Impeach Now by Paul Roberts - noted conservative - GREAT READ

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http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07162007.html

Exerpt:
The Bush administration has tried unsuccessfully to resurrect the terrorist fear factor by infiltrating some blowhard groups and encouraging them to talk about staging "terrorist" events. The talk, encouraged by federal agents, resulted in "terrorist" arrests hyped by the media, but even the captive media was unable to scare people with such transparent sting operations.

If the Bush administration wants to continue its wars in the Middle East and to entrench the "unitary executive" at home, it will have to conduct some false flag operations that will both frighten and anger the American people and make them accept Bush's declaration of "national emergency" and the return of the draft. Alternatively, the administration could simply allow any real terrorist plot to proceed without hindrance.

A series of staged or permitted attacks would be spun by the captive media as a vindication of the neoconsevatives' Islamophobic policy, the intention of which is to destroy all Middle Eastern governments that are not American puppet states. Success would give the US control over oil, but the main purpose is to eliminate any resistance to Israel's complete absorption of Palestine into Greater Israel.

Think about it. If another 9/11-type "security failure" were not in the works, why would Homeland Security czar Chertoff go to the trouble of convincing the Chicago Tribune that Americans have become complacent about terrorist threats and that he has "a gut feeling" that America will soon be hit hard?

[snappyturtle]

1. This is the third thread I've read this Roberts article on and everytime

I read it, it curdles my blood. Glad to keep it going. Everyone should read this. Thanks.

[aquart]

2. Goody. Now they're scared.

What's painfully sad is that they believe the American public is Charlie Brown and Bush is Lucy with the football. Their continuing contempt for the American people is truly dependable.

[intheflow]

3. But if they stage another MIHOP or LIHOP,

won't that underscore what the American people (and even some in the CM) are starting to grasp--that Bush's war on terror has not protected us, but has heightened our vulnerability to terrorism? I think such a strategy would backfire on this administration, though that doesn't mean they wouldn't do it.

[deacon]

4. k + r