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May
9, 2003
When Lying Pays
Off
The Fabrications
of the Neo-Cons
by WAYNE MADSEN
America's manipulative neo-conservatives, who
support unending aggression against any country that does not
succumb to United States political, economic, and military control
and who, themselves, seized power in Washington through electoral
malfeasance, are taking a page from Nazi Germany's leaders in
their quest for world domination. It is no coincidence that the
neo-cons are worried about comparisons between their policies
and those of Hitler. Ed Gernon, the Canadian executive producer
of the upcoming CBS miniseries, "Hitler: The Rise of Evil,"
was fired when he suggested similarities between the methods
used by both Hitler and Bush to wipe away civil liberties by
playing on popular fear. The Nazi-like campaign against Gernon
was launched by the New York Post and TV Guide, both owned by
proto-fascist Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.
After being caught lying about Iraq's
weapons of mass destruction to prove their flimsy case that Iraq
was a world class threat, the neo-cons now are planting fabricated
documents in the rubble of Iraqi intelligence and secret police
facilities. Through a media laundering process, "discovered"
documents are handed over to right-wing outlets owned by such
slash and burn media moguls as Murdoch, Conrad Black, and Sun
Myung Moon.
We are now being fed information that
captured Iraqi intelligence documents "prove" that
France assisted escaping members of Saddam Hussein's government
by handing them French passports in Syria. This follows repeated
allegations that other "documents" proved French (and
Russian and German) intelligence cooperation with Iraq's intelligence
service before the war. Syria has been accused of accepting Iraq's
phony weapons of mass destruction. Iran is accused of helping
Al Qaeda (its most bitter enemy). Hitler used false evidence
and phony rhetoric to justify his invasions of Danzig, Austria,
Czechoslovakia, and Poland. American ambassadors in New Zealand,
Norway, Turkey, Greece, Canada, Mexico, Barbados, Jamaica, Brazil,
Belgium, Chile, and Luxembourg have acted like Nazi German Foreign
Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop's bellicose ambassadors in bullying
nations that failed to support the U.S. war on Iraq. France is
being faced with being kicked out of NATO military planning meetings,
Germany with a loss of U.S. military bases, Belgium with the
loss of NATO's headquarters, and Canada, Chile, and Mexico with
trade sanctions.
There are lies, damned lies, and Ahmad
Chalabi. The leader of the Iraqi National Congress, stooge of
the neo-cons, and a convicted bank embezzler is now aiming his
wrath at Jordan. Chalabi, who bilked the American taxpayer out
of millions of dollars from State Department and CIA budgets
in order to fight his self-styled struggle against Saddam from
the restaurants of London's Mayfair District and the clothiers
of Savile Row, now claims that recently "found" documents
implicate Jordan's Royal Family in Saddam's spider's web. Of
course, it was a Jordanian court that found Chalabi guilty of
stealing $300 million from the country's Petra Bank and which
sentenced him to over 20 years at hard labor. It is surprising
that it took this Gollum-like sycophantic creature so long to
accuse the Jordanians of being in bed with Saddam. Of course,
Chalabi will not admit that while he was a math professor at
the American University of Beirut during the 1970s, he served
as an agent for the Shah of Iran's feared SAVAK secret police.
So much for Chalabi's "democratic" credentials and
his support for using Iraq as a base for the United States to
attack Iran and install the son of the Shah upon a resurrected
Peacock Throne.
Chalabi fits in well with the other congenital
liars who now lead the United States government. Chief among
them are those who prevaricated at every turn about why the United
States went to war against Iraq. They first said the war was
to rid the world of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear,
chemical, and biological. When no nuclear weapons were found
and after a document purporting that Iraq purchased uranium from
the West African nation of Niger was shown to be fake, the list
of reasons for the war was pared down to the chem-bio weapons.
When that story was shown to be untrue, the story changed to:
"We had to liberate the Iraqi people from a ruthless tyrant."
The chief truth manipulators were President George Bush himself,
Vice President Dick Cheney, White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer,
National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumfeld, his obedient "Igor," Paul Wolfowitz,
and think tank denizens and administration consultants Richard
Perle Newt Gingrich, and Michael Ledeen.
