MPG
San Francisco, CA.
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13th mailing 08-29-05
No responses received
except for one, a one liner. The rest were auto-replies and one
echo-back. None sent besides this mailing number 13. If
you’ve received anything else it wasn’t from me.
Since I wrote my last
letter I was sure the ‘mainstream media’ of this country, the New York
Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, NPR, PBS etc. would bow to
the inevitable and recognize the futility of ignoring the barrage of
facts out there on the web detailing this government’s murderous
crimes. Motivated and encouraged by the enormous amount of
excellent information available they would begin to investigate our
nation’s leaders and what they have done to this country.
I was wrong.
I no longer find it
remarkable that the U.S.’s ‘mainstream media’ still adamantly refuse to
investigate the real motives behind 911. Perhaps they consider 911 a
fait a’compli and therefore not worth their attention. Perhaps
they feel the deaths of those 3,500 Americans should only serve our
elite’s pious exhortations of obedience to lay down our lives for an
endless series of causes that have already proven to be untrue. Perhaps
the U.S. media really don’t care about their reputations. Perhaps
it’s just a matter of a paycheck to them.
What I do find remarkable
however, and to be quite honest, unbelievably absurd is their lack of
coverage regarding our governments continued and on-going malfeasance
in the “war on terror”.
Given the overwhelming
evidence, the thousands of letters, e-mails, blogs and foreign
newspaper articles generated every day uncovering this administration’s
lies one would think sheer embarrassment or perhaps a residual sense of
morality would have impelled these “institutions of the forth estate”
to do their duty. As has been the case for far to long however
they have shown obedience only to their corporate obligations rather
then the people, their readers and the citizens of this country, whom
they are supposed to serve.
It’s almost as if they
still don’t realize there’s something out there called the world wide
web, that people can actually get on it, and use it to discover the
truth.
Using a few of the articles
I’ve collected and an old 33k dial-up modem I obtained the following
web sites in less then 90 minutes. Think of what you could do
with a high-speed line and a few hours.
NOTE : I have no connection
with any of the sites listed below, nor do they with me. Simply
consider them as annotations supporting what I’ve written and an
encouragement for you to do your own research.
Specific Articles
http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm
http://tvnewslies.org/html/stop_ignoring_9_11__pnac.html
http://whatreallyhappened.com/911_reichstag.html
http://globalresearch.ca/articles/MOR505A.html
http://www.tbrnews.org/Archives/a1574.htm
http://www.wanttoknow.info/9-11timeline60pg
http://www.wanttoknow.info/coverupnews#a911
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050718/holtzman
http://context.themoscowtimes.com/stories/2005/06/24/120.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/GG09Ak01.html
http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/03nation
http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/02usa
http://mondediplo.com/2005/07/07instability
http://bushwatch.com/floydspring05.htm
http://empireburlesquenow.blogspot.com/2005/03/tattoo-nation-america-pays-cover.html
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/GG19Ag04.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201447.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-08/25/content_472089.htm
http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geeklog/public_html/article.php?story=20050219164651234
http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/print.asp?ID=3071
http://www.antiwar.com/engelhardt/?articleid=6300
http://www.christusrex.org/www1/news/nyt-6-25-05c.html
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050620/why_george_went_to_war.php
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EE09Ak01.html
http://home.earthlink.net/~platter/neo-conservatism/pnac.html
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/thou_shalt_not_accuse_.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOR505A.html
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=80&ItemID=8583
http://www.wanttoknow.info/050802coverupnewssummary
http://www.apfn.net/messageboard/06-28-05/discussion.cgi.62.html
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/RRinIraq.html
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2005/07/319471.html
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001050106
http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9698.htm
http://www.rinf.com/news/aug-05/57.html
Main Web Sites
http://www.wanttoknow.info/
http://www.globalpolicy.org/
http://www.thenation.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://mondediplo.com/
http://www.chris-floyd.com/
http://www.tompaine.com/
http://www.atimes.com/
http://alternet.org/
http://www.globalresearch.ca/
http://www.autobahn.mb.ca/~het/terror_war/tw_wk197.html
http://www.zmag.org/
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/
http://usa.mediamonitors.net/
http://crisispapers.org/
http://www.pinr.com/
If you are a regular viewer
or reader of the ‘mainstream media’ and discover it’s the first time
you’ve read about these issues, ask yourself why?
The U.S. media’s lack of
coverage regarding our government’s past and current crimes is of
course an important issue. It is a moral imperative to bring all the
people to justice in the U.S. who helped facilitate 911, those
wonderful, brilliant individuals who ‘somehow’ so ‘fortuitously’
pre-positioned themselves to make money off of it, the ones who
exploited it as a reason de’ettra to launch a war on the rest of the
world.
However I am well
aware that tens of millions of my fellow citizens along with the
‘mainstream’ US media would consider this belief to be a personal
failing. That at best it’s simply an eccentricity for someone to feel
this way, at worst it’s a sign of insanity.
But ALL of you, EVERYONE OF
YOU should ask yourself this question. Would the US’s media warn
us of upcoming terrorist ‘events’?
Obviously our media would
report information of an impending attack to the ‘proper’ authorities,
whoever they would be. But would our media tell us if these
authorities took any action
Like our authorities, our
‘mainstream’ media has so far shown a complete and utter inability to
‘follow the money’ especially when it might lead to any of the powerful
or wealthy in our society or even to foreign countries like Saudi
Arabia. Would our media expose issues, evidence, preparations,
unauthorized FBI, CIA or NSA leaks, or warnings, of another attack to
help prevent one; if by so doing they endangered the profits of, or
would cause embarrassment to, the powerful few. Or would they remain
silent as they have for the last four years and let another ‘event’
take place?
And if such an ‘event’ were
to happen again would our ‘mainstream” media try to salvage what little
remains of their credibility as the New York Times tried to do when it
printed it’s mea culpa. An insipid apology of how they were
“fooled” by our leader’s lies and falsehoods in the run-up to the Iraq
war?
Or would any of them even
bother?
By their silence, most of
our ‘mainstream’ media have become the enablers, abettors, and
facilitators of the absolute evil that has corrupted this nation.
They are as much to blame for this evil as the current administration
they so obviously support.
So ask yourself this
question. Given what’s gone on for the last four years, what’s more
important to our wealthy elites and the media empires they operate;
their money; or your lives?
Every time you buy a
‘mainstream’ newspaper, every time you listen to a ‘mainstream’
broadcast, every time you speak to a ‘mainstream’ reporter, never
forget that question.
Never ever forget.
So in an effort to provide
a little more clarity about what’s to happen over the next four years,
I decided to conduct a second interview with Mr. Reficul. Enjoy.
A SECOND INTERVIEW WITH THE
CREATURE
It was midday, the hottest
it had ever been in Arizona. The sun was blazing down out of the clear
blue sky, not an animal was stirring in the midday heat, not a mouse or
a rabbit, not even a bird. Nothing moved in the baking hot emptiness
but me, and I was cold with fear, for I was about to meet the man
America had chosen to follow, the real power behind the throne of the
American Empire. Mr Nellaf Legna Reficul
I stared up at Mr Reficul’s
airy perched on a massive red rock formation three hundred feet above
me as I considered whether to meet him. After summoning up what little
courage I had left, I got back into my car and proceeded up the twisty
hairpin single lane road that led to the back of the immense structure
Mr. Reficul called home.
Mr. Reficul greeted me at
the door to his foyer as impeccably dressed and immaculately groomed as
when we last met and welcomed me courteously across the threshold into
his home.
He seemed even more
immeasurably pleased with himself then he had during my first interview
with him. As we had during that prior meeting we retired to his immense
living room with its stunningly glorious panorama of the Arizona
desert, the city of Phoenix and the distant mountains beyond to conduct
our second interview.
He began by offering some
refreshments, which as I had before, I politely declined. I could never
explain to myself why I refused to take advantage of his hospitality
except for a feeling of unease that always overcame me when I thought
to do so.
I started with a general
question. “Well Mr Reficul you must be pleased with the outcome of the
most recent election?”
“Oh I’m delighted” He
replied, “I always knew the American people would vote for their best
interests, they always have in the past with only a few notable
exceptions.”
“So you’re happy with the
war in Iraq, with the way this administration is currently managing
this country’s affairs?” I replied.
“Of course” he said as he
beamed at me with pride and satisfaction, “my friends in Texas have
done everything I’ve asked of them, my oil profits are way up, the
shares of the defense and oil companies I own have sky rocketed, I’m
making more money hand over fist then I’ve ever made before, as I told
you I would when we last met, “ he paused, with an expression of
anticipation, “and there’s so much more to come.”
“I was a little
disappointed of course” he continued with a look of concern, “when they
started talking about this ‘freedom and democracy’ business, but after
a little coaching Bush went right back to the game plan, followed the
script, and emphasized the ‘war on terror’. I mean really,” he
said with disgust, “what would have happened to my arms business for
the next ten years if we didn’t have a continuous ‘war on terror’? How
could we maintain control of the U.S. population without a reason for
renewing the Patriot Act? By the way,” he said with a gleam in his eye,
and a knowing smirk” how did you like the London bombings, the way they
occurred two weeks prior to the Patriot Act renewal and three weeks
before the British Security Act renewal. Now wasn’t that ‘fortuitous’?”
I looked at him in
disbelief. “Mr. Reficul you don’t mean to tell me….” “Nothing” he
interrupted me abruptly, while giving me a warning glance, “absolutely
nothing” he said again as he leaned forward to get my attention, and
said sternly. “Remember this word of advice for your future plans kid,
never ever do anything directly, always use intermediaries, preferably
with as many intervening layers, third parties, cut-outs, patsies, etc
you can possibly have. Always preserve ‘plausible deniability’ and
never ever tell anyone what actually occurred. But you can hint.” He
finished with a sly wink and a smile as he leaned back in his chair.
“Just like my friend Dick did when he said before the last elections,
‘if you don’t vote Republican there will be another terrorist attack.”
Stunned for a brief moment
I paused to collect myself and asked, “So what’s going to happen to
Iraq now?”
“War,” he said as he smiled
savagely, “continuous, beautiful, profitable, delicious, endless war.
So far everyone is doing what they’re supposed to do, the Saudis are
supplying the foreign resistance in Iraq to keep ‘the pot bubbling’ and
help divide any national resistance movements as I told you they would
at our last meeting,” he looked at me, I nodded my head in assent. “We
do have the problem of that stupid Moqtada al-Sadr running around
saying he wants a nationalist not a federalist government. We can’t
have that; it could lead to a national resistance movement. Who would
have figured a Shi’ite helping to hold Iraq together with the Sunnis,”
Mr Reficul wondered bemusedly, “but you don’t have to worry about him,
something ‘fortuitous’ will happen to him.”
“Admittedly all this
‘bubbling’ is causing a shortfall in oil production from Iraq but
that’s why we and our Saudi friends are getting such high prices for
our products, not to mention the enormous profits we’re reaping from
our mutual interests in our various defense contractors”
With an upraised eyebrow,
he asked, changing the subject abruptly, “have you ever heard about
Corcoran prison?”
I’ve heard about it, there
was some sort of scandal there if I recall,” I replied, “why do you
ask?”
“Because it’s an excellent
example of our strategy in Iraq, the Middle East, in fact,” he paused
for a moment, “our strategy throughout the entire world. Always,
always, always ‘divide an conquer’” He stated, with complete firmness.
“The scandal in Corcoran was caused because of those stupid bleeding
heart liberals. The whole thing was blown all out of proportion.
All that happened was the guards wanted to have a little playtime with
the prisoners, teach them what low life’s and garbage they really were.
Understand of course they weren’t able to have as much fun as some of
the guards did in Abu Ghraib, making snuff movies and all, but they
still had a good time.”
“You see after a few years
in our prison system, … how should I put this…” he paused while he
reflected on what to say, “after being subject to the lovely
environment we created, the prisoners would become ‘improvised’ in
body, mind and spirit. We would break them you see. Our methods
of control could be less refined, made to be more ‘simple’ so to speak.
It was at this point that the guards would have a little fun. They
would take a prisoner from one gang put him in a courtyard with another
from a rival gang and encourage them to fight to the death. If they
didn’t fight, the guards would simply shoot them. It would remind me of
the glorious days of the Roman coliseum” he finished wistfully.
“But can you believe for
simply having a little relaxation time” Mr. Reficul said with a frown
of disapproval,” some of these guards were actually arrested? How
silly can you get? It goes to show how many bleeding hearts we
have in this country. Luckily the juries that were selected acquitted
almost every one of the guards exactly as they did for the jailers in
charge of Abu Ghairab. Now we get to use these same wonderful
techniques on an entire country.”
“We play Sunnis against
Kurds, Kurds against Shi’ites, Shi’ites against Sunni. Anybody gets out
of line and misbehaves we kill them. They don’t do what we tell them to
do we kill them. All the while we keep playing one group against
another while our solders remain in their fortified bases. After
awhile everyone becomes real cooperative.”
“Ah” Mr. Reficul said with
a contemplative expression, ”you should have seen some of the videos
from Abu Ghairab, what was done to some of those young men before they
finally died was sublime.”
