The Snake Oil Merchants Who Sold Us A War!

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The Snake Oil Merchants Who Sold Us A War!

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November 1, 2005

 

The Snake Oil Merchants Who Sold Us A War!!

 

 

TvNewsLIES Looks at

The White House Iraq Group (WHIG)- Nov, 2005

 

Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war.

Albert Einstein

 

THE PLOY

 

Talk about putting one over on the American people. This one takes

the cake, it really does. Did you hear anyone even mention the White

House Iraq Group until recently? Did you have a clue about who they

were or what they were about? Luckily, Scooter Libby screwed up

somehow and got himself indicted, and now we know. Talk about a con job.

 

It seems that the White House Iraq Group was quite an impressive bunch

with an even more impressive job. They had to sell the entire

population of the United States a really big dose of snake oil in a

very short time. I kid you not. That really was their assignment,

and boy did they ever carry it out in style!

 

The WHIG group met secretly, as is so characteristic of the Bush White

House, and that might explain why so little was known about them. They

worked with the diligence and dedication of any fawning Bush task

force and they ultimately succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.

Despite its reputation, WHIG snake oil was not as difficult a sell to

Americans as one might imagine, especially after 9/11. Good

salespeople know their market.

 

The group was organized in the summer of 2002, when the nation was

still reeling from the events of 9/11 and was largely distracted by

the war against the Taliban. In charge of the set-up was Andrew Card,

the WH Chief of Staff. Chairman of the committee was Karl Rove, then

Senior Advisor to President George W. Bush. Together, these two

opportunistic charlatans gathered the very best and most successful

spin doctors ever assembled in one place, and the plan was set in motion.

 

The goal was to market a new brand of snake oil developed by the

neocons who had come into power in 2000. With practiced confidence,

they came together to sell the American people something they really

didn't want. They plotted to sell them a war.

 

Let me run that by you one more time: In August of 2002, six men and

three women got together in Washington, D.C. to devise a plan that

would sell the invasion of Iraq to the people of this country. It's

totally mind-boggling, but that is exactly what they did.

 

But this is not a TvNewsLIES scoop. The story is not new. The WHIG

group was first identified in a Washington Post article in 2003. So

why were people not screaming in the streets? But, we digress…

 

THE PLOTTERS

 

The nine merchants of death were chosen with care. Some had high

visibility while others worked in the background, but all were

insiders with keys to the White House kingdom. Not unlike the cast of

Mission Impossible, each brought a singular skill to the table. But

unlike the high-minded characters in the series, the WHIGs were

engaged in a nefarious and despicable scheme to delude a nation.

 

Here, then, is a list of the men and women who teamed up to sell us a war:

 

* Karl Rove: then Senior Advisor to the President; now Deputy

White House Chief of Staff in charge of policy.

* Andrew Card: White House Chief of Staff

* Condoleezza Rice: then National Security Advisor; now Secretary

of State

* Mary Matalin: political strategist and consultant; formerly an

advisor to the President

* Karen Hughes: then counselor to the President; now

Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy

* Stephen Hadley: then Deputy National Security Advisor; now

National Security Advisor

* Lewis (Scooter) Libby: then Chief of Staff and assistant for

National Security Affairs to Dick Cheney; now resigned; founding

member of Project for a New American Century

* James R. Wilkinson: Deputy National Security Advisor for

Communication

* Nicholas E. Calio: Senior Vice-President for Global Government

Affairs at Citigroup

 

This infamous array of accomplished Americans did their dirty work in

the House of the People. They sat in OUR White House trying to devise

a way to betray us all. That's probably the most insulting aspect of

it all.

 

Understand that this unearthly cabal was formed to use its cunning and

its expertise to draw the United States into an illegal, immoral, and

ultimately failed war against Iraq. And keep in mind as well that it

worked like a charm.

 

THE PITCH

 

The WHIG group met to formulate a plan that would convince an

unsuspecting public that invading Iraq was vital to their own

security. They were plotting their strategy even as George Bush was

assuring the nation that military action was a last resort in his

foreign policy. They were coordinating their sales pitch months

before George Bush so brazenly sold Congress their impeachable lies.

The WHIGs knew that planning ahead was an effective sales policy.

