We stand for NOTHING-CIA Files Show U.S. Played Role in Iraq’s Chemical Attacks on Iran, and On 60th anniversary, CIA admits coup against Iran's Mossadegh.

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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/cia-files-us-aided-iraq-with-iran-gas-attacks.html

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The United States appears to be moving closer to taking military action in Syria over President Bashar al-Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons, but a new report in Foreign Policy shows that the U.S. government wasn't always so vehemently opposed to the use of such tactics. According to recently declassified CIA documents and interviews with former intelligence officials, the U.S. government had evidence that Iraq was using chemical weapons in 1983, but concealed those facts as Iran tried to prove that to the United Nations. Even worse, toward the end of the war, the U.S. shared information with Iraq about Iran's military position that it knew was likely to lead to a chemical attack. As Foreign Policy puts it, the new revelations are "tantamount to an official American admission of complicity in some of the most gruesome chemical weapons attacks ever launched."

Long before the U.S. decided that both nations were were part of an "Axis of Evil," it was determined to see Iraq defeat Iran, even if it meant looking the other way as Saddam Hussein gassed his enemies and his own people. When Iraq began using mustard gas in 1983, the U.S. government wasn't sharing intelligence with Hussein, but CIA reports show that top Reagan administration officials were regularly updated on the attacks. Nothing was done to prevent them either, though U.S. officials knew about Iraq's efforts to produce the weapons and the locations of its chemical plants. One CIA document stated, "If the Iraqis produce or acquire large new supplies of mustard agent, they almost certainly would use it against Iranian troops and towns near the border."

The U.S. changed its policy on sharing intelligence with Hussein in 1987, when CIA satellite images revealed that the Iranians had uncovered a hole in Iraq's defenses near Basrah, and were building up troops and equipment nearby. A Defense Intelligence Agency report warned that if Iran captured the city, Iraq would lose the war. President Reagan reportedly read the document and scribbled in the margin, "An Iranian victory is unacceptable."

Top officials decided to share information on Iran's strategy with Iraq, providing satellite imagery and reports on the Iranian military's abilities. Soon after, Iraq launched sarin attacks that killed thousands.

For years, U.S. officials have defended themselves by saying that throughout the war, Iraq never announced it would use chemical weapons. Retired Air Force Col. Rick Francona, who was military attaché in Baghdad during the 1988 attacks, told Foreign Policy, "The Iraqis never told us that they intended to use nerve gas. They didn't have to. We already knew."

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http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/356725

