{"id":21719,"date":"2016-09-17T15:24:30","date_gmt":"2016-09-17T20:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21719"},"modified":"2016-09-17T15:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-17T20:32:57","slug":"getting-fooled-on-iraq-libya-now-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=21719","title":{"rendered":"Getting Fooled on Iraq, Libya, Now Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Getting Fooled on Iraq, Libya, Now Russia<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0After the British report exposing falsehoods to justify invading Iraq in 2003, a new U.K. inquiry found similar misconduct in the 2011 attack on Libya, but no lessons are learned for the West\u2019s new propaganda about Russia, writes Robert Parry.<\/p>\n

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A British parliamentary inquiry into the Libyan fiasco has reported what should have been apparent from the start in 2011 \u2013\u00a0and was to some of us<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 that the West\u2019s military intervention to \u201cprotect\u201d civilians in Benghazi was a cover for what became another disastrous \u201cregime change\u201d operation.<\/p>\n

The report from the U.K.\u2019s Foreign Affairs Committee confirms that the U.S. and other Western governments exaggerated the human rights threat posed by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and then quickly morphed the \u201chumanitarian\u201d mission into a military invasion that overthrew and killed Gaddafi, leaving behind political and social chaos.<\/p>\n

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President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron talk at the G8 Summit in Lough Erne, Northern Ireland, June 17, 2013. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The report\u2019s significance is that it shows how little was learned from the Iraq War fiasco in which George W. Bush\u2019s administration hyped and falsified intelligence to justify invading Iraq and killing its leader, Saddam Hussein. In both cases, U.K. leaders tagged along and the West\u2019s mainstream news media mostly served as unprofessional propaganda conduits, not as diligent watchdogs for the public.<\/p>\n

Today, we are seeing an even more dangerous repetition of this pattern: demonizing Russian President Vladimir Putin, destabilizing the Russian economy and pressing for \u201cregime change\u201d in Moscow. Amid the latest propaganda orgy against Putin, virtually no one in the mainstream is exercising any restraint or finding any cautionary lessons from the Iraqi and Libyan examples.<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Getting Fooled on Iraq, Libya, Now Russia Exclusive:\u00a0After the British report exposing falsehoods to justify invading Iraq in 2003, a new U.K. inquiry found similar misconduct in the 2011 attack on Libya, but no lessons are learned for the West\u2019s new propaganda about Russia, writes Robert Parry. A British parliamentary inquiry into the Libyan fiasco […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6963,442,484,4194,1426,655,7203,694],"class_list":["post-21719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-consortium-news","tag-iraq","tag-libya","tag-military-intervention","tag-misinformation","tag-propaganda","tag-robert-parry","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21719"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21722,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719\/revisions\/21722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}