Bush's Reign Of Terror
by Thomas Naylor

Surely they've got to be kidding, if we are supposed to believe that on September 11, 2001, nineteen Muslim fanatics armed only with box cutters pulled off the greatest act of terrorism in history under the command of a charismatic, sinister-looking, wealthy, CIA-trained, Muslim fundamentalist Saudi named Osama bin Laden from his high-tech cave in the rugged mountains of Afghanistan. Without one shred of evidence, the U.S. government claims that these Arab terrorists commandeered four jetliners, brought down the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, severely damaged the Pentagon, and almost succeeded in destroying the White House and the Capitol. And they did all of this because they “hated freedom.”

Anyone questioning the details of this incredible tale is said to be a “conspiracy theorist” and is not be taken seriously.

If 9/11 were the work of Muslim terrorists, how is it possible that over five years later not a single Muslim suicide bomber has managed to surface anywhere in the United States? If “Islamofascism” is the threat we are told it is by the federal government, surely a random suicide bomber would have found his way into the Super Bowl, Madison Square Garden, or Times Square on New Year's Eve and killed a few hundred people. But there has been no such event. Absolutely nothing!

Yet within a matter of days after 9/11, Mr. Bush declared war on “terrorism” (a euphemism for Islam), and called for the invasion of Afghanistan to take out Osama bin Laden and other key operatives of his Al Qaeda network. Then in March 2003, he invaded Iraq, claiming that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and that there was a direct link between Al Qaeda and Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, neither of which happened to be true. We now know that Team Bush had been planning the invasion of Iraq long before 9/11.

If 9/11 were orchestrated by bin Laden, then who provided the intelligence, the logistical support, the organizational skills, and the financial support to achieve this remarkable feat? Who stood to benefit from this act of terror? The Pentagon, the CIA, Israel, the White House, defense contractors, security firms, and multinational oil companies.

Is Osama bin Laden a real person or merely a creation of Bill Clinton and enhanced by George W. Bush? Few Americans had ever heard of him until President Clinton first introduced us to him in the midst of the Monica Lewinsky affair in 1998. Osama took the rap for the bombing of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, thus providing the justification for Clinton's pre-emptive missile strikes against alleged terrorist bases in Afghanistan and a Sudanese chemical plant – all of which deflected public opinion away from Monica. Could it be that Osama is much more useful to Team Bush as an elusive demon rather than as a dead martyr like Saddam Hussein?
Is it possible that the real purpose of 9/11 was to demonize Islam so as to justify transforming the United States into a technofascist state and hegemonizing the supply of oil in the Middle East to keep the U.S. economic engine running?

When Vice President Dick Cheney convened a secret meeting of energy industry executives and government officials in early 2001, it's quite likely that the problem of Peak Oil was at the top of the agenda. To deal with the problem, he apparently only seriously considered one strategy – taking control of the Middle Eastern supply of oil. His challenge lay in finding a politically correct way to present the idea to the American people and our allies. The 9/11 attacks provided the perfect solution. By placing all of the blame for 9/11 on Muslim fanatics and trading heavily on Americans' fear of terrorism, Team Bush paved the way for a global war with Islam – a war against “Islamofascists.” The real target was not Muslims, but rather their oil.
America's foremost technofascist ally, Israel, could hardly contain its enthusiasm for the war on terror. With a little luck, America might take out both of Israel's archenemies, Iraq and Iran. Britain's Tony Blair and Australia's John Howard were quick to join the techno-fascist alliance against terror. More recently Canada's Stephen Harper, Germany's Angela Merkel, and Pope Benedict XVI have signed on as well.

Seen this way, President Bush's so-called “war on terror” is an insidious campaign to create fear and hatred among Americans and Europeans toward Muslims, so as to rationalize an imperial foreign policy of full-spectrum dominance aimed at doing whatever is necessary to control their oil in the Middle East.

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Thomas H. Naylor