The United States told a big lie 20 years ago, and the old truth was exposed by "our own people"!

　　China News Service, February 9th (Reporter Meng Xiangjun) "Everything we have shown you is based on facts and conclusions based on reliable information, confirming that Iraq possesses weapons of mass destruction." UN Security Council meeting on February 5, 2003 On the Internet, a senior American official solemnly held up a tube of powder to show the world the evidence.

　　Years later, however, the senior official was deemed to have blatantly lied.

The high and irreversible price brought by this "lie of the century" is that more than 200,000 civilians died and 2.5 million became refugees.

　　The person who lied was Colin Powell, the former US Secretary of State who died in 2021 due to complications from the new crown.

Data map: Former US Secretary of State Powell.

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　　In 2001, not long after the "9.11" terrorist attack that shocked the world, another attack that attracted attention occurred in the United States.

　　At that time, Daschle, the majority leader of the U.S. Senate, Leahy, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and many mainstream American media had successively received dangerous letters containing anthrax spores. Seventeen people were infected one after another, and five people died in the end.

With the sole suspect committing suicide, the case is left alone.

　　Two years later, Powell, the "spokesperson" of the United States, showed a small tube of unknown powder at the Security Council, claiming that it contained purified and dried Bacillus anthracis powder, less than a teaspoon was enough to "paralyze" the US Senate, and even "kill" the meeting site hundreds of people.

　　He pointed out that Iraq "recognized 8,500 liters" of such "pathogenic" powder, and may even have "as many as 25,000 liters."

According to US media statistics, in that speech, Powell mentioned "weapons of mass destruction" as many as 17 times.

On February 5, 2003, then-U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell held up test tubes at the United Nations Security Council as evidence against allegations of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

　　Since Bacillus anthrax is so powerful, a series of questions follow.

　　How did Mr. Powell blatantly bring a deadly pathogen into the venue at a high-level event like a Security Council meeting?

　　How can the United States guarantee that the test tubes are absolutely sealed without damage, or that there will be no emergencies that cause pathogens to leak?

Why did Powell pick up the test tube with bare hands, without special protective measures?

　　Facing the dangerous situation described by Powell, could it be said that just because he is a high-ranking US official, he can not warn the people on the scene?

Where does this put the safety of the participants?

　　Obviously, these issues are beyond the scope of the United States' consideration.

【"America didn't even apologize"】

　　In fact, Powell's "excellent performance" did not convince the Security Council.

But more than a month later, the US-British coalition forces still used "weapons of mass destruction" as an excuse to invade Iraq without the authorization of the United Nations, brutally rewriting the history of a country.

Data map: In order to escape the war, Iraqi people left their hometowns, and children rode on donkeys.

　　Saddam's regime was overthrown, Iraq was full of war, and people were dying.

However, the U.S. military has turned this country upside down, and has yet to produce evidence of the existence of "weapons of mass destruction."

　　Powell's lies angered the Iraqis.

　　In December 2008, the then U.S. President George W. Bush, who ordered the attack on Iraq, visited Iraq before leaving office and held a press conference with the then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

　　When Bush declared that "the war in Iraq is necessary for world peace," 28-year-old Iraqi journalist Montazir Zaidi stood up.

The US media recalled that in 2008, the then US President George W. Bush was thrown a shoe by Iraqi reporter Zaidi.

Image source: Screenshot of ABC report

　　He took off two shoes and threw them at Bush Jr., shouting "This is a gift from the Iraqis, this is a farewell kiss", "For those orphans, widows and all those who were killed in Iraq!"

　　Throwing a shoe at someone is one of the most insulting behaviors in Arab culture.

Zaidi thus endured a prison sentence.

But Iraqis regard him as a "hero" who dared to throw a shoe at the head of the US president.

　　Bush Jr. remembered this incident for a lifetime. He said in his memoirs, "I hope I caught that damn thing (shoe)".

　　On February 5, 2023, Zaidi admitted frankly to the Russian Satellite News Agency that the decision to "shoe attack" Bush Jr. was his response to Powell's "test tube conspiracy" 20 years ago.

　　And all this, Zaidi believes, is because "the United States wants to bring Iraq to its knees and stop its growing influence in the surrounding region."

"Iraq paid an unspeakably high price for Powell's lies... and the United States has not even apologized to the Iraqi people," he criticized.

【Old background has long been exposed】

　　"The whole world remembers that the US Secretary of State shook the test tube" and "there may be washing powder in it", Russian President Vladimir Putin once commented.

Data map: Russian President Vladimir Putin.

　　Volodin, chairman of the Russian State Duma, recently denounced the United States as an "empire of lies."

He believes that Powell's actions symbolized that the United States had committed "one of the biggest deceptions to the international community in 20 years."

　　Volodin also pointed out that NATO's promise to Russia "not to expand eastward" is also a hoax, and the United Nations should investigate the United States.

And the politicians who devised these scams "must be punished."

