Chomsky: Bush adminstration consciously increasing the threat of terror and making it impossible to carry out social policies

let's take it from the top... one more time... bushco's agenda has been abundantly clear for quite a while but, understandably, it's so appalling that a lot of folks just don't want to believe it...

NOAM CHOMSKY: Bush administration policies have, again, consciously been carried out in a way, which they know is likely to increase the threat of terror. The most obvious example is the Iraq invasion. That was undertaken with the anticipation that it would be very likely to increase the threat of terror and also nuclear proliferation. And, in fact, that's exactly what happened, according to the judgment of the CIA, National Intelligence Council, foreign intelligence agencies, independent specialists. They all point out that, yes, as anticipated, it increased the threat of terror. In fact, it did so in ways well beyond what was anticipated.

NOAM CHOMSKY: [T]hey have barely managed to hold on to political power and are attempting to use it to dismantle the institutional structure that has been built up over many years with enormous popular support -- the limited benefits system.The tax cuts, overwhelmingly for the rich, are purposely creating a future situation -- first of all, a kind of fiscal train wreck in the future -- but also a situation in which it will be virtually impossible to carry out the kinds of social policies that the public overwhelmingly supports.

• establish a climate of global chaos, violence and general unrest

• create and maintain a high level of fear in the u.s. and globally

• accumulate increasing levels of power in the executive, disregarding the balance of powers and checks and balances

• eliminate any implied or explicit social contract

• establish social controls through direct government interference and indirectly through alliances with extremist religious groups

• insure vast sums of money are flowing to those who are committed to staying in power

• exercise tight controls over the flow of information

any one of us could easily go through the above list, point by point, and fill in all of the tactics that have been utilized to accomplish each item... when the full realization of how we have been duped finally hits, it will blow our socks off, even those of us who have been paying attention... chomsky closes with this thought...

NOAM CHOMSKY: [T]he U.S. population is opposed [to what the Bush administration is doing], but is excluded from the political system. That's a democratic deficit. It's one we can deal with, too.

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