The Neocon Threat to American Freedom - The War on Truth and Liberty

[seemslikeadream]

The neoconservatives also believe that nuclear attack on Iran will isolate America in the world and, thereby, give the government control over the American people

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts06122007.html

The War on Truth and Liberty

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The Bush/Cheney White House, which told the American people in 2003 that the Iraqi invasion would be a three to six week affair, now tells us that the US occupation is permanent. Forever.

Attentive Americans of which, alas, there are so few, had already concluded that the occupation was permanent. Permanence is the obvious message from the massive and fortified US embassy under construction in Iraq and from the large permanent military bases that the Bush regime is building in Iraq.

Bush regime propagandists have created a false analogy with "the Korean model" in their effort to sell the permanent occupation of Iraq as necessary for Iraq's security. More than one half century after the close of the Korean war, US troops continue to be based in Korea, as they are in Germany more than six decades after the end of World War II.

The rationale for the US troops in S. Korea is to remind N. Korea that an attack on S. Korea is an attack on the US itself. The rationale for US troops in Germany disappeared when Reagan and Gorbachev brought the cold war to an end.

There is, of course, no similarity between Iraq and Korea. There was no insurgency in Korea and no attacks on US troops based in S. Korea once the fighting stopped. The presence of US troops in S. Korea has produced many protest demonstrations by South Koreans, but the US troops in S. Korea have had no exposure to combat since the war ended in 1953.

[pwb]

1. but Iran can and will fight back

the green zone and Israel will be history if the u s attacks Iran.

[WinkyDink]

3. And Iran will not fight alone.

[Double T]

4. Yes, you are correct. But what a typical neocon bushco excuse........

for maintaining military bases, U.S.'Palaces', troop strength and occupation in Iraq. It is all about the history books and legacies NOW and bush and cheney are desperate to 'justify' what they have done. Hitler didn't have the chance to 'justify' his atrocities against mankind.

[ixion]

2. link to the whole article?

:shrug:

[seemslikeadream]

6. Thanks ixion

for reminding me, it's there now :hi:

[ixion]

7. sure thing, seemslikeadream

thanks for posting it! :hi:

[kimmerspixelated]

5. This is exactly why we need to IMPEACH NOW!!!

[ixion]

8. PCR is excellent, as always, however I would take issue with one of his statements...

The neoconservative Bush regime has got away with more than I thought possible, perhaps because most of Congress and the American public cannot imagine the degree of insanity that lies behind the Bush administration. Most Americans who have turned against the regime think that the administration is incompetent, that it jumped to wrong conclusions about Iraq, and that it mismanaged the war and will not admit its mistakes. As every reason Bush gave for the war has proven to be false, people see no point in continuing the struggle.

If Americans understood the enormity of the deception behind the invasion of Iraq (and Afghanistan) and the pending attack on Iran, Bush and Cheney would be impeached and turned over to the War Crimes Tribunal at the Hague, and AIPAC would be forced to register as a foreign agent.

Just as Goebbels said, some lies are too big to be disbelieved. It is this disbelief that is so dangerous. The inability of Americans to see through the Big Lie to the secret agenda allows the neoconservatives to escape accountability and to continue with their plot.


I would argue that the reason more people cannot see through the Big Lie is because the MSM acts as both a distraction and an enabling platform for the Big Lie to continue to manifest. If the MSM were to do their job, and actually practice honest investigative journalism, none of this would have been possible, IMO.

[bobthedrummer]

9. Yep-it's information warfare--"Reality vs. perception management: the tinfoil controversy"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x71919