This is the best historical account of this dark era that I have seen. It should be required reading for high school and college students--not to mention every adult in the U.S. and U.K. Well done!

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I think the Damnocrats know it is a big lie and yet roll over on their backs and beg Bush to scratch their bellies. Sickens me to hear them support the War on Terror which is just one of many, many Big Lies. The others are the War on Iraq, that Iran is a threat, protestors are traitors and enemies of the state, Department of Homeland Security, that Bush was elected president, etc.

There was also that crap about Bush reading 80 books in the summer of 2006 for recreation. Hmmm! What about the coverup of his being AWOL from military service but then swaggered on the deck of the Abraham Lincoln pretending he piloted the plane that brought him and his lies about "Mission Accomplished.". Smaller lies are the bullshit about our success in Iraq and Afghanistan. Remember Katrina and "No one could have predicted ..." Yet another lie came from Laura Bush saying how much she and her husband cared about the casualties in these illegal, war-crime wars. On and the pretense that they didn't know about torture or Abu Gherib, the claim that the detainees at Guantanamo were dangerours, criminal combatants who weren't covered by the Geneva Conventions.

But, one time however, he did actually tell the truth. He called the Constitution that damn piece of paper and as far as he was concerned that was his opinion. Thunder and lightening!!! Bush actually did speak the truth once.

The Big Lie is the foundations of the Bush administration. Without it, there would be no Bush administration, and he would not even occupy the Oval Office. My guess though it is almost certain is that 9/11 is another big lie since I think it was a false flag operation carried out by the Bush administration.

Sigh! Another big lie is that the Damnocrats are the opposition party and that the Damnocrats oppose the war. Pelosi, Feinstein, Kerry, and Hillary are all heavily invested in military-industrial corporation stocks. The more the war drags on with it's massive corruption, fraud and embezzling funding for the war, the more wealthy they get. And, oh yeah, another big lie is that the Damnocrats are the people's party.

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Is this a Tom Clancy Novel? John Grisham? How can such an unbelievable story be so believable? Machiavelli would have been proud. And to think you and I pay for this. As President Rove, Co-President Cheney, and sub-president Bush were plotting the overthrow of everyone and every country which stood in the way of their right to own the world's oil, they were all drawing fat paychecks drawn on OUR accounts. Yet they're still around (well, maybe not Rove), still getting paid. As long as it's all about money, let's think about that. Of course, cutting off their paychecks would only be symbolic, wouldn't hurt them financially. So, how 'bout we impeach them? Has anyone thought of that? Of, right, we can't. The top ranking Democrats (Ms. Pelosi, e.g.) are parroting another Bush, "Wouldn't be prudent". I say it's not only prudent, but it is the probably the only way to redeem this country in the eyes of the world. So I'm ranting; I do that periodically.... My new poster: "Impeach them, before we lose THAT right!".

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This is an excellent piece in most regards. However a few changes would make it an even better article. First, take out the nod toward the 9-11 conspiracy crazies. The author even repudiates them at the end with the argument that 9-11 was committed by 19 men with box cutters. All that your gratuitous inclusion of the possibility of Bush administration complicity in 9-11 does is make it easy for you to be lumped in with the crazies and then everything else you have shown is cast into doubt. Of much less importance is the statistic on the size of the Soviet Union. 140 million people? Where on earth did you get that number? Remember, the USSR was much more than just Russia! This may seem like a small problem but again a little mistake is all it takes for the administration and its supporters to discredit the whole article. The story you tell is too important for that to be allowed to happen.

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This is the most comprehensive detailed overview of this entire war agenda that I have ever seen put together and I would like to know how long has this been known? How long has this author had this information?

This is a perfect case made for crimes against humanity for every single one of those who attended the energy task force of Cheney's back in 2/2001. Any such prosecution should include those in the private sector who aided and abetted in this entire horrific detailed plan and should be charged along with cheney, jeb Bush and others, with the murder of over 1 million civilians and 2 million refugees and any deaths as a result of that refugee status.

In addition, they should be forced to make restitution not only to this Federal Gov for building those bases to secure their oil, but to the tax payers for all expenses incurred and it should be paid out of those blood drenched gouging profiteering dollars that have come into the pockets of those same sick and filthy perveyors of such satanic evil. They should also make restitution to every single Iraqi family that they killed or maimed or made refugees, they should do this along with returning the STOLEN ARTIFACTS OF THAT NATIONS MUSEUMS AND THE BILLIONS OF GOLD THAT WERE TAKEN AND PROSECUTION OF THOSE WHO TOOK THE GOLD, THAT IS THE BANKERS.
HOW DARE WE DO SUCH HORROR TO ANOTHER SOVEREIGN NATION. HOW DARE WE!

WE have lost thousands (some figures show 20,000) of our American children, husbands, wives, mothers to this greedy excuse of a war just for Exxon, Shell, BP, Mobile etc. That is a price they will never be able to repay and must spend time in jail for the rest of their lives for what they have done intentionally.

This simply proves to me that 9-11 was all part of the plan as well otherwise non of this could have happened and they even admit in their document they needed such an event to be able to do this. That alone is another whole set of prosecutions that would require the death penalty. I still prefer jail time for the rest of their lives so they get to sit and think about what they have done. If they don't then we periodically will come and remind them.

I would personally come to visit them in jail just to sit and look at them and remind them of why they are in there and bring pictures of our fallen and maimed that they created. Pictures of those who jumped from those buildings so they can see the suffering these people experienced for the oil company's particular nasty greed.

LISTEN UP.... THIS MEANS THE NOISES BEING MADE ABOUT IRAN ARE JUST AN EXTENTION OF THIS POLICY AND THUS A DRAFT WILL BE THE USING OF OUR CHILDREN AS FODDER FOR THEIR FOLLY. NO WAY!!!!! EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD MAKE IT CLEAR THE CHILDREN WILL BE TOLD NOT TO GO. REFUSE THROUGH CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE.

"WHAT IF THEY CALLED FOR WAR AND NO ONE SHOWED UP TO FIGHT IT?" No War!

I wish to thank this author for one of the best articles ever put out on this site. Its invaluable with all the supportive documentation listed through links that verifies the facts. Its seldom we get that anymore. He is genuinely a hero and Alternet has finally done something extremely valuable for us out here. You know something is wrong, but until you read the entire context and details you never really realize just how evil and sadistic this whole thing was. I should have guessed when Cheney shot a friend in hte face for disagreeing with him. If he can do that to a friend, he is capable of anything. He is on par with torturous serial killers with no conscience. HE NEEDS TO BE IMPEACHED. NOW!!!!! NOT LATER, NOW!!!! I saw his mental illness during the Anita Hill episode with the thomas hearings. He let a pervert lying lawyer become a supreme court justice. I should have made a bigger stink back then. Sorry I didn't.

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The war on terror is not a lie....Every day we have to non-violently fight the the world's number one terrorists in the White House.

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Like lemmings the vast majority of the media, neocons, and corporate culture have bought into the Bush and Cheney lies because they see the lies to be in their best interest. Check out this documentary for some frightening questions: http://zeitgeistmovie.com/. We live in a dictatorship today given the lies Bush and his administration have perpetrated to hold power and defend their weak and corrupt characters.

