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Peter hits the nail right on the head with this piece. Too bad it is

with a pen instead of a hammer, and the head is on paper rather than

those public officious ones who need it the most.

 

As Dick Cheney says (below), " This enemy wears no uniform, has no

regard for the rules of warfare, and is unconstrained by any standard

of decency or morality. " He should know - he doesn't wear a suit,

etc., and his standard of decency and morality includes corrupting

elections so that his people will get into and stay in place of

perceived power until they are forcibly removed.

 

--- Peter Phillips wrote:

 

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Inflated Terrorism - Propaganda Lies

 

By Peter Phillips

 

The Bush administration is paltering to the American public with

exaggerated misconceptions of worldwide terrorism to frighten us into

supporting a global police state. With seven hundred military bases

and a budget bigger than the rest of the world combined, the US

military has become the new supreme-power force repressing " terrorism "

everywhere.

 

Vice President Dick Cheney's keynote address at the American

Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) policy conference March 7,

2006 is a telling example of neo-conservative global dominance thought

in the current administration. Here are his exact words, " Israel, and

the United States, and all civilized nations will win the war on

terror. To prevail in this fight, we must understand the nature of the

enemy. as America experienced on September 11th, 2001, the terrorist

enemy is brutal and heartless. This enemy wears no uniform, has no

regard for the rules of warfare, and is unconstrained by any standard

of decency or morality. The terrorists want to end all American and

Western influence in the Middle East. Their goal in that region is to

seize control of a country, so they have a base from which to launch

attacks and wage war against governments that do not meet their

demands; ultimately to establish a totalitarian empire that

encompasses a region from Spain, across North Africa, through the

Middle East and South Asia, all the way around to Indonesia. "

 

Cheney claims that evil terrorists everywhere are plotting for the

ruin of " civilized " nations. In order to stop them we must militarily

control all the regions they are threatening in a permanent global

war. Cheney's military empire, set to prevail over the totalitarian

terrorists, will inevitably expand global resistance to US domination.

Large coalitions of freedom fighters, fundamentalists, patriots,

religious zealots, nationalists, and ideologues of various beliefs

will emerge from within the regions the US occupies.

 

Widespread resistance is exactly what is happening in Iraq. Le

Monde Diplomatique on May 2, 2006 described the Iraq insurgents -

terrorists to Cheney - as " armed opposition often divided into a set

of wholly independent categories which apparently do not have much in

common. The categories include the patriotic former army officers, the

foreign terrorists, the Sunni Arabs determined to regain power, the

Muslims opposed to any kind of foreign occupation, the tribal factions

pursuing their own specific vendettas, the die-hard Ba'athists - and

the " pissed-off " Iraqis (in coalition soldier jargon, POIs) who are

simply sick of the foreign forces occupying their country. "

 

For Cheney and other global dominance neo-conservatives, the

terrorist label is so broad that it can be applied to any individual,

group, or nation that resists US military occupations, US threats, or

US corporate interests anywhere in the world. In reality, the US

military is the world's foremost totalitarian force.

 

Three years ago I met a Dutch journalist, Willem Oltman, at the

International Campaign Against US Aggression on Iraq in Cairo, Egypt.

Oltman described his teen years during World War II in the Dutch

resistance movement. " The Nazi's called us terrorists, " he exclaimed.

" Now as the US invades and occupies other countries you do the same

thing, " he added.

 

Maintaining an US military global police force enriches defense

contractors and enflames resistance. There is no worldwide terrorism

threat other than the one we create when we make war on other peoples.

Addressing world poverty, sickness, and environmental issues will go

much further in preventing single acts of terrorism inside the United

States than any military actions we can muster. It is time to

challenge the neo-conservative global dominance agenda and stand up

for human rights and the traditional American values of grass-roots

democracy, due process, governmental transparency, and individual

freedoms for ourselves and the rest of the world.

 

Peter Phillips is a professor of Sociology at Sonoma State

University and director of Project Censored a media research group.

www.projectcensored.org. He is co-editor with Dennis Loo of the

forthcoming book, Impeach the President: The Case Against Bush and

Cheney, from Seven Stories Press, summer 2006.

 

--

Peter Phillips Ph.D.

Professor Sociology/Director Project Censored

Sonoma State University

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