- The greatest threat now is "a 9/11 occurring with
a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but
with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities."
- -- Dick Cheney on Face the Nation, CBS, April 15, 2007
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- A few days ago, a group of lawyers from western Massachusetts
met with the local congressman, Democrat John Olver. Their request was
that Olver take part in the urgent effort to impeach Bush and Cheney. Olver
responded by saying that he had no intention of doing anything to support
impeachment. He went further, offering the information that the United
States would soon attack Iran, and that these hostilities would be followed
by the imposition of a martial law regime here.
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- According to reports in the British press, the Cheney
war party has gained the upper hand in the secret councils of the Bush
White House, pushing aside the purported hesitations of Miss Rice, Secretary
Gates, and the NATO allies to chart a direct course towards war with Iran:
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- 'The balance in the internal White House
debate over Iran has shifted back in favour of military action before President
George Bush leaves office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned. The shift
follows an internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and
the state department over the last month. Although the Bush administration
is in deep trouble over Iraq, it remains focused on Iran. A well-placed
source in Washington said: "Bush is not going to leave office with
Iran still in limbo." at a meeting of the White House, Pentagon and
state department last month, Mr Cheney expressed frustration at the lack
of progress and Mr Bush sided with him. "The balance has tilted. There
is cause for concern," the source said this week. "Cheney has
limited capital left, but if he wanted to use all his capital on this one
issue, he could still have an impact," said Patrick Cronin, the director
of studies at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.' ("Cheney
pushes Bush to act on Iran; Military solution back in favour as Rice loses
out; President 'not prepared to leave conflict unresolved'", Guardian,
July 16, 2007.)
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- Deluded supporters of the Democratic Party may soon have
to throw away their pathetic countdown clocks, those self-consoling little
devices that remind them of how much time remains until noon on January
20, 2009, the moment when it is thought that Bush will finally leave office.
These countdown clocks make no provision for the Cheney doctrine, which
calls for a new super 9/11 with weapons of mass destruction in the US,
to be used as the pretext for a nuclear attack on Iran and for martial
law at home. Those who think the Republicans cannot hold the White House
in 2008 have forgotten that neocons always prefer a coup d'etat to an election.
As Cheney told Bob Schieffer of CBS's Face the Nation on April 15, 2007:
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- 'The greatest threat now is "a 9/11
occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and
box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own
cities."'
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- Pelosi and Reid need to toss out their fatuous countdown
clocks, and get out their impeachment stopwatches fast.
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- CHERTOFF'S GUT FEELING FOR TERRORISM
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- Integral to the Cheney strategy has always been to orchestrate
a climate of public terror. As Cheney told WLS in Chicago on Friday April
13: It's important that people remember 9/11." 9/11 remains the basis
of every one of Cheney's intrigues. One of Cheney's terror facilitators
in this sense is Michael Chertoff, the cadaverous Secretary of Homeland
Security. Although an experienced bureaucrat, Chertoff is now contemplating
his navel as he searches for new ways to intimidate the American people,
who have essentially no natural enemies at all, into the hallucination
that they face an acute existential threat of being wiped out from one
moment to the next. Chertoff told the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune
once the voice of isolationism that the US faces an increased
danger of attack in the summer of 2007. This wild fabrication, not based
on any specific information of any kind that he could cite, Chertoff called
his "gut feeling the nation faces a heightened chance of an attack
this summer." "I believe we are entering a period this summer
of increased risk," said Chertoff. "Summertime seems to be appealing
to them. ... We worry that they are rebuilding their activities."
The desperate demagogues of the Republican Party are facing a hecatomb
at the polls in November 2008. Their idea seems to be that of the fascist
Prime Minister Aznar of Spain in March 2004: if you are sure to lose an
election, stage a terror attack, declare martial law, and perpetuate your
power that way. Aznar was stopped by a general strike of about one third
of the entire Spanish people. If all else fails, would Americans be capable
of a mass strike against war and dictatorship? We may soon find out.
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- Chertoff's troubled gut has already given rise to a White
House interagency group of top intelligence and law enforcement functionaries
that meets every Friday afternoon at 1PM. Will this committee run the coup?
