June 19, 2004

To President George W. Bush

I didn=t know they came as evil and greedy as you

I have no words to describe your glacial depravity

Immorality, narrowness of vision, ruthlessness

Hitler, in all his brutality, could only destroy empires

You are about to destroy the whole human species

The events of 9/11 were so sudden and horrendous

That first, we mourned our victims, fellow Americans

But in time, slowly rising above your lies and secrecy

The overall pattern of your crimes became manifest

9/11 was a daring guise to enlist us in your grab for oil

It seems obvious now, your rejection of the ABM treaty

Your walk-out of the Durban anti-racism conference

Your withdrawal from the Kyoto climate protocol

Your snub of the International Criminal Court

Your repudiation of biological weapons verification

Your pre-9/11 plan for the massacre in Afghanistan

(For this was not a war B a war is defined as a battle

Between contestants of approximately equal strength)

Yes, your high altitude, Asmart bomb@ massacre

Of those who but 12 years prior were Afreedom fighters@

Your Ashock and awe@ campaign to Aend@ Iraq

As a sovereign state, a process begun by your father

Who also bequeathed you the torture of the country

By means of sanctions which were killing millions

AWorth the price@ (for us), said Secretary Albright

Then, the Aregime change@ in democratic Haiti

Necessary since all countries dotting the ocean

Between us and our Venezuelan oil source

Must be fully subjugated. As Dick Cheney said

AThe American way of life is not negotiable@

Cuba, also a bothersome dot on our ocean path

Is now in serious danger, as are Venezuela

Morocco, Nigeria, Southeast Asia, the Caspian Sea

Wherever oil resides, terrorism miraculously arises

Forcing us to intervene for the sake of democracy

Your goal is clear, your next move more predictable

The United States had its peak oil production in 1970

Oil production world-wide is due to peak in 2007

China and India are our main, most thirsty competitors

We have started a scramble to death for the last drop

But how to mobilize the placid American public

Into paying over half of their tax dollars for war

Into sacrificing their sons and daughters

For the profit of your corporate handlers

Into working harder so the rich can get richer?

It had been done before, by Democrats and Republicans

Franklin D. Roosevelt squeezed Japan mercilessly For a year until the harassed country saw no option

But to fall into our trap, attacking us at Pearl Harbor

And handing Roosevelt his excuse for a Adefensive war@

Or perhaps your example was Operation Northwoods

The CIA=s response to Dwight Eisenhower=s request

In 1962, to develop a list of pretexts to invade Cuba B

A list which came to include shooting down an aircraft

Flying Aa group of college students off on a holiday@

Or was your model Lyndon Johnson=s deliberate plan

In 1964, to victimize our troops in the Gulf of Tonkin

In order to justify the extension of the Vietnam War

To North Vietnam B the war then being made to last

Another 8 years, killing a total of 50,000 Americans?

Or perhaps was it William McKinley=s arrangement

In 1898, to have the USS Maine in Havana harbor explode

To justify a Adefensive@ war against Imperial Spain B

A move which gave us our own first off-shore colonies

Cuba, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines?

So you arranged B or more modernly B outsourced

The crimes of 9/11, the wholesale murder of your own

AEven your own citizens@ (shades of Saddam Hussein)

Instantaneously slaughtering almost 3,000 of them

Trumping by a few hundreds, FDR=s 2,330

But why focus on you only, a simple marionette

Who has sold his soul to the highest bidder

You are but the last in a long line of power fiends

From whom all empathy has been siphoned off

For whom others are but mere exploitable objects

For brevity=s sake, we might trace your heritage

Back to Harry Truman, who in full knowledge

That Japan wanted to surrender, dropped the bombs

To Agive a message@ to our ally, the Soviet Union

Thereby initiating 40 years of nuclear blandishment

The line connects to State Department staff planner

George Kennan, who, soon after World War II

Recognized that to maintain the wealth disparity

Between us and others, we would have to deal

In Astraight power concepts... devoid of altruism@

It winds through Secretary of State Henry Kissinger

Who proved, in the 1970's, that laws are like dragnets

With holes large enough to let through the powerful

But small enough to catch the weak and powerless B

Like our 2 million citizens now languishing in prison

It passes through Zbigniew Brzezinsky, whose 1997 book

The Grand Chessboard declared, needed: AA shock

Such as the one produced by the attack on Pearl Harbor...

