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October 22, 2005
The occupation of Iraq, the primary target in the "war of terror," is unraveling. The arrest and subsequent "rescue" of two British SAS agents provocateur has made evident what has until now been widely rumored on the Iraq street: that the American and British occupation forces are engaging in covert acts of terror in order to maintain chaos and perpetuate the occupation.
This is not surprising. Since late 2002 it’s been reported (UPI, Los Angeles Times and elsewhere) that a secret report from the Defense Science Board to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld referred to the Proactive, Preemptive Operations Group (P2OG), a program to covertly encourage or instigate terrorist acts to allow the Pentagon an excuse for aggressive warfare in target countries.
The lies that the administration used to drag us into Iraq were nothing compared to the current disinformation and covert operations programs which are designed to keep us there. The military has acknowledged a dozen "enduring bases" being built in Iraq.
The constant refrain about "foreign insurgents" in Iraq is belied by the admission of U.S. commanders that 96 percent of insurgents are Iraqi. The only foreign insurgents in Iraq are the occupation forces.
Prisoners at Guantanamo are dying without any hope of basic human rights. And New Orleans has come under military occupation in order to turn the poor and people of color into refugees and prevent them from ever returning.
The administration is waiving environmental rules and prevailing wage laws to encourage the remaking of the delta into a corporate Disneyland, just as he is remaking Iraq into a haven for U.S. profiteers (today’s version of pirates or privateers).
And Blackwater private paramilitary personnel are complaining that they are earning only $350 a day in New Orleans when they were used to $1,000 a day plus tax havens in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Empire abroad and fascism at home. This is what we’ve allowed our nation to become. It is time for a new American Revolution. And the maddening thing is that we, the people, could put an end to this right now. Marching and rallying will not do it. Waiting for the Democrats to offer an alternative won’t make it happen. But if even those 300,000 who went to D.C. and those who joined in solidarity events in other cities would withhold their tax payments, a velvet revolution would ensue, the government would fall, the war would end, and the United States could once again become a republic of hope and promise.
ROBERT RIVERSONG