October 9, 2006
by Zen Garcia

With 72% of U.S. Troops on the ground in Iraq calling for an end to the war this year, and 51% of Americans believing that removing Saddam Hussein from power not worth the number of U.S. Military casualties and the financial cost of the war, when will our government listen to the voice and will of the people? Will they listen to us as they don't seem to be able to hear the Iraqi's themselves, as they have been calling for immediate withdrawal for years. A poll put out by USA Today in 2004 reports:

"But while they acknowledge benefits from dumping Saddam a year ago, Iraqis no longer see the presence of the American-led military as a plus. Asked whether they view the U.S.-led coalition as "liberators" or "occupiers," 71% of all respondents say "occupiers." A growing negative attitude toward the Americans is also reflected in two related survey questions: 53% say they would feel less secure without the coalition in Iraq, but 57% say the foreign troops should leave anyway."

It is clear that the American public, our soldiers, and the Iraqi people themselves want an immediate end to the war in Iraq. It is even clear from a New Zogby Poll that the majority of Americans support impeaching Bush for the warrant less and illegal wiretapping being done against American citizens especially now that it is known the administration is targeting groups opposed to the illegal war; and yet the spineless Democrats run anytime anyone like Russ Feingold calls for censuring Bush or John Murtha calls for immediate withdrawal. If America does not impeach this president, everybody in congress will consider themselves as Bush does now above the law. By a margin of 52% to 43%, Americans want Congress to impeach President Bush if he wiretapped American citizens without a judge's approval, which he did.

If Congress won't move to impeach, vote them out of office (must get rid of the paperless easily hacked unreliable voting machines first) and vote someone in who will, someone hungry to represent the will of the people, someone disgusted with the current corruption running a muck in Washington, DC.

The whole world now knows that the Bush administration lied to get public support for the war by first trying to tie Iraq to the atrocities of September 11th, 2001. Once that admonishment was debunked they tried to frighten American by invoking images of 'mushroom clouds on American soil.' Desperate for something, anything to scare the American public into believing that the nuclear threat from Iraq was real and that Iraq had something to do with 9/11, the administration began a systematic and deliberate attempt to distort links between 9/11, Al-Qaeda, and Saddam Hussein, resulting in 69 percent of Americans believing that Saddam Hussein had part in attacking the United States..

Democratic Senators charged that the White House had fanned the mis perception by mentioning Hussein and the Sept. 11 attacks in ways suggesting a link. Bush, on March 6, 2003, said, "Saddam Hussein is a threat to our nation. September the 11th changed the strategic thinking, at least, as far as I was concerned, for how to protect our country. My job is to protect the American people. It used to be that we could think that you could contain a person like Saddam Hussein, that oceans would protect us from his type of terror. September the 11th should say to the American people that we're now a battlefield, that weapons of mass destruction in the hands of a terrorist organization could be deployed here at home."

After the 9/11 Commission came out and publicly stated that there was not a relationship between Saddam, 9/11, and Al-Qaeda, Bush said on June 17, 2004, "The reason I keep insisting that there was a relationship between Iraq and Saddam and Al-Qaeda, because there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda." He continued exaggerating claims and made several more statements like, "After September the 11th, America had to assess every potential threat in a new light. Our nation awakened to an even greater danger, the prospect that terrorists who killed thousands with hijacked airplanes would kill many more with weapons of mass murder. We had to take a hard look at every place where terrorists might get those weapons. And one regime stood out, the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein." - GWB, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Oct. 6, 2004.

They continued their policy of deception by then trying to convince America that she was in imminent danger from a nuclear attack from Iraq. Bush said in a speech on Oct. 7, 2002, "Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."

Rice said, "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." On NBC's "Meet the Press," Cheney accused Saddam of "moving aggressively to develop nuclear weapons... to add to his stockpile of chemical and biological arms. Increasingly, we believe that the United States may well become the target of those activities."  The whole administration had been hard at work instilling fear to scare America into supporting an illicit invasion, while Bush was behind closed doors with Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain, busily dreaming up ways to provoke Saddam Hussein into attacking allied forces and in that way justify their war. Recently released minutes on White House letterhead and signed by the President, show that during a private two-hour meeting with Blair in the Oval Office on Jan. 31, 2003, Bush revealed to Blair that he was determined to invade Iraq even without a second UN resolution, and even if international arms inspectors failed to find unconventional weapons. He then discussed a proposal to paint a United States surveillance plane in the colors of the United Nations in hopes of drawing fire and setting in motion war.

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This exact plan was discussed in an earlier 1962 document called Operation Northwoods in which the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff drew up and approved clandestine operations intending to stage 'terrorism' in order to create American hostility towards Cuba. On page 13 of the 15 page declassified memo, the Joint Chiefs of Staff discuss, "An aircraft at Eglin AFB would be painted and numbered as an exact duplicate for a civil registered aircraft belonging to a CIA proprietary organization in the Miami area. At a designated time the duplicate would be substituted for the actual civil aircraft and would be loaded with the selected passengers, all boarded under carefully prepared aliases. The actual registered aircraft would be converted to a drone."

On page 8 the Joint Chiefs state, "This plan, incorporating projects selected from the attached suggestions, or from other sources, should be developed to focus all efforts on a specific ultimate objective which would provide adequate justification for US military intervention. Such a plan would enable a logical build-up of incidents to be combined with other seemingly unrelated events to camouflage the ultimate objective and create the necessary impression of Cuban rashness and irresponsibility on a large scale, directed at other countries as well as the United States.