A massive, widely perceived direct external threat

Which will force the needed consensus in foreign policy@

Then it settles cosily in Donald Rumsfeld, who, in 2000

Writing, ARebuilding America=s Defenses,@ was alarmed

At how long the needed ascendency of the military

Would take, absent a Awave of national indignation@

AA catastrophic and catalyzing event, a new Pearl Harbor@

If you did not read Rumsfeld then, perhaps you listened

In 2001, when he asked rhetorically, AWhether, as in the past

Only a disabling attack on the country and its people

>A Space Pearl Harbor= would be able to galvanize

The nation and cause the U.S. government to act@

Within eight months, you had your Aimprobable event@

Executed by your erstwhile friends in al-Qaeda

With the complicity of the Saudi royal family

The cooperation of the Pakistani secret service

And the covert, overall acquiescence of the CIA

You moved on your agenda sure and fast-footed

Soon the event Aopened vast, new opportunities@

Work on the Central Asia Gas Pipeline had begun

Iraqi oil wells were guarded by American soldiers

The control of space had received a massive boost

There is at issue your insult to our intelligence

In your assumption you can fool us Aall of the time@

We may not have been pressed into Skull and Bones

Suckled diabolical destructiveness in our mother=s milk

Or had our oil businesses rescued by wealthy Saudis

But we know that a homing signal was in Building 7

That the Twin Towers collapsed in a free fall

That a ground-to-air missile, not a plane, hit the Pentagon

And that fighter jets followed standing-down orders

Until one was sent to Ahole@ Flight-93, without warning

Perhaps the hardest for my frame to encompass

Is the amount of planning, organization and skills

It took you to mount this intentional mass murder

A shudder-producing echo of the Nazi competence

In orchestrating their systematic genocide of Jews

The FBI had to stymie investigation of al-Qaeda

The NSA delay translating terrorists= conversations

The Security Council be caught naively unaware

The SEC lend a blind eye to pre-9/11 insider trading

The CIA be incapable of capturing a man on dialysis

Airlines had to not ground planes, despite dire warnings

Telephone companies not release conversation transcripts

The police erase all evidence from all four crime scenes

Congress bow to a 28-page deletion from its 2003 report

The National Commission accept unsworn testimony

With power come the mandarins that surround it

And there are many, spread around the globe like flies

Betraying others for a taste of honey in their own mouth

They also bear responsibility for our Aunending war@

For without them, you would be held in prison for life

World War I 10 million dead

World War II 50 million dead

The Cold War The permanent threat of nuclear annihilation

The War on Terrorism The disappearance of Homo Asapiens.@

References

Your rejection of the ABM treaty:

Boyle, Francis

The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence B Could the U.S. War on Terrorism go Nuclear? (Clarity, Atlanta, GA), 2002, p. 48.

Destroying World Order B U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East before and after September 11 (Clarity, Atlanta, GA), 2004, pp. 138-139.

Throughout the 1990's, Republicans in Congress pushed for the development of high-tech anti-ballistic missile systems, in violation of the 1972 U.S.-USSR Anti-ballistic Missile Systems (ABM) Treaty. Under the guise of developing a network of ATheater Wide@ interceptors, the U.S., in fact, was already violating the Treaty=s prohibition of a nation-wide system.

In January 1999, President Clinton publicly importuned Russia to amend the Treaty out of significant existence, upon pain of its outright abrogation by the U.S.

On December 13, 2001, President W. Bush announced the U.S.=s withdrawal from the Treaty B effective in six months, as required B in order to pursue a National Missile Defense (NMD) Program B successor to the Reagan/Bush AStar Wars.@

On January 25, 2002, the Pentagon conducted a sea-based NMD test in gross violation of the Treaty, thus killing it even before its legal death.

