All war is based on deception!?

Question

There is nothing new in a government lying to their people to start a war. Indeed because most people prefer living in peace to bloody and horrific death in war, any government that desires to initiate a war usually lies to their people to create the illusion that support for the war is the only possible choice they can make.

President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion, investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the case. There had been no mine.

Hitler used this principle of lying to his own people to initiate an invasion. He told the people of Germany that Poland had attacked first and staged fake attacks against German targets. The Germans, convinced they were being threatened, followed Hitler Poland&WW2.

FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. It wasn't. The United States saw war with Japan as the means to get into war with Germany, which Americans opposed. So Roosevelt needed Japan to appear to strike first. Following an 8-step plan devised by the Office of Naval Intelligence, Roosevelt intentionally provoked Japan into the attack. Contrary to the official story, the fleet did not maintain radio silence, but sent messages intercepted and decoded by US intercept stations. Tricked by the lie of a surprise attack, Americans marched off to war.

President Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin to send Americans off to fight in Vietnam. There were no torpedoes in the water in the Gulf. LBJ took advantage of an inexperienced sonar man's report to goad Congress into escalating the Vietnam War.

Powell claimed the Iraqis had illegal rockets and launchers hidden in the palm trees of Western Iraq. None were ever found.

Powell claimed that the Iraqis had 8,500 liters (2245 gallons) of Anthrax. None was ever found.

Powell claimed that Iraq had four tons of VX nerve gas. The UN had already confirmed that it was destroyed. The only VX ever found were samples the US had left as "standards" for testing. When the UN suspected that the US samples had been used to contaminate Iraqi warheads, the US moved quickly to destroy the samples before comparison tests could be carried out.

Powell claimed that Iraq was building long-range remote drones specifically designed to carry biological weapons. The only drones found were short-range reconnaissance drones.

Powell claimed that Iraq had a secret force of illegal long-range Scud missiles. None were ever found.

As long as you remain inactive, the liars have no reason to stop.

None.

It is time to fire the liars.

Answer 1

I hear pot mellows you out. Why don't you go smoke some you hippie liberal?!

Answer 2

It is difficult to say that all wars are based on deception.In some cases it may be that there is no alternative to having recourse to armed conflict. The First and the Second world wars were legitimate for putting a stop to German invasions.(However, it could be said that the second world war was provoked by the Allies attempt to put down natural aspirations of the Germans).However, for sustaining war recourse to deception appears to be inevitable. Even in ancient time they had recourse to such excuses as god-demons fights, fidels-infidels fight etc. Perhaps his was necessary to keep up the tempo.Itaq type wars are unprovoked ones meant for maintaining the supremacy of USA in the world.The intermittant Indo-Pak wars are no better.

Answer 3

Here's the deal and pay close attention....

Society in general is to stupid to understand the multifaceted complexities that go into deciding to go to war. So they are thrown a bone, something they can gnaw on. Something to keep them placated and most importantly something to keep them out of they way.

War is like chess...Its thought out 3 or 4 moves ahead. The problem is most people only play checkers.

Don't believe me? Wait until we attack Iran, it will become very clear. Afghanistan on the East, Iraq on the West...who do you think is the meat of the sandwich?

The problem here is that people think they know better, that they are some how superior in intelligence when it comes to geopolitical affairs with NOTHING to back it up but a silly opinion based on assumptions and emotion. And for those people to try to preach to others on how things *should be* is freakin laughable.

Answer 4

Ummmmmmm,,,,,,,Saddam also claimed to have those things and could not show how or when they were destroyed. You do remember 12 years of U.N. negotiations right? In addition, Powell really did not want to go to war, he supported more inspections and even recommended them to President Bush, or did you forget that as well?

Answer 5

People have been trying to flog that Pearl Harbour B.S. for years. It is total B*** S*** and totally weakens your argument. Stick to the facts and you might get someone to listen to you. Oh, by the way don’t tell us that the CIA was behind 9/11.

Answer 6

OK my friend, Tony Blair is also a liar, and a lot of politicians and military men are big liars too.
I agree with you.

Answer 7

Eat my cereal instead of yours.
Any gain will be taken on every level.
The largest are the most horrifying.
To be human is grand!

Answer 8

why do you only pick American presidents, leaders and Hitler...why not compare all countries...unless you hate America...and to believe that ALL war is based on deception is delusional...

Answer 9

the questions need to be a bit snappier, too late to be reading that much text

Answer 10

Well done, 2 points to me!