Thursday 14 January 2016

What Hillary Clinton knew about Libya

The brutal destruction of the Libyan nation and slaying like an animal of its leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011 was, in the view of many historians, quite predictable.

Former Supreme Commander of NATO, Four-star General Wesley Clark exposed one phase of the anti-Libyan mind-set when he related that within two weeks after the 9/11 attack on New York's Twin Towers, the White House had a plan to "bring down seven governments in five years". One of those nations was Libya.
Clinton: We came, We saw, He died... Laughter.


Here is an extract from a seriously informed account by a US commentator. We recommend that you watch the US mind-set in action during an interview which Hillary Clinton gave to CBS News. (The "new emails" referred to are by Hillary Clinton's unofficial intelligence adviser Sidney Blumenthal).

"As Brad Hoff of the Levant Report wrote, “historians of the 2011 NATO war in Libya will be sure to notice a few of the truly explosive confirmations contained in the new emails: admissions of rebel war crimes, special ops trainers inside Libya from nearly the start of protests, Al Qaeda embedded in the U.S. backed opposition, Western nations jockeying for access to Libyan oil, the nefarious origins of the absurd Viagra mass rape claim, and concern over Gaddafi’s gold and silver reserves threatening European currency.”

Reality’s Hard Sell
But it probably would have been a hard sell to the American people if the U.S. government explained the dark side of the “R2P” mission – that it involved systematic executions of blacks and rapacious Western officials grasping for oil and gold – as well as creating a vacuum for jihadists. Instead, it worked much better to promote wild rumors about Gaddafi’s perfidy.

It is in this way that U.S. citizens, the “We the People” who were supposed to be the nation’s sovereigns, are treated more like cattle herded to the slaughterhouse.
Some of us did try to warn the public about these risks. For instance, on March 25, 2011, days before Blumenthal’s emails, I described the hazard from the neocon “regime change” strategies in Libya and Syria, writing:
“In rallying U.S. support for these rebellions, the neocons risked repeating the mistake they made by pushing the U.S. invasion of Iraq. They succeeded in ousting Saddam Hussein, who had long been near the top of Israel’s enemies list, but the war also removed him as a bulwark against both Islamic extremists and Iranian influence in the Persian Gulf. …
“By embracing these uprisings, the neocons invited unintended consequences, including further Islamic radicalization of the region and deepening anti-Americanism. Indeed, a rebel victory over Gaddafi risked putting extremists from an al-Qaeda affiliate in a powerful position inside Libya.
“The major U.S. news media aided the neocon cause by focusing on Gaddafi’s historic ties to terrorism, including the dubious charge that he was behind the Pan Am 103 bombing in 1988. There was little attention paid to his more recent role in combating the surge in al-Qaeda activity, especially in eastern Libya, the base of the revolt against him.” 

Though the 2011 concerns about Al Qaeda have since morphed into worries about its spinoff, the Islamic State, the larger point remains valid regarding Libya, which descended into the status of failed state after Gaddafi’s ouster and his brutal torture-murder on Oct. 20, 2011. Secretary Clinton greeted the news of Gaddafi’s demise with glee, exulting: “we came, we saw, he died” and then laughed. 
ENDS

For the full article containing a great deal more about US actions and intentions now and into the future, please see:
https://consortiumnews.com/2016/01/12/what-hillary-knew-about-libya/