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Title: The War on Terror Is a Hoax
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americanfreepress
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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Comments: 38
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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#2. 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..
Just wondering.. I doubt he has. Or any leftist for that matter.
Wait til they realize what lucifer is really all about.
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.
Exactly, what are you talking about now?
I'm talking about you being a drunken sot and a hoser.
I see. Are you capable of fully describing your complaints? After-all, I am a new contributing poster to your fine forum.
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.
I figured if I could see it that it had to be very .
#23. To: Rotara (#21)
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.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestNeocons 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)
#4. To: Rotara (#3)
Has PCR figured out YET that Obamalamadingdong is a NEOCON ?
Face it, "this man is Jesus."
#7. To: IndieTX (#4)
I doubt he has. Or any leftist for that matter.
Face it, "this man is Jesus." 
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#10. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#9)
#11. To: Rotara (#10)
#12. To: grace_is_by_our_lord (#11)
Exactly, what are you talking about now?
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#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.
#21. To: James Deffenbach (#20)
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