Sen. McCain: I...
Wallace: ...and you'd reached the end of the line.
Sen. McCain: Yes. But I should have gone further. I should have--I--I never believed that I would--that I would break, and I did.
But now, basking in the lime light of media hailing him a war hero, and Republican primary voters having given him an overwhelming majority, candidate McCain confidently assures American voters that he is best qualified to give the orders that will protect the country.
Presently, McCain again is enthusiastic over the Afghanistan, Iraq and Somalia occupation wars and upbeat regarding the possibility of “Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran!” as McCain jokingly sang during a campaign speech in 2007 while smilingly speaking of “sending an air mail message to Tehran.” Laughing about an air strike wherein untold Iranians would die?
Is the now elderly McCain possibly allowing his pride to cause him to be naively taken in by corporate media high jingoism and pro-war selecting and slanting of the news again? McCain has called radical Islam the greatest threat. But Al Qaida came into Iraq after the U.S. bombing and invasion precisely to make a show of fighting the U.S. occupation, and the roots of today's Mid–East genocidal belligerencies go back to President Carter having secretly funded, armed and trained the fundamentalist hill tribes, attacking a modern women emancipating government in Kabul, in order to sucker the Soviets into entering Afghanistan six months later, as his advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski would later brag to the French Newspaper Le Nouvel Observateur in 1998:
“Question: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs [From the Shadows], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the national security adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.”
As McCain promises to chase bin Laden "to the gates of hell" if necessary, he surely must know that President Carter's heartless criminally homicidal secret attack on a small friendly nation's government using ethnic and Islamic religious fanaticism to foment civil war goes unprosecuted. This Carter/Brzezinski terror funding, as is the funding of bin Laden and Taliban by subsequent presidents, and Reagan’s backing of Saddam Hussain’s war on Iran is all over the Internet for the Googling.
As a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain would have quickly learned that presidential CIA covert government crimes are above all laws, treaties, and the U.S. Constitution, and are only tolerated thanks to the acquiescent silent cover up by ‘gentleman’s agreement’ between government and corporate controlled media. Indeed it is a federal crime to compromise the secrecy of CIA illegal activity.
McCain is quite at home within the continuing enormous success of America's ‘Big Brother’ entertainment/news pro-war propaganda - pro every and all wars, past, present and future - which depends on the gullibility and ignorance of a large mass of self-centered and self-preoccupied viewers and readers, trained by charming media news anchors and news analysts to show no interest in monitoring overseas death and destruction caused by U.S. military occupation forces.
It has taken decades for commercial media to turn a shameful ‘mistaken’ Vietnam War’ into patriotic glory for any politician who ‘served’ in it. McCain is one of the beneficiaries of mass media sanitizing what millions of Americans in the streets had protested as crimes against humanity.
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