2-19-06

Pentagon Draws Plans to Kill 10,000 Iranians

The Little George Administration has instructed the Pentagon to draw up plans to bomb Iran and kill 10,000 Iranians. Why? According to the Administration's spin, to spread democracy. In a minute we will take a look at Little George's democracy and see that it is really communi$m, but first let's look at the real reason for bombing Iran. The bombing and killing is for the purpose of pushing interest rates way up. Since Little George's 2000 and 2004 anointments, this is the third time the bad guys have increased interest rates via manipulated Mid East Wars. The first two were in 1973 and in 1979. The bad guys have been using the same scam to steal money for thirty years. Loosen credit and lower interest rates to create a false boom economy. As their Ponzi economy begins to implode the bad guys manipulate a Mid East War for the purpose of shutting off the supply of oil. High oil prices send cash to the Ponzi economy and keeps it afloat at the same time interest rates go through the roof.

Also keeping the Ponzi economy afloat is borrowed money. Since Little George has been in Office the United States debt limit has increased 44% from 5.4 trillion to $8.2 trillion for an increase of 2800 billion. Now the Little George Administration wants Congress to increase the debt limit by another 2000 billion to $10.2 Trillion. That's an incredible increase in the debt limit on Little George's watch of 4800 billion. Since Little George has been in Office the size of the federal government has increased by 25 percent. Little George has the gall to call himself conservative. The United States is broke and living on borrowed money it cannot and will not pay back.

Sun Tuz writes in his book "The Art of War" that a military commander must locate his troops in a position where they must fight and win or die. Tuz suggests putting troops in front of a body of water so the troops can't run and so that they must fight hard and win or die. This is the situation the zioni$t$ have placed the US economy and the reason there will be a nuclear Holocaust. World leaders are running from a global economic meltdown. If the Little George Administration does not feed the economic alligator chasing them, the USA will face the wrath of millions of destitute, but physically strong, Americans.

The zioni$t$ have created this horrible economic bubble because they see a silver lining in the horror. If the USA starts a nuclear Holocaust with Iran, Russia, China, and India, zioni$t$ hope and are counting on a dead, sick, and dying world population which will allow them to enjoy a 3000 year old racist sick dream written in Isaiah 61.5.

Aliens will shepherd your
flocks;
foreigners will work your fields and vineyards.
And you will be called priests
of the Lord,
you will be named ministers
of our God.
You will feed on the wealth of nations,
and in their riches you will
boast.

The USA economy will implode one day. Logic dictates it and the Book of Revelations says it.

The President of Iran Mahnud Ahmadinejad has said Iran might as well take a stand against the zioni$t$ and the United States on nuclear energy because if the Little George Administration does not carpet bomb Iran over nuclear weapons the zioni$t$ and bad guys will come up with another equally lame reason to carpet bomb Iran and destroy Iran's mosques. Russia, China, and India are siding with Iran because they know just as Hitler could not be appeased Little George, the anti-Christ, cannot be appeased. Logic dictates after zioni$t$ and USA carpet bomb Iran the bad guys will carpet bomb Russia, China, and India. Why do we know this? Because the USA is broke and this is not going to change with only nuking Iran. The USA must nuke Russia, China, and India to feed its Ponzi economy.

Hitler lied. Stalin lied. Lenin lied. Little George lies. Promoting democracy has nothing to do with Little George's warring ways. The world lives in the most evil time since the beginning of the Universes. The world lives in the evil times described in the Book of Revelations. If the people of the world think zioni$t$ killing 10,000 Iranians will quench their racism and thirst for blood think again. Nuking Iran will merely bring nuclear weapons to the table.

Little George will ask Congress to authorize an extra $75 million to help the United States spur democracy in Iran. Webster's dictionary defines democracy as government in which the people hold the ruling power either directly or through elected representatives. Iran is already a democracy. In June 2005 Iran had elections and an underdog, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who spent no money on the campaign and was not expected to win won the election beating the incumbent President of Iran, Mohammad Khatami.

