Which Terrorists?
Observations on a Very Hungry Conspiracy
By Carolyn Baker
17 June 2002
May 16, 2002 may become the most significant
day in the history of journalism. On that day, the tapestry
of lies that has
camouflaged the most reprehensible conspiracy in the history
of America began to unravel. As we know, it was "The
Very Hungry Caterpillar,"; which George Bush, Jr. was
reading to elementary school children on the morning of September
11, 2001, as two hijacked airliners were slamming into the
World Trade Center and thousands of Americans were dying.
From that moment, and now we are beginning to understand,
even well in advance of that moment, something far more egregious
than an "intelligence failure," was attempting
to devour democracy and decency in our world.
Former Naval
Intelligence officer and author, Al Martin, notes in The
Conspirators, referring to a private conversation
with George Bush, Sr. that "what he [Bush] believed
in, and how he had always operated, was on the Big Lie principle." In
fact, Martin devotes an entire chapter in the book to the
Bush family and its corporate, real estate and bank fraud,
and it is Martin's essential conclusion that no one in the
Bush family has ever achieved anything save by deception.
While Martin's is most personally familiar with Bush clan
sleaze in relation to the events of Iran-Contra, it is imperative
that we understand that that particular disgrace is only
one chapter in the epic saga of treacherous skullduggery
practiced by generations of its ethically challenged family
members.
But why is this important? Doesn't everyone
know that from Brown Brothers Harriman to Broward County,
the
Bush Boys
are ignoble felons? Webster Tarpley has documented it for
us superbly in his Unauthorized Biography of George Bush,
Sr., and likewise, Steve Pizzo in his September/October,
1992 article in Mother Jones Magazine, entitled "Bush
Family Values." As journalist, Wayne Madsen, summarized
in a recent Online Journalarticle, "The Bush family
has managed to involve the United States in two wars; two
invasions in Latin America, one that resulted in the fiery
deaths of thousands of poor Panamanian barrio residents and
another that resulted in the Bay of Pigs fiasco; aiding and
abetting through murky financial investments America's Teutonic
enemy in the last world war; corrupting the US Presidential
election process; and making the wealthiest Americans and
US corporations richer while at the same time cutting federal
health, education and welfare budgets and offloading those
tasks to the overburdened states." And now, as so many
who have been so familiar with the devastations of the Bush
clan for so long have been alerting us, the ultimate Bush
deception, foreknowledge of the September 11 attacks, is
out of the closet. What is not yet out of the closet, is
that foreknowledge is not synonymous with "intelligence
failure" but is yet one more horror in the Bush family's
trail of death, destruction, and deviant demeanor.
Since mid-September,
2001, Mike Ruppert, Global Research Associates, The Emperor's
New Clothes, and Larry Chinn and
Bill Molson of Online Journal, have documented not only the
plethora of advance warnings of the 9-11 attacks communicated
to the Bush Administration, but the long-term strategy of
the US government to occupy and economically and politically
dominate Eurasia -a strategy explicitly outlined in Zbigniew
Brezezinski's 1997 book The Grand Chessboard. Just this week,
Cheryl Seal's extraordinary article, "Smoking Gun: The
9/11 Evidence That May Hang George W. Bush" appeared
on this website.
Indeed, these journalists have documented US oil interests
in Eurasia and the reality that the current military presence
of the US in the region is the culmination of a war in the
planning for four years before September 11 -a war inextricably
connected with oil and CIA drug trafficking. Furthermore,
other mysteries of questionable intent lurk in the shadows
of 9-11 such as insider trading of United Air Lines and American
Airlines stocks involving a firm solidly associated with
the CIA and the destruction of documents pertaining to Enron
trades stored in the offices of the Securities and Exchange
Commission (SEC) in the World Trade Center.
