| Date: | Friday November 21, @04:21AM |
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| Author: | ewing2001 |
| Topic: | News |
| from the Newsmax dept. | |
Update: Open letter to WRH- "Why I believe an attack is imminent" (11/21)
Newsmax -Friday, Nov. 21, 2003
Gen. Tommy Franks says that if the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.
Franks, who successfully led the U.S. military operation to liberate Iraq, expressed his worries in an extensive interview he gave to the men’s lifestyle magazine Cigar Aficionado.
In the magazine’s December edition, the former commander of the military’s Central Command warned that if terrorists succeeded in using a weapon of mass destruction (WMD) against the U.S. or one of our allies, it would likely have catastrophic consequences for our cherished republican form of government.
Discussing the hypothetical dangers posed to the U.S. in the wake of Sept. 11, Franks said that “the worst thing that could happen” is if terrorists acquire and then use a biological, chemical or nuclear weapon that inflicts heavy casualties.
If that happens, Franks said, “... the Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we’ve seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy.” Franks then offered “in a practical sense” what he thinks would happen in the aftermath of such an attack.
“It means the potential of a weapon of mass destruction and a terrorist, massive, casualty-producing event somewhere in the Western world – it may be in the United States of America – that causes our population to question our own Constitution and to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another mass, casualty-producing event. Which in fact, then begins to unravel the fabric of our Constitution. Two steps, very, very important.” Franks didn’t speculate about how soon such an event might take place. Already, critics of the U.S. Patriot Act, rushed through Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, have argued that the law aims to curtail civil liberties and sets a dangerous precedent.
But Franks’ scenario goes much further. He is the first high-ranking official to openly speculate that the Constitution could be scrapped in favor of a military form of government.
The usually camera-shy Franks retired from U.S. Central Command, known in Pentagon lingo as CentCom, in August 2003, after serving nearly four decades in the Army.
...I believe last nights interview with Tommy Franks, in which he suggests the end of democracy, reveals what is being planned. A major biological attack, the rapid implementation of PATRIOT II, and the end to the 230 year experiment that was America. Fifty years of corporate propaganda have de-politicized the American population properly, and the White House is now ready to end the pesky vetiges of democracy that prevent absolute power.
Here is why I believe an attack is imminent. Firstly, the groundwork stories like that which greeted me on my AOL News this morning: Fear of Bioterror Attack Those stories have been growing, and coincide with the recent DPB meetings exposed by cryptome.org. Then we see yesterday's vote authorizing Bush to take action in Syria. Clearly, the patsy is being lined up.
Here is my working theory, and I am curious if you agree:
1) Before 9-11, Bush polled at about 50%. Post 9-11 he peaked at 90%. Before the attacks he was a lame duck president embroiled in corporate scandals. Post 9-11 the reactionary Republican agenda moved through with little debate, with the population shut out of the process.
2) Polls are usually bad science. But even the corporate media polls on Iraq now indicate BushCo is losing control of the American population http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm The propaganda war was supposed to manufacture the consent of the people, but Joseph Wilson and the failure to find WMD have exposed the Bush lies. The dam is close to breaking, with mainstream journalists like Joshua Marshall and Sy Hersh busting the Niger story wide open. The same week as those two articles, three former Senior C.I.A. officials testify in front of Senate Democrats.
In damning detail, they explain how the White House defrauded the American people with a manufactured case for war. They talked about Dick Cheney's 4 visits to Langley, and his personal pressure on CIA analysts. All three said this kind of pressure was unprecedented, and represented a clear politicization of the agency. The hearings were ignored of course, but represent a further break in the dam. The CIA, enraged at being manipulated and then scapegoated, may take its revenge in the form of leaks. For now it is former officials, but they also intimated their statements were representative of many current employees in the agency.
3) Now we have the helicopter attacks where 17 soldiers die regularly. Bush is headed for political freefall. He could reach a 40% approval rating, with Iraq approval sinking to 40% or below. This kind of damage would be impossible to counteract with conventional propaganda. There are no soldiers for a big new war. There is no way Bush can get Congressional approval for an attack on Syria with the American public being so skeptical. Two months ago when John Bolton gave a Iraq-style scare speech about Syria's "Nuclear Program," no one listened. The neocons must have recognized this as their imminent fall from power. The influence makers know that they could not sell the public another war, not under the present conditions.
And yet the PNAC goonsquad of bankers, weapons makers, and oil barons thirsts for another war of conquest to consolidate their new empire in the Middle East. Israel dreams of eliminating Syria and with it, Lebanon, for military and economic reasons. The Republican propagandists (Rove and Company) need a new terror attack or war to change the polls, which show no signs of changing.
4) The elites in America will support a new war because it will allow them to further bankrupt the government, allowing for the rollback of all social programs. In other words, it is a play right out of the PNAC plan for "perpetual warfare." Manufactured wars against weak countries, with a compliant press hiding their true motives and the resulting enrichment of the elites. Bush is facing a crisis as hawks like John McCain and Chuck Hagel have compared Iraq to Vietnam. The Democrats now seriously believe they can win the election, despite Bush's massive election slush fund ($300 million or more) because the poll numbers are so grim.
