“The US Secret Govt Rears Its Ugly Head in the Bush Cabal”
By Jackson Thoreau
If the United States truly practiced the concept of “liberty and justice for all,” retired Navy Lt. Cmdr. Al Martin would be the one with the national radio talk show and prestigeand Ollie North would be having to hide out in a remote siteor better yetin prison.
George W. BushJeb BushGeorge Bush Sr.Richard Armitageand others sure would not be in the positions of power they are. Some people would not be sitting in prisons for what they knew about the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s. Other people would not have died under odd circumstances since thenpossibly because someone was afraid they’d talk too muchor find out too much.
And two books I’ve recently readAl Martin’s “The Conspirators: Secrets of an Iran-Contra Insider” [National Liberty PressLLCP.O. Box 43PrayMontana 59065Toll-free 1-866-317-1390http://www.almartinraw.com2002] and Uri Dowbenko’s “Bushwhacked: Inside Stories of True Conspiracy” [Conspiracy DigestPrayMont.Toll-free 1-866-317-1390http://www.conspiracydigest.com2002]would be required reading in all U.S. college government courses.
But of courseas the Denzel Washington character says in Philadelphiawe don’t live in a perfect worldnow do we?
The books made my head spinonce I finally found some time to really read them and not just skim over them. They deserve careful readings by anyone interested in learning more about why the U.S. bullies much smaller countries like IraqSyriaIranand Nicaragua.
If you want to know why the Bush administration is on the verge of invading Syria when its adventures in Afghanistan and Iraq are not even completebuy these books. They connect the dots between North and the Bush syndicate – and even prominent Democrats that profited from and helped cover up Iran-Contra and Iraqgatesuch as Janet Reno. They pull no punches. They give credence to your suspicions that something is frightfully wrong with the direction Bush Inc. are leading us.
Martinone of the bravest whistle-blowers who has graced the U.S.was actually an officer in the powerful Office of Naval Intelligence and a middle player in Iran-Contrathe scheme that on the surface illegally sold American weapons to Iranthen used that money to illegally fund the right-wing Contras’ war on the leftist Nicaraguan government. But as he showsIran-Contra was a lot more than that; it was bank fraudsavings and loan frauddrug runningapparent murderfalsely imprisoning people who knew too much.
Martin describes numerous meetings with none other than Jeb Bushthe man who stole Florida for his brother in the 2000 election heist. At oneBushwho Martin calls a “real sharp cookie,” tells him how to illegally “short” stock in companies to make a hefty profit that can then be sent to the Contras. Martin explains how he incorporated dummy companies with Bush that were used to funnel illegal money between the Middle EastCentral Americaand other regions.
“Jeb likes any kind of fraud – bankingsecurityreal estateoil and gasgold bullionaircraft brokerage,” Martin writes. “Neil [Bush] was much more in the real estate end of the fraud. But George Jr. – I would classify as an insurance fraudsterin terms of his Iran-Contra profiteering….At the top of that [Iran-Contra fraud] pyramidthere are people like George Bush [Sr.] and a few others like Oliver North. George Bush is at the very pinnacle of that pyramid.”
This is the same Bush Sr.who Martin quotes as saying”The greatest reliever of stress is shredding documents.”
As Martin writesthe repercussions of Iran-Contra did not stop in the 1980s. American taxpayers are still paying for all of the banks and S&Ls that failed due to the fraud.
Americans are still financing the illegal and immoral adventures in the Middle East and Latin America of this “secret government,” a term for the Iran-Contra U.S. government hijackers of the 1980s who exist stronger than ever under Bush Jr.
Many obvious players in Iran-Contrasuch as North and Bushare still heavily involved in the current U.S. secret plans to do whatever the hell the rich and powerful forces that really run our government want to do.
In a chilling precursorMartin describes Operation Orpheusa secret plan in the 1980s to fake a nuclear attack by Russia to cover up Iran-Contra misdeeds and install a military dictatorship in the U.S.