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On September 11, 2001 all I could think of upon hearing the Neo-cons ranting about a real catastrophe was the Big Lie of Goebbels being used to do what they already had in the works. Rove is an apt pupil and has perfected the practice as he oozed from Texas political gutters.
The Bush "Brown Shirts" actions have made me begin to wonder if this was their Reichstag fire that got bungled like everything they try. God is definitely Not on the side of the inhuman actions this Big Lie is used to hide or ameliorate.

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Since this administration has made such a success of waging a long bloody ultraexpensive war against a concept, perhaps we should begin one of our own: the war against hypocrisy. It ought to be more manageable than the global WOT, because the main targets are clustered in a relatively small area.
Want a two-front war? We could go after arrogance, too.

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In Hitlers disastrous march into Russia, we find the fuehrer beginning to lose all sense of reality. When German troops were finally halted by the Russians in the winter of 1941 we see a familiar picture unfolding. First of all the German armies were almost completely unprepared for the weather which dipped down to 30 below zero. They didn't have wool socks, parkas, cold weather gear...their gas turned to gelatin and they were not being resupplied quickly enough.

Hitler ultimately told them to hold their ground no matter what. When the Russians regrouped and began to break through the German lines, Hitler's generals began asking permission to retreat to better defensive positions. Hitler flatly refused the requests. When German General Paulus received a generous offer to surrender to Russian General Rokossovski, Paulus contacted the fuehrer and relayed the following message:
"Troops without ammunition [he radioed on the twenty-fourth](Jan. 24, 1941)or food...Effective command no longer possible... 18,000 wounded without any supplies or dressings or drugs...Further defense senseless. Collapse inevitable. Army requests immediate permission to surrender in order to save lives of remaining troops."

Hitler's response:

"Surrender is forbidden. Sixth army will hold their positions to the last man and the last round and by their heroic endurance will make an unforgettable contribution toward the establishment of a defensive front and the salvation of the Western world."

Excerpts from, "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich - A History of Nazi Germany" - William A. Shirer

George Bush: "We will stay the course until the job is done, Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re just going to stay the course. [12/15/03]"
Original article here

The more I look into Nazi Germany the more this administration parallels the political environment that Hitler created. While the US isn't engaged in the mass slaughter of humanity on the scale of the Nazis...they are engaged in the biggest terror campaign in world history. Not only are they terrorizing just about every country in the world, but they are practicing daily on the domestic populace as well.

Ooops, Hitler did that to...

As Hitler's world began to fall apart in 1942, so did he. He became increasingly belligerent and psychotic, and started giving crazy orders, such as the one cited previously...costing him the means to continue his war of insanity. Look for George to pull something crazy soon...he's running out of time to be in office legally.

The real question I have is...does he have enough toadies to put together something big enough to bring him into open dictatorship? And if he does try...how will he maintain it? His military is mostly overseas, which leaves him with the National Guard, reserves, police, and mercenaries to run this country. Can he get enough of them behind him to overwhelm the populace? He's already nullified the protections of posse comitatus, so the legal framework is there...but will they fight and attack our own population?

Stay tuned...

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Our Congress doesn't think so.

Now the House follows the Senate censuring Moveon.org for freely expressing justifiable contempt for Gen. Betrayus' perpetration of the obvious falsity of "surge success" in Ameraq and are cowed into line by Herr's Bush and Cheney.

Not only has a Democratic Congress failed in it's responsibility to protect Constitutional process, pursue and expose and prosecute the facts of Administration crimes against the American Public and the world, now it lends itself as enablers in an ever expanding official lie after lie after lie.

This is a grievous affront to the very basis and purpose of our Constitution and every human that has sacrificed in an effort to establish and preserve those principles.

We handed them the Executive, they took the Judicial, now our esteemed Congress has surrendered without a shot. What a spineless, contemptible and pathetic assembly of Betrayists.

The flag of Congress should be a brown turd on the Bill of Rights set in a bright yellow field.

The Coup is complete. This is, in a word, TREASON.

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And Brian Lamb gets so irritated on C-Span when people bring fascism up. It's almost laughable. I watched Robert Greenwald's new film War Made Easy last night. Pretty revealing of how complicit the media is in all of this (check out Iraq for Sale, too). I have no hope that concerned citizens can stop this war machine with the spineless and war profiteering people occupying our capital. Apathy and anger towards the war and the protestors, respectively, have been highly effective, and I can't see my Senator Grassley as anything but a warmonger who consistently votes against the Constitution and for the PNAC's agenda. It makes him more wealthy, and isn't that the whole idea behind having wars in the first place? As long as you don't have to die, they're fun!

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A lot of good Americans were blind-sided by this war. Unfortunately history is no longer a subject that enough people care to explore, so it has taken a long time and many, many revelations of the Bush adminstration's Machivellian maneuvers to get their attention.

To realize we have been suckered into a horrible, shameful series of events that has cost many lives, much treasure, and the good reputation the United States once enjoyed has been a gradual process for many who now see. For those who refuse to see or to admit the truth, there is no hope at all.

Although there is absolutely no excuse now for either ignorance of US cupidity or of its role in the trashing of Iraq and Afghanistan, there is also no excuse for those who saw through the game from the very beginning and who held their tongues for whatever reason. If we had great statesmen rather than mere politicians or a press that embraced the the philosophy of the great journalists of the past, Bush and his henchmen might long ago have been stripped of their power.

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Bin Laden was a dead man walking from March 2001 onwards, but the Cheney/Sockpuppet administration didn't go after him. Read more here.

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This article is documented, articulate and spot on in its thesis, it should be front page worthy and generate public discourse beyond internet babble. Unfortunately, despite vast sums that are wasted on public education in this nation, the irrefutable fact is inculpable ignorance abounds and knowledge is scorned. As in most third world countries beset with craven tyrants, sycophants and criminals, the masses lay stupid and buy the bullshit of perpetuation in the name of righteousness and entitlement. Those that expect Congress to emerge and fullfill appropriate Constitutional response are deluded. Those jackals are products of the same idiot's pipeline, never more clearly demonstrated than in the performance since last November's election results. But fear not, it appears that Thompson and Gingrich loom and the glory of this New World will be restored in '09. Hallefuckinlujah!

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It seems that all the commentators are overlooking the 800 pound gorilla in the room.
It’s “the Military stupid”.
It makes excellent geopolitical sense in the age of the American Empire to occupy and control the oil rich middle east, the spigot for most of the energy in the World!
Obviously the next move is Iran!
This hammerlock on the World’s energy creates a defacto ‘subjection’ of most of the Nations of the World, and incidentally without oil brings most opposing military to their knees.
Perhaps just perhaps the Bush Administration is simply implementing the military’s plan of Empire. And oh, by the way, the man in Charge. General David Petraeus is telling us the military will need to be in Iraq for the next fifty years (or until the oil runs out?)! And oh yeah, President(?) Bush is saying, “lets let the Generals tell us what to do in Iraq”.
Perhaps just perhaps a military coup took place long ago!
As for the Congress, let us not forget the militarized anthrax attack on the Senate Office building two months after the 9-11 attack!!!. Remember the anthrax was traced back to a military lab. An ominous warning to our representatives in Washington.
From a propaganda standpoint, the military must deflect these obvious facts. Hence it is up to its political hacks to sell the smokescreen of a “War on Terrorism”.
Is it any wonder, with so much political and media deception for the “Military and War”, no one can see through the smoke and mirrors?

