During the past few decades, a malignant strain of extreme Conservative political ideology has infected the American political scene. This political movement is reminiscent of the radical far right political environment which existed in Europe in the 1930s; and to a lesser extent in the U.S. in the 1950s; when fear, suspicion, and repression of minorities, “Godless Communism” and non-conformity reached its post World War II zenith. In that time, right wing extremist groups held the nation in their grip.

“I’ve said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most Un-American thing in America.”
President Harry S. Truman, 1960

The excesses they perpetrated included; McCarthyism; Communist witch hunts; blacklisting of artists in the motion picture industry; sexual repression, hate crimes against blacks and homosexuals; religious bigotry; the growth of white supremacy groups, such as the Ku-Klux-Klan, and the Aryan Nations; the official suppression of civil and human rights, particularly in the so-called Bible Belt states; and the risk of world nuclear annihilation; pursued by such extreme Conservative groups as the John Birch Society, which advocated Nuclear Preventive War with the Soviet Union.

Post WWII Interventionist-Conservatism, coupled with fear of “Godless Communism”, resulted in the dangerous Cold War struggle with the Eastern European Warsaw Pact; dominated by the Internationalist-Conservative Bolshevik Soviet Union. This led inevitably to many American interventions and armed conflicts in third world countries, including; the Korean war; the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba; the subsequent Cuban Nuclear Missile Crisis; and the unjustified intervention in the Civil War between North and South Vietnam; a third world country, which had never threatened the U.S. in any way. The Vietnam War had begun in the 1950s, with heavy U.S. support of the collapsing Colonial empire of the French in Southeast Asia.

The intervention by the ill-advised Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy administrations then spiraled out of control, during the Johnson and Nixon period.

The Interventionist Nationalist-Conservative blunder of the Vietnam War; and the Racist-Conservative abuses of minorities eventually resulted in a broad based nationwide anti-war and civil rights backlash against most of the traditional-conservative institutions of American society. This political revolution caused a major fracture in the political unity of the American people; and social upheavals bordering on anarchy. This inevitably resulted in right wing reactionary Counter-reformations by what became known as the “New Right,” “The Conservative Revolution” and “Movement Conservatism”.

A half century later, the nation was again in the grip of a hard right wing political movement, and involved in an unjust War of Occupation on several third world countries. This book is all about why, in less than a century, we find ourselves watching a repeat performance of a national catastrophe; which Americans of all moderate and reasonable political persuasions, from moderate traditional liberal-Democrats to moderate traditional-conservative Republicans, swore would never be allowed to happen again.

The Illegitimate Presidency

By 2001, the Republican Party, which had controlled the White House for twenty of the previous thirty-two years, regained power, as self proclaimed Compassionate-Conservative, George W. Bush, was selected to be the President of the United States of America, by the Republican majority on the U.S. Supreme Court; even though there was evidence that there had been extensive voter fraud in the State of Florida. Florida votes were not permitted to be recounted, and it was proven that up to one million African-Americans had been disenfranchised. The Democratic Party candidate had also won the national popular vote.

Mr. Bush’s lack of compassion had been widely publicized, when as a Governor, he had cruelly ridiculed a female Texas death row inmate, that had petitioned for clemency. His Presidency was considered illegitimate by a majority of American voters, and his first months in office were lackluster.

“So speak, and do so, as those who will be judged by the law of Liberty; For judgement is without mercy; to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgement.”
Jesus Christ, The King James Bible, Epistle of James, 2:12-13

During the Presidential campaign, Bush had frequently attacked the Clinton administration for their involvement in foreign military entanglements for humanitarian reasons; such as the intervention in Bosnia. Bush claimed that as a conservative he would keep the U.S. out of such foreign misadventures, claiming;

“We will not be the world’s 911”

It is ironic that a 9/11 event would prove that he was not a traditional-conservative either.

His claim to the voters, that he was a Compassionate-Conservative was just the first example of his pathological tendency to use Orwellian scale falsehoods, hypocrisy, and contradictions.

In the years since he has held the Presidency, Mr. Bush has gradually revealed himself to be a mean personality, devoid of humor, humility, or humanity. All of his appearances are orchestrated to such an extent that they appear to be recordings. When he does give speeches, as he did at the UN, in the State of the Union messages, and in defense of his policies, he always assumes an aggressive, belligerent, haranguing, and patronizing tone, not seen in a world leader since the rants of the dictators of the 1930s. Numerous defecting White House aides and political appointees finally began to describe what life was like in Emperor Bush’s White House.

What has emerged since 2001, is an avalanche of books and off the record remarks which describe a secretive, vindictive, martinet President living in a Bunker mentality. People close to the regime have called him the most isolated President in modern history; at least since the late period Nixon regime. Bush is reported to have a “defensive edge”, and a “Don’t Tread on Me” prickliness, that causes Aides to avoid any bad news or even news that is not rosy. This is a White House without genuine humor. Bush’s perverted idea of humor is to take advantage of anyone working for him with vicious personal jokes made at their expense. He likes to give subordinates unflattering nicknames. For example his political consigliere Karl Rove, is called “Turdblossom.”

Loyalty is described as always agreeing with the boss, even when he is disastrously wrong. Bush has little or no patience for detailed or complex reasoning, preferring to get only conclusions and recommendations, as long as they don’t depart from the Bush/Cheney Neo-Conservative party line.

Exploiting the most Devastating Terrorist Attack in U.S. History

Just eight months after being sworn in, the new President was thrust into a period of historical turmoil, for which his lack of professional qualifications, intellectual capacity, and moral integrity, ill prepared him to lead the nation.

(In November, 1999, candidate Bush could not name the leaders of Pakistan or India!)

