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Headlined to H2 9/30/11

Is The War On Terror A Hoax?

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In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made widows and orphans of millions of Muslims in six countries, all in the name of the "war on terror." Washington's attacks on the countries constitute naked aggression and impact primarily civilian populations and infrastructure and, thereby, constitute war crimes under law. Nazis were executed precisely for what Washington is doing today.

Moreover the wars and military attacks have cost American taxpayers in out-of-pocket and already-incurred future costs at least $4,000 billion dollars -- one third of the accumulated public debt -- resulting in a US deficit crisis that threatens the social safety net, the value of the US dollar and its reserve currency role, while enriching beyond all previous history the military/security complex and its apologists.  

Perhaps the highest cost of Washington's "war on terror" has been paid by the US Constitution and civil liberties. Any US citizen that Washington accuses is deprived of all legal and constitutional rights. The Bush-Cheney-Obama regimes have overturned humanity's greatest achievement -- the accountability of government to law.

If we look around for the terror that the police state and a decade of war has allegedly protected us from, the terror is hard to find. Except for 9/11 itself, assuming we accept the government's improbable conspiracy theory explanation, there have been no terror attacks on the US. Indeed, as RT pointed out on August 23, 2011, an investigative program at the University of California discovered that the domestic "terror plots" hyped in the media were plotted by FBI agents.

FBI undercover agents now number 15,000, ten times their number during the protests against the Vietnam war when protesters were suspected of communist sympathies. As there apparently are no real terror plots for this huge workforce to uncover, the FBI justifies its budget, terror alerts, and invasive searches of American citizens by thinking up "terror plots" and finding some deranged individuals to ensnare. For example, the Washington DC Metro bombing plot, the New York City subway plot, and the plot to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago were all FBI brainchilds organized and managed by FBI agents.  

RT reports that only three plots might have been independent of the FBI, but as none of the three worked they obviously were not the work of such a professional terror organization as Al Qaeda is purported to be. The Times Square car bomb didn't blow up, and apparently could not have.

The latest FBI sting ensnared a Boston man, Rezwan Ferdaus, who is accused of planning to attack the Pentagon and US Capitol with model airplanes packed with C-4 explosives. US Attorney Carmen Ortiz assured Americans that they were never in danger, because the FBI's undercover agents were in control of the plot.

Ferdaus' FBI-organized plot to blow up the Pentagon and US Capitol with model airplanes has produced charges that he provided "material support to a terrorist organization" and plotted to destroy federal buildings -- the most serious charge which carries 20 imprisoned years for each targeted building. 

What is the terrorist organization that Ferdaus is serving? Surely not al Qaeda, which allegedly outwitted all 16 US intelligence services, all intelligence services of America's NATO and Israeli allies, NORAD, the National Security Council, Air Traffic Control, Dick Cheney, and US airport security four times in one hour on the same morning. Such a highly capable terror organization would not be involved in such nonsense as a plot to blow up the Pentagon with a model airplane.

As an American who was in public service for a number of years and who has always stood up for the Constitution, a patriot's duty, I must hope that the question has already popped into readers' minds why we are expected to believe that a tiny model airplane is capable of blowing up the Pentagon when a 757 airliner loaded with jet fuel was incapable of doing the job, merely making a hole not big enough for an airliner. 

When I observe the gullibility of my fellow citizens at the absurd "terror plots" that the US government manufactures, it causes me to realize that fear is the most powerful weapon any government has for advancing an undeclared agenda. If Ferdaus is brought to trial, no doubt a jury will convict him of a plot to blow up the Pentagon and US Capitol with model airplanes. Most likely he will be tortured or coerced into a plea bargain.

Apparently, Americans, or most of them, are so ruled by fear that they suffer no remorse from "their" government's murder and dislocation of millions of innocent people. In the American mind, one billion "towel-heads" have been reduced to terrorists who deserve to be exterminated. The US is on its way to a holocaust that makes the terrors Jews faced from National Socialism into a mere precursor. 

Think about this: Are not you amazed that after a decade (2.5 times the length of WW II) of killing Muslims and destroying families and their prospects in six countries, there are no real terrorist events in the US?  

Think for a minute how easy terrorism would be in the US if there were any terrorists. Would an Al Qaeda terrorist from the organization that allegedly pulled off 9/11 -- the most humiliating defeat ever suffered by a Western power, much less "the world's only superpower" -- still in the face of all the screening be trying to hijack an airliner or to blow one up?

Surely not when there are so many totally soft targets. If America were really infected with a "terrorist threat," a terrorist would merely get in the massive lines waiting to clear airport "security" and set off his bomb. It would kill far more people than could be achieved by blowing up an airliner, and it would make it completely clear that "airport security" meant no one was safe.  

It would be child's play for terrorists to blow up electric sub-stations as no one is there, nothing but a chain link fence.  It would be easy for terrorists to blow up shopping centers. It would be easy for terrorists to dump boxes of roofing nails on congested streets and freeways during rush hours, tying up main transportation arteries for days.

