By Chris Floyd - The Moscow Times March 23, 2003.
Long before Genghis W. Bush and his Boardroom Horde launched their campaign of rapine against the clapped-out Iraqi regime, there was a little incident involving hijacked planes, famous buildings and the mass slaughter of innocent people on American soil that caused a good deal of commotion at the time. You might remember; it happened on Sept. 11 a couple of years back.
"Of course, the American public
is told nothing of this record. "
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True, Genghis does mention it
occasionally, as part of his successful bamboozling of the
shell-shocked American people into blaming Iraq for the atrocity,
which was of course financed and carried out by faithful followers
of the extremist variant of Islam propagated worldwide by the Bush
Family's longtime pals and patrons, the Saudi royals. The attacks
were also facilitated at least in part (and perhaps -- let's be
charitable -- indirectly) by extremist elements in the Pakistani
secret service, the ISI, longtime ally of the Bush family firm, the
CIA.
Of course, the American public
is told nothing of this record. Their own history -- even the recent
horror that exploded live on their TV screens that fateful September
morning -- is being falsified and obliterated by the Bush Regime and
its cowed, corrupted and ignorant enablers in the media. Dazzled by
the glitzy video-game graphics of the wardrumming television
networks, and battered by a ceaseless barrage of lies from their
leaders -- even from the sainted Colin Powell, whose much-ballyhooed
"case for the prosecution" at the UN has since been revealed as a
farrago of fake documents, doctored tapes and plagiarized schoolwork
-- a full 45 percent of Americans now believe the transparent lie
that Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. Yet in the
first months after the assault -- before the Bush fog machine went
to work -- only 3 percent of the public believed this lunatic
conspiracy theory, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
This week we saw how the
national amnesia induced by the Bush blizzard of bull is serving
another useful purpose for the un-elected junta: obscuring its
hugger-mugger strangulation of the "Independent Commission"
appointed to investigate the Sept. 11 attacks.
Of course, Genghis long
resisted any outside probe into the catastrophic failure of his
beloved secret services to thwart the plotters -- not to mention the
Horde's strangely tepid response to the attack itself. Even after
severe public pressure forced Bush to convene an independent panel,
he tried to sandbag the proceedings by appointing accused war
criminal and self-proclaimed master of the public lie, Henry
Kissinger, as chairman. But Hank exited the scene rather than submit
to disclosure rules that would have revealed the extent of his role
as bagman for the Saudis and other interested parties.
Finally, a less controversial
bagman for Saudi interests, Thomas Keane -- an oil business partner
of Osama bin Laden's financier and brother-in-law, Saudi magnate
Khalid bin Mahfouz -- was appointed to head the panel. At last it
seemed the commission's Establishment worthies could actually get
down to work. But one should never underestimate -- or even
mis-underestimate -- the ingenuity of professional liars like the
Bush boys. For they quietly found another way to hobble the
commission: subjecting the panel members -- who were picked,
remember, because of their reputations for impeachable probity and
public service -- to months-long security checks before allowing
them access to the secret documents at the heart of the probe, the
Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports.
Most commissioners already have
security clearance from their previous government service, but the
Horde has decided to put many of them -- those not directly
appointed by Bush, apparently -- through the glacially paced FBI
background checks yet again. How long will this take? Coy FBI
officials will say only that the usual length for such checks is 10
months. But here's the beauty part: The panel is required to deliver
its report to Congress in just 14 months -- leaving only enough time
for the kind of rush-rush, hush-hush whitewash the Horde has always
wanted.
Family Quarrel
Of course, America's carefully
cultivated amnesia also covers the entire background history of the
Bush rampage in Iraq. Few Homeland folks realize that the current
"war of liberation" is nothing more than a falling out among
thieves, old comrades in crime. For just like Osama and Daddy Bush's
former punching bag, Panama's Manuel Noreiga, Saddam is a son of the
CIA: He and his brutal Baathist Party were put in power by the
American spy agency in 1963, as historian Roger Morris detailed last
week in The New York Times.
Operating from secret bases in
Kuwait (where future CIA boss Daddy Bush was drilling for oil with
his business partners, the Kuwaiti royals), the Agency directed
Baathist rebels as they laid some "regime change" on an Iraqi
strongman who'd gotten a bit too uppity for Washington's refined
sensibilities. After seizing power, Saddam and his fellow CIA
proxies launched a blood-Baath, systematically murdering hundreds of
people from lists supplied by helpful American agents. Five years
later, the CIA gave Saddam and his family another boost, helping
their faction oust rivals in an internal power struggle. And still
later, that future CIA boss would be the most lavish and fawning of
Saddam's many American sugar daddies -- even after Hussein "gassed
his own people."
No, these dark forces -- these
secret agencies, these corrupt political families, who gorge
themselves on plunder and proxy murder -- have never been
"liberators." They are not liberators now.
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