America’s Reichstag Fire

On September 11, 2001, the grim preachers of a new strain of Radical Conservatism, called Neo-Conservatism, were given the greatest of all gifts they could wish for. A group of primarily, Saudi Arabian assassins; members of the Al Qaeda Islamic Jihadist movement, attacked the United States, by suicide crashes of passenger airliners into the Pentagon, and the New York World Trade Center Buildings. None of the assassins were Iraqis. These Radical-Conservative Muslim religious fanatics killed themselves and around 3,000 innocent people, in the worst attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.

In Gerald Posner’s book “Secrets of the Kingdom” he reveals that Al Qaeda terrorist Abu Zubaydah, while undergoing interrogation, was deceived into revealing that the Al Qaeda cell that had conducted the 9/11 attack, was connected with several Saudi Princes, including Saudi Arabian Prince (Ahmed bin Salman bin Abdul Aziz) the nephew of King Fahd; and the Chief of the Pakistani Air Force. Posner goes on to document the many connections of the Saudi government with terrorist activity, including against the U.S. In the U.S. many Muslim community centers and half of the Mosques and Islamic schools were built with Saudi funds. King Fahd’s website shows sixteen Islamic and cultural centers the Saudis have underwritten from California to New York. A 2000 survey of 1,200 U.S. Mosques, undertaken by four Muslim groups, found that 70% of their Imams were favorably inclined toward “Fundamentalist” teachings, and nearly a quarter followed the strict “Wahhabism” sect.

Posner wrote:

“Four months before 9/11, the Islamic Assembly of North America (IANA) website had justified “martyrdom operations”, including crashing a plane “on a crucial enemy target.”

Posner thoroughly documented the sinister web of connections between Big Oil, the Bush family, his NFC Republican Cabinet and the Saudi Kingdom which permitted; surely with Bush’s approval, many members of the Bin Laden family and other high-ranking Saudi officials to leave the U.S.days after the 9/11 attacks, most without even being interviewed by the FBI.

The Bush regime went on to exploit the terrible 9/11 tragedy for the benefit of the American radical right wing Neo-Conservative movement of which he was the chief advocate.

Playing cynical politics with this horrendous tragedy, the president’s political consigliere, Karl Rove said:

“Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to offer therapy and understanding for our attackers. Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks, and prepared for war.”

Within hours of the attack, Senator Barbara Boxer, one of the most Liberal Senators in the Congress, had actually said:

"We are resolved to hold those who planned these attacks and who harbor these people absolutely 100 percent accountable. They must pay because this is the test of a civilized nation...We will not back down. I stand proudly with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle and with our President. We will be resolved to do everything - and do it well and do it right - to bring justice…"

The not so reverend Jerry Falwell could not miss the opportunity to point the finger of blame at his favorite scapegoats:

“God continues to lift the curtain and allow the enemies of America to give us probably what we deserve… I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and gays and lesbians who are trying to make an alternative lifestyle, the ACLU, People for the American Way-—all of them who have tried to secularize America—-I point the finger in their faces and say; you helped this happen.”
Jerry Falwell

This put Falwell in the same camp with another self-proclaimed Holy Man:

“It is punishment from God.”
Osama bin Laden

The September 11 attack, like that of the Reichstag building in 1933, provided a golden opportunity to implement many revolutionary domestic and foreign policy measures, long advocated by the hard right wing zealots of this re-energized Radical Nationalist-Conservative movement, later widely identified as “Neo-Conservatism.”

An Earlier Terrorist Attack

On February 28, 1933, a fire gutted the German Parliament building called the Reichstag. A youthful Dutch citizen, named Marinus Van der Lubbe, was found on the premises and charged with participating in a broad Communist Terrorist conspiracy. Van der Lubbe claimed he alone was responsible for the fire, which was lit as a protest to Nazi violence against labor unions. There were also reports that some of Rohm’s Brownshirts assisted him in setting the fires. The Nazi Party used the attack as an excuse to destroy the Communist, and all other opposition parties.

The conservative elements in the Police, the Military, the Christian Churches, the Industry leaders, the bankers, etc. then accommodated and allied themselves with the Nazis. Watching the fire, Goering commented:

"This is the beginning of the Communist revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every Communist official must be shot, where he is found. Every Communist deputy must this very day be strung up!"

The day after the fire, Hitler issued a decree, which he persuaded President Hindenburg to sign. The decree was titled ‘A Decree for the Protection of the People and the State” and was described “as a defensive measure against communist acts of violence”. It began by suspending the guarantees of individual Liberty under the Weimar Constitution:

“Thus, restrictions on personal Liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the Press; on the rights of assembly and association; violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic, and telephonic communications; warrants for house searches; orders for confiscation as well as restrictions on property, are permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.”

The decree suspended all of the Basic Rights of the Constitution; permitted the authorities to arrest anyone they suspected of being “terrorists” and deny them their Constitutional rights. Article 2 authorized the Reich Government if necessary to take over full powers in any federal state. Article 5 increased the penalty for the crimes of high treason, poisoning, arson, and sabotage to one of death, and instituted the death penalty, or hard labor for life, in the case of conspiracy to assassinate members of the Government, or grave breaches of the peace.

The Nazi propaganda machine then sowed fear and chaos in the German people, producing the most hair raising accounts of Communist terrorists, preparing for insurrection and a “Blood Bath.” Hitler barnstormed the country declaring his determination to stamp out Marxism and the Liberal and Socialist Parties of the left, without mercy.

Charged with implementing the new Extra-Constitutional measures, Goering notified the people on March 3, 1933, that “Justice” was no longer needed:

“Fellow Germans, my measures will not be crippled by any judicial thinking. My measures will not be crippled by any bureaucracy. Here I don’t have to worry about Justice, my mission is only to destroy and exterminate, nothing more.”

Many thousands of innocent German dissidents and political opponents of the Nazis, were imprisoned without trials, denied counsel, interrogated, tortured, and killed.