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Once again, the sheep are being made fools of. I don't know why previous posters are giving this article such praise. Comprehensive it may be, but the bottom line is that it promotes and supports the biggest lie of all -- that the attacks of 9/11 were promulgated by Osama bin Laden.

Never mind the absolute absurdity that a man sitting in an Afghan cave would be able to successfully circumvent the world's foremost air security system, there have been reams of evidence presented and books written by unimpeachable sources like David Griffin which definitely point to gov't control over the entire incident.

Do you get it? Bin Laden is the scapegoat here. The blame for the attacks were placed entirely on his shoulders as a prelim to the rabid demonization of all things Arab and Muslim that we see still going strong today.

Until the American people are able to get to the bottom of 9/11, nothing in the so-called "war of terror" will change, because the basic premise that Muslim "terrorists" were responsible for 9/11 is 100% wrong.

Polls consistently show that the vast majority of American don't believe the official 9/11 explanation, so why is this piece -- which pretends to focus on gov't lies -- pushing the ultimate lie? That pretty much sums up its usefulness to me.

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It's as simple as that. It took more than simply the illegitimate administration to pull this off.

How about the press? "...The mainstream press has ignored the story [that the administration planned the wars prior to 9-11 while claiming they were in response to 9-11 and other forthcoming yet totally manufactured threats]..." THIS WAS QUITE A STORY. The article discusses the "neglect" of the media, but neglect is a choice.

Or, to put it another way, Americans should not impulsively write off the actions of the $150 Billion dollar per year media industry that is controlled mainly by less than 100 super-powerful, -wealthy, -connected, -educated and -cunning men to “ignorance.”

Again, how about the press? This is why we Americans to this day are only able to read articles such as this on alternative news outlets that are not owned by Disney, Time Warner, News Corp, General Electric, Vivendi and several other large corporations.

Not one of them with all of their vast resources took to task their ostensible responsibility to apply due diligence in reporting the events leading to Afghanistan and Iraq.

This is beyond belief. Want me to repeat it? Okay.

Not one of them with all of their vast resources took to task their ostensible responsibility to apply due diligence in reporting the events leading to Afghanistan and Iraq.

"...And the campaign was aided by a compliant mainstream press that swallowed and regurgitated the talking points..."

Is that compliant from fear or compliant from willingness to abet? It is absurdly impossible that the press could be "afraid" of a president who lost the popular vote and who had such a dishonorable past.

Regarding the congress's compliance to voter's will, I agree, "The integrity of the Constitution and the rule of law are at stake as well." But I do not agree that this and the remainder of the people's interests are what drive the congress. Again and again in our times the congress has enacted legislation that is contrary to the popular will and against the people's interests. The executive branch has administered the government is such a way as to be detrimental to average people in almost every way in almost every instance for since Reagan. The people have not responded to this... Why? Mainly because of the way the power media manipulates their thinking. This is a hard pill to swallow; the smarting feeling of deception is something no one likes to feel. (But we have to hang it up if we are going to save this republic…)

The political voting "alliance" that squeaked by (although they really did not, as they manipulated Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004) in the 2000 and 2004 was one of corporate plutocrats, "Christian" evangelicals, and Zionist Jews. The first groups' core motivation was the money; the second groups' was the (false) promises of the Bush administration for repeal of Roe vs. Wade and other "Christian" initiatives; the last groups was to have someone else kill their enemies who neighbored their homeland. This last group, the Jews, at the time of the inception of the Iraq War (and at present) had nearly 100% representation among the chief positions at nearly every single major American power media company.*

This latter statement is–-ah, what should I say–-well known? If we cannot discuss this as candidly as we discuss PNAC, the evangelicals, Bush and Cheney, then recouping the list of desirables outlined in the last three paragraphs of this piece is just not going to happen.

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Another tragedy of all this is that the damage to America will last much longer the the oil age. Oil will some day be unneccssary but america has been forever tarnished.

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besides impeachment which is not going to happen?

There are millions of us that have been aware of the tyranny of the US gov for years, but all I notice on Alternet is the same old same old. You know the theme here for the next year is going to be pushing the Dems as the answer and scapegoating the GOP. This crap should be insulting to anyone with 1/2 a brain.

Working within this corrupted system is not the answer... is this not OBVIOUS??? I mean, what else needs to happen for you to be convinced? What level of state sponsored human right violations are acceptable to you?

Many comments on Alternet are excellent; they're insightful and often provide great links to real journalism, but most articles posted here are repetitive and get old quickly. I'd bet there are very few people still visiting this site just for the articles. Why do you think Commondreams added reader comments to their site?

How much longer can the established left keep the attention of their faithful? As some recent articles posted here claimed, those who consider themselves "progressive" outnumber and outsmart conservatives... but when will they realize they're being led around in a circle on a not so merry-go-round? Considering the recent rash of articles about porn here, my guess is not much longer. You can only hit the snooze button so many times before you eventually wake up. There's explosive potential for change, and this scares the jesus out of the privileged class.

After all, the Ford Foundation doesn't exist to sell more cars.

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It is also amazing to me that the Repugs can keep bringing up 911 and use it so much when it should be an albatross around their necks. It happened on their watch, Bush was warned and did nothing and the people that master minded it are still at large 5 years later. If that had been a Democratic president they would have impeached him 3 times.

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When the U.S. soldiers were sent into Iraq under the cover of "Shock and Awe" they knew what was up. They unofficially named their first two forward base camps "Camp Exxon" and "Camp Shell". The Pentagon PR office suppressed that the moment they heard about it.

It's not just the oil, it's also the issue of maintaining control of global oil sales as a means of propping up the U.S. dollar. Since all global oil sales are handled in dollars through the New York and London exchanges, that makes dollars a necessary commodity for purchasing oil. See Petrodollar Warfare, by William R. Clark, 2005

There were no nuclear or biological weapons in Iraq, and just a handful of ancient and defunct chemical shells (sold to Iraq by West Germany during the Iran-Iraq war for cash financed by the U.S. agricultural export program, one might add).

Saddam was captured in Dec 2003. He was not shipped to the Hague to face an International Criminal Tribunal like Slobodan Milosevic was, because all the details about who built his massive army (primarily the U.S., Britain, France, and West Germany, assisted by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and other trans-shippers) would have come out.

Even if you bought the BS about Saddam and 911, at that point there was no possible excuse for keeping the military in Iraq except to maintain control over Iraq's incredibly lucrative oilfields - light, sweet crude with the lowest costs of production anywhere on the planet. In an era of rising oil prices and increasingly scarce oil, Iraq is IT. Central Asian oil was disappointing, despite all the hype in the 90's.

