----- Original Message ----- From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 9:27 PM Subject: Re: Operation Infinite Mendacity [WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK] > Visit our website: HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK > --------------------------------------------- > > Laura, thanks so much for sending me this. No worries. I've gotten the > hang of the internet thing. I'll be careful not to post it to the loonies on > AntiNato, etc. > > On September 21, LBush wrote: > > <<Les, here's that secret first draft you asked for. Keep it confidential! >> > > > Mr. Speaker, Mr. President Pro Temporariness, members of Congress, and fellow > Americans: In the normal course of events, presidents come to this chamber to > report on the state of the union. Tonight, they have sent me instead. > > We've seen the unfurling of flags, the lighting of candles, the unfolding of > flags, the giving of blood, the waving of flags, the saying of prayers, and > the savage beatings administered to people who dress differently and do not > wave flags. > > Tonight, we are a country awakened to danger. Who would have thought that > callous disregard for the lives lost to American bombs abroad might one day > lead to calamity? Our grief has turned to anger and anger to resolution and > resolution to jingoism and jingoism soon will be transmuted into a new batch > of experimental and traditional weapons raining down on the human beings who > inhabit the world's hovels. Whether we bring our enemies to justice or > bring justice to our enemies, just as I say, let me adjust this mike. > > I thank the Congress for showing its leadership at such an important time by > granting me the untrammeled right to imprison and destroy our designated > demons du jour. > > All who love America and who are uncommonly tolerant of shallow manipulation > were touched on the evening of the tragedy to see Republicans and Democrats > joined together on the steps of this Capitol singing ''God Bless America.'' > > And you did more than sing. You acted, you signed over $40 billion to the > military-industrial complex. Money that was nowhere to be seen earlier when > desperate requests came in for better schools or teacher's salaries or > affordable housing. Speaker Hastert, Minority Leader Gephardt, Majority > Leader Daschle and Senator Lott, I thank you for your abject subservience, > and for prostrating yourself before the needs of the corporate complex. > > America is not alone in this. We will not forget South Korean children > gathering to pray outside our embassy in Seoul, the way we forgot about them > when they vainly huddled under a bridge to avoid being strafed in 1951, or > the ones gunned down in Kwangju. > > Let me thank all the countries standing by us, except for Canada. > > America has no truer friend than Great Britain. > > I'm so honored the British prime minister had crossed an ocean to show his > unity with America in plotting yet another cataclysm of violence against the > poorest nations on earth. > > Thank you for coming, friend. > > On September the 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our > country. Americans have known wars, but for the past 136 years they have > been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941, which would have > been on foreign soil, had we not annexed Hawaii and turned it into a fortress > guarding our overbearing presence in Asia. > > Americans have known the casualties of war, but not at the center of a great > city on a peaceful morning. That knowledge, until now, has belonged almost > exclusively to our adversaries. > > Americans have known surprise attacks, but rarely from the receiving side. > > All of this was brought upon us in a single day, and night fell on a > different world, a world where freedom itself is under attack, and I am not > referring to the repressive laws we are about to enact. > > Americans have many questions tonight. They are asking, ''Who wrote my > speech?" They also want to know why it is that when a reporter asks me a > question, I often look like a spaniel who has just heard an unfamiliar > command. > > The evidence we have gathered all points to a collection of loosely > affiliated terrorist organizations known as al Qaeda. You may have heard of > them before. I hadn't. They are the fundamentalists we bankrolled to kill > Russians, and whom we now accuse of bombing American embassies in Tanzania > and Kenya and say are responsible for bombing the USS Cole. > > Al Qaeda is to terror as the mafia is to crime or I as am to the inane phrase > and malapropism. But its goal is not making money, something we might > respect. Its goal is remaking the world and imposing its radical beliefs on > people everywhere. What dad likes to call New World Order, only I don't > remember him giving permission to Al Qaeda or anyone else to try it. > > The terrorists' directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill > all Americans and make no distinctions among military and civilians, > including women and children. Why they don't pick on Denmark or Australia > beats the heck out of me. > > They are recruited from their own nations and neighborhoods and brought to > camps in places like Afghanistan where they are trained in the tactics of > terror. They are sent back to their homes or sent to hide in countries around > the world to plot evil and destruction. Everyone knows this, if they are > familiar with the historical works of Stallone, or read Marvel publications. > > The leadership of Al Qaeda has great influence in Afghanistan and supports > the Taliban regime in controlling most of that country. In Afghanistan we > see al Qaeda's vision for the world. Afghanistan's people have been > brutalized, many are starving and many have fled. > > Women are not allowed to attend school. You can be jailed for owning a > television. Religion can be practiced only as their leaders dictate. A man > can be jailed in Afghanistan if his beard is not long enough. Knowing this, > you ask, why did we give the Taliban $43 million a couple of months ago. > Simple. We thought at the time they could guarantee Unocal's pipeline, so we > didn't sweat the small stuff. > > The United States respects the people of Afghanistan -- as we do all of our > bombees and others we threaten with annihilation. After all, we are > currently its largest source of er, humanitarian aid -- but we condemn the > Taliban regime who are now in our way. > > Tonight the United States of America makes the following demands on the > Taliban. > > Deliver to United States authorities whomver we tell you to. And don't keep > nagging us for evidence. We don't have to show you any stinking evidence. > > Release all foreign nationals, including American citizens you have unjustly > imprisoned. Protect