Following the 9/11 attack, like minded extreme Neo-Conservative ideologues such as Bush, Cheney, Ashcroft, Rice, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz, now serving in high positions in the Bush Administration, and their allies in Congress; took advantage of the fear and hysteria of the American public. Within months they initiated a series of sub-rosa war plans and domestic police state measures, to fight a new endless war, to stamp out a new generic enemy, they also called “Terrorism.”

No Accountability for the 9/11 Negligence

In 2004, Richard A. Clarke, the National Security Council Counterterrorism Czar, with 20 years of experience fighting terrorism, who had served inside the White house for Bush’s father and Pres. Clinton, published his book, “Against All Enemies.” This book, provides a detailed account of the events leading up to 911, documents the shocking incompetence and criminal negligence of President Bush, and his National Security Team, that had ignored the many warnings provided to them in the nine months preceding 9/11, specifically that Osama bin Laden and his Al Qaeda Jihadists (Holy Warriors) were determined to conduct devastating attacks inside the U.S., using airplanes!

At the F.B.I., a few agents pursued clues that would later prove close to the mark, but they could not draw attention from top National Security Council officials in the Bush regime. A Minnesota F.B.I. agent, Harry M. Samit, had urged WDC FBI Directors to act, warning in a memorandum that Mr. Moussaoui was a dangerous Islamic extremist, whose study of how to fly a Boeing aircraft seemed to be part of a sinister plot:

"As the details of this plan are not yet fully known, it cannot be determined if Moussaoui has sufficient knowledge of the 747-400 to attempt to execute the seizure of such an aircraft, …not clear how far advanced Moussaoui's plan is or how many unidentified co-conspirators exist."
Report by Harry M. Samit, FBI agent, Aug. 31, 2001

No known action was taken until after the attack had taken place!

In February 2004, the Family Steering Committee of the families of the 9/11 victims prepared a list of questions for the 9/11 Commission to ask President Bush when he met with the Commission. Here are a few of the 23 questions:

“The Family Steering Committee believes that president Bush should provide sworn public testimony to the full ten-member panel of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States.

Question # 9. Beginning with the transition period between the Clinton administration and your own, and ending on 9/11/01, specifically what information (either verbal or written) about terrorists, possible attacks and targets, did you receive from any source?

Question #10. Specifically, what did you learn from the August 6, 2001, PDB about the terrorist threat that was facing our nation? Did you request any follow-up action to take place? Did you request any further report be developed and/or prepared?

Question # 11. As Commander-In-Chief, from May 1, 2001, did you receive any information from any intelligence agency official or agent that UBL was planning to attack this nation on its own soil using airplanes as weapons, targeting New York City landmarks during the week of September 11, 2001 or on the actual day of September 11, 2001?

Question # 12. What defensive measures did you take in response to pre-9/11 warnings from eleven nations about a terrorist attack, many of which cited an Attack in the Continental United States? Did you prepare any directives in response to these actions? If so, with what results?

Question #19. Who approved the flight of the bin Laden family out of the United States when all commercial flights were grounded, when there was time for only minimal questioning by the FBI, and especially, when two of those same individuals had links to WAMY, a charity suspected of funding terrorism? Why were bin Laden family members granted that special privilege not available to American families whose loved ones were killed on 9/11?

Question # 22. Do you continue to maintain that Saddam Hussein was linked to al Qaeda? What proof do you have of any connection between al Qaeda and the Hussein regime?

Question # 23. Which individuals, governments, agencies, institutions or groups may have benefited from the attacks of 9/11? Please state specifically how you think they have benefited?

The nature of the questions reflects the survivor’s belief that Bush had been given adequate warning by the Intelligence agencies; but had been grossly negligent in performing the primary task of the Chief Executive, which is to direct that timely defensive action be taken to protect the American people from such a devastating attack. The President did not provide sworn testimony in public, or in private, and did not testify to the entire Commission.

"We took an oath not to talk about it during the campaign, I think correctly so, to increase the capacity of that commission's report to be heard by the people's Congress. Now it's beyond the campaign, so the promise I had to keep this out of the campaign is over. Mr. President, you knew they were in the United States. You were warned by the CIA. You knew in July they were inside the United States. You were told again by briefing officers in August that it was a dire threat. Didn't do anything to harden our border security. Didn't do anything to harden airport security. Didn't do anything to engage local law enforcement. Didn't do anything to round up INS and the consular office, and say we have to shut this down, and didn't warn the American people. What did you do? Nothing so far as we can see."
Bob Kerrey - 9/11 Commissioner

To this day Mr. Bush denies any knowledge or negligence, no one in any government agency has been fired, and Bush has never answered the families of the 9/11 victims.

AWOL----Three Strikes and Your Out---of Your Depth

(1.) The record shows that when Mr. Bush was a junior officer, assigned to the Texas Air National Guard, he missed many mandatory training sessions, and a directed military flight physical. In the U.S. military this is known as being Absent Without Leave. (AWOL), and is a Court-Martial offense.

(2.) Whenever a President leaves Washington, DC, he travels with the world’s best communications system at his disposal. Because he is the only one that can order a Nuclear Strike, the President is never out of touch with his National Security Council support staff or other emergency and police agencies. He receives regular intelligence briefings, and members of his staff and Cabinet frequently meet with him on urgent matters of state. This has been true, at least since the WWII period.

In the August 2001 timeframe, President Bush took a month long vacation at his Dude ranch in Crawford, Texas. Prior to and during his vacation, the 9/11 Commission Report shows, that he was kept informed with Intelligence reports about specific terrorist threats to the safety and security of the nation. For some reason, he took no effective action to counter the terrorist threat posed by the Al Qaeda Islamic Jihadists, who struck the U.S. on September 11, 2001.The Captain of the ship of state was again AWOL. (this time Absent Without Leadership).

