More
sensible than prematurely denying Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and calling Bush/NeoCons liars
as Max Shpak does in the following article would be to ask if Iraq’s weapons of mass
destruction are now in the hands of Syria, Iran, and Terrorists BECAUSE of the US invasion of Iraq! After all, Iraq was known to have
various wmds in the past and strenuously resisted inspections to destroy them
in the past. It looks to me like the Bush Administration is setting-up
the peace crowd to look foolish when the truth is revealed or manipulated nearer
the election.
Clearly, Iran has learned from the
experience of Iraq and Korea that weapons of mass destruction, in place and ready to fire, are
the only means to prevent a “regime change” attack by the United States. Clearly, the United States must oust these so
called rogue regimes BEFORE the nuclear, gas, and germ options are in place
ready to go if Israel’s future is to be assured.
Thus, it would behoove
the US to
exaggerate the immediacy of the wmd threat, but the US would have little need
to exaggerate the threat itself. The Muslim hard liners really DO HATE Israel and its sponsor the US. The Islamists
really do want to destroy Israel and the United States! They really do want and are attempting to obtain weapons of
mass destruction toward that end! Should the Islamist fail to obtain
workable wmds, Israel and the US will gradually or not so gradually destroy Islam!
Peace
activists OUGHT to be pointing-out that we are fast approaching the point where
the SUN NEVER SETS ON AN AMERICAN DYING FOR THE
JUDEO-MASONIC-ZIONIST-ANGLOPHILE Empire! Peace activists ought to start
arguing about details manipulated in the mass media and question the “big
picture” . . . and propose the alternative: the much discredited ISOLATIONISM
of America’s past!
Lloyd Miller, a-albioic.com
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http://www.etherzone.com/2003/shpa062003.shtml
THE NEOCONS AND THEIR LIES
THE MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN - BILL KRISTOL
By: Max Shpak
It should come as little surprise that weeks after a war that was sold to the
public on the grounds that proponents of the war "knew" that Saddam Hussein
had Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD’s), they are nowhere to be found.
Because the self-styled Mideast warriors at various neoconservative propaganda
rags assured the public that there was indeed hard evidence of these
WMD’s existence, common sense implies that they, or at least their
sources, knew where they were and would surely be able to find them well over a
month after the invasion. The fact that nobody is able to do so now proves
beyond a shadow of a doubt that the neocons were then as throughout their shady
careers feeding lies to the American public.
When it comes to the countless overblown claims made by the neocons to
propagandize their war against Iraq, it
should come as no surprise that the Emperor has no clothes. The neoconservative
litany of lies and distortions over the past few years contains enough material
to fill several encyclopedic volumes (perhaps one day such a set of volumes
will be published as a "how too" guide for the self-styled Ilya
Ehrenburgs of the future). Elsewhere I have
discussed some of the past hypocrisy, rhetorical sleights-of-hand,
half-truths, and outright lies that have surrounded other neoconservative
crusades, from the first
Gulf War to Kosovo to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I have also
discussed the fact that the public, and for that matter much of the
self-congratulatory "watchdog" media, are utterly numb to the fact
that neoconservatives habitually lie. Indeed, the mass media organs and their
eager viewers still seem ever ready to swallow the newest batch of swill
produced by the Kristols and Frums of the world without the slightest hindsight
or concern about their past deceptions.
Where the neoconservative program of deceit has taken a new and interesting
angle this time around is the way in which they are handling the (minimal)
extent of discussion and revelation surrounding their nonexistent "evidence"
for Hussein’s WMD’s. Knowing perfectly well that they were the
agent provocateurs behind these claims, the neocons have quickly moved to cover
their flank by effectively pinning whatever blame there might be on those they
swindled. It’s a strategy all shysters use: find a willing dupe and
junior partner for your scam, and then when the effort fails, pin all of the
blame on unwitting assistant.
In his effort to nip any criticism of WMD lies at the bud, William
Kristol began his self-exculpatory memo with the claim "We shouldn't
deny, those of us who were hawks, that there could have been misstatements
made, I think in good faith," Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol told
"Fox News Sunday. Asked, by whom, the
leading Iraq war backer explained, "By the
president and the secretary of state, [statements] that will turn out to be
erroneous."
