new article on the sinking of the Lusitania

[emazur]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1098904/Secret-Lusitania-Arms-challenges-Allied-claims-solely-passenger-ship.html?ITO=1490
http://digg.com/world_news/Secret_of_the_Lusitania_Arms_find_challenges_Allie d_claims

FTA: 'Now that we've found it, the British can't deny any more that there was ammunition on board. That raises the question of what else was on board.

Wasn't sure if I should post this in foreign policy or economics (Lusitania is in Creature from Jekyll Island), so I just decided to go for the General Politcs form

[Anti Federalist]

From the article:

The diving team estimates that around four million rounds of U.S.-manufactured Remington .303 bullets lie in the Lusitania's hold at a depth of 300ft.

The Germans had insisted the Lusitania - the fastest liner in the North Atlantic - was being used as a weapons ship to break the blockade Berlin had been trying to impose around Britain since the outbreak of hostilities in August 1914.

Winston Churchill, who was first Lord of the Admiralty and has long been suspected of knowing more about the circumstances of the attack than he let on in public, wrote in a confidential letter shortly before the sinking that some German submarine attacks were to be welcomed.

He said: 'It is most important to attract neutral shipping to our shores, in the hope especially of embroiling the U.S. with Germany.

'For our part we want the traffic - the more the better and if some of it gets into trouble, better still.'

Hampton Sides, a writer with Men's Vogue in the U.S., witnessed the divers' discovery.
He said: 'They are bullets that were expressly manufactured to kill Germans in World War I - bullets that British officials in Whitehall, and American officials in Washington, have long denied were aboard the Lusitania.'

Now, it has been long questioned why U-boat reports from land spotters around Cork and Kinsale were not passed on by the Admiralty's intelligence service to the owners and masters of vessels approaching the Irish coast. The bold quote from Churchill explains why, since Churchill would have been calling the shots on whether to release that information or not.

Here's how it goes...

USS Maine was never attacked by the Spanish at Havana, Cuba.

Government and media lies at the time whipped up support for the Spanish-American War.

HMS Lusitania was carrying weapons and ammunition, in violation of neutrality accords.

Government and media lies at the time whipped up support for entry into WWI.

The plans of a Japanese attack at Pearl were known weeks in advance, Kimmel and Short, the commanders of land and naval forces at Pearl, were exonerated, posthumously, of their court martial charges after it became clear that critical intelligence about the forthcoming attack was deliberately withheld from them at the time.

Government and media lies at the time whipped up support for entry into WWII.

The USS Maddox, was never attacked by North Vietnamese gunboats in the Gulf of Tonkin. Recently released LBJ tapes and DoD notes have now made this public.

Government and media lies at the time whipped up support for escalation in the Vietnam "conflict" through the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

The events of 9/11 do not fit the official story.

Government and media lies that are still ongoing at this time, are whipping up support for a war that we have been told will never end.

Every single one of these events, every single major conflict (with the exception, possibly, of Korea - that was bad enough for other reasons) that this nation has been propelled into, for the past 100 years, was precipitated by an event that the facts of which were kept hidden, covered up, lied about or outright fabricated at the time.

There is a name for such an "operation":

FALSE FLAG - INSIDE JOB!!!!!

[Anti Federalist]

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[driller80545]

If drugs were decriminalized, they become worthless and the thugs lose interest. How to do the same with war. I wonder if we could put a value on integrity if these power mad maniacs would go after it with the same enthusiasm?