It was a similar plan to Operation Northwoodsanother phony terrorism campaign which some of the late President Kennedy’s military advisorsled by then-Army Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzerdevised to help justify an invasion of Cuba in 1962 to overthrow Fidel Castro.
Among the ideas these U.S. government officials discussed were killing innocent Americans in cities and blaming Cuban “terrorists,” blowing up U.S. ships and blaming Castroblaming Cuba if the spaceship with John Glenn exploded [as some blamed Arab terrorists for the explosion of the Space Shuttle Columbia this year]provoking a war by flying a plane over Cubaand paying a Cuban official to attack U.S. forces at the Guantanamo naval base. Kennedy rejected the phony campaign and was assassinated the following year. Some said military planners enraged by JFK’s rejection of Operation Northwoods could have participated in the assassination.
Now it seems as if Bush Jr. has accepted a similar plan – both bin Laden and Hussein were trained and financed by U.S. military and intelligence agents at one timeand both somehow escaped capture and death in the latest military operations.
Were deals made with bin Laden and Hussein? Is this “war on terrorism” as phony as the previous U.S. military schemes to justify invasions and funneling more funds to the military-industrial complex and even implementing a military dictatorship with Bush Jr. as head puppet today?
There are many more ties between the 1980s scandal and the present one. For instanceU.S. Sen. Rick Santoruma Caucasian Republican from Pennsylvaniawas among the beneficiaries of the Iran-Contra scandalMartin says. Santorum is now a key supporter of Israel who is leading the charge in the Senate to invade Syria and other countries. He and Sen. Barbara Boxera Jewish Democrat from Californiaplan to introduce legislation that would set the stage for the Syrian invasionif they haven’t done so already.
Rep. Eliot Engela Jewish Democrat from New Yorkand Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinena Hispanic Republican from Floridaintroduced similar legislation in the U.S. House on April 11before the Iraqi mission to make that country another U.S. puppet state was finished.
Predictablythey called Syria a “rogue nation” [idle question: When has Syria defied the UN and bombed another sovereign nation back to the Stone Agekilling and maiming thousands of innocent people in the process?]. They accused Syria of supporting terroristswhich it doesbut only the kind that fights back against Israeli-sponsored terrorism against Palestinians. What one side calls terrorists the other side calls soldiers – see http://www.counterpunch.org/sharon.html for Israeli leader Ariel Sharon’s record of war crimes. They said Syria has these dreaded “weapons of mass destruction,” which UN inspectors and U.S. troops have yet to find in Iraqanother country the U.S. invaded supposedly because it had these awful weapons.
Heyif the U.S. wants to find “weapons of mass destruction” so muchall it has to do is look in its own backyard. Or the backyard of Israelwhich has more than 400 nuclear weaponsa primary reason why countries like IraqSyriaand Iran want more potent weapons to provide a balance in the region. But of coursethe U.S. won’t look in its own backyard or the backyard of its favorite lapdog statenext to Great Britain.
The U.S. secret government wants to make sure certain other countries don’t keep the weapons it developed and sold to them at one time [yesto Iraqto Syriato Iranand others] to make a quick buck. That’s not hypocriticalit’s just part of what we have to do in the war on terrorismright? Wrong. It’s part of our “leaders” latest attempts to divert our attention from their selfish plans to control the Middle East and ultimately the planetand inadequacies in providing for our domestic needs.
Meanwhilethe propaganda war against Syria rages in the mainstream mediaand public support to invade that country because “heywe will have to do it someday” will increase. Syria will be an even easier “opponent” than Iraq wasas it spends even less on national defense than Iraqaccording to the well-respectednon-partisan Center for Defense Information.
Syria is near the bottom of the worldwide listspending only $1 billioncompared to Iraq’s $1.4 billion and the United States’ $399 billion [add another $100 billion or so for the Iraqi invasion]. Israel is a respectable 14th in military spending at $10.6 billionwith the only other Middle Eastern country higher being Saudi Arabiawhich is eighth at $21.3 billion.
