Sinister connections to a possible future 'terrorist' attack....

[bananarepublican]

A few days ago I saw Lawrence Eagleberger on cable TV talking about the threat that Tehran poses visa vis nuclear weapons. He said something to the effect that the Russians have to take the threat of terrorists of getting a hold of a warhead and laying waste to one of their major cities seriously.

Going back a little further in time I seem to recall a report that Dick Cheney had requested the Pentagon to draw up a plan in response to a future 9-11 type attack orchestrated by... you guessed it, Iran!

Yesterday, I came across an interesting paragraph from "Crossing the Rubicon" by Michael C. Ruppert. The very first paragraph on page 70 states...

"Of all American companies dealing directly with the US military and providing cover for CIA operations, few firms can match the global presence of this giant construction powerhouse which employs 20,000 people in more than 100 countries. Through its sister companies or joint ventures, Brown and Root can build offshore oil rigs, drill wells, construct and operate everything from harbors to pipelines to nuclear reactors... One key beacon of Brown and Root's overwhelming appeal to agencies like the CIA is that, from its own corpoorate web page, it proudly announces that is has received the contract to dismantle aging Russian nuclear tipped ICBMs in their silos."

Finally, there was a fairly recent report that Dick Cheney was having a huge underground bunker built under his newly purhased home. My simple question to Mr Cheney is, "What do you know that the rest of us simple folk don't?".

Whether this will lead to an October surprise in '06 or '08 is anyone's guess. If a 'terrorist' nuke goes off in October '08, I wouldn't be surprised to see martial law imposed and the presidential election put on perpetual hold.

[razors edge]

1. I'd count on it

if you had the world's best bunkers and supplies, and had to choose between that or the Hague, what would you chose?

[ninkasi]

2. If I had led a life as full of treachery and corruption as Cheney

I would probably be building a bunker, too. He has destroyed enough lives, careers, and reputations to make him scared. He did not get to be the man running the country without committing a few despicable acts. As for orchestrating another attack on U.S. soil to either save the republican party, or drum up another war, there is no act so vile that he would be unwilling to commit.

[razors edge]

3. Agreed

[bananarepublican]

4. The attack wouldn't even have to happen on U.S. soil.

The main criteria would be the PR value of such an attack, as well as, how well they could pin the attack on whomever they wanted to pin it on. These criteria start to narrow things down a bit, since a 'terrorist-nuclear-attack' on Port Moresby (Papua New Guinea) would serve a different purpose than one on say, Paris, or, Toronto for that matter.

[MsKandice01]

5. A Dem majority would be absolutely disastrous for Cheney

And his thugs. I have no doubt that they'd do absolutely anything, and I do mean anything, to stop that from happening. People are catching on to stealing elections so they can only do SO MUCH without it becoming glaringly obvious. What other options do they have left? The scare campaign is already in full swing but I have no doubt they have more up their sleeves before November.

[Stardust]

6. Is Brown and Root a subsidiary of Halliburton?

[guruoo]

7. Halliburton and Brown & Root

Halliburton and Brown & Root
Halliburton grew from the risk-taking entrepreneurialism of Erle P. Halliburton, who established the New Method Oil Well Cementing Company in Oklahoma in 1919. Simultaneously, the Brown brothers, George and Herman, partnered with their brother-in-law, Dan Root, to found Brown & Root in Texas.

By Erle Halliburton's death in 1957, the Company had 201 offices in 22 states and 20 foreign countries. Five years later, Halliburton acquired Brown & Root following Herman Brown's death. At the time, Brown & Root was renowned as a road construction company, general contractor and builder of the world's first offshore platform in 1947.
http://www.halliburton.com/about/history_entrep.jsp

[CrushTheDLC]

9. Brown Brothers. As in Brown Brothers - Harriman

As in the business partners of Prescott Bush. It never leaves the inner circle with these traitorous bastards, does it?

[Jazz2006]

12. Hmm. Truthiness seekers working for Halliburton companies?

The latest truthiness seeker the "scholars" are touting is a Brown & Root alumni.

I'm referring to the guy that Fetzer has been espousing for the past couple of days, what's his name?

Found it... Charles Pegelow, who is allegedly a structural engineer, although the evidence of same remains a bit sketchy at this point.

Sketchiness aside, doesn't working for Halliburton companies automatically preclude one from being in the good books of the truthiness seekers and automatically make one a government shill?

[WCGreen]

8. Yes....

[Kailassa]

10. It would be an American city to make absolutely certain

the population were too terrified for clear thinkers to get a message across.

The question is, which city would the GOP prefer to hit, and why?

[JesterCS]

11. well.

i would say somewhere close to an entry into the US. Too far inland would raise suspicion as an inside job.