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Destroying America to Save It
It's not only neocons who desperately need enemies, like Ahmadinejad, to succeed so that they'll have an excuse to bomb bomb bomb Iran, or any place they damn well please. It's also the paleocons and the concons (conspiracy conservatives), or whatever Michael Scheuer, former head of the CIA's bin Laden unit, could be called these days.
Hard to categorize and hard to completely dismiss, Scheuer is the thickly bearded guy who's been all over the media the last few years calling his cable hosts "Sir," speaking out against the Iraq war, and making the sensible case that one reason "they hate us" is because of our support of Israel--not unlike paleo Pat Buchanan. But Scheuer's getting so wigged-out lately (writing in his most recent book, Marching Toward Hell, that Americans are now in "a place worse than hell"), that he's been finding common ground with Fox News' brightest conspiracy star, Glenn Beck. On Beck's show the other night, the two got themselves into such a froth over lax security on the Mexican border that Scheuer let loose with this:
"The only chance we have as a country right now is for Osama bin Laden to deploy and detonate a major weapon in the United States."
Come again? "Only Osama can execute an attack which will force Americans to demand that their government will protect them effectively, consistently, andwith as much violence as necessary."
Beck bobblehead-nods his assent. This is the kind of doomsday scenario he's been predicting on his laughable "War Room" segment, in which Scheuer has served as one of the hysterics, saying that if "bubbas" take up arms against the government, "I don't think you want to defuse it."
Actually, Beck does have his standards when it comes to whackjob guests. Last week, he hustled Congresswoman Michele Bachmann off the air as soon as she likened the U.S. census to the U.S. internment of Japanese-American citizens during WWII. That was over the top for him, but Scheuer's bin Laden thesis, well, it's philosophically sound!
And to think that conservatives, of all stripes, took great offense when CIA director Leon Panetta said of Dick Cheney: "[I]t's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."
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Show AllDrunk on blood. Are they still allowed to drive? I guess so....
It's the law!!!
I guess it shows that I'm still mentally healthy that I just can't see where this guy is coming from. What on earth does he want? A populace that is so fearful and unbalanced that they will demand attacking the rest of the world "just in case"? THAT truly would be putting this country in hell.
How could anyone be so unbalanced and still be allowed out in society? I just don't get it. This guy is so clearly eaten up with fear and hatred that he has lost sight of life itself. He must be LOADS of fun to hang out with.
And people wonder why some of us want the righties locked up for their own safety as well as ours.
I smell another false flag op in the works . . .
♪We're bringing the war back home
♫Where it ought to have been before
♪We'll kill all the bees
♫And spiders and files
♪And we won't play in iceboxes lying on their sides
♫We'll wash our hands after wee-wee
♪And if we're a girl before
♫Then we'll march, march, march, etcetera
♪Till we don't have to march no more!♫
Hey, cool! How do you do the notes?
"The President of the United States IS named Schiklgruber."
No man has so many friends that he can afford to make enemies.
Am I the only one who misses PNAC?
PNAC, 2000: "Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor"
postPNAC, 2009: We need a new new Pearl Harbor "which will force Americans to demand that their government will protect them effectively, consistently, and with as much violence as necessary."
We've come a long way baby!
And is the implication that, sans a new new Pearl Harbor, Americans will demand that their government NOT protect them effectively and consistently? (Albeit w/as much as everything else besides violence as possible - with overwhelming death and destruction used only as a very last resort...)
And at last there will peace and order in the Empire......
Well, as disconcerting as this article is, I believe the title absolutely correct, this country will have to fail in order to actually and in reality WAKE the people up and SNAP the hold of the MSM to dissipate the fog created in their brains to reveal that most or all of this country is based on false pretenses most especially the economy and the current state of our government(s).
What to do about it is something else but is will most likely require either a revolt or a change to a more local type of society where food and water is handled and cared for by the locals because corporations are not going to be of any beneficial help except for themselves and their investors which is NOT OK when dealing with basic necessities of life such as water, food, shelter and security.
This clown looks more like Dr. Zaius every day!
The Empire needs enemies to enable it to keep Americans funding the military-industrial complex. If it can't find real enemies, it'll surely create them and the American sheeple will respond by getting further in debt as they fund the war industries.
The number of Americans who say U.S. should support Israel drops from 71% to 44% in one year.
This change is scaring the shit out of our gatekeepers. So out come the rag-head boogyman PR.
Israel, we have a Bush message for you. Bush gave it to us. Now we are giving it to YOU:
YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN.
Stop fucking with our politicians.
I had no idea that bin Laden was also behind Pearl Harbor, but it doesn't surprise me one bit.
Yup, and not only Pearl Harbor, but also the financial crises, AIDS, health care, etc....We know we have enemies everywhere.
I’ve posted this idea before but in direct relation to the above I think it is worth reminding people that if you calculated the death and destruction, injury and displacement that the good’ol USA, and its willing friends has handed out to Iraq and Afghanistan, not to mention Pakistan and Somalia since 9/11, the US would have to suffer the equivalent of a 9/11 attack once a week for the next 10 years just to be equal it in deaths alone.
Now I’m not saying that at the time Bin Laden was or was not on the pay roll of the CIA or some hidden consortium of NWO-Neocon-Oligarchs, or that he even new what was going on, but having seen how the event then facilitated so many long pre-planned but apparently spontaneous reactions, and just how convenient it all became for so many as detailed in the document “Collateral Damage: U.S. Covert Operations and the Terrorist Attacks on September 11, 2001” by EP Heidner, it has to make one think that the event was more like a pump primer to facilitate the starting of a long series of “blow back events” from all those people made to suffer in return.
There are serious doubts about the motivation, origin and organizations responsible for the attacks in London and Madrid, but those asides for the moment, given the sheer amount of killing and destruction heaped on the Arab world and how threatening a culture they are made out to be…. Is it not surprising that asides from the USA, and their cohorts in crime Israel not many groups have been apparently or effectively active in the business of mass “terror” (outside the areas of military action)?
I’m sure the “fighting them there so as not to fight them here” parlance only makes sense if you believe that names like “Al Qaeda in Iraq” has anything to do with the other events more than a name, and perhaps the wishful thinking of the Pentagon to relate events to the original pump primer. But I reckon a few dollars goes a long way to gather the right elements in the wrong places plus the right advertising of atrocity and torture is a whizz to help them recruit angry young volunteers. Even so, the international terrorists have been relatively quite, that is if they ever really existed in the first place outside the images portrayed by FOX or “24 Hours” as apposed to the real state terror organizations we already know about and their false flag primers.
I would not at all be surprised if the fear element has to be taken up a notch in the America. Personally one part of me was expecting something on this auspicious holiday, but maybe the powers that be are not quite ready to spring that one just yet, that one which will allow them to use their new and comprehensive array of emergency powers.
Excellent post.