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The So-Called War on Terror: A Masterpiece of Propaganda
By Richard W. Behan
Who will tell the people?
--William Greider
From its first days in office in January of 2001 the Administration of George W. Bush meant to launch military attacks against both Afghanistan and Iraq. The reasons had nothing to do with terrorism.
This is beyond dispute. The mainstream press has either ignored the story or missed it completely, but the Administration's congenital belligerence is fully documented elsewhere.
Attacking a sovereign nation unprovoked, however, directly violates the charter of the United Nations. It is an international crime. The Bush Administration would need credible justification to proceed with its plans.
The terrorist violence of September 11, 2001 provided a spectacular opportunity. In the cacophony of outrage and confusion, the Administration could conceal its intentions, disguise the true nature of its premeditated wars, and launch them. The opportunity was exploited in a heartbeat.
Within hours of the attacks, President Bush declared the U.S. "...would take the fight directly to the terrorists," and "...he announced to the world the United States would make no distinction between the terrorists and the states that harbor them." [1] Thus the "War on Terror" was born.
The "War on Terror" is patently fraudulent, but the essence of successful propaganda is repetition, and the Bush Administration has repeated its mantra endlessly:
The War on Terror was launched in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. It is intended to enhance our national security at home, and to spread democracy in the Middle East.
This is the struggle of our lifetime; we are defending our way of life from an enemy intent on destroying our freedoms. We must fight the enemy in the Middle East, or we will fight him in our cities.
The Administration's campaign of propaganda has been a notable success. The characterization of today's war as a "fight against terrorists and states that support them" is generally accepted, rarely scrutinized, and virtually unchallenged, even by opponents of the war.
The fraudulence of the "War on Terror," however, is clearly revealed in the pattern of subsequent facts:
1. In Afghanistan the state was overthrown instead of apprehending the terrorist: Osama bin Laden remains at large.
2. In Iraq, when the U.S. invaded, there were no terrorists at all.
3. Both states have been supplied with puppet governments, and both are dotted with permanent U.S. military bases in strategic proximity to their hydrocarbon assets.
4. The U.S. embassy nearing completion in Baghdad is comprised of 21 multistory buildings on 104 acres of land. It will house 5,500 diplomats, staff, and families. It is ten times larger than any other U.S. embassy in the world, but we have yet to be told why.
5. A 2006 National Intelligence Estimate shows the war in Iraq has exacerbated, not diminished, the threat of terrorism since 9/11.[2] If the "War on Terror" is not a deception, it is a disastrously counterproductive failure.
6. Today two American and two British oil companies are poised to claim immense profits from 81% of Iraq's undeveloped crude oil reserves.[3] They cannot proceed, however, until the Iraqi Parliament enacts a statute known as the "hydrocarbon law."
7. The features of postwar oil policy so heavily favoring the oil companies were crafted by the Bush Administration State Department in 2002, a year before the invasion.[4]
8. Drafting of the law itself was begun during Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority, with the invited participation of the oil companies.[5] The law was written in English and translated into Arabic only when it was due for Iraqi approval.
9. President Bush made passage of the hydrocarbon law a mandatory "benchmark" when he announced the troop surge in January of 2007.
Speculation: If the hydrocarbon law is passed, the Administration will have achieved the war's strategic purpose, and it will end quickly. Otherwise, the war effort will eventually collapse in a political and diplomatic firestorm, a hideous violation of the American people's trust in their government, and a certifiable international crime.
When it took office, the Bush Administration brushed aside warnings about al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.[6] Their anxiety to attack both Afghanistan and Iraq was based on other factors.
The Iraqi war was conceived in 1992, during the first Bush Administration, in a 46-page document entitled Draft Defense Planning Guidance.
The document advocated the concept of preemptive war to assure the military and diplomatic dominance of the world by the United States. It asserted the need for "...access to vital raw materials, primarily Persian Gulf oil." It warned of "...proliferation of weapons of mass destruction." And it spoke of "...threats to U.S. citizens from terrorism." [7] It was a template for today's war in Iraq.
The Draft Defense Planning Guidance was signed by the Secretary of Defense, Richard Cheney. It was prepared by three top staffers: Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and Zalmay Khalilzad.
In proposing global dominance and preemptive war, it was a radical departure from the traditional U.S. diplomacy of multilateralism, and it was an early statement of the emerging ideology of "neoliberalism."
The document was too extreme. President George H.W. Bush publicly denounced it and immediately retracted it.
But five years later William Kristol and Robert Kagan created a neoliberal organization to advocate preemptive war and U.S. global dominion—to achieve, in their words, a "benevolent global hegemony."[8] It was called the Project for the New American Century—quickly abbreviated as PNAC. Among the founding members were Richard Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Zalmay Khalilzad, Donald Rumsfeld, and Jeb Bush.
In a letter to President Clinton on January 26, 1998, the Project for the New American Century urged the military overthrow of the Saddam Hussein regime.
President Clinton ignored the letter. The unprovoked invasion of a sovereign nation violates the charter of the United Nations: it is an international crime.
As the presidential campaign of 2000 drew to a close the PNAC produced yet another proposal for U.S. world dominion, preemptive war, and the invasion of Iraq. It was a document called Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources For a New Century.
