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Confessions: Cindy re Casey,
Bill Moyer re Vietnam,
Jimmy Carter re Funding Terrorism

By Jay Janson

12 June, 2007
Countercurrents.org

One can't help often noticing that certain of our celebrities with a fine reputation for being helpful to the peace movement have dark secrets of personal anguish in their past, which upon candid revelation would help people understand events purposely distorted by corporate media and thus contributive to political education and consciousness raising amid a public so grossly misled by the war propaganda through news selection that purposely disinforms.

FORMER PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

Jimmy Carter enjoys prestige and respect for his work as a dedicated promoter of peaceful solutions. What a enormous contribution to peace Carter could make by enlightening us on the process of covert murderous intention during his presidency. If he would just 'fess up' about his now no longer secret orders funding, training and equipping the fundamentalist tribes of the mountains against the socialist (women liberating) government in Kabul, a full six months BEFORE the first units of the Soviet army entered Afghanistan. One would imagine that Carter himself would see the great value of an honest admission and welcome an opportunity to unburden himself of whatever feelings of anguish and self-recrimination he might be experiencing.

It was Carter's advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who bragged to French news magazine, Le Nouvel Observateur, in Paris, 15 January 1998, of suckering in the Russians, by frightening them into believing the U.S. was threatening to create a hostile Muslim nation on its doorstep amid the Soviet Muslin republics, by our pouring in money to arm and train fundamentalists, fundamentalist tribes who would later receive much more, openly, from successive U.S. administrations, and which would include the funding, along with Saudi help, of tens of thousands of extreme Wahhabi sect madrasahs, schools that would eventually produce the Taliban, who along with Osama bin-Ladin, would eventually also receive U.S. aid.

“Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?

Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”

Peace loving Jimmy, please tell us candidly of the times when you weren’t for peace and the mitigating circumstances thereof. Help us understand that the roots of today's genocidal belligerencies go way back to a history of nefarious foreign policy.

BILL MOYER

Similarly, recognizing the wonderful and much appreciated decades long efforts of Bill Moyer to confront the distortions and war propaganda in conglomerate owned media, one can only imagine how big a dent Bill could make in conglomerate owned media's ongoing successful project to rehabilitate the Vietnam war as something to be proud of, if he would relive and describe for us in detail, what must have been a supreme agony for young Bill Moyer, namely, his twenty six months as Chief of Staff and Press Secretary to President Johnson during the Vietnam war. Here is what Moyer could help us with:

Media constantly proclaims each and every Vietnam veteran a hero, silently encouraging viewers, listeners and readers to forget that many of these veterans were spit upon in the 70's upon their return home. Today, every politician who 'served' in Vietnam presents himself proudly, and is hailed by media as an American hero; in spite of three million dead Vietnamese, and another two million Laotians and Cambodians; in spite of Eisenhower having admitted that Ho Chi Minh would have won overwhelmingly the all Vietnam election Ike blocked; in spite of Truman going against Roosevelt's promise of freedom from French brutal colonial occupation, and putting back in the French, who had been collaborators with the Japanese; in spite of our eight years of funding the French war of re-conquest until the French defeat, and then creating an separate and independent dictatorship called South Vietnam; in spite of the fact that the government of which we slaughtered a million of their citizens, in a quarter century attempt to overthrow, is the very same communist government we now happily trade with and sponsor for WTO membership.

From October ’64, until his resignation in December of ‘66, Bill Moyer was described as Lyndon Johnson’s umbilical cord. What a volcanic blast our favorite talk host could loose on the media for its praise of the Vietnam War, categorized as a defense of our freedoms. But Moyer would have to confess and share with us participation in what he today would consider indictable in a court of law. The Vietnam War was a crime against humanity that has gone unpunished.

Below are just a few of the events Bill Moyer was called upon to defend from 1965 until his resignation in 1966:

February - The U.S. begins the regular bombing of North Vietnamese towns and villages.

March - Vietnam War: 3,500 United States Marines arrive in South Vietnam.

Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organizes the first teach-in against the Vietnam War, with 2,500 participants, at the University of Michigan.