Reports followed of dozens of FBI agents fanning out to pursue a "worry
list" of some seven hundred alleged leads, including 100 in the New
York area. Some of these derived from the recent British terror stunts
in London and Glasgow used by MI-5 and MI-6 to smooth the transition from
the Tony Blair quasi-police state to the Gordon Brown version of the same
thing. MI-5 and MI-6 displayed the same mixture of comic ineptitude and
phlegmatic homicide which was their hallmark during the long years when
London was the prey of bombs by the "Irish Republican Army,"
now revealed to have been top-heavy with government intelligence agents
who called the shots. The Glasgow airport event consisted of a burning
car crashed into a building, the films of which were shown all afternoon
the by the US cable news networks. One was tempted to propose a caption:
"Only one burning car a good day on the Cross-Bronx Expressway."
Yet for one burning car, the world was supposed to stop. These British
events had been preceded by several weeks of hysteria about allegedly looming
terror attacks against US installations in the Rhein-Main area of Germany,
featuring the Wiesbaden spa, all based on CIA claims made to the government
in Berlin and relentlessly trumpeted through the controlled media.
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- A NEW 9/11 THE KEY TO BOLSTERING WESTERN RESOLVE
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- Chertoff's rationale was illuminated by an interview
with Lt. Colonel Doug Delaney, the chair of the war studies program at
the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a NATO intelligence
center. Delaney was addressing the problems raised by the rising Canadian
losses in Afghanistan, but he provided a valuable window into the minds
of military planners when he observed, in the words of the interviewer:
"It may well be that the key to bolstering Western resolve is another
terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years
ago, he says. If nothing happens, it will be harder still to say this [Canadian
meddling in Afghanistan] is necessary." In other words, it may be
time for a new false flag synthetic terror operation to gin up hysteria
in North America to permit the present bankrupt elites to retain power
and further grind down any spirit of popular resistance to such irrational
rule. Chertoff's fear-mongering was backed up by ousted Republican senator
and notorious scoundrel Rick Santorum, who told a radio interviewer that
"between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and
I believe that by this time next year, the American public is going to
have a very different view of this war." Chertoff's reckless and inflammatory
ventriloquism was the harbinger of the new US National Intelligence Estimate
issued on July 17.
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- THE BOOZ ALLEN NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE: "AL
QAEDA" THREAT TO USA LOOMS
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- This pitiful NIE ranks with the lying NIEs issued before
the attack on Iraq in 2003 as a tissue of lies and prevarications. The
main thesis is that al Qaeda branches around the world are striving to
infiltrate more operatives into the US for terror attacks on the US "homeland:"
"Although we have discovered only a handful of individuals in the
United States with ties to al Qaeda senior leadership since 9/11, we judge
that al Qaeda will intensify its efforts to put operatives here,"
opines the declassified summary of the underlying secret screed. "As
a result, we judge that the United States currently is in a heightened
threat environment." (cnn.com, July 17) The new faked NIE has been
produced under the supervision of Admiral Michael McConnell, the current
US intelligence czar, whose credentials include ten years at Booz Allen
Hamilton, the premier private military firm. Some analysts have asked what
was going on at Booz Allen on September 11, 2001, and in the days leading
up to that event, and what McConnell personally might have been working
on. Back on January 7, 2007, Raw Story had portrayed the newly-nominated
McConnell as a Cheney asset, and quoted CIA old boy Vince Cannistraro calling
the McConnell nomination "a disaster." In the same article, CIA
vet Larry Johnson predicted that McConnell, a weak manager, would cave
in to Bush-Cheney on key issues. The fabrications of the new NIE have been
assisted by Cheney's office, by convicted Iran-contra felon Elliot Abrams
(now a dominant personality inside the Bush White House), by Abrams' military
aide Gen. Kevin Bergner, and by other neocon assets.
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- Intelligence community veteran Philip Giraldi of the
CIA has dismissed the new NIE with its talk of "high impact plots"
against the US as "a tour de force of misinformation disguised as
fact." Giraldi also noted: "It is possibly no coincidence that
there has been a significant increase in the anti-Iran rhetoric emanating
from both the Bush administration and Congress over the past few weeks,
mostly seeking to establish a casus belli by contending that Iran is masterminding
lethal attacks against US troops in Iran and NATO forces in Afghanistan."