Weeks later, in January of 2001, twenty nine members of the Project for the New American Century joined the Administration of George W. Bush. Among them were:
Richard Cheney, Vice President
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Mr. Cheney's Chief of Staff
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Steven Cambone, Undersecretary of Defense
Peter Rodman, Assistant Secretary of Defense
Dov Zakheim, Controller, Department of Defense
Abram Shulksy, Chairman, Office of Special Plans, DOD
Richard Perle, Chairman, Defense Policy Board
James Woolsey, member, Defense Policy Board
Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State
Paula Dobriansky, Under Secretary of State
John Bolton, Under Secretary of State
Zalmay Khalilzad, President's Special Envoy
Elliott Abrams, National Security Council
Robert Zoellick, U.S. Trade Representative
These people and their ideology of world dominion and preemptive war would dominate George Bush's government. Rebuilding America's Defenses formed the basis of the Bush Administration's foreign and defense policies. It was enshrined in a subsequent document signed by the President: The National Security Strategy of the United States.
Within 10 days of his inauguration, President Bush convened his National Security Council. The PNAC people triumphed when the invasion of Iraq was placed at the top of the agenda for Mid East foreign policy. Reconciling the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, long the top priority, was dropped from consideration.[9]
The neoconservative dream of invading Iraq was a tragic anachronism, an ideological fantasy of retrograde imperialism. A related and far more pragmatic reason for the invasion, however, would surface soon.
No Administration in memory has been more closely aligned with the oil industry. President Bush and Vice President Cheney are intimately tied to it, and so is National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice. So are eight cabinet secretaries and 32 other high-level appointees.[10]
By early February, Vice President Cheney's "Energy Task Force" was at work. It included federal agency people and executives and lobbyists from the Enron, Exxon-Mobil, Conoco-Phillips, Shell, and BP America corporations.
Soon the Task Force was poring over detailed maps of the Iraqi oil fields, pipelines, tanker terminals, refineries, and the undeveloped oil exploration blocks. It studied two pages of "foreign suitors for Iraqi oil field contracts"—dozens of foreign companies negotiating with Saddam Hussein's regime. None of the "suitors" was a major American or British oil company.[11]
The intent to invade Iraq and the keen interest in Iraqi oil would soon converge.
The convergence took the form of a top secret memo of February 3, 2001 from a "high level National Security Council official." The memo:
"...directed the NSC staff to cooperate fully with the Energy Task Force as it considered the 'melding' of two seemingly unrelated
areas of policy: 'the review of operational policies toward rogue
states' such as Iraq, and 'actions regarding the capture of new
and existing oil and gas fields.'"[12]
As early as February 3, 2001, the Bush Administration was committed to invading Iraq, with the oil fields clearly in mind.
The terrorist attacks on Washington and New York were still seven months in the future.
The issue in Afghanistan was the strategically invaluable location for a pipeline to connect the immense oil and gas resources of the Caspian Basin to the richest markets. Whoever built the pipeline across Afghanistan would control the Basin, and in the 1990's the contest to build it was spirited.
American interests in the region were promoted by a private-sector organization, the Foreign Oil Companies Group.[13] It had the full support of the State Department, the National Security Council, the CIA, and the Departments of Energy and Commerce. Among the Group's most active members were Mr. Henry Kissinger, a former Secretary of State but now an advisor to the Unocal Corporation; Mr. Alexander Haig, another former Secretary of State but now a lobbyist for Turkmenistan; and Mr. Richard Cheney, a former Secretary of Defense, but now the CEO of the Halliburton Corporation.
Late in 1996, however, the Bridas Corporation of Argentina finally signed contracts with the Taliban and with General Dostum of the Northern Alliance to build the pipeline.
One American company in particular, Unocal, found that intolerable and fought back vigorously, hiring a number of consultants in addition to Mr. Kissinger: Mr. Hamid Karzai, Mr. Richard Armitage, and Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad. (Armitage and Khalilzad would be active members of the Project for the New American Century, and would join the George W. Bush Administration in 2001.)
Unocal wooed Taliban officials at its headquarters in Texas and in Washington, D.C., seeking to have the Bridas contract voided, but the Taliban refused. Finally, in February of 1998 Mr. John J. Maresca, a Unocal vice president, asked in a Congressional hearing to have the Taliban removed from power and a stable regime installed instead.
The Clinton Administration, having recently refused the PNAC request to invade Iraq, was not any more interested in a military overthrow of the Taliban. President Clinton did, however, shoot a few cruise missiles into Afghanistan, retaliating for the al Qaeda attacks on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. And he issued an Executive Order forbidding further trade transactions with the Taliban.
Mr. Maresca was thus twice disappointed: the Taliban would not be replaced very soon, and Unocal would have to cease its pleadings with the regime.
Unocal's prospects rocketed when George W. Bush entered the White House, and the Project for the New American Century ideology of global dominance took hold.
The Bush Administration itself took up active negotiations with the Taliban in January of 2001, seeking secure and exclusive access to the Caspian Basin for American companies.[14] (The Enron Corporation also was eyeing a pipeline, to feed its proposed power plant in India.) The Administration offered a package of foreign aid as an inducement, and the parties met three times, in Washington, Berlin, and Islamabad. The Bridas contract might still be voided
But the Taliban would not yield.
Anticipating this, planning was underway to take military action if necessary. In the spring of 2001, the State Department sought and gained the concurrence of India and Pakistan to do so.[15] The PNAC people were not timid about using force.
