Mike Pompeo
Trump's neokonservative udenrigsminister, Mike Pompeo, er en mand som ikke er bange for at indrømme at han er en løgner. Det lader faktisk til at han svælger i sin even til at lyve til det amerikanske folk.

Husker du at det blot er en uge siden at Pompeo fortalte os at det var strengt nødvendigt for USA at sende en drone for at dræbe Irans top general, Qassim Soleimani, mens han var i Irak på en fredsmission fordi han var igang med at planlægge "umiddelbart forestående angreb" på amerikansk personel og interesser i Mellemøsten?

Disse påstande var skabt for at tage bråden af enhver kritisk af den klart illegale handling at dræbe en top militærofficer i et land med hvilken du ikke er i krig og i et et tredje land (som forbød angreb på dets jord) med hvilket du er allieret. Dette kunne få amerikanere som rejste bekymrende røster om drabet på Soleimani til at se upatriotiske ud, hvis de opponerede ved at sige til dem: "du mener at du ønsker at amerikanere skal dø??"

Det er sådan propaganda fungerer.


Kommentar: Delvis oversat til dansk af Sott.net fra: Pompeo: I lied about Soleimani 'imminent attacks'


Then when the smoke clears, you laugh it all off and admit it was all a lie. As Pompeo did last night.

Speaking on the Laura Ingraham program, Mike Pompeo admitted that the neocon idea of "imminent " and the normal idea of "imminent " are two very different things.

"We don't know precisely when and we don't know precisely where (the attacks might take place), but it was real," he told Ingraham.

But if you don't know when and don't know where (and presumably don't know how), on what basis did Pompeo and the Trump Administration sell the idea that he had to be killed immediately lest untold numbers of Americans be killed?

And how can we believe Pompeo that Soleimani was behind the initial rocket attacks on an Iraqi base housing US troops, that a US contractor was killed by Soleimani's forces at that base, and that Soleimani was behind the "attacks" (vandalism) on the US embassy in Baghdad?

In other words, if the central justification for the murder of Soleimani is an admitted lie, who in his right mind would believe the official version of the antecedents to the murder?

While proudly lying day and night, Pompeo professes to be a great Christian - at the same time he pushed Trump to murder the architect of the anti-ISIS counterinsurgency (Soleimani) that saved hundreds of thousands of Syrian Christian lives.

Something smells sulfurous about Pompeo...