Rumsfeld On Tape: Terror Attack Could Restore Neo-Con Agenda
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Shocking excerpts of confidential recordings recently released under the Freedom of Information Act feature former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talking with top military analysts about how a flagging Neo-Con political agenda could be successfully restored with the aid of another terrorist attack on America. The tape also includes a conversation where Rumsfeld and the military analysts agree on the possible necessity of installing a brutal dictator in Iraq to oversee U.S. interests. The tapes were released as part of the investigation into the Pentagon's "message force multipliers" program in which top military analysts were hired to propagandize for the Iraq war in the corporate media. In attendance at the valedictory luncheon Rumsfeld hosted on December 12, 2006 were David L. Grange, Donald W. Sheppard, James Marks, Rick Francona, Wayne Downing, and Robert H. Scales, Jr. among others. The most extraordinary exchange takes place when Lt. Gen. Michael DeLong bemoans shrinking political support for Neo-Con war plans on Capitol Hill and suggests that sympathy for the Bush administration's agenda will only be achieved after a new terror attack. Rumsfeld agrees that the psychological impact of 9/11 is wearing off and the "behavior pattern" of citizens in both the U.S. and Europe suggests that they are unconcerned about the threat of terror. DELONG: Politically, what are the challenges because you're not going to have a lot of sympathetic ears up there until it [a terror attack] happens. RUMSFELD: That's what I was just going to say. This President's pretty much a victim of success. We haven't had an attack in five years. The perception of the threat is so low in this society that it's not surprising that the behavior pattern reflects a low threat assessment. The same thing's in Europe, there's a low threat perception. The correction for that, I suppose, is an attack. And when that happens, then everyone gets energized for another [inaudible] and it's a shame we don't have the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats...the lethality, the carnage, that can be imposed on our society is so real and so present and so serious that you'd think we'd be able to understand it, but as a society, the longer you get away from 9/11, the less...the less... Click here for the audio clip. In another exchange, after assuring that comments are "off the record," Rumsfeld and one of the military analysts agree that Iraq could use a "Syngman Rhee" to take control of Iraq. Syngman Rhee was the ruthless authoritarian dictator of South Korea from after World War II through the Korean War to 1960. If the invasion of Iraq was about liberating the Iraqis from a tyrant in the form of Saddam Hussein why is Rumsfeld talking about installing an even more brutal dictator? Click here for the audio clip. Newsvine has the recording in full. Rumsfeld's admission that the correction for dwindling support of the Neo-Con imperial crusade is another terror attack is perhaps the most startling and blatant indication that 9/11 was an inside job.
How much more evidence do we need to confirm that the Neo-Con hierarchy in control of the U.S. government are instigating and exploiting terror in the pursuit of their own domestic and geopolitical agenda? As Jerry Mazza writes today, "In the seven years since the day, exhaustive and still growing evidence proves beyond any reasonable doubt that the US government, spearheaded by the Bush administration, planned, orchestrated and executed the 9/11 false flag operation. As openly advocated by wide swaths of elites, from the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), of which Rumsfeld has been a member, to the likes of Zbigniew Brzezinski (in his The Grand Chessboard), only an attack “on the order of Pearl Harbor” would, in Brzezinski’s words, cause the American people to support an “imperial mobilization,” and a world war." Placing the new evidence against previously revealed 9/11-related acts on the part of Rumsfeld, his guilt is overt and obvious. Recall that it was Rumsfeld who enthusiastically penned the "Go Massive" memo, gleefully declaring the Bush administration finally had the green light to kill: “Not only UBL (Usama bin Laden). Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not.” The longing for a new terror attack to corral the masses back behind the Neo-Con agenda is a shared fetish amongst Neo-Cons, policy wonks and academics alike. In August last year Philadelphia Daily News columnist Stu Bykofsky openly called for "another 9/11" that "would help America" restore a "community of outrage and national resolve". Lt.-Col. Doug Delaney, chair of the war studies program at the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario, told the Toronto Star last July that "The key to bolstering Western resolve is another terrorist attack like 9/11 or the London transit bombings of two years ago." The same sentiment was also explicitly expressed in a 2005 GOP memo, which yearned for new attacks that would "validate" the President's war on terror and "restore his image as a leader of the American people." Also in July 2007, former Republican Senator Rick Santorum suggested that a series of "unfortunate events," namely terrorist attacks, will occur within the next year and change American citizen's perception of the war. And the month before that, the new chairman of the Arkansas Republican Party Dennis Milligan said that there needed to be more attacks on American soil for President Bush to regain popular approval. Comments posted on the left-wing Huffington Post website in response to the Rumsfeld tape indicate that even some of the most hardcore conspiracy debunkers have had their beliefs shaken to the core by the former Defense Secretary's admission. "I have been a very staunch opponent of conspiracy theories," writes one, "but to hear the man most responsible for stopping foreign threats to American lives musing that a successful attack on the USA is somehow a "cure" for us... it almost makes me want to make a tinfoil hat with the nuts I made fun of." http://www.infowars.com http://www.prisonplanet.tv Read »
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"it's a shame we don't have the maturity to recognize the seriousness of the threats...the lethality, the carnage, that can be imposed on our society is so real and so present and so serious that you'd think we'd be able to understand it, but as a society, the longer you get away from 9/11, the less...the less..."
I have no idea why he used rhetoric like "the correction for (the low threat perception) is an attack," but what I quoted above contradicts that it means 9/11 was inside job.
Great recording though, so I'm bumping this still.
Doesn't it seem a bit odd, though, that to Rumsfeld, "the correction for the low threat perception is an attack?" Why not a correction with say, intelligence or facts? Demonstrate to We, the People why we should be concerned. Oh ya, they had the color coded terror threat level joke circus. There is a low threat perception because the chances of an attack is actually stastically quite low. In other words, the low threat perception is based on actual reality. In order to change that reality and get people scared again, a new attack would be needed. This whole thinking has almost a nostalgia for the chaos of 9/11 since they could do so much unopposed and without restraint or with the active blessing of others to "make us safer."
Otherwise, with no attack, the people with there low threat level thinking would not go for fascist legislation that strips liberty at every turn and sacrifices all our freedoms on the alter of safety. We were forewarned of this obsession with safety. The Rumsfields of the word exploit the masses with fear and a false sense of security - as Dr Paul has consistently demonstrated, the policies the Rumsfelds employ actually increase the chance of triggering another attack. The freedoms we give in exchange for safety do not result in anyone actually being safer, but the liberties once lost are usually lost permanently.
The fact that this type of thinking is accepted as fact (that terrorist attacks help the administration get what they want) combined with the pre-9/11 PNAC "pearl harbor like event" and the loose but documented connection between PNAC'ers and the administration Rumsfeld served in - well, its more than mere coincidence. Its not smoking gun proof, but its consistent in that it is assumed that a terrorist attack would allow the people in power operate easier and with less restraint. That in and of itself is scary. It seems that he would be happy if there was another terrorist attack because it would make his demands easier to get.
Plus, dont forget the context. This was said during a propaganda briefing session. Seriously, I wouldn't put anything past these psychos. But no, its not proof regarding 9/11.
"The truth is treason in the empire of lies." Dr. Ron Paul, Preface, The Revolution: A Manifesto, p. x
I'm sure this will be swept under the rug just like every other peice of evidence that has been buried by 9/11 independent investigations. I guess, if there is another attack on the US, I will have my eyes wide open this time. You can fool me once but it won't happen again. LMW