(antiwar.com, July 17)
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- CHENEY'S PERSIAN ADVENTURE
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- A nuclear attack on Iran remains the central obsession
of the George Shultz-Rupert Murdoch-Cheney faction. On July 10, the Pentagon
announced that it would be sending another aircraft carrier battle group,
this time that of the USS Enterprise, to the waters off Iran. This means
that whenever that carrier joins the two already there, three US attack
carriers will be within striking range of Iranian targets. The Pentagon
followed up shortly thereafter with another statement, assuring the world
that soon only one carrier would patrol off Iran. But that was only a dubious
promise, and in the meantime the three carriers would shortly be ready
to attack.
-
- On July 10, the Washington Post and Reuters stoked international
hysteria with reports that mysterious and sinister tunnels were being built
by the Iranian authorities near one of the suspected nuclear facilities
of Natanz. These reports were accompanied by aerial photographs and satellite
imaging that has been gussied up with labels to make them look as much
as possible like the famous U-2 photographs of Soviet medium-range missiles
in Cuba back in October 1962. The claim was that the supposed tunnel "could
be used to hide and protect key nuclear components." The implication
was that the Iranian atomic bomb could not be far off, a notion for which
there is no proof.
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- In the late winter, Pelosi, House Majority Leader Stenny
Hoyer and Reid had bowed to the demands of AIPAC, the subversive pro-Israeli
lobbying organization whose employees have been implicated in espionage,
and removed from the defense bill a provision warning Bush that he was
required to consult Congress before attacking Iran. A similar provision
pushed for a while by Senator Webb of Virginia has also disappeared from
view. As for the Republican presidential candidates, on June 7 they
with the solitary exception of maverick Ron Paul outbid one another
in enthusiasm for a nuclear attack on Iran. These ultra-Hitlerian outbursts
occurred in response to manipulation by Wolf Blitzer, an obvious asset
of the war party. For the good of the American people, the warmonger GOP
candidates, along with Blitzer, should have been hauled away at once in
a net by burly orderlies in white coats.
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- CHENEY'S BREAKAWAY ALLY CHARADE
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- A key component of Cheney's argument is that Israel may
soon strike unilaterally against Iran with a sneak attack deploying nuclear
weapons, breaking the post-1945 taboo on atomic bombs. This would represent
the old "breakaway ally" scenario, by which Israel presents the
US with such an attack as a fait accompli, and then expects Washington
to enter the war on the side of the Israeli aggressors. Cheney's talking
point is that the US must be ready to strike because the Israelis are going
to act on their own anyway. The lying nature of Cheney's line is shown
by Bush's remark to Chirac at the St. Petersburg G-8 summit in July 2006,
when Bush was adamant that the Israeli aggression against Lebanon then
ongoing was not an Israeli-conceived war, but rather a US war which had
been assigned to Israel as a proxy and surrogate for the US. According
to Will Thomas, a dress rehearsal for the breakaway ally charade occurred
on January 7, 2007 when Israeli warplanes flew over Iraq and manifested
the intention to "go downtown" meaning an apparent nuclear
strike into Iran. At some point the Israelis were allegedly told by the
US to go back, and they desisted from the attempt. This reported incident
came shortly before the US raided the Iranian consulate in Irbil in northern
Iraq, illegally arresting Iranian diplomats. Around the same time, reports
that an Iranian missile had hit a US ship caused a stir on Wall Street,
while Iran reported shooting down another US drone over its territory.
(infowars.com, willthomas.net)
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- The Israeli war party is represented first of all by
Avigdor Lieberman, the Minister of Strategic Threats who is himself a strategic
threat. On Friday July 13, a day of ill omen, Lieberman boasted before
a group of NATO and European Union officials that Israel had received a
green light from the U.S. and Europe for an Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear
facilities. "If we start military operations against Iran alone, then
Europe and the U.S. will support us," said Lieberman. According to
Israel Today magazine, Lieberman argued that ongoing hostilities in Iraq
and Afghanistan are "going to prevent the leaders of countries in
Europe and America from deciding on the use of force to destroy Iran's
nuclear facilities," so they are telling Israel to "prevent the
threat herself."
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- Another Israeli incendiary is Brigadier General Yossi
Kuperwasser, the former head of the Research Division of Israeli Military
Intelligence. On July 10, Kuperwasser told the Jerusalem Post that economic
sanctions alone will not stop Iran, and that the window of opportunity
to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear installations was running
out. Kuperwasser claimed that Iran is "very close" to the technological
threshold for enriching uranium at an industrial level. The Iranians will
then be able to manufacture a nuclear device within two to three years,
according to Kuperwasser. "The program's vulnerability to a military
operation is diminishing as time passes," Kuperwasser said, "and
they are very close to the point that they will be able to enrich uranium
at an industrial level."
