[GJM] Cheney Determined To Strike In US With WMD This Summer

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Cheney Determined To Strike In US With WMD This Summer

Only Impeachment, Removal or General Strike Can Stop Him

By Webster G. Tarpley

http://www.rense.com/general77/chens.htm

7-21-7

“The greatest threat now is ‘a 9/11’ occurring with a group of  
terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a  
nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities."

-- Dick Cheney on Face the Nation, CBS, April 15, 2007

A few days ago, a group of lawyers from western Massachusetts met  
with the local congressman, Democrat John Olver. Their request was  
that Olver take part in the urgent effort to impeach Bush and Cheney.  
Olver responded by saying that he had no intention of doing anything  
to support impeachment. He went further, offering the information  
that the United States would soon attack Iran, and that these  
hostilities would be followed by the imposition of a martial law  
regime here.

According to reports in the British press, the Cheney war party has  
gained the upper hand in the secret councils of the Bush White House,  
pushing aside the purported hesitations of Miss Rice, Secretary  
Gates, and the NATO allies to chart a direct course towards war with  
Iran:

'The balance in the internal White House debate over Iran has shifted  
back in favour of military action before President George Bush leaves  
office in 18 months, the Guardian has learned. The shift follows an  
internal review involving the White House, the Pentagon and the state  
department over the last month. Although the Bush administration is  
in deep trouble over Iraq, it remains focused on Iran. A well-placed  
source in Washington said: "Bush is not going to leave office with  
Iran still in limbo." at a meeting of the White House, Pentagon and  
state department last month, Mr Cheney expressed frustration at the  
lack of progress and Mr Bush sided with him. "The balance has tilted.  
There is cause for concern," the source said this week. "Cheney has  
limited capital left, but if he wanted to use all his capital on this  
one issue, he could still have an impact," said Patrick Cronin, the  
director of studies at the International Institute for Strategic  
Studies.' ("Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran; Military solution back  
in favour as Rice loses out; President 'not prepared to leave  
conflict unresolved'", Guardian, July 16, 2007.)

Deluded supporters of the Democratic Party may soon have to throw  
away their pathetic countdown clocks, those self-consoling little  
devices that remind them of how much time remains until noon on  
January 20, 2009, the moment when it is thought that Bush will  
finally leave office. These countdown clocks make no provision for  
the Cheney doctrine, which calls for a new super 9/11 with weapons of  
mass destruction in the US, to be used as the pretext for a nuclear  
attack on Iran and for martial law at home. Those who think the  
Republicans cannot hold the White House in 2008 have forgotten that  
neocons always prefer a coup d'etat to an election. As Cheney told  
Bob Schieffer of CBS's Face the Nation on April 15, 2007:

'The greatest threat now is "a 9/11 occurring with a group of  
terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a  
nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities."'

Pelosi and Reid need to toss out their fatuous countdown clocks, and  
get out their impeachment stopwatches  fast.

CHERTOFF'S GUT FEELING FOR TERRORISM

could cite, Chertoff called his "gut feeling the nation faces a  
heightened chance of an attack this summer." "I believe we are  
entering a period this summer of increased risk," said Chertoff.  
"Summertime seems to be appealing to them. ... We worry that they are  
rebuilding their activities." The desperate demagogues of the  
Republican Party are facing a hecatomb at the polls in November 2008.  
Their idea seems to be that of the fascist Prime Minister Aznar of  
Spain in March 2004: if you are sure to lose an election, stage a  
terror attack, declare martial law, and perpetuate your power that  
way. Aznar was stopped by a general strike of about one third of the  
entire Spanish people. If all else fails, would Americans be capable  
of a mass strike against war and dictatorship? We may soon find out.

