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Libby Out, Two New
NeoCons In - And Why
Saddam Was Deleted
 
"Saddam is not like the Saudi Princes who spend the bulk of their lives outside of their country, and who fritter away the Kingdom's oil profits on prostitutes and bottles of champagne in Paris. No, Saddam is building railways! Creating electrical networks! Highways and other important elements of a serious State infrastructure! After eights years of war against the Iranian regime of Khomeini, he desperately needs to demobilize his Republican Guard, which incorporates so many of this technical elite, in order to rebuild the war-devastated country. These people are his technicians, his engineers. If they are put to work in the way Saddam wishes, they will rapidly make Iraq the most advanced power in the region, and we cannot allow this to happen."
 
By Karl W B Schwarz
kwbschwarz@comcast.net
11-16-5
 
 
We have decided to speed up the process on bringing out the next two email updates back to back on November 16th and 19th since they are related and expose some information that Americans need to consider carefully.
 
Over the years I have kept a special list of those Neo-conservatives who are out front and right in our faces, those in the back office and those stealthy planners who devise the covert ops of the neo-conservative agenda. The PNAC crowd, for example, contains all three groups.
 
Even as I. Lewis Libby was indicted and then resigned his position as Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, Mr. Cheney has elevated two other PNAC insiders that have the same agenda as Libby.
 
 
By Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers
 
 
WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney replaced I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby as his national security adviser on Monday with an aide identified by a former Iraqi exile group as the White House official to whom it fed information on Iraq that turned out to be erroneous.
 
The Bush administration relied on some of the information from the Iraqi National Congress to argue that Saddam Hussein had to be ousted before he could give banned biological or chemical weapons to al-Qaida for strikes on the United States.
 
But no such weapons were discovered after the March 2003 invasion, and U.S. intelligence agencies and the independent commission on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks found no evidence of operational cooperation between Iraq and al-Qaida.
 
The White House announced on Monday the elevation of John Hannah to replace Libby as Cheney's national security adviser. Earlier in the day it announced that Libby would be arraigned Thursday in federal court on charges of perjury, making false statements and obstruction of justice. He was expected to plead innocent.
 
The White House also announced that David S. Addington, who's been Cheney's legal counsel, would assume Libby's duties as chief of staff. Like Hannah, Addington has played a quiet, though influential, role in the vice president's office. The Washington director of Human Rights Watch accused Addington of helping draft policies that led to the abuse of prisoners in Iraq and Afghanistan.
 
The vice president's office has previously denied that Hannah received INC information. Cheney's office didn't respond immediately to questions Monday about Hannah and Addington.""
 
 
Ladies and Gentlemen, there is a grand cover-up in progress and the White House cannot afford to have any clean-handed Boy Scouts spill the beans
 
If you are not familiar with Mr. Addington, he was one of the architects of official torture policies and the U.S.-our government and soldiers-entering into the commission of war crimes. Cheney's Addington Was Chief Author of U.S. Torture, War Crimes Policy
 
http://larouchepub.com/other/2005/3244addington.html
 
By all reports, Mr. Addington is yet another fascist PNAC-style Neocon, so don't think for even a minute that they are cleaning up matters inside of the White House. They cannot afford to do that and keep concealed the many lies this Bush Administration has spoken from the day he entered office.
 
Information keeps surfacing about Mr. I. Lewis Libby that can help you form an opinion of his background, his connections, and his real allegiances.
 
 
Foreign Influence
 
By Charley Reese
 
11/11/05 -- -- I don't share the president's high opinion of I. Lewis Libby, now under indictment for obstruction of justice, making false statements and committing perjury.
 
He was, after all, the lawyer who for years represented Marc Rich, the fugitive billionaire who renounced his own country. It was Libby who arranged the last-minute presidential pardon of Rich issued by Bill Clinton - a pardon that stank to high heaven. Rich, along with a number of Russian oligarchs the Russian government would like to get its hands on, is now an Israeli citizen.
 
Libby was also part of the trio of neoconservatives who pushed the phony intelligence in order to get the U.S. to go to war. Another member of that trio, John Hannah, has now replaced Libby as Vice President Dick Cheney's national-security adviser. As described by Juan Cole in an excellent article at Salon.com. "Most of the members of Cheney's inner circle were neoconservative ideologues, who combined hawkish American triumphalism with an obsession with Israel."
 
 
In fact, Ms. Condoleezza Rice is now suggesting that the Sunni Iraqis get with the program because "unity is good for Iraq". She made the following statement in meeting with Sunni leaders in Iraq - Divisions "may be differences of history or tradition, culture or ethnicity, but in a democratic process these differences can be a strength rather than a handicap," I trust you recognize the political correctness message in that and you can bet all you have that Rice did not make the sale. They are not even talking about victory in Iraq any more, just "successful resolutions".
 
