FPF-Fwd. Paul C. Roberts - Bush must go

When are the American people and their representatives in Congress and the military going to wake up and realize that the US has an insane war criminal in the White House who is destroying all chances for peace in the world and establishing a police state in the US?

NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN

BUSH MUST GO

Only Impeachment Can Stop Him

By Paul Craig Roberts*

01/15/07 "Information Clearing House" - Americans don’t have much time to realize this and to act before it is too late. Bush’s “surge” speech last Wednesday night makes it completely clear that his real purpose is to start wars with Iran and Syria before failure in Iraq brings an end to the neoconservative/Israeli plan to establish hegemony over the Middle East.

The “surge” gives Congress, the media, and the foreign policy establishment something to debate and oppose, while Bush sets his plans in motion to orchestrate a war with Iran. Suddenly, we are hearing Bush regime propaganda that there are Iranian networks operating within Iraq that are working with the Iraqi insurgency and killing US troops.

This assertion is a lie and preposterous on its face. Iranian Shi’ites are not going to arm Iraqi Sunnis, who are more focused on killing Iraqi Shi’ites allied with Iran than on killing US troops. If the Iranians wanted to cause the US trouble in Iraq, they would encourage Iraqi Shi’ites to join the insurgency against US forces. An insurgency drawn from 80% of the Iraqi population would overwhelm the US forces.

CBS reports that the news organization has been told by US officials “that American forces have begun an aggressive and mostly secret ground campaign against networks of Iranians that had been operating with virtual impunity inside Iraq.” To manufacture evidence in behalf of this lie to feed to the gullible American public, US forces invaded an Iranian consulate in northern Iraq and kidnapped 5 consulate officials, claiming the Iranians were part of plans “to kill Americans.” In typical Orwellian fashion, Secretary of State Condi Rice described Bush’s aggression against Iran as designed to confront Tehran’s aggression.

REFUSED TO GO ALONG WITH BUSH’S PROPAGANDA PLOY

Iraqi government officials in the Kurdish province and the Iraqi foreign minister have refused to go along with Bush’s propaganda ploy. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari announced that the Iranian officials were no threat and were working in a liaison office that had Iraqi government approval and was in the process of being elevated into a consulate.

The Iraqi foreign minister said that US troops tried to seize more innocent people at the Irbil airport but were prevented by Kurdish troops.

The Kurds, of course, have been allies of the US forces, but Bush is willing to alienate the Kurds in the interest of provoking a war with Iran.

If Bush is unable to orchestrate war with Iran directly, he will orchestrate war indirectly by having US troops attack Iraqi Shi’ite militias. Bush has already given orders for US troops to attack the Iraqi Shi’ite militias, who oppose the Sunnis and have not been part of the insurgency. Obviously, once Bush can get US troops in open warfare with Iraqi Shi’ites, the situation for US troops in Iraq will quickly go down hill. Bush will be able to blame Iranian Shi’ites for arming Iraqi Shi’ites that he can say are killing US troops.

Bush has also ordered the Persian Gulf to be congested with TWO US aircraft carrier attack groups. There is no military or diplomatic reason for even one attack group to be in the Persian Gulf. If Bush fails to orchestrate a war with Iran by kidnapping its officials or by attacking Shi’ite militias, he can orchestrate an event like the Tonkin Gulf incident or have the Israelis pull another USS Liberty incident and blame the Iranians.

The Tonkin Gulf incident was used by the Johnson administration to deceive Congress and to involve the US in the Vietnam war. Johnson alleged a North Vietnamese attack on US warships.

In 1967 Israel attacked and destroyed the US intelligence ship Liberty, because Liberty’s crew had picked up proof that Israel had initiated the war with Egypt and intended to attack Syria the next day (http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/margolis12.html).

SOME HAVE SPECULATED THAT ISRAELIS HOPED THEIR ATTACK ON THE LIBERTY COULD BE BLAMED ON EGYPT AND USED TO DRAW THE US INTO THE WAR AGAINST EGYPT.

In 2003 the Moorer Commission [see http://www.ussliberty.org/report/report.pdf and http://www.ussliberty.org/moorerfindings.htm], headed by Admiral Tom Moorer, former Chief of Naval Operations and former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, concluded:

“That in attacking the USS Liberty, Israel committed acts of murder against American servicemen and an act of war against the United States.”

“That fearing conflict with Israel, the White House deliberately prevented the U.S. Navy from coming to the defense of USS Liberty.”

