Chris Floyd: The Betrayers

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The Betrayers

By Chris Floyd
Published: October 29, 2004



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....The Sept. 11 attacks have been endlessly analyzed for their symbolic value -- a monstrous theater piece aimed at unhinging the American psyche. It is largely forgotten that they were also a military action, an attempted "decapitation raid," targeting the "command-and-control centers" of the American regime: its military headquarters, its financial hub, and its political leadership (the aborted attack on the U.S. Capitol). This is precisely the same strategy that Bush would later employ in his "pre-emptive" assault on Iraq -- while offering the same justifications for shedding innocent blood in "regrettable but necessary" military actions to avenge and protect his people.

But we know that the Iraq war had nothing to do with Sept. 11 or fighting terrorism. We know -- from the mouth of Bush himself, and from the investigations of his own appointees -- that there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and the attack on the United States. We know that Bush's "war of choice" has turned Iraq into a terrorist's paradise, where entire nuclear plants and tons of high explosives have been carted away by sinister forces from sites left completely -- and inexplicably -- unguarded. We know that Bush's signed orders permitting widespread torture have inflamed vengeful anger at the United States all over the world.

We know too there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; they were destroyed in 1991, as Bush's own inspector confirmed last month. We know that Bush ignored the manifold doubts and caveats of pre-war WMD intelligence -- including the "crateloads of evidence" on disarmament supplied by Hussein's defecting son-in-law in 1995, as Time reports -- and instead used fabrications supplied by ideologues and con-men to weave a conscious deception about "imminent threats."

We also know this war was planned long before Sept. 11. In September 2000, a militarist faction led by Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and other top Bushists published their blueprint for establishing U.S. military and economic hegemony over world affairs. To further this goal, they cited the urgent strategic need for planting a U.S. "military footprint" in Iraq -- whether Hussein was still in power or not, whether he had WMD or not. All they needed was an excuse -- a "catalyzing event" like "a new Pearl Harbor," as they wrote in 2000 -- to rally the American people behind the faction's program for a gargantuan military buildup and aggressive war...cont'd

http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2004/10/29/120.html

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1. Do NOT miss a Floyd read

he is the best.

The last line is chilling (because we know it is the truth).

Thanks for posting.

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