Lies, More Lies and Damn Lies Comment by Larry Ross, July 18, 2007
This article describes how the increased conditioning of gullible Americans about the alleged 'terrorist threat' makes them support the Republicans they believe will better protect them. It also prepares the ground for a real US-staged 'false flag' attack on the US, which the Bush regime might arrange to justify their much-heralded war on Iran. That most Americans are dangerously misinformed and gullible is revealed by recent polls that found that 60% of the American public and 90% of US troops in Iraq and Afghanistan believe Saddam Hussein colluded with bin Laden to launch the alleged 9/11 attacks on US. This shows that long after this lie was repeatedly exposed it is still believed by a majority and continues to do its deadly work. Americans are also being conditioned to hate and fear Iran and its alleged nuclear threat with the same kind of lies the Bush neocon regime used to justify the attack on Iraq in 2003. Given the success of the lie technique on Americans, and co-operation of the US mass media, the Bush regime may not feel they need to launch a false flag to convince Americans to support a new war. The lies accuse Iran of arming and directing some of the resistance in Iraq and killing US troops. This is a serious charge, as the US media and average American believe that the US and the Bush Administration has some kind of divine right to be in Iraq, bombing, imprisoning, torturing and killing over 655,000 Iraqis. No questions about that. Therefore they believe the US has the right to make war on Iran. A US media war-propaganda blitz will help convince them of the rightness of such a decision. As the neocons sneeringly say: "It's a cakewalk." The big lie technique, re-enforced by the corrupted and ever-willing media and army of right wing political commentators might be enough. However I believe the Bush regime has many other reasons for staging a false flag, and that they will use this tactic. One major reason is Bush's so-called 'National Intelligence Estimate' that predicts 'terrorist' attacks on the US. Other reasons are that the level of public support for war would be much greater if they are confronted with an a staged 'false flag' terrorist attack on Americans in America. The shock, fear and horror, would greatly increase Bush's popularity ratings and increase votes for the Republicans in the next election. It would make it easy for Bush to gain Congressional approval for new dictatorial legislation, suppression of dissent and access to the US Treasury, as well as killing millions by using nuclear weapons against Iran. There is one way to abort this ongoing process from ending in colossal disasters. That is: Do-It-Yourself Impeachment and helping those few Americans and groups working for the collective survival of humanity.
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Lies, More Lies and Damn Lies by Eric Margolis, July 17, 2007
As Americans turn increasingly against President George Bush's calamitous war in Iraq, and revolt spreads through Republican ranks, the White House is again resorting to its tried-and-true ploy of fanning grossly inflated fears of terrorism. The president just made two preposterous claims last week that insult the intelligence of his listeners. First, Bush insisted US forces in Iraq are fighting "the same people who staged 9/11." Second, withdrawing US forces from Iraq, as the Democratic-controlled Congress is urging, means "surrendering Iraq to al-Qaida." These canards mark the latest steps in the Bush administration's evolving efforts to mislead Americans into believing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are all part of a global fight against al-Qaida. When marketers want to change the name of an existing product, they first place a new name in small type below the existing one. They gradually shrink the old name, and enlarge the new one until the original name vanishes. That's what's been happening in Iraq. When the US invaded, Iraqis who resisted were initially branded "Saddam loyalists," "die-hard Ba'athists," or, in Don Rumsfeld's colorful terminology, "dead-enders." Next, the Pentagon and US media called the Iraqi resistance, "terrorists" or "insurgents." The reason for invading Iraq, the White House insisted, was all about removing the tyrant Saddam, seizing weapons of mass destruction, defending humans rights and implanting democracy. Then, a tiny, previously unknown Iraqi group that had nothing to do with Osama bin Laden appropriated the name, "al-Qaida in Mesopotamia." This was such a breathtakingly convenient gift to the Bush Administration, many cynics suspected a false-flag operation created by CIA and Britain's wily MI6. Soon after, the White House and Pentagon began calling most of Iraq's 22 plus resistance groups, "al-Qaida." |