At the final meeting with the Taliban, on August 2, 2001, an exasperated State Department negotiator, Christine Rocca, clarified the options: "Either you accept our offer of a carpet of gold or we bury you under a carpet of bombs." [16] With the futility of negotiations now apparent, "President Bush promptly informed Pakistan and India that the U.S. would launch a military mission into Afghanistan before the end of October." [17]
This was five weeks before the events of 9/11.
A tectonic groundswell of skepticism, doubt, and suspicion has emerged about the Bush Administration's official explanation of 9/11. Some claim the Administration orchestrated the attacks. Others see complicity. Still others find criminal negligence. The cases they make are neither extreme nor trivial.
There is much we need to learn about the attacks, and troubling questions remain about official inquiry itself:
1. Why did Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney initially oppose any investigation at all?
2. Why did a full year elapse before any inquiry was undertaken?
3. Why did President Bush insist on appointing the 9/11 Commissioners himself?
4. Why did he first choose Mr. Henry Kissinger, a former Unocal
consultant, to head the Commission?
5. Why did Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney refuse to testify under oath?
Whatever the truth about 9/11, the Bush Administration now
had a fortuitous and spectacular opportunity to proceed with the
premeditated attacks.
The Administration would have to play its hand skillfully.
Other nations have suffered criminal events of terrorism, but there is no precedent for conflating the terrorists with the states that harbor them, declaring a "war," and seeking with military force to overthrow a sovereign government. Victimized nations have always relied successfully on international law enforcement and police action to bring terrorists to justice.
But the Bush Administration needed more than this. War plans were in the files. They needed to justify invasions. Only by targeting the "harboring states" as well as the terrorists did they stand a chance of doing so.
The Administration played its hand brilliantly. It compared the terrorist attacks immediately to Pearl Harbor, and in the smoke and dust and shock and rage of 9/11 the comparison was superficially plausible. But Pearl Harbor was the violent expression of hostile intent by a formidably armed nation, and it introduced four years of full scale warfare. 9/11 was a violent expression of hostility by 19 fanatics armed with box cutters: the physical security of our entire nation was simply not at stake.
Though the comparison was specious, a deliberate fraud, the "War on Terror" was born. It would prove to be an exquisite smokescreen. But labeling the preplanned incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq as a "War on Terror" was the mega-lie, dwarfing all the untruths that followed. The mega-lie would be the centerpiece of a masterful propaganda blitz that continues to this day.
The Wars
On October 7, 2001, the carpet of bombs is unleashed over Afghanistan.
Soon, with the Taliban overthrown, the U.S. installed Mr. Hamid Karzai as head of an interim government. Mr. Karzai had been a Unocal consultant.
The first ambassador to Mr. Karzai's government was Mr. John J. Maresca, a vice president of Unocal.
The next ambassador to Afghanistan was Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad. Mr. Khalilzad had been a Unocal consultant.
Four months after the carpet of bombs, President Karzai and President Musharraf of Pakistan signed an agreement for a new pipeline. The Bridas contract was moot. The way was open for Unocal.
In February of 2003 an oil industry trade journal reported the Bush Administration standing ready to finance the pipeline across Afghanistan, and to protect it with a permanent military presence.[18] This was global hegemony, but it was scarcely benevolent—and Osama bin Laden remained at large.
The mega-lie, the fabricated "War on Terror" was an easy sell for the Bush Administration in the Afghanistan adventure. The shock of 9/11 was immense, Osama bin Laden was operating from Afghanistan, and the "state," the Taliban, was at least sympathetic. And the signature secrecy of the Bush Administration had kept from public view its 8 months of negotiating pipeline access with the Taliban. The first premeditated war was largely unopposed.
Selling the Iraq invasion to the American people and to the Congress would be far more difficult.
With the Trade Towers and the Pentagon still smoldering, President Bush and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld ordered their staffs to find Saddam Hussein's complicity in the attacks[19], but of course they could not. Absent that, there would need to be a sustained and persuasive selling job, and that would call for a professionally orchestrated campaign of propaganda.
Soon after 9/11, fear-mongering propagandizing became the modus operandi of the Bush Administration. It began in earnest with the President's "axis of evil" State of the Union address in 2002, full of terrorism and fear. "The United States of America," the President said, "will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons."
The campaign of propaganda and fear rose to the level of brilliance when Mr. Bush appointed the 10-person "White House Iraq Group" in August of 2002. Chaired by Mr. Karl Rove, its members were trusted partisans and communications experts skilled in perception management. Their role was explicitly to market the war, to persuade the American people—and eventually the Congress—of the need to invade Iraq. The group operated in strict secrecy, sifting intelligence, writing position papers and speeches, creating "talking points," planning strategy and timing, and feeding information to the media. This was the nerve center, where the campaign of propaganda was orchestrated and promulgated.[20]
The group chose to trumpet nearly exclusively the most frightening threat of all—nuclear weapons. Ms. Rice soon introduced the litany of the smoking gun and the mushroom cloud, Mr. Cheney said hundreds of thousands of Americans might die, and Mr. Bush claimed Saddam was "six months away from developing a weapon."
In the 2003 State of the Union address, President Bush uttered the infamous "sixteen words:" "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." This was typical of White House Iraq Group work: the CIA knew, and had said, the information was bogus.
The propaganda campaign was ultimately successful, not least because of the axiomatic trust American people extend to their presidents: nobody could have anticipated the range, intensity, and magnitude of the expertly crafted deception. And the campaign was aided by a compliant mainstream press, swallowing and repeating the talking points.[21] The White House Iraq Group found it easy to plant such misleading stories as the aluminum tube foolery in the New York Times.