Chertoff's troubled gut has already given rise to a White House  
interagency group of top intelligence and law enforcement  
functionaries that meets every Friday afternoon at 1PM. Will this  
committee run the coup? Reports followed of dozens of FBI agents  
fanning out to pursue a "worry list" of some seven hundred alleged  
leads, including 100 in the New York area. Some of these derived from  
the recent British terror stunts in London and Glasgow used by MI-5  
and MI-6 to smooth the transition from the Tony Blair quasi-police  
state to the Gordon Brown version of the same thing. MI-5 and MI-6  
displayed the same mixture of comic ineptitude and phlegmatic  
homicide which was their hallmark during the long years when London  
was the prey of bombs by the "Irish Republican Army," now revealed to  
have been top-heavy with government intelligence agents who called  
the shots. The Glasgow airport event consisted of a burning car  
crashed into a building, the films of which were shown all afternoon  
the by the US cable news networks. One was tempted to propose a  
caption: "Only one burning car  a good day on the Cross-Bronx  
Expressway." Yet for one burning car, the world was supposed to stop.  
These British events had been preceded by several weeks of hysteria  
about allegedly looming terror attacks against US installations in  
the Rhein-Main area of Germany, featuring the Wiesbaden spa, all  
based on CIA claims made to the government in Berlin and relentlessly  
trumpeted through the controlled media.

A NEW 9/11 THE KEY TO BOLSTERING WESTERN RESOLVE

Chertoff's rationale was illuminated by an interview with Lt. Colonel  
Doug Delaney, the chair of the war studies program at the Royal  
Military College in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, a NATO intelligence  
center. Delaney was addressing the problems raised by the rising  
Canadian losses in Afghanistan, but he provided a valuable window  
into the minds of military planners when he observed, in the words of  
the interviewer: "It may well be that the key to bolstering Western  
resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit  
bombings of two years ago, he says. If nothing happens, it will be  
harder still to say this [Canadian meddling in Afghanistan] is  
necessary." In other words, it may be time for a new false flag  
synthetic terror operation to gin up hysteria in North America to  
permit the present bankrupt elites to retain power and further grind  
down any spirit of popular resistance to such irrational rule.  
Chertoff's fear-mongering was backed up by ousted Republican senator  
and notorious scoundrel Rick Santorum, who told a radio interviewer  
that "between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen,  
and I believe that by this time next year, the American public is  
going to have a very different view of this war." Chertoff's reckless  
and inflammatory ventriloquism was the harbinger of the new US  
National Intelligence Estimate issued on July 17.

THE BOOZ ALLEN NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE: "AL QAEDA" THREAT TO  
USA LOOMS

This pitiful NIE ranks with the lying NIEs issued before the attack  
on Iraq in 2003 as a tissue of lies and prevarications. The main  
thesis is that al Qaeda branches around the world are striving to  
infiltrate more operatives into the US for terror attacks on the US  
"homeland:" "Although we have discovered only a handful of  
individuals in the United States with ties to al Qaeda senior  
leadership since 9/11, we judge that al Qaeda will intensify its  
efforts to put operatives here," opines the declassified summary of  
the underlying secret screed. "As a result, we judge that the United  
States currently is in a heightened threat environment." (cnn.com,  
July 17) The new faked NIE has been produced under the supervision of  
Admiral Michael McConnell, the current US intelligence czar, whose  
credentials include ten years at Booz Allen Hamilton, the premier  
private military firm. Some analysts have asked what was going on at  
Booz Allen on September 11, 2001, and in the days leading up to that  
event, and what McConnell personally might have been working on. Back  
on January 7, 2007, Raw Story had portrayed the newly-nominated  
McConnell as a Cheney asset, and quoted CIA old boy Vince Cannistraro  
calling the McConnell nomination "a disaster." In the same article,  
CIA vet Larry Johnson predicted that McConnell, a weak manager, would  
cave in to Bush-Cheney on key issues. The fabrications of the new NIE  
have been assisted by Cheney's office, by convicted Iran-contra felon  
Elliot Abrams (now a dominant personality inside the Bush White  
House), by Abrams' military aide Gen. Kevin Bergner, and by other  
neocon assets.

