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The time has come to say it out loud. Most of my academic colleagues say it privately, but hedge in their classes. Many of my old buddies at Time and
Newsweek, where I was an editor for a decade, agree, but tell me they can never say so in print. All my friends fear that if they spell it out the FBI
will arrest them in the middle of the night and they will become "disappeared" like hundreds of innocent Moslems who are not even charged with a
crime. They know that Attorney General Ashcroft is itching to use the proposed Patriots Act II, which will certainly become law after US forces
suffer casualties in Iraq, to deport native-born critics of the Administration to Antarctica or bury them in solitary confinement in the Arizona
desert, as that law permits. But it is now time to say and act upon the fact that the United States, as a state, is Fascist.
We all know, and the media certainly can list the proofs, that those in power in Washington, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, and
his deputy Wolfowitz, among others, plotted the current anti-Iraq policy years ago. In 1992 they actually wrote it up in a letter to Bush I. Even Ted
Koppel read parts of that 96-page letter on Nightline the other day, proving that Bush IIs War has nothing to do with 9/11 or al Qaeda or terrorism.
In fact, President Reagan removed Iraq from the list of states sponsoring terror back in l982.
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