"Can
there be any doubt that as more and more Bush lies surface, as more and
more reports and their confirmation unfold, that the Bush administration
is beginning to resemble the demeanor of an organized criminal element?” |
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G.W. Bush:
International Racketeer
OIL ROBBER
BARONS
Posted January 12, 2004 thepeoplesvoice.org
By: Ted Lang
CBS’s “60 Minutes” featured former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill
in an exclusive interview with CBS News Correspondent Lesley Stahl, which
aired Sunday, January 11th. The interview confirms what those who
primarily rely on the Internet for up-to-date, accurate and to-the-point
news coverage have known for almost over a year: the Bush administration had
planned the illegal, unconstitutional and unnecessary invasion of Iraq
completely independent of any retaliatory or preventive military
considerations relating to 9-11. In fact, this interview, motivated to
launch a new book authored by Ron Suskind, a former Wall Street Journal
reporter, not only confirms the heavy evidence concerning the
administration’s underlying intentions with regard to Iraq, but raises
some scary new ones as well.
Neil Mackay
penned one of the earliest sources citing the U.S. plot against Iraq and
Saddam back in September 2002. Entitled “Let’s Not Forget: Bush
Planned Iraq ‘Regime Change’ Before Becoming President,” still carried
on Information Clearing House’s website, Mackay’s piece starts: “A
SECRET blue print for US global domination reveals that President Bush and
his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure ‘regime
change’ even before he took power in January 2001.”
The article is
among many that reveal a document entitled “Rebuilding America’s
Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, written by the
neoconservative think tank calling itself Project for the New American
Century [PNAC]. Although some references have been made in the
mainstream media to this “neoconservative” clandestine planning,
including some minor references to it ensconced in sarcasm and derision by
the likes of FOXNews icons Brit Hume and Fred Barnes, the revelation now by
mainstream CBS News adds a completely new dimension. PNAC is now being
discovered by mainstream America.
And Information
Clearing House also still carries a comprehensive analysis of PNAC written
by William Rivers Pitt on February 25, 2003, entitled “The Project for the
New American Century.” Pitt offers: “PNAC desires and demands one
thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all
nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining
superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring
the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new
socio-economic Pax Americana.” But up till now, a major debate
regarding America’s real intentions at world domination has been largely
suppressed, and this is due to the failure on the part of the mainstream
media.
These revelations
are, at this point in time, nothing new, but they have the potential of
becoming extremely pivotal as regards their significance in the upcoming
presidential elections. CBS News, is now fully on board as evidenced
by their website’s January 10th piece entitled, “Saddam Ouster Planned
Early ’01?” The article states, “The Bush Administration began
making plans for an invasion of Iraq, including the use of American troops,
within days of President Bush’s inauguration in January of 2001 – not
eight months after the 9/11 attacks, as has been previously reported.”
CBS quotes former Secretary O’Neill: “From the very beginning, there was
a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go.
For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to
do whatever we decide to do is a really huge heap.”
The CBS report
continues, “O’Neill, fired by the White House for his disagreement on
tax cuts, is the main source for an upcoming book, ‘The Price of
Loyalty,’ by Ron Suskind. Suskind says O’Neill and other White
House insiders he interviewed gave him documents that show that in the first
three months of 2001, the administration was looking at military operations
for removing Saddam Hussein from power and planning for the aftermath of
Saddam’s downfall – including post-war contingencies such as
peacekeeping troops, war crimes tribunals and the future of Iraq’s oil.”
[Emphasis added]
There is no
longer any doubt that the Iraqi invasion was in absolutely no way justified.
There have been, and still are, many horrifically violent and brutal
dictators that the US government is not only allied with, but extremely
protective of as well. They consistently violate human rights and
perpetrate mass suffering and the mass murders of their people. The US
government did absolutely nothing to mitigate the slaughter of over one
million African people in Rwanda because it didn’t serve the monetary and
political interests of those in power at the time.
To their credit,
FOXNews.com, usually a journalistic shill and apologist for the Bush
administration, also posted an article on January 10th entitled,
“O’Neill: Iraq Plans Began at Start of Bush’s Term.” In an
article originated by the Associated Press, it is offered that, “The
administration has not found evidence that the Iraqi leader was involved in
the Sept. 11 attacks but officials have said that they had to consider the
possibility that Saddam could have undertaken an even larger scale strike
against the United States.”
But then FOX
offers that White House spokesman Scott McClellan “would not confirm or
deny that the White House began Iraq war planning early in Bush’s term.
But he said, Saddam ‘was a threat to peace and stability before September
11th, and even more of a threat after September 11. It appears that
the world according to Mr. O’Neill is more about trying to justify his own
opinions than looking at the results we are achieving on behalf of the
American people,’ McClellan said in Texas, where the president is staying
at his ranch.”
