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Correll , it is clear Truman's priority was not the preservation of human life nor democratic principles, but vengeance and a desire to intimidate the Soviet Union. Nixon and Kissinger conduct secret "carpet bombings" of Cambodia (killing thousands) during 1969-70 to destabilize the government, resulting in its overthrow and the establishment of the Khmer Rouge by Pol Pot whom the US later supported though it was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands. There will be no American combat troops or advisers in Cambodia. Nothing should be done to jeopardize this invaluable asset. When lies must be told, they should be told by subordinate officials" 15 Zinn-M . While Pinochet was a bloody despot who had thousands of civilians tortured and murdered, he was also favorable to American corporate interests 18 Cooper . Many of his killers were trained in the "School of the Americas," in Fort Benning, Georgia 19 Anon1 . Unfortunately, we responded to an attack that 21 never happened 22 Cohen and Solomon . The first claim was 23 never substantiated and was 24 shown to be false by the subsequent release of Russian satellite photographs of the area 25 Peterson . The second claim was based on a media campaign by the Hill & Knowlton PR firm and perjured reports of a supposed "eyewitness" who was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US 26 Stauber . Bush claimed proof of terrorists meeting with Saddam Hussein prior to September 11, that an International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA report concluded that Iraq was six months away from developing nuclear weapons, and that Iraq has attempted to purchase high strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapon production. Confusion 27 continues during the prosecution of the war. This is only a sampling of the most prominent deceits which I've had the time to investigate. In some cases, they were mistakes that were exploited for aggression but never corrected. In those instances where there was some legitimacy to a claim, truth was abused so as to justify America's complicity in the very same evils. Japan, Germany, Russia and many others have committed horrible crimes, but few have managed to do it under such a self-deluded banner of self-serving hypocrisy. One simply can not trust what government officials say and they must be held to a level of scrutiny that -- unfortunately -- does not exist. Instead, these incidents show half a century of deceit and media failure because of a reliance upon government sources for information, little verification of stories before reporting them as predicates for aggressive action, and an acceptance of rationalizations that are merely excuses for a course of action that has already been planned.
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