And the Secret Teamers want us to believe we should fear countries with relatively small militaries like IraqSyriaand Iran? Are we really that stupid?
AnywaySantorum profited from the International Signals and Controls scandalwhere the Pennsylvania company shipped missiles and component parts to Iran and Iraq during the Iran-Contra daysMartin writes. At least one official from that company ended up in prisonbut obviously not Santorum.
The list goes on – these books need indexes so you can look up certain people. Besides the Bush clanMartin implicates Bush’s Interior Secretary Gale NortonDeputy Secretary of State Richard Armitageand White House National Security Council aide Elliott AbramsRenoBill ClintonU.S. Rep. Henry Hydethe adulterer who tried to drive Clinton from office for lying about an affairformer Reagan National Security Advisor Frank Carlucciand former Republican presidential candidates Steve Forbes and Bob Doleamong others. Among those who deserve commendation are numerous reporters who tried to get bits of the story outand Sen. John Kerrywho headed a commission that attempted to expose the truth.
Some fellow progressives might bristle at the mention of Clinton and Renobut I’ve never been naïve enough to think that Clinton got so far merely by making goody-goody deals. I just liked Clinton’s politics on the surface better than other recent presidentsand I enjoyed the way he infuriated conservativeswho hate Clinton so much they are wasting millions of dollars to open a “Counter Clinton Library” in Little Rock later this year.
Have liberals opened a “Counter Reagan Library” or “Counter Bush Library” in the cities that house their libraries? No – that just lends more evidence on who the real hatemongers are in this countrythe Limbaughs and Norths and Liddys that Clinton loved to piss off. But I admit I’ve overlooked Clinton’s excessesthough not near as much as the average Bush-can-do-no-wrong supporter overlooks his.
Martin also exposes Israeli involvement in Iran-Contra and Iraqgatean important link in the current situation in the Middle East. Hard-line Zionists will accuse me of being anti-Jewish for daring to criticize Israel. I may be anti-Sharon administration like I’m anti-Bush administration. But as much as certain people yell at me that I’m anti-JewishI’m not. Just as many Bush supporters call me anti-American for opposing the anti-American-ideals Bush administrationmany Israeli supporters call me anti-Jewish for opposing the far rightbulldoze-the-Palestinians-out-of-existence Sharon government.
Nowa conspiracy theoristthat’s a different matter. Look at this situation with Syria. Rather than focusing on the declining economyrunaway budget deficitsgrowing chasm between the haves and have-notsand other important domestic issuesBush administration officialsmany Congressional Republicans and Democratsand the wealthy international interests behind them are salivating over the prospect of invading and controlling Syria next. Then it’s on to IranEgyptand Saudi Arabia. Bush Inc. are playing right into Sharon’s handsif they are not directly conspiring with Sharonwhich I suspect is more likely the case. By the time the U.S.-Israeli crusaders are donethe Middle East will lie in ruins and be ruled over by a Jewish-American King accountable only to multinational oil companies.
While many Americans are giddy about our “victory” in Iraqit was like an NFL Super Bowl champion playing a junior high school football squad. When one side spends $399 billion-plus on high-tech weapons and the other side spends $1.4 billion on scud missiles and used tanksis anything fair about that contest?
Ironicallythe U.S. kept claiming the Iraqis weren’t “playing fair” for faking surrenders and other tricksbut that’s like the NFL team claiming the junior high team was playing dirty for trying some trick plays [excuse the sports analogy – in a past life I was a sports reporter – it’s the best one I can think ofthough I know war is by no means a game].
Another note of personal disclosure here: I am a Caucasian American born in WashingtonD.C.whose family originally derives from LithuaniaIrelandEnglandand Austria. I married a woman who was born in Pennsylvania whose parents are from Syria. Thereforemy two young children are half Syrian American. We have many relatives in Syria. I admittedly do not want my tax dollars used to kill and maim and make homeless my relatives in Syriaas they have already been used to kill and maim and make homeless thousands of innocent Iraqis and innocent Afghans.