Why does the Bush administration lie
so much? It is mainly because Bush's Svengali-like political
adviser, Karl Rove, has taken to heart the advice of Nazi Propaganda
Minister Joseph Goebbels: "If you tell a lie big enough
and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe
it." Rove has lived by this tenet throughout his political
career. During the 2000 GOP primary campaign, it was the hand
of Rove that was behind vicious rumors about Senator John McCain's
prisoner of war record, his adopted daughter, his marital fidelity,
and even his sexual orientation. Rove's guns were then turned
on Vice President Al Gore in the general election with similar
lies about the Vice President's Vietnam service and Senate voting
record.
A true symbiotic relationship exists
between Rove and the neo-cons. Rove provides for them a nurturing
host - the Pentagon -- in which to operate, procreate politically,
and periodically ejaculate disinformation. No sooner had the
fake Iraqi intelligence documents "exposing" links
between Saddam on one hand and Germany, Russia, France, and British
Labor Party Member of Parliament George Galloway on the other
been "revealed," other "documents" fingered
former UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, Washington Democratic
Representative Jim McDermott, former House Democratic Whip David
Bonior, Michigan's anti-war Representative John Conyers, Michigan
Democratic Senator Carl Levin, and the 1996 Clinton-Gore campaign
as similarly being linked to Saddam. It is fitting and timely
that the Senate recently disclosed files from the hearings of
the disgraced Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. He also emulated
Goebbels in using the "big lie" tactic. Rove and the
neo-cons relish in the big lie tactic. It is their lifeblood.
Without it they would be impotent. The neo-con's obsessive use
of the lie means that whatever they state, the opposite is true.
They are the liars. Those who call them on their lies are the
truth sayers. The neo-cons now say that 170,000 priceless ancient
artifacts were not stolen from Iraq's National Museum. They say
Saddam and his henchmen stole them. The artifacts were stolen
by thieves under the watchful eye of American troops. That is
the truth. The neo-cons are lying. It is simply as binary an
equation as that. All the lies of the neo-cons should be viewed
in the same binary manner.
Sadly, the big lie may soon be turned
on Secretary of State Colin Powell. After Powell's deputy Richard
Armitage counterattacked after New Gingrich used the neo-con
fortress, the American Enterprise Institute, to launch a broadside
against Powell and the State Department, the neo-cons are getting
ready to again use their big lie weapon, a virtual "weapon
of crass destruction." The Washington rumor circuit is rife
with speculation that one of the many right-wing muck mills will
soon "reveal" an extra-marital affair involving Powell.
These days, it does not matter whether such rumors are based
on fact or not. Rove prefers the politics of personal destruction
and Powell is currently target number one for the neo-cons and
their White House nurturers.
Lying and character assassination have
paid off handsomely for the neo-cons. Another Nazi leader provided
the neo-cons with a blueprint for the strategy seen in their
repeated attacks on those who dare question the party line. Their
targets range from the Dixie Chicks, Senator Robert Byrd, Bill
Maher, and Michael Moore, to Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon,
to ABC News anchor Peter Jennings and MSNBC reporter Ashleigh
Banfield. Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Goering, before committing
suicide at the Nuremberg Trials, appeared to be advising the
future neo-cons: "Voice or no voice, the people can always
be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you
have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce
the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country
to danger. It works the same in any country."
A little advice for the neo-cons and
your nurturers. Every day you are creating more and more enemies
within the United States and abroad. Governments, non-governmental
organizations, political parties and social movements, labor
unions and business interests, and religious organizations and
student groups are talking to each other and are realizing they
have a common purpose. That purpose is to drive the neo-con threat
away from the power centers of the world. They are beginning
to understand intermeshing dependencies and are connecting the
dots: Enron, Hollinger, UNOCAL, Halliburton, Carlyle Group, Trireme,
L-3, SAIC, etc. Your aggressive policies are upsetting the global
balance of power, destroying economies, threatening international
trade, and first and foremost, killing innocent people. Like
the Nazis in Nuremberg, you will, one day, face an accounting
for your crimes. As with the Nazis who stood in the docket in
Nuremberg, few, if anyone, will be in the mood to grant you clemency
or mercy.
Wayne Madsen
is a Washington, DC-based investigative journalist and columnist.
He wrote the introduction to Forbidden
Truth. He is the co-author, with John Stanton, of the
forthcoming book, "America's Nightmare: The Presidency of
George Bush II."
Madsen can be reached at: WMadsen777@aol.com
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