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No one believes a liar
even when he or she is telling the truth. By: Abeba Isahac In a
letter written to the Ayatolla of “Treaties are only as good as the
credibility of the countries that sign them” How very true! Is it not the lack of credibility demonstrated by
the witnesses cum guarantors, and of course the intransigent woyane, who together with Eritrea were
signatories to a peace agreement which stipulated that, which ever way the international court ruled, both parties
would accept it as final and binding,
and that the implementation of physical demarcation of the border that exists between the two
countries would commence immediately after, that has turned into what they are now calling a
stalemate or impasse? After having
agreed that the outcome of the international court would be final and binding,
when lady justice came through tilting toward the Eritrean case, they
chickened out and have ever since been attacking Eritrea from left, right and
center, just to avoid having to face the truth, as real and courageous men
should? Indeed, treaties are only as
good as the honor and credibility of the countries that sign them. Could
the secret behind the truth then lie in the following phrase? “peace process
essentially means war, a war in which the sponsors of the process choose the
winner before the meeting they call take place. They then pretend to be
neutral during negotiations. Having bought time, they tighten the noose on
the designated loser and prepare the ground to install a government that is
totally subject to their will.” (B. Philpot) Well,
how much more succinct can one get? Is that not, in hindsight, what the
1998-2000 war was all about with all the false mediators aimlessly running
about pretending to care about peace while all they were doing was lighting a
match on the tinder? Could those who had composed the agreement as well as
who signed it along with the two main parties, as guarantors for its
implementation, have known all along that if their designated winner lost
they would breach the trust that Eritrea had put on them? No
wonder the fabricated rumors and drum beats of wars which we have been
hearing since the past four or five
years, until even as recent as the past few weeks when they were trying to
implicate and involve Eritrea in the
Somali situation, with their colorful
and tantalizing headlines which went like: “Eritrea, Ethiopia’s archest
enemy” or “My enemy’s enemy is my friend” and such cheap shots to cover up
their own evil intentions. When it comes to their interpretation of the peace
agreement to which they were as well guarantors, and not only witnesses, as
they claim, because with their signatures they had promised to take punitive
action on anyone from either party who deviated from what was agreed upon in the agreement, a mandate
which would not be given to mere witnesses – which today they claim only to
have been. That, of course is one of their deceptive ways. The
fact that the western community and especially We
never really did find out in what
particular way Saddam Hussein posed danger to the United States or to
the United Kingdom, we did hear
fascinating fabricated stories such as the false eye witness they produced
before their congress, to testify the snatching of babies from incubators by
Iraqi soldiers in Kuwait, before invading him in the early nineties, when
later it was discovered that the
witness was actually the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the USA, who
was never in or near the hospital at the time. Again,
over a decade later, there was the case of Uranium from Niger which they
claimed Saddam Hussein had purchased, a lie which they tried to coerce and
intimidate the president of Niger to join them in, which he refused to do. Quoting
senior Niger government officials, The Sunday Telegraph said “Herman Cohen, a
former US assistant secretary of state for Africa, called on President Tandja
in the capital Niamey last week to relay the message from Washington” The
response from “Against
our wishes our country has been front-page news over an affair of the sale of
uranium from President
of As a
result of having spoken the truth, the food aid which had been coming into Another
related story to the Uranium was regarding Joseph C. Wilson, an ex ambassador
to Niger and husband of Valerie Wilson, a CIA operative, who went over to
Niger to clarify, and came back with no evidence of Saddam having bought any
Uranium from Niger. He too got a taste of the rage of the state
department. As a punishment they
exposed his wife’s covert identity to the world, thus putting her in harm’s
way. At least, unlike for their other dangerous intrigues and crimes, her
case is currently in the hands of the courts. And last, but not least, the charade played
out at the United Nations with Colin Powel showing false pictures to prove
that Saddam Hussein had WMDs. Plus,
after the invasion, the little fictitious drama they played along with the
media, about American soldiers gallantly rescuing an allegedly kidnapped female soldier from the hands of
insurgents, while all along she was safe in a hospital. Now who would ever believe or trust such
blatant liars and relentless wolf criers? Just
recently as the Americans and their Ethiopian puppets were clandestinely
preparing to attack Somalia, as a cover up, they were crying wolf about plane
loads of ammunition, money and even gold, coming from Eritrea and landing in
Mogadishu; they also howled about thousands of Eritrean soldiers coming over
to, by proxy, fight the woyane on foreign land, while all along they denied
their own presence there. This, of course, is their own twisted way of
thinking; they do not know that, in
this world, unlike them, there are normal self respecting nations who would
not fight under pretexts – that is only the works of deceptive and cowardly
people. So
who is going to believe Sally Healy and Martin Plaut who
jointly wrote more lies titled
“ Have
these people no shame? Do they really think they can fool all of the people,
all of the time? Have they forgotten that in this world of huge communication
traffic, people have more choices and exposures to what really is going on
around their world? In the midst of all this, who but a fool would want to
deceive and lie? We so
often hear of people being indicted
for lying to this or another government body. What about the likes of the
above individuals and their
likes who continually lie to
overthrow good governments for their own interest, and who by so doing create
huge exodus and emigration of people, not to mention the misery of
millions brought about through civil
wars that they create? What should be done with the people who cause this
through their lies? Or should we just leave them alone to their freedom of
speech and expression, even if it is all lies. With truth
as her only weapon, February
9, 2007 |
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