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Saturday, January 27, 2007
From Rock Creek Free Press Jan 27, 2007: "PEACE MOVEMENT MUST MAKE 9/11 TRUTH THE LEADING EDGE OF FIGHT AGAINST IRAQ-IRAN-SYRIA WAR
Webster G. Tarpley
The escalation announced in Bush's January 10 television speech was much bigger than many expected: the threats he made against Iran and Syria threaten a wider US aggression, quite possibly carried out with nuclear weapons. In addition to his 21,000 extra GIS, Bush is sending an additional carrier battle group and Patriot missiles to the Gulf. Admiral Fallon, the new Centcom commander, is a carrier admiral trained in air attacks, not land warfare. John "Death Squads" Negroponte, Rice's new deputy at the State Department, is said to be assembling a team of private contractors to prepare the attack on Iran. Russian intelligence reports indicate that there are four US missile-fi ring submarines in the Gulf. The London Sunday Times says that the Israeli air force is actively drilling for a sneak attack on Iranian military facilities at Natanz, Isfahan, and Bushehr. The ING international banking group is telling its clients that the Israelis may attack Iran in February or March. February 17 or March 18, the preferred sneak attack times of the new moon, may thus mark the beginning of a regional Middle East war, a war tending to slide into World War III.
THE 9/11 MYTH IS THE EXPLICIT BASIS OF ALL THE WARS
Bush's bedrock motivation for this pattern of lunatic escalation is the racist, militarist, and fascist offi cial explanation of the events of September 11, 2001, especially as codifi ed in the discredited Kean-Hamilton 9/11 commission report.
The premise of Bush's argument in his escalation speech is this: "On September the 11th, 2001, we saw what a refuge for extremists on the other side of the world could bring to the streets of our own cities. For the safety of our people, America must succeed in Iraq." A few days later, Dick Cheney evoked the offi cial nightmare vision of 9/11 in when he told an interviewer that legislators who want to cut the funding for the Iraq adventure are playing into the hands of Bin Laden and al Qaeda.Senator Lieberman, the most extreme Democratic warmonger, cited the offi cial 9/11 myth not once but twice when he appeared on Meet the Press the Sunday after Bush's speech. On the day after Bush spoke, fascist talk show host Rush Limbaugh spouted a lengthy tirade about 9/11 and the 3,000 dead – a sure indication that these themes were mandated by the notorious Karl Rove faxes, which are known to go out to the leading right wing extremists of the airwaves.
Peace activists often ask why the 9/11 truth movement insists on making the truth about terrorist a central component of anti-war agitation. One answer is that we bring up 9/11 frequently because Bush and Cheney do – they incessantly parrot slogans about the "global war on terror" and "the lessons of 9/11." Bush claims that he is fi ghting terrorists in Iraq so that the US will not have to fi ght them over here. He raves that, if US forces pull out of Iraq, the terrorists will follow them back home and launch attacks on US territory. There can be no doubt that 9/11 is the foundation of Bush's castle of warmonger lying – the fountainhead, motivation, and legitimation of the entire policy of unilateral aggression. To ignore the centrality of 9/11 to Bush's every move is like trying to fight Hitler without mentioning anti-Semitism.
Attacks on Bush that do not include 9/11 truth are simply impotent, and will not be effective.
THE AMERICAN PEOPLE REPUDIATE THE OFFICIAL MYTH OF 9/11
The vast majority of the American people have repudiated Bush's demagogy of war and terror. Back in October, a CBS-New York Times poll showed that 81% of Americans – including the most benighted and backward Republican strongholds – thought that the US government was either hiding something or mostly lying about the events of 9/11. This extraordinary shift in public opinion refl ects the success of the 9/11 truth movement over the past five years. This shift explains why the Bush-Rove demagogy of terror, which had traction in 2002 and 2004, simply did not work in 2006. It was only under these conditions that the Republican machine could be defeated. In this broad sense, the 9/11 truth movement was a critical component in creating the climate of opinion for Bush's defeat at the polls in November 2006. The challenge is now to bring US institutions – the political parties, the media, academia, etc. – into line with what the American people have already understood.
