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Cheney's Formula For Endless War and U.S. Empire

Comment by Larry Ross, October 18, 2005

The following speech by U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, (often described as the real President), supplies the ideological doctrine for waging endless war.

In the process, a corporate-fascist-military state will evolve out of what's left of the dwindling U.S. democracy. It will be done in the name of extending freedom and democracy. People expressing dissent and criticism will be suppressed and labelled 'terrorist sympathiser', like dissenters and critics were once labelled 'communist sympathiser'. As always most media will act mainly as pro-war propagandists and supporters. They will repeat the big lies as they did for the Iraq war and skirt or suppress the truth.

U.S. strategy is to create the 'so-called ' terrorist threat' which can then be used to justify targeting any nation the U.S. selects in its endless war on terror (GWOT). By attacking various countries, which they justify by lies, as in Iraq, the Bush Administration makes an endless supply of enemies. Bush and his neocons then label them as 'terrorists'. They blame neighbouring nations for helping these 'terrorists' and proceed with the next phase in the U.S. PNAC expansionist plan.

The neocon organisation, PNAC, now dominates the Bush Administration. They wrote, well before 9/11, that the U.S. needs "a new Pearl Harbour" to justify launching their plan for U.S. expansionism and empire.

The 9/11 attack in 2001, became the new 'Pearl Harbour' - the foundation stone used to justify the Iraq war. But Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, terrorism, Bin Laden, al-Qaeda, had no WMD or plans to attack the US and UK. The whole war was totally phoney from the beginning

Nevertheless the series of now exposed lies and false accusations, does not stop Bush and Tony Blair from waging a particularly brutal war and planning new wars against Iraq's neighbours - Iran and Syria - using similar techniques of false and specious accusations. Bush and Blair even threatened to use nuclear weapons to achieve what they knew were false and illegal objectives, if Iraq resisted with chemical weapons. That is a form of nuclear blackmail, as it could lead to global destruction. They threatened to start a process which could escalate and destroy the world if they don't get their way. It's a very, very dangerous game.

Bush even has an ideology - Christian Fundamentalism - which he uses to justify such crimes. He says he consults God and God approves of what he is doing. Bush is comforted by the Fundamentalist belief that promises he will be raptured directly to heaven if his 'just' wars escalate to a nuclear Armageddon. Responsibilities for the welfare of fellow Americans and others in the world, are not as important as what Bush claims is his duty to God. It is very like the medieval crusades - this time with nuclear weapons.

Millions and millions of fellow Americans believe him. With other right-wing Americans they voted him into a second term in 2004 - in spite of reports of election fraud the unfashionable weakness of Kerry'ys Democrats. This gives Bush four more years to implement PNAC's plans.

As the U.S. Military is fully extended in Iraq and in 120 other countries, Bush had the Pentagon design a nuclear attack plan to use on Iran. Bush, Blair, Howard, and others in the 'Coalition of the willing', will probably claim they had to use nuclear weapons (the enormous U.S. and UK military advantage), to defeat 'terrorist' Iran and perhaps other selected enemies. Most pro-war media propagandists will agree.

Cheney expounds on his global war on terror ideology as detailed in his speech and the following excellent analysis by Michel Chossudovsky.

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War without Borders: Continuous Warfare for Decades to Come

Dick Cheney's "Global War on Terrorism" (GWOT)

by Michel Chossudovsky, Global Research, October 8, 2005

Vice President Cheney in a recent speech to US military personnel has acknowledged that the war could go on for several decades. This statement, which reveals the Bush Administration's commitment to global warfare, was barely mentioned by the mainstream media.

We are dealing with a "military roadmap". Iraq and Afghanistan are at the outset of the Bush administration's military adventure.

Cheney warned that the US will be involved in war for decades to come:

Like other great duties in history, it will require decades of patient effort, and it will be resisted by those whose only hope for power is through the spread of violence.

War without Borders

What is referred to in military parlance as GWOT (The Global War on Terrorism) requires, according to Cheney, the deployment of US forces Worldwide in more than one hundred countries rather than in a select number of overseas military bases::

American soldiers are currently serving in 120 countries, and the Army remains an active, visible sign of America's commitments -- defending our interests, standing by our friends, keeping patient vigil against possible dangers, and, above all, directly engaging the enemies of the United States.

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