Iran hand counts ballots. There is proof Little George's wins in 2000 and 2004 were the result of rigged elections. A world of evidence exists which proves Diabold voting machines were programmed to throw the 2004 election to Little George. Iran is much more democratic than the United States on this all important issue of vote counting because Iran hand counts votes and does not use Diabold vote counting machines which are easily rig-able and the USA does not hand count votes and uses Diabold vote counting machines which can be rigged. The idea the Little George Administration wants to murder 10,000 people in Iran and destroy its houses of worship for the sake of democracy is untrue. If Little George really wanted to spread democracy he would clean up our house at home. Little George has not even admitted the United States has a very serious vote counting problem which all thinking people realize. Until the USA has fair elections again at home any call Little George makes to spread democracy around the world rings untrue. One day the USA will hand count votes. It may take the death of of a third of the world's population to get the USA hand counting votes, but one day the USA will hand count votes.

A key aspect of democracy is impartially and Little George is helping rich people much more than he is helping non rich Americans. Iran's Ahmadinejad calls himself a friend of the people. Iran supports the type of government the United States set up in Iraq. Although it is my guess Ahmadinejad is being manipulated by zioni$t$ because he is doing things which will promote war and zioni$t$ desperately want a war with Iran, I believe Ahmadinejad works for the will of the majority and supports Iraq's government.

Profile: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was elected Iran's president in June 2005, was an obscure figure when he was appointed mayor of Tehran in the spring of 2003.
He was not much better known when he entered the presidential election campaign, although he had already made his mark as Tehran mayor.

Mr Ahmadinejad was born in Garmsar, near Tehran, in 1956, the son of a blacksmith, and holds a PhD in traffic and transport from Tehran's University of Science and Technology, where he was a lecturer.

Iran's outgoing reformist president, Mohammad Khatami, barred Mr Ahmadinejad from attending cabinet meetings, a privilege normally accorded to mayors of the capital.

His presidential campaign focused on poverty and social justice.

He also has a reputation for living a simple life and campaigned against corruption.

Iran signed the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 1968 even though Iran does not have one nuclear bomb. Israel has nuclear bombs and did not join in on the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The Little George Administration now wants to bomb Iran and murder an estimated 10,000 innocent civilians in Iran because Little George says Iran is in violation of the treaty. Many nuclear experts assert Iran is not in violation of the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Israel has nukes and Little George says nothing. Iran does not have nukes and Little George wants to nuke Iran. How many of our fine soldiers will die if Little George nukes Iran? Too many. Make sense? Nope. Well, maybe if you are the anti-Christ and you are looking for an excuse to steal more oil and bring more misery to the world.

It has always been assumed the USA invaded Iraq to steal Iraq's oil. Now proof exists the United States invaded Iraq to steal Iraq's oil as the USA nears completion of four military bases in Iraq. The USA built the four military bases in Iraq to steal Iraq's oil. You guessed the rest of the story. USA invades Iran, builds military bases, steal's Iran's oil. USA invades Caspian Sea oil fields, builds military bases, steal's Russia's oil. A zioni$t run USA gives the stolen oil to Israel. Dollar becomes worthless. A destitute world starves. Israel controls the world's hard assets. Israel laughs at a starving and destitute world population built on the blood of Gentiles. Would one expect anything else from the bunch who crucified Jesus? Nope.

According to the United States Constitution Congress must declare war against Iran before the President as Commander in Chief of the military may order our military to bomb Iran. Little George says the USA is at war and he has war powers. Wrong. Little George gains Presidential War powers only after Congress declares war.

The Little George Administration avoided the need for Congress to declare War against a specific country when his Administration made a case that the USA was in a war against terrorists. Now the Little George Administration wants to take authority Congress gave it unConstitutionally to go after terrorists and apply Congressional war powers against terrorists to attack and invade an independent country, Iran. The US Constitution does not give the President permission to ask Congress to declare war against terrorists. Little George could ask Congress to declare War against Iran. To use an unconstitutional power, war against something undefined, terrorists, and then use this Unconstitutional power to attack an independent country, when the President could ask Congress to declare war against Iran, is simply treason.

Little George says he wants to spread democracy? Little George is the product of rigged elections and is using treasonous interpretations of the US Constitution and he wants to murder 10,000 Iranians and somehow he justifies rigged elections and treasonous interpretations of the US Constitution as a form of democracy? Good grief. I doubt Hitler, Stalin, and Lenin would even try to sell this line of BS to the world. Insanity such as this is another reason one can assume we are living in the time of the Book of Revelations.

How in the world can the United States have a President who was elected with rigged elections, a President who gets this country in a war when the war is clearly unConstitutional, treason, and in violation of International Law? A zioni$t owned media. Little George might as well say a media which does not tell the people what they need to know is democratic.