I do not buy the Bush-Cheney Inc. line that people’s lives in these countries will be improved – ask the families of those killed if the U.S. military action improved their lives. Obviouslythose who are dead would speak otherwiseif they could. Ask the families of the more than 100 American and British soldiers who died if this invasion was really worth it in a few yearswhen another dictator takes control of Iraq.
Did I miss itor have all the ruling clans in Afghanistan held free elections and decided not to kill each other? What about Kuwaitanother American colony still run by an unelecteddictatorial prime minister 12 years after we “freed” that country? Don’t tell me Kuwait elects a national assembly – that body has even less power than the U.S. Congress against the dictators in the White House.
Beyond thatI understand the government in Syria is a dictatorship. But I also understand that I live under a more subtle dictatorshipone that can install a leader in power who was not elected by the majority of voters and control other leaders through corporations and money. I can write and scream and march and protest all I wantand Bush-Cheney Inc. are not going to listen to my request to stop these immoralidiotic invasions. Millions of people can protestMichael Moore can use the Oscars stage to protestand Bush barely can get his cocaine-and-alcohol-destroyed brain working long enough to ask Karl Rove”What does ‘fictitious’ mean?” Because I refuse to give a penny to any politicianmuch less hundreds of thousands of dollars that is the going rate for bribery these daysI have about as little influence on my government as the average Iraqi had on Hussein or the average Syrian has on its dictatorship.
The challenge is to find ways to live under our forms of dictatorships without destroying each other. The challenge is to find ways to survive when we have only surface control of our governmentwhose leaders ultimately do whatever the richpowerful people who fund their campaigns want them to dowhich is gain more land and wealth for them.
You say you don’t think Israel has much influence over U.S. Middle Eastern policy? Look at who is running the Iraqi “interim” government. You have Jay Garnera retired general hand-picked by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz for “viceroy designate” of Iraq – meaning he is the Big Cheese in Iraq right now. Garner was most recently head of the Pentagon’s Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistancewhose motto is “Bomb the Hell out of Those Damn ForeignersThen Send a Few Crumbs of Bread to Give Those Who Survive for the Media Cameras and Give Fat Reconstruction Contracts to Friends in the Defense Industry.”
Garner has strong links to both the international arms industry and a Jewish lobby groupaccording to syndicated columnist Molly Ivins. He has visited Israel as the guest of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and signed a statement in October 2000 blaming the Palestinians for the violence in the region after the collapse of peace talks – which Bush stopped when he took over in early 2001.
Garner has also commended the Israeli army for its “remarkable restraint.” This is the same army that showed such “remarkable restraint” in killing thousands of Palestiniansbulldozing thousands of homesand even killing a few American and European peace activists like Rachel Corrie [see http://www.rachelcorrie.com/] who try to stop the violence.
The Israeli military has destroyed more than 7,000 Palestinian homes since the beginning of the Israeli occupation in 1967leaving 30,000 people homeless. Most home demolitions target civilians who have not been charged with any crime. The Caterpillar bulldozers that destroyed many homes and Rachel are partly financed by U.S. tax dollars – Israel is the world’s largest beneficiary of American military and economic aid. It receives more than $5 billion a year from the U.S.and 75 percent of those funds are spent on arms and equipment from U.S. corporations.
SoIsrael can use tanks and bulldozers and automatic weapons to kill Palestiniansand it’s OK. But when a few Palestinians fight back through suicide bomber missions – which I don’t condone but understand – they’re branded as dirty terrorists. At least three times as many Palestinians have died as Israelis in the last two years. Who are the terrorists here?
