Reply #28: Good questions! [View All]

[LunaC]

1) Saddam had been under sanction and closely watched for ten years. Placing the blame on him would have been difficult considering the international scrutiny he had received. You must consider that the 911 event was primarily designed to be total, mind-bending propaganda to reshape the public's perceptions so they could be easily led anywhere the Bush* Admin wanted to take them. The timeline above is just an excerpt from a longer piece that offers more context for the sequence of events above but here's another quick excerpt to offer more depth to the point I'm trying to make here:

While the nation was stripped to the emotional bone and painfully vulnerable, the White House capitalized on the opportunity to reshape public perceptions and responses to conform with the PNAC's new American agenda. Rather than buoy the "can do" American spirit with optimism and hope for the future as Presidents before him had done in times of crisis, Bush spoke with an alarmist and pessimistic tone that served to perpetuate the high anxiety, excitability and fear in the populace.

To hear him speak, the world was a dark, evil and dangerous place....terrorism was here to stay....it would be a long struggle....America was helpless without the military might of the Government to keep the nation safe. The intent was to create a psychologically broken, weary and docile populace that would be easier to lead into war.

Fear became the Administration's strategic tactic for reprogramming the public into accepting the PNAC's militaristic designs. Still shell-shocked and exhausted from the enormity of the WTC and Pentagon tragedies, the public's panic shifted into frenzied over-drive when anthrax-laced envelopes arrived in government and media offices, killing five people. A perpetrator was never identified but the investigation eventually centered around the Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick, one of the nation's main anthrax research centers.

Using classic "operant learning" techniques from the realm of consumer psychology, the public was purposely kept on High Alert and continually "shaped" with ominous sound bites on the nightly news and "Level Orange Terror Alerts" at regularly scheduled but discrete intervals.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/130534_focusecond13.html
http://www.consumerpsychologist.com/#Perception

2) The G8 is a meeting of the world's largest industrialized democracies who meet annually to discuss major economic and political issues. The countries involved in the 911 plot wanted a share in Afghanistan's bounty.

Afghanistan was strategically located between the Mideast, Central and South Asia as well as Turkmenistan, China and Japan. Turkmenistan was a natural gas bonanza but the only export route to exploit this valuable natural resource was through Russia. The road to riches needed alternative pipeline routes but the incessant civil wars in Afghanistan made construction impossible. And so it was decided that the ruling Taliban would be toppled and a "broad-based government" would control the country so the golden pipeline could one day emerge through the rubble.

http://www.gasandoil.com/goc/features/fex20867.htm

Afghanistan was also strategically important to the U.S. for another reason - it was the world's foremost opium and heroin supplier. U.S. control over this veritable gold mine could help finance their special military operations without accountability to the prying eyes of the public, reminiscent of the Iran-Contra Affair.

http://www.deepblacklies.co.uk/deep_black_1_2.htm
http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/total_coverage/coke.html

And, of course, it's close proximity to Iraq - the PNAC's Crown Jewel - made it all the more sweet. By blaming 911 on Bin Laden, the Afghanistan connection and link to "terrorism" could be made and they were off and running with their Grand Plan. Soon afterward the "war on terror" was morphed into the "axis of evil" when Bush addressed the nation in his State of the Union speech and publically identified Iraq, Iran and North Korea as the mortal enemies that threatened the peace of the world. Saddam's fate was sealed whether the public knew it or not.