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The CIA has finally admitted that it was behind a 1953 coup that overthrew the democratically elected prime minister of Iran and restored that country's long-ruling monarchy, a move with serious long-term geostrategic and human consequences.
The CIA admission comes on the 60th anniversary of the coup that overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh. Foreign Policy reports declassified US documents obtained by the National Security Archive at Georgetown University through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request prove beyond any doubt that the United States was behind the coup. Part of a 1970s internal CIA report titled "The Battle for Iran," the history was released in 1981 but the entire section titled "Covert Action," which details the 1953 coup, was redacted.
"The military coup that overthrew Mossadegh and his National Front cabinet was carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy," the CIA document states, adding that the risk of leaving Iran "open to Soviet aggression compelled the United States... in planning an executing TPAJAX." The coup was internally known as Operation Ajax.
American oil companies had won major concessions in Iran, which was ruled by the monarch Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, during World War II. At first the relationship between the US and the Iranian monarchy seemed symbiotic; the Americans gained access to Iran's vast oil resources while the Shah garnered valuable support and security for his regime. But Washington's true intentions were no secret: "The obvious fact is that we shall soon be in a position of actually 'running' Iran," State Department official Wallace Murray said in 1942.
Then, as now, there was a 'revolving door' between 'Big Oil' and the US government and a blurring of lines between corporate and government interests. "American oil companies are, for all practical purposes, instruments of foreign policy towards countries," Secretary of State Dean Acheson frankly admitted in 1953.
In 1951 the people of Iran, perhaps emboldened by US President Harry S. Truman's pledge to "assist free people to work out their own destinies in their own way," elected Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh as their new prime minister. He soon nationalized the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, which despite its equitable-looking hyphenation was a British-owned monopoly known today as BP. Mossadegh expelled British technicians from Anglo-Iranian refineries and broke off relations with London. His actions made his the most popular and democratic government Iranians have ever known. Time magazine called him "the Iranian George Washington," naming him 1951's 'Man of the Year.'
But the British were furious. They hatched a plot to depose Mossadegh and sought US assistance. President Truman would have none of it. But his successor, Dwight D. Eisenhower, warmed to the idea. His secretary of state, John Foster Dulles, and his brother, CIA director Allen Dulles, were keen to see Mossadegh ousted. Both Dulles brothers had also worked as attorneys at a law firm which represented Anglo-Iranian.
In 1953, the CIA launched Operation Ajax, fomenting unrest through street violence and a vigorous propaganda campaign. A reluctant Shah was restored to his throne and the wildly popular, democratically elected Mossadegh was deposed and imprisoned. Iran's oil industry was once again under foreign control, but this time with one major difference-- this time, the United States seized 40 percent of the oil for itself.
Washington would later claim all of this was done to prevent Iran from "going communist," but a 1953 State Department report concluded Mossadegh had no communist sympathies. In fact, he opposed Soviet meddling in Iran, and main Iranian communist party was dead-set against his rule.
The US really wanted to control Iranian natural resources. In order to help the Shah maintain an iron grip on his country, the CIA, in concert with Israel, created SAVAK, Iran's internal security service. SAVAK specialized in horrific CIA-taught torture techniques and CIA torture films that 'starred' live human victims, including women.
Five American presidents enthusiastically supported the Shah and his brutal regime over the following quarter century, providing more than a billion dollars in aid and selling Iran the latest high-tech US weaponry. Jimmy Carter, the 'human rights president,' feted the Shah at the White House (despite angry protests) and rang in the New Year with him at a lavish state dinner in Tehran in 1977. "There is no other state figure whom I could appreciate or like more," Carter said of the brutal monarch.
US actions in Iran beginning with the 1953 coup bred enormous long-term animosity toward the US government, which culminated in the 1979 takeover of the American Embassy in Tehran by Islamic revolutionaries. Whereas many Americans portray Iran's government as irrationally hostile toward the US, there is no doubt whatsoever regarding the origins of the US-Iran conflict-- it began on August 19, 1953 with the CIA-led overthrow of the most democratic and popular government Iranians had ever known.
The CIA's new admission isn't exactly an earth-shaking revelation; the role of the US and Britain in overthrowing Mossadegh has long been known due to admissions by participants, presidents (including Barack Obama), and even those who helped orchestrate the coup. Still, transparency proponents and human rights advocates welcomed the Agency's mea culpa and expressed hope that it leads to more opening of the historical record of US involvement in other decidedly undemocratic undertakings

Now for years I have been saying this, and off course many just give me shit about it.

Now that CIA itself has admitted what they did do you understand why hostages were taken?
Now do you understand why whenever someone tries to make the US sound like they have any moral high ground I point out facts that should make it obvious that is not the case.

We stand for nothing, these two stories are not news to me, as a matter of fact I have been bringing up these examples for more than a decade.
I am assuming that the sheep will still be sheep, but for the ones who have any integrity and mental sovereignty I hope this will help you have a clearer picture of what we stand for. Also i hope maybe a better understanding of why we are disliked and how the dislike is justifiable.


I wish we stood for what we say, but we don't.
The ones who think we do you are part of the problem because you do not live in the real world. Because you are incapable of seeing the facts you are incapable of supporting proper action.

I just wish at the very least you would understand that you are clueless and maybe you should listen to the people who aren't.

What is this fact # 100 i have been right about. Call it arrogant it is what it is. Hate me for being right but at least except the facts and act accordingly.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not." - Kurt Cobain