“The Moslems are so easy to
‘play’,” he continued sighing contentedly while gazing at the distant
desert mountains, “We’ll divide the whole middle east eventually by
playing the Sunni countries off against the Shi’ite. That’ll make
everything run predictably and smoothly for the Saudis and us for the
next ten years, and provide another pretext to attack Iran. After
that war is over we’ll just pick up the remaining pieces.”
“Think about it, we’ve been
planning this thing of ours for almost two decades. It’s been so easy
to play off these religious fanatics against each other, and not just
theirs either.” He said, as he turned to look at me “I mean twenty
years ago when the Bush family got together with the Saudis we in the
U.S. started, centralizing, organizing and financing the Christian
Right. While at the same time the Saudis started training, financing,
organizing and centralizing the extremist Wahabbisits in their country
and the Middle East. They get their fanatics to support their
policies; we get ours to support ours; everyone’s happy” he finished
contentedly.
Needless to say everyone
will assert it’s all just a coincidence, just a ‘fortuitous
circumstance’, just an accident of chance that Bush Senior, head of the
CIA twenty years ago developed this ‘special’ relationship with the
Saudis for which he and his family’s members are now receiving their
enormous and justly earned rewards, along with me of course.” Mr.
Reficul paused, and looked at me with a twinkle in his eye. “I just
love America, just imagine the American Christians helping me, of all
people, by sacrificing their own sons and daughters to make me
fabulously wealthy and allowing me to enjoy such delicious treats as
those videos from Abu Gharib, there really is justice in the world
after all, let me tell you.”
The only problem I have is
some of the Christians are talking to much,” he said irritably.
“We’ve already begun the buildup in South America and are getting set
to go after Venezuela as I said we would,” he paused and looked at me,
I nodded my head a second time in assent “Yet we’ve got loud
mouths like Pat Robertson running around spilling the beans. Who the
heck does he think he is saying we’re going to assassinate the
Venezuelan president Chavez? Of course we’re going to, but now he’s
made it truly difficult.” He finished with a look of anger. “Guys like
that deserve what happened to Gary Webb, the jerk who worked for the
San Jose Mercury news and spilled the beans on the CIA’s program to use
drug money to help support the contra’s. He truly got what he
deserved,” Mr. Reficul finished with a satisfied look.
“But what about the
people of Iraq and the rest of the Middle East, what about the U.S.
military,” I stuttered inanely.
Mr. Reficul looked at me as
if he had just bit into something sour; I guess he’d finally gotten
impatient with my naiveté. “Look kid,” he said disdainfully” I
invited you here because I thought you were smart, I thought you wanted
to be a ‘player’, to teach you how the world works and here you are
thinking like an idiot and asking stupid questions. I’m beginning to
believe I’ve wasted my time.”
I tried to look abashed
while I came up with a clever response, and felt relieved as I thought
of one. Looking concerned I stated. “Well it’s not that I care about
the casualties Mr. Reficul, or the people who are dying it’s just that
your plans could be endangered be the growing anti-war movement and the
low opinion polls Bush is receiving because of the carnage.”
“Ha Ha Ha” Mr. Reficul
leaned back in his chair laughing so hard I thought he was going to
fall over. “The anti-war movement,” he said with contempt,” those
wimps, those dummies, you’ve got to be kidding me. They and the opinion
polls are just crud, you know what Bush’s approval ratings were right
after 911?” he asked sharply.
I shook my head no.
“90%, that’s what they
were” he replied, “and they’ll be the same again after the next
terrorist incident, which let me assure you will be a big one.
After that we will,” he said the next with a particularly venomous
expression,” get rid of all those ‘peace-niks’ permanently.”
I asked with a measure of
foreboding “How do you know we’ll have another ‘big one’?”
“Because this country
need’s to be motivated to go after Iran.” He said curtly.
“And when will this country
be ‘motivated’?” I inquired worriedly.
“Before the election next
year,” he replied assuredly, “the economy will be heading into a
recession by then as the housing market slows down and we’ll be able to
afford the extra cost of a war by dropping the interest rates. If not
by then it’ll happen prior to the next presidential election three
years from now. After all, we’ve run this scenario practically every
ten years.”
“We have?” I asked with
surprise.
“Sure” Mr. Reficul replied
with relish, “You yourself pointed out how our ambassador to Iraq
practically invited Saddam into Kuwait in ’92 right? Exactly when the
economy was having a little trouble, not so?”
“Yes” I said hesitantly.
“That was a great little
war, we made a ton of money on that one too, it was a little short but
you can’t have everything” he said happily, “and around ’82 good
ol’Ronnie did a number on our ‘friend’ Noriaga after the poor little
guy helped us out so much running drugs for Iran-Contra, hee-hee,
betch’a Noriaga didn’t see that one coming” He chortled, “along with
our invasion of Granada, our weapons build-up in Europe and the US
troops we put into Lebanon, we made a lot of money from our defense
contractors during those days.”
“Yeah I remember those
incidents,” I agreed with dawning understanding.
“We would have started a
nice war during the early ‘70’s but those pesky peace-niks and their
bleeding heart congressman got in our way, all because the US lost a
lousy 57,000 guys in Vietnam, hells bells what a bunch of cowardly
weaklings! That’s why we had to take over the U.S.’s mass media
market during the ‘80’s and ‘90’s and came up with the concept of the
“imbedded”, hee-hee,” he chuckled, “I should say ‘in-bed-with’
reporters for the Iraq war. We had to make sure nothing like that
ever happened again. And of course for those that weren’t ‘in-bed’ with
us in Iraq, let me say with some satisfaction they personally
experienced an unusually high rate of attrition, and still do to this
very day.” He said with a smirk.
“Then of course we started
Vietnam around ‘62, now there was a magnificent, beautiful war,” he
waxed nostalgically” We made so much money off our defense contractors
during Vietnam it would shock you and we managed to stretch it out for
ten glorious years despite the fact we couldn’t control the
media. I really liked that war.” He said looking wistfully at the
panorama of the desert, ”It was a near thing though, that schmuck
Kennedy was having second thoughts early on about the wisdom of the war
tell my Texas boys showed him a little Texas hospitality.”
“Johnson was much more
compatible with our goals” Mr. Reficul continued, “he complied with our
wishes regarding the war, but he was so stupid about everything else,
imagine, he actually tried to fund the war while giving money to poor
people at the same time. For hell’s sake what a stupid idea, he should
have done the smart thing like Bush did, fund the war while giving the
tax dollars to us, the wealthiest 1% who have done so much for this
country. If Johnson had done that, we might have selected him for
reelection.”
I sat stunned by the
simplicity of Mr. Reficul’s revelations, realizing that there wasn’t a
possibility in the world the US’s media didn’t know about this all
along. It was way to obvious.
So I asked Mr. Reficul
“what’s to happen to America now”
“Profits for us of course,
for the 1% who own this country. As for the 9% that help us run it, as
long as they’re useful and productive we’ll give them a few crumbs, as
for the rest, the other 90%,” he paused, “well if they obey us most
will be allowed to live and maybe raise a family, if they’re good and
well behaved that is”.
“You understand of course,”
as he looked at me with an icy expression,” this country is mine now.
It belongs to ME now. The people in this country worship money as their
god and the wealthy of this country have very generously,” he paused
again choosing his words carefully, and then continued, “contracted to
give me everything that they are; or will ever be, even their children,
even after death. And I always collect what is due me,” he said
with satisfaction, “ I always collect what I’m owed.”
“So” he said as he looked
at me with interest, “Do you want to join our select little
group? You’d be one of the elites you know, one of the powerful
able to obtain your heart’s desire and rise above the law, to fulfill
your darkest fantasies, to be accountable to no one, or subject to any
moral restraint. You’d have a compliant press at your beck and
call, to admire and forgive all of your errors no matter how egregious
or obvious. All you’d have to do is sign this little piece of
paper just like all the others have done” as he said this he pulled a
document out of his breast pocket and held it out to me.
I paused for a very long
time while I considered his offer. During which Mr. Reficul looked at
me expectantly. While he waited I remained frozen, unable to stretch
forth my hand to take the contract, as I looked directly into his red
tinted eyes I said, very politely “Mr. Reficul I thank you very much
for your advice and insight, but I’m afraid I’ll have to decline your
generous offer. I’m simply not made of the same cloth as you and your
compatriots are. Although I wish you the best of luck Mr. Reficul, and
I mean that, I really do. After all this country deserves someone like
you to handle it’s affairs and I know you’ll continue to do so.”
“But” I continued with
great sincerity, “Since this country has shown such a fervent desire to
please you. Wouldn’t it be better to concentrate your efforts here,
rather then abroad? Couldn’t you leave Africa, Asia, the Middle
East and Latin America to their own devices? After all so many
people in this country admire you and model their behavior after
yours. So many here have already contracted with you.”
Mr. Reficul appeared for
the briefest of moments to become insanely enraged, as he did so I
experienced a sudden horrible sense of vertigo, then, as his expression
swiftly changed to one of fatherly disapproval I just as suddenly
regained my balance. He composed himself and with a calm but steely
voice said. “You’re making a grave mistake my son, if your not with us
you’re against us, and you know what happens to those who are against
us don’t you? As for your ridiculous suggestion to limit my
wonderful influence solely to this country, why should I? It’s
precisely because so many of the people in the rest of the world
haven’t yet experienced the benefits of contracting with me that I
need,” and when Mr. Reficul said the word need, a voracious predatory
expression suffused his features, “to spread my beneficence throughout
their lands.”
He then turned and looked
at me with disgust and disappointment, “you’re fool to refuse such an
offer and like many before you who’ve made such a grievous error,
you’ll pay for your foolishness,” and with that Mr. Reficul stood up
and stated coldly, “I would like you to leave now”
As he accompanied me to the
entrance of his house he remained utterly silent. With my legs
trembling from fear I followed him across the gleaming black marble
tiles of the floor toward the great bronze doors that marked the
threshold between his domain and that of the world outside.
For a moment I thought they
wouldn’t open, as they did a sense of relief flooded through me as I
suddenly realized the narrowness of my escape. Practically leaping
across the threshold into the blinding light, I turned to see Mr.
Reficul staring at me balefully and with a hint of regret. He
didn’t cross the threshold with me or offer to shake my hand goodbye,
perhaps because he knew I would refuse. Mr. Reficul continued to
look me as, without a touch from him, the great bronze doors swung shut
to close before me with a hollow boom.
As I headed back toward my
car I knew he was right. This country belonged to HIM now.
There would be no redemption, no undoing of the awful evil this country
was responsible for. The millions of lives shattered and
destroyed, the hundreds of thousands killed and maimed.
As I got into my broiling
hot car all I could hear in the baking silence was Mr. Reficul laughing
faintly in the distance. He sounded very pleased with himself.
End. MPG
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12th mailing 06-06-05
al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda the Media and the U.S.
As usual no replies
received, none sent besides this mailing number 12. If you’ve
received anything else, it wasn’t from me.
Before I sat down to watch
one of my favorite movies the other day, I saw two of our local “news”
i.e. “fanciful infotainment” stations spewing the same identical
doggerel about al-Zarqawi and Al Queda and literally gushing on and on
about how the US was “saving” the poor Iraqi people from this evil
monster.
If you’re seeing the same
garbage on your TV just keep in mind the articles listed below and Mr.
Reficul’s quote included in mailing number 10 from my first
conversation with him, “our true friends the Saudis will continue to
supply funds and resources to my agent provocateurs be they Al Queda or
some new incarnation. They'll provoke more incidents to keep the pot
bubbling [in Iraq]. Iran will be next, maybe the states in the
Caspian basin, maybe Nigeria, perhaps Venezuela. I'll have to
come up with new groups for those countries.”
Articles #1, #2, #3, #4 and
#5 detail how the Bush administration didn’t go after al-Zarqawi when
it had SEVERAL chances to do so, this was done under direct orders from
Bush himself. Please note that this failure was remarkably under
reported by our news media. Gee…… I wonder why?
Article #6 outlines how
convenient this all was for the Bush administration’s policies. Note it
also mentions how Rumsfeld backed off saying al-Zarqawi and al Qaeda
were connected to each other after George Tennent head of the CIA
issued a report saying there wasn’t any connection. Didn’t Mr.
Tennent also issue several other critical reports such as “a lack of
WMD” a “pessimistic outlook on the war in Iraq”, etc., was later fired,
the CIA purged, and he and his agency become the fall guy for the
U.S.’s “intelligence failures”? I wonder why? Hmmm.. it must be
one of those “fortuitous circumstances” right?
Articles #7 and #8 both
point out how al-Zarqawi and his band of merry men, the “Tawhid” were;
and basically still are, a group completely separate and apart from Al
Qaeda. The articles cover how al-Zarqawi was in Afghanistan where he
presumably received some CIA support. How he hates the Shias and
believes they are apostates. How he would serve as a perfectly good
U.S. foil to “divide”, a unified Iraqi resistance by his continuous
attacks against the Shias and thereby enable the U.S. to “conquer” all
three ethnic groups in Iraq. This is just another “fortuitous
circumstance” of course, along with how our press keeps saying Al Qaeda
when they really mean to say the Tawhid, Gee…… I can’t figure that one
out. Must be some sort of TV dubbing or voice over effect………… you
think?
Article #9 even suggests
that U.S. forces had captured al-Zarqawi AND THAN LET HIM GO.