Intelligence community veteran Philip Giraldi of the CIA has  
dismissed the new NIE with its talk of "high impact plots" against  
the US as "a tour de force of misinformation disguised as fact."  
Giraldi also noted: "It is possibly no coincidence that there has  
been a significant increase in the anti-Iran rhetoric emanating from  
both the Bush administration and Congress over the past few weeks,  
mostly seeking to establish a casus belli by contending that Iran is  
masterminding lethal attacks against US troops in Iran and NATO  
forces in Afghanistan." (antiwar.com, July 17)

CHENEY'S PERSIAN ADVENTURE

A nuclear attack on Iran remains the central obsession of the George  
Shultz-Rupert Murdoch-Cheney faction. On July 10, the Pentagon  
announced that it would be sending another aircraft carrier battle  
group, this time that of the USS Enterprise, to the waters off Iran.  
This means that whenever that carrier joins the two already there,  
three US attack carriers will be within striking range of Iranian  
targets. The Pentagon followed up shortly thereafter with another  
statement, assuring the world that soon only one carrier would patrol  
off Iran. But that was only a dubious promise, and in the meantime  
the three carriers would shortly be ready to attack.

On July 10, the Washington Post and Reuters stoked international  
hysteria with reports that mysterious and sinister tunnels were being  
built by the Iranian authorities near one of the suspected nuclear  
facilities of Natanz. These reports were accompanied by aerial  
photographs and satellite imaging that has been gussied up with  
labels to make them look as much as possible like the famous U-2  
photographs of Soviet medium-range missiles in Cuba back in October  
1962. The claim was that the supposed tunnel "could be used to hide  
and protect key nuclear components." The implication was that the  
Iranian atomic bomb could not be far off, a notion for which there is  
no proof.

In the late winter, Pelosi, House Majority Leader Stenny Hoyer and  
Reid had bowed to the demands of AIPAC, the subversive pro-Israeli  
lobbying organization whose employees have been implicated in  
espionage, and removed from the defense bill a provision warning Bush  
that he was required to consult Congress before attacking Iran. A  
similar provision pushed for a while by Senator Webb of Virginia has  
also disappeared from view. As for the Republican presidential  
candidates, on June 7 they  with the solitary exception of maverick  
Ron Paul  outbid one another in enthusiasm for a nuclear attack on  
Iran. These ultra-Hitlerian outbursts occurred in response to  
manipulation by Wolf Blitzer, an obvious asset of the war party. For  
the good of the American people, the warmonger GOP candidates, along  
with Blitzer, should have been hauled away at once in a net by burly  
orderlies in white coats.

CHENEY'S BREAKAWAY ALLY CHARADE

A key component of Cheney's argument is that Israel may soon strike  
unilaterally against Iran with a sneak attack deploying nuclear  
weapons, breaking the post-1945 taboo on atomic bombs. This would  
represent the old "breakaway ally" scenario, by which Israel presents  
the US with such an attack as a fait accompli, and then expects  
Washington to enter the war on the side of the Israeli aggressors.  
Cheney's talking point is that the US must be ready to strike because  
the Israelis are going to act on their own anyway. The lying nature  
of Cheney's line is shown by Bush's remark to Chirac at the St.  
Petersburg G-8 summit in July 2006, when Bush was adamant that the  
Israeli aggression against Lebanon then ongoing was not an Israeli- 
conceived war, but rather a US war which had been assigned to Israel  
as a proxy and surrogate for the US. According to Will Thomas, a  
dress rehearsal for the breakaway ally charade occurred on January 7,  
2007 when Israeli warplanes flew over Iraq and manifested the  
intention to "go downtown"  meaning an apparent nuclear strike into  
Iran. At some point the Israelis were allegedly told by the US to go  
back, and they desisted from the attempt. This reported incident came  
shortly before the US raided the Iranian consulate in Irbil in  
northern Iraq, illegally arresting Iranian diplomats. Around the same  
time, reports that an Iranian missile had hit a US ship caused a stir  
on Wall Street, while Iran reported shooting down another US drone  
over its territory. (infowars.com, willthomas.net)

