In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Got this ABC News Operation Northwoods article via the Free speech zone (check him out, if you haven't), and that got the ball rolling.
U.S. Military Wanted to Provoke War With Cuba
Book: U.S. Military Drafted Plans to Terrorize U.S. Cities to Provoke War With Cuba
In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba.
Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities.
The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro.
America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."
One of the masterminds behind this was Gen. Lemnitzer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Kennedy, this site has a lot of the details about Operation Northwoods and 9/11 connections: Chapter 11: The Conspiracy
Gen. Lemnitzer retires in 1969. But in 1975, while the Senate opens investigations into the CIA's exact role in the Nixon administration, Gerald Ford, who has held the interim presidency since the Watergate scandal, asks Lemnitzer to participate in this investigation. After he had helped him bury the controversy, Ford comes to him once again, to ask him to take over the CPD (Committee on the Present Danger). This group is a CIA creation (the CIA director at the time was George Bush père). The CPD runs anti-Soviet campaigns. Among its administrators, one finds various CIA officials as well as Paul D. Wolfowitz (current adjunct Secretary of Defense, in charge of operations in Afghanistan). In parallel, Ford names Brig. Gen. William Craig, who conducted the initial studies for Operation Northwoods, as NSA Director. Gen. Lemnitzer dies on 12 November 1988.
In 1992, American public opinion on the Kennedy assassination is re-sparked after the release of the Oliver Stone film which showed the incoherencies of the official version. President Clinton orders that very numerous archives from the Kennedy era be declassified. In Defense Secretary McNamara's papers, the only surviving copy of the Northwoods project plan comes to light. Emphasis mine.
What this? 9/11 connections? We've got a "special group" of right wing hawks with personal vendettas against Castro that are willing to kill American citizens as a pretext for war. Something that will jolt Americans out of complacency, and force them to fight communism. Idiots who will destroy a free government of the people to protect freedom (being able to reconcile these ideas is a symptom of insanity).
Jump to the late '90's and you've got a group of right wing hawks with personal vendettas against Saddam, and who wish for an opportunity to shake America out of its complacency so we can fight a war with Iraq and other axis of evil nations.
The Plan
Were Neo-Conservatives? 1998 Memos a Blueprint for Iraq War?
March 10 ? Years before George W. Bush entered the White House, and years before the Sept. 11 attacks set the direction of his presidency, a group of influential neo-conservatives hatched a plan to get Saddam Hussein out of power.
The group, the Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, was founded in 1997. Among its supporters were three Republican former officials who were sitting out the Democratic presidency of Bill Clinton: Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz.
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And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."
That event came on Sept. 11, 2001. By that time, Cheney was vice president, Rumsfeld was secretary of defense, and Wolfowitz his deputy at the Pentagon.
The next morning ? before it was even clear who was behind the attacks ? Rumsfeld insisted at a Cabinet meeting that Saddam's Iraq should be "a principal target of the first round of terrorism," according to Bob Woodward's book Bush At War.
"a new pearl harbor" ABC isn't exaggerating. You can read it in the "Rebuilding Americas Defenses: starters, Forces, and Resources for a New Century." (acrobat required, go to page 51) It is still at the Project for a New American Century website. They're proud of it.
People think we're paranoid at the administration's talk of canceling or delaying elections ("we must disrupt our democratic process because the terrorists are trying to disrupt our democratic process" - hilarious flash cartoon), but people of their ilk have considered killing Americans as part of political strategy.
These days paranoia is keeping things in historical context.
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