The Evil Empire
Qahir Al-Ashrar
By Paul Craig Roberts
November 06, 2009 "Information Clearing House" -- -The US government is now
so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that "our"
government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who
elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. Voters will
vent their frustrations over their impotence on the president, which implies
a future of one-term presidents. Soon our presidents will be as ineffective
as Roman emperors in the final days of that empire.
Obama is already set on the course to a one-term presidency. He promised
change, but has delivered none. His health care bill is held hostage by the
private insurance companies seeking greater profits. The most likely
outcome will be cuts in Medicare and Medicaid in order to help fund wars
that enrich the military/security complex and the many companies created by
privatizing services that the military once provided for itself at far lower
costs. It would be interesting to know the percentage of the $700+ billion
"defense" spending that goes to private companies. In American
"capitalism," an amazing amount of taxpayers' earnings go to private firms
via the government. Yet, Republicans scream about "socializing" health care.
Republicans and Democrats saw opportunities to create new sources of
campaign contributions by privatizing as many military functions as
possible. There are now a large number of private companies that have never
made a dollar in the market, feeding instead at the public trough that
drains taxpayers of dollars while loading Americans with debt service
obligations.
Obama inherited an excellent opportunity to bring US soldiers home from the
Bush regime's illegal wars of aggression. In its final days, the Bush
regime realized that it could "win" in Iraq by putting the Sunni insurgents
on the US military payroll. Once Bush had 80,000 insurgents collecting US
military pay, violence, although still high, dropped in half. All Obama had
to do was to declare victory and bring our boys home,
thanking Bush for winning the war. It would have shut up the Republicans.
But this sensible course would have impaired the profits and share prices of
those firms that comprise the military/security complex. So instead of
doing what Obama said he would do and what the voters elected him to do,
Obama restarted the war in Afghanistan and launched a new one in Pakistan.
Soon Obama was echoing Bush and Cheney's threats to attack Iran.
In place of health care for Americans, there will be more profits for
private insurance companies.
In place of peace there will be more war.
Voters are already recognizing the writing on the wall and are falling away
from Obama and the Democrats. Independents who gave Obama his comfortable
victory have now swung against him, recently electing Republican governors
in New Jersey and Virginia to succeed Democrats. This is a protest vote,
not a confidence vote in Republicans.
Obama's credibility is shot. And so is Congress's, assuming it ever had
any. The US House of Representatives has just voted to show the entire
world that the US House of Representatives is nothing but the servile,
venal, puppet of the Israel Lobby. The House of Representatives of the
American "superpower" did the bidding of its master, AIPAC, and voted 344 to
36 to condemn the Goldstone Report.
In case you don't know, the Goldstone Report is the Report of the United
Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict. The "Gaza Conflict" is
the Israeli military attack on the Gaza ghetto, where 1.5 million
dispossessed Palestinians, whose lands, villages, and homes were stolen by
Israel, are housed. The attack was on civilians and civilian
infrastructure. It was without any doubt a war crime under the Nuremberg
standard that the US established in order to execute Nazis.
Goldstone is not only a very distinguished Jewish jurist who has given his
life to bringing people to accountability for their crimes against humanity,
but also a Zionist. However, the Israelis have demonized him as a
"self-hating Jew" because he wrote the truth instead of Israeli propaganda.
US Representative Dennis Kucinich, who is now without a doubt a marked man
on AIPAC's political extermination list, asked the House if the members had
any realization of the shame that the vote condemning Goldstone would bring
on the House and the US government. The entire rest of the world accepts
the Goldstone report.
The House answered with its lopsided vote that the rest of the world doesn't
count as it doesn't give campaign contributions to members of Congress.
This shameful, servile act of "the world's greatest democracy" occurred the
very week that a court in Italy convicted 23 US CIA officers for kidnapping
a person in Italy. The CIA agents are now considered "fugitives from
justice" in Italy, and indeed they are.
