The
Real Terror Network
By William Bowles
Information
Clearing House
6 May, 2003
George Bush has appointed
Paul Bremer as the civil administrator of Iraq in what the
Independent calls "a victory for Colin Powell
in the running
skirmishes with Mr Rumsfelds Pentagon
".
Victory? For who? As per
usual, the Independent would have us believe that theres some
kind of battle between the moderates represented by Colin
Powell and the neo-cons represented by Donald Rumsfeld,
so I did a little researching on Paul Bremer and far from being a moderate,
hes part and parcel of the same pack of conservative wolves that
run the Pentagon, the State Department, the CIA, the FBI, the NSA and
of course, the Department of Homeland Security.
Read on
Bremer and the terror
business
Bremer is managing director
and senior advisor for Political and Emerging Risks for MMC Enterprise
Risk, part of Marsh McLennan Companies (MMC), which puts the frighteners
on businesses about their exposure to political and other risks and
which earns MMC annual revenues of $5.9 billion. Now heres a man
(and a company) that has a vested interest in terror and
does quite well out of it thank you (shades of Halliburton Inc.). Not
surprisingly, Marsh offers its clients its own version of a Homeland
Security package complete with various threat levels.
What Bremer thinks of
Iraqis
Bremer served as ambassador-at-large
for counterterrorism in the Reagan administration from 1986 to 1989
and was managing director of Kissinger Associates. Perhaps a couple
of quotes from the new civilian administrator of Iraq will
give you an idea of what Bremer thinks of Iraqis (and what they can
expect from him),
"And I think the general
attitude in our [the Reagan] government was to let the Iraqis kill the
Iranians. That seemed like a pretty good way to deal with the problem
[of the Iraq-Iranian War]."
Interview with PBS Frontline
"We're going to be on
the ground in Iraq as soldiers and citizens for years. We're going to
be running a colony almost,"
Source: Cincinnati Business
Courier, February 23 2003 http://cincinnati.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2003/02/24/daily23.html
Bremer and the New American
Century
And following the fall of
the Soviet Union, his opinions are in line with all the other neo-cons
of the Bush administration,
"The fall of Soviet
Communism left the United States, its commonly remarked, in a
position of basically international dominance. I would argue that it
is a position of international dominance: political, economic, military,
even cultural, that is without precedent in world history."
Speech before the Los Angeles
World Affairs Council on December 6, 2001
Bremer is also a senior advisor
to Americans for Victory over Terrorism (AVOT) a project of www.empower.org
where he is in good company with people such as William J Bennett, Frank
Gaffney, Lawrence Kadish, James Woolsey and Ruth R Wisse. Also, check
out these sites for more on where Bremer comes from, http://www.avot.org/stories/storyReader$29
and http://avot.org/stories/storyReader$131.
Bremer and the Homeland
Security Act
"The new report on homeland
security was put together by more than 30 former high-ranking government
and military officials working under the sponsorship of the Heritage
Foundation, a conservative public policy research organisation here
in Washington
. Paul Bremer is co-chair of the task force that
produced the report."
Source:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2002/01/mil-020108-202db203.htm
Bremer on Civil liberties
And Bremers views on
civil liberties and anti-terrorism are also quite illuminating,
"We believe that if
(our recommendations) are followed, Americans will be safer from terrorist
attacks here and abroad, without any loss of their civil liberties and
constitutional rights," said L. Paul Bremer, chairman of the National
Commission on Terrorism.
How this squares with what
he said later in this CNN interview Ill leave up to you to decide,
"Track international
students, panel suggests
Among the commission's recommendations:
Track international
students in America. "A small minority may exploit their student
status to support terrorist activity," the report cautions. It
says the government should keep an eye on such things as changes in
students' study plans -- a switch from an English literature major to
nuclear physics might arouse suspicion, for example.
Allow the military
to lead the response to any major terrorist attack on U.S. soil, as
opposed to the FBI or the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The military
has more advanced communications and logistics than those two agencies,
Bremer said. "We're not recommending martial law," he said
in response to critics of the idea.
Loosen restrictions
on the FBI and CIA in opening investigations of terrorist suspects or
using informants who may have unsavoury backgrounds."
June 5, 2000
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/06/05/curbing.terrorism.02/index.html
Just five letters worth of
difference between martial law and democracy?
""The National
Commission on Terrorism, created by Congress two years ago, recently
released its recommendations, including placing the military in charge
of controlling civilians after a terrorist attack. "Were
not recommending martial law," said commission chairman L. Paul
Bremer. "were just recommending military control. Theres
a big difference there, at least five letters worth of difference. Its
not the same thing at all."
"Thugs [are] simply
good kids gone bad" says Bremer
"The report also recommended
that the FBI and CIA be better able to hire criminals and suspected
criminals. Responding to the charge that the CIA shouldnt hire
thugs or other "unsavoury sources", Bremer said "We feel
that unsavoury sources and thugs does these
folks a disservice. We prefer to think of these job applicants as simply
good kids gone bad. We feel that the CIA can play a rehabilative role
in American society."
Source: http://www.hypocritae.com/?ART=27
Would you let guy this baby-sit
your kids?
Creepy Paul Bremer?
But I think this quote from
the "American Politics" Website kind of sets the tone for
Bremer and his ilk,
"Creepy Paul Bremer,
the dashing New York terrorism "expert," and former ambassador
to The Netherlands (which brings to mind revelations from the Dutch
intelligence service proving that Prescott Bush helped finance Hitler
before and during World War II) appears on television day after day
to stir nationalism in American bones. Bremer, who is also a former
partner of mortified Chilean and Laotian hit-meister Henry Kissinger,
was on television this morning doing his job -- for his clients, not
the nation -- by flogging the terror horse to increase fear among US
citizens, to reinforce the latest Bush ploy raising the "Terror
Meter" simply to increase America's fear and, consequently, proclivity
for war."
Feb 3, 2003 by Jeff Coopersmith
Source: http://www.americanpolitics.com/20030210Koop.html