This was all well known by 2002, if not by 1998! See West Sees Glittering Prizes Ahead in Giant Oilfields, July 2002, Times of London

In Bush's twisted little mind, Afghanistan is just a sideshow. Controlling Afghanistan allows the U.S. to put pressure on Iran from both sides. Now the realpolitik agenda is 'containing Iran' as well as 'hindering China' and 'styming Russia'. This is global - ever notice how Bush only attacks countries for 'human rights violations' if they haven't delivered their fossil fuel reserves to US/British interests?

The U.S. public would never go for this cold calculating and murderous economic agenda that only benefits a handful of globally connected billionaires and their political cronies, so they have been sold a nonstop train of lies and BS by the corporatized media of the U.S. - and NPR is just as bad as the New York Times, FOX News, CNN, ABC, CBS, MSNBC, etc. etc. etc. A tiny handful of dissenting voices show up here and there, but noone in the corporate media has spelled the whole story out - that would be a betrayal of their shareholder's interests, after all.

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For the fraudulent "elections" of 2000 & 2004? For 911? For the phony "war" against, and brutal occupation of Iraq and Afaganistan? For the bogus "war on terror"? For the theft of our national treasure? For the attacks on our social programs and constitutional guarantees? For the unwaranted and warantless snooping on our citizens? For war crimes, crimes against humanity, war profiteering, and rampant corruption, from the highest levels on down? The bushies will tell you "It ain't us. It's probably Clinton's fault", or some other equally preposterous lie. Anybody with half a brain KNOWS who the real criminals and terrorists REALLY are, so, why the hell aren't they doing hard time in a federal prison? Shame on all of us.

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The real conspiracy that surrounds 9/11 is the one that the 911Truthiness Movement won't discuss on any of their many, many websites - and that's how 9/11 was used to sell the Iraq invasion to the U.S. public. I find that to be a very revealing fact that points to what the 911Truthiness Movement really is.

Two words: COINTELPRO Redux.

Let's look at the events of September 11, 2001. What was it? 16 Saudis, and the others from Egypt, Kuwait, and Lebanon? All came into the U.S. with cover stories, coordinated their activities, took practice trips, and succeeded in simultaneously hijacking 4 planes - the only odd thing is that they were able to do so despite numerous warnings from flight school owners, FBI field agents, and foreign intelligence services. Bush and Rice were directly warned - but the airlines were not notified or instructed to step up security. That's what's odd here.

The anniversary of the anthrax attacks is coming up - you can bet that the corporate media and the 911truthiness campaign will have nothing to say about that.

The fact is that Bush wanted to start a war and had ever since he got into office. He was trying to ramp up tensions in the Middle East by putting the Israeli-Palestine conflict on the back burner - a tactic that Israel deliberately supported by provoking the Palestinians into another intifada in Fall 2000.

It's possible that Bush knew that hijackings were imminent and delberately did nothing to stop them (that would account for all the pre-911 'don't fly on 911' warnings delivered to some politically connected people). If so, he was assuming that the hijackers were not suicide hijackers. He was expecting a dramatic scene on the airport tarmac, not planes crashing into his cronies' offices in the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

In fact, that's what the hijackers said they were going to do - go back to the airport - in their radio communications with the air traffic controllers after the planes were hijacked. Of course they wouldn't have broadcast their true intentions.

The Bushies and their allies (such as the corporate media, from NPR to CNN to FOX) are doing a pretty good job of provoking a new war with Iran without resorting to blowing up the Pentagon, and the same was true for Vietnam:

The Blueprint of Blame: Provoking War with Iran
"..CBS newsman Walter Cronkite was later quoted as saying that the sonar data could have been produced by an incontinent whale. Despite the uncertainty, the situation was construed as an attack on U.S. forces."

So,the biggest U.S. government conspiracy surrounding 9/11 is the one the author describes - the deliberate use of 9/11 to justify an aggressive invasion of Iraq based on false claims.

The second biggest U.S. government conspiracy surrounding 9/11 is the creation of a massive COINTELPRO-style operation known as "The 911 Truth Movement."

This is just a standard tar-and-feather the opponent operation, i.e. Karl Rove's stock in trade: "All anti-war and anti-globalization activists are kooky nutcases who believe the CIA planted bombs and did a controlled demolition of the World Trade Center, and that they fired a missile at the Pentagon, and caused planes to vanish."

It also had a nice fear component - the CIA and the government are all-powerful, like God, and you had better keep your mouths shut and hide under your beds or the black helicopters are gonna come get you!

That is why the 911truthiness campaign got so much coverage on CNN, etc. They won't let Noam Chomsky on, but they will let 911truthiness nutcases on. Now, why is that? It's called a deliberate campaign to get the message out.

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Let's rename it the "Exxon-Mobil War."

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Welcome to BU$H$HIT AMERICA! Here's their new website: http://wwwthepartyofthewidestance.blogspot.com/

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Just exactly how is this supposed to happen?
"Should this continue, thinking Americans will discard the last crumbs of respect for the incumbent legislature -- polling shows there's not much left -- and punish its members, Republican and Democrat alike, in next year's election."
Uh, the American people are going to vote the Republicans AND Democrats out of office? Or are we going to replace the corrupt incumbents with the corrupt alternatives the parties choose for us and somehow change things that way? It's a nice thought, but I don't see it happening.

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This administration and its allies believe their own bullshit.

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DEFINITELY!
Who benefits? Bush-Cheney and their big oil cronies and, of course--Israel

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"The War On Terror" is nothing more than the institutionalized transfer of taxpayer monies to crony corporations, all of which are realizing spectacular profits at the expense of US citizens and foreign civilians (and occasionally, an actual criminal) unfortunate enough to be caught up in the US dragnet.

Outsourced intel/data mining and the ironically named private "security" forces are here to bilk the US taxpayer out of TRILLIONS!! That Bush had the audacity to declare that a child health care proposal is too costly should fill each of you with a vengeful anger that drives you to action.

I sit here seething with rage; barely able to formulate coherent keystrokes. I'm giving serious contemplation to storming out of here and getting arrested AGAIN. Unfortunately, conventional wisdom tells me that absolutely no one will stand beside me. NO ONE! I can still see the faces of so many gawkers, many of whom even agreed with my outbursts, but that "silly, poor bastard" expression on their faces said it all: "You're going down alone".

I risk going away for awhile this time around though. At my last sentencing, some condescending, prick of a judge had this to say: "your brand of activism is antithetical to the tenets of this PEACEFUL democracy". How's that for funny?

YOU FUCKING WORTHLESS PIECES OF SHIT WILL ONLY STAND BY AND WATCH (AGAIN) WHILE I GET THROWN DOWN SOME HOLE. AMERICANS TRULY ARE SHIT.

I realized something today. I hate this country and everything it represents with every fiber of my existence. Sadly, I have also come to hate virtually everyone inhabiting it. The grotesque and horrible existences ahead of you should be punishment enough for your inaction.