What can I tell you;
another terrorist with admittedly tenuous connections to the CIA (this
time) one of whom we take every opportunity not to attack, one of whom
we may even have actually captured and than let go. A person who the
press has enlarged into this “BIG BAD MONSTER OUT TO GET US” a person
who probably obtains his support from the Saudis (unconfirmed as of
yet, I’m still researching) but is definitely a Sunni who believes that
the Shias are apostates. A person who is incorrectly described as an
“Al Qaeda terrorist” which the press, shuddering with fear, eyes
bulging in terror states “may attack us at any time”.
Gee he sounds exactly like
that “other” guy …. What was his name … Osama something, right?
Everyone should be grateful
however that unlike Osama, the bin Ladens and the Saudis, al-Zarqawi
doesn’t have a twenty to thirty year history of embarrassing
connections between himself and the Texas Cabal and Bush family.
Wow I just realized what
a.. dare I say it again; I just can’t help myself.. what a “fortuitous
circumstance” that is.
Think about it. The U.S.
government has already made preparations for a draft. This
administration has cleared the decks by purging the C.I.A, the one
organization that issued reports critical of their plans and the only
one capable of standing in their way. Rhumsfeld has now taken the
reigns of power at the Pentagon. The economy may go into the tank under
the increasing load of debt caused by this administration’s policies.
If there were another
attack on U.S. soil, our current government would be able to pass an
enabling decree much harsher then the Patriot Act, invoke the draft,
blame any economic difficulties caused by their policies and
mismanagement on the attack, and invade more countries,.. like Iran for
instance.
Such an attack and
subsequent invasion of Iran would strengthen the Saudis position and
power in the Gulf, Bush’s position and power in the U.S. and of course
would put the last remaining gulf state not under Bush’s control firmly
in his hands.
Wow, now wouldn’t that be
fortuitous?
As I’ve said in prior
personal letters I’ve written more then two years ago, ”isn’t it
interesting to see two such families who derive their wealth from the
oil industry arrive at such a sympathetic understanding?”
By the way there are many,
many, many other articles detailing this administration’s mendacity on
these issues.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200410070007
#1 Media Matters –
the radio factor – Media largely silent on WSJ report – 11-15-2004
http://slate.msn.com/id/2108880/
#2 Slate magazine –
Why Bush let Iraq’s top terrorist walk – Daniel Benjamin – 10-29-2004
http://zfacts.com/p/653.html
#3 Z Facts.com – Know
the Facts – Get the Source – Bush Failed to Attack Zarqawi – From
the Wall Street Journal – by Scott J Paltrow – 10-25-2004 – Page A-3
http://zzpat.tripod.com/cvb/oct_2004/bush_failed_to_attack_zarqawi.html
#4 Lycos Tripod –
Bush Failed to Attack Zarqawi – From the Wall Street Journal – By Scott
J Paltrow – 10-25-2004 – Page A-3
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4431601/
#5 NSNBC TV –
Avoiding Attacking suspected terrorist master mind –
By Jim Miklaszewski –
03-02-2004
http://www.brushtail.com.au/july_04_on/zarqawi_bush.html
#6 Brush Tail
Graphics – Is al-Zarqawi a false flag operator – Nick Possum –
07-01-2004
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/18/opinion/main618114.shtml
#7 CBS news – from
the Weekly Standard – Who is Abu Musab al Zarqawi –
Written by Robert S Leiken
& Steven Brook 05-18-2004
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0303-01.htm
Published on Wednesday, March 3, 2004 by Knight-Ridder
Doubts Cast on Efforts to Link Saddam, al-Qaida
by Warren P. Strobel, Jonathan S. Landay and John Walcott
http://www.global-conspiracies.com/saudi_suicide_bomber_claims_zarqawi_was_captured_then_released.htm
#9 Global
Conspiricies dot Com – Saudi Suicide Bomber Claims Zarqawi was
Captured, Then Released – by Alisha Ryu – 01-24-2005
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11th mailing dated
04-12-2005 & 05-08-2005
As usual nothing received,
nothing sent. So if you’ve received anything besides these mailings it
wasn’t from me.
As you may have noted I’m
mailing the complete document, what can I say. I was advised not
to set up a web site, so I’ve sent everything again.
Oh look here’s a quote from
a factoid in the May 16th 2005 copy of the Nation.
“Despite the refusal of the
Shah to rule out the possibility of Iran's developing nuclear weapons,
the Ford Administration in 1975 approved the sale of up to eight
nuclear reactors with fuel to Iran and, in 1976, approved the sale of
lasers believed to be capable of enriching uranium. The Washington Post
reported that an initially hesitant President Ford was assured by his
advisors that Iran was interested only in the peaceful uses of nuclear
energy.
Ford's Defense Secretary
[at the time] was Donald Rumsfeld, his Chief of Staff was Dick Cheney
and his man in charge of nonproliferation efforts at the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency was Paul Wolfowitz.”
Well, well, well, what do
you know, I’m really surprised. No, no really I am, it’s the same darn
people we keep hearing about, wow what a coincidence, they just keep
turning up over, and over, and over again. It’s funny how our
mainstream “press” doesn’t report these things. These are the
same guys who helped sell weapons to Iraq and then took the U.S. to war
because they claimed Iraq still had them.
Isn’t that like killing
both your parents and than throwing yourself on the mercy of the court
because you’re an orphan?
Hey you think they’ll take
us to war against Iran too, for the same reasons? Nah, can’t be,
it just has to be one of those “fortuitous” circumstances right?
By the way guess what, in
the last couple of weeks the commission charged with investigating 9/11
and finding out who funded the terrorists and facilitated their entry
into the U.S. decided not to continue their investigation. Wow, what a
surprise. Just exactly what I said they would do in my 7th
mailing dated 08-29-2004. Geez I’m shocked, really I am.
Who would believe they would ignore the deaths of 3,500 Americans just
because the election was over. I guess they’re just like the U.S.
press. Think of that, all these amazing ‘fortuitous’
circumstances happening all at the same time.
So to make up for the lack
of investigative prowess by the American press I decided to write this
letter and conduct another interview with Mrs. Middle America.
Enjoy.
A Second Conversation with
Mrs. Middle America
Filled with trepidation but
with resolute determination I made my decision to return and conduct
another interview with Mrs. Middle America. With great difficulty
I forced myself to go back to that nightmarish neighborhood of
perfectly manicured lawns, perfectly maintained homes and perfectly
dressed people. Knowing what these people have done, knowing they
believed and practiced the awful things Mr. Reficul said were good for
this country. I did it because I just had to know if anything had
changed since I last interviewed Mrs. Middle America six months ago.
Not sure of my reception I
first gave Mrs. Middle America a call to see how I would be
received. She sounded pleasantly surprised to hear from me again
and agreed to another interview.
I arrived late that
afternoon. After entering her home we exchanged the usual pleasantries,
made ourselves comfortable on her living room chairs while we both
sipped some tea and I proceeded to get my notes ready for the interview.
I began genially "Well Mrs.
America what do you think about our recent Presidential election. And
what's been happening to this nation for the last six months?"
"Oh things are fantastic",
she cooed while her eyes sparkled brightly, "everything's going really
well, we now have a great and glorious mandate to do all the wonderful
things we have to do for this country and the rest of the world."
"Such as get those evil
rotten terrorists" I asked?
"What do you mean?" she
replied with a blank and vacuous look on her face.
"Well," …. I paused trying
to collect my thoughts and said. "In my last interview you stated
'we had to protect ourselves from those evil terrorists, to go get
them, all of them'.
"I did?" she replied with
another blank look.
"Sure" I said feeling
somewhat confused by her lack of recollection, so I showed her my notes.
"Oh no, no, no… of course
that isn't what I meant, not at all. You just misunderstood me,"
she stated in what she hoped was a reassuring tone of voice.
"What we're going to do is bring 'freedom and democracy' to the world,
that's what I really meant."
"I see," I said looking
utterly stunned. And stated tonelessly "So our reasons for what we've
done, and will do, have changed," I paused for a very long moment,
"again?"
"Of course they have my
dear, to reflect the new global realities, that's what our wonderful
and glorious president said in his inauguration speech." She replied
with a radiant smile.
"I see," I repeated again
feeling like a fool, "Let us both cover some of our nation's prior
historical events so I can get this straight. Back before Bush Jr.'s
dad, Bush Sr., served in his term of office, Bush Sr., his corporate
pals, and his friends who were later appointed to his cabinet, sold
Saddam weapons, including some of those 'awful' weapons of mass
destruction'. Later when Bush Sr., actually served his term of office,
his ambassador to Iraq in a conversation with Saddam, practically
invited Saddam to invade Kuwait. Am I to understand that It's your
contention the U.S. government did all of these things to promote
'freedom and democracy', is that right?'
"Yes of course that's the
reason" She responded "So Bush Sr. and his cabinet made a little money,
I already told you I don't care if they did. As regards to what our
ambassador said, I never read anything about her 'inviting' Iraq to
invade Kuwait. What does it matter anyway"?
"It matters because it's
true" I replied "And you're right, you probably didn't read about it
because the story was barely covered by our major newspapers, for some
inexplicable reason they only carried it for a couple of weeks. Here's
what's on the public record however. When asked about her conversation
with Saddam in a congressional hearing she lied under oath and falsely
stated the conversation had never occurred. Later when confronted with
the secretly recorded tape Saddam had kept of their conversation she
finally admitted she had told Saddam, 'the U.S. would have no opinion
about the matter' when Saddam informed her of his intentions to
invade. This from the very ambassador who represented Bush Sr.
and members of Bush's own cabinet who had 'befriended' Saddam, The very
men who had encouraged and facilitated many of the companies who
supplied Saddam with his weapons. Saddam trusted her statement, his
relationship with Bush Sr. and Bush's corporate pals….. And acted
accordingly."
"I really don't see the
point of discussing this. If our newspapers didn't cover the story it
obviously wasn't very important, now was it?" She replied while looking
at me expectantly.
"200,000 people and
hundreds of Americans died in Gulf War One," I stated flatly, while
staring coldly at her.
"And your point is?" she
replied with an impatient look?
"My point is," I said
biting off each of my words, "Do you still contend we did this to
promote 'freedom and democracy'"
"Of course we did." she
replied with a questioning look, "it's obvious you just don't
understand what we're trying to do."
Taking a moment to compose
myself while looking at my notes I retorted "Bush Sr. also deliberately
encouraged the Kurds and Shiites to rise against Saddam, after Gulf War
One. Citing your 'freedom and democracy' all the while. He then refused
to support them in their efforts to obtain their true freedom and
democracy allowing Saddam to slaughter them wholesale. A policy I might
add that helped to weaken all three ethnic groups in Iraq both
militarily and politically while simultaneously exacerbating internal
divisions and ethnic tensions. Such an outcome would of course
'fortuitously' support a strategy of 'divide and conquer' if the U.S.
should 'coincidently' decide to occupy Iraq at some future date. Did we
also do this to promote 'freedom and democracy'?"
"And again I tell you of
course we did, you're simply not getting the point, besides its all
just ancient history anyway, why are you asking me questions about Bush
Sr. and his policies. I thought we were going to discuss our current
president, his son" She replied with some irritation.
"Well" I responded "I
thought these historical events might have some baring on our current
situation, that they might actually be related to each other,
especially considering the fact that many of the same people who served
in Bush Sr.'s cabinet, are now the very same people who are serving in
Bush Jr.'s cabinet. Did you ever consider that Mrs. America, that these
events might actually be connected in some way?"
"But all these things
you're talking about happened years ago." she said with a look of utter
and profound perplexity, how could they possibly be connected?
Looking at her
incredulously I queried, "So anything that happened" I paused "'years
ago' I paused again, "has no relation to what happens now. Is that
right?
"Exactly", now you're
getting it" she replied, "It's never a good idea to look into the past,
especially if it's unpleasant. Why dig up all that old stuff
anyway? All you do is cause unhappiness."
I responded "So when this
current administration stated that Saddam was connected to 9/11 and it
turned out that statement wasn't true at all, it didn't matter because
it happened years ago, is that right?"
"Exactly" she replied
enthusiastically.
"And when they said Iraq
and Saddam were connected to Al Quada and it turned out that statement
wasn't true either, it didn't matter because it happened years ago.
That's also correct?" I asked.
"Exactly, …..right again,
now you're getting it" she replied appearing to be very excited.
I responded. "And when they
said Iraq was sponsoring terrorism and it turned out that wasn't true
also, it was OK because it happened years ago right?"
"Perfectly correct, I think
you're finally understanding me now" She replied.
"And when they said Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction and that also turned out not to be
true, it was just fine because they said it….. years ago,…..is that
right?" I asked in disbelief.
"I think you are finally
beginning to understand how it works now, you're becoming one of us"
she replied," regarding me fondly as if I'd been newly converted to her
chosen faith."
Feeling like I'd entered
the twilight zone I finally asked," and if a year from now it turns out
that all the terrible things we've done, including the invasion of
Iraq, and the slaughter of it's people were done not for 'freedom and
democracy', but for some new hitherto undiscovered 'reason', would that
be OK to?
"Of course it would be, now
you've finally got it." She exclaimed appearing to be so excited she
was practically bouncing up and down in her chair.
