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Receive about one > article/day. > > > > www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] > > > > ======================================= > > Bush's Press Conference: Into the Abyss > > by Rick Rozoff [Posted 12 September 2001] > > > > [Mr. Rozzoff is an editor of Emperor's Clothes] > > ======================================= > > > > As many of you have, I just watched US President Bush's > White House press > > conference on yesterday's gruesome events in New York City > and Washington, > > D.C. > > > > Bush and the United States federal government have > officially declared > > war...only it is not evident against whom. > > > > Subsequent reports indicate that Bush will appear before > the U.S. Congress to > > invoke the War Powers Act, passed by the House in the 1970s > to limit a > > president's ability to wage war unilaterally and > arbitrarily, but destroyed > > as an effective mechanism for doing so in April of 1999 > when the Clinton > > Administration, for the first time in US history, was > denied authorization to > > continue a war - against Yugoslavia - in a 213-213 vote in > the Congress. > > Within an hour of that vote a Clinton National Security > Council spokesman was > > on national television shrieking that not only would the > bombing not stop, > > but that it would be intensified. > > > > By the US Congress accepting that crude diktat and > nevertheless appropriating > > funding for the continuation of the illegal war, it > definitively signalled > > the end of the US Constitutional role of America's formal > representatives to > > oversee and rein in the chief executive - half a president, > half a monarch - > > in future acts of illegal miitary actions and aggression abroad. > > > > It appears that each successive American administration > pushes yet further > > the boundaries of armed adventurism and catastrophe. > > > > As all the news commentators assure us, Bush will receive > near-unanimous > > carte blanche authorization to wage war whenever, wherever > and against > > whomever he finds it expedient to do so. > > > > The US Congress, Republicans and Democrats, conservatives > and liberals, > > avowed war hawks and alleged Progressive Caucus members, > will grant him > > whatever he requests: The funds and support to attack any country or > > countries, even those not even remotely implicated in > yesterday's attacks, > > and the use of whatever weaponry, conventional and > otherwise, he should > > choose to employ. > > > > What in fact Mr. Bush will soon be armed with - by that > assemblage of > > professional politicians on the Hill who yesterday evening > broke into a > > spontaneous chorus of God Bless America, right out of the > closing scene of > > the revanchist Hollywood film, The Deer Hunter - is an > unlimited, permanent > > blank check to wage la guerre eternal - war without end. > > > > The White House, with none of the fictitious foreign policy > fissures we've > > heard so much about, and its diehard loyalists on both sides of the > > Congressional aisle, have been evoking the specter of Osama > bin Laden to > > rally hateful and revengeful public sentiment and to personify the > > oft-repeated *evil* that threatens the United States and, > to quote the > > president, "all democratic and freedom-loving people" - no > other of whom, it > > should be noted, seems to be on the alleged hit list of Mr. > bin Laden. > > > > Furthermore, and ominously, Bush threatens not only to > attack - recall this > > is in his words a state of war - the actual perpetrators of > yesterday's > > attacks (whomever they may be), but "their harbors." Not > those who allegedly > > harbor them, but their harbors. > > > > To be consistent, which is to say honest, Bush, as his > legion of intelligence > > operatives could readily tell him, would have to identify > who has and still > > is supporting the villain of this dangerous melodrama, > Osama bin Laden. > > > > Bin Laden worked hand in glove with the US Central > Intelligence Agency since > > the early 1980s in establishing his Maktab al-Khidamar > network, which raised > > money and recruited jehadis - the so-called Afghan Arabs, > estimated to be > > some 10,000 strong - to overthrow the secular Democratic Republic of > > Afghanistan. > > > > He was a joint asset of the CIA and Pakistan's > Inter-Service Intelligence, > > which the Afghan Northern Opposition, Russia and India > insist still supports > > and controls him and his current Al-Qaida operation. The > latter is supported > > by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab > Emirates...all three loyal US > > and British clients regimes and recipients of > Anglo-American military > > protection and largesse. So if Bush is looking for harbors > to bomb, he knows > > where they are located. > > > > He also knows where they are not. > > > > And where and who they are not are the likely targets: > Iraq, Syria, Libya and > > Iran. > > > > All four are not only not linked to bin Laden in any > conceivable manner, but > > instead are vocal opponents of him and his activities; are > in fact potential > > victims of the same. > > > > An audio voice-over somehow got on an American television > network yesterday > > that said: Bin Laden, who has assisted forces in Somalia, > Bosnia, Chechnya > > and Kosovo.... > > > > The link has never been broken, of course, and the CIA's > Frankenstein monster > > still serves its purposes. > > > > Further Reading: > > > > 1) While Washington points to Osama bin Laden as "suspect # > 1" in yesterday's > > horrific violence, the truth is not being told to the > American people: > > 'Washington Created Osama bin Laden' by Jared Israel can be read at > > http://emperors-clothes.com/articles/jared/sudan.html#w > > > > 2) If one looks carefully, one can find in the Western > media evidence that > > bin Laden has been involved - on the U.S.-backed side - in > Kosovo, Bosnia and > > now Macedonia. > > > > 3) Bin Laden was propelled into power as part of the U.S. > drive to create an > > Islamist terrorist movement to crush the former Soviet > Union. See, the truly > > amazing account from the 'Washington Post,' 'Washington's > Backing of Afghan > > Terrorists: Deliberate Policy.' at > > http://emperors-clothes.com/docs/anatomy.htm > > > > ***