If the Little George Administration wanted to be truthful it should say to the people of the world, "This is a stick up. Hand over your money or your life." What would the Little George Administration do if the people of the world said, "OK zioni$t$ and bad guys, don't murder us any more. Tell Merck not to infect us with bird flu. Just increase the price of oil to $250.00 per barrel and increase interest rates to 30 percent, steal all the money, and leave us alone?"

The Little George Administration's warring ways has nothing to do with furthering freedom and democracy and everything to do with stealing money. How can he and the bad guys get away with it? Because many people know the world economy is a one big balloon and people can't face the fact that one day it is going to pop. People in the know would rather see the zioni$t$ and bad guys kill thousands of Iranians knowing to do so will lead to nuclear Holocausts and biological wars than let their precious money go "pop." They act as if in front of them is an economic meltdown, behind them is a big ocean and they can't swim, and their only answer is to try and keep the Ponzi economy going a while longer amid the "boom, booms " of nukes exploding, death and destruction.

10,000 would die' in A-plant attack on Iran

(Filed: 13/02/2006)

A major American attack on Iran's nuclear sites would kill up to 10,000 people and lead to war in the Middle East, a report says today.

US prepares military blitz against Iran

(Filed: 12/02/2006)

Strategists at the Pentagon are drawing up plans for devastating bombing raids backed by submarine-launched ballistic missile attacks against Iran.

Central Command and Strategic Command planners are identifying targets, assessing weapon-loads and working on logistics for an operation, the Sunday Telegraph has learnt.

As Long as We're Talking About the Constitution…
Why not read it?
by Scott Horton
"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."
- Thomas Jefferson

All over the country, and even in the press, the U.S. Constitution is being discussed in regards to the president's war powers. This is apparently a side benefit of having an empire so corrupt and murderous that many folks are considering impeaching and removing the president who lied us into war and claims unlimited authority to wiretap, kidnap, torture, and murder whomever he likes – his lawyers even insist that the "commander in chief" has the "inherent" and "plenary" authority to crush a child's testicles to get at the boy's father. (Really. Click here to read all about it.)

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James Madison quote

"[O]f all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other. War is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes; and armies, and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the many under the domination of the few."

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Paul Craig Roberts writes

Their first victims, of course, were the true conservatives. Having eliminated internal opposition, the Bush administration is now using blackmail obtained through illegal spying on American citizens to silence the media and the opposition party.

(The wiretaps are for reasons worse than blackmail. Spying on US citizens is probably related to gathering information on where and how much money citizens' have. Racist zioni$t John Negroponte is forming death squads, as he has all his life, is my guess. This time racist zioni$t John "Death Squad" Negroponte's death squads will be aimed to kill Americans, and the NSA illegal wiretaps help him. Congress is the one whose phones are tapped and juicy info gained to blackmail them to give the bad guys their un American communi$t laws. How does PC Roberts know all this stuff. Like me he has been the victim of government dirty deeds, is my guess. )

Before flinching at my assertion of blackmail, ask yourself why President Bush refuses to obey the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The purpose of the FISA court is to ensure that administrations do not spy for partisan political reasons. The warrant requirement is to ensure that a panel of independent federal judges hears a legitimate reason for the spying, thus protecting a president from the temptation to abuse the powers of government. The only reason for the Bush administration to evade the court is that the Bush administration had no legitimate reasons for its spying. This should be obvious even to a naif.

The United States is undergoing a coup against the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, civil liberties, and democracy itself. The "liberal press" has been co-opted. As everyone must know by now, the New York Times has totally failed its First Amendment obligations, allowing Judith Miller to make war propaganda for the Bush administration, suppressing for an entire year the news that the Bush administration was illegally spying on American citizens, and denying coverage to Al Gore’s speech that challenged the criminal deeds of the Bush administration.

The years of illegal spying have given the Bush administration power over the media and the opposition. Journalists and Democratic politicians don’t want to have their adulterous affairs broadcast over television or to see their favorite online porn sites revealed in headlines in the local press with their names attached. Only people willing to risk such disclosures can stand up for the country.

If Senator Ted Kennedy, a famous senator with two martyred brothers, (killed at the direction of Big George, in my opinion) can be put on a no-fly list, as he was for several weeks, anyone can be put on the list. The list has no accountability. People on the list cannot even find out why they are on the list. There is no recourse, no procedure for correcting mistakes.