The kidnapped person was renditioned to the American puppet state of Egypt,
where the victim was held for years and repeatedly tortured. The case
against him was so absurd that even an Egyptian judge order his release.
One of the convicted CIA operatives, Sabrina deSousa, an attractive young
woman, says that the US broke the law by kidnapping a person and sending him
to another country to be tortured in order to manufacture another
"terrorist" in order to keep the terrorist hoax going at home. Without the
terrorist hoax, America's wars for special interest reasons would become
transparent even to Fox "News" junkies.
Ms. deSousa says that "everything I did was approved back in Washington,"
yet the government, which continually berates us to "support the troops,"
did nothing to protect her when she carried out the Bush regime's illegal
orders.
Clearly, this means that the crime that Bush, Cheney, the Pentagon, and the
CIA ordered is too heinous and beyond the pale to be justified, even by
memos from the despicable John Yoo and the Republican Federalist Society.
Ms. deSousa is clearly worried about herself. But where is her concern for
the innocent person that she sent into an Egyptian hell to be tortured until
death or admission of being a terrorist? The remorse deSousa expresses is
only for herself. She did her evil government's bidding and her evil
government that she so faithfully served turned its back on her. She has no
remorse for the evil she committed against an innocent person.
Perhaps deSousa and her 22 colleagues grew up on video games. It was great
fun to plot to kidnap a real person and fly him on a CIA plane to Egypt.
Was it like a fisherman catching a fish or a deer hunter killing a beautiful
8-point buck? Clearly, they got their jollies at the expense of their
renditioned victim.
The finding of the Italian court, and keep in mind that Italy is a
bought-and-paid-for US puppet state, indicates that even our bought puppets
are finding the US too much to stomach.
Moving from the tip of the iceberg down, we have Ambassador Craig Murray,
rector of the University of Dundee and until 2004 the UK Ambassador to
Uzbekistan, which he describes as a Stalinist totalitarian state courted and
supported by the Americans.
As ambassador, Murray saw the MI5 intelligence reports from the CIA that
described the most horrible torture procedures. "People were raped with
broken bottles, children were tortured in front of their parents until they
[the parents] signed a confession, people were boiled alive."
"Intelligence" from these torture sessions was passed on by the CIA to MI5
and to Washington as proof of the vast al Qaeda conspiracy.
Amb. Murray reports that the people delivered by CIA flights to Uzbekistan's
torture prisons "were told to confess to membership in Al Qaeda. They were
told to confess they'd been in training camps in Afghanistan. They were told
to confess they had met Osama bin Laden in person. And the CIA intelligence
constantly echoed these themes."
"I was absolutely stunned," says the British ambassador, who thought that he
served a moral country that, along with its American ally, had moral
integrity. The great Anglo-American bastion of democracy and human rights,
the homes of the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, the great moral
democracies that defeated Nazism and stood up to Stalin's gulags, were
prepared to commit any crime in order to maximize profits.
Amb. Murray learned too much and was fired when he vomited it all up. He
saw the documents that proved that the motivation for US and UK military
aggression in Afghanistan had to do with the natural gas deposits in
Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. The Americans wanted a pipeline that bypassed
Russia and Iran and went through Afghanistan. To insure this, an invasion
was necessary. The idiot American public could be told that the invasion
was necessary because of 9/11 and to save them from "terrorism," and the
utter fools would believe the lie.
"If you look at the deployment of US forces in Afghanistan, as against other
NATO country forces in Afghanistan, you'll see that undoubtedly the US
forces are positioned to guard the pipeline route. It's what it's about. It's
about money, its about energy, it's not about democracy."
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Guess who the consultant was who arranged with then Texas governor George W.
Bush the agreements that would give to Enron the rights to Uzbekistan's and
Turkmenistan's natural gas deposits and to Unocal to develop the
trans-Afghanistan pipeline. It was Karzai, the US-imposed "president" of
Afghanistan, who has no support in the country except for American bayonets.
Amb. Murray was dismissed from the UK Foreign Service for his revelations.
No doubt on orders from Washington to our British puppet.