"The proposal would increase the program from its current enrollment numbers of 6.6 million children to include 4 million more who are uninsured. The cost of the plan is currently at $5 billion per year, and the new proposal adds $7 billion per year over five years, for a total of $35 billion. The cost would be covered by an additional tax of .61 cents per pack on cigarettes."

That's right, folks. We'll spend approximately $10 billion this month in Iraq yet can't see our way to spending the equivalent of 3.5 months worth of savage killing, err, I mean The War On Terror to do something humane. Yeah, god forbid that smokers pay another $.61 for a pack of cancer sticks. God forbid we levee an "irresponsibility tax" on SUV drivers. Let's give giant corporations TAX BREAKS for fuck sake! Let's not do anything but kill and maim and ruin the lives of children across the globe while denying children health care here at home.

I've decided that I no longer care. I'm going to start driving a Ford F-350. I'm going to buy that 50" plasma and Jet ski. I'm going to stop protesting globalism and start advocating the destruction of the environment. I'm going to throw my hat in with the other economists who are fucking you out of billions each and every day rather than practice the more humane brand of Keynesianism that certainly never made me a rich man by any stretch of the imagination.

Fuck it all. I'm starting a hedge fund and getting busy assisting those who would destroy the planet. I'm going to start watching ET and Extra with relish; can't wait to get the latest scoop on Britney and Brangelina. So, good luck everyone. Go vote for Hillary or Obama and feel self-satisfied - as if that will be doing your part to end global tyranny. I almost burst into laughter when I imagined you drones out distributing leaflets for that lying bitch. You'll all say, "That Kucinich is one hell of a good guy" but you won't dare encourage others to vote for him, let alone vote for him yourself.

The US is lost. Get out now. No, wait - don't get out. What has the rest of the world done to deserve you?

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In my opinion the big lie in the US isn't that the Bush administration lied to get us into war. The big lie is that the people are in control of our government. The last electiion made very little difference in the life of the common citizen and neither will the next. Elections are meaningless; change is not the result of elections. The end to the Viet Nam war and the Civil Rights victory were both due to uprisings by the people, not elections.

Americans are deceived by elections. In spite of the evidence that they are pointless, elections give the illusion that the people are in control.
"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe that they are free". Goethe.
The truth won't set you free unless you believe it.
Bob Reichenbach,
Director, The Lincoln Initiative.

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Everything that goes up must come down.

It is a matter of time before other countries take notice and realize that our country is poising itself to take possession of the world's resources. One day we will wake up and pay the price in full, our society no more. All great civilizations must fall.

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Look, people--I'm about to lay it on you with no-holds-barred. I STRONGLY suggest that some posters to this article read some books on the rise of Hitler and fascisim in the early 1930's. For the lessons they tell us are eerily preminiscent of what is happening in the U.S. right now. Too many people are only familiar with the middle and the end of the story (world war II, the Holocaust, Hitler commits sucide, end of story). But you gotta look at how things got started back then, for they give important lessons for today.

You think Hitler took over Germany by force of arms in a coup or something? Wrong! He was VOTED in by a free and fair election. Voted in by an electorate that was scared and uncertain and clueless about the truth and ready to believe the stories about the Jews and Communists and other Dark Ones that the Nazi party was screaming at them daily. Then along came the Reichstag "fire" and of course that showed it all was true! Hitler declared that unless he was granted extraordinary powers the evil conspirators and enemies of Germany would prevail. Of course the politicians immediately passed the Enabling Act. It was this Act of Germany's legislative body that created the Nazi dictatorship.

All you have to do is substitute 9/11 for the Reichstag fire and the Patriot Act for the Enabling Act to see what I am getting at.

I am also dismayed by how many Progressives and Liberals wring their hands about the Democrats not coming to the rescue. False hope dudes! Even after Hitler became Chancellor, the Nazis were a minority party in the Reichstag. When the Enabling Act was presented for a vote, it was the German Social Democrats and other so-called "respectable" parties in the Reichstag that timidly got on board the bandwagon and gave it the necessary votes to pass.

You watch the grainy black and white newsreels from the early 1930's and you can gain a premonition of what is happening RIGHT NOW in the good ol' US of A.

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If you tell the same lie enough times people will believe it.

Lies like

1) Bush lied to get the USA into the war with Iraq.
*Bush used the same intel that the Democrats (Like Hillary Clinton) and Republicans in both houses used to vote for this war.

2) George W. Bush not only knew of the 9/11 attack in advance, but had been in on its planning and its intended outcome.
* Can sane reasonable people actually swallow this crap? Well ole ROSIE can swallow anything.

3) Bush stole the 2000 election.
* No he did not. The votes counted and confirmed. Even after the PROGRESSIVE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS attempted to throw out US Military votes BUSHY still won. But watching Gore and the libbies crybaby about it was a lot of fun.

4) Bush was AWOL while serving his Reserve duty.
* Evidence was trumped up.

And the band plays on ......

How many more wacko lies with the PROGRESSIVES come up with. How many more lies will the PROGRESSIVE LEFT try to shove down the throats of Americans. WE AIN'T SWALLOWING>

Play them over and over and some idiots will actually believe them.

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The War on Terror (and Iraq) was invented by the zionists. Only Israel benefits from these endless Middle East wars. Iraq is the beginning. As we commit war-crimes in Baghdad, the US gov't commits treason at home by opening mail, eliminating habeas corpus, using the judiciary to steal private lands, banning books like America Deceived (book) from Amazon and Wikipedia, conducting warrantless wiretaps and engaging in illegal wars on behalf of AIPAC's 'money-men'. Soon, another US false-flag operation will occur (sinking of an Aircraft Carrier by Mossad) and the US will invade Iran.. Then we'll invade Syria, then Saudi Arabia, then Lebanon (again) then ....

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The urban legend that there are two different major American political parties is believed by many. The proof there is only one, named the American Corporate Party, comes from the mouth of House majority leader, Nancy Pelosi, who said long ago, "Impeachment is off the table." To me and some other Americans, we translate this as, "The Democratic branch of the American Corporate Party believes defending the Constitution is off the table." We now have a fascist executive, with enablers occupying OUR Congress.

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The war on terror is as big a fraud as the war on drugs. Terror and drugs cannot wage war. Both have been a huge waste of blood and treasure for virtually no positive return. Education, tolerance for non-violent diversity and intolerance and global repudiation of violent diversity (political, economic or religious) is what's needed. Unfortunately, there is a hell of a lot of money to be made by those who have little risk in the pitting of general, ignorant populations of xenophobes against each other. Eisenhower warned us - Bush I, Bush II, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Halliburton, CACI, Lockheed-Martin et.al. are proving Ike right to the detriment of the entire planet.

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While this article is cutting-edge for Alternet, which is a controlled disinformation source, everything in it has been repeated endlessly over the past 6 years by truly knowledgeable writers.

I don't believe we find the word "ISRAEL" in this massive narrative about the US in the middle east. That's a pretty glaring omission, and one would have to be pretty ill informed (or butchered by the editors) to make such an omission.

So, while most of the material is essential (and well disseminated), what's missing is of even more importance.

