Fabricating an Excuse for War
by Ian Mosley
Almost every day lately there’s a new headline about how “Iran is making bombs for the Iraqi rebels.” The information is supplied by a White House spokesman or a source in the military, where truthful officers like General Shinseki are speedily punished. Excuse me, but isn’t this the same administration that lied about WMD’s day-after-day for months prior to the Iraq War? What exactly has changed that makes anything they say believable? For the last four years the Iraqis have been making roadside bombs out of thousands of artillery shells they looted from unguarded ammo dumps. (The ammo dumps were unguarded because we sent too few troops.) Despite this fact, we’re told that the rebels can no longer make improvised explosive devices on their own, but must import these from Iran. The mainstream press is failing miserably to do their job as journalists, Instead, they are willing accomplices helping the neocons pave the way for yet another war of aggression.
The latest war propaganda claim is that there are “Iranian agents” in Iraq. This combined with the “Iranian bomb” story is meant to fool most of us into going along with a brand new neocon war. According to a recent news article “Former National Security Advisor… Zbigniew Brzezinski tacitly warned a Senate Foreign Relations Committee last week that an attack on Iran could be launched following a staged provocation in Iraq or a false flag terror attack within the U.S. Brzezinski alluded to the potential for the Bush administration to manufacture a false flag Gulf of Tonkin type incident…” And Bush’s Big Oil buddies will cash in as crude oil prices shoot through the roof, possibly as high as $200 a barrel, and prices at the pump as high as $6 per gallon.
The same article continues “After Senators asked Brzezinski for clarification of exactly what he meant, the Polish-American political scientist referenced the infamous White House memo in which Bush and Blair discussed staging a provocation for an invasion of Iraq following the absence of weapons of mass destruction. Brzezinski cited how Bush described the several ways in which this could be done, but refused to elaborate, stating only, ‘the ways were quite sensational, at least one of them.’”
Like, for example, a sudden 911 style “terrorist” attack somewhere in the United States, to make us all snap to attention again and stop asking rude questions of Bush and his neocon friends? These people who rule us have no moral scruples at all about committing such an atrocity, and they are entirely capable of it. The neocons’ momentary nervousness about a Democratic Congress has clearly worn off; it is now obvious that the Democrats have spines of linguini. They have no intention of doing anything to stop Bush and his crew from running America off a cliff. This whole situation is insane. We can see it coming a mile off, and yet when it comes to actually doing something about Bush and Cheney and the neocons, we’re like a rabbit paralyzed before a snake.
Bush doesn’t care what the American people thinks. He has ignored the results of the 2006 elections. He proposed an INCREASE in troops after the American public clearly said “Get out!” There’s only one reasonable action left. Bush MUST BE IMPEACHED. We can’t ignore the 800lb gorilla any longer. We must do something about it. Some symbollic slap on the wrist will have no effect whatsoever on Bush or the neocons. These criminals are trying to push us into a war right now, and every day is a new chance for them to blow up a skyscraper or one of our Navy’s warships to fabricate an excuse.