De Maizière überreichte Orden an ranghöchsten US-Kriegsorganisator

Bundeswehr auf flickr:

"Bundesminister der Verteidigung Thomas de Maizière hat am 9. Juni 2011 dem Vorsitzenden der Vereinigten Stabschefs (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) der US-amerikanischen Streitkräfte Admiral Michael G. Mullen das von Bundespräsident Christian Wulff verliehene Große Verdienstkreuz mit Stern des Verdienstordens der Bundesrepublik Deutschland ausgehändigt. Admiral Mullen erhielt diese hohe deutsche Auszeichnung als sichtbares Zeichen des Dankes und der Anerkennung aufgrund seines persönlichen Beitrags für die deutschen Soldaten im Einsatz, für die Festigung und Weiterentwicklung der engen deutsch-amerikanischen Freundschaft sowie für seine Verdienste um das Ansehen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland."

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Ordenständer Mullen ist seit seit dem 1. Oktober 2007 der Vorsitzende der Joint Chiefs of Staff und damit ranghöchster Soldat der US-Streitkräfte, militärischer Berater des amtierenden Friedensnobelpreisträgers, des Verteidigungsministeriums, des Nationalen Sicherheitsrats und des Homeland Security Council der USA. Mullen, der heute vor Risiken bei der von Präsident Obama vorgelegten aggressiven Abzugsstrategie für Afghanistan warnte und dessen Büro 2009 versuchte den investigativen Blackwater-Rechercheur Jeremy Scahill einzuschüchtern, kommentierte die Wikileaks-Veröffentlichungen zu amerikanischen Kriegsverbrechen folgendermaßen :

"Mr. Assange can say whatever he likes about the greater good he thinks he and his source are doing, but the truth is they might already have on their hands the blood of some young soldier or that of an Afghan family."

Über das Blut an seinen schwieg er sich aus:

"Admiral Mullen became chairman of the Joint Chiefs in October 2007, and so has been at the helm of the American war machine for more than two of the years in question. He was, for example, chairman in July 2008, when an American plane or planes took out an Afghan bridal party -- 70 to 90 strong and made up mostly of women -- on a road near the Pakistani border. They were "escorting the bride to meet her groom as local tradition dictates." The bride, whose name we don’t know, died, as did at least 27 other members of the party, including children. Mullen was similarly chairman in August 2008 when a memorial service for a tribal leader in the village of Azizabad in Afghanistan’s Herat Province was hit by repeated U.S. air strikes that killed at least 90 civilians, including perhaps 15 women and up to 60 children. Among the dead were 76 members of one extended family, headed by Reza Khan, a "wealthy businessman with construction and security contracts with the nearby American base at Shindand airport." (Tom Engelhardt: Whose Hands, Whose Blood)

US-Spezialeinheit sollte de Maizière manipulieren:

"The U.S. Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers specializing in "psychological operations" to manipulate visiting American senators into providing more troops and funding for the war, Rolling Stone has learned – and when an officer tried to stop the operation, he was railroaded by military investigators.(...)The list of targeted visitors was long, according to interviews with members of the IO team and internal documents obtained by Rolling Stone. Those singled out in the campaign included senators John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Jack Reed, Al Franken and Carl Levin; Rep. Steve Israel of the House Appropriations Committee; Adm. Mike Mullen of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the Czech ambassador to Afghanistan; the German interior minister, and a host of influential think-tank analysts."