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Because Osama was the scapegoat. Osama was blamed to justify the invasion of Afghanistan, and the WMDs were the justification for the invasion of Iraq. If Saddam was blamed for the 9/11 attacks, then we would have only had reason to invade Iraq.
Then why not blame Saddam for 9/11 directly?
It's not just about money, it's about the power. It's about having our military scattered comfortably all around the globe.
Which in turn was spent on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Net gain - $0.
How about the Patriot Act?
Nazi-style? Better read your history, there is a wee difference between the Gestapo and the Department of Homeland Security.
But they've staged a false flag attack in order to gain support for something that otherwise would be unpopular among the American people before, so why do you think they wouldn't do it again?
In the end there is not one reason that the US gov't would try something as stupid as proposed.
Operation Northwoods is eerily similar to 9/11. American citizens being killed in order to gain support for a war. This same concept was about to be used on Americans would be killed and it would be blamed on the Cubans in order to justify an invasion.
Originally posted by vipertech0596
WHERE does it say American citizens would be killed? It specifically states that deaths would be FAKED.
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by ANOK
No, its not semantics. He is using that document to say that American deaths to start a war HAS been done before...and it is an out and out LIE. If you want, when I have a moment, I can start tearing his ravings apart one at a time..........
Americans were outraged to learn 128 U.S. civilians were killed in a war in which they were officially neutral. Destroying ships not known to be carrying war materials countered generally accepted international war protocols. The sinking of the Lusitania heightened tensions between the U.S. and Germany and helped sway American opinion in favor of joining the war.
The first clear indication of increased peril to LUSITANIA was the extraordinary notice placed in American newspapers by the German Embassy on 1 May 1915, the day the Cunarder sailed: "Travellers intending to embark on the Atlantic voyage are reminded that a state of war exists between Germany and her allies and Great Britain and her allies; that the zone of war includes the waters adjacent to the British Isles; that, in accordance with formal notice given by the Imperial German Government, vessels flying the flag of Great Britain, or of any of her allies, are liable to destruction in those waters and that travellers sailing in the war zone on ships of Great Britain or her allies do so at their own risk."
Because Osama was the scapegoat. Osama was blamed to justify the invasion of Afghanistan, and the WMDs were the justification for the invasion of Iraq. If Saddam was blamed for the 9/11 attacks, then we would have only had reason to invade Iraq.
Originally posted by vipertech0596
reply to post by ontarff
Im sorry....where does it state that the United States Government planned the sinking of the Lusitania as a way of getting into World War I? Anyone?
...American deaths to start a war HAS been done before...and it is an out and out LIE.
One of the reasons that there is a conspiracy theory regarding the Lusitania's sinking is that she was unescorted. This is seen as neglect on the part of the British Admiralty. In practise it was difficult for escorts to meet up with the liners in the open seas. They could not signal a meeting point without giving away their position, or the position of the liner. On March 6, 1915 the Lusitania avoided and then outran two escort ships on her way into port, not knowing if they were enemy ships or friendly one.
Kennedy personally rejected the Northwoods proposal, and it would now be the Joint Chiefs' turn to incur his displeasure. A JCS/Pentagon document (Ed Lansdale memo) dated 16 March 1962 titled MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT, 16 MARCH 1962 reads: "General Lemnitzer commented that the military had contingency plans for US intervention. Also it had plans for creating plausible pretexts to use force, with the pretext either attacks on US aircraft or a Cuban action in Latin America for which we could retaliate. The President said bluntly that we were not discussing the use of military force, that General Lemnitzer might find the U.S so engaged in Berlin or elsewhere that he couldn't use the contemplated 4 divisions in Cuba." The proposal was sent for approval to the Secretary of Defense, Robert McNamara, but was not implemented.