April - In the Dominican Republic, officers and civilians loyal to deposed President Juan Bosch mutiny against the right-wing junta running the country, setting up a provisional government. Forces loyal to the deposed military-imposed government stage a countercoup the next day, and civil war breaks out, although the new government retains its hold on power. U.S. troops are sent to the D.R. and to prevent the reinstatement of Bosch.
May - The largest teach-in to date begins at Berkeley, California, attended by 30,000.


June – An anti-war protest at The Pentagon


July - Johnson announces increase in the number troops in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000, and to double the number of men drafted per month from 17,000 to 35,000.
August - President signs a law penalizing the burning of draft cards with up to 5 years in prison and a $1,000 fine.

October - Indonesian army arrests and executes communists, using lists provided by CIA.

Brazilian president Castelo Branco removes power from parliament, legal courts and opposition parties. (Recent declassified files reveal that Lyndon Johnson had wanted the US to "take every step" to support the military coup which overthrew President Joao Goulart 1964, described as a "democratic rebellion" by the U.S. ambassador)

November - In New York City, 22-year-old Catholic Worker Movement member Roger Allen LaPorte sets himself on fire in front of the United Nations building in protest of the war in Vietnam (this was the second such incident in a week; on 32-year-old Quaker member Norman Morrison did the same thing in front of The Pentagon).

- Congolese lieutenant general Mobutu ousts Joseph Kasavubu and declares himself president. (Elected Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba had been deposed in a US CIA sponsored coup and assassinated in 1961, and is still significant inspirational figure in the Congo as well as throughout Africa)

- Tens of thousands of Vietnam War protesters picket the White House, then march on the Washington Monument. Pentagon tells Johnson number of American troops in Vietnam will have to be increased from 120,000 to 400,000.

January - Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.

March - In South Vietnam, 20,000 Buddhists march in demonstrations against the policies of the military government.

April - The South Vietnamese government promises free elections in 3-5 months.


May - Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators again picket the White House, then rally at the Washington Monument. In New York City, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. makes his first public speech on the Vietnam War.

June - U.S. planes begin bombing Hanoi and Haiphong.

August - The House Un-American Activities Committee starts investigating Americans who have aided the Viet Cong, with the intent to make these activities illegal. Anti-war demonstrators disrupt the meeting and 50 are arrested.
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September - United Nations Secretary-General U Thant declares that he will not seek re-election, because U.N. efforts in Vietnam have failed.

Moyer prepared Presidential messages to Congress, and was chief speechwriter. He played a serious role in foreign policy discussions. "The Young Man in Charge of Everything,” said Time Magazine at the time.

April 2007, grateful viewers of the Bill Moyer's Journal conspiracy expose "Buying the War" on PBS, observe Moyer's now well known demeanor of serenity and serious inner fortitude as he calmly presents undeniable evidence of criminality in government with media collusion promoting the deceptions. But the techniques of deception that Moyer addresses in this documentary on the fraudulent reasons, pretexts, and lies to produce an acceptance of bombing, invasion and occupation of Iraq are the same as were used in presenting justifications for the war in Vietnam, in which Bill Moyer was supremely complicit as a key player involved in the day to day decisions of the war and criminal foreign policy toward other nations.

How much more could Bill help expose the entire murderous facade which confronts America and the world today, by recalling how similar it was back when our politicians were just as callous about daily body counts of innocent Indochinese as today they are about those equally beautiful Iraqi, Afghan and Somali civilians falling under U.S. bombs and bullets.

It is said that Moyer, at the time of his resignation was under severe strain, suffering from a stomach ulcer. Bill has subsequently been more or less on humanity's side for the greater part of his life. How very very much more could he accomplish with a complete and elucidating airing of contemptible U.S. policies within condemning recollections from his dark years.

OUR CINDY SHEEHAN

“It is so painful to me to know that I bought into this system for so many years and Casey paid the price for that allegiance. I failed my boy and that hurts the most.”

