by John-Paul Leonard
Imperceptibly but surely, after a two-year siege, the impregnable fortress of Neocondom -- er, make that Neoconland -- crumbled into dust. The enemy are now within the gates. With the knives of his captors pressed to his back, Bad King George obligingly makes grinning gestures to the public.
Left-liberal fantasy? Daydream of the Democrats? Or new nightmare?
It's real all right -- the seismic shift at the top of the political power pyramid in the United States is the biggest uncovered story of 2008. Nor did the new pharaohs in the palace attack out of the expected left quarter. Quite to the contrary -- the new junta will be even more reactionary. It's as if a commando operation had been set in motion by the ultimate powers-that-be, to recoup the heights from their bungling tenants before these arrant fools let them fall to the rebellious peasants. No doubt that's exactly what was in mind. The selection before the election…
And no one is talking about it. The neocons can't bear the insult. The new masters want to work behind the scenes and let you continue to blame Bush-Cheney -- to help elect their candidate, among other things. And the media are gagged by the owners. So here is a brief timeline of the decline and fall.
The first neocon soldier of note to tumble from the ramparts was Larry Franklin, convicted in January 2006 of passing information on US Iran policy to AIPAC -- not a crime but a duty in Neocon World. In March 2006, the encirclement continued as Congress commissioned the Baker-Hamilton Iraq Study Group (ISG).
The next big casualty was Donald Rumsfeld, who resigned the day after the November 2006 elections. The neo-cons couldn't hold their majority in Congress even with the help of the Republican campaign- finance, mass-media propaganda and vote-fraud machines, and were now due to be strung out to dry by the top power brokers. Several generals called for Rummy's resignation, evidence of a base of opposition within the armed forces against the neocon madmen.
Rumsfeld's replacement was Robert Gates, CIA director under Bush 41, member of the ISG, and founder of Al-Qaeda under the Carter-Brzezinski regime -- the man who brought in CIA asset Osama bin Laden to recruit the mujahedin as cannon fodder in the Afghan war, which Brzezinski had instigated as a trap for the Soviets. (Zbig recently wrote of Gates in TIME magazine, "He became my special assistant when I was in charge of the NSC under President Jimmy Carter. He was the first person I would see every morning and usually the last one in the evening." [1])
In Dec. 2006 the Iraq Study Group (ISG) released its report. It was an admission of failure of the militarist neocon policies in the Middle East, and the dire state of the war efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq. It called for a phased withdrawal -- but preceded by a troop surge! It had no deadline for an exit, other than staying the course until Iraqi oil falls into US-American hands -- a guarantee the war would outlast the Bush regime. The report pointedly called for a diplomatic approach to Syria and Iran. Oil, and not the enemies of Israel, was strategic.
The ISG worked under the aegis of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an initiative of the Jimmy Carter administration. Carter's book, Palestine: Peace or Apartheid was released three weeks before the report. Both became bestsellers. Carter's book rejects the Israeli-centric world view of the neocons, points out Israeli violations, and calls for a return to the 1967 borders. A tiny, troublesome, illegally expansionist Israel cannot be the tail that wags the US-imperial dog.
So -- the neocons have done their service. With chutzpah they parlayed the 9/11 false flag atrocity into a spurious pretext to occupy the oil fields. Exit stage left and thank you, we'll take it from here…
And enter the dragon, Zbigniew Brzezinski. On Feb. 1, 2007, the Carter National Security Advisor, Trilateral Commission Founder, took the extraordinary step of warning Congress against a false-flag op by the Bush cabal to provoke a war with Iran:
"The war in Iraq is a historic, strategic, and moral calamity…. the final destination on this downhill track is likely to be a head-on conflict with Iran and with much of the world of Islam at large. A plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran involves Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks; followed by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure; then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on Iran; culminating in a "defensive" U.S. military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan."
This highly unusual reference to false flag operations -- any government's most secret tool -- must be based on specific intelligence about neocon plans. Perhaps it was also a way of blackmailing the neocons with a veiled threat to blow open the 9/11 false flag op? Brzezinski had emphasized the quotes around "defensive," and the reporters were all over the outrageous insinuation. Certainly, the author of The Grand Chessboard was saying "Check" loud and clear to neocon plans to attack Iran. As if the ISG report were not enough, and it was not, he warned again of the consequences of failure to pursue diplomacy.
