Scandalized Once More!

Indeed, it is a new scandal for the leaving president George W.Bush, the British government and the West as a whole. A report by journalists and sources from the B.B.C, the New York Times and the Canada’s Embassy under the auspices of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe revealed a momentous fact–Georgia is the one who kindled the wick of war in The Caucasus. Many of those reporters were in Ossetia when the war erupted on August 7th; some went there after wards while others made it on their own time. However, the result was only but one.

This led the American and British media, over the last two weeks, to investigate the issue again. This led the Herald Tribune to ask the American president-elect, Barak Obama, to consider the facts that the west screened–to make of Russia a tyranny that seeks to restore the Soviet Empire. The daily called Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian president, a “liar” but could not dub him “another Bush” who unjustifiably invaded Iraq under the pretexts of weapons of mass destruction, of buying uranium from Niger to produce a nuclear bomb or, in addition, to the secret contacts with Al Qaeda.

On the other hand, some resources confirmed that America and Israel knew of Georgia’s intentions to take South Ossetia by force. To set things right, there is nothing inside Georgia the Israelis are ignorant of, which is because the Secretaries of Defense and National Security have due nationalities: Israeli and Georgian. In fact, the Israelis did not fear the war; rather they had misgivings about enraging Russia, which refuses to give the thumbs up in order to impose more strict sanctions on Iran.

Actually, no one believes that America could not have known of Saakashvili’s intentions to attack the Russians in South Ossetia. Haven’t the Americans discussed this with the Israelis whether in Georgia or Tel Aviv? Where was the American embassy, military mission and CIA? And the State and Defense Departments knew nothing about potential Georgian aggression. How can that be?!

But this was not the whole story. According to international inspectors, human rights activists, Human Rights Watch, and inspectors of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Georgian tanks and artillery bombarded the Ossetian capital and targeted the civilians who were seeking shelters which is nothing but war crimes and sheer violations of the Geneva conventions. Besides, the reports from the Institute of Peace, the Financial Times and the B.B.C said that neither eye witnesses nor independent sources endorsed what the Georgian president claimed of Russia invading Georgian land and that there had to be a” repulsion”. Simultaneously, the Georgian forces mentioned that the military operations quintessentially aimed at restoring the “constitutional order,” without commenting on what Saakashvili said. And in the third version, some official sources in Georgia declared that the attack was in response to the bombing of four Georgian villages, something refuted by some independent western officials in their statements to the New York Times.

Meanwhile, Vitaly Churkin, the Russian envoy to the UN, sent a message to the New York Times’ editor in chief, stating that it took three months for U.S. media to unveil the facts about August’s war in the Caucasus. On the other hand, many Republicans, even after the defeat of their party and candidate in the presidential and parliamentary elections, showed no interest in knowing who the assailant was. Rather, they were angered by New York Times’ writing that it was Georgia. This can be attributed to the fact that some, even inside Obama’s political circle, want relations between Russia and the U.S. to reach their worst zenith, including Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser during the time time of American President Jimmy Carter. Brzezinski was the very one who mapped out a plan, six months before the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, to help the Afghani fighters “trap” the Russians, which he declared to Nouvel Observateur, the French magazine, something later confirmed by the current Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, who worked with Brzezinski at that time. Even the Western media depicted Russia as “Nazi Germany”; Vladimir Putin, the Premier, as the “new Hitler” while Georgia is the victim of the “evil empire” that comes back to life to go on with the journey it started by invading Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.

Now, the Americans can remember the lies Bush invented and circulated about the Iraqi WMDs, the secret contacts between the Iraqi regime and Al Qaeda that only came to Iraq with the American troops, and the Uranium bought from Niger.

But why should that be admissible? On one hand, the U.S. wishes to pull down the Russian economic rise that counts on exporting petrol and gas by extending the gas and petrol pipelines from “Baku” in Azerbaijan to ” Gihan” the Turkish port via Tbilisi, away from the Russian lands. On the other, it wants Georgia a thorn in Russia’s flesh by establishing an American military base there and the attempts to join it to the NATO.

It suffices to find Saakashvili announcing during his visit to Israel that the Georgians are the “Jews of this age,” that his paragon is “David Bin Gorion,” the first Israeli prime, urging the congress of the American Jewish Organizations to help his country cement its relations with the U.S. It also suffices to know that the U.S. shoulders 40% of the Georgia’s military budget.

The long and the short of it, falsification has become the official policy of the American administration and its allies.