Before, dear reader, you accuse me of giving terrorists ideas, do you really think that these ideas would not already have occurred to terrorists capable of pulling off 9/11?  

But nothing happens.  So the FBI arrests a guy for planning to blow up America with a model airplane. It is really depressing how many Americans will believe this.  

Consider also that American neoconservatives, who have orchestrated the "war on terror," have no protection whatsoever, and that the Secret Service protection of Bush and Cheney is minimal. If America really faced a terrorist threat, especially one so professional to have brought off 9/11, every neoconservative along with Bush and Cheney could be assassinated within one hour on one morning or one evening. 

The fact that neoconservatives such as Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condi Rice, Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, John Bolton, William Kristol, Libby, Addington, et. al., live unprotected and free of fear is proof that America faces no terrorist threat.

Think now about the airliner shoe-bomb plot, the shampoo-bottled water plot, and the underwear-bomb plot. Experts, other than the whores hired by the US government, say that these plots are nonsensical. The "shoe bomb" and "underwear bomb" were colored fireworks powders incapable of blowing up a tin can. The liquid bomb, allegedly mixed up in an airliner toilet room, has been dismissed by experts as fantasy.  

What is the purpose of these fake plots?  And remember, all reports confirm that the "underwear bomber" was walked onto the airliner by an official, despite the fact that the "underwear bomber" had no passport. No investigation was ever conducted by the FBI, CIA, or anyone into why a passenger without a passport was allowed on an international flight.

The purpose of these make-believe plots is to raise the fear level and to create the opportunity for former Homeland Security czar Michael Chertoff to make a fortune selling porno-scanners to the TSA.

The result of these hyped "terrorist plots" is that every American citizen, even those with high government positions and security clearances, cannot board a commercial airline flight without taking off his shoes, his jacket, his belt, submitting to a porno-scanner, or being sexually groped. Nothing could make it plainer that "airport security" cannot tell a Muslim terrorist from a gung-ho American patriot, a US Senator, a US Marine general, or a CIA operative.  

If a passenger requires for health or other reasons quantities of liquids and cremes beyond the limits imposed on toothpaste, shampoo, food, or medications, the passenger must obtain prior approval from TSA, which seldom works. One of America's finest moments is the case, documented on YouTube, of a dying woman in a wheelchair, who requires special food, having her food thrown away by the gestapo TSA despite the written approval from the Transportation Safety Administration; her daughter arrested for protesting, and the dying woman in the wheelchair left alone in the airport.

This is Amerika today.  These assaults on innocent citizens are justified by the mindless right-wing as "protecting us against terrorism," a "threat" that all evidence shows is nonexistent. 

No American is secure today. I am a former staff associate of the House Defense Appropriations subcommittee. I required high security clearances as I had access to information pertaining to all US weapons programs. As chief economist of the House Budget Committee, I had information pertaining to the US military and security budgets. As Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, I was provided every morning with the CIA's briefing of the President as well as with endless security information.  

When I left the Treasury, President Reagan appointed me to a super-secret committee to investigate the CIA's assessment of Soviet capability.  Afterwards I was a consultant to the Pentagon. I had every kind of security clearance. 

Despite my record of highest security clearances and US government confidence in me, including confirmation by the US Senate in a presidential appointment, the airline police cannot tell me from a terrorist.  

If I were into model airplanes or attending anti-war demonstrations, little doubt I, too, would be arrested. 

After my public service in the last quarter of the 20th century, I experienced during the first decade of the 21st century all of America's achievements, despite their blemishes, being erased. In their place was erected a monstrous desire for hegemony and highly concentrated wealth. Most of my friends and my fellow citizens in general are incapable of recognizing America's transformation into a warmonger police state that has the worst income distribution of any developed country.

It is extraordinary that so many Americans, citizens of the world's only superpower, actually believe that they are threatened by Muslim peoples who have no unity, no navy, no air force, no nuclear weapons, no missiles capable of reaching across the oceans. 

Indeed, large percentages of these "threat populations," especially among the young, are enamored of the sexual freedom that exists in America. Even the Iranian dupes of the CIA-orchestrated "Green Revolution" have forgotten Washington's overthrow of their elected government in the 1950s. Despite America's decade-long abusive military actions against Muslim peoples, many Muslims still look to America for their salvation.

Their "leaders" are simply bought off with large sums of money.  

With the "terrorist threat" and Al Qaeda deflated with President Obama's alleged assassination of its leader, Osama bin Laden, who was left unprotected and unarmed by his "world-wide terrorist organization," Washington has come up with a new bogyman -- the Haqqanis.

According to John Glaser and anonymous CIA officials, US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Mike Mullen "exaggerated" the case against the Haqqani insurgent group when he claimed, setting up a US invasion of Pakistan, that the Hagganis were an operating arm of the Pakistan government's secret service, the ISI. Adm. Mullen is now running from his "exaggeration," an euphemism for a lie. His aid Captain John Kirby said that Mullen's "accusations were designed to influence the Pakistanis to crack down on the Haqqani Network." In other words, the Pakistanis should kill more of their own people to save the Americans the trouble.

