- The Brownshirt Party has chosen John "hundred year
war" McCain as its presidential candidate. Except for Cheney, Norman
Podhoretz, and Billy Kristol, McCain is America's greatest warmonger.
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- In a McCain Regime, Cheney will be back in office with
another stint as Secretary of War. Norman "Bomb-bomb-bomb-Iran"
Podhoretz will be Undersecretary for Nuclear War with General John "Nuke
them" Shalikashvili as his deputy. Rudy Giuliani will be the Minister
of Interior in charge of Halliburton's detention centers into which will
be herded all critics of war and the police state. Billy kristol will be
chief White House spokesliar.
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- The whole gang will be back--Wolfowitz, Perle, Wurmster,
Feith, Libby, Bolton. America will have a second chance to bomb the world
into submission.
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- With the majority of voters sick of war, sick of lies,
sick of fraud from the Federal Reserve and Wall Street, and sick of stagnant
and falling incomes, McCain is poised to capture 20 per cent of the vote--the
Christian Zionists, the rapture evangelicals, and the diehard macho flag-waving
thugs who believe America is done for unless "Islamofacists"
are exterminated.
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- The accumulated lies, deceptions, war crimes, the shame
of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo prisons, Bush's police state assault on civil
liberty, countless numbers of Iraqi and Afghan men, women, and children
murdered for the sake of American and Israeli hegemony, and the collapsing
US economy indicate a political wipeout for the Brownshirt Party. In a
country with an informed and humane population, the Republican Party would
be reduced to such a small minority that it could never recover.
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- What will happen in America? Polls show that Americans
have had it with Bush, and the 2006 congressional election showed that
the voters have had it with Republicans. But the Republicans have seen
the message and ignored it, and the people and the Democrats have continued
to tolerate and to enable that which they claim to oppose.
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- Meanwhile Bush holds on to his determination to find
a way to bomb Iran, dismissing along with the neocons the unanimous National
Intelligence Estimate that there is no Iranian weapons program, just as
Bush and the neocons dismissed the Iraq weapons inspectors who reported
truthfully that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. What
the American people and the Democrats have not understood is that a party
with an agenda could care less for the facts.
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- The Democrats are far from pure, but they lack the fervor
and determination that only ideology can provide. The Democrats might have
issue-specific ideologies, but they lack an over-arching ideology that
makes it imperative for them, and only them, to be in power.
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- In contrast, the Brownshirt Party is fueled by the neocon
ideology of American (and Israeli) supremacy. The neocon ideology of supremacy
is more far-reaching than Hitler's. Hitler merely aimed for sway over Europe
and Russia. The neocons have targeted the entire world.
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- Neocons have prepared plans for war against China. They
are ringing Russia with military facilities and paying millions of dollars
to leaders of former constituent parts of the Soviet Union to sign up with
NATO, which the neocons have turned into a mechanism for drafting Europeans
to serve American Empire.
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- All this work, the neocon Project for a New American
Century, the costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the demonization of Iran,
Hezbollah, and Hamas, the ghettoization of the West Bank and Gaza, the
police state measures that Bush has succeeded in putting on the books,
the concentration of power in the executive branch, these are successes
from which the Brownshirts will not walk away.
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- Possibly the neocons and their Brownshirt followers are
so delusional that they do not realize that their glorious aims are not
shared. Maybe they are no different from Americans, maxed out on credit
and unable to make mortgage payments, who believe that next week they will
win the lotto.
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- On the other hand maybe the Brownshirts have a plan.
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- What could the plan be?
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- They can steal the election with the Diebold electronic
voting machines and proprietary software that no one is allowed to check.
There are now enough elections on record with significant divergences between
exit polls and vote tallies that a stolen election can be explained away.
The Democrats have been house trained to acquiesce to stolen elections.
The voters, whose votes are stolen, dismiss the evidence as "conspiracy
theories."
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- Or what about a well-timed orchestrated "terrorist
attack" to drive fearful Americans to the war candidate. False flag
events are stock-in-trade. Hitler used the Reichstag fire to turn German
democracy into a dictatorship overnight.
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- And what about the widespread spying on Americans? The
Bush regime's explanation for its violation of the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act makes no sense. Bush's violation of the law is clearly
a felony, grounds for impeachment, arrest, indictment, and a prison sentence.
Moreover, no intelligence purpose was achieved by Bush's illegal acts.
The FISA law only requires the executive branch to come to a secret court
to explain its purpose and obtain a warrant. The law even allows the executive
branch to spy first and obtain the warrant afterward. The purpose of the
warrant is to prevent an administration from spying for political purposes.
The only reason for Bush to refuse to obtain warrants is that he had no
valid reason for the spying.
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- Does this mean that during the presidential campaign
we will hear from Attorney General Michael Mukasey that candidate Hillary
is under investigation for a Whitewater-related offense, or that candidate
Obama is linked to an alleged crime figure or Islamist?
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- The neocons control most of the print and TV media, and
the right-wing radio talk hosts are no friends of Democrats. As Americans
have fallen for every other fraud perpetrated upon them, they are likely
to be suckers as well for "investigations" or rumors of investigations
of the Democratic candidate. Hillary is widely disliked and easy to distrust.
Obama is a new face with which voters have little experience. He is partly
black and has a funny name.
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- John McCain is a graduate of the US Naval Academy. His
father and grandfather were admirals. On his 23rd bombing mission over
North Vietnam in one of America's orchestrated wars, he was shot down and
injured. He was a POW for 5.5 years, and tortured by the North Vietnamese.
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- McCain has been in Congress and thus in the public eye
since 1983. The only scandal with which he is associated is that he was
one of "the Keating five," one of five senators associated through
campaign contributions with S&L owner and real estate investor Charles
Keating and alleged interveners in his behalf. Keating was entraped by
prosecutors, but was later exonerated by a federal judge.
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- Adolf Hitler never had the support of a majority of the
German electorate. In the November 1932 election, he received 33.1 percent
of the vote. His peak was March 6, 1933, with 43.9 percent following the
Reichstag fire a few days before on February 27, blamed on the communists.
Hitler's minority support in a democracy did not prevent him from becoming
dictator of Germany.
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- Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
during President Reagan's first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall
Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including the
William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International Studies,
Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover Institution,
Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by French President
Francois Mitterrand. He can be reached at:
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- PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
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