Naivete, or Bullsh*t? The big story on newstalk TV today is the book by Scott McClellan in which the former Press Secretary of the Bush White House expresses dismay at having been lied to about Iraq. Mr. McClellan is apparently, finally, duly ashamed of his doing the White House's lying for it for years, but it's more than a little late. Mr. McClellan used his likeability to make the preposterous things he said more acceptable to both the press corps and the general population. Could he really have been so stupid as to have believed the insane things he said in his official capacity, and be astonished now that he was fooled? I don't believe it.
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Mr. McClellan is one of those once-decent people who get caught up in indecent acts committed by the people around him, and have trouble separating themselves from the crowd they theretofore regarded as friends, allies, and people of like mind. But there are groups that it may make sense to join (Boy Scouts, Chamber of Commerce), but other groups it makes no sense to join (street gangs, the Mafia). Perhaps Mr. McClellan, influenced by his parents, friends, and neighbors, joined the Young Republicans before he knew what the world was about, and then found himself swept along by the euphoria of a Republican era into thinking that his party could achieve real change for the better in the Nation and the world. But how long could such euphoria have lasted? How long can you stand at the center of things and not realize that things are going terribly wrong?
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Worse, the TV pundits evaluating McClellan's words today continue to issue their own lies, and continue to pretend to believe that the Iraq War was waged for defensible reasons, this time having to do with "democratic imperialism", the desire to impose democracy, supposedly for everyone's good, in the Middle East. What a bunch of bullsh(asterisk).
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The war against Iraq was waged for one reason and one reason only: to defend Israel by destroying the nearest and greatest danger to it, the government of Saddam Hussein in charge in a rich oil state. That is all. Nothing else. No concern about Saddam's harboring terrorists with designs on the United States. No worry about Weapons of Mass Destruction, much less nukes. No concern that Saddam would develop not just nuclear weapons but the entire panoply of intercontinental missile technology, guidance systems, and launch infrastructure that would be necessary to reach the U.S. from 6,000 miles away. No worry that Saddam would use Al-Qaeda to infiltrate into the U.S. and set off a dirty bomb or full-scale nuclear explosive device. None of that. Nobody in the White House or any reputable thinktank, no matter how "conservative" (reactionary), could believe any of that.
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No, the war was fought, at Israeli order carried out by Israeli agents posing as Americans (Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and other "neocons", all Jewish and/or Radical Zionist), for one purpose and one purpose only: to destroy Iraq as a menace to Israel.
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It was not necessary to launch a full-scale attack upon the entire country if the object were to kill Saddam and his closest advisers. Not necessary to destroy power plants, TV and radio transmission towers and studios, electric generating stations, water and sewage treatment plants, schools, hospitals, roads, bridges, and on and on, if the object were merely to kill Saddam and the core of his government. No, the purpose of the war was to destroy Iraq and kill as many Iraqis as possible, immediately and in the months and years following, in order permanently to destroy Iraq's capability of attacking Israel. That is all.
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Once you understand that base mission, you understand that the Iraq War has been a phenomenal success. It has destroyed Iraq. It has killed huge numbers of Iraqis and continues to kill more every day. It has permanently weakened Iraq — at least as long as the U.S. continues to occupy Iraq. And that is why the U.S. is not permitted by its Israeli overlord to exit Iraq, because Israel understands that Iraq can be weakened only as long as the U.S. continues to occupy it. Once the U.S. exits, Iraqis might patch things up among its key groups, restore national unity, and make Iraq an important, rich, and powerful country once again — and thus, once again, a danger to Israel. Any remotely representative government of Iraq will be an enemy of Israel, so unless the United States manages to maintain in power a government not the slitest representative of the PEOPLE of Iraq, essentially all of whom are militantly anti-Zionist and would like Iraq to do its part in destroying Zionism., Iraq will revert to becoming a leader of the effort to destroy Israel.
