[Detainee's Note: This is a shortened version of This Regime Occupying D.C. Must Vanish from the Page of Time, with hyperlinked text instead of footnotes.]

Indeed, this too shall pass. The empire comprised of policy planners and policy executives of the US and Israeli governments, their peers in the "Military-Industrial Complex" (MIC), and their co-conspirators within the Ministry of Creative Shape-Shifting (corporate-run mainstream media, PR firms, and think-tanks: a.k.a., the Mainstream Mafia) must be excused from the arena of times. Status quo will change via lawful and diligent resistance of the People of the United States whose liberties have been illicitly sacrificed for disingenuous glittering generalities such as "security" and "regional stability"; lawful and diligent resistance of nations the empire continues to invade, pillage, and occupy; and good-old-fashioned, ongoing, neocon self-destruction. It is up to us — those whose eyes are open and who are aware of the criminal conflagrations for what they are and what they are bound to become — to prevent the Republic from being taken over the proverbial cliff in the smoldering wreck of criminal neoconquest. We must not fail in the effort to take back from the mafiosi empire the oxygen it's been sucking from the people of the United States and peoples of other nations.

In order to extinguish the fire and eventually bring to justice the treasonous pyromaniacs currently behind the wheel, it is imperative that we continue to resist the tyranny by exposing the wrongdoing, spreading the incriminating truths as documented herein and elsewhere, and protesting it at every turn. That especially applies to those in mainstream media, the government, and the US military who are aware of, and opposed to, the tyranny, but who haven't yet done their dutiful part to expose and resist it. For my part, the goal of this writing is to convey the reality of the preceding thesis by making evident:

A damning dossier of the most notable violations of domestic and international laws committed for the sake of global hegemony by elements (neocons, the Israel Lobbyists and the US politicians inside each other's pockets, and the like) within and connected to the US and Israeli governments since the latter days of President Bill Clinton's second term

Mainstream media complicity (cover-ups for past offenses and proactive support for current and future ones) throughout, via omission, fictitious reporting, reporting based on unchecked or non-existent sources, and the purposeful perpetuation of fraudulent war propaganda and other falsehoods — all of which benefit the criminal cabal

The neocon empire's choreographed intentions to act dangerously and illicitly — most notably in the form of public threats to commit further war crimes against humanity (namely, the bombing of Iran's nuclear facilities and other vital infrastructure, and the overthrow of the leadership in Iran), the sabotage of peace efforts and rejection of diplomatic gestures from chosen enemies over the years, and the ongoing implementation of specific, pro-preemption strategies as called for in policy papers

That the US and global blowback effects of carrying out such plans exponentially and undeniably outweigh the ill-sought, myopically projected, neocon-centric benefits (e.g., US and world economies will suffer through unprecedented crises; the US military occupation of Iraq and the Persian Gulf will be made much more vulnerable than at any other time in the current campaign, and will likely take massive losses as a result of further aggression in the region, thereby leaving no alternative but to retreat or conduct all-out nuclear war), and

That therefore, only the lawful efforts of the oppressed and misrepresented people of the United States will bring about the necessary changes; whether by impeachment, war crimes trials, or both, the war criminals of the current regime occupying Washington D.C., and their abettors, must be brought to justice so that they can no longer pose a threat to the People, the Constitution, the Republic, and innocent peoples the world over

Forward to the Past

To best comprehend the neocons' sheer determination and bald-faced irreverence to domestic and international law, and to anticipate what will likely lie ahead in the way of neoconquest, one needs to firstly look back at the current trail of blood, oil, and ink lying in their wake, in comparison to the one currently being churned out.

One will find that most steps taken by Congress and the Bush Administration meant to facilitate war against Iraq also serve the ultimate purpose of nullifying popular resistance and legal recourse to a war of aggression against Iran. It can not be stressed enough that the build-up to war with Iran is taking an almost identical path as the one taken prior to the Iraq invasion: black propaganda and demagoguery, government/corporate/media cronyism, lies, criminal threats, war crimes, coercive bribery of allies, unconstitutional emergency legislation, and all.

Upon deeper scrutiny, one should finally see that each illicit and dangerous act carried out by neocon policy executives over at least the last seven years has proved to be integral in achieving the ill-advised goals prescribed by the neocon policy planners.

It's been many years in the making, and there have been pitfalls along the way, but with the help of lapdog governments and quisling militant groups in the region, they're approaching the final stages in a multi-front Middle East campaign of coups d'etat and conquest — one that, if fully realized, will culminate in a signature neocon regime-change in Tehran and possibly Damascus, along with a preemptive nuclear non-proliferation of their own in Iran. Without a doubt, neocon mafiosi are on the doorstep of achieving their near-term goal of political, economic, and military hegemony over resource-rich, second and third-world nations of their choice in the Middle East.

Truth be told, regime-change and the military prevention of an imaginary Iranian nuclear weapons program — interventions which constitute serious violations of US and international laws — are simply blanket excuses based on "expert" conjecture, dubious and cherry-picked intelligence, and flat-out lies. They are the fit-for-lemming-consumption means to achieve war-profiteering ends: plans laid out by the premier neoconservative think-tank, Project for a New American Century (PNAC), in a document (.pdf) entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses (RAD). The strategies were formulated during the Clinton era and published in 2000.

Don't be fooled. The current foreign policy of preemptive war, conquest, and regime-change was the neocon precedent long before 9?11. RAD called for several, major, unconstitutional and internationally illegal undertakings; the primary of which being the isolation, weakening, and eventual elimination of regimes which the PNAC Pack considered as threats to US and Israeli global hegemony — specifically North Korea, Iraq, and Iran. It is therefore no coincidence that the same three nations were collectively singled out by President Bush, years after the conception of RAD, in his infamous "Axis of Evil" speech of 2002.

But because N. Korea was not seen as a direct threat to Israel, is not rich in natural resources, is a close asset of, and ally to, China, and boasts a nuclear arsenal and therefore a military deterrent to neoconquest, it has since fallen out of the crosshairs. That is not to say N. Korea is not still seen as a threat to global neocon hegemony; it simply has been pushed to the back burner in favor of "weaker" targets.

Whatever the motivation, the decision not to progressively threaten and eventually attack North Korea is probably the only good major foreign policy decision made thus far by the PNAC Pack and the Bush Administration. Both countries are heavily dependent on China in one way or another; China is next door to N. Korea; both N. Korea and the United States possess nuclear weapons; and both countries are led by irrational megalomaniacs, especially the ideologues on the US side; so things could get really ugly, really quickly.

So, with the decision not to firstly go after N. Korea, the near-term hit list was shortened to two major targets: Iraq and Iran. Neocon hegemony's primary foothold in the process of global dominance would be (actually, continue to be) the Middle East.

Back to the Future

In order to initiate the delusional process of achieving global US and Israeli hegemony for generations to come, RAD specifically called for a casus belli in the form of a catalyzing, catastrophic event similar to Pearl Harbor — one which would foster public support for the pursuit of PNAC's war-profiteering goals of beefing up the military, intervening overseas to pillage second and third-world nations of their economic resources, and establishing permanent military bases in the effort to stage further global conquest.

Lo and behold, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, provided that catastrophe (9?11, by the way, being an inside-out operation, as Israeli and US fingerprints are all over an incriminating sequence of events prior to the attacks and the ongoing cover-up efforts), and since then, the neocon ball of butcher knives has been rolling recklessly and with steady momentum across the domestic and international landscapes of life and liberty.

In passing the Authorization for Use of Military Force Resolution (AUMF) on September 18, 2001, the US Congress granted the US Executive the authority "to use all necessary and appropriate force against those nations, organizations, or persons he determines planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001, or harbored such organizations or persons, in order to prevent any future acts of international terrorism against the United States by such nations, organizations or persons."

Almost immediately came the shakedown of Afghanistan, based on the neocon-crafted allegation that the erstwhile neocon-CIA asset Osama bin Laden orchestrated the 9?11 attacks, and that he and his neocon-named "Al-Qaeda" supporters were holed up there. Prior to the invasion, the stated US goal was simply to get the Taliban government to "hand over" bin Laden. When the Afghans requested evidence of bin Laden's criminality in order to justify procurement and extradition, per international norms, the Bush Administration rejected the proper course. The neocons and their lapdogs in Congress and the Ministry of Creative Shapes-Shifting then spun the Afghans' decision into a refusal to cooperate, and therefore a hostile act (i.e., "harboring terrorists"). It was a complete subversion of international law through connivance and coercion.

Then came the invasion of Afghanistan: a war crime of the highest degree, because it expanded the originally stated goal of rooting out Osama bin Laden and his network into a war of aggression against the Taliban and ultimately, the Afghan people — beginning with irrational threats of force and culminating in a regime change, the killing of thousands of civilians through indiscriminate carpet-bombing, and a neglectful, divisive occupation that persists to this day — all despite the fact that OBL was never caught and is reported to have died years ago.