Today's Counterpunch includes an article by two ex-CIA officers which fills in some of the missing pieces:

See No Evil: The Teflon Alliance With Israel

Pay attention to the part about A Clean Break, the "New Strategy For Securing the Realm." This document was itself an evolved version of an Israeli intelligence paper from 1979, and these strategies are long term, and deeply embedded in Israel, and now in the USA.

Counterpunch, of course, won't touch Israeli involvement in the 9/11 attacks. Their limited hangout was critiqued in great detail here.

Speaking of Urban Moving Systems (a Mossad front in Weehawken NJ whose owner fled to Israel after being questioned by FBI, and the business shut down), there is a great omission in the official 9/11 narrative that I dare ANYONE to explain to me.

It concerns a "van full of explosives" stopped at the George Washington Bridge the evening of 9/11. There are four credible reports of this incident, which was expunged from history.

CBS REPORT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Up0Bvwwx9hA&e

CNN REPORT
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0109/11/se.04.html

JERUSALEM POST REPORT
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/jpost.html

EDITOR OF WALL STREET JOURNAL
http://www.asne.org/index.cfm?id=3562

Orwell's Triumph - There is no van full of explosives reported at the George Washington Bridge.

Corroborating Orwell & a van full of explosives at the G.W. Bridge

It is my (informed) opinion, that if the twin towers were indeed demolished by explosives in a controlled demolition, then these Israeli state agents -- who included "demolition/ordnance specialists" -- are the prime suspects in the crime. About 200 of these Israelis were detained (Carl Cameron/ the disappeared 4 part Fox News report), and an unknown number of other co-conspirators (such as Dominick Suter, the owner of Urban Moving Systems) were in the country.

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I never understood the meaning of the War on Terror. How do you declare war on a non-entity? It is like the war on proverty or drugs. It is a declaration of war on people who are not recognized as human beings therefore the war will never end. Without someone to sign the peace treaty or surrender to how does it end. The declaration of the war on Terror by George Bush was an unmitigated declaration of war on the world. Where in the world is there no threat from terrorist in some form or another. By declaring war on terror the world was his oyster. He could go into any country on the pretense of their being terrorist and take over that government.

When war is declared on Terror who comes to the peace table to sign a declaration of Peace? No one. Who has to surrender and lose the war in order for peace to be declared? No one. Who speaks for the terrorists and could negotiate a peace? Ben Laden? I don't think. Poland didn't have a prayer against Hilter's invasion and could do little but submit. I don't know if they ever actually surrendered but even then the slaughter and killing did not stop. France actually surrendered but this did not stop Hilter's unrelenting war on terror either.

Japan surrendered and there was an actual document that ended the war with a Marshall plan to go into AFTER the fact, unlike this war where reconstruction is part of the war. This is an unwinable war because there is no enemy to come forth and surrender. It is also of interest that in fact an actual declaration of war was never signed and delivered to the party we declared war on. So how do we know who the enemy is and get him to the table to sign the surrender?

If we are in Iraq fighting the war on terror would the leader of Iraq have to surrender, like France or Poland did, in order for the war to be over? I think Bush is expecting the Middle East to all get together and just surrender to him and then he can declare victory.

I am no master mind on war strategy. But just on principle this war on terror seems to defy reason and any sense of peace on earth and goodwill to all.

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"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Joseph Goebbels

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda."

George W. Bush
May 24, 2005

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Unlike just about every other country in the world America's narrative has been that of the ' rugged individualist ' as opposed to evolving from some sort of class structure be it religion in India or aristocracy just about everywhere else ... China may be an exception , however it seems there are strong voices there too ...

The Republicans have used this narrative to promote their agenda ... Freedom , freedom , freedom ... it almost loses its meaning . Freedom without basic human rights , is the freedom to starve and be brutalized . Bush has culminated this latest Republican round of privatisation with his 'Ownership Society', and , it didn't work ...

The Republicans new narrative is the 'War on Teror '. This will not work either . How do people personallly fight terrorists ? The polls already show Democrats even or ahead in implementing national security.

The Republicans have used race , ethnicity and socio-economic standing to divide and concquer . Nixon implemented the 'Southern Strategy ' and just yesterday the top of the Republican field refused to talk to Blacks , having already 'dissed' the Hispanics .

In the past there have been counter narratives . The Progressive narrative in the early 1900s against corporate abuse and the 'Guilded Age' , The 'New Deal' narrative for the 'Great Depression' and the 'Civil Rights' narrative against decscrimination against women and minorities ...

The form the new narrative will take for our troubles today is still unclear . There are many threads coming unraveled . The War State , The Economy , Immigration and Health Care are all factors playing into this mix ...

The starting point is the reccogniization of Universal Human Rights , for food , shelter , health care and education ... much as the European Model ...

The new narrative must be about the 'Common Wealth' as opposed to 'Individual Wealth'. It must be inclusive but reward individual effort and accomplishment . It must have strong moral and ethical tenents . It must break the 'Social Darwinistic' model we find ourselves in , that measures all worth in dollars and cents.

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A whole chapter on state-sponsored acts of terror, with full sources:

http://www.my-shirts.biz/06/index2.html#Chapter_9

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February 26, 1993, attack on the World Trade Center: 6 deaths and 1,042 injured
* April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing: 168 deaths and over 800 injured
* June 25, 1996, Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia: 20 deaths and 372 injured
* August 7, 1998, attacks on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania: 12 U.S. deaths out of a total of 223 deaths; 12 U.S. injured out of a total of over 4,000 injured
* October 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole in Yemen: 17 deaths; 39 injured
* September 11, 2001, attacks in New York and Washington (occurred during Bush presidency but planned during Clinton administration): 2,975 deaths and 24 missing.

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I love that pretty much everyone is on to the false flag, but why stop there? Peak oil is a good reason for the false flag. Ya, neo cons will make a ton of money continue to win elections on fear mongering but why are they all so confident history will prove them out?

Come on people, Peak oil means the end of energy for the masses and although this will be good for many reasons it may also mean the end of 5 billion people. This is why no democrat will pull us out of the most militaraly strategic place in the world.

You can't talk about false flag and not mention peak oil. This will help validate the false flag if we can atleast admit they had an arguement to do it. And yes you can argue that point very easily, doesn't make it rite but the rest of the world knows whats going on, especially europe, there preparing for it while we argue false flags. Time to go further down the rabbit hole people. It may just help our cause, if were honest about why they did it.

Good luck, get out of debt, go off grid and buy silver coins

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"...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 administration's behavior. Should this continue, thinking Americans will discard the last crumbs of respect for the incumbent legislature -- polling shows there's not much left -- and punish its members, Republican and Democrat alike, in next year's election...."

Well not exactly. One party will come out ahead and no lessons will be learned. But it's true that the rule of law is at stake. In the event that people become cynical and resign themselves to a system that is a best fit only for those who can get away with doing whatever they want, then corruption will have finally killed the American experiment in democracy.

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Impeach Bush and Cronies, always demand accountability and never fail to question authority. Bush and cronies are war criminals and need to be tried and punished as same.

