"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Nearly thirty years ago, the Church Committee opened America's eyes to some of our government's smarmier activities. There were CIA ties to the
Mafia and alliances with Nazis and the messy matter of kidnapping the less fortunate and feeding them LSD . Assorted coups and assassinations were
also unearthed -- as was the "other" September 11, in 1973, when a U.S.-led coup toppled Chile's democratically-elected Salvador Allende. "Like
Caesar peering into the colonies from distant Rome, Nixon said the choice of government by the Chileans was unacceptable to the president of the
United States," Sen. Frank Church remarked. "The attitude in the White House seemed to be, "If in the wake of Vietnam I can no longer send in the
Marines, then I will send in the CIA."
George W. Bush didn't need to send in the CIA. He openly declared war and bullied others into following, while distorting intelligence to do so.
"Fu*k Saddam, we're taking him out," he said in March, 2002. "I made up my mind, that Saddam needs to go," he said, one month later. This was
well before Congress bought the administration's yellow-caked, aluminum-tubed, "Saddam-hearts-Osama" bill of goods, mind you, and gave George Bush
permission to waste thousands of lives and a billion dollars a week. "Never before in my 40 years of experience in this town has intelligence been
used in so cynical and so orchestrated a way," former CIA analyst and supervisor Raymond McGovern told CBS News , vindicating those who tried to warn
us early on.
"The President of the United States will lie to the American people in order to get us into this war," Congressman Jim McDermott said, in the fall
of 2002, drawing swift response from the Republican National Committee and dittoheads nationwide. But even as propagandists recite "16 words" like
dutiful zombies , now that the enriched uranium tip of Bush's dissembling is making headlines, accusing "Baghdad Jim" and other whistleblowers of
being "anti-American" and "un-patriotic" no longer flies.
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