　　In fact, even American politicians have admitted their own country's "deception".

　　In 2020, when Trump was in power, Powell, a former senior Republican official, accused his series of practices of "harmful to democracy and the country" and said that he would vote for the Democratic Party's Biden in the general election.

Former U.S. President Trump mocked Powell on social media about "Iraq's weapons of mass destruction."

Image source: Screenshot of Trump’s social account

　　That sparked Trump's ire.

He angrily accused Powell on social media of perjury on the Iraq issue, and "should be responsible for the United States' involvement in the disastrous Middle East war."

　　The current US Vice President Harris also accidentally told the "truth" at an event. She admitted that the United States has been fighting an "oil war" for many years.

　　U.S. Republican Senator Rand Paul even bombarded the government mercilessly.

"Do you know who the greatest disinformation spreader in the history of the world is?" he asked Homeland Security Secretary Yamayokas at a hearing.

　　"It's the U.S. government."

On December 18, 2011 local time, the last batch of US troops stationed in Iraq withdrew from the country.

　　The cases he cited not only include the US falsely accusing Saddam Hussein's government of possessing weapons of mass destruction, but also the successive US governments who lied about the Vietnam War.

　　As former US Secretary of State Pompeo said in his infamous speech in 2019, "We lie, cheat, steal... We still have a lesson to teach this! This is the glory of America's continuous exploration and progress!"

　　The fig leaf of the United States has long been exposed by "our own people"!

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　　It is a well-known secret that the United States uses lying as a diplomatic weapon to satisfy its own interests.

In addition to Powell's "washing powder", more lies have been exposed in the United States over the years.

A CNN commentary stated that after the US invaded and occupied Iraq, Powell's speech was found to be full of false and false assertions.

Image source: CNN report screenshot

"Testimony of Nayla"

　　In October 1990, a 15-year-old girl, Nayla, as a volunteer in a Kuwaiti hospital, complained at the U.S. Congressional Human Rights Preparatory Conference that "the Iraqi soldiers armed with guns took hundreds of babies out of the incubator and left them to fend for themselves." Weeping.

　　Under the propaganda of the US media, the Iraqi authorities were portrayed as a heinous image, and the US Congress passed a resolution to declare war on Iraq.

　　However, Nayla's true identity was later revealed, and she was the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the United States at the time.

And this testimony was actually planned by a US strategic consulting company, the person in charge of which included Craig Fuller, an official during the Bush era.

"White Helmet" posing

　　Beginning in 2016, in Syria, the "White Helmets" organization, which appeared as a civil defense organization, shot fake videos to frame the Syrian government by fabricating evidence, asking for false witnesses, making up and posing for photos, and even developed a film production similar to team.

　　In the organization's video, the "injured person groaning in pain due to a leg injury" in the first second, stood upright and took a photo with the rescuers in the second second.

"White Helmets" took a photo of Syrian boy Omran with dust and blood on his face.

　　At that time, the 5-year-old Syrian boy Omran was covered in dust, his face was bleeding, and he was at a loss after being attacked, which attracted the attention of the whole world.

However, the "White Helmet" was exposed. It did not rescue the boy for the first time, but staged a photo of him and discredited the attack by the Syrian government forces.

　　In the end, due to the pressure of public opinion, "White Helmet" issued an apology and admitted to posing for a photo.

Syria "Chemical Weapons Attack"

　　Still in Syria, in 2018, the big drama was staged again.

This time, the subject of the "White Helmets" filming was hundreds of residents of Douma town, including children, who were "attacked by chemical weapons by Syrian government forces."

　　Has the Bashar government used chemical weapons against its own citizens?

The incident caused an uproar. The United States, Britain, and France launched air strikes on Syrian government forces on the grounds that the Bashar government "violated human rights."

Data map: Residential areas of Aleppo, Syria after the air strike.

　　More than a year later, Dalati, a producer of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), who had assisted the "White Helmets" in filming, broke the news that the "chemical weapons incident" was staged after the event, which was seriously inaccurate.

The BBC had to admit that the documentary misled viewers and did not meet journalistic standards.

　　The "White Helmets" organization was also found out not only to be funded by the United States and the West, but also to collude with terrorist forces.

　　However, the investigation and identification team of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons still pinned the "crime" on the Syrian Air Force.

The Syrian Foreign Ministry recently stated that it rejected the team's findings.

A British media commentary described Powell as "cannon fodder for US imperialism".

Image source: Screenshot of the British "Guardian" report

　　On the 20th anniversary of Powell's famous "washing powder", Syrian Foreign Minister Mekdade pointed out that the United States and its allies are lying, and they are trying to use the same drama that was played out in Iraq 20 years ago to interfere in Syria's affairs .

　　It can be seen that the tricks of the United States have not changed much over the years, and it is still a familiar formula and a familiar taste.

But the picture of Powell holding the test tube has been recorded in history and has become a stain that can never be erased by the "Empire of Lies".

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