All during their period of decline, the neocons attempted to reflate their fortunes with various comic-opera false-flag eventlets, such as the liquid explosive hoax hatched to keep neocon Tony Blair in office, but that only keeps babies crying for their bottles on transcontinental flights. The public is presumed to be too illiterate to know the difference between a lavatory and a laboratory. None of these absurd actions, like the Six from Ft. Dix or the Haitian Nation patsies, ever rose beyond the ridiculous, scared anyone, or exhibited a fraction of one percent of the firepower of the false flag of all time, 9/11. It serves to ask if the neocons really called the shots on 9/11? Parts of the modus operandi on that day were near carbon copies of the Operation Northwoods scheme hatched by Lyman Lemnitzer and nixed by JFK in 1962, the last non-puppet president. 9/11 was a historic strategic act of a permanent, unelected body, and could only have been OK'd at a level higher than the President, or any resident team of puppets we ever get a chance to vote for.[2]
In March, 2007 Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff "Scooter" Libby was sentenced to prison, for his part in outing CIA agent Valerie Plame, an act of retaliation by Cheney against her husband for revealing the lies about uranium yellow-cake used to get the US into Iraq.
2007 was the year of the US Eastern European Missile Defense provocation aimed at Russia. Under the laughably disingenuous guise of a defense against the non-existent Iranian missile threat to the South, NATO is putting missile silos in Poland and radar stations in the Czech Republic, under the paws of the Russian bear. At the June G-8 meeting, when spoilsport Putin suggested a more logical location such as Azerbaijan, the idea was met with yawns. During this transitional period there was an attempt to conflate the "war on Terror" and "war on Russia" campaigns by pretending that Russia was the sponsor of Islamic terrorism -- a meme of MI6 pawn Litvinenko before he was sacrificed, in a signature piece of British psywar ops.
In July 2007, a very big fish and neocon VIP, the Anglophile newspaper magnate Lord Conrad Black, was sentenced in federal court in Chicago to 78 months in prison for fraud. He began serving his term in March 2008. Black was the main financial supporter of the American Enterprise Institute, the flagship neocon think tank.
At the end of August, 2007, with Bush beating the drums for war on Iran, a highly unusual thing occurred: a "rogue B-52" laden with six nuclear missiles flew from Minot, ND to Barksdale AFB, the staging ground for bombing runs on the Middle East. Due to the risk of mishaps, it has been against USAF policy for bombers to transport nuclear weapons, since 1968. And one of the six warheads was apparently not recovered. Loose cannon Dick Cheney has been suspected of planning to use this warhead for a false flag attack on a US target, to be followed by a nuclear retaliation timed to accompany Israel's air strikes on Syria on Sept. 6th -- as in Brzezinski's scenario.
However, opposition within the armed forces grounded the rogue bomber in Barksdale. As the issue ascended the chain of command over the next few days, by Sept. 5th it became clear that the neocons did not have the ear of the ultimate powers behind the Anglo-American empire. To make the point crystal clear, on Sept. 14th the Air Force took its own highly unusual step: a stand-down of all flights in order to review nuclear weapons handling and security issues.[3] Cheney's failed exploit was arguably the high mark of the confederacy for the neocon madmen.
In December 2007 the 17 agencies of the US intelligence community produced their National Intelligence Estimate, concluding that Iran has no nuclear weapons program -- flying directly in the face of Bush- Cheney-neocon-Israeli hysteria. According to the NIE, Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, had not restarted it, and would not be able to produce a weapon before 2015. It found no grounds to assume Iran even wanted one. In 2002, the Bush war party had used an NIE to justify their aggression on Iraq. That NIE came under withering criticism from the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2004.