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- EL BARADEI WARNS AGAINST NEOCON "NEW CRAZIES"
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- This kind of thinking in the US, UK, and Israel was what
Dr. Mohamed El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency,
had in mind when he issued his famnous June 2, 2007 warning about a coming
attack on Iran: "I wake every morning and see 100 Iraqis innocent
civilians are dying ...I have no brief other than to make sure we don't
go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each other. You do
not want to give additional argument to new crazies who say 'let's go and
bomb Iran.' " And who are the "new crazies"? "Those
who have extreme views and say the only solution is to impose your will
by force." It is not possible to "bomb knowledge."
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- A grave doubt casts its shadow over any scenario of US
nuclear attack on Iran: as William Thomas reported last February, the fuses
of cheap Chinese silicon chips now being used by the US military in ships,
tanks, planes, and other applications may be too weak to resist the high
levels of electromagnetic pulse (emp) which would be unleashed by a nuclear
bombardment of the Iranian nuclear sites. The outsourced chips, coherent
with the Rumsfeld "war on the cheap" strategy, could cripple
a large proportion of the US Central Command's military hardware, with
disruptive effects that would reach back to the command's Florida headquarters
and possibly to the Pentagon. (rense.com, February 21, 2007, and willthomas.net)
If these report are correct, US nuclear bombers might crash, the the carriers
that launched them might suddenly find themselves dead in the water, quite
indepen dent of what the Iranians might do.
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- CHENEY'S LEBANON-SYRIA GAMBIT
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- In addition to the hypothesis of an attack on Iran, there
is also the immediate threat to Iran's ally, Syria. According to a UPI
dispatch dated July 9 under the byline of Claude Salhani, numerous signs
currently point towards hostilities between Israel and the Damascus government,
with a renewed Israeli attack on Lebanon a likely element in this strategy.
According to former State Department official Dennis Ross, "there
is a risk of war" between Syria and Israel in the summer. Ross told
YnetNews, Yedioth Ahronoth's Internet edition: "no one has made any
decisions, but the Syrians are positioning themselves for war." The
neocon exoteric New York Sun claimed to cite a supposed Syrian official
saying that added that, by allegedly pulling Syrian nationals out of Lebanon
by mid-July, "Damascus is preparing for Israeli retaliation following
Syrian guerilla attacks and for a larger war with the Jewish state in August
or September." "If Israel doesn't vacate the strategic Golan
Heights before September, Syrian guerillas will immediately launch 'resistance
operations' against the Golan's Jewish communities," the alleged Syrian
added. These remarks reflect scenarios being developed by the Israelis.
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- But the Masada party of national suicide is not the only
game in town for Israelis. On July 11, an anonymous leaker from inside
Israeli Military Intelligence warned his associates to remember their ignominious
defeat at the hands of Hezbollah in last summer's war. According to this
source, "war with Syria would be ten times worse than with Hezbollah."
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- THE ATTACK ON PAKISTAN: MIDSUMMER OF NEOCON MADNESS
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- Cheney also has the option of attacking into Pakistan.
