- The neoconned Bush Regime and the Israeli-occupied American
media are heading the innocent world toward nuclear war.
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- Back in the Reagan years the National Endowment for Democracy
was created as a cold war tool. Today the NED is a neocon-controlled agent
for US world hegemony. Its main function is to pour US money and election-rigging
into former constituent parts of the Soviet Union in order to ring Russia
with American puppet states.
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- The neoconservative Bush Regime used the NED to intervene
in Ukrainian and Georgian internal affairs in keeping with the neoconservative
plan to establish US-friendly and Russia-hostile political regimes in these
two former constituent parts of Russia and the Soviet Union.
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- The NED was also used to dismember the former Yugoslavia
with its interventions in Slovakia, Serbia, and Montenegro.
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- Allen Weinstein, who helped draft the legislation establishing
NED, told the Washington Post in 1991 that much of what the NED does "today
was done covertly 25 years ago by the CIA."
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- The Bush Regime, having established a puppet, Mikhail
Saakashvili, as president of Georgia, tried to bring Georgia into NATO.
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- For readers too young to know, the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization was a military alliance between the US and Western European
countries to resist any Soviet move into Western Europe [and to ensure
European countries lined up behind the US, and bought its weapons systems.
Editors] . There has been no reason for NATO since the Soviet Union's
internal political collapse almost two decades ago. The neocons turned
NATO into another tool, like the NED, for US world hegemony. Subsequent
US administrations violated the understandings that President Reagan had
reached with Mikhail Gorbachev, the last Soviet leader, and have incorporated
former parts of the Soviet empire into NATO. The neocon goal of ringing
Russia with a hostile military alliance has been proclaimed many times.
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- Western European members of NATO balked at the admission
of Georgia, as they understood it as a provocative affront to Russia, on
whom Western Europe is dependent for natural gas. Western Europeans are
also disturbed at the Bush Regime's intentions to install ballistic missile
defenses in Poland and the Czech Republic as the consequence will be Russian
nuclear cruise missiles targeted on European capitals. Europeans don't
see the advantage of helping the US block Russian nuclear retaliation against
the US at the expense of their own existence. Ballistic missile defenses
are not useful against cruise missiles.
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- Every country is tired of war except for the US. War,
including nuclear war, is the neoconservative strategy for world hegemony.
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- The entire world, except for Americans, knows that the
outbreak of armed conflict between Russian and Georgian forces in South
Ossetia was entirely due to the US and its Georgia puppet, Saakashvili.
Americans, alone in the world, are unaware that the hostilities were initiated
by Saakashvili, because Bush, Cheney and the Israeli-occupied American
media have again lied to them.
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- Everyone else in the world knows that the unstable and
corrupt Saakashvili, who proclaims democracy and runs a police state,
would not have taken on Russia by attacking South Ossetia unless given
the go-ahead by Washington.
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- The purpose of the Georgian attack on the Russian population
of South Ossetia is twofold:
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- To convince Europeans that their action in delaying
Georgia's NATO membership is the cause of "the Russian aggression"
and that to save Georgia from conquest Georgia must be given NATO membership.
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- To ethnically cleanse South Ossetia of its Russian population.
Two thousand Russian civilians were targeted and killed by the US-equipped
and trained Georgian Army, and tens of thousands fled into Russia. Having
achieved this goal, Saakashvili and his puppet-masters in Washington quickly
called for a cease fire and a halt to "the Russian invasion."
The hope is that the Russian population will be afraid to return or can
be prevented from returning, thus removing the secessionist threat.
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- No doubt the Bush Regime can con the American population,
just as it did with Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, Iranian nukes, and
9/11 itself, but the rest of the world is not buying it, not even America's
bought-and-paid-for European allies.
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- Writing in the Asia Times, Ambassador M. K. Bhadrakumar,
a former career diplomat in the Indian Foreign Service, notes the disinformation
that is being peddled by the Bush Regime and the US media and reports that
"at the outbreak of violence, Russia had tried to have the United
Nations Security Council issue a statement calling on Georgia and South
Ossetia to immediately lay down weapons. However, Washington was disinterested."
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- Amb. Bhadrakumar notes that the American and Georgian
resort to violence and propaganda has brought an end to the Russian government's
belief that diplomacy and good will can bring about a settlement of the
South Ossetia issue. If Russia wished, Russia could terminate Georgia's
existence as a separate country at will, and there is nothing the US could
do about it.
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- It is certain that the Georgian invasion of South Ossetia
was a Bush Regime orchestrated event. The American media and the neocon
think tanks were ready with their propaganda blitzes. Neocons had ready
a Wall Street Journal editorial page article for Saakashvili that declares
"the war in Georgia is a war for the West."
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- Faced with the collapse of his army when Russia sent
in troops to protect South Ossetians from the Georgian troops, Saakashvili
declared: "This is not about Georgia any more. It is about America,
its values."
