Senator says new president will be welcomed by
"test"
Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Monday, June 30, 2008
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Senator Joe Lieberman has echoed a national talking point by
promising that the new president will be welcomed by a terror attack
in 2009, continuing a disturbing trend of talking heads anxiously
relishing a catastrophic pretext to reinvigorate the Neo-Con agenda.
"Our enemies will test the new president early," Lieberman, I-Conn.,
told Face The Nation host Bob Schieffer. "Remember that the truck
bombing of the World Trade Center happened in the first year of the
Clinton administration. 9/11 happened in the first year of the Bush
administration."
Lieberman's comments follow last month's Washington Times report
concerning a warning from national intelligence spooks that,
"Islamic terrorists will attempt to exploit the transition in power
by planning an attack on America."
Let us swiftly dismantle the naive pretense that a terror attack is
a negative thing for a new president - both Clinton and Bush
exploited terror in America to realize preconceived domestic and
geopolitical agendas.
The 1993 World Trade Center bombing was an inside job from start to
finish - it did not come as a "surprise" to the U.S. government
since they ran the entire operation, having cooked the bomb for the
"Islamic terrorists" that they had groomed for the attack.
In 1993 the FBI planted their informant, Emad A. Salem, within a
radical Arab group in New York led by Ramzi Yousef. Salem was
ordered to encourage the group to carry out a bombing targeting the
World Trade Center's twin towers. Under the illusion that the
project was a sting operation, Salem asked the FBI for harmless
dummy explosives which he would use to assemble the bomb and then
pass on to the group. At this point the FBI cut Salem out of the
loop and provided the group with real explosives, leading to the
attack on February 26 that killed six and injured over a thousand
people. The FBI's failure to prevent the bombing was reported on by
the New York Times in October 1993.
The attack, coupled with the Oklahoma City bombing less than two
years later, enabled Bill Clinton to whip up support for the passage
of a plethora of unconstitutional legislation, including the Violent
Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, the Brady Bill, the
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, and a $100 million
dollar grant to Israel for "counter-terrorism" purposes.
By the time Clinton left office, the Patriot movement - which before
the OKC bombing had grown in leaps and bounds, spurred on by the
atrocities committed by the federal government at Waco - was
effectively dead.
Few need reminding of George W. Bush's agenda before he took office.
The ideological framework that would shape his presidency -
encapsulated by the goals of the Neo-Con Project For a New American
Century - required a "new Pearl Harbor" to get things started, which
is exactly what they received on September 11, 2001.
Furthermore, the attacks enabled Bush to pursue an invasion of Iraq
that he had dreamed of achieving as early as 1999, according to the
ghostwriter of Bush's autobiography Mickey Herskowitz.
"One of the keys to being seen as a great leader is to be seen as a
commander-in-chief. My father had all this political capital built
up when he drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait and he wasted it. If I
have a chance to invade---if I had that much capital, I'm not going
to waste it. I'm going to get everything passed that I want to get
passed and I'm going to have a successful presidency," Bush told
Herskowitz.
That "chance to invade" arrived on the morning of 9/11, within hours
of which Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, "Was telling his
aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq — even though there
was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks."
The pattern is clear - each time a new President takes office they
have a mandate to act as a torch bearer for the same agenda -
domestic repression and foreign invasion. A terror attack provides
the perfect pretext to realize those goals.
Whether it be Barack Obama or John McCain, we can expect a new
crisis to conveniently arrive shortly after they take office,
enabling them to pursue the same tyrannical blueprint followed by
their predecessors.
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