The Condoleezza Rice "Democracy Summit" in the Middle East-where she was explained her vision and that of Bush and Cheney that all Arab nations need to be democracies-was a total flop. None of the Arab nations attending want to try and insert Americanized democracies into their nations. They have a perfect example to look at and that is the complete disaster that Bush and his Neocon buddies have wrought in Iraq.
 
At the same time Bush has come out swinging from the Bully Pulpit against anyone daring to question his policies or his sanity for still asking you to continue deluding yourself that things are just great in Iraq. This is at a time when polls show that 57% of Americans no longer think George Bush to be an honest man and his overall approval rating is under 40%. Some in the GOP have even circulated a memo stating that another "terror attack" on the United States would re-unite Americans behind what might be the worst president this nation has ever seen and shore up the GOP with renewed energy. His desires in Latin America flopped on FTAA and now his grand vision for democracies in the Muslim world is flopping too.
 
As my grandfather used to say about people like Bush, "he is obviously not hemmed in by the truth."
 
Now that I am making a bid for the Office of President of the United States, the list of Neoconservatives we have assembled will come in handy in making sure that we will have the identity of the Neocons and can purge them from both inside the federal government and eliminate their consultant work for the federal government.
 
From my perspective, the Neocons have proven themselves to be of no benefit to the United States in any manner whatsoever. If I have a say in the matter, they will be purged from having anything to do with the decision making apparatus of the United States. Their agenda is adverse to our best interests. That would be one of my first priorities, to rid our government of the influence of the un-American Neocons. They are not liberals or progressives, they are not conservatives. They are fascist Troskyites that do not represent the America we believe in and hold dear.
 
That list is an extensive one and has names many would not suspect. For example, John Fund, former editorial voice of the Wall Street Journal, is a well-known Neocon operative behind the scenes. You see, the Neocons do not want America to know that the editorial voice of such an august publication is actually spouting off the Straussian, Troskyite philosophy of the Neocons. The Neocons would not want you to know that some of the content that many readers peruse in the WSJ is mere fascist propaganda. As with Hitler and Goebbels, tell the lie enough times and people begin to believe it is the truth.
 
There is a reason that Mr. Fund is no longer the main editorial writer for the Wall Street Journal. He assaulted a girlfriend and beat her nearly to death. It took about six months for her wounds to heal from that beating and that matter is currently tied up in the courts with formal charges against Mr. Fund. I personally know the woman he assaulted and she informed me of some of his very strange habits, such as listening to Hitler speeches in his spare time. Mr. Fund was raised in Germany and I even stunned him one time by asking him to his face what part of Germany he was from or raised in. His elocution of the English language is too precise, just as pronunciation of the German language is if one is fluent in High German. He was somewhat taken aback that I listen so closely. If you have ever heard him on TV (he was a regular guest on Chris Mathews' Hardball), Mr. Fund does not posses a local accent that would give anyone a clue as to what part of the United States he comes from. That is because he was raised in Germany, not the United States.
 
The Neocons are not conservatives in the literal sense of the word and hold unapologetically fascist opinions about the role of the state. Just one look at the rampant spending of Bush I and Bush II in the earlier email update regarding GNP and National Debt ought to be enough to convince you that these two men are not fiscal conservatives by any stretch of the imagination. They have an agenda and that agenda is Pro-Israel, Pro-Saudi and Pro-Neocon, and never do such matters as "what is best for America" come into their operative thought processes. It is all about Big Oil, Big Defense and what is best for their buddies in the energy and defense businesses.
 
Another behind-the-scenes Neocon is Dr. Edward Luttwak, scholar, author and Pentagon advisor. His name does not pop up much but he nonetheless figures as an important Neoconservative theorist.
 
I was surprised to see his name and his comments in print in Neoconned Again, page 30, in an article written by Maurizio Blondet about Iraq and was included in the revealing Neoconned and Neoconned Again books. If you have not read them, I highly recommend that you do. They are available through my website at http://www.karlschwarz2008.com/platform.htm
 
If you read those two books, prepare yourself for a harsh dose of reality regarding the morality of this nation, or lack of it, in regards to this current Bush Administration, Bush I and even the Clinton Administration. This nation can claim no moral high ground on the basis alone of our conduct in Iraq over the past twenty five years.
 