Your walk-out of the Durban anti-racism conference:

Destroying World Order B U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East before and after September 11 (Clarity, Atlanta, GA), 2004, p. 119.

In 2001, the U.S. walked out of the World Conference against Racism.

Your withdrawal from the Kyoto climate protocol:

Gelbspan, Ross, The Heat is On B The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription (Perseus), 1998, p. 102.

Destroying World Order B U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East before and after September 11 (Clarity, Atlanta, GA), 2004, pp. 119 and 188.

The U.S. has repudiated the 1997 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

Your snub of the International Criminal Court:

Destroying World Order B U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East before and after September 11 (Clarity, Atlanta, GA), 2004, p. 119.

President George W. Bush has vigorously opposed the establishment of an International Criminal Court.

Your repudiation of biological weapons verification:

Destroying World Order B U.S. Imperialism in the Middle East before and after September 11 (Clarity, Atlanta, GA), 2004, p. 119.

The Biological Weapons Convention, signed in 1972, has no verification provision. The U.S. has refused to negotiate a verification schedule.

Your pre-9/11 plan for the massacre in Afghanistan:

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, pp. 89-91.

The Taliban was created by the CIA working in conjunction with Pakistan=s Inter-services Intelligence (ISI, the Pakistan Secret Service), and the help of extra financial support from Saudi Arabia.

In 1996, when the Taliban conquered Kabul, UNOCAL, a U.S. oil giant, was hopeful that it would provide enough stability to allow the building and protection of oil pipelines.

In 1998, now dubious about the Taliban=s ability to provide sufficient stability, UNOCAL pulled out of Central Asia Gas Pipeline (CentGas), the consortium of oil companies within which it had been working. From then on, the U.S. grew progressively more hostile toward the Taliban, at the same time exploring other possibilities to secure supremacy in the region.

In July 2001, during a meeting in Berlin, Niaz Naik, the Pakistani representative, reports how two Americans spoke:

AEither the Taliban behave as they ought to... or we will use another option... a military option.@

And:

AEither you accept our offer of a carpet of gold, or we bury you under a carpet of bombs.@

Naik further reports having been told by senior American officials that Amilitary action against Afghanistan would start by the middle of October... before the snows... at the latest.@

The U.S. started bombing Afghanistan on October 7.

Your Ashock and awe@ campaign to Aend@ Iraq:

Boyle, Francis, The Criminality of Nuclear Deterrence B Could the U.S. War on Terrorism go Nuclear? (Clarity, Atlanta, GA), 2002, p. 24.

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz has publicly bragged about Aending states.@ This is a rhetorical escalation from the designation of some states as Afailed@ B that is, having institutional and legal structures which might be disregarded by the United States (illegally).

AWorth the price@ (for us), said Secretary Albright:

Mahajan, Rahul, The New Crusade B America=s War on Terrorism (Monthly Review Press, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 99.

60 Minutes, May 12, 1996:

Leslie Stahl (on U.N. Sanction against Iraq) B We have heard that a half-million children have died. I mean, that=s more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the priced worth it?@

Secretary of State Madeline Albright B AI think this is a very hard choice, but the price B we think the price is worth it.@

AThe American way of life is not negotiable@:

Cheney, Richard, Vice-president of the U.S., quoted in Michael Ruppert, AThe Motives and Means behind 9/11,@ Speech to the International Inquiry into 9/11, San Francisco, March 27, 2004. Broadcast on TUC Radio, Berkeley, CA, 06/18/04.

The United States had its peak oil production in 1970:

Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO), London, England; quoted in Richard Heinberg, AThe Party is Over B War, Oil and the Fate of Society,@ Speech to the International Inquiry into 9/11, San Francisco, March 27, 2004. Broadcast on TUC Radio, Berkeley, CA, 06/11/04.

The data on United States peak oil production refer to the lower 48 states.

Oil production world-wide is due to peak in 2007:

Idem.

