Stage two of the 9/11 War Begins
By Larry Chin
Online Journal Contributing Editor
Apri115, 2002-Throughout history, wars have been triggered by
pretexts, most of them fabricated. Wars cannot be waged without
an emotionalized public so traumatized by loss and fear that the
violence committed-no matter how baldly illegal and immoral-is
acceptable and even glorified.
The American public supported World War II because of the shock
effect of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which occurred
with the foreknowledge of US intelligence and the guidance of
FDR, according to researcher Robert Stinnett and others. The full
scale US involvement in Vietnam began with the Gulf of Tonkin
incident, a Johnson administration put-up job that ignited
anti-North Vietnamese propaganda. After a faked Reichstag Fire,
which was blamed on "violent Communists," Adolf Hitler and the
Third Reich began their rampage; a "defensive measure," wrote
Hitler, "to "protecting the People and State."
The current world war began with the attacks of 9/11, which many
believe were provoked and permitted, if not orchestrated and
carried out, by the Bush administration. The transparently
criminal enterprise known as "the war on terrorism" has
mushroomed and spread like a cancer-its brutal "make it up as you
kill" doctrine aped by repressive US proxy nations such as
Israel, and supported by a shell-shocked and naïve US public,
despite the fact that not one shred of credible evidence
supporting the Bush administration's version of events has been
presented.
Now the 9/11 War, and Big 9/11 Lie, has moved back over to the
Middle East. The rampage of Israel, the fifth most powerful
military regime on earth, has tortured, bled and isolated
Palestine, but has kept Yasser Arafat alive-like a tiger batting
around an injured mouse. The horrific but tactically limited
ethnic cleansing being waged by war criminal and mass murderer
Ariel Sharon has ignited "anti-terrorist" fear within Israel, and
violent reaction from desperate innocents and defenders of
Palestine.
The larger agenda is clear. In the ancient classic, The Art of
War, Sun Tzu wrote: "Warfare is the art of deceit. If the enemy
is incensed, provoke him. The expert baits the enemy, and the
enemy is certain to take it. In doing so, he moves the enemy and
lies in wait with his full force."
The Bush administration and the US Congress have urged Sharon to
continue the massacre, and take his time. While Sharon baits,
Bush and the US wait.
For Saddam Hussein.
The long-awaited phase two is near. Consider:
Saddam Hussein has asked OPEC oil producers to cut off supplies
to America-an open declaration of economic war. The U.S. is the
world's largest consumer of Iraqi oil, responsible for half of
the nation's oil output. Iraq supplies approximately nine percent
of US imports. Iraq has cut off supply for 30 days in protest.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Bush administration has been
planning for an attack on Iraq as early as May.
Saddam Hussein has increased money for the relatives of suicide
bombers from $10,000 to $25,000. On cue, the corporate media
(virtual Pentagon stenographers) have jumped on the chance to
accuse Saddam of evil-doing. The payments, according to Donald
Rumsfeld, "inspire a culture of political murder." Rumsfeld,
himself a lifelong political murderer responsible for proudly
killing thousands of innocent men, women and children in
Afghanistan, screeched, "Here is an individual who is the head of
a country, Iraq, who has proudly, publicly made a decision to go
out and actively promote and finance human sacrifice for families
that will have their youngsters kill innocent men, women and
children."
On April 5, Iran, another potential target of US military
hostility (and the only other major oil producing nation in the
region not controlled by US interests), joined Iraq in calling
for Muslim oil-producing states to halt supplies to countries
supporting Israel. Iran, like its neighbor Afghanistan, has long
been an obstacle to US aspirations in the region. Not to mention,
a geographic impediment to Caspian Sea oil and gas transport.
While most experts have dismissed the likelihood of a full OPEC
embargo (given Saudi and Kuwaiti support for the US), minor
spikes in the price of oil would temporarily stall a US economic
and stock market recovery, and spook Wall Street. With little
urging, Americans will soon call for Saddam's head.
Iran-Contra participant Colin Powell, who earlier in his career
helped cover up the My Lai massacre, is in no rush to "end the
violence," any more than George W. Bush and his war cabinet have
any desire to "bring both sides to the negotiating table."
America thumbs its nose at the UN, and laughs. At the first stop
of Powell's casual lollygag, a furious King Mohammed of Morocco
pointedly asked Powell, "Don't you think it would be more
important to go to Jerusalem first?" "They are playing a game,"
said Azmi Bishara, an Arab member of the Israeli parliament.
"They are not really pressuring the Israelis. They are saying
things to the media to absorb Arab anger and frustration."
US envoy Anthony Zinni has been "unsuccessful" in brokering a
cease-fire. During the disastrous 1993 US raid on Somalia, which
he commanded, General Zinni remarked in true humanitarian
fashion, "I'm not counting bodies. I'm not interested." The
general's interest in Palestine does not appear to be much
different.
