09.14.06
ceases to amaze me
so… the Dim-ocrats finally grow a pair and, nearly three-and-a-half years too late, admits to the world that the pretext for our Iraq incursion was built on lies… the Senate Intelligence Committee release a "no, d’uh" report refuting the supposed Iraq/Al Qaeda "wink, wink, nudge, nudge" connection, the lies that got us into this mad war…
the link in the sentence above points to a WNPR radio program, "On Point", your typical opposing viewpoint panel discussion thing… i just happened to be streaming it in the background when i realized that, realtime, i was listening to the sound of Karl Rove’s implanted "talking points" campaign in the mouth of one of his obvious shock troops…
some chattering ass, Patrick
Clawson, spent practically all of his air time parroting the "fear and
uncertainty" party line — NPR’s own site will furnish the pull quotes:
"It would be useful to show some humility on our part in the evaluation of what we know and don’t know." Patrick Clawson
"When the committee chairman and three other Republican members vehemently oppose the conclusions of the report, it’s a stretch to call it [the report] bipartisan." Patrick Clawson
you seriously have to listen to the podcast of this program, to catch the full effect: this guy literal will repeat this phrase about how we don’t know, we can’t be sure, show some humility - in essence, when it contradicts the party line, shut the fuck up and stop thinking…
what makes my blood run cold is how accurate my
instincts that this calculated, counterspin propaganda rant reeked of
the stench of rove… as i do with most of these blogs, which i suspect
goes mostly un-noticed, i Googled this guy for contextual links to
expand the content of this post, and to chase down a link to for the audio of the show.
the
first significant link i found for this guy turned up two organizations
certain to make the heads of conspiracy theorists spin like ceiling
fans: the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund…. no big
deal: he’s a talking head on an opinion program…. those are his
credentials; so what? …well, out of curiosity, i added those two items to narrow the search, just to see what came up….
well, the first link in this modified search was to comments he made in 2003 to the House Committee on Financial Services, entitled "Impact of World Bank Loans to Iran"… hmm… to sum it up, this paper was a strategy piece on how to stop Iran from going nuclear — by screwing up its economy, so they thought… they hoped that falling oil prices would bankrupt Iran, forcing them toward the World Bank.
the problem was that they didn’t think they could convince the WB not to lend to Iran:
In short, the U.S. government can vigorously press against World Bank lending to Iran because of its poor economic policies. Raising more explicitly political objections is more problematic, but should be considered through the Security Council if Iran is found in violation of its NPT [Nuclear Proliferation Treaty] obligations.
okay… so — three years ago, this guy was part of the pre-existing plan to attack Iran’s compliance with the non-proliferation treaty, in an attempt to force ameriKKKa’s intentions upon it… i knew intuitively that this clown sounded like a shill for the Fourth Reich, but this reveals him to be much more than a fringe player…
then, the clincher: at the end of the Iran piece is his bio and other things he’s written. Check out just a brief sample:
Patrick L. Clawson is Deputy Director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
His previous positions include five years as senior research professor at the Institute for National Strategic Studies of the National Defense University and senior economist for four years each at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the World Bank, and the International Monetary Fund.
His books and monographs include:
How to Build a New Iraq After Saddam, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - 2002 edited)
The Last Arab-Israeli Battlefield? Implications of an Israeli Withdrawal from Lebanon, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy - 2000 with others)
post-Saddam Iraq before the invasion… Israel’s battlefield Lebanon, six years in advance??? damn: this mutha is all up in it — and he’s the one tapped as the sober voice of reason for a panel on NPR, which is viewed by many as a fairly impartial source of news and information???
the KarlRovian disinformation plan runs both wide and deep — these fuckers have been preparing for this takeover, this ameriKKKan Nazification, looooong before Dubya ever dreamt of being "the decider"… i’m shocked, i’m afraid and, reluctant as i am to admit it, somewhat impressed…
but i’m not surprised – i’ve been paying attention since Bush 41 and before… this is what these fuckers do; and damn — they’re good at it…