http://www.madcowprod.com/09112007.htmlWORLD EXCLUSIVE
Sept 11 2007
by Daniel Hopsicker
It’s déjà vu all over again...
And enough to give anyone old enough to remember Vietnam a nightmarish sense of having been right there—exactly there—before.
The surge in Iraq is not what it was advertised to be—a last gasp effort to clutch victory from the jaws of defeat—but a transparent ploy to subvert the will of the American people as expressed in the last election.
A bait and switch tactic successfully employed in 1968 to make Richard Nixon President was dusted off. Nixon was elected because he had—he said—a secret plan to end the Vietnam War, and Americans, rocked by a decade of assassinations and what was nearly a nuclear war over Cuba, were desperate to convince themselves that —for once—he 'might could' be telling the truth.
It didn't start with 9/11... Or Iraq
Of course, he wasn’t. By the time the last helicopter left the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon, it had taken longer to end the Vietnam war than it took to fight and win World War II.
(And even that wasn’t long enough for Howard Hughes, who was reportedly frantically looking for someone to bribe to keep it going a little longer.)
There is a direct echo of this today in Iraq.
Allied armies swept across France and Germany, across North Africa, up the Burma Trail in South Asia, and island-hopped across the Pacific in less time than its taken to clear the road in from the airport in Baghdad.
During our lifetimes America has begun measuring its wars—not in years—but in generations. Baby boomers were the Vietnam Generation. Whatever they’re calling teenagers today will one day be remembered as the Iraq Generation. Or maybe the Iraq-Iran Generation.
The question that needs to be asked isn’t why they do it... It’s how. How did we get here?
Out-Orwelling Orwell
“Those who control the present, control the past,” George Orwell wrote.
How they do it is by “preparing the battlefield.”
We’ve just finished a summer-long post-graduate course in how they do it, facing the very real prospect of being hounded out of business after being hauled (once again) into court.
Instead of reporting the latest in the various outrages we’d normally be following: the 5.5 -ton Homeland Security Cocaine One DC9; the murder beef in South Florida for which Jack Abramoff is apparently getting a “pass;” the criminal dereliction of our national press in covering the story of the 9/11 terrorist conspiracy at its base of operations in Venice, Florida…
We spent our summer vacation preparing to go to court. And what we learned there is that--right now-- they are preparing the battlefield for a struggle that will take place after the Bush Administration leaves office, over what happened in Venice, Florida in the 18 months before the 9/11 attack.
How I Spent My Summer Vacation////Continued>>>>
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