UN imposed no-fly zone over Libya an act of war. A pretext to ignite another US war of aggression.

The Defense Intelligence Agency chief has declared that an imposition of a “no-fly” zone over Libya or any country that involved military force would be a textbook definition of an act of war.  “My understanding as I’ve studied in my schools, that would be considered an act of war,” Lieutenant General Ronald Burgess, director of the intelligence agency, told a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing.

An act of war was declared by the UN on Thursday night against Libya.  The United Nations is in direct violation of its own Charter.

Article 2 of the UN Charter clearly states:

All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations.

A no-fly zone is the use of armed force against the territorial integrity and political independence of Libya.  Libya has not attacked any country.  Libya has not made any threats of an armed attack against another state.  Libya in engulfed in a civil war.   The UN is using the armed forces of foreign countries to threaten the territorial integrity and political independence of Libya.  International law regards the UN threat of an armed attack against the sovereign state of Libya as crimes against peace, and crime against humanity.   The moment any country acts on the UN declaration of war against Libya and launches any land, sea or air attacks inside Libya the UN will be guilty of war of aggression and war crimes.

A crime against peace, in international law, refers to “planning, preparation, initiation, or waging of wars of aggression, or a war in violation of international treaties, agreements or assurances, or participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the accomplishment of any of the foregoing”  A war of aggression is a military conflict waged without the justification of self-defense usually for territorial gain and subjugation.

Once again the UN has decided in favor of the United States.  It has unlawfully allowed the United States (NATO is a surrogate of the US military) to launch another unprovoked war of aggression against an oil rich nation.  The no-fly zone was unlawfully imposed,  not to protect the civilian population of Libya but was solely imposed to protect the oil reserves for a handful of corporate elite.  Once again the UN has endorsed the mass murder of innocent civilians.  Once again the UN will be responsible for the deaths of thousands of civilians in yet another war of aggression.

Just as in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere, this war will be waged under the pretense of humanitarian intervention. But just as in Iraq and Afghanistan, military intervention by the U.S. and its allies will be done for the benefit of the rich and powerful at the expense of working and oppressed people in Libya. Countless civilians will die as a result of these attacks and countless dollars will be taken from over-stretched national budgets and social programs to fund a new war. The lessons of history are clear in showing us that the outcome of the war, if the U.S., Britain and France have their way, will be in favor of the interests of the rich, not in favor of democracy and self-determination for the people of Libya.

The armed rebels are not the voice of the people of Libya.  They are US paid mercenaries.  The rebels are foreigners.  They are terrorists.  They are paid by the US government to take control of the Libyan oil fields.  They are not fighting to protect the Libya people.  They are not fighting for the Independence of Libya they are fighting for the interests of the United States government.  Gaddafi isn’t bombing innocent unarmed civilians he and his military are killing foreign paid terrorists.  Their presence in Libya is part of the US government’s plan to rob the Libyan people of their oil.

The US made false claims that the Taliban ruling party of Afghanistan were harboring al Qaeda terrorists as a pretext for war so that the US oil giants could go into Afghanistan to take control of the Trans-Afghan Natural gas pipeline.  The US made false claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as a pretext for war so that the US could invade Iraq and take over their oil reserves.  Now the US is again making false claims that Gaddafi is attacking unarmed civilians, a pretext for war, so that the US can take control of the largest oil reserves in Africa.

Since day one of the civil war in Libya, the Western media has been in motion, preparing public opinion for war with Libya. Since the beginning of the civil war, the western, imperialist powers have been maneuvering militarily to take advantage of the situation.  Yesterday they used their influence over the UN (an organization that has never prevented war, only endorsed them) to declare an unprovoked war against Libya.

On March 18, 2011 a war of aggression and occupation against Libya has begun.  The no-fly zone is there to destroy the national defenses of the Libyan people so that the US and its axis of evil allies can invade, occupy and loot the oil of the sovereign state of Libya.

Throughout history, war planners have used various forms of deception to trick their enemies. Because public support is so crucial to the process of initiating and waging war, the home population is also subject to deceitful stratagems. The creation of false excuses to justify going to war is a major first step in constructing public support for such deadly ventures. Perhaps the most common pretext for war is an apparently unprovoked enemy attack. Such attacks, however, are often fabricated, incited or deliberately allowed to occur. They are then exploited to arouse widespread public sympathy for the victims, demonize the attackers and build mass support for military “retaliation.”

Like schoolyard bullies who shout ‘He hit me first!’, war planners know that it is irrelevant whether the opponent really did ‘throw the first punch.’ As long as it can be made to appear that the attack was unprovoked, the bully receives license to ‘respond’ with force. Bullies and war planners are experts at taunting, teasing and threatening their opponents. If the enemy cannot be goaded into ‘firing the first shot,’ it is easy enough to lie about what happened. Sometimes, that is sufficient to rationalize a schoolyard beating or a genocidal war.

Every time the US has gone to war, pretext incidents have been used. Upon later examination, the conventional perception of these events is always challenged and eventually exposed as untrue. Historians, investigative journalists and many others, have cited eyewitness accounts, declassified documents and statements made by the perpetrators themselves to demonstrate that the provocative incidents were used as stratagems to stage-manage the march to war.

Since the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War, US war planners have continued to use spectacular pretext incidents to spawn wars. Examples include Iraq (1991), Somalia (1992), Haiti (1994), Bosnia (1995) and Yugoslavia (1999).

Throughout this time, the US “War on Drugs” was fought on many fronts. Lurking behind the excuse to squash illicit drug trafficking, are the actual reasons for financing, training and arming right-wing, US-backed regimes, whose officials have so often profited from this illegal trade. The CIA has used the illicit drug trade to finance many of its covert wars.  The “War on Drugs” was formed by the US government as a tool to target numerous countries in order to strengthen counter-insurgency operations aimed at destroying opposition groups that oppose US corporate rule.

Military plotters know that the majority would never support their wars, if it were generally known why they were really being fought. A special media art has been deliberately developed to weave elaborate webs of deceit to create the appearance that wars are fought for “just” or “humanitarian” reasons.

If asked to support a war so that a very small number of wealthy elite could shamelessly profit by ruthlessly exploiting and plundering the natural and human resources in far away lands, you and everyone else would ‘just say no.’  So in order to trick you and I into supporting their wars of aggression the US has, since the end of the Cold War, used civil wars and natural disasters in foreign lands as a pretext to ignite decade long wars of terror, aggression and occupation.

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