(3.) In the August 2005 timeframe, President Bush took another long vacation at his Dude ranch in Crawford, Texas. By Sunday August 28th the National Weather service predicted that “catastrophic” damage to the city of New Orleans was certain. Mass evacuation of the city began at 10AM that morning. The threat of the hurricane was obvious to the entire nation, but on that day, President Bush is reported to have traveled to the West coast to attend Republican fund raisers. His exact activities were not released, but he could not have been involved in overseeing the Federal Government’s response to the hurricane disaster.

During this extended vacation he was undoubtedly kept informed of the progress of Hurricane Katrina, by CNN, if by no other source. When the Hurricane hit the Gulf Coast near New Orleans, it caused flooding of biblical proportions. Sadly, without timely action or leadership from the top, the preparations and performance of the U.S. Government with its massive resources, including its Homeland Security Department, Department of Defense, and its Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), failed the people of the U.S. Gulf Coast. Conditions in the City of New Orleans were allowed to deteriorate into chaos and suffering on a scale equal to an attack by an army of terrorists. This was the biggest emergency management failure in U.S. history. The death toll has been officially confirmed at 1,690 souls.

Instead of rushing back to Washington, the day before the hurricane hit, President Bush continued to involve himself in vacation and fund raising activities, finally curtailing his vacation by only two days, when it was apparent that he was facing nationwide criticism for failing to take timely action to lead the U.S. government response. The AWOL President proved once again that he was out of his depth.

Failing the Test:

“If we can’t respond faster than this, to an event we saw coming across the Gulf for days, then why do we think we’re prepared to respond to a nuclear or biological attack?”
Former Conservative Revolution Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich

Buffeted by the quagmire of his elective Iraq War, astronomical increases in gas prices, and the fury at his failure to lead, in yet another Gulf War; called Hurricane Katrina; President Bush’s approval rating faced a trifecta Perfect Storm of his own making.

Katrina Failures Similar to Those on 9/11

On September 12, 2005 the former chairman of the 9/11 Commission, Gov. Thomas Kean, was reported to have said:

"The same mistakes made on 9/11 were made over again, in some cases worse.... Those are system-wide failures that can be fixed and should have been fixed right away."

Despite Bush's pledge that he would not "forget the lessons of 9/11”, Kean and former co-chairman, Rep. Lee Hamilton, cited parallels between Katrina and 9/11, such as emergency communications problems and a failure to target resources at communities facing the greatest risk. In its final Report on the state of Homeland Security, the 9/11 Commission blistered the Bush record passing out a Report Card with 5-Fs, 12-Ds, 9-Cs, and only 1-A minus. As the anniversary of 9/11 approached, Kean warned that changes in leadership need to be made.

The Threat of a Flu Pandemic

Possibly the gravest threat facing the U.S. is not from terrorists or from the Axis of Evil, it is from an animal Flu bug designated H5N1. This avian flu; like a similar virus, which caused a Pandemic in 1918, has crossed the barrier from chickens to humans. Ordinary vaccines are useless against it and it is devastatingly lethal, killing nearly half the people known to have contracted it.

This disease has been called the single greatest risk to the world today!

According to the World Health Organization, a Pandemic occurs when;
a.) a new form of virus emerges, or when an older form re-emerges;
b.) when it spreads to Humans;
c.) and when it spreads easily between Humans.

With the Avian Flu, the first two conditions have occurred.

The so-called Spanish Flu epidemic from 1918-1919, had a global death toll of at least 50 million, and there were 500,000 deaths in the U.S. from the illness.

In a worst-case scenario extrapolating from the 1918 Spanish Flu epidemic, H5N1 could kill 150 million people or about 2.5% of the world’s population. Though deadly, for some reason H5N1 does not easily infect or spread between people. However, as it circulates, the virus has more opportunity to evolve, increasing the risk that it will mutate or mix with human strains and turn rapidly transmissible, causing another Pandemic. This virus has been migrating with waterfowl and has carried the virus from East Asia through Central Asia and Russia, Turkey; and had reached Southeastern Europe by the summer of 2005. By 2005 there had been millions of animal deaths, but only 138 cases of bird to human infections with 68 fatalities. If the virus jumps to a human to human strain, it will threaten the entire world in a matter of weeks, due to the mobility of air travel, and the patterns of wild birds.

The danger to the U.S. is real. The world Health Organization’s plan to combat the avian flu has been to urge nations to stock up on two anti-viral drugs; Tamiflu and Relenza; which are known to reduce the severity and length of the disease. A stockpile of 60 million doses are needed for the U.S. most vulnerable people, but the country only had 2.3 million doses on hand, as of late 2005, (mostly earmarked for the Military and Police) France, with a population of 60 million reported that it had 13 million doses on hand. The Bush regime pre-occupied with saving the world for Democracy; has known of this threat for several years and has failed to stockpile sufficient anti-virus drugs for the American people.

The too-little, too-late Bush regime and NFC Congress had a $7 Billion Preparedness Plan, but it was heavily weighted toward developing a vaccine, with only $250 Million earmarked for practical Public Health measures; such as identifying and controlling outbreaks in other countries, to prevent them from quickly spreading all over the world.

"It's a depressing situation. We are way, way behind."
JEFFREY LEVI, Flu Expert, on government preparations for a bird flu epidemic

Bush is not up for re-election, but the American people should by now, have learned, that the safety and welfare of the American People, is not a priority of this Imperial President and his Neo-Conservative Republican Party.

The Perpetual Global (World) War on Terror (GWOT)

“We call it the Global War on Terrorism. Terrorism is a tactic! We declared war on a tactic. Can you imagine FDR saying, we were attacked at Pearl Harbor yesterday. I’m declaring war on Kamikazes? You don’t understand the problem if you don’t understand who you’re fighting”
General Anthony Zinni, USMC Ret. At the LBJ Library, April 6, 2005

After 9/11, the Bush regime eventually acted, by declaring a new world war; “The Global War on Terror”(GWOT). The Global War on Terror fit the pattern of a long list of previous Conservative, generic, indefinable and never ending wars, such as: “The War on Crime”; “The War on Drugs”; and the “The War on Illegal Immigrants”, which were, however; primarily domestic. This new war, like The Cold War, was to be another Perpetual World War; universally applicable to U.S. citizens as well as foreigners.

