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Date: March 8, 2007 3:45:09 PM PST
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Subject: 12 Men Stole a Republic from 300 Million. How Many Does
It Take to Get It Back?
Outraged by all the injustice he observed in Sodom, God judged it
necessary to punish the city.
Abraham, a righteous man who was just passing through, tried to
persuade Him not to damn the "innocent" (women and children and
everyone "not directly involved") along with the guilty.
"If you can find me just a few GOOD men in Sodom," God told
Abraham, "I will NOT destroy it."
Abraham certainly tried -- but to make a long story short, God
wound up destroying Sodom ...
The moral of the story for US, the inhabitants of the United States
of America -- for both those who made the fateful choice to elect
George Bush as our President and for those who didn't but now claim
they "can't" get rid of him-- should be clear.
We ALL colluded in this act, if only by our failure to be vigilant
("All that is needed for evil men to prevail is for good men to DO
NOTHING"), we are ALL implicated -- we are ALL OF US guilty.
"When I reflect on the fact that GOD IS JUST, I tremble for my
country." ---Thomas Jefferson
It's too late for apologies, excuses, explanations. America's fate
is what Americans DESERVE.
The Tragedy of a Dozen Evil Men
Americans Have Lost Their Country
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
CounterPunch (UK), March 1, 2007
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts03012007.html
The Bush-Cheney regime is America's first neoconservative regime.
In a few short years, the regime has destroyed the Bill of Rights,
the separation of powers, the Geneva Conventions, and the remains
of America's moral reputation along with the infrastructures of two
Muslim countries and countless thousands of Islamic civilians.
Plans have been prepared, and forces moved into place, for an
attack on a third Islamic country, Iran, and perhaps Syria and
Hezbollah in Lebanon as well.
This extraordinary aggressiveness toward the US Constitution,
international law, and the Islamic world is the work, not of a vast
movement, but of a handful of ideologues -- principally Vice
President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Lewis Libby, Douglas Feith,
Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, Zalmay Khalilzad,
John Bolton, Philip Zelikow, and Attorney General Gonzales. These
are the main operatives who have controlled policy. They have been
supported by their media shills at the Weekly Standard, National
Review, Fox News, New York Times, CNN, and the Wall Street Journal
editorial page and by "scholars" in assorted think tanks such as
the American Enterprise Institute.
The entirety of their success in miring the United States in what
could become permanent conflict in the Middle East is based on the
power of propaganda and the big lie.
Initially, the 9/11 attack was blamed on Osama bin Laden, but after
an American puppet was installed in Afghanistan, the blame for 9/11
was shifted to Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was said to have weapons
of mass destruction that would be used against America. The regime
sent Secretary of State Colin Powell to tell the lie to the UN that
the Bush-Cheney regime had conclusive proof of Iraqi weapons of
mass destruction.
Having conned the UN, Congress, and the American people, the regime
invaded Iraq under totally false pretenses and with totally false
expectations. The regime's occupation of Iraq has failed in a
military sense, but the neoconservatives are turning their failure
into a strategic advantage. At the beginning of this year President
Bush began blaming Iran for America's embarrassing defeat by a few
thousand lightly armed insurgents in Iraq.
Bush accuses Iran of arming the Iraqi insurgents, a charge that
experts regard as improbable. The Iraqi insurgents are Sunni. They
inflict casualties on our troops, but spend most of their energy
killing Iraqi Shi'ites, who are closely allied with Iran, which is
Shi'ite. Bush's accusation requires us to believe that Iran is
arming the enemies of its allies.
On the basis of this absurd accusation --a pure invention-- Bush
has ordered a heavy concentration of aircraft carrier attack forces
off Iran's coast, and he has moved US attack planes to Turkish
bases and other US bases in countries contingent to Iran.
In testimony before Congress on February 1 of this year, former
National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski said that he expected
the regime to orchestrate a "head-on conflict with Iran and with
much of the world of Islam at large." He said a plausible scenario
was "a terrorist act blamed on Iran, culminating in a 'defensive'
US military action against Iran." He said that the neoconservative
propaganda machine was already articulating a "mythical historical
narrative" for widening their war against Islam.
Why is the US spending one trillion dollars on wars, the reasons
for which are patently false? What is going on?
There are several parts to the answer. Like their forebears among
the Jacobins of the French Revolution, the Bolsheviks of the
communist revolution, and the National Socialists of Hitler's
revolution, neoconservatives believe that they have a monopoly on
virtue and the right to impose [their] hegemony on the rest of the
world.
Neoconservative [wars of] conquest [only] began in the Middle East
because oil and Israel, with which neocons are closely allied, are
both in the Middle East.
The American oil giant, UNOCAL, had plans for an oil and gas
pipeline through Afghanistan, but the Taliban were not sufficiently
cooperative. The US invasion of Afghanistan was used to install
Hamid Karzai, who had been on UNOCAL's payroll, as puppet prime
minister. US neoconservative Zalmay Khalilzad, who also had been on
UNOCAL's payroll, was installed as US ambassador to Afghanistan.
Two years later Khalilzad was appointed US ambassador to Iraq.
American oil companies have been given control over the
exploitation of Iraq's oil resources.
The Israeli relationship is perhaps even more important.
In 1996 Richard Perle and the usual collection of neocons proposed
that all of Israel's enemies in the Middle East be overthrown.
"Israel's enemies" consist of all Muslim countries not yet in the
hands of US puppets or allies.
For decades Israel has been stealing Palestine from the
Palestinians such that today there is not enough of Palestine left
to comprise an independent country. The US and Israeli governments
blame Iran, Iraq, and Syria for aiding and abetting Palestinian
resistance to Israel's theft of Palestine.
The Bush-Cheney regime came to power with the plans drawn to attack
the remaining independent countries in the Middle East, with
neoconservatives in office to implement the plans. However, an
excuse was required. Neoconservatives had called for "a new Pearl
Harbor," and 9/11 provided the propaganda event needed in order to
stampede the public and Congress into war. Neoconservative Philip
Zelikow was put in charge of the 9/11 Commission Report to make
certain no uncomfortable facts emerged.
The neoconservatives have had enormous help from the corporate
media, from Christian evangelicals, particularly from the "Rapture
Evangelicals," from flag-waving superpatriots, and from the
military-industrial complex whose profits have prospered.
But the fact remains that [just] a dozen men, named in the second
paragraph above, were able to overthrow the US Constitution and
launch military aggression under the guise of a preventive/
preemptive "war against terrorism."
When the American people caught on that the "war on terror" was a
cloak for wars of aggression, they put Democrats in control of
Congress in order to apply a brake to the regime's warmongering.
However, the Democrats have proven to be impotent to stop the
neoconservative drive to wider war and, perhaps, world conflagration.
We are witnessing the triumph of a dozen evil men over American
democracy and a free press.
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the
Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.
He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be
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