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- The neocon Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., quickly
called a conference hosted by warmonger Ariel Cohen, "Urgent! Event:
Russian-Georgian War: A Challenge for the U.S. and the World."
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- The Washington Post hosted neocon Robert Kagen's war
drums, "Putin Makes His Move."
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- Only a fool like Kagen could think that if Putin intended
to invade Georgia he would do so from Beijing, or that after sending the
American-trained Georgian army in flight, he would not continue and conquer
all of Georgia in order to put an end to American machinations on Russia's
most sensitive border, machinations that are likely to eventually end in
nuclear war.
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- The New York Tiimes hosted Billy Kristol's rant, "Will
Russia Get Away With It?" Kristol thunders against "dictatorial
and aggressive and fanatical regimes" that "seem happy to work
together to weaken the influence of the United States and its democratic
allies." Kristol presents a new axis of evil--Russia, China, North
Korea and Iran--and warns against "delay and irresolution" that
"simply invite future threats and graver dangers."
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- In other words, "attack Russia now."
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- Dick Cheney, the insane American Vice President telephoned
Saakashvili to express US solidarity with Georgia in the conflict with
Russia and declared: "Russian aggression must not go unanswered. Only
an idiot would tell Saakashvili anything other than "to cease immediately."
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- What must be the effect on US Intelligence services and
the US military of Cheney's propagandistic and irresponsible statement
of US support for Georgia's war crimes? Does anyone really believe that
the CIA or any US intelligence service told the vice president that Russia
opened the conflict with an invasion? Russian troops arrived in South
Ossetia after thousands of Ossetians had been killed by the Georgian attack
and after tens of thousands of Ossetians had fled into Russia to escape
the Georgian attack. According to news reports, Russian forces have captured
Americans who were with the Georgian troops directing their attack on civilians.
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- The US military certainly has no resources for a war
against Russia on top of lost wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and a planned
war with Iran.
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- With its Georgian venture, the Bush Regime is guilty
of a new round of war crimes. What will be the consequence?
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- Many will reply that having got away with 9/11, Afghanistan,
Iraq, and with its preparations for attacking Iran, the Bush Regime will
get away with its Georgian venture as well.
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- Possibly, however, this time the Bush Regime has overreached.
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- Certainly Russia now recognizes that the US is determined
to exert hegemony over Russia and is Russia's worst enemy.
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- China realizes the US threat to its own energy supply
and, thereby, economy.
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- Even America's European allies, chafing under their role
of supplying troops for America's Empire, must now realize that being an
American ally is dangerous and has no benefits. If Georgia becomes a NATO
member and renews its attack on South Ossetia, it must drag Europe into
a war with Russia, a main supplier of energy to Europe.
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- Moreover, if Russian troops are sent across European
frontiers, there is nothing to stop them.
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- What does America offer Europe, aside from the millions
of dollars it pays to buy off Europe's political leaders to insure that
they betray their own peoples? Nothing whatsoever.
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- The only military threat that Europe faces comes from
being dragged into America's wars for American hegemony.
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- The US is financially bankrupt, with budget and trade
deficits that exceed the combined deficits of the rest of the world together.
The dollar has wilted. The American consumer market is dying from the
offshoring of American jobs and, thereby, incomes, and from the wealth
effect of the real estate and derivatives collapses. The US has nothing
to offer Europe. Indeed, American economic decline is killing European
exports by driving up the value of the euro.
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- America long ago lost the moral high ground. Hypocrisy
has become America's best known hallmark. Bush, the invader of Afghanistan
and Iraq on the basis of lies and deception, thunders at Russia for coming
to the defense of its peacekeepers and Russian citizens in South Ossetia.
Bush who ripped Kosovo out of Serbia's heart and handed it to the Muslims,
has taken an adamant stand against other separatist movements, especially
the South Ossetians who wish to be part of the Russian Federation.
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- The neoconned Bush Regime is furious that the Russian
bear was not intimidated by the US supported aggression of the American
puppet state, Georgia. Instead of accepting the act of American hegemony
that the neocon script called for, Russia sent the Americanized Georgian
army fleeing in fear.
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- Having failed with weapons, the Bush Regime now unleashes
the rhetoric. The White House is warning Russia that failure to acquiesce
to US hegemony could have a "significant, long-term impact on relations
between Washington and Moscow."
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- Do the morons who comprise the Bush Regime really not
understand that short of a surprise nuclear attack on Russia there is nothing
whatsoever the US can do to Moscow?
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- The Bush Regime owns no Russian currency that it can
dump. The Russians own US dollars.
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- The Bush Regime owns no Russian bonds that it can dump.
The Russians own US bonds.
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- The US can cut Russia off from no energy supplies. Russia
can cut America's European allies off from energy.
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- President Reagan negotiated the end of the cold war with
Soviet President Gorbachev.,The neoconservatives, whom Reagan fired and
drove from his administration, were furious. The neocons had hoped to
win the cold war, thereby establishing American hegemony.