The Congress was persuaded sufficiently to authorize the use of military force. The American people were persuaded sufficiently to accept the war and to send Mr. Bush to the White House for a second term. But no other war in the country's history had to be so consciously and comprehensively sold.
Much of the deception, distortion, and lies was eventually exposed. The link between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, the weapons of mass destruction, the aluminum tubes, the mobile laboratories, the yellowcake from Niger: none of it true. Only the mega-lie, the "War on Terror," survives.
On February 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed the Security Council, waving the vial of simulated anthrax and claiming "there is no doubt in my mind" Saddam Hussein was working to produce nuclear weapons.
But the Security Council, not so willing to trust George W. Bush and not so easily propagandized, refused a fresh resolution to authorize American force.
On March 14, 2003 President Bush met in the Azores with Prime Ministers Blair of the UK and Aznar of Spain. They abandoned the effort for a new resolution, claimed the right to proceed without one, and a week later launched the war.
Four years of violence. Nearly 4,000 young Americans dead. Seven times that many maimed. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis dead. Millions fleeing as refugees, their economy and infrastructure in ruins. A raging sectarian civil war. Half a trillion dollars and counting.
Stopping the Madness
And for what? Neither face of the war has come remotely close to success. The "War on Terrorism" has not suppressed terrorism but has encouraged it instead. The premeditated war—for ideological dreams of world dominion and the pragmatic capture of hydrocarbon assets—is a colossus of failure.
The Afghan pipeline is a dead issue. As the warlords and the poppy growers in Afghanistan thrive, and as the Taliban regroups and seeks to regain dominance, the country tilts ominously into chaos once more.
The Iraqi hydrocarbon law—the clever disguise for capturing the oil fields—is fatally wounded, its true purpose becoming more widely known. Organized resistance is growing quickly, both in Iraq and in the U.S. And the factions who need to agree on the law are otherwise engaged in killing each other.
The Iraqi war has not resulted, either, in the global dominance sought by the Project for the New American Century people, but in global repugnance for what their pathetic ideology has wrought.
Clearly the involvement of the U.S. military in the Mid East must cease. Pouring more lives and dollars into the quagmire may keep alive the warped dreams of the Bush Administration, but those dreams are illegitimate, indeed criminal.
Neither President Bush nor Vice President Cheney are willing to yield, even to consider the slightest alteration in their course. They ask instead for more time, more troops, more money, and even—in threatening Iran—for more targets.
There is no apparent way to stop the madness of these men but to impeach them and, if found guilty, to remove them from office.
The evidence is mountainous of impeachable offenses, but none is more tragic and serious than the mega-lie of the "War on Terror." Given the unbending intransigence, only impeachment will end the hemorrhaging of lives and treasure.
The integrity of the Constitution and the rule of law are at stake as well, but the Congress continues its indifference to impeachment, effectively condoning the high crimes and misdemeanors of George Bush and Richard Cheney. Should this continue, the American people will have no choice but to discard the last crumbs of respect for the incumbent legislature—polling shows there's not much left—and to punish its members, Republican and Democrat alike, in next year's election.
Finally, impeachment will expose the fraudulence of the "War on Terror", and liberate us from the pall of fear the Bush Administration deliberately cast upon the country. Both political parties will be free to speak the truth: terrorism is real and a cause for concern, but it is not a reason for abject fear.
We need only compare the hazard of al Qaeda to the threat posed by the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. On the one hand is a wretched group of sad fanatics—perhaps 50,000 in all—clever enough to commandeer airliners with box cutters. On the other was a nation of 140 million people, a powerful economy, a standing army of hundreds of divisions, a formidable navy and air force, and thousands of nuclear tipped transcontinental missiles pre-aimed at American targets.
Two public figures—Zbigniew Brzezinsky and Wesley Clark—have recently made this comparison, and noted how confident and poised Americans were, facing large and real threats.[22] [23] With the mega-lie exposed and discredited, we can and should display our poise and confidence once again.
Ending the nightmare will take far less courage than the Bush people exhibited in beginning it. Taking a nation to war on distortion, deception, and lies is enormously risky, in many respects: in lives and in treasure, certainly, but also in a nation's prestige abroad and in the trust and support of its people. The Bush Administration risked all this and more, and they have lost.
We risk far less by embracing the truth and acting on it. Our nation cherishes honesty: the fraudulence must end. But Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney have shown themselves incapable of honesty, and we also cherish justice. They must be impeached.
End notes.
[1] White House Press Release of March 8, 2004
[2] "Spy Agencies Say Iraq War Worsens Terrorism Threat," New York Times, September 24, 2006.
[3] Joshua Holland, "Bush's Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq's Oil," published on the AlterNet website, October 16, 2006.)
[4] See Greg Mutitt, ed., Crude Designs: the Ripoff of Iraq's Oil Wealth, the Platform Group, United Kingdom.
[5] See "Slick Connections: U.S. Influence on Iraqi Oil," by Erik Leaver and Greg Mutitt, Foreign Policy in Focus, July 18, 2007.
[6] See John W. Dean, Worse Than Watergate: the Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, New York: Little, Brown, 253p., 2004.
[7] See a series of articles in the Christian Science Monitor, June, 2005
[8] See "Toward a Neo-Reaganite Foreign Policy," by William Kristol and Robert Kagan, writing in Foreign Affairs, July/August 1996.)
