quite cold, long, and unremarkable. It would be
nice if you were able to converse with some of your fellow detainees
from the former Yugoslavia in their native tongue. After all,
in comparing notes about war crimes, certain details might become
lost in the translation.
Wayne Madsen
is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist.
He wrote the introduction to Forbidden
Truth. He is the co-author, with John Stanton, of the
forthcoming book, "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of
George Bush II."
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
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