foreign journalists, diplomats and aid workers in your > country and stop holding up their mail from Langley. Close immediately and > permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan. And hand over > every terrorist and every person and their support structure to appropriate > authorities. > > Give the United States full access to terrorist training camps. We need > them. The Liblabs here have shut down ours at The School for the Americas. > > Inasmuch as you have no defense against our bombs, these demands are not open > to negotiation or discussion. > > Once you accede to our demands, we will resume financing your fundamentalism, > as we do Saudi Arabia's. > > I also want to speak tonight directly to Muslims throughout the world. We > respect your faith. But this is a free country, and that is why we allow our > legislators and TV celebrities to refer to you as diaper-heads. Your faith > is practiced freely by many millions of Americans and by millions more in > countries that America counts as friends. Its teachings are good and > peaceful, and those who commit evil in the name of Allah blaspheme the name > of Allah. But Operation Infinite Mendacity is going to change all that. > > The enemy of America is not our many Muslim friends. It is not our many Arab > friends. It is not our friends. It is our enemy. When we ask you to > disembark a plane so that regular Americans can travel safely, do not take it > personally. Get that chip off your shoulders. > > Our war on terror begins with Al Qaeda, but it does not end there. > > It will not end until all evil has been found, all evildoers stopped and > defeated, including the ones they call the Joker and the Penguin. > > Americans are asking ''Why do they hate us?'' > > They hate what they see right here in this chamber: a democratically elected > government. (LAUGHTER) > > Their leaders are self-appointed. They hate our freedoms: our freedom of > religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote (LAUGHTER) and assemble > and disagree with each other. > > They want to overthrow existing governments in many Muslim countries > including the Saudi Arabian democracy. > > We're not deceived by their pretenses to piety. > > We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous > ideologies of the 20th century. Indeed, who but Muslims started the two world > wars that took 70 million lives? Who is responsible for Korea and Vietnam? > > Americans are asking, ''How can America and its allies possibly defeat a man > who is hiding in a cave in the poorest country on earth?" > > We will direct every resource at our command -- every means of diplomacy, > every tool of intelligence (by the way, does anyone here know Farsi?), every > instrument of law enforcement, every financial influence, and every necessary > weapon of war. > > Now, this war will not be like the war against Iraq a decade ago, when > Americans laughed along with Stormin' Norman at the sight of terrified Iraqis > scurrying to escape our surgical bombs. We may not go back to the good old > days of the Highway of Death, but I guarantee there will again be stragglers > to strafe. And soon Americans will once more wake up to find themselves > bombarding a country they cannot locate on a map. > > It will not look like the air war above Kosovo two years ago, where not a > single American was lost in combat. Think of that. We bombed a country for > months, wreaked havoc on its infrastructure, killed and maimed thousands of > its citizens, and we didn't lose a single hero. And still some people hate > us. > > Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated air > strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign > unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes visible > on TV and covert operations, the details of which shall not be revealed until > all of us are long dead. > > We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive > them from place to place until there is no refuge or no rest. As Mark said: > O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our > shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their > patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of > their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with > a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows > with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children > to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger > and thirst . . . > > And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism or, > this time, draft dodgers. Every nation in every region now has a decision to > make: Either serve our machine or be considered terrorists. > > Today, dozens of federal departments and agencies, as well as state and local > governments, have responsibilities affecting homeland security. > > These efforts must be coordinated at the highest level. So tonight, I > announce the creation of a Cabinet-level position reporting directly to me, I > call it the General Emergency Section Tracking Anti-American Populist > Opposition. > > These measures are essential. > > Many will be involved in this effort, from FBI agents, now free to employ > sleazier sleazebags as intelligence operatives, to the teams that are once > again authorized to assassinate the leaders of other nations. All deserve > our thanks, and all have our prayers. > > I ask your continued participation and confidence in the American economy as > it plunges toward the abyss. > > America is successful because of the hard work and creativity and enterprise > of people who frequently cannot afford a roof over their heads. These were > the true strengths of our economy before September 11. and they are our > strengths today. > > Tonight I thank my fellow Americans for what you have already done and for > what you are about to do without even being aware that you are doing it. > > And ladies and gentlemen of the Congress, I thank you, their representatives, > for what you have already done to help untangle us from the restrictions of > the Bill of Rights and granting me absolute power. > > We will come together to promote stability and keep our airlines flying with > direct assistance during this emergency. Ordinary people will have to fend > for themselves. > > We will come together to take active steps that strengthen America's economy > and put our people back to work, although first we will have to finish > turning them out into the cold, and that may take time. > > In all that lies before us, may God grant us wisdom and may he watch uniquely > over the United States of America, because we are the only country that truly > honors the separation of church and state. > > Thank you. > > ------------------------------------------------- > To subscribe, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international