9/11: THE KEY TO DISMANTLING BUSH'S BASE OF SUPPORT
Only 12% of Americans support a surge in the abstract, but once Bush is brought into the question, support rises to almost one third – about 31%. Many of these are persons who are sincerely terrified by the notion of al Qaeda and Bin Laden as malevolent forces that want to come to their communities and kill them. Unless and until this belief can be challenged, these persons will continue to support Bush and his promises to protect them from the terrorists. (We note in passing that these persons have been shamefully betrayed by the leading left-liberal intellectuals, including Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, and The Nation magazine, all of whom obsessively parrot the Bush propaganda line.) These persons are largely impervious to antiwar and related arguments about genocide, torture at Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib, illegal rendition, wiretapping, surveillance, police-state totalitarianism, and related issues, which they dismiss with the comment that these are the necessities of self-defense forced upon the United States by an unprovoked attack by foreign terrorists. The only way to attrit and erode Bush's hard-core base of support is to bring home the leading facts of 9/11 truth: the 9/11 attacks did not emerge from the world of Bin Laden, Atta, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the laptop, and the cave in Pushtunistan; they were a deliberate war provocation and coup d'etat launched by the invisible government or rogue network which infests the highest levels the Pentagon,
CIA, NSA, DIA, and other military and security agencies, all for the purpose of starting the War of Civilizations in Afghanistan, Iraq, and now Syria and Iran. These are revelations of the greatest explosive power, capable of tearing apart Bush's political base and opening the way for impeachment and removal from office. They are also capable of defeating the Hillary Clinton-Lieberman- Rahm Emmanuel- Lantos-Stenny Hoyer warmonger wing of the Democratic Party, removing the sabotage of impeachment from that quarter.
IMPEACH BUSH-CHENEY FOR 9/11 CRIMES
To override Bush's vetoes of bills defunding the Iraq war will require a two thirds majority of both houses of Congress. Impeachment takes only a majority of the House, but requires two thirds of the Senate. Bush can be declared mentally unfi t for offi ce by reason of insanity by half of the cabinet under the XXV Amendment, but it takes two thirds of both houses to make this stick if Bush protests that he is not insane. As long as Bush can retain 30% support, heavily concentrated in a handful of rural red states, he may be able to keep a block of senators suffi cient to stay in office and wage war indefi nitely. The only issue capable of cutting into Bush's 30% support is unquestionably 9/11. The peace movement must demand a bill of impeachment for Bush, Cheney, Rice, Gonzalez, and others which includes 9/11 crimes – starting from the very strong prima facie case for misprision of treason, plus covering up for the CIA-DoD rogue network after the fact. It is therefore imperative that the peace movement fully assimilate the main points of 9/11 truth – points which are easily available in a series of books and internet web sites. Only in this way can peace agitation hope to obtain the necessary result – the removal of Bush-Cheney from offi ce and the end of the Afghan, Iraqi, Somali, and any and all other US wars of imperialism, colonialism, and aggression.
KEAN-HAMILTON: A TISSUE OF LIES AND FABRICATIONS
The Kean-Hamilton report can easily be shown to be a tissue of lies and fabrications, and this can be done with facts that are offi cially acknowledged by the corporate media. The 9/11 commission covered up revelations about Able Danger, a US military intelligence operation that tracked the accused 9/11 patsies – most probably because it was supervising their movements. The 9/11 commission failed to discover a key June 2001 emergency meeting requested by CIA Director Tenet with NSC Director Rice. Most damning, Kean and Hamilton admit in their own jointly authored book that they were well aware that Pentagon and NORAD generals were committing perjury before the commission, but decided to do nothing about it. Ms. Pelosi's fanatical devotion to the 9/11 commission is thus a grave symptom of impotence and capitulation on the part of the new Democratic House leadership.
As for presidential candidates, Giuliani is most identified with 9/11, followed by McCain in one sense, and the warmonger Hillary Clinton in another. Activists are now creating 9/11 truth squads to pose the necessary questions to presidential candidates in the upcoming primary season, and the peace movement is invited to join in.
Webster G. Tarpley is a Washington based historian and author of 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in U.S.A.
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