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Title: Paul Craig Roberts: Impeach Now
Source: Counterpunch
URL Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07162007.html
Published: Jul 16, 2007
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2007-07-16 16:16:01 by Zipporah
Keywords: None
Views: 145
Comments: 9

Impeach Now

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.

Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of "executive orders" that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might expect a series of staged, or false flag, "terrorist" events in the near future.

Many attentive people believe that the reason the Bush administration will not bow to expert advice and public opinion and begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq is that the administration intends to rescue its unpopular position with false flag operations that can be used to expand the war to Iran.

Too much is going wrong for the Bush administration: the failure of its Middle East wars, Republican senators jumping ship, Turkish troops massed on northern Iraq's border poised for an invasion to deal with Kurds, and a majority of Americans favoring the impeachment of Cheney and a near-majority favoring Bush's impeachment. The Bush administration desperately needs dramatic events to scare the American people and the Congress back in line with the militarist-police state that Bush and Cheney have fostered.

William Norman Grigg recently wrote that the GOP is "praying for a terrorist strike" to save the party from electoral wipeout in 2008.
Chertoff, Cheney, the neocon nazis, and Mossad would have no qualms about saving the bacon for the Republicans, who have enabled Bush to start two unjustified wars, with Iran waiting in the wings to be attacked in a third war.

The Bush administration has tried unsuccessfully to resurrect the terrorist fear factor by infiltrating some blowhard groups and encouraging them to talk about staging "terrorist" events. The talk, encouraged by federal agents, resulted in "terrorist" arrests hyped by the media, but even the captive media was unable to scare people with such transparent sting operations.

If the Bush administration wants to continue its wars in the Middle East and to entrench the "unitary executive" at home, it will have to conduct some false flag operations that will both frighten and anger the American people and make them accept Bush's declaration of "national emergency" and the return of the draft. Alternatively, the administration could simply allow any real terrorist plot to proceed without hindrance.

A series of staged or permitted attacks would be spun by the captive media as a vindication of the neoconsevatives' Islamophobic policy, the intention of which is to destroy all Middle Eastern governments that are not American puppet states. Success would give the US control over oil, but the main purpose is to eliminate any resistance to Israel's complete absorption of Palestine into Greater Israel.

Think about it. If another 9/11-type "security failure" were not in the works, why would Homeland Security czar Chertoff go to the trouble of convincing the Chicago Tribune that Americans have become complacent about terrorist threats and that he has "a gut feeling" that America will soon be hit hard?

Why would Republican warmonger Rick Santorum say on the Hugh Hewitt radio show that "between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public's (sic) going to have a very different view of this war."

Throughout its existence the US government has staged incidents that the government then used in behalf of purposes that it could not otherwise have pursued. According to a number of writers, false flag operations have been routinely used by the Israeli state. During the Czarist era in Russia, the secret police would set off bombs in order to arrest those the secret police regarded as troublesome. Hitler was a dramatic orchestrator of false flag operations. False flag operations are a commonplace tool of governments.

Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging "terrorist" attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda?

Only a diehard minority believes in the honesty and integrity of the Bush-Cheney administration and in the truthfulness of the corporate media.

Hitler, who never achieved majority support in a German election, used the Reichstag fire to fan hysteria and push through the Enabling Act, which made him dictator. Determined tyrants never require majority support in order to overthrow constitutional orders.

The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown. Are coming "terrorist" events of which Chertoff warns and Santorum promises the means for overthrowing our constitutional democracy?

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com

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#1. To: Zipporah, *Paul Craig Roberts*, *Impeachment* (#0)

Ron Paul for President

robin  posted on  2007-07-16   16:18:51 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: robin (#1)

.. a very interesting discussion on DK about this article:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/7/16/11149/8486

Particularly about Robert's charge of false flag operations... they're discussing 9/11.. too interesting.

Zipporah  posted on  2007-07-16   16:34:00 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: robin (#1)

PCR is finally getting around to Mossad and Israeli intrigue....

“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"

Eoghan  posted on  2007-07-16   16:39:56 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Zipporah (#2)

I've followed Paul Craig Roberts on http://anti-war.com since the onset of the war. At each step of the war, his predictions seemed plausible but a bit far fetched. In each case, his predictions later proved to be correct. His 2003 articles now appear as if they were written in sober hindsight.

Thanks for that link, looks good.

Ron Paul for President

robin  posted on  2007-07-16   17:04:49 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: robin (#4)

Seems more and more people are reexamining 9/11

Zipporah  posted on  2007-07-16   17:11:22 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Eoghan (#3)

It's about time.

Ron Paul for President

robin  posted on  2007-07-16   17:16:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Zipporah (#2) (Edited)

I'm afraid there won't BE any future elections, if we don't impeach bush and cheney

we said the same thing about clinton

christine  posted on  2007-07-16   18:33:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: christine (#7)

I heard the same prediction about Jimmy Carter.

He really scared me when he said, "I believe that between mah sista and mah self...we can get this country back on its knees where it belongs!"

HOUNDDAWG  posted on  2007-07-16   18:36:27 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Zipporah (#0)

PCR bump!

Galatians 3:29 And if ye [be] Christ's, then are ye Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

Red Jones  posted on  2007-07-16   19:25:43 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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