Staring at her, utterly
appalled I replied softly "Mrs. America those were just campaign
slogans, do you understand that during the last twenty years while we
played these ethnic groups and countries against each another, all the
while making money selling them weapons to kill one another, millions
of people have died, many quite terribly"
"Oh don't' be such a cry
baby. It doesn't matter anyway" she crowed, grabbing my arm in her
excitement, practically jumping off her chair while staring at me
intently, "we did it to give them 'freedom and democracy'."
Trying not to cringe and
jerk my arm away from her grasp, I gently removed her hand and asked,
"so, using your own words we are now going to 'kill, maim and torture
millions and millions of other people, especially the one's with lots
of oil' not to 'protect ourselves from those evil terrorists', but to
'bring the people in these countries freedom and democracy', is that
right Mrs. America. In your opinion 'we're actually helping them when
we bomb and kill them.' Is that correct?"
"Exactly, you finally
understand what we're really trying to do."
Looking sadly at Mrs.
America I asked softly "Mrs. America… do you know what a lie is?"
"Of course I do, why are
you asking me such a silly question. A lie is when you don't tell the
truth." She replied.
I responded patiently "I'm
asking this silly question because you've already agreed that all the
prior 'reasons' or 'truths' were wrong.
"There weren't 'wrong' she
said, and paused while she concentrated, "they were true at the time"
she paused again, with a painfully thoughtful expression." And now
they're not true." She finished looking at me brightly and with great
cheer." She hesitated and regarded me searchingly. "You understand now
don't you?"
I replied very slowly "So
anything the administration says is 'true' is 'true' at the time they
say it and because they say it, especially if our mass media
uncritically and continually repeat it over and over again. Even if it
is contradicted by all the current facts and is later proven to be
utterly untrue. Is that correct?"
"Absolutely correct" she
replied with a satisfied look.
"Mrs. America" I said
patiently "that is not the meaning of truth"
"Oh fiddlesticks" she said
with great exasperation "I thought you were beginning to understand me."
"Well let me try to
understand you better by asking a few more questions. Would you
sacrifice your sons and daughters for this 'truth' whatever it may be
at the time," I asked softly.
"Yes" She replied.
"And you would agree that
the U.S. can kill and maim and torture millions of people throughout
the world on the basis of whatever 'truth' your 'truth' currently
happens to be." I asked softly again.
"Yes", she sighed happily
"so you do understand after all".
"And it doesn't matter that
your 'freedom and democracy', your new 'truth' is already fraying at
the edges. That we have established 14 military bases in Iraq and it
looks like we’ll occupy Iraq for the next 10 years. That the Shiites
who comprise 65% of the population, 'somehow', remarkably received only
48% of the vote in the recent Iraqi elections, coincidently right below
the 50% margin needed to take control of the government. What the San
Francisco Chronicle might have been referring to in a prior article as
'controlled democracy'. What you are saying essentially Mrs.
America is occupation is freedom and tallying the votes the way you
want them to go is democracy, is that correct, this is your 'truth'."
"Of course it is." She
replied with utter aplomb, "truth is whatever our wonderful president
decides it's to be and if he has to change it every six months then
that's what he'll have to do."
I reply very softly, “Mrs.
America I’ve read an article recently outlining Pentagon plans to
establish a series of ‘terrorist’ groups in Iraq, ostensibly to be used
to combat and infiltrate other terrorist groups. These groups
would be semi-automanous, and probably unaccountable to any legal
authorities or body of international law. Like the ‘death squads’
which caused so much untold agony for Central America’s people these
groups could be used, and given history’s tendency to repeat itself
probably will be used, to coerce the local population; for the selected
assassination of political undesirables; and as agent provocateurs to
deliberately inflame religious or ethnic tensions when and if the need
should arise. [hh] Is this a policy compatible with your ‘freedom and
democracy?’
“Of course it is,” she said
smiling. “You have to understand everything we’re doing is for the
Iraqi people’s own good, we’re only there just to help them, and
they’re just going to have to understand this and trust us.”
As I stared at the happily
beaming Mrs. Middle America, I realized nothing would stop her, that
the killing and deaths would go on and on and on to satisfy whatever
glorious visions her 'wonderful president' would lay out for her.
No amount of death and destruction was too much. Nothing would ever jar
her out of her self-satisfied reverie even if the price were to be paid
for by her own flesh and blood.
Utterly shocked by what I
had heard I got ready to leave. Mrs. America happily accompanied
me to the door, and appeared to be blissfully unaware of the effect her
views had had on me. She cordially said goodbye, perhaps thinking I was
one 'of them' now.
But of course I wasn't. I
knew there was no place in this country for me, no place to hide
anymore 'they' were everywhere and would do anything and say anything
to get what they want. But this isn't the true horror; the horror
is that they would smile at you and say they were helping you, even
while they killed you. That's the true horror.
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10TH MAILING
10-17-2004
Well nothing received and
nothing sent except this mailing #9. If of course you've received
anything else it wasn't from me.
This is the last full
transmission, I promise. However considering the inflammatory
nature of 'my conversation' I've decided to include the rest of the
document.
By the way for those who
are interested here's a small sampling of various web sites among
dozens I've visited. I'll have a lot more as links when I set up
my own web site. Enjoy.
http://www.democracyunbound.com/lookingglass.html
http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHI202A.html
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2005/stories/20030314006302400.htm
http://www.truthout.com/docs_02/06.21A.pitt.watchtower.htm
http://www.thedubyareport.com/bushbin.html
http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/q.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/events/newsnight/1645527.stm
http://www.flonnet.com/fl2005/stories/20030314006302400.htm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=33642
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/iraq/comment/0,12956,1036687,00.html
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Think about it,
The U.S. created Al Qeada
through it's proxies.
The U.S created the
Mujahadeen which led directly to the creation of the Taliban.
The U.S "played" the
Mujahadeen against the Soviets leading to the deaths of hundreds of
thousands.
The U.S supported Osama bin
Laden directly and through it's proxies
The U.S 'somehow'
'fortuitously' allowed our 'friend' turned 'enemy' Osama to attack the
U.S. killing thousands.
The U.S supported Saddam
and he became our's, leading to untold repression and the deaths of
tens of thousands.
The U.S sold him weapons of
mass destruction.
The U.S 'played' Iraq
against Iran and encouraged Saddam to use the weapons we gave him to
kill millions.
The U.S supported and
created the Shah of Iran leading to untold repression and the deaths of
thousands.
The U.S traded weapons with
Iran so we could support the Contras killing thousands in the process.
The U.S 'played' Iraq
against Quwait which killed hundreds of thousands.
The U.S weakened Iraq with
the first Gulf war which killed hundreds of thousands more
The U.S. weakened Iraq
further when it encouraged the Shiites and Kurds to rebel against
Saddam, then stood by while they were ruthlessly slaughtered. [gg]
The U.S weakened Iraq even
further with the sanctions which killed additional hundreds of
thousands more.
After our 'friend' turned
'enemy' Afghanistan was weakened sufficiently we invaded it and
conquered it.
After our 'friend' turned
'enemy' Iraq was weakened sufficiently we invaded it and we will
conquer it.
After our 'friend' turned
'enemy' Iran has been weakened sufficiently we will invade it and we
will conquer it.
Killing hundreds of
thousands, possibly millions more.
This is what we did, and
will do, to only THREE of all the countries out there in the world.
Isn't the United States a
great country to do 'business' with?
Isn't the United States a
great country to be 'friends' with?
There is a fable of a
mythical creature, it goes by several names, many of which you
shouldn't say aloud. If you make a deal with this creature it'll
grant you your wish. This creature thrives on death and
destruction, it grows more powerful as those it tempts with it's offers
meet their downfall. This creature is well known to be the
"master of lies". It convinces it's victims that it's doing them
a favor, that somehow if the victim doesn't succumb to it's charms
there's "something wrong" with the victim. It is the master
trickster "playing" with people and nations as if they were toys.
If you want gold or weapons
or a chance to achieve power it'll give you what you want....... Always
for a price of course..... Always for a price. But if you are tempted
by this creature's offer and you take what it gives you will be utterly
destroyed and consumed, you will have been 'played' and so will all of
your people, your tribe, and your nation.
A CONVERSATION WITH THE
CREATURE:
I met Mr
Nellaf Legna Reficul at his home located in the outskirts of Phoenix
Arizona Mr. Reficul's home was a huge modern cement and glass structure
inset into the top of a massive red rock formation with an almost 360
degree view overlooking Phoenix's central valley and the distant
mountains hundreds of miles away.
Unlike
Mrs. Middle America I didn't know much about Mr. Reficul, nor was I
able to dig up much about his past life except that in all my contacts
regarding him people said he was the most influential man in America.
Despite
Mrs. America's dire warnings I was determined to conduct more
interviews regarding what has happened to the United States in the last
few years. I had heard many terrible things about Mr. Reficul but when
he came to the door he was an effervescent, charming and extremely
likeable gentleman. His appearance was quite impeccable, a tall
silver haired, quite distinguished looking man who dressed as if he'd
just stepped out of the boardroom of a major corporation.
He immediately put
me at my ease and invited me to enter his enormous living room.
It was huge, bigger then most houses, with an acre of plate glass
windows standing approximately twenty feet high. The windows swept
around the room and looked out over the magnificent panorama of the
Arizona desert. The walls were faced with textured rough gray
granite and the floors were inlaid jet black polished marble slabs with
dark ruby red veins of some mineral running through them. High
overhead was the gray cement ceiling of the structure.
Scattered across the
expanse of floor were numerous comfortable looking
sofas and chairs arranged in modular sections and invariably made of
black leather. I sat down on one of the couches with a view of the
distant mountains while Mr. Reficul took a chair next to me.
Reaching
for a bowl sitting on the coffee table in front of us, which for some
reason I hadn't noticed before, he said in a deep honeyed melifluious
voice "would you like some black grapes to refresh yourself?" anxious
to start I declined his offer. "How about some wine?" he rejoined
reaching for two huge crystal goblets of blood red wine sitting in
plain view on the table, and which again I hadn't noticed before.
"Oh, no thanks." I said as I rubbed my eyes tiredly thinking I should
have gotten more sleep. After taking a satisfying sip from his goblet,
he said, "To bad, it's a great vintage."
Opening my
notebook I inquired as I had with Mrs. Middle America, "it's been quite
an eventful three years hasn't it Mr. Reficul?" "It certainly
has," he stated with obvious satisfaction.
"The reason I
decided to interview you Mr. Reficul", I began "is because I've
received conflicting information regarding the events leading up to
9/11 and it's aftermath. I've been told that you are one of the most
influential men in the United States, that your influence is growing
every day, and that your opinions have been excepted by more and more
of this countries citizens over the last couple of decades. Because of
this I felt you might be able to shed some light on what has happened
recently in this country." "Why thank you for your compliments, It'll
be my pleasure to help clarify things for you." He replied sincerely.
"To
start with how and why do you think 9/11 happened and why do you think
we invaded Iraq?" I queried. "Money, oil and power" was his short
clipped response. Startled by his curt answer I said "But when I
interviewed Mrs. America" I replied, "she said it was because of the
terrible events of 9/11, she said "they" did it, that 'we had to get
all of them' She said she 'trusted' the president to 'do the right
thing and attack all of them', an endless laundry list of countries
which in some cases appear to have less of a connection with the
terrorists than the men in the president's own cabinet. The president
keeps giving all sorts of different reasons for what the U.S. is doing.
They change each and every day he said: 'they hate us' that 'it's their
religion' but the people who fund 'them' Al Qedea happen to be our
'friends' the Saudis. Whereas our former 'friends' the Iraqis
whom the presidents buddies sold WMD to are now our 'enemies'.
The president said the Iraqis had WMD, were connected with Al Qadea and
9/11 but they weren't. Finally to top it all off, it looks like we're
going to invade our former 'friend' turned 'enemy' turned 'friend' now
finally our 'enemy' again Iran. I'm terribly confused, what in
the heck is going on?"
Mr.. Reficul
looked at me like I was a driveling idiot, which I could tell was
almost painful for him since he was such a polished and polite
host. "Look I like you kid," he said as he leaned forward to get
my attention, "but you have to know it's all about making money don't
you? Didn't you ask about the money in your previous interviews?' "Yeah
I did." I replied, "I asked Mrs. America and she told me not to ask, in
fact she warned me not to, but I can't believe it's the only reason for
why these terrible events have occurred. I don’t think it’s
possible, someone would have reported it in the press. Someone would
have tracked down where the money came from. Surely the liberal media
like the New York Times, Washington Post, PBS or NPR would have said
something?"
Mr. Reficul sighed,
looked at me charitably as if I were a lost cause and stated, "when the
Supreme Court said money was equal to free speech, when Rumsfield
stated the main difference between a terrorist who could be tortured or
mutilated and a soldier who had to be treated with respect was the fact
the soldier got paid, when the families of the 9/11 victims were
immediately offered huge sums of money right after 9/11, based on the
'projected net worth of the victim' not to sue, and hopefully not to
investigate the causes of 9/11..... to essentially look the other
way..... Where were you, weren't you listening? Weren't you
paying attention? Money is absolutely everything in this society."
"But that's not the way
it's supposed to work here." I replied with a look of doubt. "Of
course it's the way it works here." Said Mr. Reficul "I can tell you
with utter assurance it's the way it's worked every where in every
country throughout history, you don't actually believe that religion,
or philosophy, or ideology or morality or politics or for hell's sake
people's feelings have anything to do with how this country is run do
you? Don't tell me you actually think your vote counts, do you?"