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Finaly someone has put the facts together in one essay. I'm sure if the American people knew all the facts, this crimminal administration would be behind bars. What outrages me the most is the fact that they were wooing the Taliban, weeks before 9/11, for big oil. They were willing to look the other way, knowing full well the Taliban were playing host to Binladen. Screw the defence of the American people, we want our pipeline. How covennt for the oil companies that 9/11 happened when it did. Now they could build that pipeline and line their pockets.

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China will take good care of the world while you and you buddies are preoccupied

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China will take good care of the wold while your bogged down there. Don't worry;=))

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The biggest and most dangerous form of terrorism in the world is child abuse - and Bush is set to veto extending medical coverage to children without insurance.

Impeach the bastard now!

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You call the GWOT what it is - a big lie, but you stop short of calling the root event of which the GWOT is just a branch what it was.

The events of 9/11 were a carefully orchestrated false flag operation designed to act as the trigger for all that was to follow in terms of the GWOT, the incursions into our constitutional rights, the Patriot Act, and the opening of the purse to the tender mercies of the M/I complex with a license to loot the U. S. Treasury and the Iraqi economic potential.

The left, or progressives, or whatever you want to call them are choosing to fight the symptoms of the disease rather than the root cause, and that is why the Congress is floundering in its weak-kneed attempts to stop the Iraq occupation, and also why no impeachment movement has gained any serious momentum. No fascist cabal could dream of a more favorable opponent in terms of being as weak and ineffectual as are the Democrats. It is only the general ignorance and laziness of the American public and the silent treason of the media that permits it to happen, and it is our national shame.

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THE HOLY EARTHY GENOCIDE TRINITY OF THE BLOODYTHIRSTY OF THE AZORES.
The WAR MAKERS ON TERROR are the ones who MENSTRUATE from their MUZZLES and FILTER curtains of smoke from their backs. It is a WAR against THE HOLY CELESTIAL TRINITY, the FATHER, the SON and the HOLY SPIRIT.They steppod on CHRISTIANY and pissed on CHRIST. They are the WAR CRIMMINALS who are looking forward to sanctifing the genocides, masacres, atrocities, profanations violations and the convertion of prisons into a SEX SHOP or KAMA SUTRA. They are the puppies of SODOMA AND GOMORRA. I experienced them for over thirty years. I educated them that the POWER OF FORCE, will never overcomes the POWER OF LOVE, JUSTICE AND MORALITY.
I have noticed that they are still dreaming of the MIDDLE AGES, when they were looking for SANCTITY, in proportion to the quality and the quantity of blood they flow. It is clear, concrete and precise that they are the fountains and the roots of the MALICE. They have no qualifications more than the SATANIC CRUSADE APSTATES. WAR, INMORALITY, and CORRUPTION are the ways they use to GLORIFY their EARTHY CHRIST. We see how they abuse of the THIRLD WORLD NATIONS everywhere on the PENTAGONAL PLANET. The SOUTH AMERICAN are called "SUDACAS" which showa the MARCOPHOBIA against their brothers. The immorality which invades their old neurons let them recruit the poor immigrants to join the army and they are paid to shoot, and kilñl. The PROGRESS, the CIVILIZATION AND the TECHNOLOGY are turned into instruments of aniquilations and ethnity cleanness. They are in need to export wild civilization to amortize the MEDIEVAL PROGRESS. The ones we have here who follow SUCKER BUSH, the VICAR of CHRISTIANITY are NAZIFASCISTA who were the former GREATNESSES of SPAIN during the dictatorship. they worsip the provocations and war crimes against the THIRLD WORLD NATIONS. They were told that I am the only one on the planet who can seal their muzzles with all the rubbish inside, that they feed their recuits with, I also press on their noses, untill they swallow it and explode. I was censured by the most terrible HITLERIAN WAYS. They seal their webs and then interfere in another webs, as YAHOO SPAIN, to exercise the censorship. They have got long and large hands which they use for whatever they wish. The ARISTEGUIILLOGICAL, ARISTEGUIIMMORAL, ARISTEGUIIMPERIAL and ARISTEGUIINCOHERENT is well known by the MALICE and IMMORALITY. HE evidenced that he is an EXPERT IN IGNORACE AND NOT THE INTERNATIONAL OF A WILD PARTY whose all members are from OPUS DEI. That is why the THE SPANISH RIGHT WING is the most singular worldwide. REMBER THAT GANDHI SAID "I LIKE CHRIST, BUT I DO NOT LIKE YOUR CHRISTIANS. THEY ARE UNLIKE YOUR CHRIST". WAS GANDHI A TERRORIST? NO, he wasn´t. ARISTEGUIIMPERIAL is the VICAR OF OUR FATHER SUCKER BUSH.

VICARIO : THE VOICE OF LIBERTY.
VICARIO : EDUCATOR OF ARISTOCRAY.
VICARIO : EDUCATO OF NOBILITY.
VICARIO : EDUCATOR OF ROYALTY.
VICARIO : EDUCASTOR OF PEACE.
VICARIO : EDUCATOR OF VIRTUES.
VICARIO : EDUCATOR OF MORALITY.
VICARIO : EDUCATOR OF CHRISTIANTY.
VICARIO : EDUCATOR OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
VICARIO : EDUCATOR OF SOCIABILITY,
VICARIO : EDUCAR OF LOVE AND HUSTICE.
VICARIO : EXPERT OF CATHOLICOLOGY.
VICARIO : EXPERT OF ISLAMOLOGY.
VICARIO : WRITER OF JUSTICE, BUT THE
DOCUMENTS ARE the SPEALERS.

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all true!
talk, talk, is all we see... what are we gonna do about it?

Action, people, action.....
no more talk....
our eyes are opended....
we have a corrupt government......
how do we stop this?

ACTION

Lots of talk and rhetoric......we need Action.

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It was obvious this terror threat was a scam because nothing was done for protection at the borders. Even children playing war games protect the borders. Then they cut the police forces. Plus Bush lies are as obvious as those of a 3 year old.

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This story by Richard W. Behan is only the tip of a nightmare and not any original or ground shattering story to those who’ve paid attention (also the idea Behan resells on “al-Qaeda” ever being a real threat is not credible as financed and brokered out of the west).

People on the web have been saying all this and far more from before the Iraq War broke out. I was one of them. All such folk were called “conspiracy theorists” and “tinfoil hatters” “911 Truth moonbats” and far worse by those at the deep end of denial.

False “war on terror” and the 9/11 sham that gave it life have hijacked the west and the rest of the earth with it.

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that this is still called the "Land of the Free." As for what to do about it, I'm starting to run dry on ideas-any suggestions would be most appreciated. How do you stop people who don't seem to have a conscience, whose reach is global, and whose resources are so vast? This is the question we must answer and answer quickly, because time is running out.