And now we claim Syria is harboring terrorists and even Iraqis who fled Baghdad. So are we going to bomb Idaho and Montana and other U.S. states because they give refuge to KKK members and anti-government U.S. terrorists like Tim McVeigh who bombed Oklahoma in 1995? How about Irelandwhich has terrorized the British since the 1920s? Ohthey’re white terroristsso we don’t mess with them. I forgot.
The bottom line is Bush-Cheney Inc.with help from many Republicans and Democrats in Congressare running a racist policy to exterminate Arabs and hand over control of the Middle East to wealthypowerful oil and real estate cronies.
More and moreI’m beginning to think the secret government conspirators are closer to the truth than most of us head-scratchers know. Maybe there is a group of wealthy business-types who call most of the shots on our planet from some secretive island off the coast of South Carolina or in the Pacific.
Maybe there doesn’t appear to be much the average person can do to stop the secret teamers from running roughshod over people. Maybe it’s easier not to think too much about itto go on with our lives gliding along the surfaceunaware of why the latest tragedy occurs.
StillI’ve never been one to just glide on the surface. I want to dig deeperI want to know more. When I was fivemy older sister died at the age of nine of a still-undiagnosed disease that took her quicklywithin a couple of days. I don’t remember crying. I only remember sitting around a room full of sobbing family membersbewildered at the scene. I couldn’t cry like my younger sister who cried just because everyone else was. I had to know why I should crywhat had really caused such a scene. I had to know why my older sister died.
I’ve continued my search for that truth and many others. My sister died in Florida – another reason why I dislike that state – and I suspect environmental causesperhaps pesticide poison from some fruit she might have picked from a tree and eaten. The medical staff of that Tampa hospital in 1965 and the county medical examiner were not exactly the most skilled – they didn’t even perform a complete autopsyor at least they won’t release such records. The cause of my sister’s death remains another mystery.
That experience has shaped my lifesent me head-long into searches that many people don’t dare takesuch as psychic medium sessionsporing over obscure books and documents in more obscure libraries and government offices for daysback-alley rendezvous in tough neighborhoodsand 5,000-mile walks through the heart of the global military-industrial complex. I don’t believe at face value anything anyone tells me – not even a family member. I listen politelyfor the most partbut I have to make my own investigationto search beyond the obvious surface clues for the underlying story.
As a freshman reporter for my college newspaper way back in 1978I didn’t turn away an eyewitness to the JFK assassination who wanted to share some insight that others wouldn’t digest. I not only listened to the manI wrote story after storyread book after bookinterviewed person after personwalked down dangerous alley after dangerous alleyfought off critic after criticignored threat after threatin a search that continues to this day.
That search leads me to believe that the Warren Commission’s conclusion that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing JFK was erroneousand that commission was covering up misdeeds by powerful peopleagenciesand institutions. Former and current government agents and military officialsmembers of the Mafiaanti-Castro Cubanswealthy far-right oil barons and industrialistsand members of the current secret government were most likely involved. When someone challenges me on this conclusionI say to themread the books I havetalk to the people I haveand then we’ll talk. When someone calls me a “conspiracy nut,” I say to themall I want is the truthand I don’t believe we have been told the truth about this.
And let me say something about conspiracies – conspiracies have existed as long as human beings have. The Bible and other books are full of such tales of conniving rulers and wannabe rulers plotting against people to consolidate their power. To ignore conspiracies just because you’re afraid of being labeled a “conspiracy nut” is to ignore a vital trend and component of our society that can lead you farther along on your path to the truth. To ignore conspiracies is to compromise your search for the truth.
The bottom line is our governmentour corporationsour mediaour institutionslied to us thenand have lied to us many times before and since. The most powerful government officials and corporate leaders have engaged in conspiracy after conspiracy since Day One. And we’ve let them with our silenceour inertiaour unwillingness to confront themour unwillingness to expose their misdeeds to the light of day and bring them to justice.