"Well I did until recently." I said hesitantly. "Good there's a
possibility you're beginning to finally learn something." Said Mr.
Reficul with satisfaction.
Getting a little angry I
retorted "and you're happy with this, you like this tidy little
arrangement, you don't think the liberal press is going to do something
about this?" "As a matter of fact I'm quite delighted with the
way things are currently arranged," he said as he chuckled. He paused
and looked at me quizzically, "you still don't get it do you," he said
with a red gleam in his eye, "you think there is any difference between
the 'liberal' press and the 'conservative' press. You think in
regards to making money off the dead and dying out there in the world
there would be any change if you selected Kerry or Bush. You
think anyone in this country would take on both the oil and the defense
industries at the same time. Industries which comprises nearly a
quarter of our economy. If you think so you are sadly mistaken."
Shaken I looked at Mr.
Reficul and said, "you know some people call you the master of lies,
why should I believe anything you say." He gazed at me with a frank and
calculating expression and said calmly "because you know that what I
say is true, you yourself know of the great gaping hole in the coverage
of 9/11. Many people have already pointed out how the 'investigators'
he said this with a sneer, 'have refused to follow the money. You
yourself have read the articles written by those obnoxious little busy
bodies detailing my wonderful plans to conquer the rich oilfields of
the middle east, none of which I might add has been reported by the
mainstream U.S. press, either the 'liberal'," he said this with another
sneer, "or the 'conservative' press.
You yourself have pointed
out there were seven investigations into the events leading up to Pearl
Harbor but only one so far of 9/11, and that one occurred only at the
insistence of those few families of the 9/11 victims, that to my great
irritation, could not be bought off. Luckily for me the entire
membership of the 9/11 commission happens to consist of friends of mine
who own shares in the very companies constructing the Caspian oil
pipeline in Afghanistan and holding lucrative contracts in Iraq. They
of course produced a report that looked at everything but the money.
And people out there call me the 'master of lies'." He said the last
with a look of disgust. "I'm just a small businessman trying to make
some deals."
Completely shaken I reply
"But Mr. & Mrs. Middle America will find out......." He interrupted
harshly and stated "and if they did, so what.... If Bush got up
today and tearfully stated "9/11 had to be arranged to give Americans a
chance to sacrifice their lives for the greater economic good of this
country", you don't think most Americans would stand up and applaud
him. They would you know, many of them already know what's
happened and not only do they not care, many of them approve. Why do
you think there hasn't been any serious investigations to date about
the events leading up to 9/11?" he asked.
"Sure 9/11 was a slightly
larger event then we planned initially" he continued softly, looking
thoughtful "but as you've pointed out you can't make an empire with out
breaking a few lives now can we? Think of the numbers; 3,500
heroes for 30 trillion dollars in potential oil reserves and an empire
stretching to the Caspian Sea. It's the best caus'beli this country has
had since 'Remember the Main'. The cost was peanuts. It's a brilliant
move.
Consider the opportunities,
an unknown faceless enemy that can, in most cases, do just a small
amount of damage but generate large amounts of fear. One that in the
future I'll finance better so the money will be harder to trace. Such
agent provocateurs will provide an endless need for political
repression and more importantly total secrecy. And the groups you
create can be tailored to any caus'celib or job that needs to be done.
The size of 9/11 has worked in our favor and it's all turned out for
the best in the end." He said the last with an extremely satisfied look.
"So what will happen with
Iraq?" I ask with a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach. "It will be
consumed of course" he stated matter of factly, "probably destroyed, if
they continue to develop a national resistance movement we'll just have
to kill the lot of them, level their cities establish more Abu Gariabs.
Did you like that by the way?" He asked as he paused to look at me
slyly. "That was my own personal touch, to use Saddam's former torture
center as a not to subtle way of intimidating the locals. Yes we'll
have to kill many more of them," he said resuming brusquely. "If
however they remain tribal and we can continue to divide and conquer
them we'll have a chance to be less destructive. Either way I'll make
enormous amounts of money in defense contracts and my companies will
suck the Iraqis dry of their oil."
"What about U.S.
casualties." I inquired forebodingly. "There'll be lots of them"
he stated flatly with a complete lack of concern "however by the time
I'm done using the five conglomerates who now control 90% of the U.S.'s
media market your Mr. and Mrs. America will gladly sacrifice their sons
and daughters for my cause so they can continue to live the life style
they've become so accustomed too, and of course, so I can continue to
live mine"
"What about the other Arab
and Moslem countries?" "What about them" he said as he looked at
me coldly, so coldly a chill went right up my spine and I got goose
bumps. "A people that run around in turbans spouting religious
slogans thinking their "God" can protect them. A bunch of tribal
societies, you think they would have learned something from what we did
to the American Indians. No they're easy to deal with. I must
tell you this whole situation has given me enormous satisfaction.
You have no idea what it's like to 'play' simple tribal societies
against one another as I've done, to destroy them from within and
without. They're easy, and you know what the best part is, after you do
them, and conquer them, you can convince some of them to be grateful to
you. It's extremely gratifying."
"So where do we go from
here?" I asked completely subdued. "We make more money," he
replied "our true friends the Saudis will continue to supply funds and
resources to my agent provocateurs be they Al Queada or some new
incarnation. They'll provoke more incidents to keep the pot
bubbling. Iran will be next, maybe the states in the Caspian
basin, maybe Nigeria, perhaps Venezuela. I'll have to come up
with new groups for those countries. What do you think." He said as he
looked at me inquiringly. "Commies for Venezuela, but what should I
call the group for Nigeria?" "I don't really know." Was all I could
mumble. "It doesn't matter" he said looking off into the distance
over the Arizona desert, "like Bush is so fond of saying whichever
leader it happens to be at the time, we'll just say 'he was a bad guy'
and we'll go destroy him and replace him with somebody more amenable to
our goals."
"Even if we created him
like we did with Saddam?" I interjected. He looked at me with a
slightly surprised look "especially if we created him. They're the
easiest to get too, once they start doing business with you, you get to
control them and manipulate them. It's the one's that can't be
bought or won't do business with you that present the most problems. "
"And the elections in this
country?" I ask. "Whoever's selected will toe the line," he said
quietly. "I just wish I had picked someone better then Bush. Him
and his idiot friends have made a mess of things. They've made
everything so obvious to the rest of the world that I had to spend
extraordinary amounts of my own money stroking the press, buying people
off, not to mention what I had to offer the other countries in the rest
of the world to keep quite. I thought Chaney would handle things
better than this. I'm really very disappointed with him."
"How much more destruction
will this cause, how many more deaths?" I inquired completely worn out
and depressed. "It depends, if I get what I want not to much," he said
looking directly at me with a strange calmness. "Maybe a million dead
maybe less. You must understand although I enjoy playing with people
and nations, which some weaklings disapprove of, what I do will make
this a better world for everyone. It's their resistance to my
wishes that inevitably leads to their destruction. It's their
partial cooperation that I can't abide. If they would only give me what
is rightfully mine when I ask for it, none of these unpleasant things
would have to happen. It's their fault you see, they bring it
upon themselves, they deserve what's going to be done to them."
"I see," I said tiredly,
with a sense of utter dismay at what I've heard "speaking of giving in
I believe I've got enough material to go on. I really appreciate your
agreeing to meet with me to express your views, but it's getting late
and I've got to go.
"Certainly" he said looking
a little disappointed as he got up to accompany me to the door. "You
really must understand all I want is a little sympathy for my position
and a little more respect" "Oh I understand" I said quickly "and I'm
very sympathetic and respectful. It must be quite hard for you to
manage this country's affairs with some of the resistance you've been
getting lately. I'll be sure Mr. Reficul to let the entire world know
of your views.”
"Thank you" he said
sincerely, "that's all I could ask of you."
As he opened the door to
his front patio, which looked out over the vast desert, a blast of
super heated air entered his foyer. As he reached for my hand to
give me a handshake I avoided it as gracefully as I could and waved
goodbye to him. As I turned to go, I heard the massive bronze doors of
his home thud shut behind me.
Standing there, stunned by
the awful truth I gazed out over the hundreds of miles of stark bleak
emptiness south of his home, now colored blood red by the setting sun.
As I stood in the aching silence with no sound but the sighing of the
hot wind playing with my hair I came to realize in my heart that Mr.
Reficul had won. He was right, this really is the way it's always been,
and I knew as I stood there that I would never ever believe again in
the lies I had been taught as a child.
Frank Capra was dead, there
never ever was a Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life
never really existed. I was the deluded one, the crazy one, the
one who believed in childish fantasies, the one everyone else knew was
insane.
The ones who obeyed Mr.
Reficul who believed in Mr. Reficul, who did what he told them to do,
they were the sane ones, the smart ones, the 'players'.
End. MPG
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Eighth mailing 09-21-2004
As usual, no replies
received from anybody. Again if you received any from me they're
not mine.
As promised of course I
checked on Google to see if there are any connections between the
Saudis, the Chechens and the ongoing slaughter in the Sudan. I
only got about 10,000 articles on the first couple of searches, so I
won't bother to tell you what you already know. Not that anybody
in this country seems to care.
Secretary Powell is of
course making bleating noises about the slaughter in the Sudan, but we
know that's just for show since the money comes from Bush's "friends"
the Saudis. Doesn't Powell have any more pride left? What do they do
over there in the white house? Give him drugs or something? First his
ridicules show at the U.N. regarding Iraq, now this.
To make all of you happy
this is the last full transmission of my entire document. I don't
want to clog up your e-mail or web sites. From now on you'll only get
the addendums and since I'll be establishing my own web site, probably
not even those.
What follows is an addendum
you'll really like. It's in the format of a fictitious satirical
interview. I think it's pretty biting, I hope you enjoy it.
A CONVERSATION WITH MRS.
MIDDLE AMERICA
This interview took place
in a finely maintained split-level home, with a well-mowed lawn in the
front, a two-car garage on the side of the house and a spacious
backyard. In the backyard you'll find an above ground pool, plenty of
additional green lawn and a vegetable garden. The house is located in a
well to do suburb of the Midwest.
Mrs. Middle America is a
middle aged, plump, apple cheeked, Caucasian woman who is a member of
the PTA, the local country club, attends her local church regularly,
and likes to garden. She has three children, two girls and a boy in
their teenage years. Mrs. Middle America voted for the Republican
ticket in the last election and intends to do so again.
I'm speaking with Mrs.
Middle America to get a sense of where our country is heading and what
she thinks about what's happened during the last three years.
"Well Mrs. America it's
been quite an eventful three years hasn't it?" I start out jovially as
I open my notebook.
"It certainly has," she
says, leaning forward and looking at me eagerly.
"I'd like to start with the
terrible events that occurred on 9/11. I understand that you agree with
the current administration that this is the sole act of a group of
terrorists called Al Qeada?" I say inquiringly.
"Yes that's right that's
what the TV and newspapers say. I mean they're talking about it every
single day, terrorist this, terrorist that, yellow alerts, orange
alerts, gosh" she says breathlessly "it near frightens me to death."
"Who do you think is
responsible for Al Qeada?" I query.
"What do you mean?" She
says with a perplexed look on her face.
"I mean who do you think
supports Al Qeada, who created them, trained them, who still gives them
money, who allowed them entry into the U.S.?" Was my response.
"What do you mean, why is
that important?" she says with a look of increasing perplexity on her
face. "I mean they're the enemy, we have to get them, all of them,
every single one, our President says so and I believe our President."
Saying the last with a look of utter certainty.
"Get all of whom?" I ask
with a look of concern.
"Why Al Qeada, the Iraqis,
the Iranians... all of them of course" she responds with what could
only be described as a blank look on her face.
"Uh.... Well, Uh I mean
.... Uh...didn't you just say that it was Al Qeada that were the
terrorists?" I blurt, starting to get a little flustered.
"Of course, them too." She
replies.
I sigh and say "Would it
surprise you to learn that that the CIA and the 9/11 commission have
stated respectively that there is no connection between Iraq and Al
Qaeda or Iraq and the events of 9/11?"
"I think I might have
remembered hearing something about that ... maybe." She says. "But
anyway Iraq had those awful weapons of mass destruction."
I looked at her with what
could only be described as a stony look on my face; I couldn't help
myself, and stated. "You do know that they found no weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq and it appears they've had none for several years
before the war?"
"Yes, but I just read they
had intentions of building those weapons." She replies with a gleam of
satisfaction in her eyes.
"I see." I say, and pause
"Let's go back to my original question before we got sidetracked here,
would it surprise you to learn that it's been Saudi Arabia and the
United States, who supported and trained Al Qeada when they were
fighting in Afghanistan. That Saudi Arabia continues to support them
today and that 15 out of the 19 hijackers were Saudi citizens?"
"That couldn't be." She
stated unequivocally. "The president says that the Saudis are our
friends so you must be wrong sir." She added with a touch of anger in
her voice.
"You know of course," I
responded, "that the Bush administration and their advisors have been
intertwined with the Saudi and the Bin Laden families personally and
financially for the last twenty to thirty years?"
"So what does that have to
do with anything? Are you one of those liberal types, always jealous of
someone trying to make a little money?" she says snappishly. "These are
wealthy and great men and deserve our respect."
"Why because they have
money?" I ask?