The Israeli war party is represented first of all by Avigdor  
Lieberman, the Minister of Strategic Threats who is himself a  
strategic threat. On Friday July 13, a day of ill omen, Lieberman  
boasted before a group of NATO and European Union officials that  
Israel had received a green light from the U.S. and Europe for an  
Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities. "If we start military  
operations against Iran alone, then Europe and the U.S. will support  
us," said Lieberman. According to Israel Today magazine, Lieberman  
argued that ongoing hostilities in Iraq and Afghanistan are "going to  
prevent the leaders of countries in Europe and America from deciding  
on the use of force to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities," so they  
are telling Israel to "prevent the threat herself."

Another Israeli incendiary is Brigadier General Yossi Kuperwasser,  
the former head of the Research Division of Israeli Military  
Intelligence. On July 10, Kuperwasser told the Jerusalem Post that  
economic sanctions alone will not stop Iran, and that the window of  
opportunity to launch a military strike against Iran's nuclear  
installations was running out. Kuperwasser claimed that Iran is "very  
close" to the technological threshold for enriching uranium at an  
industrial level. The Iranians will then be able to manufacture a  
nuclear device within two to three years, according to Kuperwasser.  
"The program's vulnerability to a military operation is diminishing  
as time passes," Kuperwasser said, "and they are very close to the  
point that they will be able to enrich uranium at an industrial level."

EL BARADEI WARNS AGAINST NEOCON "NEW CRAZIES"

This kind of thinking in the US, UK, and Israel was what Dr. Mohamed  
El Baradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, had in  
mind when he issued his famnous June 2, 2007 warning about a coming  
attack on Iran: "I wake every morning and see 100 Iraqis innocent  
civilians are dying ...I have no brief other than to make sure we  
don't go into another war or that we go crazy into killing each  
other. You do not want to give additional argument to new crazies who  
say 'let's go and bomb Iran.' " And who are the "new crazies"? "Those  
who have extreme views and say the only solution is to impose your  
will by force." It is not possible to "bomb knowledge."

A grave doubt casts its shadow over any scenario of US nuclear attack  
on Iran: as William Thomas reported last February, the fuses of cheap  
Chinese silicon chips now being used by the US military in ships,  
tanks, planes, and other applications may be too weak to resist the  
high levels of electromagnetic pulse (emp) which would be unleashed  
by a nuclear bombardment of the Iranian nuclear sites. The outsourced  
chips, coherent with the Rumsfeld "war on the cheap" strategy, could  
cripple a large proportion of the US Central Command's military  
hardware, with disruptive effects that would reach back to the  
command's Florida headquarters and possibly to the Pentagon.  
(rense.com, February 21, 2007, and willthomas.net) If these report  
are correct, US nuclear bombers might crash, the the carriers that  
launched them might suddenly find themselves dead in the water, quite  
indepen dent of what the Iranians might do.

CHENEY'S LEBANON-SYRIA GAMBIT

In addition to the hypothesis of an attack on Iran, there is also the  
immediate threat to Iran's ally, Syria. According to a UPI dispatch  
dated July 9 under the byline of Claude Salhani, numerous signs  
currently point towards hostilities between Israel and the Damascus  
government, with a renewed Israeli attack on Lebanon a likely element  
in this strategy. According to former State Department official  
Dennis Ross, "there is a risk of war" between Syria and Israel in the  
summer. Ross told YnetNews, Yedioth Ahronoth's Internet edition: "no  
one has made any decisions, but the Syrians are positioning  
themselves for war." The neocon exoteric New York Sun claimed to cite  
a supposed Syrian official saying that added that, by allegedly  
pulling Syrian nationals out of Lebanon by mid-July, "Damascus is  
preparing for Israeli retaliation following Syrian guerilla attacks  
and for a larger war with the Jewish state in August or September."  
"If Israel doesn't vacate the strategic Golan Heights before  
September, Syrian guerillas will immediately launch 'resistance  
operations' against the Golan's Jewish communities," the alleged  
Syrian added. These remarks reflect scenarios being developed by the  
Israelis.

