Terrorists in High Places

by Charles Sullivan

January 2, 2006
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Wars are not waged by those who have to fight them.
Those who fight wars know too well their terrible
costs. Wars are waged by those who profit from them
with minimal or no risk to themselves. War is big
business and it is immensely profitable for a select
few who are insulated from the effects of war’s
environmental impacts and social costs. War never
serves the interest of working class people. They are
the result of menacing forces of greed and power
masquerading as benevolent government, insulating us
from contrived acts of terror. They are in fact
anything but munificent.

Never is the trait of deceit more treacherous than
when it leads to the loss of precious innocent life.
It was obvious from the outset that George Bush lied
about the pretext for war with Iraq. His man servant,
Colin Powell, sold the idea to the world in his
infamous speech before the United Nations. It was
widely known that Saddam Hussein had little war making
capabilities; and he certainly did not pose a credible
threat to the United States, Israel, or any Middle
Eastern Country. U.N. weapons inspectors such as Scott
Ritter made this fact known long before the invasion
began.

Saddam Hussein was the creation of the Central
Intelligence Agency and the Boogey Man necessary to
sell the American people on Bush’s illegitimate
invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Likewise, Osama Bin Laden was on the C.I.A. payroll.
And like Saddam Hussein, he was another Boogey Man
created to sell the American people on the invasion of
Afghanistan. Based upon the evidence, it is unlikely
that Bin Laden or any other Muslim had anything to do
with the events of September 11. That, too, was in all
probability another cruel hoax perpetrated on the
American people by those who stood to make billions of
dollars by plundering Afghanistan and Iraq. It also
explains why so little effort has been spent finding
Bin Laden, the supposed mastermind of the 9/11
attacks.

The events of 9/11 were, I contend, an inside job. The
findings of the 9/11 truth commission defy the laws of
physics and ignore the most relevant physical
evidence. They are a work of phantasmagoric fiction
that requires us to believe the fantastic—that tall
buildings can fall at free fall speed within their own
footprint, for example. Or that small fires can melt
steel pillars and cause massive sky scrapers to
collapse. But that is another story.

What is beyond dispute, however, is that the events of
9/11 set off a chain reaction of cause and effect in
the Middle East. Soon after the U.S. bombing and
invasion of Afghanistan, Unocal (recently merged with
Chevron) had established a major oil pipeline through
Afghanistan—a territory ruled by war lords hostile to
U.S. imperialism. Soon the money from the plunder of
Afghanistan was filling the corporate coffers with
black gold. What is the loss of a few thousand
innocent civilians when there is money to be made? Let
them live in the Stone Age we have created for them.

I fully understand what a profound and potentially
shocking statement that is to those who have been
deceived by the ‘official’ history of the United
States. It would require that members of the Bush
regime were knowingly complicit in the murder of
thousands of innocent U.S. citizens. It might even
require that they actually orchestrated those events
as a pretext to war with Afghanistan and Iraq, even
though neither country had anything to do with 9/11.

As testimony to the commercial media’s proficiency at
deception, forty-two percent of Americans still
believe that Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11.
Never mind that there isn’t a shred of evidence to
substantiate that claim. It is a matter of faith. When
Bush and his minions repeat those stale lies over and
over and the media repeatedly broadcasts them, the ill
informed can be made to believe anything. The bigger
the lie, the more readily it is believed. The official
version of the events of 9/11 could not take root in
the public conscience without the complicity of the
corporate media. Make no mistake: the commercial media
is a vital and potent component of the Pentagon’s
superb propaganda machine.

In reality, the neocon agenda of global domination is
the blueprint for the events of 9/11, as revealed in
the ‘Project for the New American Century’ and
‘Rebuilding America’s Defenses’. Both of these
revealing documents are online for public perusal.
Reading them is imperative to understanding not only
America’s veiled history, but also current events.
They offer considerable insight into future military
interventions. It is no irony that these documents,
which call for regime change in Iraq and a host of
other countries was authored by the very same people
who are serving in the current Bush regime. They are
the same people who stand to benefit financially and
politically from the plunder and occupation of Iraq,
as well as the rest of the world.

Subsequent to the events of 9/11, the neocon brain
trust declared that a catalyzing event was needed to
galvanize the American people to back a plan of U.S.
global domination—a New Pearl Harbor. On the morning
of September 12, 2001, Secretary of Defense, Donald
Rumsfeld, called for an immediate attack on Iraq, and
Condoleezza Rice and Dick Cheney repeatedly referred
to the events of 9/11 as “an opportunity.” George Bush
declared that he “hit the trifecta.” The Bush people
could hardly contain their glee. These statements of
fact reveal much about the kind of people who are
running the country. It should also make clear that in
America there is no separation of commercial media and
state—the two are as inseparable as newlyweds on a
honeymoon.

