Ken O'Keefe: US, biggest purveyor of war on the planet

Press TV has conducted an interview with Ken O’Keefe, a peace activist and former US marine in London, to discuss US drone strikes in Afghanistan.

The following is a rough transcription of the interview.

Press TV: As far as it officially says, Washington’s combat mission in Afghanistan is over. So why carry out drone strikes?

O’Keefe: Well the reasons that they would use to justify their current placement in Afghanistan are just as farcical as the original reasons. It is impossible for us to ignore with any sense the fact that never has Osama bin Laden been charged with the crime of 9/11. In fact the FBI admitted in 2006 that there was not sufficient evidence to link him to 9/11.

So we invaded on a false premise in which we do not even have the evidence to be able to indict, much less convict in a legitimate court, Osama bin Laden of the crimes of 9/11 and for those of us who are paying attention we know darn well that 9/11 was the ultimate false flag.

But putting that aside, the United States has absolutely no integrity whatsoever when it tells the world that we are only killing militants, it is telling a bald-faced lie. We know that hundreds of children and women and civilians have been killed, in fact thousands, if we were to be fair. These people who live in Afghanistan whether we like them or not are actually living in their own land, whereas America is extending its reach all around the world not just to Afghanistan but of course we know drone strikes were occurring in Pakistan, in Yemen also, in Somalia, in Iraq and even now into Syria as well.

So we are basically committing ourselves to a World War primarily headed with drone strikes and the United States is the biggest purveyor of violence and war on the planet. So none of what it says should be to have any credence with anybody. I do not know why anybody in this world would believe anything the United States government says or Western governments in general, quite frankly.  

Press TV: But there are those that say that the precision of these drone strikes is now more accurate considering that they are being carried out in coordination with Afghan officials and the Afghan government. What would you say to that?

O’Keefe: Well the fact is that Hamid Karzai was a puppet. He sat over a puppet regime that facilitated the US aggressions throughout his country for many, many years, and he became slightly less willing to play his role as a puppet and refused to sign the document that would have allowed impunity to rein i.e. no US representatives or military could be held to account for war crimes in Afghanistan and so he stepped down and was replaced by another puppet who signed the agreement that allows the United States to commit whatever crime it wants with absolute impunity in Afghanistan.

So unfortunately for the Afghani people, their government is beyond compromise and has been serving the interest of the aggressor for a long, long time now so whatever even the Afghani government says is not really to be taken seriously quite frankly, although I do not doubt that some of the statements that some of the representatives in Afghanistan are making are true. At the top level, it is nothing more than a puppet regime.

The bottom line in terms of casualties is if there was one Western citizen that were murdered, one little girl or one little boy, that was killed by a drone strike, by some aggressor nation half way around the world, then the entire Western world would know about this little boy or girl and there would be an outrage. But if we kill little Afghani boys and girls, it hardly matters at all and we call it precision strikes and claim that we are acting in some sort of a humane or moral manner. 

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