But the Masada party of national suicide is not the only game in town  
for Israelis. On July 11, an anonymous leaker from inside Israeli  
Military Intelligence warned his associates to remember their  
ignominious defeat at the hands of Hezbollah in last summer's war.  
According to this source, "war with Syria would be ten times worse  
than with Hezbollah."

THE ATTACK ON PAKISTAN: MIDSUMMER OF NEOCON MADNESS

Cheney also has the option of attacking into Pakistan. Cheney had  
visited Pakistan at the end of February with an obvious ultimatum to  
General Musharraf to get ready to mount a land war against Iran this  
summer. Equally and immediately obvious was the fact that Musharraf,  
who considers himself the heir to the great Mustafa Kemal Ataturk of  
Turkey, had told the Vice President to go Cheney himself. With  
Pakistan refusing to attack its neighbor, Cheney suddenly discovered  
that Osama bin Laden was being protected by Musharraf! The US-UK  
destabilization of Pakistan began in grand style, with the New York  
Times helpfully publishing lists of generals whom Washington would be  
delighted to see take power in a putsch in Islamabad. Pawns of the  
destabilization included the Chief Justice of Pakistan, reputed to be  
a British agent, and riots by lawyers in business suits. Then came  
the slaughter at the Red Mosque, staged by the usual CIA/MI-6  
fundamentalists. Pakistan, under tremendous pressure from the US, has  
announced a military crackdown on so-called Taliban forces in the  
northern tribal areas of Waziristan, an enterprise sure to stir up a  
hornet's nest of resistance even if none had been there before. The  
neocons demanded that the US invade Pakistan, under the pretext of  
looking for Osama bin Laden. On July 12, neocon fascist madman  
William Kristol told Fox News: "I think the president's going to have  
to take military action there over the next few weeks or months....  
Bush has to disrupt that sanctuary. I think, frankly, we won't even  
tell Musharraf. We'll do what we have to do in Western Pakistan and  
Musharraf can say, 'Hey, they didn't tell me.'" Ironically, bin  
Laden's second in command, reputed MI-6 speaking tube Ayman al  
Zawahiri, at around the same time issued a fatwa declaring jihad  
against Musharraf's Pakistani regime. If Musharraf was haboring  
Osama, why would al Qaeda declare war against Musharraf? The answer  
is what it has always been: "al Qaeda" is a troupe of agents  
provocateurs founded by the CIA and the British, and remains so until  
this day. As for the neocon plan to attack Pakistan, it is the very  
midsummer of madness: if Iran has three time the population of Iraq,  
Pakistan with 164 million is more than five times more numerous than  
Iraq. If the neocon plans succeed, the US would soon be at war with  
almost 300 million people  far too many for the hollow US force of 10  
divisions, whatever technology they might possess.

WARNINGS: RON PAUL, PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS, CINDY SHEEHAN, PAT BUCHANAN

Among other authoritative voices across the political spectrum  
warning of an imminent Bush-Cheney attack on Iran:

Republican Congressman and presidential candidate Ron Paul commented  
to Alex Jones: "I think we're in great danger of it. We're in danger  
in many ways, the attack on our civil liberties here at home, the  
foreign policy that's in shambles and our obligations overseas and  
commitment which endangers our troops and our national defense."

