Part 2 - Rogue Bush Backers prepare Super 9/11 False Flag Terror Attacks
Rock_nj: I'm just putting this out there as food for thought. I don't endorse everything said in this essay.
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By Webster Griffin Tarpley
Why, and Why Now
The reasons for the genocidal crimes now being prepared are to be found
in the stunning reverses suffered by the Bush regime over the last
several months. These can be identified as follows:
During April, Iraqi resistance forces have initiated a national
uprising against the invasion of their country. The failure of the vaunted US
military machine before Fallujah and Najaf has ended the myth of US
superpower invincibility, and set off uncontrollable processes of
disintegration throughout the global system. The US is politically and
militarily defeated, and the neocons are responsible.
During May, the war crimes and atrocities carried out by US, UK and
other coalition forces in Iraq have wrecked the moral credibility of
the United States and its allies, making these aggressive powers into
an object of absolute execration around the world.
As a result, the ad hoc "Coalition of the Willing" assembled by the
Bush regime has begun to disintegrate, with Spain, Honduras, El Salvador,
Kazakhstan, and Norway either leaving Iraq or announcing their
departure. The Netherlands are expected to defect within 4 to 5 weeks.
Previously, anti-Bush political forces had been defeated in elections
in Germany, South Korea, Spain, and most recently India. Governments
subservient to Bush in Great Britain, Italy, Poland, Denmark, and other
countries now face a grim electoral future, with further pullouts from
Iraq as the likely result. The entire alliance system created by the US
at the end of World War II is now a dead letter.
In the case of Spain, US elites have been shocked by the failure of the
March 11 terror attacks to accomplish their obvious goal of stampeding
support to the right-wing, neo-falangist government of Jose Maria
Aznar. Due to the intelligence and courage of the Spanish people, these
attacks in effect backfired, as Aznar's blatant lying secured the
election of the anti-Bush candidate, Zapatero. US elites have been
profoundly concerned that the terror weapon, which they had regarded as
a sure-fire means of coalescing support around an existing government,
can also bring down that government. Their main conclusion seems to be
that, for guaranteed success, the terrorism must be so colossal that
the planned elections can simply be cancelled, as Aznar tried but
failed to do.
The three principal leaders of world aggression, Bush, Blair, and
Sharon, are now engulfed by domestic political crises threatening them
with ouster over the short term, with increased danger of prosecution
and the wrecking of their political machines amidst recrimination for
the Iraq and other disasters. Bush and his neocon handlers in
particular face a rising tide of hatred in their own armed forces,
especially in the US Army, which has born the brunt of their utopian
aggressive policies. Bush's handlers are also worried that their man's
reputation as an anti-terror leader, his only conceivable basis for
asking to be returned to office, has been deeply tarnished by
Condoleezza Rice's wretched performance and attendant revelations
during the April-May hearings of the Kean-Hamilton Commission on 9-11.
This has gone so far that only a new large-scale terror event could
restore Bush's credentials, they reason.
Concomitantly with these events, the New York-London financial system
has begun to exhibit symptoms of severe instability leading to systemic
crisis. The US is now running a merchandise trade deficit of over $500
billion, and a federal budget deficit which actually approaches $750
billion. This is a bankrupt state. Interest rates on US government
securities have risen sharply since early April, and the resulting
rising interest rates have raised fears of an explosion of the housing
bubble of the past years.
This is expressed by the de facto bankruptcy of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which represent trillions of dollars of mortgage-backed securities, and whose implosion would wreck US capital markets.
The Federal Reserve now says that even the biggest banks may
not be too big to fail. For the average person, the net impact of this
new turbulence is readily seen in the sky-high price of gasoline,
building materials, and related commodities. An integral feature of the
post-coup regime now being planned would be to keep these bankrupt
institutions alive with the help of government bailouts.
Because of the manifest bankruptcy of the United States, the
Anglo-American finance oligarchs fear the termination of the US dollar
as a reserve currency. This would take the form of a dumping of the
dollar as the currency in which the posted price of oil is expressed by
Saudi Arabia, Iran, Indonesia, and other OPEC states. The former
Malaysian Prime Minister Mahatir Mohammed has issued repeated calls for
such a measure, and also urged Moslem countries to sell off their US
Treasury securities, for financial as well as political reasons. The
far stronger and more stable euro would be the beneficiary of these
moves, and it is the euro which would prove to be far more attractive
to most countries in a world divided into currency blocks.