"Exactly, God wouldn't have
let them have all that money if they didn't deserve it." She says with
an expression of what could almost be described as rapture.
"But don't you think all
that money and the personal relationships these guys have, might have
influenced their decisions regarding U.S. security arrangements before
9/11 and they're decision to invade Iraq. After all, several billion
dollars has been transferred from the Saudi and bin Laden families to
accounts controlled by the Bush family alone, not to mention all the
other members of the Bush administration, and this is only what we know
of publicly?"
"Are you impugning our
president's reputation? How dare you, he's a great man, everyone says
so, he's on the news and on the TV every single day, everyone thinks
he's the greatest. In this time of war everyone should get behind the
president." She says with a tone of real anger in her voice.
"Yes but he's the one who
started the war in the first place." I said with a note of desperation.
"There were seven investigations into Pearl Harbor, we've only had one
so far regarding 9/11 in three years, and that would be the "9/11
commission" itself. They've already publicly stated they won't even
look into who supported the terrorists or who facilitated their entry
into the U.S. until after the elections. Don't you find that a bit
suspicious?"
"Sir", she said, leaning
back in her chair and eying me with a cold glint in her eye, "I have no
idea were you are going with this. I am sure everything's been
investigated already, we know who our enemies are, it's who our
President says they are..... Besides this wasn't Pearl Harbor"
"Yeah.... Right, a lot more
civilians died this time." I retorted sarcastically.
"Sir" she says making
motions to get up and leave, "if you continue to talk to me about what
happened before 9/11 or anything to do with our beloved President I
will have to stop this conversation."
"OK. OK" I said, trying to
mollify her anger. "Lets talk about Iraq then. You state that
they're our enemy, correct? Even though they didn't posses any
WMD, weren't connected to Al Qeada and had nothing to do with 9/11,
Right?"
"Yes of course they're our
enemy, that's because our President say's so. He said they were
thinking about getting those awful weapons and that later on they might
attack us at some point in the future." She stated resolutely. "He also
said they could possibly support other terrorists in the future."
"So anyone or any nation
that the President says might be "thinking" of getting those awful
weapons can be attacked by us, is that right" I ask incredulously.
"Of course." She replies a
matter-of-factly.
"Even thought funding for
most of the terrorists came from, and continues to come from the
Saudis."
"Maybe you didn't hear me,"
She said irritably, "the President says the Saudis are our friends, and
we have to believe the President."
Pressing the issue
relentlessly I stated "You understand of course even the most cursory
search on the web brings up thousands of articles about Saudi support
not only for Al Qeada of course, but for the Chechen terrorists who
massacred those school children in Besan Russia and the "government
forces" who are killing millions of non-Moslems in the Sudan."
With a note of real
irritation in her voice she stated "Please stop harping on this issue,
I've already said what I have to say and I don't want to talk about it
anymore."
OK... But I said, still
pressing "Those children massacred in Russia made a terrible backdrop
to the RNC convention and offered mute testimony to the
administration's positions didn't they. All those broken and
bleeding little bodies? All those terrified parents?"
"Yes it was terrible," she
sighed, her eyes starting to moisten as she regarded me with a slightly
shocked expression. "But it goes to show we have to rely on our
President to protect us from those terrorists."
"It's timing was quite
remarkable wasn't it" I said dryly.
"Yes, God was sending us a
message that we have to destroy all those evil terrorists out there."
She replied with her lower lip trembling.
"Yes well I suppose someone
was sending a message..... Um, and of course, just as with those 'awful
weapons', you believe that "terrorists" are anyone, or any country,
whom the President says is a terrorist is that right?" I probe
ruthlessly.
"Absolutely" she says with
utter conviction, looking at me with a hint of suspicion in her eyes.
"That's what I've already told you."
"Ok" I say, "Let's turn
back to Iraq again, would it surprise you to learn that Saddam Hussian
was helped into power by our own CIA, and that the Bush administration
and it's advisors, the one's who took us to war against Iraq, were the
very people who sold large quantities of weapons to Iraq, including
those 'awful weapons' of mass destruction."
"So what." she stated
petulantly "Are you sure you're not one of those liberals? So the
president and his men made a little money, why are you always harping
on these things"?
"Because" I said a little
testily "Don't you think it's hypocritical for the Bush administration
to create these monsters all over the world, supply them with weapons
which are used against their own populations and in wars we encourage,
making money all the while. Then when there's not enough money left,
when these countries who did business with us lie broken, exhausted and
financially bankrupt, we turn around and make war on them using as an
excuse, terrorist "incidents" caused by the administration's own
"friends" like the Saudis to make even more money for the
administration and their rich "friends?"
"What is it with you and
this money thing?" she stated, looking at me owlishly.
"It's not the money, it's
the hundreds of thousands of Iranian, Iraqi and U.S. dead that I'm
concerned about!" I almost shouted, on the verge of completely losing
my temper.
"Sir if you can't be civil
I'll have to ask you to leave." She said primly. "These people have to
die because they're terrorists, it's a regrettable but necessary thing
we have to do to protect ourselves."
"But they're not the
terrorists. The money for the terrorists, the training, the religion,
and the people themselves comes from the Saudis." I retorted, at this
point looking and sounding totally distressed.
"There, there my dear." She
says as she leans forward and pats my hand sympathetically. "What is it
with you and this obsession about money and the Saudis. Just trust the
President he'll do the right thing."
"Even if it means the death
of millions of Iranians or Kazacstanies or Venezuelans or whomever." I
said with a plaintive note in my voice while looking at her
beseechingly.
"That's right dear, now you
understand." She said as she looked benignly upon my face. "Even if we
have to kill and torture and maim millions and millions of other people
in other countries, especially the ones that have lots of oil, we'll
just be doing it to protect ourselves against those evil terrorists."
"Ok" trembling as I put
away my notebook. "I guess were all done here and I'll be going
now," I mumble, looking totally dismayed.
"Oh don't go just yet." she
requested with a look of motherly concern on her face. "Would you like
some tea or coffee"?
"Oh no." I said, trying to
look nonchalant and getting ready to leave as quickly as possible.
"It's really important, you
see I'm quite concerned about your safety." She consoled with a worried
look on her face. "It's your attitude that concerns me, all these
questions you keep asking, especially the one's about money.
People are starting to say things like you might be a terrorist
yourself. I wouldn't want anything to happen to you so it's
really for the best that you leave well enough alone."
"I see," Was all I could
reply as I headed rapidly toward the door.
As she runs to open it for
me she smiles, "You know I really enjoyed this conversation, but
remember no more of these little shenanigans," she says as she reaches
up and tweaks my cheek. "You be a good little boy or you too could wind
up in Abu Gairab prison, and you know what happens to little boys there
don't you?"
Swallowing convulsively as
I back away from Mrs. America I said as convincingly as I could "Sure I
won't do any more investigations or any more interviews like this
ma'am, I assure you."
As I was running down the
street, staring at all the perfectly manicured lawns and all the
perfectly dressed people and all the perfectly maintained homes, I
realized a new century was dawning in America and was determined I
would have to find some place to hide, and soon.
To all the rest of the
people in the world that have done us no harm, I apologize for what
Mrs. America is going to do to you. I'm really, really sorry.
End. MPG
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Seventh mailing Date :
08-29-04
Author's Note :
This letter was written
before the terrible events that took place in Besan Russia. I cannot
express enough my sorrow for the Russian people, and my disgust and
anger at the Chechen terrorists. It is well known that the Saudis
support the "government" forces in the Sudan who have killed hundreds
of thousands of Africans who refused to have Islam imposed upon them.
It's why, despite Powell's supposed "pleas" nothing has been done so
far. I will have to investigate to see just how much funding the
Chechens also get from the Saudis. 09-05-2004 MPG
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Date: 08-29-2004
I still have not received
any responses, so I've given up and deleted my e-mail address from my
letters. If you've received any replies besides the six mailings I've
already sent, they're not mine. Either something is seriously wrong
with my e-mail service, or you have received a lot of letters regarding
the same issues I've written about and you can't, won't, or don't want
to reply.
If the second reason is
true, why have there been so few reports about these issues? The press
is finally getting better at digging up the truth. Many articles have
now appeared regarding Haliburton's malfeasance and the profit motive
that drove this nation to war. There have also been several excellent
articles proving it was official policies from the likes of Rumsfield
that contributed to the Abu Gairab prison scandal.
But so far the U.S. press
has had very little to say about the relationships between Al Qaeda,
the Saudis, the bin Ladens, the Bushes and the Texas Cabal before 9/11.
More specifically how these relationships contributed to the tragedy.
Why? It's been almost three years since 9/11 occurred. One would think
the members of the press have had a sufficient amount of time to do
their investigations. Why the delay? What is wrong with the press? Is
their reluctance to report on these issues due to their fear of
retribution? Or do they think the issues are too complicated?
If it is the later perhaps
I can help simplify them. Means plus motive plus opportunity equals the
crime.
(the means); An easily
denied agent provocateur funded by your rich friends.
(the motive); Hundreds of
billions in oil money and the chance to create an empire stretching
from Iraq through to the Caspian sea encompassing Iran and the several
newly "freed" soviet oil rich states in the Caspian basin, ala Rudyard
Kipling's "The Man Who Would be King"[ff]
(the opportunity) The
dozens or hundreds of meetings the Bush's, Texas Cabal, Saudis and bin
Ladens had together.
(the crime) 9/11.
I am not a policeman; I
don't work for the NSA, FBI or CIA; I am not a reporter; I am not an
investigator. What I fail to understand is why NO ONE, and I mean
absolutely NO ONE WHO IS; is doing their job. Not even the most basic
rudimentary investigative techniques have been used so far to apprehend
the additional conspirators. The most fundamental of which would be to
"follow the money", finding out who funded the 9/11 terrorists, who
profited from their actions, and who facilitated their entry into the
U.S.
Why did the 9/11 commission
put off looking into these issues until "after the elections" Am I to
conclude by their decision that the Bushes and the Texas Cabal will
investigate themselves if they are reelected? Or their rich friends? I
hardly think so!
We have already witnessed
the tapes of the obscene abuse at Abu Gairab, and we have listened to
Enron executives laughing over how they "{expletive} the grandmothers
in California". Considering these revelations one would have to also
assume there are tapes out there of the hundreds of meetings the Texas
Cabal, Bushes, Saudis and the bin Ladens have had over the last ten
years regarding their plans for the middle east. These tapes will
eventually be made public, they always are.
If something is not done
soon however the entire world will know that it is not just this
administration, or the Republicans, or even elements within the U.S.
government, who are involved in this cover-up, which they already
suspect, but that the American people are also complicit in avoiding
the hard truths about what has been done in their name, to profit the
powerful few.
It has already been
reported that the current administration is constructing a pipeline
from the oil rich Caspian basin through Afghanistan to the Gulf. Also
documents were released Friday 08-27-04 which outlined the current
administrations plans for "regime change in Iran". As with Iraq it
appears they've had these plans for over a decade or more. Also as with
Iraq these plans were kept hidden and secret. Wouldn't it have been
nice of them to tell us, before they ran for office; before they got
into office; what they had in mind for this country and the rest of the
world? If they had given an honest answer about upcoming events like
9/11, what would they have said? Perhaps "you can't make an omelet
without breaking a few eggs".... Or an empire? Tell that to the
families of the 9/11 victims. Or the hundreds of thousands of Iraqis
and Iranians killed over the years.
Is it really all about the
money? If so, how many more 9/11's must we endure? How many more
Najifs? How many more Americans and Iraqis must die? How many more
dictators must we put into power? How many more countries must be
destroyed in the process. When is enough, enough? Will we continue to
reward "our friends" the Saudis for supporting terrorists and "our
friends" the Pakistanies for selling nuclear weapons technology to
anyone willing to buy. Now that Pakistan has sold nuclear technology to
Iran, "somehow without our knowledge" will a nuclear weapon be
"fortuitously" used on U.S. soil, so that the U.S. will be "induced" to
invade Iran? Will Kazakhstan be invaded next, Turkmenistan, or how
about that "commie state" Venezuela? What excuse will the rich and
powerful come up with next?
To invoke the name of a
favorite Republican villain; our current leaders are not like "Willie
Horton". No they certainly are not. Willie Horton didn't have wealthy
friends who "arranged" for the murder of members of his own family.
Willie Horton didn't provide cover for his wealthy friends allowing
them to escape scrutiny or prosecution. Willie Horton didn't falsely
accuse his neighbor’s next door of these murders so he could go rob and
kill them. Willie Horton didn't coldly and methodically plan these
events for more then a decade. No; that takes a very special group of
people to do something like that.
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Sixth Mailing 08-07-04
Well, I have still not
received any replies, comments or insults from anyone since my first
e-mail 05-24-2004. If you have received any replies, comments or
insults purportedly from me, or using my e-mail address {deleted}[ee]
or name, I didn't send them.
Regarding all the
literature on 9/11 that I've been reading to date, no attempt is being
made by anyone to answer simple and basic questions about the
connections between Saudi Arabia, Al Qaeda, the bin Ladens, the Bush's,
and the Texas Cabal. What did these people know before 9/11 and when
did they know it especially in regards to who told what to whom.