(I applied for a concealed weapons' permit and then withdrew my application because I feared the government would misuse of the info, and the FBI has not removed the information from my drivers' license and each time I have been stopped for expired registration the Officer called for backup and treated me like I was a terrorist.)

If the government can have a no-fly list, it can have a no-drive list. The Iraqi resistance has demonstrated the destructive potential of car bombs. If we are to believe the government’s story about the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh showed that a rental truck bomb could destroy a large office building. Indeed, what is to prevent the government from having a list of people who are not allowed to leave their homes? If the Bush administration can continue its policy of picking up people anywhere in the world and detaining them indefinitely without having to show any evidence for their detention, it can do whatever it wishes.

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February 07, 2006

My Epiphany: From Reaganaut To Anti-War Radical
By Paul Craig Roberts

A number of readers have asked me when did I undergo my epiphany, abandon right-wing Reaganism and become an apostle of truth and justice.

I appreciate the friendly sentiment, but there is a great deal of misconception in the question.

When I saw that the neoconservative response to 9/11 was to turn a war against stateless terrorism into military attacks on Muslim states, I realized that the Bush administration was committing a strategic blunder with open-ended disastrous consequences for the US that, in the end, would destroy Bush, the Republican Party, and the conservative movement.

My warning was not prompted by an effort to save Bush’s bacon. I have never been any party’s political or ideological servant. I used my positions in the congressional staff and the Reagan administration to change the economic policy of the United States. In my efforts, I found more allies among influential Democrats, such as Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, Joint Economic Committee Chairman Lloyd Bentsen and my Georgia Tech fraternity brother Sam Nunn, than I did among traditional Republicans who were only concerned about the budget deficit.

My goals were to reverse the Keynesian policy mix that caused worsening "Phillips curve" trade-offs between employment and inflation and to cure the stagflation that destroyed Jimmy Carter’s presidency. No one has seen a "Phillips curve" trade-off or experienced stagflation since the supply-side policy was implemented. (These gains are now being eroded by the labor arbitrage that is replacing American workers with foreign ones. In January 2004 I teamed up with Democratic Senator Charles Schumer in the New York Times and at a Brookings Institution conference in a joint effort to call attention to the erosion of the US economy and Americans’ job prospects by outsourcing.)

The supply-side policy used reductions in the marginal rate of taxation on additional income to create incentives to expand production so that consumer demand would result in increased real output instead of higher prices. No doubt, the rich benefited, but ordinary people were no longer faced simultaneously with rising inflation and lost jobs. Employment expanded for the remainder of the century without having to pay for it with high and rising rates of inflation. Don’t ever forget that Reagan was elected and re-elected by blue collar Democrats.

The left-wing’s demonization of Ronald Reagan owes much to the Republican Establishment. The Republican Establishment regarded Reagan as a threat to its hegemony over the party. They saw Jack Kemp the same way. Kemp, a professional football star quarterback, represented an essentially Democratic district. Kemp was aggressive in challenging Republican orthodoxy. Both Reagan and Kemp spoke to ordinary people. As a high official in the Reagan administration, I was battered by the Republican Establishment, which wanted enough Reagan success so as not to jeopardize the party’s "lock on the presidency" but enough failure so as to block the succession to another outsider. Anyone who reads my book, The Supply-Side Revolution (Harvard University Press, 1984) will see what the real issues were.

If I had time to research my writings over the past 30 years, I could find examples of partisan articles in behalf of Republicans and against Democrats. However, political partisanship is not the corpus of my writings. I had a 16-year stint as Business Week’s first outside columnist, despite hostility within the magazine and from the editor’s New York social set, because the editor regarded me as the most trenchant critic of the George H.W. Bush administration in the business.

The White House felt the same way and lobbied to have me removed from the William E. Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Earlier when I resigned from the Reagan administration to accept appointment to the new chair, CSIS was part of Georgetown University. The University’s liberal president, Timothy Healy, objected to having anyone from the Reagan administration in a chair affiliated with Georgetown University. CSIS had to defuse the situation by appointing a distinguished panel of scholars from outside universities, including Harvard, to ratify my appointment.

I can truly say that at one time or the other both sides have tried to shut me down. I have experienced the same from "free thinking" libertarians, who are free thinking only inside their own box.