If you don't know what the Haqqani Network is, don't be surprised. You never heard of Al Qaeda prior to 9/11. The US government creates whatever new bogymen and incidents are necessary to further the neoconservative agenda of world hegemony and higher profits for the armaments industry.

For 10 years, the "superpower" American population has sat there, being terrified by the government's lies. While Americans sit in fear of non-existent "terrorists" sucking their thumbs, millions of people in six countries have had their lives destroyed. As far as any evidence exists, the vast majority of Americans are unperturbed by the wanton murder of others in countries that they are incapable of locating on maps.

Truly, Amerika is a light unto the world, an example for all.

 

http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/

Dr. Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration. He was associate editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal, columnist for Business Week and the Scripps Howard News Service. He is a contributing editor to Gerald Celente's Trends Journal. He has had numerous university appointments. His latest book, The Failure of Laissez Faire Capitalism and Economic Dissolution of the West is available here:  http://www.amazon.com/Failure-Capitalism-Economic-Dissolution-ebook/dp/B00BLPJNWE/ref=sr_1_17?ie=UTF8&qid=1362095594&sr=8-17&keywords=paul+craig+roberts





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Of course it is by Michael David Morrissey on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:51:25 AM
Nicely said by Robert James on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:59:25 PM
Another criminal enterprise by Donald on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:23:57 AM
Google this: by Daniel Geery on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:43:33 AM
The War on Terror a Hoax? by Arlen Grossman on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:04:05 AM
Has Been From The Get Go by Dennis Kaiser on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:46:23 AM
Once Again... by Dennis Kaiser on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:06:50 AM
praise Jesus by . . on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:18:36 AM
The Haqqanis by Gigi3 on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:24:55 AM
Here we go round the Mulberry bush by Marika on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:21:02 AM
Meanwhile, behind the curtain.... by Robert James on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 4:08:59 PM
How true by Marika on Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011 at 6:46:43 AM
Simple Truths Beyond the Pale for the Majority? by Ron Brassfield on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 6:59:05 AM
"Don't Fear The Reaper"? by Jack Heart on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:58:59 AM
Fukushima fakes, Nagasaki nukes & Hiroshima (no) hoax by Michael Rose on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:21:38 AM
Nuclear earthquakes by nite owl on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:12:40 PM
No Nukes Never Needed. Tectonic plates happen to have Haarp by Michael Rose on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:00:45 PM
nukes and HAARP by nite owl on Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 at 1:09:20 AM
Perhaps ..... by cosmic J. on Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:44:11 AM
staged events and creating illusion by nite owl on Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:41:57 PM
Reply: by cosmic J. on Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:09:53 PM
Reply by nite owl on Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011 at 1:59:53 AM
continued by nite owl on Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:06:37 AM
militarian power and contrarian publicity by Michael Rose on Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 at 7:06:01 PM
No nukes huh? by nite owl on Monday, Oct 3, 2011 at 7:23:17 AM
Careful here by cosmic J. on Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:44:31 PM
Careful, you might make another know it all assumption by nite owl on Wednesday, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:34:30 AM
Mike Krieger: "Rebellion Has Arrived In America" by Mike Preston on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:01:00 AM
Terror is real, and worldwide! by CarmanK on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:16:30 AM
momentum by Ernie Messerschmidt on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:45:36 AM
One might think... by Ginger McClemons on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 2:46:12 PM
USA : the Sick Man of the Americas by Kathleen O'Grady on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:06:08 PM
USA by Nancy S on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:55:26 PM
Planetary Revolution by nite owl on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:12:49 PM
War on Terror? by Nancy S on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 1:35:21 PM
Is mainstream media guilty of treason? by larry payne on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 3:17:12 PM
More truth, inconvenient for oil and war profiteers. But, .. by E.J.N. on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:08:21 PM
How by Michael Dewey on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:16:22 PM
Is the war on terror a hoax by Janet Gaudiello on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:58:38 PM
Email exchange by Peter Duveen on Friday, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:03:46 PM
Deep end by Michael David Morrissey on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:24:48 AM
Continued by Michael David Morrissey on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 1:30:31 AM
Conclusion by Peter Duveen on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 11:39:42 AM
No, thingss are not the same by Mark Sashine on Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:10:41 PM
Wise words by Michael David Morrissey on Tuesday, Oct 4, 2011 at 8:08:30 PM
Wonderful round of rock 'em, sock 'em by conrad elledge on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 2:18:34 AM
Is terror a hoax? by Gary Brumback on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 8:00:45 AM
I suspect 9/11 was a wakeup call by larry payne on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 9:03:12 AM
I agree with the premise by Philip Pease on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:48:15 AM
As Henry Kissinger proudly proclaimed: by cosmic J. on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 3:30:08 PM
Ferdaus was the subject? by Brian Giffin aka Talkswithants on Saturday, Oct 1, 2011 at 10:07:56 PM
Quite Ominous by aberamsay on Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 at 2:39:00 PM
staged events and creating illusion by nite owl on Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:32:22 PM
reposted by nite owl on Sunday, Oct 2, 2011 at 3:45:04 PM