And handing Roosevelt his excuse for a Adefensive war@:

Vidal, Gore, Dreaming War B Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (Thunder=s Mouth/Nation Books, New York, N.Y.), 2002, pp. 72 and 74.

Or perhaps your example was Operation Northwoods:

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, pp. 101-103.

Or was your model Lyndon Johnson=s deliberate plan:

Falk, Richard, AForward,@ in David Griffin, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, p. x.

Or perhaps was it William McKinley=s arrangement:

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, p. 103.

Trumping by a few hundreds, FDR=s 2,330:

Gilbert, Martin, The Second World War B A Complete History, Revised Edition (Owl/Henry Holt, New York, N. Y.), 1989, p. 272.

Back to Harry Truman, who in full knowledge:

Vidal, Gore, Dreaming War B Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (Thunder=s Mouth/Nation Books, New York, N.Y.), 2002, p. 75.

George Kennan, who, soon after World War II:

Chomsky, Noam, Turning the Tide B U.S. Intervention in Central America and the Struggle for Peace (South End), 1985, p. 48.

The date of the quote is 1948.

It winds through Secretary of State Henry Kissinger:

Hitchens, Christopher, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (Verso, New York, N.Y.), 2001.

It passes through Zbigniew Brzezinsky, whose 1997 book:

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, pp. 95-96.

Then it settles cosily in Donald Rumsfeld, who, in 2000:

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, pp. xvii, 92-93 and 98-99.

Would take, absent a Awave of national indignation@:

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, p. 103.

The quote is from the CIA=s 1962 Northwoods Operation formulating pretexts to invade Cuba.

Soon the event Aopened vast, new opportunities@:

Bush, W., ANational Security Strategy of the United States of America, September 2002; quoted in Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, p. 130.

Work on the Central Asia Gas Pipeline had begun:

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, p. 92.

We may not have been pressed into Skull and Bones:

Robbins, Alexandra, Secrets of the Tomb B Skull and Bones, the Ivy League, and the Hidden Paths of Power (Back Bay/Little, Brown, New York, N.Y.), 2002, pp. 163 and 192-193.

The 2004 Presidential campaign will be the first such campaign to have two Bonesmen as contestants B incumbent George W. Bush (Skull and Bones, 1968) and Senator John Kerry (Skull and Bones, 1966).

The secret society has always demanded invisibility while simultaneously publicizing its supremacy. The combination of silence and swagger is exemplified by George W. Bush in the brief mention he makes of his connection with Skull and Bones in his autobiography, A Charge to Keep:

AMy senior year, I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret, I can=t say anything more.@

But we know that a homing signal was in Building 7 (and subsequent lines):

Ahmed, Nafeez, Behind the War on Terror (New Society, Gabriola Island, B.C., Canada), 2003.

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004.

The administration insisted on blocking out some 28 pages, reportedly dealing primarily with Saudi Arabia, from the 2003 report of the House and Senate intelligence committees, AThe Joint Inquiry into 9/11" (p. 77).

Hufschmid, Eric, Painful Questions B An Analysis of the September 11^th Attack (Endpoint Software, Goleta, CA), 2002

Meyssan, Thierry

9/11 B The Big Lie (Carnot, London, U.K.), 2002.

Pentagate (Carnot, London, U.K.), 2002.

Vidal, Gore, Dreaming War B Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (Thunder=s Mouth/Nation Books, New York, N.Y.), 2002, pp. 23-56.

The FBI had to stymie investigation of al-Qaeda (and subsequent lines and verse):

Idem.

The Security Council be caught naively unaware:

Griffin, David, The New Pearl Harbor B Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 (Olive Branch, Northampton, MA), 2004, p. 67.

In May 2002, National Security Advisor, Condoleezza Rice, expressed:

AI don=t think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trace Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use... a hijacked airplane as a missile.@

World War I, 10 million dead:

The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6^th Edition (Columbia University/Gale Group, New York., N.Y.), 2000.

World War II, 50 million dead:

Idem.

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