@@ "T" is for traitor NeoCons @@
Arash
October 9, 2005
"T" Is For Traitor NeoCons, Meet Your Accusers
By Douglas Herman
douglasherman7[AT]yahoo.com
"Treason. noun. Criminal act of betraying one's country as defined in "Article II"
section 3 of the U.S. Constitution".
"They are the so-called neo-cons, or neo-conservatives. A compact group, almost all
of whose members are Jewish. They hold the key positions in the Bush administration,
as well as in the think-tanks that play an important role in formulating American
policy and the ed-op pages of the influential newspapers". - Uri Avnery
The Night After: The Easier the Victory, the Harder the Peace
http://www.doublestandards.org/avnery2.html
Charley Reese and Paul Craig Roberts are just a couple of aging, American
conservatives and syndicated columnists. Same for David Ray Griffin, a theologian and
author (http://www.snipercountry.com/BVT_Reviews/KillZone.asp). Same for decorated
veterans, Paul Craig Roberts and Stan Goff. Same for Cindy Sheehan and Sibel Edmunds
and Colleen Rowley, just a handful of hardworking women with huge consciences.
What do these fine men and women, conservatives all, have in common? They are the
conscience of the country at the moment. They are the most vocal opponents to the
Neocon, New World Order plot, the bravest critics of the treason that the plotters in
power inflict on America. And not afraid to say so in so many words.
"In discussing my second 9/11 book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and
Distortions", said David Ray Griffin, "one of my points has been that the entire
(Kean)Report is constructed in support of one big lie: that the official story about
9/11 is true... I concluded my study of what I came to call "the Kean-Zelikow Report'
by writing that it, 'far from lessening my suspicions about official complicity, has
served to confirm them. Why would the minds in charge of this final report engage in
such deception if they were not trying to cover up very high crimes?'"
According to Charley Reese: "Perle, Feith and Wurmser joined other neocons in the
Bush administration (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/index.php). Perle was
especially vocal in pushing the war on Iraq. They had two pretexts: the attack of
September 11, even though Saddam had nothing to do with it, and the mythical weapons
of mass destruction...At a cost of $200 billion and nearly 2000 American lives Israel
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/index.php) did achieve its 'strategic objective
in its own right' removing Saddam from power".
Added Reese, in his column, AIPAC's Power, or America's Cowardice? "I have long since
given up the hope that Americans would wake up and resent the manipulation of their
government by a foreign country". Treason anyone?
http://www.antiwar.com/reese/?articleid=3551
Probably the most compelling and outspoken conservative is Paul Craig Roberts, former
Reagan Cabinet member.
Roberts accuses the neocons of treason outright: "The neocons have declared America
at war with 1 billion Muslims who have done us no harm. Simultaneously, the neocons
destroyed our traditional alliances. Instead of isolating a terrorist enemy, neocons
have isolated America". http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=3436
Wreckers at work, happily profitting from the destruction. Treason defined.
The 9-11 Attack, Iraq War, WMDs? Ideally, the free press should perform the
investigative task but they,ve abdicated their responsibility and have been willing
accomplices to a series of Crimes of The Century for the last, well, century.
Traitors, like cockroaches, love the shadows. Unlike cockroaches, traitors pretend to
be true patriots while working behind the scenes, plotting the overthrow and demise
of their country.
And who are the betrayed? Well you and I for now, and our grandchildren later. For
the last two centuries though, the betrayed are those restless spirits in ten
thousand graves scattered around the country.
They sleep in Fredericksburg and Gettysburg and Arlington Cemetery, too. They lie in
Normandy and Pearl Harbor and the airborne dust of the WTC. They repose in ten
thousand small town cemeteries scattered around the country. Their names are
inscribed in granite and marble, cast in bronze, etched in black monuments, eroded on
slate or stamped into stumps of stone, lying in myriad, overgrown, forgotten
cemeteries in America.
They are the ones, hallowed as heroes, who trusted their leaders a little too much.
Put their lives on the line. Slept in mud and snow. Ate badly and slept worse,
longing for home. They are all around, unsettled, wondering what-the-hell-happened to
the republic they were told they were fighting and dying to preserve.
Curious how the most vehement, impassioned opponents of the new American imperialism,
the open, unapologetic version, are mostly former Republican party members.
Conservatives who sense a betrayal, they loudly and bravely mince no words, pull no
punches. They are the canaries in the coal mine whose timbers are cracking.
Traitors, meet thy accusers.
At least the living ones.
The dead intend to meet you later.
The opponent party, the moribund Democratic Party resembles an unburied carcass, one
of those cavalry horses one sees in old Civil War photos. The bloated corpse is an
ass in this case, and aside from one black Congresswoman from Georgia, Cynthia
McKinney, perhaps the only lifeblood in the Democratic Party remains at the
grassroots level.
But hell hath no fury like a hurricane ignored or a Conservative betrayed. The Greek
philosopher, Diogenes, once said: "I am like a dog: I fawn on those I love; I bark at
those I hate; and I sink my teeth into scoundrels. While our country is under attack
by a series of idealogues, vigilance and opposition in the manner of Diogenes is the
due course of action.
Again Paul Craig Roberts asks, "Will neocon fanaticism destroy America?--Stalemated
in Iraq, the White House moron intends to attack two more countries".
http://www.counterpunch.com/roberts09202005.html
Treason flies many flags, often under a single banner.
http://www.strike-the-root.com/3/herman/herman6.html
The most famous pirates in history rarely approached the structural theft,
bloodthirstiness or blatant hypocrisy of their modern counterpart. Simply put, most
governments and their leaders fly the black flag but pretend to defend the greater
good. Nothing could be more false or potentially fatal.
Who does this war-without-end benefit? Not you and me. "We invaded Iraq to have a
war," wrote professor Brian Foley in The Profit-Driven War. "We had a war because
there are powerful interests in our country that are geared toward making money from
war". http://www.counterpunch.com/foley09152005.html
War--while not in itself treasonous, for self-defense--is worth billions to war
makers. The Middle East War(s) will likely bankrupt"both morally and
economically"this nation. What better definition of treason?
Any "criminal act of betraying one's country" is definable as treason. You listening
George? You hear Dick? You understand Chertoff? (Notice that many neocons hold dual
citizenship). You comprehend Rummy, Rice, Rove, Wolfowitz, Myers, Ashcroft, Giuliani,
Gonzales, Kean, Clinton? Maybe you can escape justice in this world--your type always
does--but those you betrayed await you in the next.
* Amateur historian and USAF veteran, Douglas Herman writes regularly for Rense and
is the author of the provocative suspense novel "Guns of Dallas"
(http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1593302762).
http://www.rense.com/general67/acus.htm