Praying for Pearl Harbor III

“Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.

"Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of "executive orders" that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might expect a series of staged, or false flag, "terrorist" events in the near future.”

—Paul Craig Roberts
Counterpunch, 7-16-2007

These refreshingly blunt words come from a former Asst. Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan, former Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal, and—former Republican. Roberts has been speaking and writing passionately about the Neocon criminals and imbeciles who’ve hijacked his party. He is joined by Bruce Fein, Pat Buchanan, William Normann Grigg and many other paleo-conservatives and former high-ranking government officials who are convinced that 9-11 was orchestrated or allowed to happen, answering the prayers of the Neocons for “a new Pearl Harbor” to ignite their imperial war. (see their testimony here: Patriots Question 9-11

And, Roberts argues, given that their train has nearly derailed, the Neocons desperately need a booster shot of terrorism:

"If the Bush administration wants to continue its wars in the Middle East and to entrench the "unitary executive" at home, it will have to conduct some false flag operations that will both frighten and anger the American people and make them accept Bush's declaration of "national emergency" and the return of the draft. Alternatively, the administration could simply allow any real terrorist plot to proceed without hindrance.

"A series of staged or permitted attacks would be spun by the captive media as a vindication of the neoconsevatives' Islamophobic policy, the intention of which is to destroy all Middle Eastern governments that are not American puppet states. Success would give the US control over oil, but the main purpose is to eliminate any resistance to Israel's complete absorption of Palestine into Greater Israel."

Indeed, the Republicans are virtually Praying for a Terrorist Strike, as conservative commentator William Norman Grigg writes, quoting Rick Santorum:

"Between 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, and it will be 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."

And Arkansas Republican Party chairman Rick 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 dark horse Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul recently opined:

"A contrived Gulf of Tonkin- type incident may occur to gain popular support for an attack on Iran.”

But the leading indicator is Homeland Security Fuehrer Michael Chertoff’s gut, rumbling with intimations of a terrorist strike, based on… nothing specific he can cite.* Chertoff should undergo a colonoscopy to give us a better picture of this nebulous threat. Or maybe he should heroically fall on his sword, enabling a soothsayer to read his entrails for greater detail.

But that would be dangerous, not only to Mr. Chertoff, but to his sponsors and confederates—his bloody bowels might foretell this about the imminent strike: “Made in U.S.A.” Or “Made in Israel.”

* In a recent speech at the USC, Chertoff’s gut belched forth a speculation about a simultaneous L.A./San Francisco dirty bomb attack “that our enemy is surely planning.”

PS: Oregon representative Peter DeFrazio, a member of the House Homeland Security Committee, recently attempted (as he is authorized to do) to review secret White House plans for operating the government after another terrorist attack. The answer, no doubt from Dick Cheney, who already may be hunkered in his bunker, was ACCESS DENIED.