Along with General Barry McCaffrey, Zinni is a member of the
Veritas Defense & Aerospace Advisory Council, a long-term
investor in the defense and aerospace industries, and a panel
that "provides high-level insight into the direction the armed
forces are moving." Like the Carlyle Group, this company would
benefit from an expanded war in the Middle East.
Saddam has scored a few diplomatic victories. At a recent
meeting, Iraq's presidential envoy Izzat Ibrahim and Saudi Arabia
Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz embraced publicly-the first
such high-level public contact since the 1990 Gulf crisis.
Whether this gesture from the pro-US Saudis is genuine, remains
to be seen.
With Sharon momentarily taking center stage as the bully, George
W. Bush has taken the opportunity to play-act as a great foreign
policy expert, peacemaker and statesman-no doubt at the
suggestion of propaganda minister Karl Rove, who is already
adjusting the "Bush legend" in preparation for upcoming and
future elections. (It is, after all, an election year in the US.)
The prize: Iraq holds more than 112 billion barrels of oil, the
world's second largest proven reserves. Iraq also contains 110
trillion cubic feet of natural gas. Iran is OPEC's second largest
oil producer and holds 9 percent of the world's oil reserves and
15 percent of its gas reserves.
A possible scenario:
Bush will find his cynical "peace efforts" thwarted by an enraged
and intractable Islamic populace.
Iraq, and/or transnational Islamic "jihadists" sponsored by the
US and its intelligence cells (Pakistan and Saudi Arabia) will
commit acts that "force the hand" of the US. The war in the
Middle East will begin.
The "9/11-Afghanistan model" will be repeated.
The resources, land, labor and markets of targeted nations will
be expropriated without regard to the death toll.
What can stop the Bush juggernaut?
Journalist Alan Nairn once wrote, "The United States wields
powers that no nation should have. It can go anywhere and kill
anyone. Only the American public can hold Washington back."
The War Against the Pretext
While Bush and Sharon continue to smoke out their prey in the
Middle East, a growing number of journalists, investigators and
whistleblowers are smoking out the Bush administration.
The official explanation for the events of September 11-the
porous foundation upon which the "war on terrorism" rests-is
being taken apart, irregularity by irregularity, lie by lie.
Without the legend and mythology of 9/11, there could be no "war
on terrorism." And the Bush administration knows it.
A congressional investigation into 9/11, headed by Britt Snider
of the CIA, is no more a real investigation than the so-called
investigation of Enron, or the previous investigations that let
government criminals run free (Watergate, BCCI, Iran-Contra, S&L,
to name just a few). Its scope will be "limited." George W. Bush
and Dick Cheney have pressured Tom Daschle and others to keep it
that way.
Congress will do nothing. But some people will.
For his ongoing efforts to expose the lies of 9/11, investigative
journalist Mike Ruppert of From The Wilderness has become the
target of COINTELPRO-style harassment, electronic warfare,
coordinated media attacks, and censorship.
The former LAPD narcotics investigator has had his web site
hacked using sophisticated methods. The hackers were so intent on
getting to FTW that 200 other web sites were taken down in the
process. Re-postings of FTW articles have been followed around
the Internet, and reappeared with deliberately falsified
information. FTW's facility was also burglarized.
Ruppert has broken two stories that the Bush administration is
working desperately to keep the public from reading.
The first is a hair-raising interview with Delmart "Mike"
Vreeland, a Navy intelligence officer and whistleblower, who
states for the record that the US had foreknowledge of the 9/11
attacks, and that US intelligence agencies had achieved total
penetration of terrorist cells (which casts doubt on the popular
notion of an "intelligence failure"). To quote Vreeland: "What
war on terrorism?"
Ruppert's second explosive story exposes Attorney General John
Ashcroft's potentially criminal conflict of interest with grand
jury investigations of ExxonMobil and BP-Amoco, and bribery and
illegal oil swaps with Iran. These criminal cases involve Dick
Cheney, the Bush energy task force, and the oil politics behind
9/11.
These important stories, which this writer considers to be among
the most important news to be broken by any journalist in recent
memory, can also be accessed at:
www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Ruppert040402/rupper
t040402.html and
www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/Ruppert040802/rupper
t040802.html
In Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler wrote: "Through clever and constant
application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as
hell, and also the other way around to consider the most wretched
sort of life as paradise.
Through constant and creative invoking of 9/11, in a multitude of
forms, the ruling elite has dangled the American public-and
indeed all of humanity-between war-torn hell and happy-meal
paradise. It is time to pierce the veneer.
The world waits for the full force of the truth.
Larry Chin is a freelance journalist and an Online Journal
Contributing Editor.
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