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The Big Lie 9-11 and Government Complicity in Mass Murder [PDF]

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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Big</strong> <strong>Lie</strong>” 9/<strong>11</strong> <strong>and</strong> the <strong>Government</strong>’s<br />

<strong>Complicity</strong> <strong>in</strong> <strong>Mass</strong> <strong>Murder</strong><br />

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prisoners are rout<strong>in</strong>ely subjected to “lett<strong>in</strong>g off steam” assaults <strong>and</strong> the break<strong>in</strong>g<br />

of limbs with alum<strong>in</strong>um baseball bats, 154 dehumaniz<strong>in</strong>g sexual, <strong>in</strong>clud<strong>in</strong>g<br />

homosexual simulations <strong>and</strong> pos<strong>in</strong>g, or religious based sexual defilement with<br />

the menstrual blood from prostitutes or the molestation by prostitutes or female<br />

<strong>in</strong>terrogators, 155 prisoners tortured <strong>and</strong> killed <strong>in</strong> <strong>in</strong>terrogations with power drills<br />

to their head <strong>and</strong> body, 156 assault <strong>and</strong> defilement from excrement <strong>and</strong> ur<strong>in</strong>e<br />

torture, child rape-rooms authorized by our government <strong>in</strong> order to extract<br />

dubious or short-lived <strong>in</strong>formation of questionable value from alleged Iraqi<br />

<strong>in</strong>surgents? 157 How do you th<strong>in</strong>k captured American servicemen will be treated <strong>in</strong><br />

the future as a result of this st<strong>and</strong>ard of treatment of the prisoners <strong>in</strong> our “care?”<br />

How do you justify mutilation <strong>and</strong> torch<strong>in</strong>g of enemy dead while taunt<strong>in</strong>g locals<br />

<strong>in</strong> light of prohibitions aga<strong>in</strong>st such abuses? 158<br />

Do you see any dist<strong>in</strong>ction between the horrors of Saddam Husse<strong>in</strong>’s <strong>in</strong>famous<br />

<strong>and</strong> horrific torture <strong>and</strong> rape rooms that were put forward as a justification for<br />

<strong>in</strong>vad<strong>in</strong>g <strong>and</strong> overthrow<strong>in</strong>g the Saddam regime <strong>and</strong> the current abuses occurr<strong>in</strong>g<br />

across the military system of prisons <strong>and</strong> rendition<strong>in</strong>g of prisoners to torturefriendly<br />

third party states? How can you turn a bl<strong>in</strong>d-eye <strong>and</strong> a deaf-ear to these<br />

<strong>in</strong>justices <strong>and</strong> violations of <strong>in</strong>ternational law, the Geneva Conventions, <strong>and</strong><br />

American law for a few crumbs from your master? Brigadier General Rick Baccus,<br />

comm<strong>and</strong>er of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba had the courage to oppose harsh torture<br />

tactics at Camp X-ray/Camp Delta until he was removed from comm<strong>and</strong>. He<br />

suggests that “those people (comm<strong>and</strong>ers) are the ones who need to be publicly<br />

charged. I don't know how high it needs to go.” 159 Already, nations such as Spa<strong>in</strong><br />

are issu<strong>in</strong>g arrest warrants for war crimes committed by U.S. troops, for example<br />

for fir<strong>in</strong>g on foreign journalists housed <strong>in</strong> a Baghdad hotel. 160<br />

USMC Major General Smedley Butler, a two-time w<strong>in</strong>ner of the Congressional<br />

Medal of Honor, <strong>and</strong> also of the USMC “Brevet Medal”, <strong>and</strong> was a strong<br />

supporter of the common soldier <strong>and</strong> veterans <strong>in</strong> the 1932 War Bonus Death<br />

March from the veteran-occupied Hoovervilles Wash<strong>in</strong>gton, D.C., (which was

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