Ignoring for the moment that Kristol, true to form, uses the euphemism
"misstatement" for what most normal people refer to as a
"lie," and the fact that he assures us that his lies (oh, pardon,
misstatements) are in "good faith," there is nothing new or
surprising about the first part of the statement. This is the same tactic Kristol
and all of his chattering disciples have been using for decades. The second
(bold) portion of the statement is the more interesting and unprecedented part.
In a less than subtle manner, Kristol fingers the blame for the
"misstatements" on Bush and Powell, when in fact Bush and Powell were
simply reading from scripts created for them by individuals such as Kristol
himself and his cabal of White House insiders such as Paul Wolfowitz. Along the
same line, Kristol also informs us,
"People like me, who were hawks, said the war was both just,
prudent and urgent," he said. "I think just and prudent - fine. But
it is fair to say that if we don't find serious weapons of mass destruction
capabilities, the case for urgency, which Bush and Blair certainly articulated,
is going to be undercut to some degree."
Now just a moment, Billy. Do you mean to tell us that it was only Bush and
Blair who "articulated" claims about Hussein’s WMD capacities,
or rather, made "misstatements" about it to project a sense of
"urgency" when there was simply no foundation for any of it? Are you
implying that these "misstatements" made in the name of
"urgency" originated de novo in the minds of Blair, Bush, and Powell?
Surely they didn’t. In fact, all examination of the neoconservative
propaganda mill in the months preceding Bush or Powell’s call to war
tells us that these claims found their beginnings in the scribblings of
neoconservative pundits and the babbling of neocon talking heads on major
network television. If Bush or Colin Powell (the second of which was
mercilessly chastised by neocon warmongers for not playing along with their
agenda in the beginning) began to talk about WMD’s and
"urgency," they were simply echoing the disinformation
neoconservative think tanks had fed them, or, as is likely in the case of Bush,
simply mouthing words written for them or drummed into their heads by neocon
handlers.
The fact that shameless liars like Kristol can without reservation use even the
President of the United States to cover their own flanks is testament to just
how pronounced neocon hubris has become. And why shouldn’t it, after all,
there is hardly a major figure in politics or in the media to take them to task
for their long careers of swindling and dishonesty. We certainly don’t
see anybody from the White House shouting with indignation about
Kristol’s memo, now do we?
Ideally, statements such as those made by Kristol would be a perfect
opportunity to drive a wedge between the White House (and the GOP
establishment) and the neoconservative
cabal that has invaded it in precisely the same way that cowbirds and
cuckoos invade the nests of more productive birds. In the first few decades of
what Samuel Francis aptly named the "neocon invasion," that would
indeed have been possible, because there would have been a Republican
establishment in place to act as a counterweight. As late as the Reagan
administration, there were individuals like Eagleburger, Meese, and Buchanan to
counter the agitprop of Abrams, Wolfowitz and Perle (indeed, many of these
individuals spoke out recently against the latest neocon crusade in the Middle
East), and even the first Bush administration had James Baker, known for his
skepticism towards neocon warmongering on behalf of Israel.
Today, such voices are nowhere to be found. They have been relegated to fringe
publications, to attending conferences and joining think tanks which never
reach the ears of the power elite in either the public or private sectors, or,
worse still, they have sold their souls and jumped aboard the neoconservative
bandwagon. Strangely enough, the only voice of foreign policy reason in the
current Bush White House during the months following 9/11 was the social
liberal Colin Powell. But given his lukewarm stance on domestic issues, it
comes as little surprise that he chose to go with the current and let the
neocons hijack the White House without the least resistance.
That leaves the American public, at least those who have the sense to remain
skeptical of what they are fed by the mass media, to hold congenital liars like
Kristol and his associates accountable for their actions. Though the neocons
have acquired enough power to use Presidents as "fall guys" whenever
their last propaganda house of cards collapses under even the most superficial
scrutiny, that is all the more reason for the skeptical reader or listener to
be skeptical, or rather, outright hostile, to the neoconservatives and their
sinister agenda.
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