5) Nevertheless, BushCo has prepared for such a public revolt with help from Diebold and ES&S;, the electronic voting machines. Despite the legimitate possibility of outright election theft, the machines will be used since so many states have already purchased them. We may be able to prevent more from being purchased, but there is little hope of installing a paper trail on the machines, or having a fair election in 2004. Now, the election theft will work in close races for House or Senate seats. If the results produce a 5% swing in what the polls predicted, it will quickly be explained as "Bush loyalists," or "white male support," as was done in the Georgia election fraud of 2002 for the Gubernatorial and Senate elections.
This will happen all over the country. With exit polls gone and the VNS disbanded, there will be no way to prove the results were manufacured. The system was aligned perfectly for the Republicans. Just keep it close, keep it near 50%, and let the machines do the rest. But the plan falls apart if Bush reaches 40% in the polls. Then the fraud is too difficult to pass along even to the corporate media. They will swallow a Florida again, but not something that blatant.
5) So back to this week. Bush is reaching a potential fall into the low 40's in the polls as the Iraq quagmire worsens and our military looks increasingly weak. The PNAC agenda is in danger. Some Republicans are even advising Bush to cut and run, as State Dept. stories indicate. Two weeks ago Chomsky predicted a "new scare" in a talk.
For months he has written about Reagan's use of the same tactics (Grenada, Libya) before the 1984 elections. Without a new war, the neocons will lose the White House and their perpetual war may end. Like Kennedy in the early stages of Vietnam, Bush is at the critical point where we decide whether to get in deep or bail out. The next few months will decide. PNAC can not risk an end to their political influence. The voting machine scam won't work if Bush is below 45%, so they have to go to Plan C and start another war.
6) In their original plans, the Iraq war would segway seamlessly into the Syrian invasion, but the failure to find WMD hampered their effort. Now the American people are starting to call for a return of the troops in Iraq. One other reason for attack. The Bush Administration is finally being asked for documents relating to what they knew about 9-11, and calls for an independent inquiry are rising from Senate Democrats. The PATRIOT Act has become a political liability as people hear about its implications. Republicans may lose the far-right libertarian vote that is so crucial in the Midwest and Southern states.
Wesley Clark and Howard Dean are talking about repealing parts or all of the act. Many in the national security and intelligence circles will not tolerate the Warren Court rulings and want to crush civil liberties. This issue is crucial for them, and a new war will eliminate discussion of the PATRIOT Act Clearly PNAC does not play by the rules and will manufacture another terrorist attack to reignite their flames of their perpetual war.
7) Perhaps they know of an attack thats coming and will do nothing, in a stand down similar to the one I feel happened on 9-11. Perhaps there is something to the story about those planes in Scotland. I feel that the reactionary elements in the government are planning something, confident that their plans will never be exposed. After all, only a few million people will view this site, at most. The story of their pre-made war would never be told, and the questions would be lost in the memory hole.
8) Just like Oswald (who was made to look like a Castro-hired assassin in order to provoke war), whoever commits the act will leave behind another convenient trail of "Al-Qaeda" evidence leading to Syria, Lebanon, or some other weak country that can jumpstart the war.
9) A manufactured war would bury the new questions about 9-11 from the comission, and allow the junta to continue their war on democracy. The next few months should be interesting, but I know check my new with a profound fear that a new global conflict is being planned at the highest circles. I expect in a few short months we will submerge into a new Middle East conflict, potentially a nuclear World War.
10) Bush will declare "the terrorists cannot win" and declare "temporary security measures" in order to "protect American lives." Some will recognize it as a police state, but those who protest will be rounded up in the first week of arrests. The majority of the population will be paralyzed by fear and will rally to Bush even as he dissolves the republic (much like Germans did with their democracy). The Republicans will now eliminate all of the New Deal and Great Society, become the permanent majority party, and declare a new war against terrorism. I think humans will survive ten years at most until a nuclear exchange ends the experiment.
Michael, I respect your opinion tremendously. What do you think of my scenario? Does it seem logical or plausible to you? I believe this is just another Operation Northwoods in action. You have predicted a new fake terror attack is coming, do you agree that these are the motives?
I look forward to hearing from you and sharing ideas.
WRH: Your questions are quite perceptive. And your scenario is not only quite well thought out, but frankly does appear to be about the only thing left for the PNAC/war hawk crowd to try. Many people have expressed similar concerns. If I may, I would like to add two embellishments. I expect the next staged attack to be biological, using an agent with low secondary communicability (like Anthrax) so that there is no real risk of a runaway infection (real terrorists would use agents with high secondary communicability). The government will claim that they "know" that there are more of these vials hidden in homes across America, justifying immediate house-to-house searches, warrantless, of course, and imprisonment of all potential suspects in the case.
And, just as the FBI shut down Muslim web sites just days before 9-11 was staged, I predict that the government will announce that the "terrorists" are using the internet to coordinate their attacks and will shut down all non-commercial portions of the internet, turning it back into a glorified TV network where the elites broadcast and you passively accept (or else). Frankly, the only thing that will stop this from happening is if the people convince the government that they are not going to believe another hoax terror attack. I would almost venture to suggest that the government, nervous as it is, is already conducting private polls to see what portion of the population would fall for such a scam. Nice letter. Thanks.
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