We begin from where we stopped in this column last week. Staff at the U.S.
embassy in Kampala deliberately distorted my discussions with them regarding M23 rebels. They claimed I called them to seek the withdraw of sanctions against M23. Yet M23 did not talk to me about sanctions, and I did not talk to U.
S. diplomats about sanctions either. M23 wanted to leverage U.
S. influence in Kinshasa to reopen talks with the government in Kinshasa with a view to find a peaceful solution to the civil war in that country. Who in their sane mind would not seize such an opportunity? Yet while disgusted by such cheap manipulation of my conversation with them, I was not surprised by their actions.
It is difficult to guess the dirty schemes the U.S. embassy in Kampala and its government in Washington DC are cooking for Uganda and this region.
And use of lies in pursuit of hidden agendas is a common U.S. foreign policy practice.
The U.S. went to war in Vietnam over lies that a Vietnamese vessel had sunk an American ship in the Gulf of Tonkin.
The U.S. spent ten years, lost 58,000 soldiers and billions of dollars over this lie.
Then they claimed Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that Sadam Hussein was in cahoots with Al Qaeda. They manufactured “intelligence” to “prove” these claims. They invaded that country, killed millions of its citizens, spent over $3 trillion on that war and lost 6,000 soldiers based on these lies.
Yet only eight years later, they claimed Muammar Gaddafi was.