Simple questions such as
who ordered the bin Ladens and Saudis evacuated from the U.S. days
after 9/11 and more importantly why? Who were those big short sellers
of airline stocks on the Pacific stock exchange before 9/11 and who did
the transactions? What happened in the meetings these guys have had
together for the last twenty years? Does anyone have any tapes? etc.
etc.
What the heck do you
newspaper guys do all day? Sit in your chairs and twiddle your
collective thumbs?
Let me suggest some terms
you can use in your research and reporting.
Mercenary
War Profiteer
Money
Greed
Manipulation
Repression
Suppression
Propaganda
Lying
Spin
Special prosecutor
Criminal conspiracy.
Co-Conspirator.
Accessory after the fact
Obstruction of justice
White wash
Perjury
Subornation of perjury
Dereliction of duty
Refusal to obey an unlawful
order
Collaborator
Crimes against humanity
War Criminal
Rape
Torture
Murder
Treason
I'll give you an example of
how to use one of these terms. When the Abu Gairab prison scandal first
broke I read an article in the San Francisco Chronicle describing some
of the events that happened there as "forced copulation".... That isn't
funny, if you think it's funny or have any trouble with the above terms
please e-mail me so we can discuss it. In case you didn't know it, the
correct term is rape. Many, many other articles have similar problems
with their concepts, terms or statements... as do many of our
government and corporate officials. Please consult the above list if
you have any trouble.
To help you keep track of
when I sent my letter and to whom I sent it to, I've also attached a
spreadsheet at the end of this e-mail.
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Fifth Mailing 07-23-2004
A note to everyone who gets
this letter; since 05-26-2004 I have received no replies; none at all.
Considering the veracity and accurateness of what I've written, keeping
in mind it was sent before Fahrenheit 9/11, I would have expected at
least a couple of replies. Also please note "Losing One's Faith 9/11
& Iraq" is the only document (besides one other unrelated document)
[aa] I have ever sent out. If you get any others let me make it clear
they are not from me.
Since 07-01-2004 the
following events have occurred.
The 9/11 commission has
reaffirmed their original conclusion that Iraq had nothing whatsoever
to do with the tragedy of 9/11.
The Saudis have now offered
amnesty to their Al Qaeda brethren.
CBS did an interview where
it was stated that the entire bin Laden family "hates the United States"
I just recently learned
that several months ago the bin Ladens announced their intentions to
build the world's tallest building in one of the gulf states. Isn't it
ironic that their "disowned" son Osama takes down the world trade
center and using this 'incident' as an excuse, the U.S. starts a war
with Iraq which will supply the bin Ladens with U.S. tax dollars from
their investments in the Carlyle group and other defense contractors
reaping enormous profits from the war, which the bin Ladens will in
turn use to build their own symbol of power in the Arab world. All of
this activity being 'facilitated' by the Bush administration, now how
'fortuitous' is that?
On one of the networks
MSNBC or Fox, it was reported that the Bush administration is, one;
going to "suspend the electoral process" in the event of a terrorist
attack, and two; plans to merge the FBI and CIA into a combined
organization under one "intelligence czar". Wow... if there is another
attack by Al Qaeda.... Remember the people supported by the Saudis and
bin Ladens for the last twenty years... the people who are friends of
the Bush's and the Texas Cabal... if that happens the Bush
administration et al will become dictators of the U.S. Considering what
I've repeatedly sent you how "fortuitous" would that be.?
My question to the U.S.
news organizations is, do you support the constitution of the United
States? Are you actually going to let this happen?
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Fourth mailing 07-01-2004
Since 06-20-2004 the
Supreme Court has ruled that the public has no right to find out what
Chaney's "energy task force" was up to; Gee...... you're kidding, so we
have no right to know what was perhaps a discussion, before 9/11, of
invading a country with the world's second largest proven reserves {bb}
and how to divvy up it's resources. Gee that would be embarrassing.
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Third mailing 06-20-2004
Since I sent my prior two
e-mails the 9/11 commission has remarkably decided to state that there
is no connection between Saddam's former regime and the tragedy of
9/11. Gee...... you're kidding, were did these officials get their
courage from? Of course their conclusions were immediately disputed by
the current administration. Are you guys in the press going to find out
who in the administration owned what stocks in which companies before
9/11? And who in the administration was talking to whom in Saudi Arabia
before 9/11? Are you going to follow the money, or does that scare you
guys too much?
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Second mailing
06-01-2004
Please note since I sent my
first e-mail less then a week ago two additional items have appeared in
the press. One: Chaney has now been found to have "sheparded" all the
Halliburton contracts for Iraq through the DOD's procurement process.
And two: the 'terrorists' involved in the seizure of those foreign
hostages in Saudi Arabia have now 'escaped' except for one who
'somehow' wound up in a coma and therefore can't testify or be
questioned. Considering what I've written below, don't you guys find
this faintly ridiculous? May I ask what are you doing about it all?
Where's all the oil money from Iraq going? What members of the
administration own stock in these companies?
It is getting close to the
point where one could accuse many members of the press of a dereliction
of duty.
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M.P.G.
San Francisco, CA.
Losing One's Faith 9/11 & Iraq
First mailing sent
05-26-2004
I have respectfully sent
this letter, more of a treatise or manifesto actually, in the hope that
one person, just one, will be encouraged to investigate the motives of
those in power who took this nation to war. Not the facts, not how it
happened, for that is already out there for all to see, but why it
happened. I am a terrible writer and this is only the second letter
I've sent to anyone besides friends and family, never the less I feel
obligated to say something about the horror that is being done in the
name of this country.
I realize it's to long and
it probably doesn't meet your standards for publication, however I do
hope it will start some of you thinking. No acknowledgement needed for
publication or distribution. Share it with those who would be
interested.
If you wish a street
address or phone number please e-mail me with your request.
Losing One's Faith : 9/11
& Iraq 05-24-2004
Faith Betrayed : by M. P.
G.
For many years I was a
believer, I believed in America, I believed the evil things this
country did in the past were always done by a small selfish minority
and that the vast majority of it's citizens always tried to do the
right thing. That over time, truth would win out, justice would
prevail, right would triumph over might, your vote would count, and the
'Big Lie' could not succeed in our society with it's "free press" and
constitutional checks and balances.
In less then three years
everyone one of these beliefs has been shattered and I no longer hold
such childish illusions. The evil that our nation is committing is
assuredly being done in the name of the majority of its people, the
'Big Lie' has won out over truth, justice has not been done, might
triumphed over right, and our votes certainly didn't count. It is quite
obvious to me that a majority of my fellow Americans would rather
believe in comfortable and convenient fictions then face horrible
truths. This self-deception, the ability to delude oneself through half
truths or it's hand maiden 'plausible deniability', the ability to
self-select your own ignorance, in light of recent events appears to be
the main constituents of America's governance and foreign policy.
What has occurred during
these three years is evil pure and simple. What the United States is
committing is the rape of a country for its oil using the remarkably
well-timed tragedy of 9/11 as its justification. Lets us be quite clear
about this. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. (101) Iraq had no weapons
of mass destruction for many years prior to this invasion.
(102)(103)(104) Iraq and Saddam's regime never had a relationship with
Al Qaeda. (105)(106) But there ARE people who did and many of them have
yet to be brought to account.
The Three Players:
Elements in the current
administration had been planning the invasion of Iraq since the first
Gulf war in 1992. the Bushes, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Pearl, Rumsfeld,
Ashcroft and others whom we'll refer to as the Texas Cabal.(107)(108)
Some of these men represented firms who sold Saddam weapons before the
first Gulf war. One of them in particular, Rumsfeld represented a firm
that sold Saddam biological weapons of mass destruction, (109) George
Bush Sr. himself enabled Saddam to obtain biological and chemical
weapons prior to the first gulf war (110) Perhaps it's why these
'gentleman' were so convinced Saddam still had these weapons. The Texas
Cabal for the last 10 years has had and continues to have investments
in companies which are currently reaping enormous profits from the war
and will do so in it's aftermath, well known names such as,
Halliburton, Kellog Brown & Root, Blackwater, etc.(111)
. "The Saudi sheiks have
been Wahhabis since they intermarried with the Family of a puritanical
Muslim scholar, Mohammed ibn Abd al-Wahhab, in 1774. Supported first by
Britain and later by the United States, the Saudis captured the Muslim
holy cities of Mecca and Medina, easily gaining control of the entire
Arabian peninsula." (112) The Saudis continue to support Whabbisim, the
xenophobic anti-western offshoot of Islam that provides the religious
foundation for most of the Sunni terrorists organizations in the Middle
East, including Al Qaeda. The Saudis also support and maintain the
Madrassas, schools where Whabbisin is taught and were many terrorists
are recruited, supported and trained.
Many parties including the
C.I.A., the Saudis, of course, Pakistan and others had financed Al
Qaeda when it was fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan. "In 1989, bin
Laden established al Qaeda (the Base) in Afghanistan to organize
extremist Wahhabis and disperse their networks throughout the
country".(112) Later after moving back to Saudi Arabia, and then
leaving for the Sudan after King Faud allowed in American troops to
fight Saddam in the first Gulf war, Osama lambasted the royal family
for allowing the infidels to occupy the holy land. Through a series of
never ending and proliferating "charities" established and supported by
banks and business connected to the Saudi, bin Laden, and Bush families
and members of the Texas Cabal, Osama continued to receive much of his
funding during the eighties and early nineties. (112)(113) Today he
still continues to receive much of his funding from the Saudis.
The Facts & Bill of
Particulars :
It has been reported by
many that the Bushes, Cheney, the Texas Cabal, the Saudis and the bin
Ladens have interlocking financial, business, banking and close
personal relationships and have had them for the last twenty to thirty
years as typified by companies such as BCCI, the Carlyle group etc.
(110)(113)(111)(120)(115)(116)(117)
Before 9/11 when the
administration first assumed office they immediately eliminated any
laws that would have provided oversight into their activities. They got
rid of the special prosecutor act, weakened the freedom of information
act, refused to join or abide by the U.N. court regarding crimes
against humanity, changed the federal statues to reclassify almost all
federal documents top secret (118), took any FOIA request regarding
their meetings, such as Cheney's energy task force all the way to the
Supreme Court to block these requests. etc. etc.(119)
Prior to 9/11 the Bush
administration prevented the FBI from investigating the Saudis and bin
Ladens, deliberately "spiking investigations"(120) or "telling them to
back off"(121) in their inquires regarding several known terrorists of
the bin Laden clan. Also prior to 9/11 the Bush Administration
deliberately undermined and under funded anti-terrorism efforts within
the U.S. despite repeated warnings of possible Al Qaeda attacks
(122)(123). These warnings came from many officials and sources who had
determined Al Qaeda was the "imminent threat" but their pleas were
continuously ignored.(124), whereas Bush in his push for war prior to
9/11 claimed Iraq was the "imminent threat" a claim which at the time
was refuted by George Tenent, director of the CIA [cc](125). Former
Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told 60 Minutes that regime change in
Iraq was the main topic at the very first meeting of Bush's National
Security Council - a full eight months before 9/11. O'Neill said, "It
was all about finding a way to do it". That was the tone of it. The
president saying 'Go find me a way to do this'"(107) And this testimony
was later confirmed to ABC news by another official who attended the
same meeting.(126)
On April 30 2001 the Bush
Administration specifically removed Osama bin Laden from the U.S's
annual terrorism report, reports that in prior years had prominently
featured Osama bin Laden as one of the leading terrorists. (127) The
Bush Administration, unlike it's predecessor, also somehow failed to
use the predator surveillance program to its full effectiveness in
tracking down Osama bim Laden in Afghanistan, they did not use it at
all for the first eight months of the administration, and when they
did, they did not deploy the armed predator until after 9/11. This
inaction was supposedly due to internal debates. (128) In the months
prior to 9/11 the Bush administration also curtailed a Justice
Department program to monitor Al Qaeda activity in the U.S. called
"Catchers Mitt" (129)
Prior to 9/11 in 2001, John
Ashcroft overruled FBI directors Louis Freeh's attempt to make
terrorism a U.S. priority. In a speech Mr. Freeh was to give before FBI
special agents a participant stated that "Ashcroft didn't want to hear
about it" when Freeh told Ashcroft those were his intentions. (130)
Ashcroft reduced anti-terrorism funding in the year before 9/11 by 23%
in his first month in office (131) This is the same John Ashcroft who
two months prior to 9/11 began traveling by privately leased aircraft
at the U.S.'s expense, and refused to fly on the commercial airlines.
(132) In the week after 9/11 Bush allowed members of the bin Laden and
Saudi families to leave the U.S. without being questioned by the FBI,
thereby severely crippling any chance to investigate who was supporting
Al Qaeda and what connections there were between Al Qaeda and elements
or groups within the U.S. (133) That days after 9/11 the Bush
administration had already made the decision to invade Iraq(119) "using
the terrorist attacks as justification [for the invasion] despite
having [any] proof that Iraq had any connection to Al Qaeda or 9/11"
(134)
That the very people who
would reap profits from this invasion like Mr. Perle (116) , when
approached with peace feelers from Saddam's representatives not
surprisingly didn't meet with them (135) That on Feb. 6, 2002 the CIA
told the White House there was "no evidence" that Iraq has engaged in
terrorist operations in nearly a decade and that the agency was
convinced that Saddam had not provided any WMD to Al Qaeda or other
related groups.(136) That after 9/11 the bush Administration did every
thing they could to ignore Osama bin Laden and Afghanistan in their
eagerness to go after Iraq. (137) even including diverting critical
resources in the hunt for Osama bin Laden from U.S. forces based in
Afghanistan (137) That after our invasion a lengthy search, which cost
over 300 million dollars by over 1,200 WMD specialists in Iraq yielded
nothing. (102) After the invasion of Iraq was complete the White house
selected it's own people to investigate why their were "intelligence
failures" regarding Iraq's alleged WMD. Unusually in this case all the
commission [dd] members were exempted from the standard background
checks designed to avoid conflicts of interest. (138) Bush "negotiated"
a session of less then one hour of testimony in front of the 9/11
commission and would only appear if Vice President Cheney accompanied
him to the meeting.
