1. I thought it was an American ideal to hold human life sacred:
“West Offering to Endorse Israeli Attack on Iran as Part of Settlement Deal
The Times of London is citing unnamed Western diplomats as saying that the deal between Israel and the West on the issue of Palestinian statehood is taking shape, and that Western officials are offering to back an Israeli attack on Iran in return for certain concessions, including the recognition of some of the Palestinians’ land claims.”
2. I knew about this in 2003, so the cover-up and refusal to prosecute started then – not now:
“Such was Obama’s tepid reaction to a New York Times cover story about an alleged “mass killing of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Taliban prisoners of war by the forces of an American-backed warlord during the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan.”
Obama sounds so reasonable. Doesn’t he always? But his reaction to the massacre in the Dasht-i-Leili desert is nothing more than the latest case of his administration refusing to investigate a Bush-era war crime.
There are two things Obama doesn’t want you to know about Dasht-i-Leili. First, the political class and U.S. state-controlled media have sat on this story for six to seven years. Second, U.S. troops are accused of participating in the atrocities, which involved 12 times as many murders as My Lai.”
http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/?uc_full_date=20090714
3. “Did Cheney’s Assassination Squad Operate on U.S. Soil?
Both Talking Points Memo and Raw Story are raising the possibility that Cheney’s assassination squad operated on U.S. soil. Both news sites are basing their speculation on a statement in the Washington Post that the program “imposed no geographical limitations on the [CIA's] actions”.
I have no idea whether or not TPM and Raw Story are right.
On March 10th, Pulitzer prize winning reporter Seymour Hersh said:
After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen.
Hersh made that comment right before he described the government’s foreign assassination program.
It is not clear yet whether or not the assassination squad operated on U.S. soil, as well as abroad.
However, as I have previously shown, both Congress and the public were previously briefed on the foreign assassinations, and the U.S. has – in fact – carried out such assassinations. So the “newly-disclosed”, secret program could not have just been foreign murders, because it was not secret.
Everyone must demand to know whether the program included domestic assassinations. As Cenk Uygur notes, journalists have a duty to demand Cheney’s hit list.
If those who know – Panetta, Congress members Anna Eshoo, Alcee Hastings, Rush Holt, Janice Schakowsky, Mike Thompson, John Tierney, etc. – refuse to answer, then people can find out (and practice a little real journalism) by asking the following:
Did the secret program include assassinations on U.S. soil? If you don’t specifically and unambiguously deny it, I will take that as confirmation that it did.”
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/did-cheneys-assassination-squad-operate.html
4. “Israel’s plan to wipe Arabic names off the map
http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14410