In the hurried and fear-stricken effort to give the Executive all possible means with which to "hunt down the terrorists," — and in another multi-count violation of the Constitution and international law – Congress passed the fascistic and hands-down Orwellian Name of the Millennium Award-winning PATRIOT Act on October 25, 2001, and on the following day, George Bush signed it into law. Thus, the GWB-era War on Terror (War of Terror, to most) officially began.

Congressman Ron Paul (REP-TX: voted nay) has been rising and speaking in opposition to the Draconian legislation since it was originally proposed. He had actually read the text — or at least as much of it as allowed by the mere hours alloted — before voting on it. (Imagine that: a representative who reads before acting!) Dr. Paul has been known for his tendency to put the PATRIOT Act and other such egregious violations of life and liberty in their place, as only such a champion of the People and the Constitution will:

The PATRIOT Act waters down the Fourth Ammendment by expanding the federal government's ability to use wiretaps without judicial oversight. The requirement of a search warrant and probable cause strikes a balance between effective law enforcement and civil liberties. . . . The Act makes it far easier for the government to monitor your Internet usage by adopting a lower standard than probable cause for intercepting e-mails and Internet communications. . . . It's easy for elected officials in Washington to tell the American people that government will do whatever it takes to defeat terrorism. Such assurances inevitably are followed by proposals either to restrict the constitutional liberties of the American people or spend vast sums from the federal treasury. We must understand that politicians and bureaucrats always seek to expand their power, without regard to the long-term consequences. If you believe in smaller government, ask yourself one simple question: Does the PATRIOT Act increase or decrease the power of the federal government over your life? The answer is obvious to those who understand that freedom cannot be exchanged for security.

In bypassing US and international laws limiting electronic surveillance, search and seizure, and due process, the PATRIOT Act supplemented the Executive's ability to continue overstepping other legal and moral boundaries. It helped to expedite the human procurement process: US and worldwide seizure of US citizens and foreigners deemed by the Executive as being "unlawful enemy combatants" according to vague, open-ended definitions; extraordinary rendition of said detainees to gulags in the United States, Israel, S. Arabia, Syria, and elsewhere; and the inhuman interrogation techniques (torture) used in said gulags.

And speaking of gulags: The prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba has been the neocons' personal torture chamber since early 2002. The litany of atrocious human rights violations which have taken place there would make Adolf Eichmann blush. The UN and Human Rights organizations have repeatedly condemned the facility and have called for its closure, to no avail.

So, now that the neocons had a strong foothold in the Middle East via their military occupation of Afghanistan, and a penal system through which they could process POWs in the process of their smokescreen war on terror, it was time to advance the real plan into full gear. The next major goal of conquest, according to the PNAC Pack, was to overthrow Sadam Hussein and his Ba'athist regime, and to commandeer Iraqi national resources (i.e., "US interests in the region"). But in order to sell a PNAC-prescribed regional escalation to the American people, the neocons needed to concoct another "existential threat" in order to scare people into supporting another war of aggression. No problem. Just link Sadam to Osama & Co., and make the Iraqi dictator out to be a direct threat to US interests, and a nuclear and biological weapons threat to his neighbors. For extra effect, throw in a fantastic link to 9?11. Thanks to the Mainstream Mafia's grip on the depiction of reality, it worked (See: Covering Our Rears, and Those of Our Peers).

On October 10–11, 2002, the US Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (.pdf), thereby granting President Bush the authority wage war against Iraq on the grounds that Sadam Hussein was: stockpiling WMDs and was planning to use them against his own people, the United States and its allies; supporting and harboring anti-US terrorists, including "Al-Qaeda"; responsible for an assassination attempt on George H.W. Bush in 1993 (which has since been debunked); in violation of handfuls of UN Resolutions (assuming that it was somehow the right and duty of the United States, or any other state, to militarily enforce them); and a host of other false, moot, and redundant points. The resolution also cited the war powers unlawfully granted to the Executive by the aforementioned AUMF Resolution and the neocon-inspired Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, which called for making it the US' policy to support regime change in Iraq via the funding and training of proxy militias and "democratic opposition" groups.

In passing the AUMF Iraq, a majority of Congress once again violated their oaths and the Constitution; they allowed the Executive to wage preemptive war, and did not back the approval with a Congressional Declaration of War. In my humble and bantamweight, some committed treason, because even though they knew the evidence was contrived and false, they gave in to the aggressive bribery of foreign agents and other pro-war lobbyists. I'm referring, mainly, of course, to the foreign agents and lobbyists of the Israel Lobby; the foremost faction of which is AIPAC (American-Israeli Public Affairs Committee, or rather Apartheid Israel Placing America in the Crosshairs).

The Lobby has a rich history of strong-arming politicians into voting not only for measures which serve neither US interests nor the true interests of Israeli and American Jewry for whom they feign support and representation, but also, those which directly damage them. Thanks to the Mainstream Mafia's ability to shelter Israeli atrocities from public view and criticism, most US citizens don't know that Israel has been committing eye-spy and sabotage on the United States for many years now, and in most cases, the treachery is facilitated and executed by agents within groups like AIPAC.

In March 2003, thanks to the influence of AIPAC in Congress, as well as the influence of the PNAC Pack via the Mainstream Mafia — and as planned several years earlier in RAD — the United States invaded Iraq, forced Sadam into hiding, and effectively overthrew his Ba'athist regime. Over the next couple of months, it became widely evident that the reasons for going to war against Iraq were a pack of lies, and that Saddam and his regime were not a threat to the United States or its allies. No WMDs have been found to date, and no connections to Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, "Al-Qaeda," or 9?11 have been credibly established. Nevertheless, the occupation grinds on to this day, as prescribed by PNAC, AIPAC, and other neocon policy planners and war-pushers. And like the invasion and carpet-bombing of Afghanistan, the invasion and carpet-bombing of Iraq qualifies as the worst international war crime committable: a war of aggression.

But in addition to indiscriminate bombing of neighborhoods, civilian infrastructure, and holy sites, the US military, coalition forces, and contractors [sic] have targeted members of the press, conducted raids and seizures upon journalists' headquarters, and neglected to provide basic security and social welfare for Iraqis under their occupation — e.g., millions of homeless refugees in their own country and in neighboring countries; infant and child malnutrition and mortality rates; severe shortages of water, electricity, and medical attention; and the inability to go to school. All of which qualify as breaches of international law, under the category "Belligerent Occupant". Nevertheless, the neocon war machine grinds on, and continues to belligerently occupy both countries, as prescribed by PNAC.

Other Fronts of Neoconquest vis-a-vis Iran and Syria

The contingency plans for complete US and Israeli hegemony over the Middle East have indeed been in their primary phases for many years, and it has been a coordinated effort on several fronts, including the US and Israeli-perceived, Iranian and Syrian proxy army strongholds: Lebanon and Israeli-Occupied Palestine.

The July-August 2006 war known, in name, as Israel vs. Hizballah, (or in Israel, "The Second Lebanon War") was actually an Israeli and US-planned, prematurely-preempted terror campaign meant to terrorize the Lebanese People into rising up and turning against Hizballah, thereby weakening what is seen as an Iranian, Shiite, and Syrian source of anti-Israel influence and defensive shield against further Israeli conquest.

The campaign backfired on Israel, because the proud and faithful resistance of the Lebanese People — manifest through, and inspired by, Hizballah and its guiding principles — forced the IDF out of Lebanon once again and effectively pushed back Israeli and PNAC plans for "regional stability" (i.e., "total submission to zioneocon hegemony in the region"). And although the war was a humanitarian tragedy (as are all wars), and severe war crimes were committed (most often and most heinously by Israel), Hizballah and the Lebanese resistance (i.e., the real majority) emerged the military and political victor, while Israeli Likudniks were forced to withdraw and re-evaluate their plans.

Forward to April 2007.

Israel and the PNAC Pack weren't the only entities in the region preoccupied with weakening what they saw as threats to Israeli and US hegemony. Sa'ad Hariri's Future Movement (FM) — one of the US and Israel-lapdog factions of the Lebanese ruling elite — and its partners in the region, along with loose-cannon members of the US State Department, had been working on a scheme of their own for months prior to the Israeli invasion. It was part of the divide-and-conquer phase of the larger neocon plan for the region — namely, the ruination of Iran and Syria through a combination of proxy war, false flag terrorism, and guilt-by-association. Their plan unintentionally spawned the Fatah el-Islam debacle and subsequent Lebanese army shelling of the Palestinian refugee camps in N. Lebanon which tragically carries on to this day.