[9] The NSC meeting is described in Ron Suskind's book, The Price of Loyalty, New York:
Simon and Schuster, 348p., 2004
[10] See "Crude Alliance," by Jeffrey St. Clair, in Counterpunch, March 9-11, 2007.
[11] The maps and the "suitors" documents were forced into the public domain by a Freedom
of Information Act lawsuit. The suit was entered by the citizen's group Judicial Watch, and
was appealed all the way to the Supreme Court by the Bush Administration. The documents
can be seen at the Judicial Watch website.
[12] Quoted from "Contract Sport" by Jane Mayer, The New Yorker, Issue 23, February 16, 2004.
(Italics added.)
[13] See "Players on a Rigged Chessboard: Bridas, Unocal, and the Afghanistan Pipeline," by Larry Chin, Online Journal, March 6, 2002.
[14] ibid.
[15] See Karl W. B. Schwarz, One Way Ticket to Crawford, Texas: a Conservative Republican Speaks Out, RPC Publishing, 2004.
[16] See Chin, op. cit..
[17] ibid.
[18] See Alexander's Gas and Oil Connections, February 23, 2003.
[19] See Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, New York: The Free Press, 304 p., 2004.
[20] For a full description of the White House Iraq Group's work, see Barton Gellman and Walter Pincus, "Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence," Washington Post, August 10, 2003.
[21] See Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, End Times: the Death of the Fourth Estate, Oakland: AK Press, 2006. Also see the PBS expose by Bill Moyers, Buying the War.
[22] Zbigniew Brzezinkski, "Terrorized by the 'War on Terror: How a Three Word Mantra Has Undermined America,'" Washington Post, March 25, 2007.
[23] "Generally Speaking: Questions for Wesley K. Clark, New York Times, July 1, 2007.
This article was distilled from a longer, more detailed, and illustrated slideshow presentation,"The Fraudulent War." It is available without cost. The 5.4 mb PDF file can be downloaded here:
Richard W. Behan's last book was Plundered Promise: Capitalism, Politics, and the Fate of the Federal Lands (Island Press, 2001). He is currently working on a more broadly rendered critique, To Provide Against Invasions: Corporate Dominion and America's Derelict Democracy. He can be reached by email at email@example.com. This essay is deliberately not copyrighted; permission to reproduce it is unnecessary.
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That, Mr. Behan and Progressive People Everywhere, is the Right Question.
I once marveled at the genius of al Qaeda using boxknives instead of WMD's to defeat American Defenses (maybe Allah really was on their side?), because our government said that's exactly what happened. Well, peeling back the layers (and thankfully this does not take that much effort) reveals a much more frightening and dangerous reality than most Americans can or are willing to imagine. This well documented article reminds me of "circling wagons", correctly presenting overwhelming data that reveals the fallout of the cleverly conceived "mega-lie" that is the War On Terror and the multi-trillion dollar plundering that has accompanied it. Unfortunately, at the center of all this is the mother of that mega-lie, the 911 Official Theory, and the reality that it attempts to conceal about who was responsible.
Overshadowed by the Yearly Kos in Chicago, was the latest convention of Academic Analysis of 911's Core Lies in Madison, Wi., spnsored by Scholarsfor911truth.org. The growing and impressive volume of peer-reviewed data, physical evidence, and insider/whistleblower testimony presented are at the heart of the "mother of the mega-lie". This group, allied with a number of other independent investigators can now show that in fact, our worst fears did indeed transpire on that day and that it was not a surprise to the PNAC Administration in charge, but a carefully coordinated "New Pearl Harbor" (copyright, PNAC)... our worst fears? We were Hijacked from Within.
Watching the Progressive Community spin and toil diligently against the system that has emerged on the heals of the mother-lie is painful, given that most of the solutions and advances in Healthcare, Environment, Corporate Hegemony, War Inc., all have the same root in the Imperialistic Ideology and Huge Money-Laundering Machine that is today's Military/Industrial/Energy Elite and the Politicians who've sold their souls for their piece of it. Even Impeachment does not and will not matter if we allow them to keep 911 out of sight, because all those private and black-budget operations not only remain, but have expanded exponentially without accountability, and are capable of worse to come. We Must Champion 911 Truth by joining forces with those around the world in helping to bring this monster down. The world is Afraid of US because Americans don't seem to care if Fascism, Corruption and Imperialism are done in their name, and backed by the Largest Arsenal of WMD's in History.
If you really want to let down the world, and help to usher in a new global-tyranny for all to behold, let the neocons get away with 911, but good luck keeping a free internet in the future!
We need to encourage Dennis to react to the most convincing proof that leaves no doubt that the mammoth 12 foot engines of the Boeing 757 flight 77 never hit the Pentagon and were not there because flight 77 disappeared without a trace. A military missile or unmanned drone was fired at the Pentagon.
To not lock up Bush & Cheney for probable cause immediately before they attack another target is the premier stupidity by the American culture.
Disinformation aimed at skeptics of the official story is more subtle than the simple promotion of that story to the masses. It may consist of ideas with no basis in evidence packaged as shocking new findings that supposedly prove the involvement of insiders. Its effect is to discredit the larger body of 9/11 research through guilt by association with its sensational and unscientific approach. An example is the idea that Twin Towers were not hit by Flights 11 or 175 but rather by completely different objects, such as military planes with missile-firing pods. Since 9-11 Research does not provide analysis of such disinformation, we recommend the disinformation section of 911review.com.