“the Captain and surviving crew members were later threatened with court-martial, imprisonment or worse if they exposed the truth; and were abandoned by their own government.”

“That due to the influence of Israel’s powerful supporters in the United States, the White House deliberately covered up the facts of this attack from the American people.”

“That a danger to our national security exists whenever our elected officials are willing to subordinate American interests to those of any foreign nation, and specifically are unwilling to challenge Israel’s interests when they conflict with American interests.”

On the 30th anniversary of Israel’s destruction of the liberty, Admiral Moorer said that Israel attacked the Liberty because Israel knew that the intelligence ship could intercept Israel’s plans to seize the Golan Heights from Syria, an act of Israeli aggression to which the US government was opposed. Admiral Moorer said, “I believe Moshe Dayan concluded that he could prevent Washington from becoming aware of what Israel was up to by destroying the primary source of acquiring that information--the US Liberty.

MACHINE GUNS ALSO WERE TURNED ON LIFE RAFTS

Moorer reports that after a 25 minute air attack “that pounded the Liberty with bombs, rockets, napalm and machine gun fire . . . three Israeli torpedo boats closed in for the kill . . . the torpedo boats’ machine guns also were turned on life rafts that were deployed into the Mediterranean as well as those few on deck that had escaped damage.”

Admiral Moorer says, “What is so chilling and cold-blooded, of course, is that they [Israel] could kill as many Americans as they did in confidence that Washington would cooperate in quelling any public outcry.” [see http://www.ussliberty.org/moorer3.htm]

The US invasion of Iraq and the looming US attack on Iran are proof that Israel has even more power over the White House today.

Bush has many ways to widen his war in the Middle East. His brutal aggression against Somalia has largely escaped criticism for the war crime that it is. On January 11 the US National Intelligence Director told Congress that Hezbollah in Lebanon may be the next US threat. Just as he lied to the entire world about Saddam Hussein and Iraq, Bush is lying about Iran. Bush and the neoconservatives are frantic for war with Iran to get underway before the US Congress forces a US withdrawal from the failed adventure in Iraq.

BUSH’S ENTIRE “WAR ON TERROR” IS BASED ON LIES.

The Bush Regime, desperate to keep its lies covered up, is now trying to prevent American law firms from defending the Guantanamo detainees. The Bush Regime is fearful that Americans will learn that the detainees are not terrorists but props in the regime’s orchestrated “terror war.”

On January 13 the New York Times (editorial) said that “Cully Stimson, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs, tried to rally American corporations to stop doing business with law firms that represent inmates of the Guantanamo internment camp.” Stimson alleged that it was “shocking” that American law firms were “representing detainees down there.” He suggested that when corporate America got word of if, “those C.E.O.’s are going to make those law firms choose between representing terrorists or representing reputable firms. We want to watch that play out.”

The only reason for the Bush Regime’s policy of indefinite detention without charges is that it has no charges to bring. The detainees are not terrorists. They are the Bush Regime’s props in a fake war that serves as cover for the Regime’s hegemonic policy in the Middle East.

The only action that can stop Bush is for both the Democratic and Republican leadership of the House and Senate to call on the White House, tell Bush they know what he is up to and that they will not fall for it a second time. The congressional leadership must tell Bush that if he does not immediately desist, he will be impeached and convicted before the week is out.

CAN A CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP THAT LIVES IN FEAR OF THE ISRAEL LOBBY PERFORM THIS TASK?

All the rest is penny-ante. Revoking the Iraqi War Resolution as Rep. Sam Farr has proposed or requiring Bush to obtain congressional authorization prior to any US attack on Iran simply lets Bush and his Federalist Society apologists for executive dictatorship claim he has commander-in-chief powers and proceed with his planned aggression. Cutting off funding is not itself enough as Bush can raid other budgets. Non-binding resolutions of disapproval are meaningless to a president who doesn’t care what anyone else thinks.

Nothing can stop the criminal Bush from instituting wider war in the Middle East that could become a catastrophic world war except an unequivocal statement from Congress that he will be impeached.

Bush has made the US into a colony of Israel. The US is incurring massive debt and loss of both life and reputation in order to silence Muslim opposition to Israel’s theft of Palestine and the Golan Heights. That is what the “war on terror” is about.

PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Paul Craig Roberts is an economist and a nationally syndicated columnist for Creators Syndicate. He served as an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan Administration. He is a former editor and columnist for the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Scripps Howard News Service. He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology and he holds a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

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RELATED REFERENCES & LINKS:

* "Sarah, if the American people had ever known the truth about what we Bushes have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - George Bush Senior speaking in an interview with Sarah McClendon in December 1992. - And here's why: 'George Bush: The Unauthorized Biography' - by Webster G. Tarpley & Anton Chaitkin - Chapter - II - The Hitler Project - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/57qxk

* FOX: Video 49 min. - The example how viewers are brainwashed and 'outfoxed' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/b2zzl

* Google search "Biggest threat to world peace" - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/dk2lj

* MSNBC - Live Vote: Do you believe President Bush's actions justify impeachment? - Url.: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10562904/

* "People do not forget. They do not forget the death of their fellows, they do not forget torture and mutilation, they do not forget injustice, they do not forget oppression, they do not forget the terrorism of mighty powers. They not only don't forget: they also strike back." - 2005 Nobel Literature Prize winner Harold Pinter - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/9cyeq

* The Nuremberg principles: "Any person who commits an act which constitutes a crime under international law is responsible therefor and liable to punishment." - Url.:  http://tinyurl.com/byurp

* 'The war in Iraq is illegal' - BBC: video & text-interview of the United Nation's Secretary General Kofi Annan - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5pl2v

* 'Spreading democracy' - Countries & US Death Squads - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/drnca - A 55' second sound bite concerning the US 'bringing democracy' everywhere - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/5u98v

* HOME MADE US TERROR: Al Qaeda – The Database - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/cqx69

* Who's financing? - The 'Federal Reserve' and it's usurers is the absolute biggest crime against all humanity ever. - Url.: http://www.apfn.org/apfn/reserve.htm

* 'Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one' — A.J. Liebling - The merciless engine of propaganda has been turned on: The infamous US 'Lie Factory' - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/8ncal

* The Dutch author this far has lived and worked abroad - never in an English speaking country - for more than 4 decades for international media as an independent foreign correspondent, of which 10 years - also during Gulf War I - in the Arab World and the Middle East. Seeing worldwide that every bullet and every bomb breeds more terrorism!

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FPF-fwd. Jim Kirwan - When 'The System' Fails!

"The citizens of that state will be unable to have any dealings with the federal government because their ID will not be accepted. They will not be able to fly or to take a train. In essence, in the eyes of the federal government they will cease to exist. It is absurd to call this voluntary." US Congressman Ron Paul.

WHEN 'THE SYSTEM' FAILS!

by Jim Kirwan

Jan. 16th - 2007 - Six long years have produced too many anniversaries that mark too many crimes against the rules of law, against whatever remains of human justice, and against all that once represented civilized behavior. Guantanemo Bay just passed its five year anniversary that celebrates mindless brutality and torture wherein no person has been charged with any crime-yet the Decider has decided that he is now the sole director for all political power in this country and the world.

The role of Commander-in-Chief is a sub-text for the office of the presidency of the United States - during a time of war. It cannot be isolated to serve as the licensing authority for a Dictator who no longer answers to the Congress or to the people that the congress supposedly represents. The Decider does not have the mental or physical capacity to be an all-knowing leader of anything at all, much less so when he becomes just another belligerent Outlaw-claiming the right to use the wealth and power of the United States as his private weapons against the people of the USA and the world.

Congress has the sole power to make war according to the Constitution. The office of the president within the administrative branch, serves ONLY to carry out that function within the laws of the United States. Contrary to what Cheney says: There are no other legal courses of action available to the self-appointed Decider-because while Bush may currently be 'the president'-his job is to enforce only the legal dictates of the congress of the United States. That function Bush has perverted to serve his supporters-at the expense of every legality-to use the resources and the wealth of this country for illegal and obscene acts of treason while trying to crush this nation and imprison at least a third of the rest of the world in the process.

MUTINY BY THE CHENEY-BUSH LEADERSHIP AGAINST THE PEOPLE

Congress is searching for something that will allow them to resolve this nightmare without taking any chances. This mutiny by the Cheney-Bush leadership against the people of this country must be faced-either now or in the very near future. Congress is hunting for legislative ways to block the Decider from doing what he's decided to do-but there is no easy way to stop these Outlaws-they must be impeached. The General Accounting Office has found that nine billion dollars of the money appropriated under Iraqi secret no-bid contracts, has "disappeared." This alone is enough to remove Cheney (as his companies were the major recipients of those funds), from his duties while an intensive Congressional investigation goes forward (1).

