"OK, either one of you qualifies for the job."
This means that we're facing a very difficult challenge. We've got to clean house in the White House, in the Oval Office, and carry out what LaRouche has been discussing in recent weeks as a constitutional coup in the United States.
We need a strong institution of the Presidency, and this bunch of bickering lunatics, who are the advisers to the President right now, are going to have to go. We're going to have to break the blackmail leverage over the President, and turn the United States upside down to create the preconditions for LaRouche's policy, and the personality of Lyndon LaRouche, to be part of the inner circle around this President. We have to seize the teleprompter.
When LaRouche first announced his policy of getting out 5 million leaflets, people asked him all sorts of questions: Should we target Washington?-all sorts of ideas. He said, "Look. It doesn't matter where they go out. The act of putting thousands of people on the street every day, to engage the American people in a discussion that they've been dying for-namely, a discussion about the real issues, the depression, the war, that kind of thing-will create a political ruckus."
I can tell you that Washington is reeling from this. There is no other political figure in the United States capable of doing this. A very prominent Democratic Party official said, "LaRouche should declare himself the front-runner; because there's not another clown in the bunch who could get thousands of people on the street, not to mention having the literacy level even to write something like 'The Electable LaRouche.' "
The recruitment, mass organizing, engaging the American population in a very tough Socratic dialogue, is the way we stop the war.
The Chicken Hawks
The issue is: Don't go after these people as if they were all-knowing and all-seeing and possess all power. It's not like that. Back in the 1950s, there was a concept, among grammar-school-age kids-I don't know if it persisted in later generations-a phenomenon called "cooties." Anybody that you were told had "cooties," was someone you really wanted to stay away from. One of the things we want to do, is give a whole bunch of the people in the war party a good case of the "cooties," -- to where they walk down the street and see people crossing over to the other side to not be seen remotely associated with them.
In particular, among the leading proponents of a perpetual war in the Middle East, are a group of officials of the Bush Administration, referred to before the election as the Vulcans; after the election they were known as the Perle-Wolfowitz cabal.
The top-level U.S. military have come down strongly against this proposed next phase of the perpetual war-from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, to General [Anthony] Zinni, who was the head of the Central Command until a year ago, and is now a policy adviser to Colin Powell.
Powell, who was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; [Gen. Brent] Scowcroft-all of these people oppose the war, because they know it's going to unleash this kind of religious war, Clash of Civilizations, that's going to lead to a Dark Age. It's not a winnable war.
Those administration people who are pronouncing themselves to be the warhawks, have never had a moment in their lives of military experience.
If you carefully look at the career records-the curriculum vitae-of all of these top Pentagon officials, State Department officials, national security advisers, even Vice President Dick Cheney: Not one of them served a moment in uniformed service. And so they have been collectively renamed-no longer the Vulcans, nor the Wolfowitz-Perle cabal-they're now referred to as the "Chicken Hawks."
Let's look at a couple of these guys. Paul Wolfowitz: Deputy Secretary of Defense; one of the leading wannabe imperialists; received a series of university exemptions, and never served a day in the military.
Richard Perle, the "Prince of Darkness," self-styled Israeli spy, friend of Ariel Sharon; received a succession of draft deferments, and never served in the military.
Doug Feith: interesting guy; his father was one of the founders of the Jabotinsky movement; Feith is a second-generation radical Likudnik, a real warhawk, but never served in the military.
David Wurmser: now in the State Department working under John Bolton; another one of the super-warhawks and super-Likudniks; also, never served a day on active duty -- and knows nothing about warfare. Hiswife, Meyrav Wurmser, recently received her Ph.D. from George Washington University, for a laudatory biographical profile of Vladimir Jabotinsky.
Vice-President Cheney got a series of university deferments, and never served in the military.
We've already drawn blood on the Lieberman-McCain front. Lieberman and McCain no longer hold hands, walking down the corridors of the Senate office building. They've become liabilities to each other because of what we've done, with the leaflets and the mass distribution of the succession of EIR offprints. We knew that they were bad news; that they were warmongers; that they were under the thumb of organized crime. But we really underestimated it until we put a team together to really look into it.
John McCain did serve in the military. And his military career is probably one of the most controversial issues around today. He was a POW in North Vietnam for a number of years. There are different stories about what actually happened there. What we do know, is that he came back and was recognized, by his colleagues in the House, and later in the Senate, as the guy who really is the Manchurian Candidate. He's not all there.
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