Lemnitzer approved the plans known as Operation Northwoods in 1962, a proposed plan to discredit the Castro regime and create support for military action against Cuba by staging false flag genuine acts of terrorism and developing "a Communist Cuban terror campaign in the Miami area, in other Florida cities and even in Washington". Lemnitzer presented the plans to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962. It is unclear how McNamara reacted, but three days later President Kennedy told the general that there was no chance that America would take military action against Cuba. Within a few months, after the denial of Operation Northwoods, Lemnitzer was denied another term as JCS chairman.[
One wonders if you ever bother to actually read the documents you post. WHERE does it say American citizens would be killed? It specifically states that deaths would be FAKED.
sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees [color=limegreen](real or simulated)
concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage
I know all about the other reasons, in fact I just made a thread over that exact topic a few hours ago in which I go through Bush's speech that he gave announcing the invasion of Iraq, and compare his carefully worded statements against reality: The Unpatriotic Invasion of Iraq
WMDs were never the ONLY reason we went into Iraq, it was just one of them. I refer you to the President's speech before Congress in September 2001.
That's not the point, members of our government planned a false flag attack in which they would kill American citizens and blame it on Cuba to incite a war. That is a huge deal! Just because it didn't happen doesn't mean anything, they planned it!
Add to that NORTHWOODS was never put into operation. When JFK heard about it said that it was ^&*(
nuts and killed it
Originally posted by TupacShakur
reply to post by thedman
That's not the point, members of our government planned a false flag attack in which they would kill American citizens and blame it on Cuba to incite a war. That is a huge deal! Just because it didn't happen doesn't mean anything, they planned it!
Add to that NORTHWOODS was never put into operation. When JFK heard about it said that it was ^&*(
nuts and killed it
That's like planning a brutal killing spree with some co-workers, and then having your boss find out and say "Absolutely not", then defending the would-be murderers by saying "Well they never went on the killing spree because the boss found out and pulled the plug".
Dude you don't seem to understand the severity of Operation Northwoods. We planned to kill our own citizens and stage attacks that Cubans committed in order to justify a war. How is that not a big deal? How can you be so apathetic about our own government planning something so sinister and evil against Americans?
My response to that, is, so what?
The US has many plans that were thought up, including invasions of Canada, Mexico, Greenland, any of the islands in the Caribbean, war with Britain, France, Norway, to name but a few. So if say, something serious happens and we need to invade Canada, are you also going to squawk about how it was planned and false flagged, because they thought of something similar years ago?
Yes, you sure said the word fake about 50 times, but you must have missed this:
Oh and one important fact about Northwoods: No US citizens or any one else was suppose to get killed in Operation Northwoods. It was all suppose to be faked, with actual aircraft, ships, and equipment. Also, they were meant to be done just far enough for regular folks to see what happened, but not close enough to see the "fake" part. They were not suppose to do right under the noses of hundreds of thousands of people that could have seen everything, including planting evidence, faking a crash without the use of an actual plane in the middle of the most busiest center in DC and NY. They were to use "friendly" Cubans to fake attacks. Notice: FAKE attacks. Conduct FAKE funerals and memorials. Blow up drone aircraft. Blow up fake planes. All using CUBANS, in order to give a pretense to attack CUBA. No one was suppose to get killed. No one. Don't tell me they would shelve a plan that doesnt cause any actual victims, then take it out and then murder over 3000 people using the same plan. But what gets me is that, instead of using Afghans or Iraqis, as the hijackers, they were nearly all Saudi. What the hell kind of a plan is that? That would have been like Operation Northwoods using Canadians to stage the fake attacks, then invade Cuba. How would that work? The hijackers were Saudi, so we are going to invade Iraq and Afghanistan. Yeah right. Think people, think!
sink[ing] a boatload of Cuban refugees [color=limegreen](real or simulated)
concocting a “Remember the Maine” incident by blowing up a U.S. ship in Cuban waters and then blaming the incident on Cuban sabotage
members of our government planned a false flag attack in which they would kill American citizens and blame it on Cuba to incite a war