The fraudulence of the "War on Terror"

nothing we don't know already...

The fraudulence of the "War on Terror," however, is clearly revealed in the pattern of subsequent facts:

• In Afghanistan the state was overthrown instead of apprehending the terrorist. Offers by the Taliban to surrender Osama bin Laden were ignored, and he remains at large to this day.

• In Iraq, when the United States invaded, there were no al Qaeda terrorists at all.

• Both states have been supplied with puppet governments, and both are dotted with permanent U.S. military bases in strategic proximity to their hydrocarbon assets.

• The U.S. embassy nearing completion in Baghdad is comprised of 21 multistory buildings on 104 acres of land. It will house 5,500 diplomats, staff and families. It is ten times larger than any other U.S. embassy in the world, but we have yet to be told why.

• A 2006 National Intelligence Estimate shows the war in Iraq has exacerbated, not diminished, the threat of terrorism since 9/11. If the "War on Terror" is not a deception, it is a disastrously counterproductive failure.

• Today two American and two British oil companies are poised to claim immense profits from 81 percent of Iraq's undeveloped crude oil reserves. They cannot proceed, however, until the Iraqi Parliament enacts a statute known as the "hydrocarbon framework law."

• The features of postwar oil policy so heavily favoring the oil companies were crafted by the Bush administration State Department in 2002, a year before the invasion.

• Drafting of the law itself was begun during Paul Bremer's Coalition Provisional Authority, with the invited participation of a number of major oil companies. The law was written in English and translated into Arabic only when it was due for Iraqi approval.

• President Bush made passage of the hydrocarbon law a mandatory "benchmark" when he announced the troop surge in January of 2007.

but it never hurts to keep things like this exposed to the full light of day...

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The PNAC cheerleaders for death and destruction

i think it's important to keep track of those whose primary professional and career efforts have involved leading their country down a certain ideological path... it's clear from booman's much-appreciated research on these folks, namely the signatories to the pnac statement of principles, real accountability for the horrors they've been the cheerleaders for has yet to be felt...

• Elliott Abrams- Deputy National Security Advisor.

• Gary Bauer- current president of the conservative American Values organization.

• William J. Bennett- May have a gig with CNN as a bloviator, and is riding high on the Air Force reading list. God help us.

• Jeb Bush- Stole election for brother, served two terms as Governor of Florida, and currently serving on the board of Tenet Healthcare Corp.

• Dick Cheney- Vice-President of the United States.

• Eliot A. Cohen- US State Department Counselor, currently hopnobbing in places like Pakistan.

• Midge Decter- When she isn't partying with Conrad Black she is busy being the wife of Norman Podhoretz and mother of John Podhoretz.

• Paula Dobriansky- Under Secretary of State for Democracy and Global Affairs.

• Steve Forbes- offering Republican presidential contenders advice.

• Aaron Friedberg- Teaching at Princeton University and writing editorials for the LA Times.

• Francis Fukuyama- repenting. Sort of.

• Frank Gaffney- Doing weird shit as Center for Security Policy president.

• Fred C. Ikle- apologizing for his friend and protege Paul Wolfowitz's behavior.

• Donald Kagan- Sterling Professor of Classics and History at Yale University. His son, Fred, is the author of The Surge.

• Zalmay Khalilzad- U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. He has already served as ambassador to Afghanistan and to Iraq.

• I. Lewis Libby- awaiting sentencing for perjury, making false statements, and obstruction of justice.

• Norman Podhoretz- getting awards from Scooter Libby fans and making the case for bombing Iran.

• Dan Quayle- he's still alive? Well, yes. He's chairman of global investments for Cerberus Capital Management and he's working on that Chrysler deal.

• Peter W. Rodman- recently left as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs to take a job at the Brookings Institute.

• Stephen P. Rosen- the Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and Military Affairs at Harvard University.

• Henry S. Rowen- appointed on February 12, 2004, by President George W. Bush to be one of the "final two members of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction." He's also a member of the Department of Defense's Defense Policy Board.

• Donald Rumsfeld- the less said the better. He was fired as Secretary of Defense.

• Vin Weber- serving as chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, nonprofit organization designed to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. He's serving as Mitt Romney's policy chairman.

• George Weigel- trying to convince Catholics that the Iraq War is just.

• Paul Wolfowitz- shit-canned from the World Bank.

in a just world, which is, hopefully, somewhere around the corner, they will be confronted with the consequences of their beliefs and the actions they took to make them reality...

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