Cheney had visited Pakistan at the end of February with an obvious ultimatum
to General Musharraf to get ready to mount a land war against Iran this
summer. Equally and immediately obvious was the fact that Musharraf, who
considers himself the heir to the great Mustafa Kemal Ataturk of Turkey,
had told the Vice President to go Cheney himself. With Pakistan refusing
to attack its neighbor, Cheney suddenly discovered that Osama bin Laden
was being protected by Musharraf! The US-UK destabilization of Pakistan
began in grand style, with the New York Times helpfully publishing lists
of generals whom Washington would be delighted to see take power in a putsch
in Islamabad. Pawns of the destabilization included the Chief Justice of
Pakistan, reputed to be a British agent, and riots by lawyers in business
suits. Then came the slaughter at the Red Mosque, staged by the usual CIA/MI-6
fundamentalists. Pakistan, under tremendous pressure from the US, has announced
a military crackdown on so-called Taliban forces in the northern tribal
areas of Waziristan, an enterprise sure to stir up a hornet's nest of resistance
even if none had been there before. The neocons demanded that the US invade
Pakistan, under the pretext of looking for Osama bin Laden. On July 12,
neocon fascist madman William Kristol told Fox News: "I think the
president's going to have to take military action there over the next few
weeks or months.... Bush has to disrupt that sanctuary. I think, frankly,
we won't even tell Musharraf. We'll do what we have to do in Western Pakistan
and Musharraf can say, 'Hey, they didn't tell me.'" Ironically, bin
Laden's second in command, reputed MI-6 speaking tube Ayman al Zawahiri,
at around the same time issued a fatwa declaring jihad against Musharraf's
Pakistani regime. If Musharraf was haboring Osama, why would al Qaeda declare
war against Musharraf? The answer is what it has always been: "al
Qaeda" is a troupe of agents provocateurs founded by the CIA and the
British, and remains so until this day. As for the neocon plan to attack
Pakistan, it is the very midsummer of madness: if Iran has three time the
population of Iraq, Pakistan with 164 million is more than five times more
numerous than Iraq. If the neocon plans succeed, the US would soon be at
war with almost 300 million people far too many for the hollow US
force of 10 divisions, whatever technology they might possess.
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- WARNINGS: RON PAUL, PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, CINDY SHEEHAN,
PAT BUCHANAN
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- Among other authoritative voices across the political
spectrum warning of an imminent Bush-Cheney attack on Iran:
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- Republican Congressman and presidential candidate Ron
Paul commented to Alex Jones: "I think we're in great danger of it.
We're in danger in many ways, the attack on our civil liberties here at
home, the foreign policy that's in shambles and our obligations overseas
and commitment which endangers our troops and our national defense."
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- Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury under the Reagan Administration, wrote in his latest column: "Unless
Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US
could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put in place
all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of 'executive orders'
that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent
statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican
senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might expect a
series of staged, or false flag, 'terrorist' events in the near future."
(Paul Craig Roberts, "Impeach Now or Face the End of Constitutional
Democracy," Counterpunch, July 16, 2007) In a July 19 interview with
Thomm Hartmann of Air America, Roberts cited Bush's July 17 executive order,
which allows the US regime to seize the property of anyone found to be
interfering with the reconstruction of Iraq. This radio warning was reported
by the RIA-Novosti news agency of Moscow in numerous languages. The Moscow
summary, dated July 20, begins: "A former Reagan official has issued
a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate
a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into
a dictatorship, and launch a war with Iran within a year."
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- Pat Buchanan is convinced that the danger of a new war
provocation by Bush-Cheney will come in August, when the Democratic Congress
will conveniently be out of Washington and on vacation. Buchanan asks important
questions:
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- Is the United States provoking war with Iran, to begin
while the Congress is conveniently on its August recess? One recalls that
it was in August 1964, after the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater,
that the Tonkin Gulf incident occurred.
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- Has Bush secretly authorized covert attacks inside Iran?
Are U.S. and Israeli agents in Kurdistan behind the attacks across the
border to provoke Iran? On July 11, Iranian troops clashed with Kurd rebels
inside Iran, and the Iranians fired artillery back into Iraq.
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- Is this yet another abdication by Congress of its moral
and constitutional duty to decide when and whether America goes to war?
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- Why is Congress going on vacation? Why are a Democratic-controlled
House and Senate not asking these questions in public hearings? Why is
Congress letting Bush and Vice President Cheney decide whether we launch
a third war in the Middle East? Or is Congress in on it?" ("Tonkin
Gulf II and the Guns of August?," World Net Daily, July 17, 2007)
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- Based on the John Olver remarks, the Democrats are in
on it. As for Buchanan, he should say these things on MSNBC.
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- Also warning of new war provocations was Cindy Sheehan,
who was traveling towards Washington DC to declare her challenge to failed
House Speaker Pelosi. She commented that there was a "distinct possibility"
that America will be hit with another staged terror attack that will allow
Bush to enact the martial law provisions he recently imposed by executive
order. These measures allow Bush to declare a domestic state of emergency
in response to virtually any minor incident anywhere in the world. (Paul
Joseph Watson, Prison Planet, July 12, 2007, "Sheehan: Distinct Chance
Of Staged Attack, Martial Law; Peace Mom warns of false flag terror as
she prepares to take on sell-out Pelosi.")
