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Inspired by the new fp story by BooMan – A Heat-Fever Bacchanalian Feast of Stupid. Searching archive @BT for earliest usage of the term Benghazi, was found in 2005 under WH rule by GW Bush … no surprise really. Neo-cons still dictate US foreign policy inside and outside of the White House in Washington DC. What else I found:

Libya is Not Our Problem  by BooMan on March 13, 2011
No-fly zone over Libya Approved!  by Oui on March 17, 2011
NY Times: Ms Clinton and Arab League Help Shift U.S. Policy on Libya

Do liberals want the United States to succeed in Iraq?  by BooMan on July 5, 2005

But after this base of agreement, my idea of success diverges from BushCo. First of all, I am deeply pessimistic about the prospects for Iraq to accomplish the above goals in the allotted time. But my disagreement goes much deeper.

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It starts with the real cause of 9/11. As the story goes, 19 Arab terrorists killed 3,000 American civilians because the terrorists ‘hated freedom’. Well, that’s a juvenile characterization of what causes violent hatred of America.

When the Iranians seized the American Embassy and held Americans hostage, they did it because we had fomented a coup in 1953, and then built a strong commercial and military relationship with the Shah. The Shah was overthrown for tyrannical behavior. He wasn’t overthrown because ordinary Iranians hated the freedom the Shah provided.

When the Libyans stormed and destroyed the American Embassy in Benghazi, on June 5, 1967, they didn’t do it because they hated freedom. They did because the Arab-Israeli War had begun, and they had been convinced by propaganda broadcasts that the United States was bombing Cairo.

The famous Afghan mujahideen didn’t fight the Soviets for freedom alone:

    Interview with Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Adviser
    Le Nouvel Observateur, Paris, 15-21 January 1998

    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.

    Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?

    B: It isn’t quite that. We didn’t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

Hawks Want Obama to Be More Like Jimmy Carter

Another excellent reference diary:
Exceptional Amnesia: A List of U.S. Actions Since WWII by BostonJoe on July 10th, 2006

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