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Now, what exactly does "destroy Israel" mean? John McCain has expressed concern about Iranian President Ahmadinajad's desire to 'wipe Israel off the map'. What does that  mean? Let us do that all-too-rare thing, for a minute: think. Consider today's maps, of the world and the U.S.
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Where, Mr. McCain, is British North America on today's map of the world? Anglo-Egyptian Sudan? French West Africa? the Kingdom of Hawaii? Belgian Congo? Zaire? Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands? Tanganyika? Gran Colombia? Soviet Union? Czechoslovakia? East Germany? Answer: nowhere. They have been wiped off the map.
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As regards the map of the United States, please point out to me Indian Territory, the Northwest Territory, the Virginia portion of the District of Columbia, the Oregon Territory, the Western Reserve. They too have all been wiped off the face of the Earth.
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But no one, much less millions, died to accomplish these changes. So wiping something off the map does not mean to kill everybody in that territory, does it? It means only ending the existence of a particular geopolitical unit, as by merger, division, renaming, or some other means. Yes, it can include massive death if people resist more moderate means, but it does not HAVE to.
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Israel was created by dividing Palestine. It can be eliminated by merging it back into Palestine, and giving everyone the same rights in all parts of the reunified territory, as happened when East Germany was wiped off the face of the Earth and merged with West Germany to form reunified Germany. So let's stop pretending that enemies of Zionism have a will to genocide. Many of us want only an end to tribalism and discrimination on the basis of race, religion, language, and ethnic identification, all of which forms of discrimination are in vicious effect in Israel. Segregation in Mississippi was relatively benign — after all, no Mississippi town ever built a fortified wall down Main Street to keep "the coloreds" in their place. But even Mississippi's relatively trivial discrimination had to be ended by outside intervention, in this case by the United States Government. The very same Government can end the hideous and violent segregation in Palestine, and grant equal rights to everyone. In that way might we achieve real peace in Palestine, and thus eliminate the burr under the Arab saddle that keeps the Middle East in turmoil. But no one in the U.S. Government will so much as mention such a solution, much less exert U.S. power to see it thru.
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John McCain may be the only Presidential candidate saying expressly, "I will not surrender in Iraq", but all the contenders, of both parties, pledge absolute, undying fealty to their Israeli overlord. Hillary Clinton goes so far as to threaten war against Iran, as McCain seems also to favor, to protect Israel from the NEXT threat: "Iraq 2, The Sequel". Both Clinton and McCain have implied that they would wage another pre-emptive war to protect Israel. Clinton has gone so far as to vow to launch a full-scale nuclear war against Iran to "obliterate" it — and thus, presumbably, kill a major portion of Iran's 66 million people, the greatest single crime in the history of the world — if the government of Iran launches a nuclear attack upon her beloved Israel.
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Fealty to Israel has replaced loyalty to the United States as the highest value in American politics at the highest levels, and the entire ruling class of the United States is now actively disloyal to the United States. Israel comes first. If we have to see the United States destroyed in a full-scale nuclear war to stand with Israel, everyone in the present ruling class in Washington will gladly push the button to launch World War III — for Israel.
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How might such a war start? Russia and Communist China, furious with the United States for many reasons, could make formal alliance with Iran and pledge that if the United States attacks Iran, both Russia and Communist China will launch simultaneous conventional attacks upon the United States. The cowboys — and cowgirls — of Washington, on orders from their Israeli masters, "call their bluff" and attack Iran anyway. Russia and China launch conventional-weapon attacks on U.S. bases in Germany, Korea, and Japan. The U.S. retaliates with cruise missile and smart-bomb attacks on targets within the Russian and Chinese homelands. Russia and China retaliate with attacks upon the U.S. homeland with intercontinental ballistic missiles, which the U.S. has to assume are carrying nuclear warheads, so responds with nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles — et voilà! WWIII.