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- BUSH ANTICS STUN REPUBLICANS FROM THE HILL
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- This past week, the tenant of the White House showed
new signs of mental instability by barging in to a routine meeting between
White House communication director Ed Gillespie, spokesman Tony Snow, and
a group of Republican congressional leaders. Bush was there to insist that
everybody stay the course of Iraq.
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- "It was stunning," said one GOP aide who attended
the meeting. "We couldn't believe he came in." "We kept
looking at each other, amazed he came in," said another Republican
colleague. According to one press account, "Bush was described as
folksy, adamant and mildly profane as he interrupted the meeting. His message:
the policy on Iraq isn't changing. He is not backing down and no one on
Capitol Hill should be confused into thinking he is letting up."
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- A new threat to US policy comes from the formidable Turkish
military establishment, which is sick and tired of constant cross-border
attacks by PKK Kurdish terrorists operating from the Kurdish enclave in
northern Iraq. The US, UK, and Israelis are using the PKK for terror operations
into Kurdish territories of Iran. These PKK terrorist are paid and armed
directly by the US military, bringing any notion of a US "war on terror"
to a new nadir of absurdity. For some time, the Turks have been lobbing
shells and raiding into Kurdish Iraq. 140,000 Turkish troops are massed
along the border in question, and if Turkish patience runs out, the Kurds
will be crushed.
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- US IRAQ SUPPLY LINES IN GRAVE DANGER
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- Washington still cultivates delusions of grandeur: the
moment of truth for Iraq will be in mid-September, or perhaps in November
or December. But, as one British writer once put it, what if the bear blows
first? What if US forces in Iraq experience catastrophic military defeat
at some point in the future? What if it takes the form of pocketing or
encirclement, the "Dunkirk if you're lucky, Stalingrad if you're not
so lucky" outcome?
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- It is not clear whether or when Iraqi resistance forces
will move decisively to attack the Achilles heel of the US occupation forces,
the 400-mile truck convoys between Kuwait City and Baghdad, but the longer
the US forces continue their present futile efforts, the more likely this
tragic outcome will become. These are trucks driven by Pakistanis, Turks,
Bangladeshis, and Filipinos, and protected by private military contractors
by poorly armed mercenaries. A recent report by Jim Michaels in USA
Today indicates that the strategy most dangerous to the US forces is indeed
gaining ground among the resistance: Michaels writes that "attacks
on supply convoys protected by private security companies in Iraq have
more than tripled as the U.S. government depends more on armed civilian
guards to secure reconstruction and other missions. There were 869 such
attacks from the beginning of June 2006 to the end of May this year. For
the preceding 12 months, there were 281 attacks." Of all the news
coming out of Iraq, this is perhaps the most ominous. Any military debacle
by the US forces in Iraq would be immediately blamed on Iran, and would
infallibly be seized upon by Cheney as a pretext for massive retaliation
against Iran.
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- DOLLAR HYPERINFLATION A FACTOR
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- An important contributing factor in the Cheneyac war
hysteria is the beginning of dollar hyperinflation. Two Bear Sterns hedge
funds have blown up, wiping out $9 billion of capital in a few days, and
Helicopter Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve says that the subprime mortgage
bubble meltdown will lead to $100 billion in losses by US banks, and this
is clearly a lowball figure. Two analysts quoted by the Toronto Globe and
Mail on July 19 suggest that the entire US banking establishment may now
be looking at a 15% to 20% devaluation because of mortgage-related losses.
Only frenetic pumping in of new dollar liquidity by Helicopter Ben and
his men is staving off big bankruptcies, but this sloshing liquidity spells
hyperinflation . The Dow has passed 14,000, but the dollar has also reached
an all-time low of almost $1.40 to a euro, with a 26-year low against the
British pound. With oil well above $75 and gold above $680 per ounce, while
raw materials and food prices skyrocket, the US may soon resemble Germany
of 1923, when people took their money to the grocery store in a wheelbarrow,
and brought home their purchases in their pocket. Small wonder that the
worldwide dumping of the bankrupt US dollar continues apace, with Iran
now asking Japan to pay for oil transactions in yen, cutting Wall Street
out of another lucrative commodity flow.
