I do not believe GWB is a bluffer…he says the things he does because he knows what the highest echelons are planning, and how to propagandize it well. This information is designed to make the use of nuclear weapons seem necessary, so that when it happens, the public will not be shocked, but will be comfortable with the idea. It will be the next topic of conversation at parties and over lunch, and by the time it finally occurs, it will have been present in our national gossip/dialogue for so long we will be immune to the enormity of its impact.
The basis for the following is the actual January 8 report as presented to congress, directing the pentagon to design plans for nuclear weapons in the event of 3 situations:
· against targets able to withstand non-nuclear attack
· in retaliation for attack with nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons;
· "in the event of surprising military developments.
“Two of those three criteria have nothing to do with deterrence or the use of weapons of mass destruction against soldiers or civilians; they are the ordinary consequence of battlefield decisions, subject to all the arrogance, confusion, panic, or other human frailties that kick in when there are no limits. And such criteria are clinically insane.
The combination of Bush's now-public willingness to use these weapons for ordinary battlefield situations; his explicit doctrine, since Sept. 11, that the United States reserves the right to attack any country at any time for any reason, with or without provocation; his active expansion of U.S. military presence around the world; and his abandonment of what was already a leaky global arms control structure, preventing the overt development of such weapons -- what all this means is that the fraudulently-elected George W. Bush has almost single-handedly made the world an infinitely more dangerous place.”
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemID=12949
why do I believe GWB is not a bluffer? because every bit of this war against terrorism has been in planning for much longer than before the events of September 11, which so conveniently allowed the war and its subsequent policies, foreign and domestic, to commence.
The following excerpt demonstrates this administration’s dealings with Afghanistan, before September 11: to convince the Taliban to allow Unocal to build an oil pipeline that would run through Afghanistan, from the Caspian Sea into Pakistan. The administration threatened to bomb Afghanistan when the Taliban resisted. Since then, the White House has squashed all investigation into the September 11 events.
“In all the coverage that the September 11th attacks have received, and with the blistering pace of change since that day, there has been little investigation into why Osama bin Laden and his 19 kamikazes were able to do what they did. In fact, such questions have been hushed at the highest levels. Both Bush and Vice President Cheney, on the eve of the recent State of the Union address, telephoned Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle and asked him not to push too hard in search of an answer to this question in his upcoming Congressional hearings on the matter. Cheney's request was little more than a veiled threat.
Coming from the men whose responsibility it is to ensure that such an attack never happens again, this request is simply astounding. September 11th stands as the most egregious failure of the American intelligence and security apparatus since Pearl Harbor. Given all that is at stake, there is only one explanation for this inexplicable behavior: Bush and Cheney have something to hide, and will do whatever they can to keep their secrets hidden from view.
The world knows that Bush and Cheney spring from the cream of the energy industry crop, and owe much of their political success to the funding received from companies like Enron, Halliburton and Unocal. Scant notice, however, has been paid in this country to the level of involvement these entities had in the setting of American foreign and domestic policy. Congress' non-partisan General Accounting Office is presently suing Cheney to begin an investigation into the matter, but the White House is fighting their questions at every step.
Why?
In 1998, the American energy interest Unocal sought to build a pipeline from Turkmenistan, through Afghanistan, and into Pakistan's seaports in order to bring to market the massive natural gas reserves lying fallow in the region around the Caspian Sea. After bin Laden bombed American embassies in Africa, however, the Clinton administration ruled that any deals with the Taliban were forbidden, thus cracking the middle of Unocal's plan.
When the Bush administration took power, however, these restrictions were removed. The administration began a detailed dialogue with the Taliban regime in an effort to revive the Unocal deal. The Taliban resisted, and it is reported that in response, the Bush administration threatened war against them if they did not go along. Accept our carpet of gold, the Taliban was reportedly told, or be buried under a carpet of bombs. In order to further this plan, the Bush administration hindered the FBI's investigations into terrorist networks in Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia, so as not to offend the regimes they hoped to include in the pipeline deal.
…These dealings continued well after September 11th with the announcement that Hamid Karzai would become the new leader of Afghanistan on December 2nd, 2001. Karzai was the main choice of the Bush administration, and on the surface his nomination was meant to herald a new day for that tortured nation. In fact, Karzai was little more than a strategically wise plant for those who still dreamed of a profitable pipeline for the Caspian gas.
One of Karzai's first jobs was as a consultant for Unocal, which never abandoned its desire to see the gas exploited.
A week after Karzai was sworn in, the Bush administration nominated Zalmay Khalilzad, another Unocal consultant, as his special envoy to Afghanistan. Before his new job, Khalilzad went to great efforts to convince Bush and his people that the Taliban was a stable government worthy of the pipeline deal.
…Time may well describe September 11th as the fallout from a failed negotiation between the Bush administration and the strategically-placed Taliban regime. It is likely that this is the reason the General Accounting Office's suit against Cheney is being so vehemently resisted by the White House. For years, the argument that American interests would be served by de-emphasizing our reliance on Mideast oil has been pressing. Cheney's secret energy committee likely dealt with this question, and their answer to this problem may well have been buried in the ground surrounding the Caspian sea. Only the pesky resistance of the Taliban stood in the way.
Cast in this light, it is no wonder that he and Bush leaned on Daschle to limit the scope of the 9/11 investigation. If such facts became public, the Bush administration would fall, and the global hegemony enjoyed by American energy interests would shatter.
None of this matters to the dead. They did not know of Bush's involvement with the Taliban on September 11th. They were not aware of this administration's deference to energy corporation interests in the formation of foreign policy. They had no clue that our investigative and intelligence forces, our sword and shield, were stripped of their power to defend the country so as to further that agenda. They trusted the President and his people to take care of the business of security, and knew nothing of the conflict of interest inherent in a mob of energy company CEOs running the store.
…When entities like Unocal control our foreign policy, blood runs in rivers down our streets. The best interests of the people are not represented, but are in fact completely disregarded in pursuit of new markets and profit.”
http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?ItemId=12879
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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