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Such a war would kill a minimum of what? 30 million Iranians (in that not all the firepower we could focus on Iran if it were the only target could be so focused if we also had to launch simultaneous attacks upon Russia and Communist China, which together cover 10.3 million square miles, about 2.8 times as large as the U.S., including Alaska and Hawaii). The death toll in the United States could be on the order of 160 million Americans, as to so massively disrupt our civilization as effectively to end it. 100 million Russians could die, effectively ending their civilization. And 500 million Chinese could die, but that would probably NOT end their civilization, in that there would be 800 million Chinese left. All this for 6 million Jews who insist on being someplace they have no right nor reason to be, doing terrible things out of tribal arrogance and the feeling that as "God's Chosen People" they are entitled to do terrible things to anyone they want, for any reason they want, or even for sport, and no one has the right even to say a mean word, much less retaliate militarily.
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The fallout from thousands of nuclear explosions would, within weeks, rain down on most of the planet, and the dust thrown up might (or might not) produce a "nuclear winter", which could cause catastrophe not just for human populations far outside the immediate impact zone but also for animals and plants all over the globe. But that's a small price to pay for the safety of the Jews, or such of the Jews as survive an Iranian — and/or Russian and/or Chinese attack — isn't it? The Jews have the legend of The Flood, after all, in which their God drowned the world, killing kittens and puppies more than just evil people, and leaving only one Jewish family alive, so all this fits perfectly into their worldview. No big deal.
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Even if we somehow avoid World War III, despite everything that Radical Zionists are doing to produce it, even the current wars produced by Zionism are causing enormous dislocations and economic stresses on the U.S. and all other countries heavily influenced by distress in the U.S. The New York Times  reported yesterday that UBS (Union Bank of Switzerland) alone has lost $38 billion — billion with a B — because of the U.S. mortgage crisis, one indicator of how U.S. economic distress can affect major economic institutions thousands of miles distant.
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The Iraq War, with all its costs and ramifications thru many areas of the world's economics and politics, was fought for Israel, period. An attack upon Iran would be launched for Israel, period. A full-scale nuclear exchange prompted by a U.S. attack upon Iran would be for Israel, period. And all the costs of all these wars are directly and inescapably traced to Jews high in U.S. media and government.
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How do we pre-empt the next war for Israel, and its possible escalation into WWIII? Plainly the first step is cutting the crap about "democratic imperialism" and the continuing U.S. occupation of Iraq being FOR the people of Iraq, and accepting that malevolence toward Moslems in general and Iraq in particular is the sole motive for the U.S. invasion and continuing occupation — and then committing to force an end to that horrendous, ongoing crime by withdrawing from Iraq immediately, and making plain to the powers that be in Washington that we will not sit idly by if they attempt to attack Iran but will riot in the streets, attack the Capitol, storm the White House and hang everyone working to produce another calamity, which might easily escalate, thru miscalculation after miscalculation, into World War III.
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But surely, you might think, such multiple miscalculations could not really happen . Well, let's see.
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• 'Saddam has weapons of Mass Destruction, including a nuclear weapons program.'
• 'The people of Iraq will greet us as liberators, and shower our soldiers with flowers in gratitude.'
• 'The war will be over in six weeks.'
• 'Democracy is the cure for the problems of the Middle East' (so the election of Hamas in Gaza must have been an advance for peace, no?).
• 'Democracy in Iraq will produce a domino effect of democratization across the entire region.'
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No, we could never make even one major miscalculation in the Middle East, much less a chain of miscalculations as could produce World War III. Go back to the couch and watch TV.
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* Speaking of miscalculations, the "global warming" people have a lot of 'splainin to do. Northwestern New Jersey and adjoining New York State are under a FROST WARNING for tonite, May 28th. Frost. At the end of May. That is "global warming".
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(The current U.S. military death toll in Iraq, according to the website "Iraq Coalition Casualties", is 4,084 — for Israel.)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 8:06 PM