Tupelo, MS paper: Operation Northwoods, Downing Street

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and Peak Oil.

RICHARD BABB: Operation Northwoods, Downing Street and Peak Oil

6/26/2005 1:07:50 AM
Daily Journal


It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government. – Thomas Paine





Back in 1963, as a well-scoured six-year-old preacher's kid, I spent much time playing in the dirt at the ramshackle home of my friend, Gary Lloyd. There I was introduced not only to the fine art of cussing, but also to Gary's sisters who somehow managed to freely frolic outside sans clothing. All of this occurred under the approving and watchful eye of Mrs. Loyd who always sat placidly and Buddha-like on the front porch with an unbuddha-like cigarette and drink.


At the same time that Gary and his sisters seemed intent on leading me down the road to a Mississippi Methodist Hell, the military leaders of the United States were planning to unleash another kind of hell, an attack on a country: it's own, the United States of America. According to released classified documents, the Joint Chiefs of Staff had concocted a plan in which the military would attack its own citizens and then fix the blame on Cuba and Fidel Castro. The plan, Operation Northwoods, included the indiscriminate killing of American citizens, hijacking of airliners, and even sabotaging the flight of Astronaut John Glenn as he rocketed into space.





Invasion pretext


The plan was presented to the Secretary of Defense and President Kennedy, both of whom rejected the operation as a bit too hare-brained, even though all of the medal-larded, and ribbon-befitted Joint Chiefs had signed off on it.

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1. The closer is excellent.

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Or to ask the hard, hard question: Would we have gone to war if Iraq possessed the world's second largest reserve of figs, rather than oil?

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2. That is the greatest question all weekend..... largest reserve of figs.

Now, another - if our military, intelligence, and politicos were willing to cause destruction and death in the U.S. in 1963, including the shuttle, why wouldn't/couldn't they be willing to cause destruction and death in 2001 and 2003? Especially with a 'precendent' who was willing to sign off on it and a VP who was leading it? Especially considering reasons. With Cuba, they wanted Cuba back for the mafia and CIA under the guise of fighting communism and to get even with Castro on behalf of the Batista exiles and the re-entrenchment of the mafia. With the Middle East, they had untold profit for a few, water and oil lines to Israel and the Mediterranean, the security of Israel, the protection of the dollar over the euro, and a giant military presence in the region. Which reasons are grander and were more urgent to them?

And, in the future, if any or all of this turns out to be true, they are going to say that they did it all for you and for me.