Franklin Lamb reports the factual news you won't get from the Mainstream Mafia:

According to operatives of Fatah el-Islam, the Bush administration got cold feet with people like Seymour Hirsh snooping around and with the White House post-Iraq discipline in free fall. Moreover, Hezbollah intelligence knew all about the Clubs activities and was in a position to flip the two groups who were supposed to ignite a Sunni ­Shia civil war which Hezbollah vows to prevent.

Things started to go very wrong quickly for the Club last week.FM "stopped" the payroll of Fateh el-Islam's account at the Hariri family owned back.

Fateh-al-Islam, tried to negotiate at least 'severance pay' with no luck and they felt betrayed. (Remember many of their fighters are easily frustrated teenagers and their pay supports their families). Militia members knocked off the bank which issued their worthless checks. They were doubly angry when they learned FM is claiming in the media a loss much greater than they actually snatched and that the Club is going to stiff the insurance company and actually make a huge profit.

And while that was going on, another US and Israeli puppet, Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party — along with Bush Administration Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy and Iran-Contra criminal, Elliot Abrams, and Palestinian warlord of thugs, Mohammad Dahlan — were busy implementing a plan of their own.

Generally speaking, an anti-Hamas "hard coup" was engineered by Abrams in early 2006, around the time when Hamas was elected as the majority government of the Palestinian People. The main motivation was the Israeli Likudnik desire to overthrow Hamas and dissolve the Palestinian unity government. Upon learning of the operation and details of specific, planned acts of insurrection by Dahlan's gang and a handful of others within Fatah, Hamas acted preemptively and defeated the US and Israel-funded, armed, and trained thugs before they could do major damage.

Hamas currently retains majority support among Palestinians and a strong — sometimes, iron-fisted — command of Gaza against foreign (Fatah) infiltration, but are more isolated than ever, and the dissolution of the unity government was a success of sorts for Binyamin Netanyahu and the maniacally fringe, right-wing Likudniks in Israel. Israeli zionists solidified for themselves another indefinite time period which they can spend not having to negotiate a just settlement or lift the criminal sanctions and embargoes which have been crippling the Palestinian economy and collectively punishing (especially since Hamas was elected) the Palestinian People of Gaza. Not that they were ever really in danger of having to negotiate though, of course.

To those who have been following Israel-neocon treachery over the years, such a shakedown of Iran and Syria is no surprise. The strategies were drawn up for Netanyahu and other zionazi expansionists in the Israel government by dual-loyalty neocons, in a policy paper entitled A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm. Coupled with RAD, A Clean Break lays the groundwork for US and Israeli hegemony in the Middle East, and the strategies prescribed within both documents are implemented by the neocon empire to that end. Anti-Neocon Master Ryan Dawson elaborates nicely on the Israel-PNAC treachery and other dubious distinctions:

PNAC was co-authored by the same people who have been caught lying about the Iraq War's pre-invasion intelligence. We are talking about only around 28 people who helped fabricate evidence and pass it off to the president and journalists (and in some cases fake journalists like Gannon).

PNAC's ideas and statements stem from Israeli policy papers. And PNAC's papers are comprised by Israeli citizens who are connected to every major Zionists group on earth. In fact, PNAC's papers were written by the very same people who wrote Israeli policy papers and hold dual citizenship with Israel. The war in Iraq and control over energy resources, etc., is all lined out in Israel's "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" which was written by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith. That is just one of many papers this little blood for money cabal cranked out. . . . Note also that the US had ships already in place set to invade before 911.

Time will tell how well and in what regards the effects of the treachery in Lebanon and Palestine will play into US and Israeli plans for regional hegemony. It would appear that the pieces are in place to keep Hamas and Hizballah in check. While there exists no so-called "buffer" between Israel and Gaza to the South — and Israel and Lebanon to the North — the neocons have situated well-armed militias in the West Bank (Fatah/Dahlan Gang, flanking Hamas to the East) and in Central and Northern Lebanon (Fatah el-Islam and other Sunni militant groups, to Hizballah's rear). In theory, Hamas and Hizballah would be sandwiched, so to speak, and vulnerable to counterattacks — not only from Israel, but also from the side and rear.

Don't be deceived. The "existential threat" which US and Israeli neocons ludicrously allege would be posed by Hamas, Hizballah, Syria, and Iran is fallacious and overblown on purpose in order to persuade the United States to give Israel even more US taxpayer dollars in the form of military aid and weapons, and fight more of Israel's battles. It's a fraudulent, emotional blackmailing tactic which zionist Israel has been using for decades.

Covering Our Rears, and Those of Our Peers

How does a rogue regime stay afloat in light of its obvious unconstitutionality and international criminality, with the knowledge that more and more people are catching on to the schemes? How does it cover its "arsets" while continuing to garner support for its ongoing treachery?

It passes emergency legislation and enjoys an incestuous relationship with corporate mainstream media. (For those not familiar with TV and press media's criminal compliance with illegal neocon policy leading up to the invasion of Iraq, it is well-documented, and there have been innumerable analyses of it. A brief search engine query of key words from the following excerpt will produce a wealth of credible data.) One particularly scathing analysis of the fraud, from Justin Raimondo:

The story of the spiking of Phil Donahue’s show . . . is particularly instructive in detailing how and why any and all alternative voices were eliminated by media bigwigs. I am glad to see Knight-Ridder News Service, now McClatchy News Service, getting a lot of credit as a swimmer-against-the-tide of public -and elite opinion. The duo of Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay are particularly incisive when it comes to analyzing the failure of their colleagues in more influential venues to get the real story about how the administration was essentially fabricating "evidence" of Iraqi WMD and links to al Qaeda.

The New York Times is taken to task for its monumental contribution to the Grand Deception: it’s well-known by now how Judith Miller single-handedly pulled off one of the biggest cons in the history of journalism, second only to the fraud perpetrated by the Hearst papers in the prelude to the Spanish-American War. Less appreciated is the treacherous role played by Vanity Fair magazine as one of the biggest purveyors of lies, second only to the Times – their series of defector stories, all of which turned out to be completely and utterly fictitious, did a lot to convince the elites that war was necessary because Saddam represented a real threat.

Another excellent rundown of mainstream media's journalistic crimes in the build-up to the war on Iraq can be found in the FAIR report entitled "Iraq and the Media: A Critical Timeline."

Ah yes. PNAC & Co. can always count on compliant media to cover its back AND front side, like when, on October 17, 2006, President Bush signed into law a piece of emergency legislation: the Military Commissions Act, which, in addition to ripping to Bill of Rights into shreds, shields the president, members of his administration, et al., from war crimes prosecution for their past, present, and future violations of the Constitution and international laws concerning human rights of detainees seized in the "war on terror".

Sadly, the Mainstream Mafia made sure that serious voices of dissent were afforded very little time for the expression of their views on the matter. By comparison, Madonna's adoption drama received exponentially more coverage on CNN and Fox.

In TV coverage, only two mainstream personalities — Keith Olbermann of MSNBC and Jack Cafferty of CNN — spoke in-depth on the unconstitutionality and international illegality of the legislation. And though Cafferty's role at CNN has been as a two-minute-per-diem sidekick of sorts to ultra-zionist and former AIPAC-er Wolf Blitzer, he managed to succinctly and potently relate the true motivation behind the Military Commissions Act on at least one occasion:

Buried deep inside this legislation is a provision that will pardon President Bush and all the members of his administration of any possible crimes connected with the torture and mistreatment of detainees dated all the way back to September 11, 2001. At least President Nixon had Gerald Ford to do his dirty work. President Bush is trying to pardon himself.

Here's the deal. Under the War Crimes Act, violations of the Geneva Conventions are felonies. In some cases, punishable by death.

When the Supreme Court ruled the Geneva Conventions applied to al Qaeda and Taliban detainees, President Bush and his boys were suddenly in big trouble. They had been working these prisoners over pretty good. In an effort to avoid possible prosecution, they're trying to cram this bill through Congress before the end of the week when Congress adjourns.

The reason there's such a rush to do this, if the Democrats get control of the House in November, well, this kind of legislation probably wouldn't pass.

Beyond that, and Keith Olbermann's highly commendable, nightly upbraiding of President Bush over it, there was practically zero non-marginalized criticism of the legislation on mainstream cable news channels.

The easiest and most effective media tool to employ when covering for corrupt politicians and their ventures is omission, and mainstream media did their best to avoid covering the facts behind that piece of fascistic emergency legislation.

Another government-media crime which is never under mainstream scrutiny, yet which is constantly being committed, is the one whereby prominent members of the Israeli government, military, and intellectual community are given unchallenged column space in major newspapers and air time on TV, in which they divulge their unabashed desires for the United States to nuke or conventionally carpet-bomb Iran's nuclear facilities and infrastructure.