In Reagan’s time we did not recognize that neoconservatives had a Jacobin frame of mind. Perhaps we were not paying close enough attention. We saw neoconservatives as former left-wingers who had realized that the Soviet Union might be a threat after all. We regarded them as allies against Henry Kissinger’s inclination to reach an unfavorable accommodation with the Soviet Union. Kissinger thought, or was believed to think, that Americans had no stomach for a drawn-out contest and that he needed to strike a deal before the Soviets staked the future on a lack of American resolution.

Reagan was certainly no neoconservative. He went along with some of their schemes, but when neoconservatives went too far, he fired them. George W. Bush promotes them. The left-wing might object that the offending neocons in the Reagan administration were later pardoned, but there was sincere objection to criminalizing what was seen, rightly or wrongly, as stalwartness in standing up to communism.

Neoconservatives were disappointed with Reagan. Reagan’s goal was to END the cold war, not to WIN it. He made common purpose with Gorbachev and ENDED the cold war. It is the new Jacobins, the neoconservatives, who have exploited this victory by taking military bases to Russian borders.

I have always objected to injustice. My writings about prosecutorial abuse have put me at odds with "law and order conservatives." I have written extensively about wrongful convictions, both of the rich and famous and the poor and unknown. My thirty-odd columns on the frame-up of 26 innocent people in the Wenatchee, Washington, child sex abuse witch hunt played a role in the eventual overturning of the wrongful convictions.

My book, with Lawrence Stratton, The Tyranny of Good Intentions, details the erosion of the legal rights that make law a shield of the innocent instead of a weapon in the hands of government. Without the protection of law, rich and poor alike are at the mercy of government. In their hatred of "the rich," the left-wing overlooks that in the 20th century the rich were the class most persecuted by government. The class genocide of the 20th century is the greatest genocide in history.

Americans have forgotten what it takes to remain free. Instead, every ideology, every group is determined to use government to advance its agenda. As the government’s power grows, the people are eclipsed.

We have reached a point where the Bush administration is determined to totally eclipse the people. Bewitched by neoconservatives and lustful for power, the Bush administration and the Republican Party are aligning themselves firmly against the American people.

Their first victims, of course, were the true conservatives. Having eliminated internal opposition, the Bush administration is now using blackmail obtained through illegal spying on American citizens to silence the media and the opposition party.

Before flinching at my assertion of blackmail, ask yourself why President Bush refuses to obey the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The purpose of the FISA court is to ensure that administrations do not spy for partisan political reasons. The warrant requirement is to ensure that a panel of independent federal judges hears a legitimate reason for the spying, thus protecting a president from the temptation to abuse the powers of government. The only reason for the Bush administration to evade the court is that the Bush administration had no legitimate reasons for its spying. This should be obvious even to a naif.

The United States is undergoing a coup against the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, civil liberties, and democracy itself. The "liberal press" has been co-opted. As everyone must know by now, the New York Times has totally failed its First Amendment obligations, allowing Judith Miller to make war propaganda for the Bush administration, suppressing for an entire year the news that the Bush administration was illegally spying on American citizens, and denying coverage to Al Gore’s speech that challenged the criminal deeds of the Bush administration.

The TV networks mimic Fox News’ faux patriotism. Anyone who depends on print, TV, or right-wing talk radio media is totally misinformed. The Bush administration has achieved a de facto Ministry of Propaganda.

The years of illegal spying have given the Bush administration power over the media and the opposition. Journalists and Democratic politicians don’t want to have their adulterous affairs broadcast over television or to see their favorite online porn sites revealed in headlines in the local press with their names attached. Only people willing to risk such disclosures can stand up for the country.

Homeland Security and the Patriot Act are not our protectors. They undermine our protection by trashing the Constitution and the civil liberties it guarantees. Those with a tyrannical turn of mind have always used fear and hysteria to overcome obstacles to their power and to gain new means of silencing opposition.

Consider the no-fly list. This list has no purpose whatsoever but to harass and disrupt the livelihoods of Bush’s critics. If a known terrorist were to show up at check-in, he would be arrested and taken into custody, not told that he could not fly. What sense does it make to tell someone who is not subject to arrest and who has cleared screening that he or she cannot fly? How is this person any more dangerous than any other passenger?

If Senator Ted Kennedy, a famous senator with two martyred brothers, can be put on a no-fly list, as he was for several weeks, anyone can be put on the list. The list has no accountability. People on the list cannot even find out why they are on the list. There is no recourse, no procedure for correcting mistakes.

I am certain that there are more Bush critics on the list than there are terrorists. According to reports, the list now comprises 80,000 names! This number must greatly dwarf the total number of terrorists in the world and certainly the number of known terrorists.

