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Gullible Americans - how much more of this are we going to take?
Aug 17, 2006
Don't ask me to tell you what happened on 9/11. All I know is that the official account of the buildings' collapse is improbable.

Now we are being told another improbable tale. Muslim terrorists in London and Pakistan were caught plotting to commit mass murder by smuggling bottles of explosive liquids on board airliners in hand luggage. Baby formula, shampoo and water bottles allegedly contained the tools of suicide bombers.

How do we know about this plot? Well, the police learned it from an “Islamic militant arrested near the Afghan-Pakistan border several weeks ago.” And how did someone so far away know what British-born people in London were plotting?

Do you really believe that Western and Israeli intelligence services, which were too incompetent to prevent the 9/11 attack, can uncover a London plot by capturing a person on the Afghan border in Pakistan?


Why would “an Islamic militant” rat on such a plot even if he knew of it?


More probable explanations of the "foiled plot” are readily available. According to the August 11 Wayne Madsen Report, informed sources in the UK report that “the Tony Blair government, under siege by a Labor Party revolt, cleverly cooked up a new ‘terror’ scare to avert the public’s eyes away from Blair’s increasing political woes. British law enforcement, neocon and intelligence operatives in the US, Israel, and Britain, and Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire cooked up the terrorist plot, liberally borrowing from the failed 1995 ‘Oplan Bjinka’ plot by Pakistan- and Philippines-based terrorist Ramzi Ahmad Yousef to crash 11 trans-Pacific airliners bound from Asia to the US.”


There are other plausible explanations. For example, our puppet in Pakistan decided to arrest some people who were a threat to him. With Bush’s commitment to “building democracy in the Middle East,” our puppet can’t arrest his political enemies without cause, so he lays the blame on a plot.


Any testimony against Muslim plotters by “an Islamic militant” is certain to have been bought and paid for.


Or consider this explanation. Under the Nuremberg standard, Bush and Blair are war criminals. Bush is so worried that he will be held accountable that he has sent his attorney general to consult with the Republican Congress to work out legislation to protect Bush retroactively from his violations of the Geneva Conventions.

Tony Blair is in more danger of finding himself in the dock. Britain is signatory to a treaty that, if justice is done, will place Blair before the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

What better justification for the two war criminals’ illegal actions than the need to foil dastardly plots by Muslims recruited in sting operations by Western intelligence services? The more Bush and Blair can convince their publics that terrorist danger abounds, the less likely Bush and Blair are ever to be held accountable for their crimes.


But surely, some readers might object, our great moral leaders wouldn’t do something political like that!


They most certainly would. As Joshua Micah Marshall wrote in the July 7 issue of Time magazine, the suspicion is “quite reasonable” that “the Bush Administration orchestrates its terror alerts and arrests to goose the GOP’s poll numbers.”


Joshua Micah Marshall proves his conclusion by examining the barrage of color-coded terror alerts, none of which were real, and, yes, it all fits with political needs.


And don’t forget the plot unearthed in Miami to blow up the Sears Tower in Chicago. Described by Vice President Cheney as a “very real threat,” the plot turned out to be nothing more than a few harmless whackos recruited by an FBI agent sent out to organize a sting.


There was also the “foiled plot” to blow up the Holland Tunnel and flood downtown New York City with sea water. Thinking New Orleans, the FBI invented this plot without realizing that New York City is above sea level. Of course, most Americans didn’t realize it either.


For six years the Bush regime has been able to count on the ignorant and naive American public to believe whatever tale that is told them. American gullibility has yet to fail the Bush regime.


The government has an endless number of conspiracy theories, but only people who question the government’s conspiracies are derided for “having a conspiracy theory.”


The implication is even worse if we assume that the explosive bottle plot is genuine. It means that America and Britain by their own aggression in Iraq and Afghanistan, and by enabling Israel’s war crimes in Palestine and Lebanon, have created such hatred that Muslims, who identify with Bush’s, Blair’s, and Israel’s victims, are plotting retaliation.


But Bush is prepared. He has taught his untutored public that “they hate us for our freedom and democracy.”


Gentle reader, wise up. The entire world is laughing at you.


Gullible Americans
By Paul Craig Roberts

08/14/06 "Information Clearing House"

AS SOMEONE SAID IN A DEMO I WAS AT, "MY 12-YEAR-OLD KID FIGURED THAT OUT RIGHT AWAY" {referring to the "airplane plot"}. NOW they are saying, "It wasn't liquids after all" -- WHY??? Well, because airline shops that do lots of business and support airports SELLING DUTY-FREE LIQUOR AND PERFUMES -- are hurting. Gee, they didn't think of that, either. So, now "it wasn't liquids after all".

Yesterday there was a "bomb scare" at the Port-of-Seattle -- ho hum. Yes, BECAUSE THERE WAS A SIZEABLE DEMO IN SUPPORT OF LT. EHREN WATADA'S REFUSAL TO DEPLOY TO IRAQ -- WIDELY supported even by many troops!!! So, they hadda GET A DIVERSIONARY STORY INTO THE REGION'S NEWSPAPERS. Ho hum. HOW MUCH MORE OF THIS ARE WE GOING TO BE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE UNQUESTIONINGLY??? HOW CAN TV NEWS ANCHORS KEEP A STRAIGHT FACE WHILE TELLING US THESE TALES???

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