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- The Republican Establishment reestablished its hegemony
under Bush 1st that it had lost to Ronald Reagan. With this feat, intelligence
was driven from the Republican Party.
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- The neocons engineered their comeback with the First
Gulf War and their propaganda, pure lies, that Iraqi troops bayoneted Kuwait
babies in hospitals.
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- The neocons made a further comeback with President Clinton,
whom they convinced to bomb Serbia in order to permit separatist movements
to become independent states dependent on America.
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- With Bush 2nd, the neocons took over. Their agenda,
American world hegemony, includes Israeli hegemony in the Middle East.
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- So far the schemes of these ignorant and dangerous ideologues
have come a cropper. Iraq, formerly in the hands of secular Sunnis who
were a check on Iran, is, after the American invasion and occupation, in
the hands of religious Shi'ites allied with Iran.
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- In Afghanistan, the Taliban are resurgent, and a large
NATO/US army there is unable to control the situation.
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- One consequence of the neocons' Afghan war has been the
loss of power of the American puppet president of Pakistan, a Muslim country
armed with nuclear weapons. The puppet president now faces impeachment,
and the Pakistani military has informed the Americans to stop conducting
military operations in Pakistani territory.
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- The American puppets in Egypt and Jordan might be next
to fall.
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- In Iraq, the Shi'ites, having completed their ethnic
cleansing of Sunnis from neighborhoods, have declared a cease fire in order
to contradict the US propaganda that American withdrawal would lead to
a blood bath. Negotiations on withdrawal dates are now underway between
the Americans and the Iraqi government, which is no longer behaving like
a puppet.
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- Last year Hugo Chavez ridiculed Bush before the UN.
Russia's Putin ridiculed Bush as Comrade Wolf.
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- On August 12, 2008, Pravda ridiculed Bush, "Bush:
Why don't you shut up."
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- Americans may think they are a superpower before whose
presence the world trembles. But not the Russians.
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- Those Americans stupid enough to think that America's
"superpower" insures its citizens from danger need to read the
total contempt shown for President Bush in Pravda:
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- "President Bush,
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- Why don't you shut up? In your statement on Monday regarding
the legitimate actions of the Russian Federation in Georgia, you failed
to mention the war crimes perpetrated by Georgian military forces, which
American advisors support, against Russian and Ossetian civilians
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- "President Bush,
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- Why don't you shut up? Your faithful ally, Mikhail Saakashvili,
was announcing a ceasefire deal while his troops, with your advisors, were
massing on Ossetia's border, which they crossed under cover of night and
destroyed Tskhinvali, targeting civilian structures just like your forces
did in Iraq.
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- "President Bush,
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- Why don't you shut up? Your American transport aircraft
gave a ride home to thousands of Georgian soldiers from Iraq directly into
the combat zone.
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- "President Bush,
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- Why don't you shut up? How do you account for the fact
that among the Georgian soldiers fleeing the fighting yesterday you could
clearly hear officers using American English giving orders to "Get
back inside" and how do you account for the fact that there are reports
of American soldiers among the Georgian casualties?
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- "President Bush,
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- Why don't you shut up? Do you really think anyone gives
any importance whatsoever to your words after 8 years of your criminal
and murderous regime and policies? Do you really believe you have any moral
ground whatsoever and do you really imagine there is a single human being
anywhere on this planet who does not stick up his middle finger every time
you appear on a TV screen?
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- Do you really believe you have the right to give any
opinion or advice after Abu Ghraib? After Guantanamo? After the massacre
of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens? After the torture by CIA operatives?
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- Do you really believe you have any right to make a statement
on any point of international law after your trumped-up charges against
Iraq and the subsequent criminal invasion?
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- "President Bush,
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- Why don't you shut up? Suppose Russia for instance declares
that Georgia has weapons of mass destruction? And that Russia knows where
these WMD are, namely in Tblisi and Poti and north, south, east and
west of there? And that it must be true because there is 'magnificent foreign
intelligenc' such as satellite photos of milk powder factories and baby
cereals producing chemical weapons and which are currently being 'driven
around the country in vehicles'? Suppose Russia declares for instance that
'Saakashvili stiffed the world' and it is 'time for regime change'?
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- Nice and simple, isn't it, President Bush?
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- "So, why don't you shut up? Oh and by the way, send
some more of your military advisors to Georgia, they are doing a sterling
job. And they look all funny down the night sight, all green."
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- The US is not a superpower. It is a bankrupt farce run
by imbeciles who were installed by stolen elections arranged by Karl Rove
and Diebold. It is a laughing stock, that ignorantly affronts and attempts
to bully an enormous country equipped with tens of thousands of nuclear
weapons.
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- Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street
Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review. He is
coauthor of <http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0307396061/counterpunchmaga>The
Tyranny of Good Intentions.He can be reached at: <mailto:PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com>PaulCraigRoberts@yahoo.com
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