From: wolda002@umn.edu
Date: Thu Apr 08 2010 - 23:19:59 EDT
Expect False Flag Attack Before War On Iran
By Paul Craig Roberts
3-19-10
According to news reports, the U.S. military is shipping "bunker-buster"
bombs to the U.S. Air Force base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. The
Herald Scotland reports that experts say the bombs are being assembled for
an attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
The newspaper quotes Dan Piesch, director of the Centre for International
Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London: "They are gearing up
totally for the destruction of Iran."
The next step will be a staged "terrorist attack," a "false flag" operation
as per Operation Northwoods, for which Iran will be blamed. As Iran and its
leadership have already been demonized, the "false flag" attack will
suffice to obtain US and European public support for bombing Iran. The
bombing will include more than the nuclear facilities and will continue
until the Iranians agree to regime change and the installation of a puppet
government. The corrupt American media will present the new puppet as
"freedom and democracy."
If the past is a guide, Americans will fall for the deception. In the
February issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, a scholarly journal,
Professor Lance DeHaven-Smith writes that state crimes against democracy
(SCAD) involve government officials, often in combination with private
interests, that engage in covert activities in order to implement an
agenda. Examples include McCarthyism or the fabrication of evidence of
communist infiltration, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution based on false claims
of President Johnson and Pentagon chief McNamara that North Vietnam
attacked a U.S. naval vessel, the burglary of the office of Daniel
Ellsberg's psychiatrist in order to discredit Ellsberg (the Pentagon
Papers) as "disturbed," and the falsified "intelligence" that Iraq
possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the U.S. invasion
of Iraq.
There are many other examples. I have always regarded the 1995 bombing of
the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City as a SCAD. Allegedly, a
disturbed Tim McVeigh used a fertilizer bomb in a truck parked outside the
building. More likely, McVeigh was a patsy, whose fertilizer bomb was a
cover for explosives planted inside the building.
A number of experts dismissed the possibility of McVeigh's bomb producing
such structural damage. For example, General Benton K. Partin, who was in
charge of U.S. Air Force munitions design and testing, produced a thick
report on the Murrah building bombing which concluded that the building
blew up from the inside out. Gen. Partin concluded that "the pattern of
damage would have been technically impossible without supplementary
demolition charges at some of the reinforced concrete bases inside the
building, a standard demolition technique. For a simplistic blast truck
bomb, of the size and composition reported, to be able to reach out on the
order of 60 feet and collapse a reinforced column base the size of column
A7 is beyond credulity."
Gen. Partin dismissed the official report as "a massive cover-up of immense
proportions."
Of course, the general's unquestionable expertise had no bearing on the
outcome. One reason is that his and other expert voices were drowned out by
media pumping the official story. Another reason is that public beliefs in
a democracy run counter to suspicion of government as a terrorist agent.
Professor Laurie Manwell of the University of Guelph says that "false flag"
operations have the advantage over truth: "research shows that people are
far less willing to examine information that disputes, rather than
confirms, their beliefs." Professor Steven Hoffman agrees: "Our data shows
substantial support for a cognitive theory known as 'motivated reasoning,'
which suggests that rather than search rationally for information that
either confirms or disconfirms a particular belief, people actually seek
out information that confirms what they already believe. In fact, for the
most part people completely ignore contrary information." Even when hard
evidence turns up, it can be discredited as a "conspiracy theory."
All that is necessary for success of "false flag" or "black ops" events is
for the government to have its story ready and to have a reliable and
compliant media. Once an official story is in place, thought and
investigation are precluded. Any formal inquiry that is convened serves to
buttress the already provided explanation.
An explanation ready-at-hand is almost a give-away that an incident is a
"black ops" event. Notice how quickly the U.S. government, allegedly so
totally deceived by al Qaida, provided the explanation for 9/11. When
President Kennedy was assassinated, the government produced the culprit
immediately. The alleged culprit was conveniently shot inside a jail by a
civilian before he could be questioned. But the official story was ready,
and it held.
Professors Manwell and Hoffman's research resonates with me. I remember
reading in my graduate studies that the Czarist secret police set off bombs
in order to create excuses to arrest their targets. My inclination was to
dismiss the accounts as anti-Czarist propaganda by pro-communist
historians. It was only later when Robert Conquest confirmed to me that
this was indeed the practice of the Czarist secret police that the scales
fell from my eyes.
Former CIA official Philip Giraldi in his article, "The Rogue Nation,"
makes it clear that the U.S. government has a hegemonic agenda that it is
pursuing without congressional or public awareness. The agenda unfolds
piecemeal as a response to "terrorism," and the big picture is not
understood by the public or by most in Congress. Giraldi protests that the
agenda is illegal under both U.S. and international law, but that the
illegality of the agenda does not serve as a barrier. Only a naif could
believe that such a government would not employ "false flag" operations
that advance the agenda.
The U.S. population, it seems, is comprised of naifs whose lack of
comprehension is bringing ruin to other lands.
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