As of November 2006, the Global World War on Terror had already lasted longer than WWI, and at 5+ years; longer than WWII!

The war was used as justification for implementing a continuing series of unconstitutional measures at home, and illegal actions abroad; beginning with the Orwellian named Patriot Act, which was the first of many measures that trashed the U.S. Constitution; the Bill of Rights; and the Liberties, Civil Rights, and Human Rights of the American people; for the false promise of greater security. Americans were soon to learn that the “Global War on Terror” was actually a “War on Liberty” the perpetual enemy of all tyrannts.

“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.”
Benjamin Franklin, 1755

Most Americans and sympathetic world public opinion initially supported the Bush War on Terrorism; believing that it meant a program of mutual support, involving the entire world’s police, intelligence, counterterrorism, diplomatic, and security forces. Terrorism grows from the germs of injustice and desperation, which are exploited by fanatics; who then use violence against innocent civilians, to instill fear and gain publicity for their cause. It is an unacceptable, criminal, immoral, and ultimately self-defeating political strategy to redress grievances.

"At a juncture in history, when the United States needed a president to intelligently and forcefully lead a real international campaign against terrorism and its causes, Bush decided instead to unilaterally declare war on a totalitarian state that never represented a terrorist threat; to claim exemption from international law regarding the treatment of prisoners... Instead of using America's moral authority to lead a great global cause, Bush squandered it."
Carl Bernstein, USA Today

Experience has repeatedly shown that the tactic of terrorism can only be defeated by worldwide Intelligence and police cooperation, effective security measures, just international foreign and economic policies, and a willingness to listen to grievances, to negotiate, and finally to persuade by genuine public diplomacy, and finally by reason. Examples include Algeria, Ireland, and Bosnia, which are relatively quiet today, after decades of violent terrorism.

General Richard Myers, USAF, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the National Press Club, in 2005, that he had;

“…objected to the use of the term War on Terrorism, because if you call it a war, then you think of people in uniform as being the solution.”

Myers said the threat instead should be defined as “Violent Extremism” and that the solution is more diplomatic, more economic, more political, than it is military.

“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
Rev. Martin Luther King Jr, 1967

Bush and his armchair Chickenhawk warriors were not interested in such soft feminine solutions. While most of them had never served in the Armed Forces, they all had sharpened their claws in the bureaucratic battles of the Pentagon. They preferred to call themselves the “Vulcans” in honor of the Roman God of fire, the weapons forge, and metalwork; seeking to convey a sense of power, toughness, violence, and brutality.They were to prove they were all those things.

Regardless of their disapproval of our foreign policies, most foreigners, and their governments, supported the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan; which had continued to harbor Osama bin Laden and the Al Qaeda Islamic Jihadists, after the attack. They accepted the new Global War on Terror; without realizing that it was to become an aggressive doctrine of the unilateral use of American military power anywhere in the world.

“Put your sword in its place, for all who take the sword will perish by the sword.”
Jesus Christ, King James Bible, Matthew26: 52

The United States, with the support of the United Kingdom and the Afghan Northern Alliance; invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, as the first retaliation in the new War on Terror. During this time of mass paranoia and hysteria, the U.S. Congress, including the Democrats, went along with virtually everything the President demanded; and since the Global War on Terror was to be a never ending war, with no definition or limits, the Republicans claimed the Congress had permanently surrendered their War Powers to a wartime Commander-in-Chief, for the duration of a new endless war, that could, of course, never achieve final victory, in any military sense of the word.

Eternal War:

“In my sense we will be in a Global War on Terrorism for our lifetime.”
General T. Michael Moseley, USAF Chief of Staff, at American Enterprise Institute, October 2005

This was not the first time that the Congress had surrendered its Constitutional War Powers to a President, but it had become the norm for Nationalist-Conservative Presidents to deliberately lie to Congress and the people; and if that failed, to ignore the Congress, and initiate wars without specific approval, consultation, or agreement of the Congress. Lyndon Johnson lied about the Tonkin Gulf attack to obtain a Congressional resolution, which led to the disastrous enlargement of the Vietnam War. Nixon lied about his intention to end the Vietnam War, and invaded Laos and Cambodia, Reagan did it in the invasion of the tiny island of Grenada, and Bush senior did it to justify the invasion of Panama. This usurpation of Congressional War powers by our Chief Executives; has revealed a serious flaw in our Democracy.

“The President is to be the Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States. In this respect his authority would be nominally the same with that of the King of Great Britain, but in substance much inferior to it. It would amount to nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first General and Admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British King extends to the declaring of war and to the raising and regulating of fleets and armies,--all of which, by the Constitution, would appertain to the legislature.”
Alexander Hamilton, the Federalist Papers

Failure to Find and Destroy the Real Enemy

“The Bush Administration has squandered the opportunity to eliminate Al Qaeda…. A new Al Qaeda has emerged and is growing stronger, in part because of our own actions and inactions. It is in many ways a tougher opponent than the original threat we faced before September 11th, and we are not doing what is necessary to make America safe from that threat.”
Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies

In the midst of the War against the Al Qaeda (the Radical Islamic Jihad Nom de Guerre) and their Taliban supporters in Afghanistan, Bush prematurely diverted critical elements of U.S. Forces away from Afghanistan, and sent them to join in the invasion of Iraq. Mr. Bush had made a strategic blunder whose importance can not be overemphasized. For example, at Tora-Bora, he failed to capture or destroy a large concentration of the upper and mid-level leadership of the Al Qaeda Islamic Jihadists, and may have lost the opportunity to ever capture Osama Bin Laden himself; thereby destroying the leader and symbol of this worldwide terrorism network.

