Preparing the US Public for a Terrorist Attack Comment by Larry Ross, July 31, 2007
Philip Giraldi is an ex-CIA analyst and intelligence officer. He recently warned that any terrorist attack on the US would be treated as having been masterminded by Iran, to provide Bush with justification to attack Iran. This will happen even if Iran had nothing to do with such an attack. With the stepping up of US Government propaganda about al-Qaeda and a terrorist threat to the US , it seems evermore likely that Paul Craig Roberts prediction will come true. That is that Bush will stage a 'false flag' attack on the US, blame Iran and use that as an excuse to attack Iran and establish a domestic US dictatorship, suppress doubt and dissent, declare martial law etc. From the bottom of the barrel of rotten apples, Bush will rise to the top as the new American hero leading his fearful, supporting people in the Great War on Terrorism. American people will likely believe his story as only a few American leaders are informing, educating, and warning the US people about this 'false flag' possibility and how Bush might try and use this and other deceitful plots to get their support for a new major war. All they have to do is check out all the lies he and others in his administration invented to gain their support for his war on Iraq. Does anyone seriously believe he would stop using the same kind of lies to justify new wars? Particularly when the huge lies he has already used are still so successful. No major media, Congress and only a handful of politicians expose his lies. So he has got away with his crimes and continues to get away with his wars funded by the US Congress. He could well conclude that more and bigger lies for new wars, boosted by 'false flags' will be even more effective.
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Terrorists Are Everywhere by Philip Giraldi, July 31, 2007
In an attempt to reverse plummeting approval ratings, the Bush administration is mounting an unprecedented, sustained campaign of disinformation on the terrorist threat confronting the United States. Even the mainstream media has noted how the White House has attempted falsely to tie al-Qaeda to the war in Iraq, with President Bush increasing the number of references to the group in speeches made during the month of July. On July 10, al-Qaeda was referred to 30 times in a Cleveland speech on the Iraq war. By July 25, the president referred to al-Qaeda no less than 95 times in a speech made before a group of airmen in Charleston, S.C. The frantic attempts to fearmonger by linking the failed venture in Iraq to the other failed venture dubbed the "global war on terror" is pathetic, even by the standards of an administration that cannot tell right from wrong and that cannot, apparently, differentiate one terrorist group from another. One of the most troublesome aspects of the Bush agenda is the conflation of a whole basket of groups with the terrorism menace even if they pose no actual danger to the U.S. Buying into the Bush rhetoric, even to a small degree, makes it impossible to classify and confront the genuine terrorists that actually threaten the United States. It makes a confused and unfocused America weaker rather than stronger. There should be no confusion about what constitutes the terrorist threat against the United States. There is only one terrorist group that is genuinely willing and able to attack the U.S., and that is al-Qaeda in Pakistan. Al-Qaeda in Pakistan has attacked the United States, has both the desire and capability to do so again, and has stated its intention to stage new attacks on a number of occasions. And the danger of even al-Qaeda in Pakistan should be put in some kind of perspective. The group is weaker than it was in 2001, having lost many of its leaders and funding mechanisms. It has decentralized and is largely dependent on unreliable local resources: witness the bungled planning and execution that went into the recent attempted attacks in Britain. There is no evidence whatsoever that al-Qaeda has anything like a weapon of mass destruction that could cause massive damage or fatalities, and there is no intelligence that suggests that al-Qaeda has any group or organization currently in place in the U.S. that might be capable of carrying out a major terrorist attack. Recent arrests of terrorism suspects in the United States suggest that while there are a number of disgruntled individuals who have made the transition into terrorism supporters, most of the groups have been infiltrated FBI informants and there would appear to be little danger that any of their frequently far-fetched plans might evolve into actual terrorist attacks. |
