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Title: The War on Terror Is a Hoax
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URL Source: http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/terror_2609.html
Published: Feb 15, 2009
Author: Paul Craig Roberts
Post Date: 2009-02-15 13:27:51 by Itistoolate
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The War on Terror Is a Hoax By Paul Craig Roberts According to US government propaganda, terrorist cells are spread throughout America, making it necessary for the government to spy on all Americans and violate most other constitutional protections. Among President Bush’s last words as he left office was the warning that America would soon be struck again by Muslim terrorists. If America were infected with terrorists, we would not need the government to tell us. We would know it from events. As there are no events, the US government substitutes warnings in order to keep alive the fear that causes the public to accept pointless wars, the infringement of civil liberty, national ID cards, and inconveniences and harassments when they fly. The most obvious indication that there are no terrorist cells is that not a single neocon has been assassinated. I do not approve of assassinations, and am ashamed of my country’s government for engaging in political assassination. The US and Israel have set a very bad example for al Qaeda to follow. The US deals with al Qaeda and Taliban by assassinating their leaders, and Israel deals with Hamas by assassinating its leaders. It is reasonable to assume that al Qaeda would deal with the instigators and leaders of America’s wars in the Middle East in the same way. Today every al Qaeda member is aware of the complicity of neoconservatives in the death and devastation inflicted on Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Gaza. Moreover, neocons are highly visible and are soft targets compared to Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Neocons have been identified in the media for years, and as everyone knows, multiple listings of their names are available online. Neocons do not have Secret Service protection. Dreadful to contemplate, but it would be child’s play for al Qaeda to assassinate any and every neocon. Yet, neocons move around freely, a good indication that the US does not have a terrorist problem. If, as neocons constantly allege, terrorists can smuggle nuclear weapons or dirty bombs into the US with which to wreak havoc upon our cities, terrorists can acquire weapons with which to assassinate any neocon or former government official. Yet, the neocons, who are the Americans most hated by Muslims, remain unscathed. The “war on terror” is a hoax that fronts for American control of oil pipelines, the profits of the military-security complex, the assault on civil liberty by fomenters of a police state, and Israel’s territorial expansion. There were no al Qaeda in Iraq until the Americans brought them there by invading and overthrowing Saddam Hussein, who kept al Qaeda out of Iraq. The Taliban is not a terrorist organization, but a movement attempting to unify Afghanistan under Muslim law. The only Americans threatened by the Taliban are the Americans Bush sent to Afghanistan to kill Taliban and to impose a puppet state on the Afghan people. Hamas is the democratically elected government of Palestine, or what little remains of Palestine after Israel’s illegal annexations. Hamas is a terrorist organization in the same sense that the Israeli government and the US government are terrorist organizations. In an effort to bring Hamas under Israeli hegemony, Israel employs terror bombing and assassinations against Palestinians. Hamas replies to the Israeli terror with homemade and ineffectual rockets. Hezbollah represents the Shi’ites of southern Lebanon, another area in the Middle East that Israel seeks for its territorial expansion. The US brands Hamas and Hezbollah “terrorist organizations” for no other reason than the US is on Israel’s side of the conflict. There is no objective basis for the US Department of State’s “finding” that Hamas and Hezbollah are terrorist organizations. It is merely a propagandistic declaration. Americans and Israelis do not call their bombings of civilians terror. What Americans and Israelis call terror is the response of oppressed people who are stateless because their countries are ruled by puppets loyal to the oppressors. These people, dispossessed of their own countries, have no State Departments, Defense Departments, seats in the United Nations, or voices in the mainstream media. They can submit to foreign hegemony or resist by the limited means available to them. The fact that Israel and the United States carry on endless propaganda to prevent this fundamental truth from being realized indicates that it is Israel and the US that are in the wrong and the Palestinians, Lebanese, Iraqis, and Afghans who are being wronged. The retired American generals who serve as war propagandists for Fox “News” are forever claiming that Iran arms the Iraqi and Afghan insurgents and Hamas. But where are the arms? To deal with American tanks, insurgents have to construct homemade explosive devices out of artillery shells. After six years of conflict the insurgents still have no weapon against the American helicopter gunships. Contrast this “arming” with the weaponry the US supplied to the Afghans three decades ago when they were fighting to drive out the Soviets. The films of Israel’s murderous assault on Gaza show large numbers of Gazans fleeing from Israeli bombs or digging out the dead and maimed, and none of these people are armed. A person would think that by now every Palestinian would be armed, every man, woman, and child. Yet, all the films of the Israeli attack show an unarmed population. Hamas has to construct homemade rockets that are little more than a sign of defiance. If Hamas were armed by Iran, Israel’s assault on Gaza would have cost Israel its helicopter gunships, its tanks, and hundreds of lives of its soldiers. Hamas is a small organization armed with small caliber rifles incapable of penetrating body armor. Hamas is unable to stop small bands of Israeli settlers from descending on West Bank Palestinian villages, driving out the Palestinians, and appropriating their land. The great mystery is: why after 60 years of oppression are the Palestinians still an unarmed people? Clearly, the Muslim countries are complicit with Israel and the US in keeping the Palestinians unarmed. The unsupported assertion that Iran supplies sophisticated arms to the Palestinians is like the unsupported assertion that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. These assertions are propagandistic justifications for killing Arab civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure in order to secure US and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East. 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. Roberts can be contacted at PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com.
