NP? using the C word

[Doug Millison]

http://www.counterpunch.org/madsen0722.html

"[...] That Washington's media elite appears to be anesthetized to Bush's
current drive to turning the United States into some mirror image of East
Germany, China, or Pinochet's Chile cannot be overstated. The creation of
the Freedom Corps, with neighbors turning in neighbors under the Terrorism
Information and Prevention System (TIPS), the scrapping the Posse Comitatus
Act of 1878 to once again permit Federal troops to engage in civil law
enforcement (including the possibility of their providing"security" at
polling places this November and in November 2004), having booksellers,
librarians, and video rental clerks report on the reading and viewing
habits if their customers, and even the suggestion by a Bush appointee to
the US Civil Rights Commission that internment camps may be necessary for
Arab-Americans all point to an administration that is hell bent on
destroying this country in order to save it.

So the media elite, in some perverted and confused quest to show its
loyalty to the Bush family, has decided that linking its policies in
Afghanistan and the Middle east to its past oil dealings, is somehow off
the mark, "out there," unworthy of consideration. Reconstructed liberal and
progressive journalists throw around the "C word" (conspiracy) to detract
from those who write about the massive evidence that points to the Bushes
having traded the nation's economic well-being and national security for
personal profit. Grandfather Bush, Prescott, certainly did this during
World War II when his investments included companies that supported Nazi
Germany's war effort. [...]

Brisard and Dasquie provide concrete evidence how this same self-serving
approach to business permitted the Taliban to negotiate with senior members
of the Bush administration on a lucrative pipeline deal just weeks prior to
the al Qaeda terrorists slamming commercial jetliners into the World Trade
Center towers and the Pentagon. It's the same mind set that in 1990
convinced U.S. ambassador to Iraq April Glaspie to tell Sadaam Hussein that
the Bush I administration had no interest in his inter-Arab border dispute
involving Kuwait. We now all know why the Bush family had no great interest
in that "minor" dispute. They made a fortune from it, along with then
Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, whose Halliburton company helped rebuild
the oil infrastructures of both Kuwait and Iraq.

And now we have some of the same players standing to make a fortune from a
trans-Asian CentGas pipeline that will extend from Turkemenistan, through
Afghanistan, to Pakistan's Indian Ocean port of Gwadar. Dubya's, Cheney's,
and Condoleezza Rice's Big Oil friends at Unocal, Halliburton, Chevron, and
Saudi Arabia's Delta Oil all stand to make a handsome profit from the
CentGas deal. Enron, in concert with Bush's Special Envoy for Afghanistan,
Zalmay Khalilzad, actually developed the feasibility study for the
pipeline. And current Secretary of the Army, Thomas White, who now
influences U.S. military policy in Afghanistan, was a Vice President of
Enron in charge of such "special deals." So its little wonder we are told
in Forbidden Truth that representatives of the Bush administration told the
representatives of the Taliban in Berlin in July 2001 that they would be
faced with a "carpet of gold or a carpet of bombs." Its so arch-typical
Bush.