They have used such verbal acts of aggression — in tandem with threats of an Israeli attack if the United States doesn't act, supplemented by a blitzkrieg media campaign — as a form of blackmail to get the results they want out of the US Congress. (US lawmakers know that any such aggression on Iran, whether by Israel or the United States, will put US troops at a severely higher risk of insurgent attacks in Iraq as a result. Couple that with the fact that their careers hang in the balance struck by the desires of their constituents on one side and the success of their re-election campaign via the Jewish and pro-Israel vote on the other, and therein lies the cynically conniving, emotionally-blackmailing, US-backstabbing Israeli double edge.)

One such verbal act of aggression — by Israeli General Oded Tira (ret.) and originally published on December 30, 2006, in mainstream Israeli newspapers, and eventually, mainstream publications all over the world — provided perhaps the strongest "inspiration" for yet another criminal act of Congress:

Instead of allotting several months for diplomatic activity and preparing for a military strike on Iran's nuclear infrastructure, the world continues to talk nonsense and play with illusions regarding the success of moderating diplomatic moves.

President Bush lacks the political power to attack Iran. As an American strike in Iran is essential for our existence, we must help him pave the way by lobbying the Democratic Party (which is conducting itself foolishly) and US newspaper editors. We need to do this in order to turn the Iranian issue to a bipartisan one and unrelated to the Iraq failure.

We must turn to Hillary Clinton and other potential presidential candidates in the Democratic Party so that they publicly support immediate action by Bush against Iran. We should also approach European countries so that they support American actions in Iran, so that Bush will not be isolated in the international arena again.

In addition to Tira's sadistic appeal to genocide, around the same time, many other prominent, far right-wing zionists and neocons in the United States and Israel were given mainstream column space and TV air time with impunity to express similar sentiments — their baseless assertions and foregone conclusions going absolutely unchallenged, while honest and critical voices were immediately attacked in the attempt to silence popular dissent. On January 31, Pat Buchanan observed:

A few weeks back, according to UPI's Arnaud de Borchgrave, Netanyahu declared that Israel "must immediately launch an intense, international public relations front first and foremost on the United States – the goal being to encourage President Bush to live up to specific pledges he would not allow Iran to arm itself with nuclear weapons. We must make clear to the [U.S.] government, the Congress, and the American public that a nuclear Iran is a threat to the U.S. and the entire world, not only Israel." Israel's war is to be sold as America's war.

The project is underway. According to Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor of the Guardian, Israeli media are reporting that the assignment to convince the world of the need for tough action on Iran has been given to Meir Dagan, head of Mossad.

Listening to the war talk, Gen. Wesley Clark exploded to Arianna Huffington: "You just have to read what's in the Israeli press. The Jewish community is divided, but there is so much pressure being channeled from the New York money people to the office-seekers."

The former Supreme Allied Commander in Europe was ordered out of ranks and dressed down by Abe Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League. But Matt Yglesias of The American Prospect, himself Jewish, says Clark spoke truth: "[I]t's true that major Jewish organizations are pushing this country into war with Iran."

Nevertheless, in February, Democrat members of Congress attached, to a war spending bill, a provision which would have required the president to seek authorization from Congress before waging preemptive war against Iran. In response to which, Vice President Dick Cheney, the self-fulfilling prophet, spewed: "It won't stop us," and like clockwork, the well-oiled, efficient, and practically indomitable pro-war lobby — spearheaded by AIPAC and inspired as if on direct orders by the words of General Tira and other sadistic war hawks — went into action. And as was the case with the build-up to war with Iraq, AIPAC lapdogs in Congress didn't ask why; they asked, "how high?"

On March 12, Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi and other Democrats — citing the false, treasonous, moot, and utterly ridiculous claim that Israel's existence was at stake — removed the provision, thereby allowing Cheney, Bush & Co. to retain carte blanche ability to further wage aggressive war against Iran. (Thanks, AIPAC. Thanks, Congress. Thanks, corporate media. We couldn't have placed America in the crosshairs once again without you. There are lamp posts all across America with your names on them.)

The current media campaign to demonize Iran is indeed in full swing. CASMII (Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran) has published numerous press releases, exposing and responding to fraudulent anti-Iranian propaganda in media. In their May 2 release entitled Press Watchdog slammed by 'Dont Attack Iran' Campaigners, they expose the work of a repeat-offender propagandist named Con Coughlin:

On 24 January 2007, relying on an unnamed European defence official Coughlin alleged that North Korea is helping Iran prepare a nuclear weapons test. In December the Telegraph ran a headline article by Coughlin claiming that Iran was grooming Bin Ladens successor. Both stories were universally dismissed by Middle East and military experts, and no attempt has been made to substantiate either allegation over the months since publication. . . . Analysing 44 articles by Mr Coughlin on Iran, CASMII found some stark patterns in terms of his journalistic technique:

Sources were unnamed or untraceable, often senior Western intelligence officials or senior Foreign Office officials.

Articles were published at sensitive and delicate times where there had been relatively positive diplomatic moves towards Iran.

Articles contained exclusive revelations about Iran combined with eye-catchingly controversial headlines.

The story upon which the headline was based does not usually exceed one line or at the most one paragraph. The rest of the article focused on other, often unrelated, information.

In addition, they revealed that Coughlin was none other than the journalist who, with the help of unnamed intelligence sources discovered the fact that Saddam Hussein could launch weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes and unearthed the link between the 9/11 hijacker, Mohammed Ata, and the Iraqi intelligence.

See also: CASMII calls on journalists and the public to challenge dangerous distortion of news on Iran (July 18) and CASMII Strongly Criticises the Guardian for anti Iranian article (May25) Excerpt from the latter (emphasis theirs):

UK newspaper the Guardian was today strongly criticised by the Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran (CASMII) for republishing unsubstantiated Bush Administration propaganda on its May 22 edition. . . . Under the headline, "Iran's Secret Plan for Summer Offensive to Force US out of Iraq", the author Simon Tisdall quotes almost without qualification statements made by an anonymous senior US official in Baghdad. With no other source cited and no evidence asked for, the Guardian reported:

"Iran is secretly forging ties with al-Qaida elements and Sunni Arab militias in Iraq in preparation for a summer showdown with coalition forces..." He continues, "They [Iran] are behind a lot of high-profile attacks meant to undermine US will and British will, such as the rocket attacks on Basra palace and the Green Zone. The attacks are directed by the Revolutionary Guard who are connected right to the top [of the Iranian government]... We expect that al-Qaida and Iran will both attempt to increase the propaganda and increase the violence prior to [US commander Gen. David] Petraeus's report in September, the official said."

Nice, eh? Unfortunately, it's only the tip of the iceberg of what is a fraudulent Mainstream Mafia campaign of aggression against Iran.

The Current, Progressive Shakedown of Iran and the Expressed Intent to Further Commit War Crimes

So what does a rogue US Executive and its partners in conquest do when possessing such massive, dictatorial power and the command of such compliant mainstream media?

They continue to lie, threaten, and break more laws with impunity in the build-up to the next war of aggression.

The Algiers Accords, signed by the United States and Iran on January 19, 1981, clearly states (.pdf):

The United States pledges that it is and from now on will be the policy of the United States not to intervene, directly or indirectly, politically or militarily, in Iran's internal affairs.

For at least the past four years, however, illegal and dangerous tactics similar to the ones implemented in the early 1950s as tools for achieving the overthrow of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh during Operation Ajax have been used in pursuit of the same end results:

The coordination of efforts with Iranian opposition groups (i.e., US-designated terror organizations) to manufacture consent among Americans and Iranians for democratic change (i.e., unlawful regime-change) inside Iran, by neocon "think-tanks" and other elements within the U.S. government.

The harboring, supporting, and use of same groups and other proxy militias in Iraq, Iran, and Pakistan by the Israeli and US governments to sow chaos and instability. Those militias are responsible for countless acts of violence within Iraq and Iran, and rest assured: much of it is conveniently blamed on Iran, "Al-Qaeda," and "insurgents".

The propaganda campaign whereby "viewers and listeners of US-supported media in the Middle East are being exposed to a tougher ideological line that endorses the hallmarks of the neo-conservative agenda — regime change and interventionist policies in the region."

Coercive and disingenuous fostering of international [sic] consent in measures to censure, sanction, and boycott the Iranian government and its corporate and political partners.

The build-up of US naval vessels in the Persian Gulf — presently, three carrier groups — and its threatening posture (military exercises meant to exhibit a show of strength and intimidation toward the Iranian government and Iranian-associated commercial vessels).