Peace activist leader Cindy Sheehan has shared with us, her deep personal despair in painful regret for not having protected her son from being misled by ‘his’ government, ‘his’ clergy and ‘his’ so called free press media, and tricked into participation in an immoral and illegal war in someone else’s country through lies, half-truths, news selection, and insidious black-outs of historical context, all for the criminally insane greed of powerful but ignorant and desperate manipulators of the American citizenry and the willing collaboration of the nearly the whole of America's establishment.

In baring her soul, she awoke so many who had been still asleep to the grim grip of corporate governance on our children’s lives. Cindy denounced those who pervert the truth and wrap themselves in the flag as they praise dead Americans and ignore the ten fold dead of the citizens of countries militarily occupied and bombed, whose survivors ask us to leave; those who prey upon the innocently trusting young men of America, ardently desiring to show themselves a credit to themselves and their families.

Cindy became an international heroine for single handedly confronting the war promotion of government and corporate America through ‘big brother’ conglomerate owned media. She must have asked herself many times, what if her Casey had NOT be killed, but just the all so many other boys like Casey, as were already dying prior to Casey's death? Would she ever have come to be as consummately devoted to everyone’s protection, fiercely dedicating all her time and resources as she has been during these three years since his death? One supposes Cindy has questioned herself over and over again in devastating remorse, why oh why she waited until Casey was KILLED, waited until it was HER son who was killed to become a politically educated and a dynamic and articulate activist, so galvanized into spectacular action.

We, who have come to love Cindy so much, and admire her being so creatively articulate, must certainly attempt to console her by pointing out that it was, albeit horribly so, Casey's death, which awarded her with the credentials of an aggrieved mother, with the right of attention to her words of protest and condemnation of the senseless taking of lives, forcing media to recognize her tragic suffering and justified outrage.

Cindy’s confession has made countless families think more carefully, especially those mothers still in favor of the Iraq invasion, bombing and occupation, who might be brought to a deeper consideration of their parental responsibility to make an effort to educate themselves to the inhumane and unethical aspects of these wars, especially in view of the desires of the indigenous peoples of the countries militarily occupied, who wish us to leave.

Cindy Sheehan bravely and compassionately shared the regret and affliction in bitter anguish, pangs of conscience, contrition, heartache, lamentation, self-condemnation, sorrow, and self-reproach that any mother would feel for not having been able to apologize to a dead son, nor to diminish her own double heartbreak for having acquiesced to his going to Iraq, and not having dissuaded him from enlisting and re-enlisting for Iraq when she had the chance.

We are not privy to the conversations and discussions Casey and Cindy had prior to Casey's leaving for Iraq, and can only imagine in retrospect, the love, concern, and probable misgivings on the nature of the conflict in light of Cindy's incredible crusade thereafter. As we ponder Cindy's effective leadership that certainly is both inspiring and worthy of emulation for that someone who will step forward and carry her well established motherly cause onward, we must wish Cindy a nice rest and recuperation from all the harsh and uncivil words, from an abominably socially undereducated segment of perhaps the most politically disinterested population on earth, while hoping to hear from her again some day soon.

Spoke Cindy, on Memorial Day, “I have invested everything I have into trying to bring peace with justice to a country that wants neither.” Good-bye America ...you are not the country that I love and I finally realized no matter how much I sacrifice, I can’t make you be that country unless you want it.” "The most devastating conclusion that I reached this morning, however, was that Casey did indeed die for nothing. His precious lifeblood drained out in a country far away from his family who loves him, killed by his own country which is beholden to and run by a war machine that even controls what we think. I have tried ever since he died to make his sacrifice meaningful.

The personally painful and embarrassing locked away memories of esteemed former key personalities of the establishment who have now planted themselves on the side of humanity, remain a potent potential force for change away from the perception of the past in chauvinistic, useless, arrogant and dangerously ignorant and misplaced pride.

While we await Cindy's return, Bill Moyer, please tell all, and Jimmy Carter please come clean for the sake of the people of the world, and for your own reputation and peace of mind and heart. Silence from both of you will not erase the truth already well documented for future reference. We wish to think highly of you and continue to appreciate your help.

 

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