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#1. To: Itistoolate (#0)
If, as neocons constantly allege, terrorists can smuggle nuclear weapons or dirty bombs into the US with which to wreak havoc upon our cities, terrorists can acquire weapons with which to assassinate any neocon or former government official. Yet, the neocons, who are the Americans most hated by Muslims, remain unscathed. The “war on terror” is a hoax that fronts for American control of oil pipelines, the profits of the military-security complex, the assault on civil liberty by fomenters of a police state, and Israel’s territorial expansion. PCR writes a home-run column here.
Has PCR figured out YET that Obamalamadingdong is a NEOCON ? Just wondering..
4um Traitor Just wondering.. I doubt he has. Or any leftist for that matter. Law Enforcement Against Prohibition You think the people of this country exist to provide you with position. I think your position exists to provide those people with freedom.~~William Wallace ALAS, BABYLON
Face it, "this man is I think so judging from a 02/11/09 column, entitled "Ship of Fools": www.creators.com/opinion/...oberts/ship-of-fools.html Some cut and paste illustrating PCR's eyes are now wide open: ...Is there intelligent life in Washington, D.C.? Not a speck of it. The U.S. economy is imploding, and Obama is being led by his government of neconservatives and Israeli agents into a quagmire in Afghanistan that will bring the United States into confrontation with Russia and possibly China, American's largest creditor. ...To whose agenda is President Obama being hitched? Writing in the English language version of the Swiss newspaper Zeit-Fragen, Stephen J. Sniegoski reports that leading figures of the neocon conspiracy are ecstatic over Obama's appointments. They don't see any difference between Obama and Bush-Cheney. Not only are Obama's appointments moving him into an expanded war in Afghanistan, but the powerful Israel lobby is pushing Obama toward a war with Iran. The unreality in which the U.S. government operates is beyond belief. A bankrupt government that cannot pay its bills without printing money is rushing headlong into wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iran. The world has never seen such total mindlessness. Napoleon's and Hitler's marches into Russia were rational acts compared to the mindless idiocy of the United States government. Obama's war in Afghanistan is the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. After seven years of conflict, there is still no defined mission or endgame scenario for U.S. forces in Afghanistan. When asked about the mission, a U.S. military official told NBC News, "Frankly, we don't have one." NBC reports: "they're working on it." Speaking to House Democrats on Feb. 5, President Obama admitted that the U.S. government does not know what its mission is in Afghanistan and that to avoid "mission creep without clear parameters," the United States "needs a clear mission." How would you like to be sent to a war, the point of which no one knows, including the commander in chief who sent you to kill or be killed? How, fellow taxpayers, do you like paying the enormous cost of sending soldiers on an undefined mission while the economy collapses?
Wait til they realize what lucifer is really all about.
4um Traitor Thanks scrap. I wonder where the Obots are hiding ?
4um Traitor I can clearly see you don't like Obama at all. Yet the American People validated his stature to rule over you. You don't like his reign one bit, do you? Yet, Brittney Spears leads more horses to water than any of your posts. How about that?
buckeroo, I see the treatment has almost completely worn off. You deserve your sorry self.
4um Traitor Exactly, what are you talking about now?
I'm talking about you being a drunken sot and a hoser.
4um Traitor I see. Are you capable of fully describing your complaints? After-all, I am a new contributing poster to your fine forum.
I'm talking about you being a drunken sot and a hoser. I figured he was a mental case right from the beginning.
No buckeroo. I can put your worthless hide on filter, though, and I'm going to do that now. Adios again.