This is cited from page 29-30 of Neoconned Again:
 
"I put through a call to Dr. Edward Luttwak, the internationally renowned author, lecturer, historian, military strategist and Pentagon consultant. Well-known in political circles in Italy, he had studied the military power of the Roman Empire here and was thus well able to express himself in Italian. I asked him whether the White House really was prepared to invade Iraq with all of its attendant risks? "We are very serious," he answered. He continued: "We are going to bomb Iraq back into the Stone Age." But why is this necessary, I answered, finding Luttwak's bluntness somewhat at variance with his reputation for subtle thinking and expression. Almost warming to the subject, he continues:
 
"Saddam is not like the Saudi Princes who spend the bulk of their lives outside of their country, and who fritter away the Kingdom's oil profits on prostitutes and bottles of champagne in Paris. No, Saddam is building railways! Creating electrical networks! Highways and other important elements of a serious State infrastructure! After eights years of war against the Iranian regime of Khomeini, he desperately needs to demobilize his Republican Guard, which incorporates so many of this technical elite, in order to rebuild the war-devastated country. These people are his technicians, his engineers. If they are put to work in the way Saddam wishes, they will rapidly make Iraq the most advanced power in the region, and we cannot allow this to happen."
 
That comment was made in 2002 well in advance of the invasion of Iraq. Note that Mr. Luttwak used the pronoun "we" as he is part of the group that was going after an objective.
 
If you are one of the many Americans who no longer accept the official reasons given for attacking Iraq, that statement is a clear example of what was going on behind the scenes. There were no WMD in Iraq. There was no imminent threat from Iraq towards the United States. There was no tie between Saddam and Al Qaeda found anywhere, at any time. All this has been proven over time: Bush and Blair lied the US and UK into this war. Even the Downing Street Memo, something that Bush and Blair have both refused to address, makes it clear the war had been planned long before it was started. Iraq was constructing a full-service, heavy infrastructure built on policies contrary to U.S. policy that all Middle East nations but Israel stay in impoverished, third world status.
Despite his well advertised crimes, Saddam Hussein was also building Iraq into an example for what the Arab nations could be, and the U.S. and Israel could not allow that to happen. The primary threat was that Iraq was well on its way to being as advanced in many ways as the United States or Europe in terms of government functions and infrastructure. That would be embarrassing to all of those other Arab nations that reap the oil moneys for the Royal Families while their populations live in poverty.
 
In Neoconned it is clear that even during Desert Storm in 199, and during the period of economic sanctions and "No Fly Zones", the United States and Great Britain were targeting non-military sites like water pumping stations, municipal waste treatment facilities, dams, hydroelectric generation stations, schools, hospitals, oil and gas infrastructure, et cetera to blast Iraq into the "stone age" and keep them there. Any target that was beneficial to quality of life was hit, and one million Iraqis died during that period due mainly to rampant disease, poor sanitation, diminished health care and dangerous drinking water. Called by any other name, that is still genocide. It shames this nation and infuriates the world against our abusive and inhumane policies.
 
Such a policy has nothing to do with U.S. National Security, it has everything to do with Saudi and Israeli security. It has to do with keeping the status quo in Arab nations at is lowest common denominator, that being wealth for an elite few and mind-numbing poverty for the vast majority of their citizens. Such a policy has resulted in close to one million Iraqis dying during the U.S. - U.N. sanctions alone, not to mention how many were killed in Gulf War I and II. Even machinery to grind flour was denied by the U.S. under the excuse of being "dual use" technology, though no arms programs were in progress, period. Medicines, chlorine for water treatment, diapers, needles, medical and dental supplies, farm equipment and many other items were arbitrarily denied by the U.S. and U.K. while those Iraqis were dying as a result of our negligence and malignant attitude. Malicious and malevolent are words that fit our policies towards Iraq over the past twenty five years. Anything related to quality of life was denied because the end game was to crush a country that was becoming an embarrassment to the other Arab nations.
 
One of the things that stands out in the Neoconned books is that we apply moral standards to all but ourselves in how this nation conducts itself, whether in international business, law, war, or in meddling in the affairs of other nations, especially if those nations have valuable natural resources like natural gas or oil. It was that way all the way back to the Nuremburg trials when the court had to decide cautiously if the Nazis had committed a war crime that we did not. The Nazis were tried for those crimes, yet if both sides had committed the same atrocities those charges were not brought up because the prosecution did not want a defense to disclose what U.K. and U.S. forces had done.
 
It is my considered opinion that George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush-along with many who served in their administrations-should be tried for war crimes and genocide against the Iraqi and Afghani peoples. Read Neoconned and Neoconned Again. If you have any decency in your heart or conscience in your soul, you will come to the same conclusion.
 