Meme A unit of cultural information, such as a cultural practice or idea, that is transmitted verbally or by repeated action from one mind to another.
Ensuring the success of the official story of 9/11/01 despite the long sequence of highly improbable events it supposes required that people not pay too much attention to the details. This would be ensured by the "shock and awe" of the attack itself combined with an intense propaganda campaign to sell the official story. Ironically, the vast majority of those who created and promoted that propaganda probably did so innocently, never questioning the official version of events. The idea that the entire attack was an inside job was simply too unthinkable for most Americans to consider.
Through careful construction of memes, the perpetrators could depend on others to unwittingly promote their cover story and conceal the truth. Their disinformation strategy was twofold. First, they would sell the official story to the masses through the compliant mass media, relying on people's desire to believe the official story. Second, they would seed specious ideas in the community of "9/11 skeptics" in order to distract and discredit them.
"Vigilante", I do not appreciate your false titles to co-opt my attention; no matter how important YOU THINK it is that everyone sees your messages.
Even if I didn't resent the manipulation as contemptuous - which it truly is; not just of AfterDowningStreet but of every reader coming here - still why the hell would I trust anything you say after introduction with a lie, right off the bat?
There is something seriously wrong with you, that you would even try this. No doubt it's what David sensed when he hung up on you the first time.
Straighten up and deal square or piss off.
Semper Fi,
-Matty in Florida
9/11 should top the list of Articles of Impeachment. They needed 9/11 & made it happen. Research it yourselves.
David Ray Griffin author of several books about 9/11 said "Regarding the collapse of the three World Trade Center buildings, Griffin notes that "foreign terrorists could not have secured access to the buildings to plant the explosives." He suggests instead that " federal officials...could have obtained access and would have had the means and motivation to bring the buildings straight down. They would also have had the ability to orchestrate a coverup, from the quick disposal of the steel and the planting of the evidence to the FEMA report to The 9/11 Commission Report to the NIST report."
The two books are:
1) 9/11: The Myth and the Reality.
2) Debunking 9/11 Debunking: An Answer to Popular Mechanics and Other Defenders of the Official Conspiracy Theory
How many of you are aware that three buildings came down that day?
Here is a link to a video on 9/11. Included is the NYC news coverage on that day.
FAST FORWARD ABOUT 36mins and prepare to have your mind blown for the next 1 1/2 hours
Besides Impeachment we also need a New Independent Investigation of 9/11. Here is a link to what NYC is doing to get one. http://www.nyc911initiative.org/
Democrats,Progressive Democrats,Republican & Conservatives you need to educate yourselves on the truth about what really happened on 9/11 & who the real terrorists are.
I agree the "War on Terror" is the Millenial Mega-Lie; meant to justify a military imperialism far beyond what we've seen in just Afghanistan and Iraq.
And I do agree with "Channing" that revealing the true authors, cause(s) and role(s) of the Terror Attacks of 9/11 is crucial - not least because it was already so clearly the central enabler of this bogus "War on Terror".
Your ability to depict the emerging "big-picture", even without all the pieces yet available, is truly expert and a huge public service, sir. Because part of the conspirators' strategey was clearly that lack of information would delay public awareness sufficient to give them the time needed to consolidate their illicit gains. However you are cutting through all that protection - and the Internet is giving you a powerful tool in this, as well.
This is a different world than when they pulled the Gulf of Tonkin bullshit. And, you are so right that the stakes and object of the deception are so much greater now - and the American People can sense this as well.
Keep doing what you do, sir!
Semper Fi,
-Matty in Florida
Mr. Behan:
With all due respect, do you think for one moment that this nefarious administration has any future plans on leaving Iraq, a country with millions upon millions of barrels of oil which remain under it's sands?
They claim there's at least 100 million barrels? Times that by, oh, let's say $80-$100 a barrel. Ca-Ching! Ca-Ching!
And to think this was all planed way in advance. It's treason!
the entire war on terror is a bunch of bullshit and even the so-called left wing is caught up in the 'lies' about it. they know that the alleged 19 hijackers the F.B.I. says did it, were 'crash test dummies' used as props to give people faces to hate and villify, but in-fact, had nothing whatsoever to do with it. they just needed faces to put up there, non white faces, for white amerika to hate.
so go watch zeitgeist, the movie, and get educated. then go find Dylan Avery's 'LooseChange2E.wmv' and download and watch it. and get your sorry, still believing in boogeyman tales to the rest of the 911 truth sites out there, and get your sorry, boogeyman believing ass educated as to the real reason for the fear mongering and the endless wars and mass murder.
then come on here and write about terror. terror war is an invention of the government, has no basis in fact, and serves only one purpose, and that purpose is to EMPOWER THE ILLEGITIMATE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AND THE COMPLETELY FASCIST GOVERNMENT, and to take away the power of We The People, world-wide.
people, get your heads out of your fucking asses and quit believing in the faerie tales of these mass murdering liars. they're 'hollow' and without basis in fact.
there is no TERROR WAR, and there NEVER WAS ONE.
it's all about POWER, MONEY, and CONTROL....nothing more, nothing less. AND IT MUST GODDAMNED STOP NOW!


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John T. Ward, Jr. (born August 2, 1945 in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American racehorse trainer. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky with a degree in Agricultural Economics, where he was a member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity. He is a third generation horseman on both sides of his family. He took charge of the family farm at age twenty-five when his father became ill in 1970.