The plan would also properly integrate and time phase the courses of action to be pursued. The desired resultant from the execution of this plan would be to place the United States in the apparent position of suffering defensible grievances from a rash and irresponsible government of Cuba and to develop an inter-national image of a Cuban threat to peace in the Western Hemisphere." Clearly what is being suggested is treasonous actions against our own country by our own military leaders, who also entertain subversive actions against other sovereign nations as a way to make Cuba look bad. Terrorism in the name of anti-communism is still terrorism especially when carried out secretly against the United States by the United States.

Fearing that the window of opportunity to get into Iraq may slip away, the Neo-Con Bush administration set itself on a course to "fix the facts around the policy" as verified by the first leaked Downing Street Minutes. In their rush to war, they blamed intelligence agencies for not gathering together the proper and necessary intelligence needed to assess a proper plan for deciding on whether to go to war or not. However, we know Bush and Blair had already committed themselves to invading Iraq and both ignored any threat assessment that did not support their call for an invasion.

America, we had better get serious about reeling in this out of control administration especially now that the very same hawks which premeditatedly lied and deceived the American public into supporting the horror that is now Iraq; are again sounding the drums against Iran, calling for not just conventional but nuclear tactical strikes on over 200 targets in that country.

America please wake up, the lives of children here and all over the world depend on it. We must hold these fear inciting war criminals accountable as it is they themselves who are profiting from the continued violence and occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan through unethical defense investments through the private financial firm, the Carlyle Group. This company is not opened to the public scrutiny or investment, the SEC has never audited them, members consider themselves untouchable much like the privately owned European controlled board directing the Federal Reserve System.

We know that Bush and his whole administration will lie, cheat, and deceive in order to fulfill their Project for a New American Century directive for securing the Middle East through a series of permanent forward staging bases to then be used as preemptive strike capability in securing the fascist interests of the oil corporations dominating government through massive lobbying. How else would these companies secure billion dollar government subsidies at a time of record profit? Why else would the positioning of permanent bases line-up to pipeline plans or drilling agreements?

We must demand accountability. We cannot allow this corrupt administration to purposely lie and deceive the public into supporting bogus wars of aggression against sovereign nations when real threats exist right here at home. There are already myriad reasons to impeach this President as many of his staff and many congressmen are already folding to indictments. So I ask why, why is America not in the streets everyday, at the White House and Congress everyday demanding the end of all support for this warmongering, anti-constitutional dictatorial administration.

Our country cannot afford another war anywhere with anybody. We are already drowning in surmounting debts accumulated predominately from the failed war in Iraq and yet regardless, this administration seems hell bent on taking us into further escalation's with Iran and Syria. The fact that the U.S. has already warned Turkey of our intent to launch air strikes on Iran and Syria, let's you know how close we are to another full out war as nations will be forced to take sides.

Recently a London Guardian reporter released an article called, "Are we going to war with Iran?" to further investigate allegations of impending war. Seymour Hersh a few days earlier wrote in the New Yorker, that the war against Iran had already begun. "Current and former American military and intelligence officials said that Air Force planning groups are drawing up lists of targets, and teams of American combat troops have been ordered into Iran, under cover, to collect targeting data and to establish contact with anti-government ethnic-minority groups. The officials say that President Bush is determined to deny the Iranian regime the opportunity to begin a pilot program, planned for this spring, to enrich uranium." Colonel Sam Gardner verified Hersh in an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, "The issue is not whether the Military option would be used but who approved the start of operations already."

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, announced on April 11th that its nuclear engineers had advanced to a new phase in the enrichment of uranium. The Clerics also announced that the nation would speed ahead, in defiance of a United Nations Security Council warning, to produce nuclear fuel on an industrial scale for civil power production as is their right according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty which the US has recently violated by authorizing the production of a new generation of nuclear devices and also by agreeing to sell India nuclear technology when India itself has not signed onto the NPT. America in signing the NPT, promised not to help other countries with their nuclear-weapons technology unless those countries had all their nuclear facilities under international safeguards which India does not and never will.

Does this then mean unavoidable war? Are we to wake up one day with our country having attacked Iran? I heard Fox report just a few days ago, that we just may wake up one day and find that our country had already bombed Iran, and that if that were the case it would improve Bush's poll numbers. Does this sound like insanity to anyone else? If you do not wish to see us plunged into further Bush administration chaos, call everyone of your federal contacts, Representatives, and Senators right now and bug them continuously without pause, so that they absolutely know, we do not want an attack on Iran and that attacking Iran will only endanger our country and their jobs.

Ask them if you really wanted to stop the nuclear program in Iran, why allow the CIA to provide them the blueprints in the first place? If we the U.S. and Britain were really concerned about Iran gathering the necessary program to create a nuclear bomb, why then would our governments allow American and British companies to sell them the exact material needed to advance their nuclear program?

We must ask why British officials would defy their own arms embargo toward Iran, and approve the export of key components necessary to make nuclear weapons? If they were that concerned with a nuclear Iran, why provide the material necessary to advance the nuclear program at all stages? Why wait until they reach the point of activating the technology we've provided for their nuclear programs to cry wolf? President Gerald Ford authorized the Shah to buy and operate a plutonium-extracting and processing facility in 1976, if we were concerned with Iran as a threat, isn't prevention key, meaning never allow them to reach this point?

Scott Ritter a former UN weapons inspector warned us last year of the encroaching war with Iran. The only thing yet to be determined is whether it will be Israel or the US that does the actual air strikes, or whether it will be a joint US-Israeli strike, either way America will be plunged headlong into what will be the catalyst for the next global war. We need to clean house in America, starting with the whole administration but not ending until we've moved through all branches of government destroying the corrupt electronic paperless electoral system and in particular dismantle the lobby system which allows politicians to be bought legally. Remember the people united will never be defeated, the people silenced will never be heard.

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Zen Garcia [send him email] is an activist and writer in Athens, GA.  Find more of his writings at www.endeavorfreedom.org/