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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TideGlider who wrote (518796)	1/3/2004 11:28:11 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

The intention is to demoralize the citizenry, and to undermine the government. Yes, one possibilty is to force the government to react in a manner that puts it in a bad light with some people. The creation of civic discord helps the terrorists, no doubt.......

To: TideGlider who wrote (518796)	1/3/2004 12:28:13 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

The purpose of terrorism is to apply a certain degree of serious threat to a populace and thereby having the populace demand protection from their government. The reason that many of us are deeply suspicious of the intentions of the Bushies is because of a history of "false flag" operations that were intended to redound to the furtherance of government goals. Several instances come to mind here. * The Lavon Affair, 1953. Israeli agents act as Muslim terrorists in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt in an attempt to spread fear and induce Western intervention: aljazeerah.info geocities.com * The CIA sponsored terrorism on the streets of Tehran and Ishfahan in the destruction of a nascent democracy in Iran in 1953: amazon.com * Indonesian military forces, aided and abetted by the likes of U.S. official such as Henry Kissinger create false acts of terrorism for state gain: intellnet.org * Purported Libyan terrorism linked to the CIA: americanfreepress.net * Phillipines terror linked to the CIA: defendsison.be defendsison.be <LATE EDIT> * The Battleship Maine: used to start the Spanish-American war. Blamed on Spain, actually an accident. * The Gulf of Tonkin Incident : A deliberate fabrication by Lyndon Johnson to kick off the war in Vietnam * Pearl Harbor: The Japanese fleet was tracked, but the Commander of the Fleet in Hawaii was kept out of the information loop, creating an incident that would stir the emotions of the American people, instead of having our fleet engaged in an ambiguous pre-war battle. <END EDIT> *** In brief, isn't it more reasonable to conclude that those who have the most to gain from purported terrorist acts are the ones perpetrating it? Is the Bush Administration the greatest beneficiary of the current wave of mass hysteria regarding terrrorism? Ask yourself "cui bono?" Cui prodest scelus, is fecit: "He who profits by villainy, has perpetrated it." --Seneca