There is legal-prescident for such actions because Vice-President Spiro Agnew, a much smaller criminal in the Nixon administration, was forced from office on much less serious charges. Congress needs to stop making "gestures" and begin to ACT like the authority that they are. The Constitution is very clear about how out-of-control government officials, especially presidents, must be removed: and we are out-of-time! There is no way that congress can continue to 'play-it-safe' if there is to be a country after this constitutional standoff-which can only happen if Congress and the Supreme Court own up to what they contributed to enable 'The Decider' to become who he says he is today!

None of this would be happening if the congress had not illegally given their powers to the executive, when they gave the Decider his License-to-Kill. This could also have been prevented if the Congress had ruled on the intervention of the US Supreme Court when they virtually appointed Bush on 12-12-2000. But that's history and the nation cannot 'move-forward' until these illegalities have been rectified. Congress must declare the Commander-in-Chief's recent decision to send more troops to Iraq as a violation of the will of the people of the United States at whose pleasure both he and congress serve! There must be a congressional vote on the War in Iraq, a binding censor on the decider's mutiny - after which the money needed to continue the illegal wars of conquest would be legally withheld, thus allowing the troops to return home.

THE DECIDER WANTS TO WIDEN THE AREAS OF CONFLICT

As for a plan that offers "another way" such as Cheney is demanding in lieu of altering the course of the War-on-Iraq, Cheney and the Congress might want to consider this. In a sane world, where all our allies are leaving us alone to fight the War-on-Iraq, and where the entire region of the Middle-East is now virtually on the edge of a massive melt-down-this nation should be proposing a Regional Summit-Conference to end the violence and re-establish international law. That suggestion must be accompanied by an American withdrawal from Iraq, to assure the participants that we are serious. Instead the Decider wants to widen the areas of conflict to insure that WAR becomes the only answer for every dispute. Under Cheney-Bush there can be no "way-forward" that does not call for ever-wider wars on yet more countries where all our plans for other people are still unacceptable. By every measure the path selected in Iraq, by the Decider and his thugs, is WRONG!

However there is also a home-front battle against the public, being waged by the newly Democratic majority who just passed the National I.D. Card Act - something which the government says is voluntary, but which is something that can only be understood as extorting compliance to a travesty of freedom - played out against a backdrop of special privilege vs. being cut-off from the natural rights of citizenship - in the name of National Security!

"The National ID is of paramount concern to those of us who refuse to be tagged and numbered like animals. Many do not want to comply, but don't know what to do as an individual. First, this national identification is voluntary, not mandatory for the individual. However, the sinister and devious minions behind the scenes who write this legislation for our corrupt Congress added some provisions they hope will force Americans to surrender, i.e. you won't be able to fly on commercial planes, ride on Amtrak or enter a federal building. You see, these areas are under the control of the federal fist and they are counting on enough Americans who don't know what this new law says, will simply comply in order to hop on a plane or train to see grandma or for a business requirement:

"Supporters claim it is not a national ID because it is voluntary. However, any state that opts out will automatically make non-persons out of its citizens. The citizens of that state will be unable to have any dealings with the federal government because their ID will not be accepted. They will not be able to fly or to take a train. In essence, in the eyes of the federal government they will cease to exist. It is absurd to call this voluntary." Congressman Ron Paul on HR 418 "
THIS IS A METAPHORICAL GUN-TO-THE-HEAD FOR ANYONE UNWILLING TO ACCEDE TO THE PARANOIA OF HOMELAND IN-SECURITY AND ALL ITS ATTENDANT THUGERY (2).

The key to dissolving these kinds of cages into which the public is being driven, by this Outlaw-government, is to expose the events of 911 for what they actually were-the most massive civil crime against the nation, carried out by those who have profited most directly from every implication that has followed from that event.* Still there is no real intent by the new congress to attempt to investigate the truth of 911 - because the truth would shatter this bubble of fear which the Outlaws have been steadily constructing since that dark September morning back in 2001.

Add to this the formation of the NAU (North American Union), and its founding documents along with the Council on Foreign Relations. This unification of Mexico, the US and Canada is well along on its way to becoming an actual fact. This program is not secret-yet the media continues to withhold all information about the pending dissolution of this country or the formation of the NAU (3).