I have been watching this nation slide downhill for the past three presidential administrations but could not quite put my finger on the underlying problem. Now I know in my heart that we have been led by evil men doing the bidding of evil masters. The deeds done in our name by these people is not foreign policy; it is a systematic abuse of human rights and human dignity. It has been a systematic program of genocide. They have even interfered in sovereign nations that pose, then or now, no threat to the United States whatsoever. I remember well when she was asked to justify the inhumane treatment of the Iraqis Madeline Albright's comment that the deaths of all of those Iraqi children was worth it.
 
I have come to conclusion that there has been no "finest hour" for America at any time during the administrations of George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton or George W. Bush. They all stand for the same ugly despicable thing and that is not the America I believe in.
 
This nation is standing at the edge of the abyss. Those who are morally competent always stay well back from the abyss, but our leaders are leading us straight into that abyss, which is a polite way of saying they are either insane, corrupted by power or greed, or are not morally competent men and women.
 
Unlike most Americans, I can leave the U.S. and do very well in Europe and elsewhere in nanotechnology but I choose to stand and fight for the nation I love. I have given these matters much thought, and frankly do not take pride in being American as I have in the past. Now I know the truth, and the truth of our leaders and their policies is an ugly thing. Their actions are nothing to take pride in. I see the next two elections of 2006 and 2008 as either the turning point where we might change America back to what it was always intended to be, or the beginning of the requiem for America.
 
We are a nation of great people, led by a government that does not deserve us. I ask that you read that again, they do not deserve us and we deserve better than the likes of them.
 
By the end of this current Bush Administration, this nation will be $10 trillion or more in debt. By 2014 it is projected that it will take 60% of the GNP of the United States to service the foreign debt holders that have purchased the debt that allowed Washington, D.C. to act so recklessly and irresponsibly. We have an entire government, sworn to uphold the Constitution treating that document as toilet paper and our rights as subject to their whims.
 
If you think finding a job or earning a decent living for your family is hard now, just wait until the matter gets so far out of hand that the financial life of this nation is being sucked dry by the load of the National Debt. If you think your quality of life is slipping daily, wait until 2014 to make a decision about which way this nation is headed. Right now we are headed straight into the side of the mountain.
 
There are many Neocons that would be shown the door and blocked from access to our government and decision making processes if I had my way in the matter. The likes of Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Bill Kristol, David Frum, and about 1,000 other Neocons and Neocon wannabees would be removed and barred from the federal processes. In fact, if my instincts are right about Afghanistan and Iraq, and I had my way, many Neocons would be facing federal prosecution for treason, conspiracy to commit murder, murder, genocide, and other well deserved charges. Their entire agenda is based on lies and people are now dead because of the lies. I do not consider that a "no harm, no foul" circumstance since it was premeditated.
 
Our republic is no longer the light of the world. America has cast the dark shadow of American greed and it is growing uglier every day. Our policies are abusive and inhumane towards others and not even remotely based on fair, equitable relations.
 
Many Americans do not recognize fascism since it is so alien to what this nation is about and was always intended to be. However, what we have right now is a Mussolini style of economic fascism running rampant through our government and certain sectors of our corporate world. What they cannot pull off directly, they have taken over the controls of how the National Debt is being used to line their pockets and increase their wealth and power. Overseas in Afghanistan and Iraq we have deployed the Hitler style of fascism, complete with the blitzkrieg against innocent people who stand in the way of our unmitigated greed in Washington, DC and in our major corporations.
 
As a nation we find ourselves at a "Y" in the road. Taking either the left turn or the right turn are both the wrong solutions. The RNC and DNC are both owned by the same wealthy élite insiders and their agenda has not changed for the past three presidential administrations. The only correct direction is one of two alternatives. Reverse direction and do not take either side of the "Y" in the road, or like a wedge split the "Y" and create a new road.
 
The choice is for each and every one of us to make. It is time to tell Washington, D.C. and certain corporations that enough is enough.
Contributions can be made via check through the mail or via credit card at http://www.karlschwarz2008.com/contribute.htm
 
If you have not read the platform, you may download a copy of it at http://www.karlschwarz2008.com/platform.htm. Please get a copy of the platform and pass it along to all you know.
 
If you want to see the factual details of why George H W Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush should be tried as war criminals and for genocide, I recommend you get copies of the two books Neoconned and Neoconned Again. You can purchase the books in the same page the Schwarz Platform is available at.
 
My job as a Third Party Candidate is to energize this nation and give you the means to fight back and take back America. You have been lied to, plundered and our government is an endless stream of actions against you and for Government Sponsored Corporate Profiteering. I cannot do it alone, no single person can.
 
This is a battle about the future of America and all that we love.
 
Best regards,
 
KARL SCHWARZ FOR PRESIDENT
The American Patriot Party, An Independent 3rd Party
Wake Up, End The Lies & Take Back America
www.karlschwarz2008.com
 

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