The two-headed beast of war propaganda involving numerous figures within, or close to, the US and Israeli governments, publicly calling for military action to destroy Iran's nuclear sites and other strategic targets, supplemented by mainstream media insistence upon NOT challenging the reasons (or lack thereof) given for the sadistic insanity. Neocons go absolutely unchallenged in the mainstream — publicly dribbling their dangerous war-hawk spiels in the form of xenophobic fear propagation, fallacious historical analogies, baseless accusations, and flat-out lies:

"It's 1938, and Iran is Germany. And Iran is racing to arm itself with atomic bombs. . . . [Ahmadinejad] denies the Holocaust [and] is preparing another Holocaust for the Jewish state." –Binyamin Netanyahu, Israeli Likud Opposition Leader

“If we start military operations against Iran alone, then Europe and the US will support us.” –Avigdor Lieberman, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs

"Ahmadinejad believes if he starts a world war, the Islamic messiah will mysteriously appear and produce a global Islamic theocratic dictatorship. Ladies and gentlemen, we are reliving history. It's 1938 all over again. Iran is Germany. Ahmadinejad is Hitler and Ahmadinejad, just like Hitler, is talking about killing the Jews." –Pastor Ted Hagee, head of Christians United for Israel (CUFI)

"[T]he only prudent—indeed, the only responsible—course is to . . . strike at [Ahmadinejad] as soon as it is logistically possible. . . . I pray with all my heart that [President Bush] will [bomb Iran]." –Norman Podhoretz, Neocon kingpin/editor-at-large, Commentary Magazine/member, Council on Foreign Relations

"We must clandestinely cooperate with Saudi Arabia so that it also persuades the US to strike Iran. For our part, we must prepare an independent military strike by coordinating flights in Iraqi airspace with the US. . . . The Americans must act. Yet if they don't, we'll do it ourselves, because there are no free rides and our existence isn't guaranteed." –Israeli Brigadier General Oded Tira (ret.)

But while the usual suspects have been foaming at the mouth for years over regime-change and carpet-bombing of Iraq and Iran, over the last few weeks the trumpets have become more bald-faced and frequent, with the addition of Senator Joe Lieberman matter-of-factly pushing for the bombing of Iran, based on insinuations by Gen. Kevin Bergner which claim that a substantial percentage of attacks against US forces in Iraq are being orchestrated by Iran's Kuds Forces: assertions which have since been exposed and debunked, and which are self-contradictory in light of what Bergner, himself, had reported just days later.
Yet instead of taking empirical evidence as a basis for action and addressing the real sources of attacks against US soldiers, hell-bent war hawks like Joe Lieberman prefer the PNAC Pack's back-assward course of action. CASMII's Daniel Pourkesali reports:

Last Wednesday, when Joe Lieberman [4] who earlier this month called for bombing strikes against Iran [5], introduced an amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill [6] in support of the White House's uncorroborated accusations that "Iran is funding, training, and arming Iraqi militias who are contributing to the destabilization of Iraq and responsible for the murder of the members of the United States Armed Forces," not a single Senator rose to challenge those allegations, and the amendment passed unanimously on a 97-0 vote.

There are numerous examples of US and Israeli government officials, "think-tankers," and media personalities openly calling for aggressive war, nuclear strikes, and crippling sanctions against Iran and its people, and each one is arguably a violation of international law as incitement to genocide. They are certainly acts of aggression under the UN-adopted Nürnberg principles.

Yet astonishingly, the same maniacs in the United States and Israel who have been conducting and supporting the genocide in Iraq, as well as publicly inciting genocide against Iran, are the same ones who falsely accuse Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of doing the same.

Recall the recent, nearly unanimous vote in Congress, calling on the UN to bring charges of genocide against Ahmadinejad for the "rumor of the century," wherein he was mistranslated as saying that Israel must be "wiped off the map," when in fact he was merely quoting the late Ayatollah Khomeini by saying, "This regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time."

There was no such a reaction to those words when spoken by Khomeini. Yet since Ahmadinejad expressed the same sentiments by quoting the Imam, the US Congress has passed dangerously aggressive anti-Iranian legislation, and on October 29, 2005 — three days after he made the remarks — the remarks were officially condemned by all 15 UN Security Council members, spurred on Israel's demand that Iran be expelled from the UN. Similarly phony-but-official measures were passed against Sadam as part of the justification for the currently ongoing, AIPAC-lobbied, neocon-exacted genocide in Iraq.

But regardless of the fraud being visited upon the world by the Mainstream Mafia, the maniacs in D.C. and Tel Aviv are fully aware that Ahmadinejad was merely saying that in due time, the illegitimate apartheid regime in Israel would eventually fall from power as did the brutally oppressive regime of Iran under the Shah, the South African Apartheid regime, and most recently, the Taliban and Sadam's Ba'athist regime. They know that not even a hint of violence on Iran's part or anyone's part was made; nevertheless, neocon demagogues continue to get away with perpetuating the lie and other such lies for the sake of demonizing a government which only those in the PNAC Pack see as a threat to Israeli and US interests (i.e., Israel-US hegemony).

Thanks to the incestuous and mutually-beneficial relationship between neocons and the corporate media, the mistranslation has been published in mainstream newspapers and on websites across the world tens of thousands of times and peddled as an incitement to genocide upon "the Jewish people," or "another Holocaust," despite the fact that it has been irrefutably debunked ever since shortly after it originally aired, by Farsi experts and Iranians — even those who do not support Ahmadinejad politically.

Sabotaging Peace: Gun Barrel Diplomacy

The only time the neocons accept an offer to "hold talks" with the Iranians is when they can make it look like: "we tried, but Iran was determined to not cooperate." It happens every time. The neocons go to the "negotiating table" like it's a whipping post, and they bring plenty of leather. As soon as the slightest chance at preserving life, liberty, peace in the region arises from Tehran, it's ignored. If that doesn't work, then it's attacked. If that doesn't work, then they simply ratchet up the shakedown with more bald-faced lies and denials. Gareth Porter relates a very troubling and very telling US-Iran issue:

The Iranian negotiating offer, transmitted to the State Department in early May 2003 by the Swiss ambassador in Tehran, acknowledged that Iran would have to address U.S. concerns about its nuclear program, although it made no specific concession in advance of the talks, according to Flynt Leverett, then the National Security Council's senior director for Middle East Affairs. It also raised the possibility of cutting off Iran's support for Hamas and Islamic Jihad and converting Hezbollah into a purely sociopolitical organization, according to Leverett. That was an explicit response to Powell's demand in late March that Iran "end its support for terrorism."

In return, Leverett recalls, the Iranians wanted the United States to address security questions, the lifting of economic sanctions, and normalization of relations, including support for Iran's integration into the global economic order. Leverett also recalls that it was drafted with the blessing of all the major political players in the Iranian regime, including the "Supreme Leader," Ayatollah Ali Khomeini.

Of course the neocons — namely, Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith, and their sub-goons — were able to snuff that one out, which is nothing new under the Sun. Iran has been holding out the olive branch for many years, yet the neocons have been proactive in concealing those peace efforts so that Bush & Co. won't be forced to address them lest neocon plans to isolate and eventually bomb the infrastructure of Iran and overthrow the regime would be ruined. No peace. We want war, because peace doesn't net us your oil and your servitude.

In a more recent development — and perhaps the most telling sign yet that the neocon war hawks are preparing to militarily strike Iran — the Bush Administration announced its desire to officially label Iran's Revolutionary Guards (or parts of them, i.e., the parts they want to attack first) a terror organization. This, just days after a series of "talks" (whipping sessions) between the two nations.

It would be a dangerous and criminal step to take, and is unbecoming behavior for a supposedly constitutional republic. It violates the US Constitution and the UN Charter. And of course it violates the Algiers Accords, as do all other forms of interventions in, and threats toward, Iran by Bush-era neocons over the past four years. But it's just typical of neocon diplomatic sabotage: You hold out a dove on an olive branch; they bust out lighting fluid and a Zippo.

Designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization would be just the latest in a long line of self-destructive neocon measures taken in the build-up to a US-Israeli bombing and regime-change in Iran. Daniel Pourkesali comments on the way in which neocon war hawks have been able to bypass Supreme Law to that end:

So how does a country like the U.S. go about taking care of that little "unlawful" problem? Simple; first task a few bureaucrats or political pundits who've not served a day in uniform with writing a paper to be used as blueprint for global domination through pre-emption and military intervention and call it the "The National Security Strategy of the United States."[3] Then label all those persons, organizations, or even states not readily submitting to your will as "terrorists" and strong-arm the international community, the U.N. and the Congress into supporting that strategy in violation of both U.S. and international laws.