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After a few seconds of silence, she merely sighed and looked up at him. He recognized that look on her face. He knew what she was trying to tell him… she already forgave him. Tears flowed down his cheeks as he buried his face in her hair, holding her close to him.
"I love you, Sandor," she whispered softly. "You have been through so much and seen so much. But I always knew that somewhere within you… the man you are right now existed. Deep down, you had a goodness in you. And I fell in love with that part of you. I forgave you for what you did a very long time ago." She smiled at him as she kissed his chin. He felt the wetness on her cheeks too.
"I'm sorry," he managed to choke out.
"I know," was all she said as she rubbed soothing circles over his wrist with her thumb. "I forgive you."
They held each other like that for a good while, soothed by the quiet sounds of the Godswood as a part of Sandor finally began to heal. He had changed so much since his Little Bird came into his life. Since his dear pups came into his life.
"We should head back. The children are worried sick about you," Sansa smiled at him.
It was those smiles that made him think that everything would be okay.
Sandor nodded and helped her up before he got up himself. They took the worn path through the Godswood back to the warm glow of their home.
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Buckingham Palace is to ask the Press Complaints Commission to intervene after claiming the London Evening Standard committed a "serious breach" of the Duke of Edinburgh's right to privacy with a front page story alleging he was suffering from prostate cancer.
The palace took the unusual step of issuing a denial to the story published yesterday in the Associated Newspapers title, saying it would "be taking this issue to the Press Complaints Commission".
In a statement, Buckingham Palace said it had been authorised by Prince Philip to "confirm that the claim made by the Evening Standard that he has received a 'diagnosis of prostate cancer' is untrue".
"We believe that the Evening Standard's front page story today [Wednesday] titled 'Prince Philip defies cancer scare' is a serious breach of Prince Philip's privacy," the palace added.
The statement said the palace would be asking the PCC to remind all editors of their obligations around privacy issues. It is not yet known if the palace has submitted an official complaint to the PCC.
Quoting unnamed medical sources, the Evening Standard claimed that Prince Philip, 87, was diagnosed with the condition while being treated in a London hospital for a chest infection in April.
The palace responded: "Buckingham Palace has always maintained that members of the royal family have a right to privacy, particularly in relation to their personal health.
"For this reason, we have always refused to confirm or deny the persistent rumours that circulate about their health, particularly during the quieter news months.
"We will continue to observe this long-standing practice; but on this occasion, because the damaging story is now being reported widely, the Duke of Edinburgh has authorised us to confirm that the claim made by the Evening Standard that he has received a 'diagnosis of prostate cancer' is untrue.
"We believe there has been a serious breach of the Duke of Edinburgh's right to privacy and we will be taking this issue to the Press Complaints Commission.
"We will be asking the PCC to remind all editors of their obligations."
Clause three of the PCC code of practice, which newspapers sign up to voluntarily, states: "Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private and family life, home, health and correspondence.
"Editors will be expected to justify intrusions into any individual's private life without consent."
A spokesman for the PCC told MediaGuardian.co.uk: "We have been informed that we will be receiving a complaint regarding the Duke of Edinburgh story, over clauses one and three of the code, accuracy and privacy. But we have not yet received it." A source at the Evening Standard said the paper had updated its original story in later editions, but that there was a public interest in the health of the Duke of Edinburgh.
"We updated the story for the later edition. We will respond to any potential inquiry from the PCC but we do believe that there is a public interest in the health of the Duke of Edinburgh," the Associated insider said.
The updated version of the story on the Evening Standard's website focused on the Buckingham Palace denial of the Standard's report that the Duke of Edinburgh had received a diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Palace officials earlier highlighted the fact that no changes have been made to the Duke's diary of engagements, which includes commitments and official dinners in Edinburgh next week.
The Duke, who has been married to the Queen since 1947, spent three days in the King Edward VII's hospital in April.
The prostate gland, which is part of the male reproductive system, is usually the shape and size of a walnut, but it increases slowly in size with age.
The risk of getting prostate cancer rises as men become older, and most men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer are over 50.


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I remember my Saturday job at Lewis'. I loved my job there. I worked there for two years. I used to go to the Locarna on a Saturday, or the Gaumont Cinema in the week. I remember the bullring being built. I was the oldest of five children and used to do the shopping in the market. I used to have a shilling pocket money and and I loved spending it in the shops in the city centre. How things have changed. I used to go there on my own on the bus with not a care in the world. At the time we were living in Kingstanding and it was a long journey, especially when I was travel sick, but then the buses were different and I used to sit by the entrance.
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Thompson, in addition to his scoring output, pulled down 5 rebounds, dished 3 assists and came up with 2 steals.
Head coach Ken Bone said Thompson's nine attempts from the free-throw line was "pleasing -- Klay has been doing a good job of attacking the glass."
Bone also joked that he was glad the game wasn't televised because former Cougar coach Dick Bennett -- the high priest of ball care -- wouldn't have been pleased. The Cougs committed 19 turnovers.
As for bright spots, sophomore DeAngelo Casto had a big night. He scored a career best 18 points, nabbed 4 rebounds, blocked 3 shots, made 1 steal and had 2 assists.
Two other Cougs -- freshman Reggie Moore and sophomore Marcus Capers -- also hit double digits in scoring, with 10 apiece. Moore led the Cougars in assists with 6. His freshman batterymate in the backcourt, Xavier Thames, scored 7 points, dished 2 assists, had 1 steal and no turnovers in 18 minutes of action.