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Ifyou tell a very big lie over and over...etc,by J.Goebbels,....Thats Foz! their news ...they repeat fair and balanced over and over,and they're the biggest liars,why bother w/ Bush?he's an ass who's going to destroy us in the worlds eyes,more fun to cutup fox news and their idiots

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It's kinda creepy when a propagandist is accusing another propagandist of being a liar. He says if you repeat a lie long enough then people start to believe it. But just think, how many times have you heard " Bush is a liar, Bush lied " by people who defend Bill Clinton. What if Bush was just wrong? What would that tell you about the people who keep repeating " Bush lied! "? It's creepy. He never actually said that he saw them with his own eyes. creepy I tell you. Enjoy your future.

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Amnesty has launched a campaign for all those as sickened by the disregard for human rights in the war on terror as they are over the terrorist atrocities. www.unsubscribe-me.org

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Describes the Bush regime perfectly. BS, BS, BS, BS...

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Having read countless similar articles, i just want to say this is the best articulated article on the whole bush doctrine. The time line and coordination of events with helpful links is very hard to refute! I only wish every American would take the time to read this, but of course most are too complacent...

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The plan was laid out in plain sight. First Afghanistan and Iraq. Then Syria and Iran. Then north Korea. If the the farce called the war on terror is not expose this is what we can expect. Thank god for the internet. It gives us a fighting chance.

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Everyone that buys this article needs to read Yossef Bodansky's "The High Cost of Peace".

The book was published in 2001, so it must have been written without the influence of 9/11; it shows that Saddam Hussein was a key prime mover in the Arab world, bent on establishing a caliphate by allying with both Arab nationalists and Jihadists.

Granted, Iraq and Hussein were not directly behind the 9/11 attacks, but Iraq was instrumental and necessary for the creation of an environment that would make 9/11 possible and likely.

If the writer of this article of this article wants something useful to do, I would suggest investigating his environment and find out which individual is an agent or operator for an Islamo-Fascist group or for the Russian GRU. Only then, can the writer know that they are a dupe of enemies of the United States.

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Thank you for this concise treatment and summary of a complex topic. YES!
One bone I have to pick with the conservatives that I talk with is that they lack in documenting their claims. Adding meaningful citations and references to a work like this would make it more believable by all parties - and might clear up one or two confusing points.

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I hope I'm not alone, I guess I know I'm not, but I'd like to see more action from everyone. I'm still waiting to see the irrefutable proof of Bin Laden's involvement in 9/11, and hence, the basis for the Global War On Terror, war in Iraq, war in Afghanistan, and potentially, war in Iran. You were asked by the Taliban to provide proof before your invaded Afhganistan but conveniently failed to do so, and were not taken to task for it. My children, and their children's children will probably still be fighting George Bush's religious war unless we as a generation stand up for the truth. I have yet to see anything other than vague conjecture, less-then-half-truths, and convenient 'evidence' from 'The Administration' concerning the cause of 9/11. I have read a lot of very compelling evidence to the contrary that most certainly directly implicates many ranking members of 'The Administration' in the tragic events that became 9/11. Unfortunately, this evidence has been largely debunked by the mainstream media, not provided any coverage or public forum, and hence is not given any credibility despite being researched and authored by the most credible professionals in every relevant field. I'm wondering when the American Electorate will demand irrefutable proof for the continuation of these phony assaults - on not only our freedom and the freedoms of generations to come, but also on our intelligence. Where's the proof Mr. Bush (41 & 43) ? How long do you think you will be able to hide when your term is finished Mr. Cheney ? How the *#!% do you sleep at night Mr. Clinton ?

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Mr. Behan, you said:

"The military incursions into Afghanistan and Iraq were not done in retaliation for 9/11. The Bush administration had them clearly in mind upon taking office, and they were set in motion as early as Feb. 3, 2001. That was seven months prior to the attacks on the Trade Towers and the Pentagon, and the objectives of the wars had nothing to do with terrorism."

But what if the "War on Terror" is a smug tongue-in-cheek inside joke among the bu$h neocons? Then it would be pretty accurate, right? In my opinion the only thing that should be changed is the name, "The War on Terror," which would more accurately be called, "The War OF Terror" (on the U.S, Iraq and Afghanistan). The neocons are simply using the old disingenuous, nazi bait and switch terminology (and tactics). It all just depends on which side of the (rich or poor) fence you're on...

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Is this site run by Alqeda or Aljazeera??

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I read earlier this week - Reuters or AP - that a team from the GAO crossed the US-Canada border several times without being stopped or questioned. They were carrying a big red bag! In one case a border agent did stop them once the team was three miles within the US. He asked a few questions and let them go.

Going back further, I remember Rory Kennedy's documentary about the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant that sits just 30 miles from Mannhattan. At the time it was made (a year or so after 9/11) the camera crew hovered in a helicopter for 30 minutes before plant security noticed them. It was also reported in the film that something like 1/3rd of the guards could not go from lying down to a sitting position without assistance - in other words, many were so obese and out of shape as to be almost worthless in case of a bonafide terrorist threat.

This brings two possibilites to mind. One is that the terrorist threat is largely made up. The other is that it is real, but the powers that be don't really care for the average citizens of our country and for that reason have neglected to do anything significant to enhance our collective security.

I tend to think the terrorist threat is largely an invention of the Cheney-Bush admin. Simply look at how well they have benefited from it. And of course, our country has a long history of suspending civil liberties during war time, of crushing dissent, and so on. They harnessed that tradition effectively to plunder what I will refer to as 'the commons' - the values and institutions that were tending to make this country great (we didn't quite get there).

My final observation is that if the so-called terrorists are devious,dangerous, and commmitted to destroying "our way of life" why hasn't some group poisoned a water source or left a thermos of Ebola sitting wide open at JFK or LAX? I find it hard to believe that the government agencies who could not get the intelligence right about 911, WMD, or Katrina would be able to protect us from some group with brains, money, and access. Therefore I'm inclined to think that such a threat doesn't exist.

I don't deny that there are groups out there that would harm us. I also don't deny there are groups within the US that would harm our society as well - just look at the KKK or many of the rightwing fringe groups. But given the crass manipulation of the terrorist threat by the administration and the absence of signficant attacks on our apparently vulnerable homeland, I find it extremely naive to claim, as Bush did, that we are in a conflict and facing a foe as threatening as the Axis was back in the 1940's.

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In 1991, the United States and its Persian Gulf War allies blasted the vehicles with armor-piercing shells made of depleted uranium (DU) -- the first time such weapons had been used in warfare. On the "Highway of Death," 11 miles north of the Kuwait border, a collection of tanks, armored personnel carriers and other military vehicles are rusting in the desert.. they are also radiating deadly nuclear energy.

When a DU round hits its target as much as 70 percent of the projectile can burn up on impact, creating a firestorm of ceramic DU oxide particles. The residue of this firestorm is an extremely fine ceramic uranium dust that can be spread by the wind, inhaled and absorbed into the human body and absorbed by plants and animals, becoming part of the food chain.

Side effects of depleted uranium munitions -- still a major part of the U.S. arsenal -- will cause serious illnesses or deaths in a new generation of U.S. soldiers as well as Iraqis. Remember the Gulf War Syndrome?
DU remains radioactive for about 4.5 billion years.
But as suspected, the Pentagon plays down the effects and the average American is IGNORANT.

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