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- US SITUATION TRAGIC
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- These points bring into sharp relief the dire predicament
of our tragically drifting country in the summer of 2007, a summer which
Cheney's backers and controllers are determined to transform into the Summer
of Fear. Skeptics may object that they have heard all this before
in the spring and the autumn of 2004, in the late summer of 2005, and in
March-April of 2007 and that so far the general war with Iran had
not occurred. This is true, but it is no argument against the urgency of
the warnings that the present writer and others have issued from time to
time over the last three years. It only shows that the world has been lurching
and careening along the edge of a much wider war in the Middle East since
about May of 2004 at the latest. For much of this time we have lived in
the shadow of the Cheney doctrine, which calls for a nuclear attack on
Iran in the wake of a new super 9/11 terrorist provocation (coming from
the bowels of the US intelligence community) as revealed by Philip
Giraldi in The American Conservative in August of 2005. Each time some
combination of internal US institutional resistance and inertia, objections
by NATO allies, and foreign threats or pressure have somehow avoid the
worst. So far we have muddled through. But Cheney's backers and controllers
the ones designated as the Cheneyacs in this analysis have
unfailingly pulled themselves together after each rebuff, and have marshaled
their forces for a new drive over the brink of the abyss. As long as Bush
and Cheney are in power, as long as the 9/11 rogue networks in the US intelligence
community continue their work unpurged and undisturbed, we will face one
war emergency after another, until the likely moment when humanity's luck
runs out. Under any political system committed to its own survival, each
of the Cheneyac war drives over the past three years should have lead to
the impeachment, removal from office, and indictment of the dour and snarling
old reprobate himself, and a general mop-up of his followers. It is the
fact that the corrupt and cowardly parliamentary cretins of the Democratic
Party have failed to impeach and oust Bush-Cheney over the last six months
since they took power which represents the most immediate cause of the
fix we are now in. Congressman Kucinich has introduced the needed articles
against Cheney, but the Pelosi-Reid opportunists have been hostile to this
needed measure. It is time for honest activists to join with the Philadelphia
Platform to get on with the business at hand before martial law is imposed
by these neocon fascist madmen, since by then it may be too late.
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- BRZEZINSKI: "A TERRORIST ACT IN THE US BLAMED ON
IRAN"
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- The Democratic Party Congressional leadership has known
all about Cheney's plans for six months or more, as can be shown from the
public record. On February 1, 2007, Zbigniew Brzezinski warned the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee of ongoing machinations designed to procure
war with Iran and beyond: "A plausible scenario for a military collision
with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations
of Iranian responsibility for the failure; then by some provocation in
Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran; culminating in a 'defensive'
US action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and
deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan." Over the past half year, events have followed Brzezinski's
scenario closely. Blaming Iran for the missed benchmarks in Iraq is now
the daily stock in trade of the Bush administration and the US Central
Command, who whine continuously about Iranian interference in Iraq. There
have been several military provocations in Iraq which the US has tried
to pin on Iran, most notably March 23, 2007 incident involving 15 British
Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel who were taken into custody by the
Iranians. This incident was a part of Cheney's winter-spring war drive,
which peaked with two US B-1 bombers deliberately violating Iranian airspace
over the city of Abadan in oil-rich Khuzestan province on March 31. This
crisis was defused by a mobilization of persons of good will around the
world, with Russian President Putin and the RIA-Novosti news agency playing
a critical role. In particular, a pointed March 28 warning from Putin to
Bush about attacking Iran created enough uncertainty in Washington about
how Moscow might respond to nuclear aggression against Iran so that cooler
heads than Cheney's prevailed.
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- That leaves us with Brzezinski's third scenario point:
a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran. What Brzezinski is talking about
here is high treason, insurrection , genocide, high crimes against humanity
under US law and the Nuremberg Code. Why has he not been called upon to
tell all he knows about this sinister plot, so obviously operating through
the Cheney-Addington office, and through Eliot Abrams at the White House?
Because the Democrats who heard that warning Senators Biden, Dodd,
and Obama on the committee, plus Hillary Clinton have done nothing
to raise a hue and cry, hold hearings, issue subpoenas, demand documents,
or begin impeachment hearings against those involved. The Democratic Party
must therefore be seen as fully complicit under the Nuremberg Code in any
future crimes by Cheney regarding a wider war in the Middle East. The Democratic
Party has failed, and the viable peace movement must now organize independently
on a multi-issue basis including 9/11 truth, as called for in the July
4, 2007 Philadelphia Platform, which can be seen at actindependent.org.
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