4um Traitor He's the same troll he's always been.
4um Traitor Of course. You make a challenge that is nonsense and when refuted you place me on ignore. Are you an inspiring mind or just a suspicious derelict? You shamefully hide from your own aspersions.
English isn't your first language, is it?
Correct. But why do you actually care? The language of freedom and spirit of capability is most important to interpret as opposed your fine friend attempting to club me to death under false pretense.
LOL! I knew who you were when you first started posting here under that name. You have also infiltrated LP under a different name. But you are the same ol' buck though. Here is a post under your other sobriquet on LP. Actually, I would enjoy some real commentary coming from the heart without one- liners. You are probably a fine gentleman with many ideas to express, yet you seem timid or afraid to say much than a borrowed slogan manufactured by some cheap website. So, tell me more about your perspectives. Hawaii_FIVE_O posted on 2009-02-07 22:25:48 ET Reply Trace Here's another one: I would rather believe in the tooth-faerie, myself. Hawaii_FIVE_O posted on 2009-02-07 21:21:36 ET Reply Trace Tooth-FAERIE? That you, Shauwn? LOL! Shauwn, bueckeroo, Hawaii_FIVE_0, grace_is_by_ou_lord--all the same poster.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. I figured if I could see it that it had to be very .
4um Traitor My God! These accusations are incredibly surreal. Are you sure you have nabbed the culprit in all your espionage? This is becoming too much fun. Whom is the poor chap that I am supposed to follow?
Of course it is obvious. I could, if I chose to do so, do a search on buck's post along with the other monikers that I know him by (and I am sure there are probably many that I don't know), put them in a thread and it would be obvious to all but the Stevie Wonder blind.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Quite sure. And it was easy to do.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Obama hasn't kept his campaign promises, has placed 12 lobbyists in his administration after promising not to name any, and has never proven to my satisfaction that he's even qualified for the office. Anyone that sees Obama in a favorable light is using night vision goggles.
If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. Henry David Thoreau - 1849
"rule over", "reign" - what century, what nation do you live in buckeroo?
Or beer goggles.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. One time, when he posted on LP under the name Shauwn (at least I think that is how he spelled it), he lived in Ireland. Yep, just checked--here is one of the funnier posts from that time. 47. To: buckeroo (#8) You are out of control. Probation - 2 weeks. 1 comment a day 20 characters only. Abuse of that will escalate sanction to "retired" status...no posting at all for 2 weeks. Goldi-Lox posted on 2007-09-03 20:40:58 ET Reply Trace 48. To: Goldi-Lox (#47) Aye! That bad poster is really aching our minds; our souls and capabilities to distinguish the perpetrators of his demise. It is best lass to remove him for all eternity as he fights for justice about his own dignity. shauwn posted on 2007-09-03 20:45:50 ET Reply Trace http://libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=198856&Disp=48#C48
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. i thought that PCR redeemed himself early on with a denouncement of obama when obama appointed emmanuel CoS...and didn't he write an article Neoconned Again or one similarly titled?
I am having the laugh of my life with your incredible stories. In the name of our God, how do you find the time to follow me around and report about the same when there are so many other important issues affecting your quality of life?
Hey bucky
Make awkward sexual advances, not war. But then the world has never had a supposedly civilized regime as treacherous (insurrection against the British and USS Liberty attack) and as brazenly criminal as the illegal Israeli state. And that such a regime has been able to gain total control (through election campaign funding) of the world's armed-to-the-teeth superpower. The sole purpose of the U.S. mission in Afghanistan (instigated by Israeli agents and their media in the U.S.) is to keep Afghanistan destabilized so that it does not present a threat to Israel as it did when the Taliban allowed Arab fighters to train there to help Palestinians regain land stolen by Israeli terrorists to form their illegal state.
NEOCONS are traitors to the human race and should be treated accordingly.
Neocons do not have Secret Service protection. Dreadful to contemplate, but it would be child’s play for al Qaeda to assassinate any and every neocon. Yet, neocons move around freely, a good indication that the US does not have a terrorist problem. If, as neocons constantly allege, terrorists can smuggle nuclear weapons or dirty bombs into the US with which to wreak havoc upon our cities, terrorists can acquire weapons with which to assassinate any neocon or former government official. Yet, the neocons, who are the Americans most hated by Muslims, remain unscathed. It's enough to almost make you wish wish that there really were all- powerful "Muslim Terrorists" all over the US. If every neoconservative in America were killed off, nobody would miss them. But alas, they only exist in the lies of the neocons and the imaginations of gullible, Fox News watching, AM radio listening Americans.