The Coincidences :
It is highly implausible
that during the ten years of meetings and contacts together between the
Saudis, bin Ladens, Bushes, Cheney and the Texas Cabal, that the future
conquest of Iraq, and the disposition of Iraq's hundreds of billions of
dollars worth of oil, was never discussed. (108) It is also equally
improbable that no one mentioned how the U.S. was to be induced to
carry out its role as the invading power, and how this 'inducement' was
to be accomplished.
Is it merely coincidental
that prior to 9/11 these discussions were held with the Saudis the very
people who were providing succor, support and direction for Al Qaeda?
Is it coincidental that enormous profits were to be generated for all
the parties concerned due to their already mentioned interlinked
investments once a war started? And to start this war an 'inducement'
was needed? Was it accidental that the investigations into the bin
Ladens and Saudis prior to 9/11 were "spiked" and the investigators
were told to "back off" by the Bush administration? Is it a random
series of events that the elimination of Saddam and the occupation of
Iraq has increased Saudi power and security, and the war and it's
aftermath have increased Bush's and the Texas Cabal's power and wealth.
Are all the facts already mentioned in the proceeding paragraphs just
accidents of chance? Is the reason why the Saudis have never been
investigated after 9/11 because, as the administration so vehemently
states, "they're our friends"? Whose friends are they?
Those Who Forget History
.... :
Are we to believe that none
of these coincidences have anything to do with 9/11? Much to my
surprise many Americans believe they don't (139)(140) Perhaps it's
because they have forgotten some of history's lessons?
What was 9/11? Was it the
Reichstag Fire, which justified crystal nicht and the start of WW II?
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which justified and initiated the start
of the Vietnam War? "That dastardly attack" on the Main..."Remember the
Main", which justified the Spanish American War? A war whose fires were
stoked by the jingoistic articles of newspaper tycoon William Randolph
Hearst, as in an eerie parallel, the Iraq war has been inflamed by the
articles of newspaper tycoon Rupert Murdock. Is all of this just an
unfortunate, amazing, completely accidental occurrence of facts and
circumstances? Of course it is says the media, it's nothing to worry
our little heads about.
Are we the conquistadors,
'bringing salvation to the heathens' while slaughtering, and enslaving
them and stealing their gold? No, says the media, we are 'bringing
democracy to the unenlightened' while 'pacifying' the population and of
course 'using their oil to help in the rebuilding process'.
Are we Cecil Rhodes carving
out a personal empire once known as Rhodesia with a private army of
well-paid mercenaries using, at the time, the brand new Maxim gun to
obliterate the Zulu savages? No, says the media, unlike Mr. Rhodes the
Texas Cabal and Cheney will use their 25,000 "contractors", paid with
Iraq's own oil at the rate of $30,000 to $40,000 a month to control
Iraq's destiny only after U.S. troops, much cheaper because they are
paid with U.S. taxpayer dollars, 'suppress' the Arab 'terrorists' with
the most modern instruments of power ever seen while of course
'sacrificing' 'for the good of their country' their own lives in the
process.
The Shame :
Is there no shame? It is
amazing to see how the tragic circumstances and coincidences of 9/11
fit so neatly into the plans of those needing a pretext to go to war
with Iraq. For the last ten years in reading about government and
corporate corruption in the United States, I note with dismay the small
number of whistle blowers that have come forward, and of those a
disproportionate number of who are woman. Is this because they aren't
part of the 'old boy's network'? Is it perhaps because of those who do
come forward, all have suffered the consequences of their honesty and
integrity (141). What are we to make of this. Is their any one in this
country who is not motivated by greed, or more chillingly, by their
fear of retribution? What is our nation becoming?
And what about the media,
the 'watch dogs of our nation'? What about them? I can understand the
greedy motives of the rich and powerful but the spineless, ineffectual,
sycophantic, self-serving useless doggerel being passed off as news
these days by the 'forth estate' is a disgrace to our forefathers and
all those newsman who have endangered and even lost their lives in the
past to report the truth.
And why has the government
made it so difficult for the families of the 9/11 victims to
investigate the Saudis connections to this tragedy? Who are the people
in this country who make these decisions? If you 'arrange for things'
to happen, does that mean you are somehow no longer culpable for them,
is that how it works here? It's not the way I was brought up or taught.
If I have a rich friend,
one who has another friend who carry's a grudge, and that friend
commits a crime. A crime enabled by the most fortuitous circumstances
over which I have control, a crime which 'happens' to profit me and my
rich friend's interests, and I have made and continue to make every
effort to protect my rich friend from scrutiny, is the one with the
grudge, the one encouraged and supported by my rich friend, the one who
is....how shall we say... oooh so easy to manipulate, is he and only he
the one to be held to account? Are we that gullible, has anyone ever
heard of an 'agent provocateur'? Does the term 'setup' mean anything to
anyone? How about the term 'murder for hire'? Heck they were just a
bunch of New Yorkers... right? Is that how it works in this country? Is
this considered cleverness in America? Or justice? Or morality?
Can this country possibly
be that venal or stupid?. My attitudes are much more simplistic, some
would even say childish, if 9/11 was 'arranged' to happen than
everyone, especially every single Federal employee, who impedes, covers
up, delays, runs interference, shreds documents, hides the facts, lies,
distorts or twists the evidence in any way, is obstructing justice and
should be considered a collaborator and an accessory after the fact in
the murder of over 3,500 Americans. After all isn't this what Bush
himself said and I quote "Anyone who gives a dollar, or offers support
to a terrorist is a terrorist themselves". There are no excuses.
I suggest however, to put
to rest these terrible doubts all the current administration would have
to do is appoint an impartial independent special prosecutor....... oh
I forgot they got rid of the special prosecutor act before 9/11 didn't
they, how forgetful of me, how 'fortuitous' for them. Oh well.....
drats, I guess it doesn't matter then does it?
The Bitter Harvest :
And so I have lost my faith
in America, it is why I've written this letter, I will never agree with
this war and the horror that led up to it. To the incestuous
relationships between the players involved, Al Qaeda, the Saudis, the
administration and the Texas Cabal. I will never agree with this wars
continued prosecution and the needless, useless, profane waste of lives
it entails.
We have already gone down
this road to "win the hearts and minds" of another people in another
place and time, it was called Vietnam. At least we embarked on that
terrible journey for ideological and geopolitical reasons, but to make
the same mistake again, and to do it for the greed and personal power
of a few is unconscionable. Any actions we take from now on regarding
the Middle East and Iraq are forever tainted and doomed to failure by
the corrupt circumstances that led up to this war. We are building a
house on a foundation of lies and deceit in a sea of sand amongst a
hostile, resentful, occupied people and it will be swept away to our
utter ruin. We are 'harvesting fruits from the poisonous tree', and a
bitter, bitter harvest it will be.
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Footnotes :
(101) The Progress Report
January 11, 2004 "National Security" Cheney's latest distortion
(102) The Daily Mis-Lead
"Bush's Evidence for War in Iraq Remains Illusory" 10-08-2003
<http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1344939&l=6127
>
(103) The Daily Mis-Lead
"Bush Admits Misleading on WMD" 01-27-2004
<http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1344939&l=16074
>
(104) The Progress report
January 28, 2004 "Intel Warnings Ignored"
(105) The Daily Mis-Lead
01-23-2004 "Cheney Cites Leaked Intelligence on Iraq-Al Qaeda"
<
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1344939&l=15588 >
(106) The Progress Report
02-22-2004 "Cheney Discredited by His Own Weapons Inspector"
(107) The Daily Mis-Lead
01-12-2004 "Former treasury say War in Iraq was Planned Before 9/11"
<
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1344939&l=14345 >
(108) By Greg Palast,
exerpt from Greg Palast "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" 04-26-2004
@ AlterNet :
(109) CBS 60 minutes 4/25/04
(110) "The Barreling
Bushes" L. A. Times by Kevin Phillip
<
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/sunday/commentary/la-op- >
<
phillips11jan11,0,1130619.story?coll=la-sunday-commentary >
(111) NYT Columnist: "The
Halliburton Shuffle" January 30, 2004 By Bob Herbert
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/opinion/30HERB.html?
(112) Michelle Mairesse
"Ancestral Voices" RCVD 03-24-2004
(113) The Progress Report
4/23/2004 "Saudi Arabia -Under the Influence : The BCCI-Bush-
Saudi- Terrorist Nexus"
(114) The Progress Report
March 11, 2004 "The Saudi Connection"
(115) The Progress report
January 23, 2004 "Halliburton : Company unfairly maligned
denying his connections".
(116) New Yorker Magazine
03-17-2003 "Lunch with the Chairman : Why was Richard Perle
meeting with Adnan
Khashoggi?" by Seymour Hersh
(117) The Daily Mis-Lead
04-21-2004 "Bush Still has Not Explained Ties to Saudi Arabia"
(118) NYT "Secrecy : The
Bush Byword" 3/28/03
<
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/28/opinion/28FRI3.html?ex=1049964968&ei=1&
en >
(119) "The Fruits of
Secrecy" New York Times 11-08-2003
(120) 2004 Newsweek, Inc.
by Martin Yant "Enron played key role in events presaging war" RCVD
03-24-2004
(121) "FBI and Spy Agents
Say Bush Spiked Bin Lauden Probes before 11 September" by Greg
Palast,
http://www.GregPalast.com
(122) The Progress Report
03-22-2004 "9/11-Warnings Ignored"
(123) The Progress Report
04-12-2004 "FYI, The PDB Doesn't CYA"
(124) The Progress Report
03-25-2004 "9/11-Clark Withstands Scrutiny"
(125) The Daily Mis-Lead
"Tenet Exposes Bush's Misleading on WMD"
<
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1344939&l=17046 >
(126) The Daily Mis-Lead
01-14-04 "Official Confirms Bush Plotting Iraqi Invasion Before 9/11"
<
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1344939&l=14452 >
(127) Source: CNN, 4/30/01;
AP, 6/29/01]
(128) Source: AP, 6/25/03
ex=1049964968&ei=1&en]
(129) Source: Newsweek,
3/21/04]
(130) Source: Newsweek,
5/27/02]
(131) The Progress Report
04-13-2004 "Ashcroft Slashed Counter Terrorism in His First Month In
Office"
(132) Source: CBS, 7/26/01]
(133) Source: Salon,
3/11/04; NBC, 9/7/03; Chicago Tribune, 9/19/01]
(134) The Daily Mis-Lead
"New Evidence that Bush Pushed Iraq War right after 9/11"
(135) New York Times
11-06-2003 "Diplomacy : Iraq Said to Have Tried to Reach Last-
Minute Deal to Avert War"
by James Risen.
<
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/06/politics/06INTE.html >
(136) The Progress Report
01-28-2004 "CIA warnings ignored"
(137) The Daily Mis-Lead
04-06-2004 "New Evidence Bush Pushed Iraq War Right After 9/11"
<
http://daily.misleader.org/ctt.asp?u=1344939&l=26544 >
(138) NYT Intelligence
Panel's Finances Will Stay Private February 15, 2004 By Eric Lichtblau
<
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/politics/15PANE.html? >
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ex=1077914846&ei=1&en=3f818ac9d1c589af >
(139) Washington Post Poll:
Saddam Hussein and the Sept. 11 Attacks Saturday, September 6, 2003
(140) The Progress Report
April 23, 2004 "Americans Still Misled"
(141) New York Times
03-30-2004 Op-Ed "This Isn't America" by Paul Krugman
I owe a debt of gratitude
and most of my footnotes to "Truth & Consequences" 04-22-2004 DOC,
RTF, PDF The Progress Report @ progress@americanprogress.com , The
Daily Mislead. and of course many other authors such as Bernard
Weiner's "Up, Up B.S. Away" and Michelle Mairesse and her posting at
http://www.hermes-press.com
Revisions :
[aa] added {08-06-04}
[bb] second largest
producer changed to second largest proven reserves {08-06-04}
[cc] FBI changed to CIA
{06-20-04}
[dd] 9/11 commission
changed to commission (it was a separate body) {06-20-04}
[ee] deleted the e-mail
address {08-29-04}
[ff] It appears it's not an
original idea. If you check out Michelle Mairesse's postings you'll see
it's specifically mentioned back in 2002. {08-21-2004}
[gg] How could I forget to
include it, I’m sorry {04-04-05}
[hh] How could I forget to
mention those facts…I goofed. I did not mention the author’s name
because I’m not sure he desires to be associated with this letter.
{05-08-05}
[ii] Brilliant article:
predicted everything the Bush administration did, and will do. Just
didn’t see it till recently. {05-08-05}
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