In a feeble
effort at damage control, FOX did indeed acknowledge the administration’s
early pre-emptive designs against Saddam and Iraq, and offered also that
“In July 2001, after an Iraqi surface-to-air missile was fired at an
American surveillance plane, Bush’s national security advisor put Saddam
on notice that the United States intended a more resolute military policy
toward Iraq.” FOX also emphasized O’Neill’s promotion of the new
book. “CBS News correspondent Mark Knoller reported Saturday that,
as the White House sees it, O’Neill’s remarks are those of a disgruntled
former official, and it should not have come as a surprise to O’Neill that
the U.S. advocated Saddam’s ouster,” states the CBS article.
The article
continues, “As for the charge that there were early plans to invade Iraq,
Knoller says the official calls that ‘laughable.’ Suggesting that
O’Neill doesn’t know what he’s talking about on this matter, the
official told CBS News O’Neill had enough problems in his own area of
expertise, so, ‘Why should anyone believe he has a credible understanding
of foreign policy?’”
One cannot help
noticing via these cites how the Bush administration and its “officials”
are spinning these revelations to blur the public’s focus on this vital
matter. The Bush lies of WMD, their readily available deployment,
their nuclear, biological and chemical capability, robotic airplanes and
drones, and all the other accusations made by Bush have been refuted.
Is this being discussed? Notice how this unjustified and
unconstitutional war has never been justified? Notice how Robert
Mueller, III and George Tenet were never fired for their incompetence and
9-11 intelligence mismanagement? Notice how the only Bush
administration official that was jettisoned has come back at him with a
“get-even” plan?
White House Press
Secretary Scott McClellan tries to spin this issue as merely retribution on
the part of one, single solitary “disgruntled employee,” and another
unidentified “official” offers that O’Neill’s charges are
“laughable.” Aside form the fact that we should always dismiss
quotes from an “unidentified” official as being “official,” what
precisely is so “laughable” about 500 of our military dead? What
is so “laughable” about the thousands wounded and maimed?
What precisely is
it that is so humorous concerning over one million Iraqis that have died
because of the ten-year US embargo targeting one “enemy of the state” of
the United States of America, such that all the Iraqi people have been made
to suffer at the hands of “our” government? McClellan and the
White House’s spin that O’Neill represents a loony, lone voice in the
wilderness just doesn’t rub.
What of the
protests of former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter who did everything in
his limited power to stop this carnage well before Bush started it?
Tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi men, women and children have died
because of Bush’s secret PNAC cabal. And our lust for oil and our
lust for world dominance has indeed expanded PNAC’s objectives to include
advancing the state of Israel as the only nuclear power in the region, the
latter exempted from many more UN resolutions than Saddam had ever violated.
And the Israeli newspaper Haaretz has itself identified PNAC’s
collaborating members as American traitors.
What we have here
is not an issue concerning one individual. Many Internet writers have
written at length about the PNAC cabal. They, PNAC, are indeed a
secret group, and a plotting cabal. And their numbers are a mere
fraction of the large and growing number of Internet writers and readers who
are fully informed of the deliberate lies, fraud and warmongering propaganda
of the Bush administration. Their planning is NOT in the best
interests of the United States and its people.
And where before
the people of the world forgave America and its people for the unjust and
threatening incursions of our military, they now no longer excuse our
stupidity in allowing our out-of-control government to attack any and all
sovereign states targeted by a tiny band of political plotters that
represent a growing danger to all people on Earth.
If McClellan and
the Bush White House desire to point to O’Neill as a small source of
discontent within the administration, perhaps they ought to compare the
number that comprises PNAC and the Bushies to one billion angry Muslims and
the rest of the world. As writer William Rivers Pitt offered,
“Americans enjoy their comforts, but don't cotton to the idea of being
some sort of Neo-Rome.”
It has become
painfully clear that this horrendous, unnecessary loss of life, wealth and
national security was sacrificed by an action undertaken to justify the
monetary and political advantage of a small entity on a basis comparatively
much smaller than that represented by former Secretary O’Neill’s
“disgruntlement.”
All law-abiding,
decent people the world over have always readily identified this type of
immoral, self-serving behavior characterized by such reckless abandon for
the rights of others. On a smaller scale of public recognition,
O’Neill’s revelations compare to the level of public awareness equating
to the recognition of street crime: robberies, rapes, muggings, burglaries
and the like. On a level typified by the crime generated by street
gangs, perhaps the definition becomes “rampant crime.” And on a
national basis, it could be described as a combination of organized petty
street criminals, street gangs, all consolidated within a national crime
syndicate; in other words, it takes on what is commonly referred to as
“organized crime” or “racketeering.”
Can there be any
doubt that as more and more Bush lies surface, as more and more reports and
their confirmation unfold, that the Bush administration is beginning to
resemble the demeanor of an organized criminal element? Where is the
outrage? Where’s the media? And when will we be outraged
sufficiently to do something meaningful about it?
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THEODORE E. LANG 1/11/04 All rights reserved. Ted Lang is a political
analyst and a freelance writer.