If you invited a neocon and his wife to have dinner with you and your family, he would hand you a list of "pre-conditions," or he'll say he's allergic to food. Neocons are as dishonest and irrational as humans can be when they are faced with the facts which run antithetical to their propaganda. Diplomacy and open and honest dialogue equals death for their profiteering schemes. They are a megalomaniacally enterprising bunch. They will not engage in such statesmanship, because where the standard of reciprocity is applied, they would ultimately have to concede almost every point to the other side and therefore, in their minds, would suffer humiliating defeat in front of their peers and the world.

Case in point: George Bush's tendency to lie even when the truth sounds better.

During a recent joint press conference with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai at Camp David, Karzai had the audacity to speak the truth, saying that Iran had been "a helper and a solution" to Afghanistan and the Karzai government. In response to which, Bush advised him to be "very cautious about whether or not the Iranian influence there in Afghanistan is a positive force." But as is usually the case, if you want to know the truth, take a neocon's depiction of reality and invert it. Dilip Hiro reports the facts contrary to neocon fantasy:

Following 9/11, as the Bush administration prepared to attack the Taliban, the Iranians shared intelligence with it surreptitiously. At their urging, Ismail Khan, the anti-Taliban Afghan leader based in the Iranian city of Mashhad, along with his fighters, coordinated his attack on the Taliban in western Afghanistan with the Pentagon's campaign in the north and the east. Ismail Khan's militia captured Herat, an important city near the Iranian border.

At the international conference held in Bonn, Germany, in late December 2001, Iran's foreign minister, Kamal Kharrazi, actively co-operated with the Americans to install Hamid Karzai as the leader of the post-Taliban Afghanistan. At the subsequent international donors' gathering, in Tokyo, Iran pledged $500m aid to Afghanistan over five years. Unlike many other nations at the Tokyo conference, it has fulfilled its initial promise. It has been involved in several infrastructure and health care projects, particularly in western Afghanistan.

In 2003, when Ismail Khan, an ethnic Tajik, refused to send an envoy to Kabul when Karzai, an ethnic Pashtun, was formally installed as president, it was the Iranian government which persuaded him to fly his son for the inaugural ceremony. In return, Karzai appointed Khan's son as a cabinet minister.

Furthermore, ever since the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the Iranian regime has been battling the Afghan drug dealers who use Iran as a transit route for shipping their products to Europe. In the course of hundreds of fire fights between the smugglers and the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (charged with monitoring the national borders), a few thousand guards have lost their lives.

The anti-narcotic campaign by Iran, which has continued since the overthrow of the Taliban in December 2001, has been praised not only by the Karzai government but also by the UN.

But the worst damage done that day by the Decider was when he told another dangerous lie about Iran's nuclear ambitions:

Bush damaged his already low credibility in foreign affairs when he went on to claim that Iran had a government "that has proclaimed its desire to build a nuclear weapon."

This statement is false. On September 12 2004, Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei issued a fatwa (religious decree) that it was "un-Islamic" to use an atom bomb.

There has not been a single Iranian government figure who has expressed the desire to manufacture nukes; still, President Bush is not bashful about confirming what the world already knows — that he's a lying, Fascist war propagandist just like all the other neonuts at the helm.

[Source: Representative Press]

Mutineering Consent

Another tool implemented by the Mainstream Mafia for the sake of manufacturing anti-Iranian sentiment and moving forward neocon plans for global domination involves the use of Iranian and Arab expatriates who are loosely labeled as "Middle East experts" or "terror experts" and afforded regular gigs at historically zionist and neocon-friendly mainstream outlets like Fox Noise Channel, CNN, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and the like. Those "experts" are really nothing more than a pack of well-paid shills who are considered traitors in their homelands, yet who are rewarded lucratively by neocon "think-tanks," writers' syndicates, and PR firms to lend a superficial veneer of credibility (via their "Arabness" or "Mideasternness") to fraudulent hasbara-speak and neocon agitprop.

One such fink is Amir Taheri, who is still raking in the shekels despite the fact that he's been repeatedly discredited for fraudulent "reporting". He's the guy who propagated the lie about legislation passed in Iran requiring Jews to wear distinctive color badges, as if to cast the Iranian regime in the same light as Nazi Germany. He's also a member of the notorious Benador and Associates: a neocon PR (Propaganda and Reconnaissance) firm whose "client" list (more like a muster call) includes such zionazi-neocon finks as Richard Perle, James Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, and Frank Gaffney.

And then there's Brigitte Gabriel: a Lebanese-born Maronite Christian in name and hyper-xenophobic Muslim-basher by trade who, without providing a source, claims that by this December, Iran will have the capability to manufacture hundreds of nuclear missiles per year — some of which will have the range to reach the east coast of the United States — and that therefore, we must attack Iran before they attack the U.S. Among innumerable other lies and baseless assertions, she repeatedly claims that Hamas works with "al Qaeda," and that they have cells operating in 40 out of the 50 states, scheming to conduct more 9?11s.

Others include Alireza Jafarzadeh (lobbies for MeK and other Iranian "opposition groups" on K Street), Walid Shoebat (former PLO terrorist/harbored and paid-for zionist shill), and Walid Phares (ex-Phalangist army terrorist/Lebanese traitor for Israel).

But to focus solely on the imported slime factory of anti-Iranian and anti-Muslim propagandist slime balls who are slimy would be to sell all five of my readers short. There are handfuls of domestic frauds who get away with things for which Joseph Goebbels' goons were sent to the gallows. These men are traitors, because they propagate and perpetuate lies and calculated disinformation, putting hard right-wing zionist interests in Israel ahead of those of the United States, at all costs.

Steve Emerson still gets regular gigs as a terror expert on FOX and elsewhere, even though he's shown himself to be a neocon and administration-friendly, xenophobic propagandist whose use of conniving innuendo and utter lies in order to demonize Muslims and the Iranian regime would indeed make Geobbels feel inadequate and extremely jealous.

Then there's ChristoZioFascist superfreak Mike Evans, who, during Fox Noise Channel's first day of coverage of the Minneapolis bridge collapse, popped in to tell everyone that although evidence doesn't point to Islamic terrorists, we should still be very scared, because Muslims in Iran and Syria are cheering for the collapse, and that they're using it as a recruiting tool. Of course as usual, no credible source was offered by Evans or requested by Neil Cavuto. Imagine my shock.

On MSNBC's Tucker Carlson, Evans claimed that Iran (perhaps the biggest source of moral and material support for downtrodden Arabs and Muslims in the Middle East) not only plans to acquire nuclear bombs, but intends to use them — not only on all Jews, but on all non-Persian Christians and Muslims as well. For that reason, he says, Iran must be militarily stopped. Carlson was so dumbfounded that he barely got a word in edgewise on his own show. What a hoot.

Other domestic(ated) traitors for zionist and neocon interests include Daniel Pipes, David Horowitz, Eliot Cohen, David and Meyrav Wurmser, Michael Ledeen, Dennis Prager, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross, Oliver North, Daniel Goure, Joseph Farah, Sean Hannity, Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Ben Shapiro, Alan Dershowitz, and too many more to list here. They all toe the neocon war and and pro-zionist expansion line, and they are complicit and prosecutable for sheltering war criminals and their corporate keepers in the MIC from scrutiny. In previous eras, genocidal madmen and their propaganda ministry staffers were brought to justice, and in some cases, hanged high for their parts in the crimes against humanity.

And make no mistake. Email inboxes at Fox, CNN, and MSNBC are flooded with factual corrections of their fraudulent reporting, backed up with sources; yet they ignore the evidence contrary to their propaganda, in full awareness of the truth, showing their intent to continue lying to the public in favor of the criminal war profiteers. They are the Ministry of Propaganda, and they're complicit in treason and war crimes.

Scaring the Populace, or Tenderizing the Roast

While Podhoretz is praying for strikes on Iranian soil — and while Lieberman is pushing for them — others, like Congressional also-ran nutjob Rick Santorum are predicting terrorist attacks on US soil: attacks which, according to Nostradumbass himself, will preempt a justified US retaliation against Iran and which will reverse US anti-war sentiment:

[C]onfronting Iran in the Middle East as an absolute linchpin for our success in that region. . . . [B]etween now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war . . . because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view.

To what god do these men pray? Certainly not God, the Father of Jesus. The answer may lie in a proclamation by Arkansas Republican chairman Dennis Milligan:

At the end of the day, I believe fully the president is doing the right thing, and I think all we need is some attacks on American soil like we had on [Sept. 11, 2001], and the naysayers will come around very quickly to appreciate not only the commitment for President Bush, but the sacrifice that has been made by men and women to protect this country.

(And rest assured that when neocon nutjobs talk about potential terror attacks, they actually mean probable, neocon-sponsored false flags meant to spark an otherwise planned, preemptive attack against a resource-rich, second or third-world nation. But that's just my opinion.)