Paul Craig Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under  
the Reagan Administration, wrote in his latest column: "Unless  
Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the  
US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran. Bush has put  
in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of  
'executive orders' that are triggered whenever Bush declares a  
national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief  
Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others  
suggest that Americans might expect a series of staged, or false  
flag, 'terrorist' events in the near future." (Paul Craig Roberts,  
"Impeach Now or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy,"  
Counterpunch, July 16, 2007) In a July 19 interview with Thomm  
Hartmann of Air America, Roberts cited Bush's July 17 executive  
order, which allows the US regime to seize the property of anyone  
found to be interfering with the reconstruction of Iraq. This radio  
warning was reported by the RIA-Novosti news agency of Moscow in  
numerous languages. The Moscow summary, dated July 20, begins: "A  
former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush  
administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack  
in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship, and  
launch a war with Iran within a year."

Pat Buchanan is convinced that the danger of a new war provocation by  
Bush-Cheney will come in August, when the Democratic Congress will  
conveniently be out of Washington and on vacation. Buchanan asks  
important questions:

Is the United States provoking war with Iran, to begin while the  
Congress is conveniently on its August recess? One recalls that it  
was in August 1964, after the Republicans nominated Barry Goldwater,  
that the Tonkin Gulf incident occurred.

Has Bush secretly authorized covert attacks inside Iran? Are U.S. and  
Israeli agents in Kurdistan behind the attacks across the border to  
provoke Iran? On July 11, Iranian troops clashed with Kurd rebels  
inside Iran, and the Iranians fired artillery back into Iraq.

Is this yet another abdication by Congress of its moral and  
constitutional duty to decide when and whether America goes to war?

Why is Congress going on vacation? Why are a Democratic-controlled  
House and Senate not asking these questions in public hearings? Why  
is Congress letting Bush and Vice President Cheney decide whether we  
launch a third war in the Middle East? Or is Congress in on  
it?" ("Tonkin Gulf II and the Guns of August?," World Net Daily, July  
17, 2007)

Based on the John Olver remarks, the Democrats are in on it. As for  
Buchanan, he should say these things on MSNBC.

Also warning of new war provocations was Cindy Sheehan, who was  
traveling towards Washington DC to declare her challenge to failed  
House Speaker Pelosi. She commented that there was a "distinct  
possibility" that America will be hit with another staged terror  
attack that will allow Bush to enact the martial law provisions he  
recently imposed by executive order. These measures allow Bush to  
declare a domestic state of emergency in response to virtually any  
minor incident anywhere in the world. (Paul Joseph Watson, Prison  
Planet, July 12, 2007, "Sheehan: Distinct Chance Of Staged Attack,  
Martial Law; Peace Mom warns of false flag terror as she prepares to  
take on sell-out Pelosi.")

BUSH ANTICS STUN REPUBLICANS FROM THE HILL

This past week, the tenant of the White House showed new signs of  
mental instability by barging in to a routine meeting between White  
House communication director Ed Gillespie, spokesman Tony Snow, and a  
group of Republican congressional leaders. Bush was there to insist  
that everybody stay the course of Iraq.

"It was stunning," said one GOP aide who attended the meeting. "We  
couldn't believe he came in." "We kept looking at each other, amazed  
he came in," said another Republican colleague. According to one  
press account, "Bush was described as folksy, adamant and mildly  
profane as he interrupted the meeting. His message: the policy on  
Iraq isn't changing. He is not backing down and no one on Capitol  
Hill should be confused into thinking he is letting up."

A new threat to US policy comes from the formidable Turkish military  
establishment, which is sick and tired of constant cross-border  
attacks by PKK Kurdish terrorists operating from the Kurdish enclave  
in northern Iraq. The US, UK, and Israelis are using the PKK for  
terror operations into Kurdish territories of Iran. These PKK  
terrorist are paid and armed directly by the US military, bringing  
any notion of a US "war on terror" to a new nadir of absurdity. For  
some time, the Turks have been lobbing shells and raiding into  
Kurdish Iraq. 140,000 Turkish troops are massed along the border in  
question, and if Turkish patience runs out, the Kurds will be crushed.