Post-May 16, the
mainstream media is inundating the air waves with lies, as
the Bush Administration and its minions attempt
to con the American people as they did on September 11, "reassuring" us
that nothing is more important to it than the safety and
security of American citizens. Thus, when we hear Ari Fleischer
continuing to sell the idea that the Bush Administration "had
a plan" to dismantle al Qaeda but that "it had
not yet been shared by the President," it is useful
to recall the $600,000 that "Jr.," now President,
made on his stocks just before Harken Energy went belly up
-another one of those curiously-timed events that "just
sort of happened." While George Bush, Jr. tells us that
if he could have, he would have done anything to prevent
the 9-11 attacks, we might recall his father's Iraq-gate
caper, a scandal centered on $5 billion in US government
guaranteed loans made to Iraq between 1985 and 1989 which
were being fed directly into Saddam Hussein's military machine.
Consequently, in September 1990, US Ambassador, April Glaspie,
could amble into Saddam's office and seal the Gulf War conspiracy
by offering a delicious Bush-borne lie: "We have no
opinion on your Arab-Arab conflicts, such as your dispute
with Kuwait. Secretary [of State James] Baker has directed
me to emphasize the instruction, first given to Iraq in the
1960's, that the Kuwait issue is not associated with America."
As
those demanding a full investigation of 9-11 are increasingly
accused of "playing politics," there is much for
all of us to remember: the savings and loan debacle of the
1980s which "transferred" billions of dollars from
the savings accounts of hardworking Americans into the coffers
of Iran-Contra, brought to us principally by Jeb and Neil
Bush and their Texas mafia cronies who subsequently, firmly
transplanted their tentacles inside Enron. Above all, it
is imperative that we recall how the now back-peddling President
acquired his current job in December, 2000 by appointment
of the Supreme Court in a deceased democracy that could now
potentially be resuscitated since the revelations of May
16.
Almost immediately after the Bush Administration's
9-11 scam was busted, it began fomenting hysteria regarding
another
impending attack, which according to Dick Cheney, would most
certainly be the mother of all terrorist attacks. In the
wake of the embarrassing revelations of foreknowledge, the
administration had little recourse but to "wag Osama" and
play up what one headline called an "increase of chatter
and activity" among al Qaeda operatives. Hence the last-minute
cancellation of Mike Ruppert's interview on FOX-TV News with
Geraldo Rivera on May 18. We should not be surprised, but
should expect more of the same. Tragically, there are likely
to be more attacks, more bio-warfare incidents such as the
anthrax letters that originated from government laboratories,
more illegal invasions of privacy and violations of civil
liberties. We are no longer living in a democracy; we are
living in a criminal empire that will do whatever it takes
to remain in power and profit from war. If this government
could allow some 3,000 Americans to be slaughtered in one
day on its own soil, its ravenous conspiracy will stop at
nothing. At this point we need to confront the frightening
reality that the terrorists on whom thinking Americans must
focus unremitting attention are the administration felons
who are determined to bully the American people into submission
to their agenda. Fortunately, over half the nation believes
that an investigation of 9-11 is necessary, and therefore,
we must seize this moment to demand a thorough investigation
-not of the Iran-Contra or savings and loan or Iraq-gate
variety, but an investigation that probes, in laser-fashion,
to the rock bottom realities of 9-11.
In a traumatized, yet
scandal-weary nation, where the soporifics of shopping, "reality" TV
and media with as much integrity as the Bush family all mitigate
against more than
skin-deep exploration of any controversy, it is essential
that Americans who are awake and wish to remain awake, remember
the lies, the atrocities and the web of conspiracies of the
Bush family that are now historical fact and that we demand
nothing less than total transparency, in-depth investigation
and the evisceration of all subterfuge. Only then can the
very hungry conspiracy be starved.
Copyright © 2002 by
the News Insider and Carolyn Baker
Carolyn
Baker, Ph.D., a former psychotherapist, is an author and
a professor of history at a community college in Texas.
She may be contacted at drumbaker@prodigy.net.
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