As unthinkable as it be to some, the wanton murder of
American citizens by the government is not without
precedent. America’s dark history is brimming with
examples. Two well documented cases illustrate my
point. In 2000 Robert Stinnett published a book
entitled ‘Day of Deceit: the Truth about FDR and Pearl
Harbor.’ In his book Stinnett paints an ugly picture
that lead up to the American entrance into World War
Two. Citing extensively from thousands of previously
classified documents, Stinnett demonstrates that
Franklin Delano Roosevelt knew about the invasion of
Pearl Harbor a year before it happened. The newly
declassified Pentagon documents reveal that U.S. naval
ships and air craft were ordered to stand by and allow
the attack to happen.

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor was provoked by a
popular American president who allowed American
military personnel to be slaughtered by foreign
invaders. Roosevelt’s tactic was wildly successful.
The day before the attack only sixteen percent of
Americans polled favored entry into the war. The
following day, more than a million men signed up for
the military. In effect, as commander-in chief,
Roosevelt presided over a treasonous act of murder
against his own military. But, like so many other
events in American history, none of this is revealed
in the ‘official’ version of written history. These
events bear an uncanny similarity to the events of
9/11.

More recently, in the prelude to the U.S. entrance
into the Viet Nam war, a phantom attack on two U.S.
destroyers cruising the Gulf of Tonkin was staged by
the Pentagon and the C.I.A. The bogus attack occurred
early in August, 1964. That evening President Lyndon
Johnson went on television giving the grim details of
the non-attack. Later, however, it was revealed that
navy commander James Stockdale flew cover over the
Gulf of Tonkin that night. Stockdale disclosed that
U.S. ships were firing at phantom targets—targets that
didn’t exist. The Gulf of Tonkin Incident that drew
the U.S. into the quagmire of Viet Nam simply didn’t
happen. Johnson, as presidents so often do, lied to
the American people. The result was the rapid passage
of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which was the sole
legal basis for the Viet Nam War. As a result of
Johnson’s lie, three million Vietnamese people and
fifty eight thousand U.S. soldiers died.

The neocons, with their corporate handlers and their
equally complicit counterparts, the neoliberals, are
in fact a shadow government that runs America. They
have names like Bush, Cheney, Perle, Wolfowitz,
Rumsfeld, Rice, Kristol, Dulles, Kennedy and
Rockefeller; Lockheed Martin, Halliburton, General
Electric, Unocal, Shell Oil and Boeing. Democracy,
freedom, liberty, organized labor, peace, and social
justice are their avowed enemies. Their crooked,
talonous fingers dig deep into the profits of war,
while simultaneously clutching the broken spines of
the moldering corpses they produce. They are the grim
reapers of unrepentant capitalism run amok.

George Bush got his anxiously awaited war on Iraq.
Halliburton, Bechtel, and other corporations are
raking in billions. It is easy money for the war
profiteers who risk nothing and gain everything. It is
our tax money that is subsidizing their obscene
profits. Layers of our civil liberties were quietly
repealed. It is our sons and daughters who die for the
likes of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Halliburton and
Bechtel. They are America’s shadow government—the
unseen hands pulling the strings of atrocity. Someone
has to tell our children what they are dying for. This
is George Bush’s noble cause.

Unless we stop them, their grim work is not done. It
will never be done until there is nothing left to
defile. There will be countless millions more corpses,
broken lives and torn families to follow. Even more
ghastly attacks on unwitting American citizens will be
fabricated; and fools will play along with them. The
flags will come out and Nationalism will spread like a
lethal virus across the land. Dissenters will be
denounced and imprisoned. These acts of contrived
terrorism will be the pretext for the invasion and
occupation of other sovereign nations. They will be
the pretext for feeding the war machine the blood and
the bones of our babies.

You see, there are terrorists lurking in high places.
They are in the Whitehouse. They are the enablers in
Congress who serve the corporate interest, rather than
justice. They are hidden behind the beckoning smiles
of news anchor men and anchor women. They operate in
the dark smoky recesses of corporate board rooms, out
of public view. Their tentacles reach into every
aspect of our lives. They lie concealed in the
stinking breath of the Rush Limbaughs of this world in
their awful ability to persuade. They are not on our
side.

We must resist them at all cost. We must inform
ourselves. Speak truth to power. Let them know that we
see through their masks. Do not accept this. Organize.
Organize. Organize.

Charles Sullivan is a furniture maker, photographer,
and free lance writer residing in the eastern
panhandle of West Virgina. He welcomes your comments
at earthdog@highstream .net

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