How long before members of the opposition party, should there be one, find that they cannot return to Washington for important votes, because they have been placed on the no-fly list? What oversight does Congress or a panel of federal judges exercise over the list to make sure there are valid reasons for placing people on the list?

If the government can have a no-fly list, it can have a no-drive list. The Iraqi resistance has demonstrated the destructive potential of car bombs. If we are to believe the government’s story about the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City, Timothy McVeigh showed that a rental truck bomb could destroy a large office building. Indeed, what is to prevent the government from having a list of people who are not allowed to leave their homes? If the Bush administration can continue its policy of picking up people anywhere in the world and detaining them indefinitely without having to show any evidence for their detention, it can do whatever it wishes.

Many readers have told me, some gleefully, that I will be placed on the no-fly list along with all other outspoken critics of the growth in unaccountable executive power and war based on lies and deception. It is just a matter of time. Unchecked, unaccountable power grows more audacious by the day. As one reader recently wrote, "when the president of the United States can openly brag about being a felon, without fear of the consequences, the game is all but over."

Congress and the media have no fight in them, and neither, apparently, do the American people. Considering the feebleness of the opposition, perhaps the best strategy is for the opposition to shut up, not merely for our own safety but, more importantly, to remove any impediments to Bush administration self-destruction.

The sooner the Bush administration realizes its goals of attacking Iran, Syria, and the Shia militias in Lebanon, the more likely the administration will collapse in the maelstrom before it achieves a viable police state. Hamas’ victory in the recent Palestinian elections indicates that Muslim outrage over further US aggression in the Middle East has the potential to produce uprisings in Pakistan, Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. Not even Karl Rove and Fox "News" could spin Bush out of the catastrophe.

Perhaps we should go further and join the neocon chorus, urging on invasions of Iran and Syria and sending in the Marines to disarm Hizbullah in Lebanon. Not even plots of the German High Command could get rid of Hitler, but when Hitler marched German armies into Russia he destroyed himself. If Iraq hasn’t beat the hubris out of what Gordon Prather aptly terms the "neo-crazies," US military adventures against Iran and Hizbullah will teach humility to the neo-crazies.

Many patriotic readers have written to me expressing their frustration that fact and common sense cannot gain a toehold in a debate guided by hysteria and disinformation. Other readers write that 9/11 shields Bush from accountability. They challenge me to explain why three World Trade Center buildings on one day collapsed into their own footprints at free fall speed, an event outside the laws of physics except under conditions of controlled demolition. They insist that there is no stopping war and a police state as long as the government’s story on 9/11 remains unchallenged.

They could be right. There are not many editors eager for writers to explore the glaring defects of the 9/11 Commission Report. One would think that if the report could stand analysis, there would not be a taboo against calling attention to the inadequacy of its explanations. We know the government lied about Iraqi WMD, but we believe the government told the truth about 9/11.

Debate is dead in America for two reasons: One is that the media concentration permitted in the 1990s has put news and opinion in the hands of a few corporate executives who do not dare risk their broadcasting licenses by getting on the wrong side of government, or their advertising revenues by becoming "controversial." The media follows a safe line and purveys only politically correct information.

The other reason is that Americans today are no longer enthralled by debate. They just want to hear what they want to hear. The right-wing, left-wing, and libertarians alike preach to the faithful. Democracy cannot succeed when there is no debate.

Americans need to understand that many interests are using the "war on terror" to achieve their agendas. The Federalist Society is using the "war on terror" to achieve its agenda of concentrating power in the executive and packing the Supreme Court to this effect. The neocons are using the war to achieve their agenda of Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. Police agencies are using the war to remove constraints on their powers and to make themselves less accountable. Republicans are using the war to achieve one-party rule—theirs. The Bush administration is using the war to avoid accountability and evade constraints on executive powers. Arms industries, or what President Eisenhower called the "military-industrial complex," are using the war to fatten profits. Terrorism experts are using the war to gain visibility. Security firms are using it to gain customers.

Readers can add to this list at will. The lack of debate gives carte blanche to these agendas.

One certainty prevails. Bush is committing America to a path of violence and coercion, and he is getting away with it.

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Paul Craig Roberts [email him] is the author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny of Good Intentions : How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice. Click here for Peter Brimelow’s Forbes Magazine interview with Roberts about the recent epidemic of prosecutorial misconduct.


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