And no fear campaign is complete without the intermittent terror level-type spiel with or without a color code attached to it (they're all black to me), like when someone from Homeland Security ate one too many Ex-Lax squares. ABC News reports on one episode of intestinal Chertitude:

On Tuesday, Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff told the editorial board of The Chicago Tribune that he had a "gut feeling" about a new period of increased risk. He based his assessment on earlier patterns of terrorists in Europe and intelligence he would not disclose.

And then there's the supplication (blackmail, really) of Iranian Jews by their counterparts in Israel to emigrate to Israel immediately if not sooner:

The incentives - ranging from £5,000 a person to £30,000 for families - were offered from a special fund established by wealthy expatriate Jews in an effort to prompt a mass migration to Israel among Iran's 25,000-strong Jewish community. The offers were made with Israel's official blessing and were additional to the usual state packages it provides to Jews emigrating from the diaspora. However, the Society of Iranian Jews dismissed them as "immature political enticements" and said their national identity was not for sale.

That appeal came suspiciously around the same time as another "security concern" from the U.S. State Department:

The United States issued a fresh travel warning for Israel and the Palestinian territories on Friday . . . "This recommendation applies to all Americans, including journalists and aid workers. . . . Israeli authorities are concerned about the continuing threat of suicide bombings," it said. "The U.S. government has received information indicating that American interests could be the focus of terrorist attacks."

(It appears as though Michael Chertoff's "gut feeling" has spawned tremors spreading all the way to the Holy Land.)

As usual, no reason or verifiable source is given for the threat — just that they are likely to happen because they said so, and you'd better get the hell outta Dodge or stay at your own risk. Nice, huh?

The warning does, however, refer to "considerable violence in the Gaza Strip in recent months," but, if that's really the cause for concern, then why issue the warning months after the violence broke out and weeks after the worst of it ended? And in singling out journalists and aid workers, aren't they really saying, "We don't want you to see and record the crimes against humanity about to be committed by the IDF"? With the U.S. and Israeli record of brutality against journalists and aid workers, and with the zionist regime's history of warning their victims of terror before atrocities committed, I'd say yes.

But if that isn't especially noteworthy as perhaps a sign of neocon-executed mass destruction to come, then consider the timing and the nature of a similar warning issued by the US State Department in February, 2003 — approximately a month before the U.S. invasion of Iraq officially began:

"Private U.S. citizens also were advised to leave those countries, and Americans were cautioned not to travel to Israel. . . . U.S. citizens in Iraq were urged to leave. . . . 'This decision results from an overall assessment of the security situation in the region, a rise in anti-American sentiment and the potential for violence and terrorist action against American targets, especially as the international community continues to focus on the issue of Iraqi disarmament,' Lou Fintor, a department spokesman, said."

It's basically the same warning with the same reasons cited, and at a time when everyone and their cow feels that an attack on Iran — as was the case against Iraq in '03 — is likely.

But do conspicuously-timed public warnings — coupled with a growing number of threats of nuclear preemption by US and Israeli neoconnivers — prove that the Israeli or US military (or both) will bomb Iran and overthrow the regime? Not necessarily, but in this layman's humble and bantamweight opinion, when you combine the threats and warnings with a sufficiently successful, headstrong, steadily advancing, seven-year build-up as part of a neocon plan for complete regional hegemony, the answer is a resounding yes.

The Consequences of Preemption and the Case for Peace

They've come this far and have committed their efforts — as deeply entrenched in the "quagmire" as they are — to succeeding in carrying out their plans. They'll do what they have to (i.e., "all options . . . on the table," or "Iranians must be threatened and stricken with consequences of not overthrowing their unpopular regime when we spent all these US taxpayer dollars on just that") in order to set up a lapdog government in Tehran which isn't such an "existential threat" to US and Israeli hegemony, and one which the next wave of neocons won't have to work so hard to falsely demonize and isolate in order to overthrow.

King George the Turd and his court are in their "last throes," and there's next-to-no chance of the neoconnivers holding on to the reins '09, so it's now or never: the last hoorah for the hell-bent hoodlums of the United States and Israel. It seems that nothing will stand in their way — even the obvious reasons for reversing the ill-fated and illicit trail they've been blazing:

There is no damning evidence linking Iran to instability and the death of US and British personnel in Iraq.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) reports confirm that Iran is NOT unlawfully blocking nuclear inspections.

Only the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has the power to approve military actions, and that therefore, all the war fomentation inspired by the behavior of Ahmadinejad is not only based on mistranslations and quotes taken out of context, but is also based on fallacious assumption that therefore Iran poses an existential threat to its neighbors. As weak as the case against Sadam was, the case against Iran is doubly so.

Khamenei "has issued a Fatwa that the production, stockpiling and use of nuclear weapons are forbidden under Islam and that the Islamic Republic of Iran shall never acquire these weapons." And President Ahmadinejad has repeatedly stated his commitment to following the fatwa and that his government is against weapons of mass destruction and will only pursue nuclear activities in the peaceful domain.

Experts and sane-minded people everywhere are warning that military action against Iran will backfire and could have "disastrous and far-reaching political and economic consequences" for Israel, the United States, and the world.

Jim Basil Utley hypothesizes:

Iran would blockade the Straits of Hormuz. Iran has new, "state of the art" Russian anti-aircraft defenses as well as powerful Sunburn anti-ship missiles purchased from the Ukraine, Chinese mines, and also itself manufactures other missiles. Anti-ship mines may already be in place, able to be activated from shore. . . . Probably Iran would try to sink tankers (see a projected scenario) to set off a worldwide panic for oil rather than just aim at U.S. Navy ships. Even the threat of this would cause insurance rates to skyrocket and possibly shut down the straits. Just the risk of all this happening should be cause of great concern for America and the whole world. . . . Jim Cramer warned on MSNBC's Scarborough Country on Jan. 30 that war would quickly drive U.S. gas prices to $5 per gallon. . . . The attack would make America even more suspect and hated in the whole Islamic world. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a former U.S. national security adviser, told Congress the war in Iraq was a calamity and was likely to lead to "a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large." . . . We don't know the effectiveness of the Russian and Chinese weapons that have been sold to Iran. There is a risk that they might be very effective. . . . American forces in Iraq would be very vulnerable to modern war supplies from Iran, for example, effective anti-tank weaponry such as that used by Hezbollah to destroy dozens of Israeli tanks. The long U.S. supply convoys from Kuwait would be subject to much greater attacks. A sustained Iranian missile attack on the Green Zone in Baghdad or the Doha base camp in Kuwait could kill many Americans.

And for those who think it should matter: Israel has not been seriously threatened since '73, and even then, the U.S. neocon traitors of that era quickly bailed them out, as they surely would even more expediently so today. So if Israel strikes first, and somehow is put under heavy duress and faces severe losses (not likely, with US-supplied weaponry), the AIPAC-lapdog US government will jump right into the fray to defend "our greatest ally [sic] in the war on terror," as promised by many traitors in the government. Pay no mind to the economic and political crises likely to ensue as they did back in '73. Only this time around, the consequences will be far worse and in more ways. And don't bother mentioning Israel's wealth of nukes (which, by the way, they don't have, but they do, but they don't) said to be already aimed at every Middle East nation, Russia and China (and possibly, the United States).

I highly suggest that everyone read and pass along the CASMII paper published on May 7, entitled Fact Sheets of Iran-US Standoff: Twenty Reasons against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran. Excerpts:

Iran's need for nuclear power generation is real. Even when Iran's population was one-third of what it is today, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz, negotiating on behalf of President Gerald Ford, persuaded the former Shah that Iran needed nuclear power and over twenty nuclear reactors.

The "crisis" over Iran's nuclear programme lacks the urgency claimed by Washington. Even if it were to militarize its nuclear programme, for which there is no evidence at all, Iran would be many years away from mastering the technology, giving proliferation concerns ample time to be resolved by negotiation.

Enrichment of uranium for a civilian nuclear programme is Iran’s inalienable right. Every member of the NPT has the inalienable right to enrich uranium for a civilian nuclear programme and is entitled to full technical assistance.

Iran has not threatened Israel or attacked another country. The track records of the US, Israel, the UK and France are very different. These so called “democracies” have a bloody history of invading other countries for resources and domination. On the contrary, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has stated repeatedly that Iran will not attack or threaten any country.

There are no legal bases for Iran’s referral to the UN Security Council. Since there is no evidence that Iran is even contemplating its nuclear programme, no grounds exist within the NPT to refer Iran to the UN Security Council.

