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18.06.03, 18:23
The Time Has Come To Say It Out Loud
by John Gerassi
www.globalresearch.ca 17 June 2003
The URL of this article is: http://globalresearch.ca/articles/GER306A.html
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The time has come to say it out loud. Most of my academic colleagues say it
privately, but hedge in their classes. Many of my old buddies at Time and
Newsweek, where I was an editor for a decade, agree, but tell me they can
never say so in print. All my friends fear that if they spell it out the FBI
will arrest them in the middle of the night and they will
become "disappeared" like hundreds of innocent Moslems who are not even
charged with a crime. They know that Attorney General Ashcroft is itching to
use the proposed Patriots’ Act II, which will certainly become law after US
forces suffer casualties in Iraq, to deport native-born critics of the
Administration to Antarctica or bury them in solitary confinement in the
Arizona desert, as that law permits. But it is now time to say and act upon
the fact that the United States, as a state, is Fascist.
We all know, and the media certainly can list the proofs, that those in power
in Washington, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and his
deputy Wolfowitz, among others, plotted the current anti-Iraq policy years
ago. In 1992 they actually wrote it up in a letter to Bush I. Even Ted Koppel
read parts of that 96-page letter on Nightline the other day, proving that
Bush II’s War has nothing to do with 9/11 or al Qaeda or terrorism. In fact,
President Reagan removed Iraq from the list of states sponsoring terror back
in l982.
To those 1992 conspirators now making policy in the White House, adding up
with Bush II as the world’s new and dreaded Gang of Four, the goal was and is
control of the whole region. Not just to own the oil and gas, but also to
control their sale, in order to dictate which developing country the US will
help and which it will sink into desperate poverty. After Iraq, they want to
invade Iran. Then any other country, especially the oil-rich "...stans"
surrounding the Caspian Sea if they balk at US demands and where the US now
has bases.
No nation (certainly not Cuba) must be allowed to maintain an independent
course, say the Gang of Four. The world’s worst dictators (in Saudi Arabia,
Egypt, Kuwait, Turkey, Kazakhstan et al) are acceptable if they trade by
Washington’s rules. If not, a "regime change" is the next move. Bush II’s War
on Iraq is only the beginning. It’s part of what in polite circles is called
Globalization. In real terms it’s just plain Americanization.
Most Americans support Bush II and his Gang of Four. So did the Germans
support Hitler. He won over 60 percent of the vote in a fair election. He
repeated ad nausea that it was the others’ fault and the Germans believed
him. It was the Czechs who stole the Sudetenland, he said. Repeat it often,
Goebels advised him, and the world will believe it. And now, he would advise
Bush II, say over and over that Saddam gassed his own people in the village
of Halapja and the world will believe it, even if the CIA’s senior political
analyst on Iraq at the time, who had access to the classified investigation
of the incident, reported that it did not happen (NYT 10/31/03). The media
said it did, without proof, almost every day since Bush said it during his
State of the Union address. And again in his March 15 radio talk. Goebels
would have been proud.
Both the CIA and the FBI found no connection between Al Qaeda and Iraq. Bush
II said there was one. He offered no proof. So what. He repeated it so often
most Americans believe it. That’s like when daddy Bush said that Saddam was
going to attack Saudi Arabia after Kuwait. Totally absurd, and everyone in
the media knew it. Saddam may be a scumbag but he isn’t mad. But the media
repeated it so often most Americans, who don’t even know where Saudi Arabia
is, believed it.
To go against the Gang of Four is to be ostracized from Washington. The end
of a Journalism Career. Notice Bush II’s last press conference. Only those
reporters on his "goodie" list could ask him questions. Those who usually
pose tough questions were silenced. CBS’s veteran reporter-anchorman Dan
Rather admitted in a BBC interview on his way back from Iraq that even he was
intimidated by the Gang of Four: "It’s that fear that keeps journalists from
asking the toughest of the tough questions."
Who is really threatened by Saddam? Israel? Saddam knows very well that if he
attacks it Iraq will be permanently exterminated. The American people? How
absolutely ludicrous: his longest range missiles, which according to the UN
inspectors violated the 93 miles maximum by all of 30 miles, couldn’t even
reach the immense and oppressive US base on the Island of Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean. So why do Americans support a bloodthirsty liar whose bombs
kill children? Americans don’t even know that the UN does not sanction the
US/British bombing of Iraq’s self-defense guns.
The sanctions that the US did force the UN to adopt have already killed more
than half a million Iraqi children, as reported by the UN and Bill Moyers on
Public Television. But we know from the My Lai massacre that American
soldiers are trained to view children of enemies, even tiny babies, equally
as enemies, and kill them (raping the young girls first, of course).
What has happened to the US when murderers and liars run our affairs and
neither Congress nor ordinary Americans seem to care? Such Fascists as Elliot
Abrams, guilty of lying to Congress and pardoned by Bush I (NYT 12,/07/02),
member of the Israel lobby, now in charge of Palestine affairs at National
Security; John Negroponte, who as US ambassador to Honduras during the Contra
wars, helped Generals Alvarez, chief of Honduras’ Armed Forces, and Luis
Alonso Discua Elvir, head of Battalion 3-16, create the death squads
responsible for the torture and murder or hundreds of men and women,
including nuns opposed to the war, now US ambassador to the UN (LATimes
03/25/01; Sister Laetiti Bordes, s.h., 08/24/01); John Poindexter, former
vice admiral convicted of five felonies of lying to Congress and obstruction
of justice pardoned by Bush I, now in charge of the Pentagon’s electronic
surveillance system which plans to spy on all Americans’ banking, credit
card, and travel t! ransactions without a search warrant (NYT 11/10/02): Otto
J. Reich, a Cuba-born anti-Castro fanatic whose office engaged in prohibited
acts of propaganda (New Yorker, Oct. 14 & 21, 2002) and appears to want to
execute anyone saying one word in favor of the Cuban revolution, now boss of
all Latin American US diplomats; Gerald A Reynolds, a longtime foe of
Affirmative Action, in charge of Bush II’s Office of Civil Rights (NYT
06/27/01); Harvey L. Pitt, a corporate lawyer who has represented the
industries opposed to regulations by the SEC, to head the SEC; and on and on,
plus all the disgustingly anti-poor, pro-big business lawyers being nominated
by Bush II to judgeships around the country.
But by far the most dangerous fascist in Bush II’s government is the man in
charge of "justice", Attorney General John Ashcroft. A racist, fanatic
fundamentalist, opposed to the civil and bodily (abortion) liberties upheld
by the Constitution or the Supreme Court. Ashcroft is in favor of secret
arrests, secret detentions, secret trials without appeals, secret verdicts
and secret executions, all "odious to a democratic society" as Judge Arthur
N. D’Italia of New Jersey’s Superior Court said, when he ruled that secret
detention
