Impeach
Now
By Paul Craig Roberts
18 July, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Unless
Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the
US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.
Bush has put in place all
the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of "executive
orders" that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency.
Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former
Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might
expect a series of staged, or false flag, "terrorist" events
in the near future.
Many attentive people believe
that the reason the Bush administration will not bow to expert advice
and public opinion and begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq is that
the administration intends to rescue its unpopular position with false
flag operations that can be used to expand the war to Iran.
Too much is going wrong for
the Bush administration: the failure of its Middle East wars, Republican
senators jumping ship, Turkish troops massed on northern Iraq's border
poised for an invasion to deal with Kurds, and a majority of Americans
favoring the impeachment of Cheney and a near-majority favoring Bush's
impeachment. The Bush administration desperately needs dramatic events
to scare the American people and the Congress back in line with the
militarist-police state that Bush and Cheney have fostered.
William Norman Grigg recently
wrote that the GOP is "praying for a terrorist strike" to
save the party from electoral wipeout in 2008.
Chertoff, Cheney, the neocon nazis, and Mossad would have no qualms
about saving the bacon for the Republicans, who have enabled Bush to
start two unjustified wars, with Iran waiting in the wings to be attacked
in a third war.
The Bush administration has
tried unsuccessfully to resurrect the terrorist fear factor by infiltrating
some blowhard groups and encouraging them to talk about staging "terrorist"
events. The talk, encouraged by federal agents, resulted in "terrorist"
arrests hyped by the media, but even the captive media was unable to
scare people with such transparent sting operations.
If the Bush administration
wants to continue its wars in the Middle East and to entrench the "unitary
executive" at home, it will have to conduct some false flag operations
that will both frighten and anger the American people and make them
accept Bush's declaration of "national emergency" and the
return of the draft. Alternatively, the administration could simply
allow any real terrorist plot to proceed without hindrance.
A series of staged or permitted
attacks would be spun by the captive media as a vindication of the neoconsevatives'
Islamophobic policy, the intention of which is to destroy all Middle
Eastern governments that are not American puppet states. Success would
give the US control over oil, but the main purpose is to eliminate any
resistance to Israel's complete absorption of Palestine into Greater
Israel.
Think about it. If another
9/11-type "security failure" were not in the works, why would
Homeland Security czar Chertoff go to the trouble of convincing the
Chicago Tribune that Americans have become complacent about terrorist
threats and that he has "a gut feeling" that America will
soon be hit hard?
Why would Republican warmonger
Rick Santorum say on the Hugh Hewitt radio show that "between now
and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that
by this time next year, the American public's (sic) going to have a
very different view of this war."
Throughout its existence
the US government has staged incidents that the government then used
in behalf of purposes that it could not otherwise have pursued. According
to a number of writers, false flag operations have been routinely used
by the Israeli state. During the Czarist era in Russia, the secret police
would set off bombs in order to arrest those the secret police regarded
as troublesome. Hitler was a dramatic orchestrator of false flag operations.
False flag operations are a commonplace tool of governments.
Ask yourself: Would a government
that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack
on Iran shrink from staging "terrorist" attacks in order to
remove opposition to its agenda?
Only a diehard minority believes
in the honesty and integrity of the Bush-Cheney administration and in
the truthfulness of the corporate media.
Hitler, who never achieved
majority support in a German election, used the Reichstag fire to fan
hysteria and push through the Enabling Act, which made him dictator.
Determined tyrants never require majority support in order to overthrow
constitutional orders.
The American constitutional
system is near to being overthrown. Are coming "terrorist"
events of which Chertoff warns and Santorum promises the means for overthrowing
our constitutional democracy?
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant
Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate
Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor
of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.
He can be reached at: [email protected]
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