"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 bogeymen and incidents are
necessary to further the neoconservative agenda of world hegemony and
higher profits for the armaments industry."
Is the War on Terror a
Hoax?
by Paul Craig Roberts
In the past decade, Washington has killed, maimed, dislocated, and made
widows and orphans 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, 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 awaiting 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 pay for terrorists to blow up electric substations 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 antiwar 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 "worldwide terrorist
organization," Washington has come up with a new bogeyman – the
Haqqanis.
John Glaser reports that, according to 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 Haqqanis 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 bogeymen and incidents are necessary to further the neoconservative
agenda of world hegemony and higher profits for the armaments industry.
For ten years, the "superpower" American population has sat
there, being terrified by the government's lies. While Americans sit in
fear of nonexistent "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.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2011/09/30/is-the-war-on-terror-a-hoax/
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