Flip-Flop:

"The most important thing is for us to find Osama bin Laden." "It is our number one priority and we will not rest until we find him."
George W. Bush 9-13-2001

"I don't know where he (bin Laden) is. I have no idea and I really don't care. It's not that important. It's not our priority."
George W. Bush, 2004

The clumsy and ineffective policies of the Bush war strategy has elevated Osama bin Laden into a modern day “Saladin”. Throughout the Muslim world he is seen as a type of invincible Muslim Hero, and a mythical symbol of resistance for the entire Arab Muslim people. The name Osama has become the most popular name for newborns in the Muslim world. As of November 2006, Osama bin Laden was still at large; and a phantom plaguing the Bush Coalition of the Naive.

Message for Mr. Bush from an Ally:

“To win the war against Islamic Extremism, you have to address core issues. The military is not the ultimate answer. You can kill people, but you are not going to achieve anything.”
Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf, Newsweek

There have been more Terrorist attacks in the years following the 9/11 attack, than in any previous period; as Iraq has become the predicted recruiting center for the Islamic Jihad. In July 2005, the U.S. National Terrorism Prevention Center admitted that, instead of approximately 600 Terrorist attacks in 2004, there had actually been 3,184 attacks and 28,000 victims of such attacks. Statistics for 2005 and 2006 have not been released.

More than three years after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bush refers to Iraq as the "central front [or theater] in his fight against terrorism, and a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), part of which was leaked to the press and then partially released by the president, confirms that Iraq had become a literal motor for the creation of terrorism. As the document puts it;

"The Iraq conflict has become the'cause celebre' for jihadists, breeding a deep resentment of US involvement in the Muslim world, and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement."

A study by a British Ministry of Defense think-tank seconds this point, describing Iraq as "a recruiting sergeant for extremists across the Muslim world".

By the end of 2006 there had been so many attacks that no one was keeping track any more. It is clear that these continuing attacks are caused by the occupation of the country by U.S. troops, when many polls show that the native populations want them out.

Knowing Your Enemy:

“If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.”
Sun Tzu, Chinese Military Strategist, 2500 years ago

The Bush regime periodically announces that they have captured or killed the #2 Al Qaeda man in Iraq. This may not be an exaggeration, as there is a continuing line of recruits ready and willing to step up and join the ranks of the many faced Jihadi resistance. The Bush regime either chooses to ignore the reason for the Jihad, or continues to mis-understand the nature of the enemy, and the motives of its followers. Either way, U.S. ground troops are being asked to use 19th century Colonial constabulary tactics against so-called insurgents, while their opponents are strategically exploiting the latest Hi-Tech methods.

There are now over 5,000 Islamic Jihadist Websites operating a decentralized system of Cyber-Terrorism Command, Communications, and Control (C3), that did not exist prior to the invasion of Iraq.

American Intelligence and Iraqi police agencies are incapable of coping with this overwhelming network, without a headquarters to bomb, and due to the lack of language specialists on the U.S. side. Periodically, frustrated military officials and Diplomats inadvertently slip and give a true glimpse of the situation. On Monday 23 October 2006, The Bush regime’s top foreign affairs spin doctor described U.S. policy in Iraq as "a failure", and accused his government of "arrogance" and "stupidity". Speaking in Arabic on al-Jazeera television Alberto Fernandez, director of public diplomacy at the State Department's bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, gave viewers an unusually sharp assessment of the administration's efforts in Iraq. He spoke in the past tense, as though it was all over. He said;

"We tried to do our best [in Iraq], but I think there is much room for criticism because, undoubtedly, there was arrogance and there was stupidity from the United States in Iraq.”

“Why Are Our Young People Killing, and Dying In Iraq?”

On August 20, 2005, with this simple question, Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star mother of a soldier (Casey) killed in Iraq, touched the American people’s souls, and re-invigorated a nationwide peace movement that had been bludgeoned into silence for over two years. By election time in November 2006, the American people disapproved of Bush’s handling of the War by over 60%. As dissatisfaction with the administration's Iraq policy mounted, President Bush's approval ratings plummeted to below 30 percent -- ten points lower than President Nixon's approval ratings during the height of the Watergate scandal in the summer of 1973. According to Gallup;

"Americans have become negative about the war in Iraq more quickly than they did for the Vietnam War."

Cindy Sheehan had been camping out in a makeshift site on the side of the road leading to the 1600 acre Bush Dude Ranch, since August 5th. While the troops fight and died in the Iraq quagmire, their Commander-In-Chief was taking yet another lengthy vacation from his less than strenuous schedule; and Cindy and a battalion of supporters from all over the U.S. and as far away as England and Australia, were determined to insure that the war would never be far from his mind, and America’s conscience.

“We have this lying bastard, George Bush, taking a five week vacation in time of war. You know what? I’m never going to get to enjoy another vacation, because of him.”
Cindy Sheehan

On the way to what had been dubbed “Camp Casey”, a very long line of roadside Crosses, Stars of David, and Muslim grave markers, with the names of over 1800 American men and women killed in the desert deathtrap of Iraq, provided mute testimony to any passerby, that the price for Mr. Bush’s phony war was very high.

"I follow the path assigned to me by Providence with the instinctive sureness of a sleepwalker."
Adolf Hitler

Bush claims they died for a “noble cause”, but he cowered in his ranch, afraid to meet with Cindy Sheehan, and explain his policy, or what the real cause was, while his Republican noise machine attempted to discredit this brave mother.

What Noble Cause Did Casey Sheehan Die For?

In 1998, Neo-conservative propagandist Robert Kagan enunciated what would become a foundational belief of Bush regime policy. He asserted that:

"…a successful intervention in Iraq would revolutionize the strategic situation in the Middle East, in ways both tangible and intangible, and all to the benefit of American interests.”