'Supporting-the-Troops' is a callous excuse to continue the war, when what is needed is something to insure that this nation does not continue to slaughter people without due cause (4). No one asked the USA to police-the-world, but like the death toll between the two Bush-league-presidents, father & son together have slaughtered or starved twelve million Iraqi's since 1991. Because under US intelligence and black-ops directives, ninety percent of the crimes committed by Saddam Hussein must also be added to this total number of people killed for no reason except for the political intrigues of the few that are determined to 'own the Middle-East' and all its resources.

DICTATORSHIP BY AN OUT-OF-CONTROL AND UNSOUND MIND, WITH MEGA-SERIOUS-CRIMINAL INTENT!

The title of Commander-in-Chief gets its authority, directly from the Constitution, but to be legal the office of the presidency must conform throughout to the desires of the people and the congress of the United States-because to do what the Decider is now doing-amounts to a unilaterally declared Dictatorship by an out-of-control and unsound mind, with mega-serious-criminal intent! Congress did not intend to create a Dictator it only intended to facilitate a war that we now know was based solely on lies from its inception to the present moment. This is yet another crime of treason against the country and against the millions of people whose lives this administration has so carelessly destroyed-including Americans!

It should be noted that it took Cheney-Bush about two months to come up with this latest insult to the intelligence of the world. If this "way-forward" was so important why did it take our national poster-boy for personal incompetence two full months to decide to go against every other considered course of action? Why did his address to the public include threatening Iran and Syria as well as Lebanon and Palestine instead of finding real ways to end the war? The US elections were about ending the war, and finding new directions in Iraq. However the Decider told the world, in his distorted form of speech, that everyone else was wrong and that he would be going forward - 'Staying the Course,' with additional troops, instead of seeking any other way to begin to change anything about his course in the region. In other words he basically told the world that he, George W. Bush is now officially the first self-declared dictator of the USA.

DICTATORS HAVE A NOTORIOUSLY SHORT LIFETIME


If congress will not act forcefully and very soon to stop this insanity-then we shall all shortly become far more deeply immersed in that 'unending war' that Cheney-Bush seem so to be so fondly starting, once again! Dictators have a notoriously short lifetime in this world-just as do thoroughly corrupt politicians when as public servants they are caught in the public spotlight of corruption. Americans need to resist the current mutiny coming from the Oval Office just as we need to reject the National I.D. Card Act. Moreover, Congress needs to stop wasting the public's time and do the hard things NOW!


JIM KIRWAN


Kirwan's home page - Url.: http://www.kirwanesque.com/

Email: kirwanstudios@sbcglobal.net

1) US lost track of nine billion for Iraq's reconstruction - Url.: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1332676/posts

2) The National I.D. Card - Url.: http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd242

3) Pretext for the North American Union - Url.: http://prisonplanet.com:80/articles/january2007/110107pretext.htm

4) Garrison Keillor - Time for the father to have a chat with the son - Url.: http://www.smirkingchimp.com/node/4429/print

Fwd. by FPF + links:

Good story on the dangers of US ID slavery, and the situation - especially here in Europe - is not funny at all if you look at it - Url.: http://www.salars.net/wordpress/2006/12/20/electronic-control-is-slave-trade/#more-130

* PREMONITIONS TEND TO OCCUR BEFORE DISASTERS AND DEATHS. - GEORGE W. BUSH: "IF THIS WERE A DICTATORSHIP, IT'D BE A HECK OF A LOT EASIER, JUST AS LONG AS I'M THE DICTATOR." - (Easier for whom?) - December 18, 2000 - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/v2yo6

* DICTATOR: FRONT-MAN 'BUSHOLINI' IN THE US - A malignant ruler with absolute power and authority, especially one who exercises this power and authority tyrannically. In Bush' case after an illegitimate seizure of power through vote fraud etc. - Chaplin picture: world hegemony - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yltgbz

* HOMELAND SECURITY? FOR WHOM? - Double nationality Secretary Michael Chertoff's lawless Gestapos roam and try to control the US populace, including the terrorizing of us in the US junta's colonies and fiefdoms. - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/yaow2r

* R.I.P. HABEAS CORPUS & POWERLESS JUDGES - ARE WE ENTERING AMERICA'S DARKEST HOUR? - Url.: http://www.cemab.be/news/2006/10/2015.php

* PENTAGON THREATENED TO KILL JOURNALISTS - FPF/HR - Granma - Url.: http://tinyurl.com/bkzum

* THE AMERICAN CONFESSION MACHINE - Your bicycle is a four cilinder, isn't it? - A 50.000 Volt 'stun belt' will make anybody 'confess' anything - Url.: tinyurl.com/lznn2

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