 

Duping Congress was easy; selling the war to the majority of Americans

was a bit more challenging. In order to break down any resistance to

an invasion that was already a done deal, the WHIG pros knew exactly

what they had to do.

 

The primary strategy in their plan was to escalate the rhetoric about

the danger that Iraq posed to the US. They would saturate the news

networks with their fabricated tales of nuclear stockpiles and

chemical weapons. They would sell their ominous warnings of mushroom

clouds and weapons of mass destruction with a vengeance. They would

provide the fodder for propaganda speeches that the President would

read to the nation, and that the Secretary of State would deliver to

the United Nations.

 

And of course, they would cleverly establish a damning link between

Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda, and more deviously – between Saddam

Hussein and 9/11.

 

The case for war was being professionally packaged, hyped and sold.

 

The perfect forum for publicizing the WHIG wares was theirs for the

asking. News networks opened their arms to the war mongers and

shamefully competed for their participation. Not a single voice of

dissent was permitted by the corporate media, as the WHIG promotion

for war was broadcast to every home in the nation for months on end.

 

Fast forward now to March of 2003. The time between had been filled

with WHIG members and their spokesmen - Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell,

Wolfowitz, Chalabi, Kristol and other cohorts – spewing WHIG mantras

day after day. The snake oil sales people were anywhere and

everywhere, pushing the war and selling it well.

 

They did such a good job that after only seven months of snake oil

sales the Bush regime was able to launch Shock and Awe. The

bombardment of Baghdad was hailed as the first step in a War against

Terror. The snake oil had taken effect.

 

The WHIGs had suckered most of the nation into cheering the onset of

Operation Iraqi Freedom. They had conned the American people into

asking their God to bless the country that was raining daisy cutters

and 500 pound bombs on other human beings. They truly believed that

by going to war with Iraq, George Bush was going to save them from

imminent annihilation. Snake oil, in the right hands, can be smooth,

sedating and seductive.

 

And so, without a single headline to expose their crimes, the White

House Iraq Group sold the nation a war. Without a single investigative

report about the lies and deceptions of their sales techniques, the

WHIGs accomplished their mission. Without a single newscaster to

question the hoax that had been perpetrated on the nation, the WHIG

members could congratulate themselves for a job well done.

 

And the rest, as they say, is history.

 

THE PAYOFF

 

This group should have made headlines across the nation. It did not.

It was given far less coverage than any high profile wife slaying of

the day. The work of the White House Iraq Group should have been

exposed by every news network in the nation before the 2004 election.

It was not.

 

The people of the United States had the right to know. They did not.

 

Even now, with the WHIG group uncovered as a result of Plamegate,

there is no discernable outrage over their mission. The lies that led

us to war do not appear to disturb the nation as a whole. A secret

plot to frighten the American people into supporting a war seems

almost commonplace. So they lied. Not a big deal.

 

If that is how it is, the nation is lost. If cynicism and apathy rule

the day, there is no more America is we knew it. If the WHIG group

passes into history as an acceptable agency of government, there is

nothing at all left for us to hope for

 

Not surprisingly, the corporate media have remained compliantly

unresponsive. They have not made this hoax an issue for discussion or

exposure. The pundits and reporters refer to the WHIGs with no special

concern or curiosity. They existed, they did their job, and we went to

war. End of story.

 

But it is not the end of the story. This administration has three

more years to go. The war shows no signs of abating. At this moment,

the chaos and the deaths in Iraq are rarely newsworthy, and the policy

set in motion by the WHIG machinery moves ever forward. WHIG efforts

have paid off handsomely.

 

The full payoff, however, is yet to come. Condoleezza Rice recently

said she would not rule out the possibility of a US military presence

in Iraq for another ten years. The media made very little of that

remark. War is hell – deal with it.

 

Thousands more will die in the war that the White House Iraq Group was

hired to promote. It seems fairly certain that no members of the group

will be held accountable for their despicable deeds. They were hired

guns who have a great deal of blood on their hands, but they know that

blood washes off. Snake oil does not.

 

So be it. We've put the story out again. Share it if you wish. Make

others aware of the wool that was so expertly pulled over their eyes.

One has to wonder why there is so much indifference and complacency

in light of such subterfuge.

 

Maybe it's the snake oil.