The first journalist to register the power shift from the neocons to the Brzezinski Trilaterals was Webster Griffin Tarpley. He was alerted by his sources to the fact that Brzezinski was chief foreign policy advisor for Barack Obama. During the early January Democratic primaries he relates how he saw the mainstream media stacking the deck against Hillary Clinton and giving Barack Obama a free pass.[4]
The conclusion was not far: Zbig's faction was now in control. The thesis gives a fresh and startlingly clear view of current developments. By February 2008 Tarpley compiled a list of seven recent incidents that fit the new paradigm, which he put out in an article entitled "Brzezinski Seizing Control Over US Policy in Slow-Motion Creeping Coup:" [5]
- Kosovo independence -- climax of the IMF-NATO Thirty Years War on Serbia, Russia's Balkan ally. The central target of Brzezinski's policies is always Russia. - Mob provocation against US Embassy in the Serbian capital, classic Brzezinski counter-gang tactic. - "Star Wars" shoot-down of a satellite over the Pacific, a provocative warning to Russia and China. - Zbig travels to Damascus to get Syria to close Russian naval bases. - Bush sent to Africa on a flanking mission to deprive China of oil sources. Zbig's current machinations center on the improbable gambit of denying resources and allies to China, in order to force her to attack Russia to meet her needs! - Air and ground attacks on Pakistan, a Chinese ally. - Overthrow of Italy's Romani Prodi, the most Russia-friendly leader in Europe. - Scandals unleashed against McCain; they are the only way Zbig's puppet Obama has ever won office
In the first week of June 2008 the new masters flex their muscles. Clinton, the more popular Democratic candidate, is forced to bow out in favor of the Obama puppet. The day of reckoning arrives for the B52 rogues. Zbigman Robert Gates at the DOD orders the purge of neocon traitors in the Air Force. It's carried out by an old hawk and Trilateral hack, Nixon Secretary of Defense and Carter Energy Secretary James Rodney Schlesinger.
The Trilaterals are going over the heads of the POTUS and VP to run the government through the Top Cop -- the Committee of Principals (COP) of the NSC. Robert Gates, Condi Rice, Treasury Sec'y Paulson and Admiral Mullen are they key members. In late June Condi pushed through a deal with North Korea, the Neoconland North Pole of Evil Axis. The US backed down over nuclear fuel and the dead bodies of neocons Cheney and Richard Perle. The payoff: the Trilaterals plan to win over North Korea as an eventual ally against China or Russia. Really. Isn't it kind of scary when you realize this boundless stupidity is the best product of the top strategic geniuses?
In June the Supreme Court also restored the right of habeas corpus to Guantánamo detainees, and gutted the Military Commissions act, by 5-4 votes -- to the fury of neocons at large, as well as the neocon "RATS" minority on the SCOTUS -- Roberts, Alito, Thomas and Scalia.
While we welcome any restorations to our tattered Constitution, a big caveat is in order. The new overlords want to eliminate some of the more flagrant, wasteful and self-destructive excesses of the neocon imperial experiment only to rev up the machinery to even more devastating deeds. Four years down the road we may be wishing, "if only Bush-Cheney had carried on and bankrupted militarism for good." At least the non sequitur of "War on Terror" had a saving grace of unreality to it. The Russian and Chinese superpowers are hard reality, the hardest targets on the planet.
On July 17th, the Guardian reported the Bush regime would renew diplomatic relations with Iran, suspended since the October Surprise of 1979. What's in the mouth of this gift horse? For months, Tarpley has been telling anyone who would listen: Iran is to be turned to use as a pawn of the new anti- Russia coalition.
What then are the prospects for a Trilateral regime under éminence grise Brzezinski and POTUS puppet Obama? Zbig will employ divide and conquer tactics worldwide to achieve his aim of war against Russia through OPM -- other people's men and money. The US will stay in Iraq to suck up the oil, with a fresh crew of profiteers. Zbig and Co. will squeeze the American people like lemons, like Hitler squeezed Germany and its neighbors, to finance his anti-Russian global war showdown.
These were still the good old days.
Time allowing, more details in a next installment:
What Obama promises, and why the Democrats need to nominate the people's candidate Hillary Clinton,
not the Brzezinski-Trilateral puppet Obama, for the good of the country, and of their party.
[1] http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/article/0,28804,1733748_1733757_1735600,00.html
[2] See Webster G. Tarpley, 9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made in USA, 4th ed., 2007
[3] http://www.rense.com/general78/kene.htm Tarpley, "The Kennebunkport Warning and the Rogue B-52
- Confirmation with a Vengeance," 10/08/2007
[4] In Tarpley, Obama -- The Postmodern Coup: Making of a Manchurian Candidate, 1st ed., p. 12.
[5] Ibid, p. 155.
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