Finally, there are signs that the absurd myth propagated by the US
government and the controlled corporate media about the events of 9-11
is fraying. Although the Kean-Hamilton Commission has been on the whole
a half-baked farce, it has unavoidably produced a number of facts as a
by-product of its proceedings – facts which have begun to undermine
public belief in the Myth. David Ray Griffin's book The New Pearl
Harbor has emerged as a runaway best-seller in the wake of similar
books in France and Germany, and is now among the top ten on
amazon.com. Calls have multiplied for a serious independent
international truth commission on 9-11 to do the work the Kean-Hamilton
cover-up has refused to address. A dismantling of the 9-11 myth would
lead, in all probability, to the collapse of the US Republican Party
and related institutions in the context of a general party
re-alignment.
Taken together, these developments would add up to the collapse of the
entire US imperialist system. The protagonists of the coming terror are
determined to disrupt these processes, imposing on the world a regime
of unilateral US diktat and military intervention, with a domestic
police state to make sure that no opposition emerges on the home front.
What the Neocons Fear
The neocons are also deeply concerned about their own personal fate.
During their assent, this exceptionally ideological and close-knit
faction has by its arrogance and incompetence made many enemies. During
May, there have been repeated editorial calls for the firing of not
just Rumsfeld, but also of Wolfowitz and the other neocons who have
made such a mess of the Pentagon. The demand to oust Rumsfeld and
Wolfowitz has also been raised by the veteran Republican Senators who
exercise great authority within that body. According to press accounts,
Senators Warner and McCain led a group of about a dozen senior GOP
leaders who called on Bush to demand the sacking of Rumsfeld and
Wolfowitz as a matter of urgent political expediency. Bush reportedly
sat stony-faced and said nothing.
Time magazine and the New York Times have both published reports that
the investigation of Ahmed Chalabi and his Iraqi National Congress
(INC) may, in fact, involve a hunt for someone in the White House or
Pentagon who could be guilty of treason in passing top secret
intelligence to Chalabi. The information that Chalabi and his
intelligence chief Aras Karim Habib are alleged to have passed to the
government of Iran "was highly classified, and known only to a few in
the U.S. government,'' wrote Time's Romesh Ratnesar.
"The probe will examine whether U.S. officials illegally transmitted state secrets to
the INC. The investigation could ultimately reach high-ranking civilian
officials at the Pentagon and the Defense Intelligence Agency who had
dealings with Chalabi and his organization.'' Ratnesar cites "a senior
U.S. official'' as his source. New York Times reporters David Johnston
and Richard Oppel, Jr. also citing ``government officials,'' called the
information `"so highly classified that federal investigators have
intensified their inquiry to find out whether anyone in the American
government gave the material to Mr. Chalabi.''
They also cite ``intelligence officials'' saying that the probe, by the FBI, centers
on the handful of U.S. officials with regular contact with Chalabi in
Washington, and an even smaller number who had access to the
intelligence. ``Most of them are at the Pentagon,'' they wrote;
however, Chalabi himself, on `"Meet the Press'' on May 23, acknowledged
three personal meetings with Vice President Cheney. Right-wing
columnist Robert Novak, in a Washington Post op-ed on the Chalabi
scandal, comments on a different angle within the Republican Party and
the uniformed military:
"Republican Senators, who do not yet want to be
quoted by name, feel there must be some accountability for this massive
blunder, as there must be for the prisoner abuse scandal. They want the
President at least to consider'' firing Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and
perhaps others of the neo-con gang. Rumsfeld the senior Republican
Congressional leaders are backed in this, by high U.S. military brass.
(Time, May 25, NY Times May 24, 2004)
Richard Perle is the target of a huge civil suit growing out of his
involvement in the fraudulent conveyances and embezzlement carried out
by the neocon press baron and moneybags Lord Conrad Black, who appears
to have taken money from Hollinger to help fund neocon think tanks like
the American Enterprise Institute. Perle has worked closely with the
purloining Lord in recent years, and might also face criminal charges
in this case.
There is also the special prosecutor investigating the leaking to
Robert Novak of the fact that Valerie Plame, the wife of Bush critic
Ambassador Joseph Wilson (who exposed the fraud of the Bush 2002 State
of the Union charges that Iraq had sought uranium yellowcake in Niger)
was working for the CIA. Prime suspects are Bush's political strategist
Karl Rove, and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Revealing the
identity of a CIA agent is a serious felony under federal law.
Countervailing Tendencies?