In 2005, over two years after Baghdad fell, and the American occupation of Iraq began, Kagan's prediction appears to have been fulfilled, if you substitute the name Iranian for American! The chief beneficiary of the occupation and the chaos it produced has not been the Bush administration, but Iran; the most populous and powerful member of the so-called Axis of Evil, and the chief American competitor for dominance in the oil-rich region.

In late August 2005, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad insisted there would be no compromise on the principle that Iraqis can each have an equal role in the building of their country's future without regard to their ethnic or religious background or gender. Later Khalilzad personally lobbied for Iraqi delegates to enshrine Islamic law as the sole source of law for the country. Kurdish and Sunni delegates complained that Khalilzad pushed them to accept a working draft of the constitution that;

"…stipulates that no law can contradict Islamic principles," which they said " would subject Iraqis to extreme interpretations of Islamic law."

Additionally, the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Hayat reported that the new constitution would establish a;

"Higher Council" to "review new legislation to ensure it does not contravene the essential verities of the Islamic religion;" one commentator called it "at least a half step towards the creation of an Iranian-style system of clerical rule."

A picture of the "New Iraq" is seen in Basra, Najaf and other Shiite towns, where "the Shiite religious parties negotiating the constitution in Baghdad already have enforced an unofficial form of Islamic rule under which alcohol is banned and all women are required to cover their heads."

One secular Kurdish politician said: "We understand the Americans have sided with the Shiites. It's shocking. It doesn't fit American values. They have spent so much blood and money here, only to back the creation of an Islamist state. I can't believe that's what the Americans really want or what the American people want."

By September 2005, the Iraqis had completed their Constitution and had it approved in a Referendum by the Iraqi people. Bush had been touting how the Iraq war was the spark that would result in a wave of American Democracy, with all that implies, such as Human, and Civil rights, including religious and women’s rights. However, the new Constitution contains the following theocratic provision:

"Islam is the official religion of the state and is a basic source of legislation. No law can be passed that contradicts the undisputed rules of Islam."

The Iraqi Constitution was supported by Iran-backed Shiites and the Bush Administration, but opposed by most of Iraq’s Sunni leaders, that have had a progressive tradition in women’s rights and moderation in religious matters.

"Fortunately, after years of effort and expectations in Iraq, an Islamic state has come to power and the constitution has been established on the basis of Islamic precepts. We must congratulate the Iraqi people and authorities for this victory."
Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, head of Iran's powerful ultra-conservative Guardian Council

Meanwhile back at the ranch, one of the local Bush hillbullies, in typical storm-trooper fashion, in his zeal to punish the protestors, ran his pickup truck over the line of crosses of the soldiers killed in Iraq. He was dirt dumb enough, not to anticipate that the crosses were inserted in the ground on metal spikes. The crosses had been prepared by the Veterans for Peace (VFP), a group of veterans of all ranks and all Wars since WWII. The VFP has been quietly displaying these silent reminders in several sites around the country, to pay homage to the troops killed in the War on Terror, and to campaign for peace in the Middle East. They had already experienced similar incidents of vandalism. The unpatriotic lout’s rear tires went flat and he was caught by the police with remnants of crosses still lodged under his truck!

However, it had become clear to Cindy Sheehan and the rest of the civilized world, that the appeals of millions of people have had no effect on the arrogant and stubborn Mr. Bush.

“Martyrs--To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true. Searching history, I find no such case. All the great martyrs of the books died for sheer nonsense—often for trivial matters of doctrine.”
Henry Louis Mencken, “Prejudices”

The National Guard and Reserves account for 40% of U.S. troops on duty in Iraq. In late August 2005, speaking to the Idaho National Guard, Bush continued to reveal little by little, what his ultimate objective was:

“An immediate withdrawal of our troops in Iraq or the broader Middle East… would only embolden the terrorists.”
President G.W. Bush

The Bush Prime Objective:

U.S. Domination of the Broader Middle East…and Central Asia!!

A high percentage of American Service families do not agree with his Objective:

“I don’t think we should be over there anymore. They just keep on killing us; they obviously don’t want the help.”
Helene Moreira, wife of Staff Sgt. Moreira, whose husband was deploying to Iraq again!

Bush Says More Sacrifice Needed:

“Sacrifice is essential to winning war, and this will require more sacrifice, more time, and more resolve. Against such an enemy there is only one effective response; we will never back down, never give in, and never accept anything less than complete victory.”
President G.W. Bush, October 2005

Perversion of Christian Moral Values:

"Our country has been overtaken by murderous thugs… gangsters who lust after fortunes and power, never caring that their addictions are at the expense of our loved ones, and the blood of innocent people near and far. We've watched these thugs parade themselves before the whole world as if they are courageous advocates for Christian moral values... and for the spread of Democracy.”
Cindy Sheehan, Gold Star Mother, August 2005

Uncle Sam Wants ---Your Kids Too!

Like Mrs. Sheehan, American families with high school age students are largely unaware of the peril that faces their sons and daughters from the so-called Volunteer Army Recruiters. When the Congress passed the Bush No Child Left Behind Act, they meant it literally. A section in the act requires Public Schools that receive federal funds, to turn over private student information, including names, addresses, phone numbers, and other information to military recruiters, so that they can contact them at their homes.

In October, 2005, Veterans and Family Groups wrote to Donald Rumsfeld to register a complaint about yet another intrusion into the privacy of potential recruits. The Pentagon has developed the Joint Advertising and Marketing Studies (JAMS) computer Database which gathers private information on 30 million young Americans from age 16 to 25, to provide to recruiters.

Military Service and Breeding of Warriors are Fascist Ideals:

“For a man, military service is the most profound and valuable form of participation in the State—for the woman it is Motherhood.”
Gregor Strasser, One of the Founders of the Nazi Party, Leipzig, 1933

The infiltration of things military into the nation’s high schools and commercial databases to help feed the Militarist-Conservative war machine is not just a violation of the Privacy rights of the students, and their families; it is another example of the growing militarization of our nation.

