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In June of this year (2008), Charlie Black, a career Republican operative and strategist, stated that, “a terrorist attack would be of great benefit to the McCain campaign.” It is a foregone conclusion that the Bush-Cheney Regime has employed a propaganda-enhanced, media blitz to instill fear in the American people for the purpose of enlisting support for its perverse policies here and abroad. It would not be beyond the realm of possibility that this same perversity would provoke, precipitate, or even produce a terrorist attack to maintain its power base throughout the next administration. Following Black’s untimely airing of this sentiment, the possibility of facilitating this strategy was removed and the Republican hierarchy had to somehow ‘up the ante.’ What could be more useful than the re-emergence of aggression from the former Evil Empire—they hit the jackpot.
In a previous commentary, I pointed out that Georges Bush, Senior and Junior; Dick Cheney; David Addington; along with the entire Carlyle Group; are on the same payroll as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Nouri Maliki, and Muqtada al-Sadr. I omitted several other names from that list including those of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. When one examines recent history, one must consider the following: the former Soviet Union began implementing a free market economic system in 1983. A mere 25 years later, Moscow boasts of having the most billionaires in residence of any city in the world, among them Wally Putin. When this Muscovite consortium of oil billionaires challenged the management authority of British Petroleum in Russia, Putin, overnight, went from being the face of modern Russia to a throwback to the Brezhnev years. In response to Putin’s rejection of western influence over his new cash cow, the United States and Western Europe formed political and economic alliances with neighboring Georgia and launched an effort to enroll this ‘pro-democracy’ state into NATO. Thus began the current conflict.
It is no coincidence that Bush and Putin were together at the Olympics when Putin boldly announced that the invasion had begun, reminiscent of two mafia dons meeting at a racetrack. This new battlefield is yet another turf war where oil is the prize rather than heroin. The only good news is that the greed and corruption among Russia’s ‘leadership,’ is so thorough and pervasive that little or no money has been allocated for the modernization of the Russian war machine. That fact, coupled with the reality of the depletion of American military power resulting from the Iraq fiasco, when East meets West on the field of battle in Georgia, this war may have to be fought with knives and clubs.
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