Abe Lodwick led the Cougs in rebounding, with 9 in just 16 minutes of court time. He also had 4 points.
Besides Moore and Thames, the other three members of WSU's freshman class saw action. Brock Motum scored 5 points late in the game, while Steven Bjornstad and Anthony Brown were scoreless in brief stints.
The Cougars held a 50-25 advantage in rebounding. They shot 47 percent from the field and 80 percent on 28-of-25 shooting from the free-throw line.
WSU's starters for this game were Thompson, Casto, Capers, Lodwick and Moore. In terms of minutes played, the bench was led by Thames (18), Michael Harthun (17), Charlie Enquist (15) and Brock Motum (14). Senior Nikola Koprivica played only 10 minutes but scored 9 points and grabbed 4 rebounds in that time.
The Cougs remain in Pullman for their next two games -- vs. EWU on Monday and Indiana Purdue-Fort Wayne on Nov. 19 -- before heading to Anchorage for the Great Alaska Shootout, Nov. 25-28.
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Police detained two in Gateshead on September 15 and four more yesterday and all six were bailed pending further inquiries.
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In a video that appears to have been filmed behind a pub, six young men in hooded tops or wearing scarves over their faces can be seen pouring petrol on a book and setting it alight, then burning another.
They cheer as the first book bursts into flames. The video is still accessible on YouTube.
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The Australian bond market is flat after a volatile week.
RBC Capital fixed income and currency strategist Michael Turner said it had been a rocky week for bonds following the US Federal Reserve's scaling back its rates expectations for the year.
However, he said bond markets had been much quieter on Friday due to a lack of risk events or new data.
"Yields are finishing roughly where they were 24 hours ago," he told AAP.
"There hasn't been much to talk about really."
At 1630 AEDT on Friday, the June 2016 10-year bond futures contract was trading at 97.450 (implying a yield of 2.550 per cent), up from 97.445 (2.555 per cent) on Thursday.
The June 2016 three-year bond futures contract was at 98.070 (1.930 per cent), unchanged.
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* CGS 5.25pct March 2019, 1.955pct, from 1.954pct on Thursday
* CGS 4.25pct April 2026, 2.552pct, from 2.555pct
Sydney Futures Exchange prices:
* June 2016 bill futures, 97.650, from 97.790 on Thursday
* September 2016 bill futures, 97.800, from 97.870
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Assault Android Cactus (PC/Vita/PS4/Wii U) Review
As the story goes, AAC is about a space fighter pilot that has to rescue a giant spaceship. The pilot's name is Cactus, and this massive starship has some kind of (insert drum roll)....robot uprising on it. Oh, and it also has some awesome graphics as well as an awesome soundtrack to boot! :)
Gameplay-wise, it's an all out frantic in-all-directions shmup. You can shoot up all different types of robots you can destroy with your trusty weapons. When I say weapons, I mean there is a LOT of weapons upgrades to choose from in the aid to get rid of those robotic monstrosities once and for all. Although you will only start off with a small selection of heroines, the roster expands as you venture forth into the campaign.
Each of the eight characters have distinctly different play-styles and you might find that certain characters are more useful in different situations. For example, Starch can be good due to her long-range and concentrated fire, while Holly can be useful because her main weapon has a focused spray shot that can thin out crowds of enemies with ease.
Characters have two weapons that they can use, one as primary and the secondary weapon is accessible on a timer due to its ability to deal more damage to surrounding enemies. However, when the time comes, you'll need to switch over which can leave you wide-open for a split second, it can also lead to your chain being broken if you're too slow. It adds a nice risk and reward element to weapon-switching, as quite often you'll need to in order to keep off the waves of enemies coming at ya.
The design of the levels and zones initially available are well varied and offer a nice learning curve to the later levels where the action really heats up. Levels start off quite basic, but as you progress and make your way further into the campaign, they will start mutating, adding obstacles in your way and even producing hazardous parts that must be navigated around, all whilst trying to stay alive thanks to the onslaught of enemies, lovely then!
So, simple then? Just blast all enemies to smithereens and that's it? Yes, but there's more to ACC than that. As the hordes of enemies attempt to thwart your actions, you'll also have to fight against your power-reserves. As the characters are reliant on some form of synthetics, they'll need to top-up the battery to carry on functioning. The battery basically represents your life, when the battery is drained, it's game-over. Collecting batteries that drop during levels isn't always that straight forward either, even when you're using numerous power-ups to speed around the level and boost up the strength of your weaponry.
Once the story/campaign is done, you're given the choice of Infinity Drive and Daily Drive. These are challenge-based modes which the difficulty increases the longer you stay alive. Unfortunately, they don't have the same levels of variety compared to the levels from story mode. It's a pity then? Yes, but it's an area that can be improved in future updates/patches of the title.
Overall, when done right, a twin-stick styled shmup can be one of the most enjoyable and fun genres to unwind to. I'm glad to to say that Assault Android Cactus hits (or indeed shoots) all the right buttons. It's got plenty of characters to choose from, with the ability to cater for a wide variety of play-styles and has just the right amount of chaos. Plus along with the bosses (a game of this type is NOT complete without bosses!), it adds a whole new dimension to the challenge. For all die-hard shmup fans and even casual gaming fans, I would definitely recommend checking this great blaster out.
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This article contains very interesting evidence that seems to indicate that economic storm clouds could be close on the horizon!
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