Exposing the lies has become a passion to mea reason to live. When a newspaper I work for refuses to publish something I writeI find another way to get it out. With the Internet – thank God Al Gore invented thathuh? – it is easier these days than it was back when I had to publish my own newsletterspamphletsand books. It’s easier to take a too-controversial-for-mainstream-journalism article to the Web than quit your job in protest and take a story on the powerful local defense establishment trying to shut down the nuclear freeze movement to the competition newspaperwhich I did in 1984.
The truth shall set you freesomeone saidbut I’m sure not yet free. I guess I have yet to really uncover as much of that truth as I think I can. Even thenI remain skeptical that I’ll ever really be freeexcept for perhaps in my own mind.
I’m most free when I read books like Martin’s and Dowbenko’s. “Bushwhacked” is a great complement to “The Conspirators,” as it further exposes the crimes of the powerfulusually-unseen-to-the-general-public forces that prop up the Bush regime and prior regimes. The book is an indictment of our system in which most people worship the wealthy and mindlessly justify their excessesand would rather watch Survivor on television than do something about helping us all really survive on this planet. For those who want to do somethingit provides much ammunition and insight we need to execute our plan of action.
I tell people again and again you cannot look at Bush on the surface. He appears to be a niceaffable doofus to many. But he is conniving and politically astutemore so than his father. He is more willing to engage in dirty campaigning than the former CIA director was. He is more willing to win at any costas we saw in the 2000 election. He is more willing to bomb civilians in some faraway land if he can gain politically from those deathsas we saw in Afghanistan and Iraq and probably will in Syria and other countries.
But to really know what Bush is about you must know something about the people around him and those who fund him. You must know something about the murky origins of DynCorpwhich Dowbenko explains began as an Air Force contractor in 1954 and has gained a reputation as a front company for the CIAperforming dirty tricks throughout the world. This Virginia-based “security” firm was one of Bush’s biggest campaign donors in 2000 and has been awarded all kinds of lucrative government contractsfrom protecting Afghan officials to providing “security” in Iraq.
“Even more sinister is the fact that DynCorp manages email and information systems for many federal investigation agencies like FBIDOJand SEC,” writes Dowbenkoone of the alternative media’s foremost writers who founded Conspiracy DigestAl Martin Rawand Steamshovel Press. “What does that mean? Whenever criminal behavior is detectedDynCorp controls the informationgiving it defacto power to subvert the process of law and cover up corporate-government criminal activities.”
Dowbenko includes a more-than-interesting chapter about Bush skeletons like a U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency video allegedly showing Jeb and Dubya with a large amount of cocaine. There are more stories on how investment banker Catherine Austin Fitts was ambushed by corporate-government criminalsthe last known interview with the late best-selling author Malachi Martin on the “end of religion,” and bizarre mind control programming.
So is what’s in these booksand in this essayreally true? It’s hard to say what’s really true. Ultimatelywe all have to figure it out on our own. But I do believe in the law of karmathat what goes round comes round. No empirenot the Romansnot the Britishnot the U.S.lasts forever. Somedayour kids and their kids will pay for our sins. I just hope they understand that not everyone merely went along with the crowdjust as not every German went along with the Nazis in the 1930s.
So if you believe the Bush administration is controlled by a secret governmentwhat can you really do about it? For one thingexpose it to the light of day. Spread the wordvia whatever means you have. Let them know there are a lot of people on our planet who are fed up with their selfishviolent actions.
What’s the alternative? To do nothing? To live in fear? Better to light a candle than curse the darkness. Better to march a mile than sit around wringing your hands.
Better to read a book like “The Conspirators” or “Bushwhacked” that goes deeper than mere headlines than watch more CNN coverage that only skims the surface.
Jackson Thoreau is co-author of We Will Not Get Over It: Restoring a Legitimate White House. The updated120,000-word electronic book can be downloaded on his Internet site at http://www.geocities.com/jacksonthor/ebook.html. Citizens for Legitimate Government has the earlier version at http://www.legitgov.org/we_will_not_get_over_it.html. Thoreau can be emailed at jacksonthor@justice.com.