IT IS TIME TO BE ALARMED AMERICA!
Earl J. Prignitz
March 17, 2006
I recently forwarded the following urgent Email to all of my lists because it seems to me that there is indeed real cause to be alarmed and I will explain after I tell you what one of my readers sent in response.
Stop the war on Iran before it starts! Email statement to Bush, Cheney, and Congress
It is with grave concern that we observe the growing threat of a new U.S. War--this time against the people of Iran.
The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. To take military action. These reports remind us of the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" reports issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq.
This is one response I got back:
Oh come on now. In the past this was called War Mongering. Bush and all the others are working through the United Nations to keep matters under control. He is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
This is getting to be just like the news media. If enough people make up enough emails and send them to enough people it must be true !!!!!!!!! Hogwash.
You know what they say about the word assume. In this case it is so very true. The phrase added "assumed need for the U.S. To take military action" makes me wonder just who wrote the original message and why.
Now how anyone can say that we are working through the United Nations is way beyond me. We literally thumbed our noses at the United Nations when we charged ahead and launched the preemptive war with Iraq. Can we expect any different response to the Iran situation? I certainly don't think so.
All you need to do is read the PNAC documents and you will realize that the only thing on the minds of the men who are running our government are to charge full force ahead to build an Empire.
If you don’t believe me just read a little bit about PNAC if you please.
The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana.
The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision. According to PNAC, America must:
If that isn't sufficient information to give you a sense of urgency about our current situation let me tell you who some of the men are who organized this think tank. Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
Are you beginning to see the connection my dear friends? When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy.
Again don't you see the handwriting on the wall here? On September 11th, the fellows from PNAC saw a door of opportunity open wide before them, and they wasted no time to dash through it.
On September 20th 2001 Bush released the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." It is an ideological match to PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report issued a year earlier. In many places, it uses exactly the same language to describe America's new place in the world.
So I repeat my plea for the American public to be aware that all the signs point to another pre-emptive war in the direction of Iran. The rhetoric has already been given that is so similar to the fear mongering that went on prior to advance on Iraq.
You may recall that we were certainly forewarned that this kind of predicament might overtake our great country when President Dwight D Eisenhower told us in his farewell message, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together"
If I am being undully alarmed so be it. I can't help making a comparison between Iraq and Iran and we have certainly made one catastrophic mess of Iraq.
Stop the war on Iran before it starts! Email statement to Bush, Cheney, and Congress
It is with grave concern that we observe the growing threat of a new U.S. War--this time against the people of Iran.
The media is filled with reports of an alleged nuclear threat posed by Iran and the assumed need for the U.S. To take military action. These reports remind us of the "Weapons of Mass Destruction" reports issued in the months leading up to the war on Iraq.
This is one response I got back:
Oh come on now. In the past this was called War Mongering. Bush and all the others are working through the United Nations to keep matters under control. He is damned if he does and damned if he doesn't. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
This is getting to be just like the news media. If enough people make up enough emails and send them to enough people it must be true !!!!!!!!! Hogwash.
You know what they say about the word assume. In this case it is so very true. The phrase added "assumed need for the U.S. To take military action" makes me wonder just who wrote the original message and why.
Now how anyone can say that we are working through the United Nations is way beyond me. We literally thumbed our noses at the United Nations when we charged ahead and launched the preemptive war with Iraq. Can we expect any different response to the Iran situation? I certainly don't think so.
All you need to do is read the PNAC documents and you will realize that the only thing on the minds of the men who are running our government are to charge full force ahead to build an Empire.
If you don’t believe me just read a little bit about PNAC if you please.
The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana.
The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines what is required of America to create the global empire they envision. According to PNAC, America must:
- Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;
- Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;
- Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;
- Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;
- Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent.
If that isn't sufficient information to give you a sense of urgency about our current situation let me tell you who some of the men are who organized this think tank. Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
Are you beginning to see the connection my dear friends? When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw, at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy.
Again don't you see the handwriting on the wall here? On September 11th, the fellows from PNAC saw a door of opportunity open wide before them, and they wasted no time to dash through it.
On September 20th 2001 Bush released the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." It is an ideological match to PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report issued a year earlier. In many places, it uses exactly the same language to describe America's new place in the world.
So I repeat my plea for the American public to be aware that all the signs point to another pre-emptive war in the direction of Iran. The rhetoric has already been given that is so similar to the fear mongering that went on prior to advance on Iraq.
You may recall that we were certainly forewarned that this kind of predicament might overtake our great country when President Dwight D Eisenhower told us in his farewell message, "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.
We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals so that security and liberty may prosper together"
If I am being undully alarmed so be it. I can't help making a comparison between Iraq and Iran and we have certainly made one catastrophic mess of Iraq.
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