US IRAQ SUPPLY LINES IN GRAVE DANGER

Washington still cultivates delusions of grandeur: the moment of  
truth for Iraq will be in mid-September, or perhaps in November or  
December. But, as one British writer once put it, what if the bear  
blows first? What if US forces in Iraq experience catastrophic  
military defeat at some point in the future? What if it takes the  
form of pocketing or encirclement, the "Dunkirk if you're lucky,  
Stalingrad if you're not so lucky" outcome?

It is not clear whether or when Iraqi resistance forces will move  
decisively to attack the Achilles heel of the US occupation forces,  
the 400-mile truck convoys between Kuwait City and Baghdad, but the  
longer the US forces continue their present futile efforts, the more  
likely this tragic outcome will become. These are trucks driven by  
Pakistanis, Turks, Bangladeshis, and Filipinos, and protected by  
private military contractors  by poorly armed mercenaries. A recent  
report by Jim Michaels in USA Today indicates that the strategy most  
dangerous to the US forces is indeed gaining ground among the  
resistance: Michaels writes that "attacks on supply convoys protected  
by private security companies in Iraq have more than tripled as the  
U.S. government depends more on armed civilian guards to secure  
reconstruction and other missions. There were 869 such attacks from  
the beginning of June 2006 to the end of May this year. For the  
preceding 12 months, there were 281 attacks." Of all the news coming  
out of Iraq, this is perhaps the most ominous. Any military debacle  
by the US forces in Iraq would be immediately blamed on Iran, and  
would infallibly be seized upon by Cheney as a pretext for massive  
retaliation against Iran.

DOLLAR HYPERINFLATION A FACTOR

An important contributing factor in the Cheneyac war hysteria is the  
beginning of dollar hyperinflation. Two Bear Sterns hedge funds have  
blown up, wiping out $9 billion of capital in a few days, and  
Helicopter Ben Bernanke of the Federal Reserve says that the subprime  
mortgage bubble meltdown will lead to $100 billion in losses by US  
banks, and this is clearly a lowball figure. Two analysts quoted by  
the Toronto Globe and Mail on July 19 suggest that the entire US  
banking establishment may now be looking at a 15% to 20% devaluation  
because of mortgage-related losses. Only frenetic pumping in of new  
dollar liquidity by Helicopter Ben and his men is staving off big  
bankruptcies, but this sloshing liquidity spells hyperinflation . The  
Dow has passed 14,000, but the dollar has also reached an all-time  
low of almost $1.40 to a euro, with a 26-year low against the British  
pound. With oil well above $75 and gold above $680 per ounce, while  
raw materials and food prices skyrocket, the US may soon resemble  
Germany of 1923, when people took their money to the grocery store in  
a wheelbarrow, and brought home their purchases in their pocket.  
Small wonder that the worldwide dumping of the bankrupt US dollar  
continues apace, with Iran now asking Japan to pay for oil  
transactions in yen, cutting Wall Street out of another lucrative  
commodity flow.