The situation of the party of terrorism inside the United States is
uncertain. The political leaders who would be the beneficiaries of new
terror attacks would be figures like Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz,
Ashcroft, Ridge, and the neocon Gestapo (as Colin Powell calls it) in
general. The main agencies for their dictatorship would be FEMA
(Federal Emergency Management Agency), Ridge's Department of Homeland
Security, the Department of Justice, and the FBI. The US military,
especially the US Army, has now become profoundly disillusioned with
the Bush-Cheney preventive war policy. They also resent being
scapegoated for the Abu Graib atrocities, which were ordered by CIA,
DIA, and Cheney's mercenary contractors. Some generals now realize that
a successful terror coup, which would have the result of cementing the
current gang in power for the foreseeable future – without benefit of
checks and balances – would guarantee that US forces would be fed into
meatgrinders far worse than Iraq.
In addition to Syria, Iran, North Korea, and Cuba, a post –coup USD regime could not avoid collision with China and/or Russia. It remains to be seen whether this awareness will
be enough to motivate the US military to do something to stop the coup
which is now imminent. Similar considerations apply to the State
Department, which has virtually no place in the post-coup world eagerly
planned by the neocons.
Sidney Blumenthal, a former advisor to the Clinton Administration, now
with Salon.com, wrote a piece in the Guardian on how the U.S. officer
corps has turned against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The
piece, by, is headlined "America's Military Coup." Retired General
William Odom, who was the head of the National Security Agency, the
main US electronic spying center, and who is now at the Hudson
Institute, is quoted saying: "It was never in our interest to go into
Iraq. It is a diversion from the war on terrorism; the rationale for
the Iraq war (finding WMD) is phony; the US army is overstretched and
being driven into the ground; and the prospect of building a democracy
is zero. In Iraqi politics legitimacy is going to be tied to expelling
us. Wisdom in military affairs dictates withdrawal in this situation.
We can't afford to fail, that's mindless. The issue is how we stop
failing more. I am arguing a strategic decision." Another military
figure told Blumenthal that Rumsfeld was "detested" and that "if
there's a sentiment in the army it is: support our troops, impeach
Rumsfeld." Blumenthal then references an essay by Lt.Col. Charles
Dunlap, which had received a prize in 1992 from then General Colin
Powell.
The title of the piece was "The Origins of the American
Military Coup of 2012," which was a cautionary tale of how the U.S.
military launched a coup because of the failures of the government.
(Guardian, May 13, 2004) Former CENTCOM commanders Zinni and Hoar have
also published attacks on the Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz policies. One account
suggested that, given the degree of military hatred against the
administration, any other country would have already witnessed a
military coup.
The US Congress ought to be particularly concerned, since one of the
most plausible coup scenarios features the destruction of the US
Capitol and its adjacent office buildings, exterminating large numbers
of Senators, Congressmen, and staff. Incredibly, the Congress is
conniving in its own liquidation through the bill ordering instant
elections to replace deceased Congressmen which is now making its way
in to law. The gullible lawmakers would seem to be signing their own
death warrant, since if there is anything that would facilitate the
erection of a police state, it is the lack of an intact and functioning
legislative branch – a fact illustrated all too well by the Nazi
burning of the German Reichstag shortly after Hitler's seizure of
power. But will the Congress act?
France, Germany, and Russia are the countries with the best recent
track record in opposing the illegal aggressions of the US government. They
need to ponder the devastating challenge to their vital national
interests that would be represented by the events now leading toward a
coup d'etat in the United States. They must mobilize their forces,
including their intelligence agencies, to expose, disrupt, and
frustrate the preparations now being made. The same imperative applies
to the other Europeans, China, India, the Arab and Islamic states, and
the Latin Americans. None could hope to avoid costly confrontation with
a post-coup US bandit regime. Enlightened self-interest ought to
dictate that they take all possible measures to prevent the terror
actions which are the only means the US neocons have of consolidating
their power.
But supporters of civilization around the world cannot wait for the
actions of their government. There are concrete and highly effective
measures they can and moist take at once to defend the survival of
humanity. They should:
What to Do?
Make this analysis into the basis for a parliamentary question in your
nation's parliament.
Bring this analysis to alternative media outlets, or to major media
wherever possible. In the US, bombard talk radio hosts with the demand
that they speak out against this new state-sponsored terrorism.
Inform trade union leaders. They should announce that their response to
a state-sponsored terror coup in the US would be an open-ended general
strike.
Bring this analysis to the attention of lawyers, jurists, university
students, civil liberties groups, humanitarians, and other persons of
good will. Ask them to join in warning public opinion about what is
being prepared.
Webster Griffin Tarpley is a historian and journalist based in
Washington DC. He is the author of the best-selling critical study
George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography (1992), on the internet at
www.tarpley.net.
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