The Disinformation Campaign--Premeditated Aggression:

“He wanted to go to Iraq in the worst possible way—and so he did!!
Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Party Leader, December 7, 2005

Almost immediately after the September 2001 attacks, the Bush regime had begun to build a case for War on Iraq, a defeated third world Middle East nation, which was no threat to the U.S. or its allies, including Israel. The primary conspirators for this criminal act were the so-called Vulcans; Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Libby, Hadley, Feith, and other members of what has been identified as the White House Iraq Group (WHIG).

On September 12, 2001, the top terrorism expert at the White House, Richard Clarke, sat down with the president and a few colleagues in the Situation Room. He describes this scene in his book, as follows;

"'Look,' [the President] told us, 'I know you have a lot to do and all...but I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this. See if he's linked in any way.'

"I was once again taken back, incredulous, and it showed,' Clarke wrote. 'But, Mr. President, al Qaeda did this.'

'I know, I know, but...see if Saddam was involved. Just look. I want to know any shred.'

'Absolutely, we will look...again.' I was trying to be more respectful, more responsive. 'But, you know, we have looked several times for state sponsorship of al Qaeda and not found any real linkages to Iraq. Iran plays a little, as does Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia, Yemen.'

'Look into Iraq, Saddam,' the President said testily and left us."

No link was found, yet according to another author, Bob Woodward, in his book “Plan of Attack”, we learned that military planning for an Iraq invasion actually began in November 2001. Woodward states that two months after 9/11, the President took Rumsfeld aside and asked,

"What have you got in terms of plans for Iraq? What is the status of the war plan? I want you to get on it. I want you to keep it secret."
President G.W. Bush

In his book, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, claimed that going after Saddam Hussein and Iraq was an idée fixe, raised at a meeting just 10 days after the first inauguration. (January 2001!)

Some Nationalist-Conservative Pro-Israel opportunists like Richard Perle, (known in the Pentagon as the Prince of Darkness) in a misguided effort to help Israel; allied themselves with the historical ideological enemies of the Jewish people; the bigoted Anti-Semitic Nationalist-Conservatives in the Republican Party.

"…the Jews are an irreligious, atheistic, immoral bunch of bastards."
Richard Nixon, White House Tapes, 1972

In a conversation, with former Texas Gov. John B. Connolly, Nixon is heard saying of Jews;

"They're untrustworthy.... Look at the Justice Department. It's full of Jews."
Richard Nixon, White House Tapes, 1972

They apparently had not forgiven Iraq for bombarding Israel with Scud missiles during the First Gulf War. Perle and former Bush speech writer David Frum, spelled out the Neo-Conservative Agenda in their book;  “The End of Evil, What’s Next in the War on Terror”

The Right Wing Israel Lobby Rules:

“If the Israeli Government wanted a law tomorrow annulling the 10 Commandments, 95 U.S. Senators (at least) would sign the Bill forthwith.”
Uri Avnery, former Knesset member, November 2006

In 1996, Richard Perle and Douglas Feith of the Neo-Conservative think tank called the “Project For a New American Century”(PNAC), worked with the right wing Likud party’s Israeli Presidential candidate Benjamin Netanyahu. A report issued by them was reportedly titled;

“A Clean Break—Blueprint for a Mini-Cold War in the Middle East”

The report claimed to provide an entirely new intellectual foundation that would restore strategic initiative and provide the Israeli nation, the “ROOM” (think Lebensraum settlements), to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism.

In 2002, Richard Perle signed a PNAC letter to President Bush, arguing deeper U.S. commitment to Israel, and opposition to the Palestinians;

“No one should doubt that the U.S. and Israel share a common enemy. We are both targets of what you called the “Axis of Evil”…As a liberal democracy under repeated attack by murderers who target civilians, Israel now needs and deserves steadfast support…”
PNAC ltr. To President G.W. Bush, dtd April 3, 2002
Signed by; R. Perle, J. Woolsey, G. Schmitt, William Kristol, D.Kagan

The question was, which nation and whose ideology were these Super-Patriots serving?

“It is likely that chemical weapons, biological weapons in the possession of the Iraqis derived during the Cold War from the Soviet Union, are now being disseminated to terrorists.”
Richard Perle, PBS interview, July, 2002

The American people were continuously sold a series of fantastic and deadly “Big Lies”; that Iraq had huge secret caches of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD):

“We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat”
Donald Rumsfeld to G. Stephanopoulos, March 30, 2003

was “operationally connected” with the Al Qaeda Terrorists that had committed the attacks on September 11, 2001, and could launch an attack on the U.S. with Weapons of Mass Destruction loaded on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, (model airplanes) in “45 minutes”.

“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”
Jesus Christ, the King James Bible, John, 8:44

The Bush cabal had already decided to attack and occupy Iraq before taking office, for numerous unjustifiable reasons. One was to placate some Bush family friends; the brutal Saud feudal absolute monarchy of Saudi Arabia, which had long despised Saddam Hussein’s Secular Socialist Ba’ath Party. But there were other, more ideological objectives:

“There were so many warning signs that the Nazis were expansionist, racist, and Fascist, that foreigners could have been stupefied by their frequency. It seemed against all reason that any national leader or party would be so open about planned belligerency…this should have alarmed the European powers and their empires, as well as the United States, drugged by the morphia of Republicanism and infected by Nazi propaganda.”
"Hitler Warned Us," John Laffin

We now know with certainty that the Bush regime had cynically decided before he took office that U.S. Forces permanently based in Iraq, would guarantee American dominance over the oil rich greater Middle East, and the untapped oil and gas reserves of the Central Asia/Caspian Sea region. The invasion and occupation of Iraq would satisfy numerous Nationalist-Conservative imperatives.