US SITUATION TRAGIC

These points bring into sharp relief the dire predicament of our  
tragically drifting country in the summer of 2007, a summer which  
Cheney's backers and controllers are determined to transform into the  
Summer of Fear. Skeptics may object that they have heard all this  
before  in the spring and the autumn of 2004, in the late summer of  
2005, and in March-April of 2007  and that so far the general war  
with Iran had not occurred. This is true, but it is no argument  
against the urgency of the warnings that the present writer and  
others have issued from time to time over the last three years. It  
only shows that the world has been lurching and careening along the  
edge of a much wider war in the Middle East since about May of 2004  
at the latest. For much of this time we have lived in the shadow of  
the Cheney doctrine, which calls for a nuclear attack on Iran in the  
wake of a new super 9/11 terrorist provocation (coming from the  
bowels of the US intelligence community)  as revealed by Philip  
Giraldi in The American Conservative in August of 2005. Each time  
some combination of internal US institutional resistance and inertia,  
objections by NATO allies, and foreign threats or pressure have  
somehow avoid the worst. So far we have muddled through. But Cheney's  
backers and controllers  the ones designated as the Cheneyacs in this  
analysis  have unfailingly pulled themselves together after each  
rebuff, and have marshaled their forces for a new drive over the  
brink of the abyss. As long as Bush and Cheney are in power, as long  
as the 9/11 rogue networks in the US intelligence community continue  
their work unpurged and undisturbed, we will face one war emergency  
after another, until the likely moment when humanity's luck runs out.  
Under any political system committed to its own survival, each of the  
Cheneyac war drives over the past three years should have lead to the  
impeachment, removal from office, and indictment of the dour and  
snarling old reprobate himself, and a general mop-up of his  
followers. It is the fact that the corrupt and cowardly parliamentary  
cretins of the Democratic Party have failed to impeach and oust Bush- 
Cheney over the last six months since they took power which  
represents the most immediate cause of the fix we are now in.  
Congressman Kucinich has introduced the needed articles against  
Cheney, but the Pelosi-Reid opportunists have been hostile to this  
needed measure. It is time for honest activists to join with the  
Philadelphia Platform to get on with the business at hand before  
martial law is imposed by these neocon fascist madmen, since by then  
it may be too late.

BRZEZINSKI: "A TERRORIST ACT IN THE US BLAMED ON IRAN"

The Democratic Party Congressional leadership has known all about  
Cheney's plans for six months or more, as can be shown from the  
public record. On February 1, 2007, Zbigniew Brzezinski warned the  
Senate Foreign Relations Committee of ongoing machinations designed  
to procure war with Iran and beyond: "A plausible scenario for a  
military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the  
benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the  
failure; then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the  
US blamed on Iran; culminating in a 'defensive' US action against  
Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening  
quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and  
Pakistan." Over the past half year, events have followed Brzezinski's  
scenario closely. Blaming Iran for the missed benchmarks in Iraq is  
now the daily stock in trade of the Bush administration and the US  
Central Command, who whine continuously about Iranian interference in  
Iraq. There have been several military provocations in Iraq which the  
US has tried to pin on Iran, most notably March 23, 2007 incident  
involving 15 British Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel who were  
taken into custody by the Iranians. This incident was a part of  
Cheney's winter-spring war drive, which peaked with two US B-1  
bombers deliberately violating Iranian airspace over the city of  
Abadan in oil-rich Khuzestan province on March 31. This crisis was  
defused by a mobilization of persons of good will around the world,  
with Russian President Putin and the RIA-Novosti news agency playing  
a critical role. In particular, a pointed March 28 warning from Putin  
to Bush about attacking Iran created enough uncertainty in Washington  
about how Moscow might respond to nuclear aggression against Iran so  
that cooler heads than Cheney's prevailed.

FIGHT BACK WITH THE PHILADELPHIA PLATFORM

That leaves us with Brzezinski's third scenario point: a terrorist  
act in the US blamed on Iran. What Brzezinski is talking about here  
is high treason, insurrection , genocide, high crimes against  
humanity under US law and the Nuremberg Code. Why has he not been  
called upon to tell all he knows about this sinister plot, so  
obviously operating through the Cheney-Addington office, and through  
Eliot Abrams at the White House? Because the Democrats who heard that  
warning  Senators Biden, Dodd, and Obama on the committee, plus  
Hillary Clinton  have done nothing to raise a hue and cry, hold  
hearings, issue subpoenas, demand documents, or begin impeachment  
hearings against those involved. The Democratic Party must therefore  
be seen as fully complicit under the Nuremberg Code in any future  
crimes by Cheney regarding a wider war in the Middle East. The  
Democratic Party has failed, and the viable peace movement must now  
organize independently on a multi-issue basis including 9/11 truth,  
as called for in the July 4, 2007 Philadelphia Platform, which can be  
seen at actindependent.org. 

 




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