Dr ElBradei, the head of the IAEA, has said that sanctions are counterproductive. Economic sanctions on Iran will harm the people of Iran, as they were devastating to Iraqis, resulting in the death of at least 500,000 children. Sanctions would not however bring the Islamic Republic to its knees. Instead, any kind of sanctions, including the so-called targeted or smart sanctions, are viewed by the Iranian people as the West's punishment for Iran's scientific progress (uranium enrichment for reactor fuel). As sanctions tighten, nationalist fervour will strengthen the resolve of Iranians to defend the country's civilian nuclear programme.

Foreign state interference in Iran violates the UN charter.

Bombing cannot end Iran's nuclear programme. Since Iran already has the expertise to enrich uranium up to the 3.5% grade for a fuel cycle, no degree of bombing will halt Iran’s civilian nuclear programme. On the contrary, the resulting mass casualties and destruction would strengthen the voices that argue Iran, like North Korea, should build a nuclear deterrent.

A nuclear attack on Iran would fuel a new nuclear arms race and ruin the NPT.

An attack on Iran will unite Iranians against the US and its allies. A great majority of the public in Iran support the country’s right to enrich uranium for civilian purposes. Therefore, a bombing campaign will not lead to an uprising by the Iranian people for regime change as envisaged by the US. Rather, it would ignite nationalist feelings in the country and unite the population, including most of the government's critics, against the West.

An attack on Iran will lead to a regional catastrophe and expanded terrorism.

The cause of establishing democracy in Iran will suffer gravely if the country is attacked.

[L]eading reformists and human rights activists in Iran, such as the popular Nobel Laureate, Shirin Ebadi, have strongly opposed sanctions and military interventions against Iran. By contrast, the Mojahedin-e Khalgh (MEK), which has no support in the country and is listed as a terrorist organization by the EU and the US, can have a future only if all democratic rights are totally suppressed in Iran. The CIA and the Pentagon support MEK in covert operations to destabilize the Islamic Republic.

Furthermore, anyone who cares to be honest with themselves and the world would admit that Iran, Hizballah, Hamas, and Syria are no threat to the United States, and that contrary to fraudulent hasbara, are no "existential threat" to Israel. On the contrary, both Israel and the United States are belligerent occupiers of Arab lands and boast military might and wherewithal unmatched in the Middle East or the world, for that matter.

And of course only the neocon mafia, their puppet allies, and a precious few others who have historically profited off mass-scale tyranny and death will benefit from such illegal and ill-fated ventures; everyone else will suffer and die. But as recent history has shown, and as documented herein: for the regime occupying Washington D.C., no plan of conquest is too illegal, too traitorous, or too sacrificing of US and foreign lives and treasure to undertake for the sake of empire.

But When Peace Fails...

Perhaps America could regain its reputation if General Pace would send a division of US Marines to arrest Bush, Cheney, the entire civilian contingent in the Pentagon, the neoconservative nazis, and the complicit members of Congress and send them off to The Hague to be tried for war crimes.
–Paul Craig Roberts, February 2007

Cheney, Bush, and the rest of the neocon war hawks have been planning to conquer Iraq and Iran and take over their resources ever since Clinton was in office. The first half has been virtually accomplished, with Sadam & Co. overthrown, Iraqi resources in hand (minus the neoconnivingly-named Hydrocarbon Law, which steals a big percentage of profits off Iraqi natural resources and gives them to the MIC, and which no Iraqi national in his right mind would vote for anyway); the larger-than-the-Vatican US embassy and permanent military bases are almost all finished; all the pieces are in place to advance the final phase of the plan for the Middle East; and the dissent of an overwhelming majority of Americans and the world hasn't stopped them yet. So why should they all the sudden have cold feet?

Therefore, since it's evident that the neocon mafiosi are intent on destroying the US Constitution and thus driving the Republic down with them into oblivion, the question that just won't go away is: What can we do about it, besides protest, blog, petition our representatives, and wait it out? Since it hasn't worked so far, and since impeachment is a pipe dream, what gives?

First of all, we should never resort to the tactics of the lawless ones we oppose. Those who are able should continue to peacefully protest and recruit others to do the same wherever and however you like to do it — be it in the streets, online or in other ways. Use the evidence documented in this article and others to petition members of Congress, local/state/federal prosecutors, the military, and media, so that fewer and fewer people in power can say they weren't aware of the obvious criminal negligence and murderousness of the empire and the direction it is heading. Let them not say they had no evidence to act upon and no clear picture of the motivation and intent made evident by the words and deeds of the mafiosi. Add pertinent facts and nuance where this writing lacks, but get these facts to people in powerful positions who are able to take real, meaningful actions against the criminals.

Encouragement of mutiny is not this writer's goal; nevertheless, conscientious military brass and military police should do their dutiful, lawful parts to defend the Constitution and other real US interests from further defacement and utter destruction. Whether it means refusal to carry out orders to commit war crimes, resigning, or the commandeering of strategic command centers: Do what you should.

And for prosecutors out there who aren't afraid of getting "disappeared," it is practically an open-and-shut case. As made evident by the current screed, paint-by-number mass murderers are on the loose and their crimes are in progress. They are profiting off illegal wars, criminally neglecting their constitutional oaths and their constituents, morally and financially bankrupting the nation, and overall, putting our constitutional republic in grave existential danger. They are slowly destroying our way of life by starving us and other nations of life, liberty, and the means by which to pursue happiness. You know their addresses, their places of business, and their rap sheets, so do your duty. Do what you should.

But if all else sadly fails, and if we are let down by those whom we put our trust in to make sure this constitutional Republic doesn't go down in flames at the whim of a lawless cabal, then we are likely to be forced into protecting our persons and property by other means. We have the right to, it is our duty to do so, and we should, if all else fails.

Again: In no way should my words be taken as an incitement of violent rebellion. I suggest to every US citizen who lawfully owns a firearm and keeps it handy in their home: If you have been given fair warning, and the "authorities" have not attacked your person or property, then refrain from violence. Preemptive and unnecessary violence is the tactic of tyrants and warlords, and when undertaken, everyone loses. On the other hand: If anyone — whether it be federal goons, your ex's deranged boyfriend, or a burglar — gives no warning yet attacks your person or invades your home unwarranted, then it is your right to defend yourself and your property by all legal means available.

The Second Amendment has not been neocon-nullified (yet), and even if it was, do not heed the unconstitutional change. It's about the ability to defend individual life and liberty, and no-one has the authority to take that away in word or deed — not even a would-be dictator and his all-powerful empire. If worse comes to worst, federal goons will get shot up in tragic incidents all across the country on a daily basis, in unwarranted and violent attempts to seize and render. At the same time, innocent civilians and their family members will also be riddled with bullets and shrapnel for defending themselves and their families against the tyrannical measures.

Many people who read this will be upset at me for making such grim hypotheticals, but consider the following. What's worse: being warned of the tragic possibilities before they've even happened, or seeing them happen on TV, in the newspaper, next door, or upon you when it's too late? Don't believe for a second that it can't happen. People are already in prison camps and are being held with no charges and without the benefit of Habeas Corpus. People are already being tortured for dissent which passes as treason and terrorism these days. We are not immune to history and the way it repeats itself, especially as it pertains to the fate of corrupt empires and the citizens they mold into "subjects".

The Founders had the vision to know that traitorous tyrants like Cheney and Bush would rape the Constitution eventually. That's why they advocated the right to peacefully protest, but also the right to bear arms so as to protect person, property, and all other rights from criminals, tyrants and foreign invasions. So if it means the tragic death, severe injury, and imprisonment of hundreds, if not thousands, of US citizens simply as a result of their attempting to lawfully defend their persons and property against said encroachments, then by all means call me an "unlawful enemy combatant" and send me off to WaterBoard World for "inspiring terrorism" or some other lame neozionazi designation. But the reality is that once shackled, rendered, and tortured, "enemy combatants" end up either dying most non-triumphantly or wishing they were dead anyway.

I believe that more peaceful means of resistance can be successful, but if, instead, the traitorous neocon cabal is successful in finishing what they have started — in spite of the overwhelming majority of the People opposing them, drastic damage to the economy, and the grave danger it will put US citizens and military personnel in — then it will likely constitute the implementation of martial law and a full-fledged federal and state police status in order to even attempt to snuff out the civil unrest that ensues. And as a result, there will likely be tragedies as referred to above — even as a result of originally peaceful resistance — because every proud citizen has his or her breaking point. No freedom-cherishing, liberty-loving, Constitution-defending US citizen in his or her right mind and heart of hearts should or would sit idly in the backseat while the flaming wreck edges over the proverbial cliff.

In the hopes that non-violent resistance will prevail, I close with the sage advice from the statesman of our time, Ron Paul:

Time is short but our course of action should be clear.

Resistance to illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of our rights is required. Each of us must choose which course of action we should take — education, conventional political action, or even peaceful civil disobedience, to bring about the necessary changes.

But let it not be said that we did nothing.

–DetainThis
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