You rang? ;-) Paul Craig Roberts is one of my 5 or 6 favorite columnists. I email his columns to my kids.
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
Have you come to your senses ?
4um Traitor Yes, early in the new century. "The Republican Party has morphed into a Brownshirt Party. The party worships “energy in the executive.” If the Brownshirt Republicans are reelected, they only need one more Supreme Court appointment in order to destroy American liberty" ... Paul Craig Roberts (not too long ago).
Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot
I'm sorry. You never had any sense. You're still a partisan dum bass. A globalist bankster's dream tool.
"It is like a trance. So what can break a trance? The only thing that can break the trance is the light of truth."
~ Canadian Philosopher John McMurtry as he comments on the psychological warfare that has afflicted us all
#2. To: Itistoolate (#0)
Neocons do not have Secret Service protection. Dreadful to contemplate, but it would be child’s play for al Qaeda to assassinate any and every neocon. Yet, neocons move around freely, a good indication that the US does not have a terrorist problem.
#3. To: scrapper2, Paul Craig Roberts (#2)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#4. To: Rotara (#3)
Has PCR figured out YET that Obamalamadingdong is a NEOCON ?
Face it, "this man is Jesus."
"Corporation: An entity created for the legal protection of its human parasites, whose sole purpose is profit and self-perpetuation." ~~ IndieTx
#5. To: IndieTX. all (#4)
Jesus Judas."
#6. To: Rotara (#3)
#7. To: IndieTX (#4)
I doubt he has. Or any leftist for that matter.
Face it, "this man is Jesus." 
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#8. To: scrapper2, ferret mike, arator, a vast rightwing conspirator, iconoclast, aristeides, Brian S, robin, CALLING ALL OBAMALAMDINGDONG PARTISAN MORANS (#6)
Stephen J. Sniegoski reports that leading figures of the neocon conspiracy are ecstatic over Obama's appointments. They don't see any difference between Obama and Bush-Cheney.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#9. To: Rotara (#7)
#10. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#9)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#11. To: Rotara (#10)
#12. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#11)
Exactly, what are you talking about now?
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#13. To: Rotara (#12)
#14. To: Rotara (#12)
(Edited)
Exactly, what are you talking about now?
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#15. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#13)
I see. Are you capable of fully describing your complaints? After-all, I am a new contributing poster to your fine forum.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#16. To: Turtle (#14)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#17. To: Rotara (#15)
I can put your worthless hide on filter, though, and I'm going to do that now.
#18. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#17)
You shamefully hide from your own aspersions
No place is better than Turtle Island.
#19. To: Turtle (#18)
#20. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#13)
I see. Are you capable of fully describing your complaints? After-all, I am a new contributing poster to your fine forum.
Lord Acton
#21. To: James Deffenbach (#20)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#22. To: James Deffenbach (#20)
#23. To: Rotara (#21)
Lord Acton
#24. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#22)
Are you sure you have nabbed the culprit in all your espionage?
Lord Acton
#25. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#9)
I can clearly see you don't like Obama at all.
#26. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#9)
Yet the American People validated his stature to rule over you. You don't like his reign one bit, do you?
#27. To: noone222 (#25)
Anyone that sees Obama in a favorable light is using night vision goggles.
Lord Acton
#28. To: scrapper2, grace_is_by_our_lord, shauwn, buckeroo (#26)
Lord Acton
#29. To: scrapper2, Rotara (#6)
#30. To: James Deffenbach (#28)
#31. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#30)
Restaurants Schenectady, NY
#32. To: scrapper2 (#6)
The world has never seen such total mindlessness. (bankrupt nation fighting a puzzling, pointless war)
#33. To: Itistoolate (#0)
#34. To: Itistoolate (#0)
Today every al Qaeda member is aware of the complicity of neoconservatives in the death and devastation inflicted on Muslims in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon and Gaza. Moreover, neocons are highly visible and are soft targets compared to Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Neocons have been identified in the media for years, and as everyone knows, multiple listings of their names are available online.
#35. To: Rotara (#8)
I wonder where the Obots are hiding ?
#36. To: iconoclast (#35)
You rang? ;-)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
#37. To: Rotara, All (#36)
Have you come to your senses ?
#38. To: iconoclast (#37)
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams
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