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What if Crazy Conspiracy Theories Are Actually Correct?
Date: Monday, April 03 @ 10:15:03 EDT
Topic: War & Terrorism



He'd had a few drinks, and his credibility is less than stellar even when he's sober.

But my old pal, One Nostril Johansen, spoke with an air of believability:

"When he was CIA head, George Bush, Sr. got to know more spies and spooks than you could ward off with a bat. I'll bet he's tight with 'rogue elements' that'd do anything for money.

"I can certainly see him, along with other Repugs and Dubya, authorizing someone to pull off provocations that could have included even 9/11. I mean, very little about the WTC attack makes sense. How come Building 7 collapsed when nothing hit it?"

Realizing One Nostril was on a roll, I sucked up more beer and said nothing.



"And what about Paul Wellstone? They say his plane crashed in bad weather. But it was only lightly overcast that day. Some guy driving by at the time passed within a couple miles of where the 'accident' happened. He was on his cell phone, and all of a sudden he started hearing loud electronic noises. Mega interference. Professor Jim Fetzer at the University of Minnesota, Duluth, says it all fits in with Wellstone getting offed by a 'pulse weapon' that tricked the plane's instruments."

One thing's for sure. I was working in the general vicinity of Wellstone's fatal crash that day, and the regional weather posed no legitimate danger to air traffic.

"And here's the kicker," One Nostril continued. "The FBI was at the crash site so early that the only way they could have gotten there was if they left Minneapolis in another plane before Paul's party departed."

I'd read the same thing, and I also remember that a bomb had been found when Wellstone was in Colombia on a fact-finding mission some months earlier. Maybe the most liberal, best Senator in America was assassinated by unscrupulous goons associated with what we've come to know and despise as the Second Bush Administration.

But that's old news.

As we mused about possible, past conspiracies, reason for fresh speculation arose. Christian peacemaker Tom Fox, who'd been abducted by a previously unknown Iraqi bunch, had recently been found dead.

"How does the resistance benefit by killing guys like Fox, who are friendly to Iraq's cause? And who the hell are those mysterious kidnappers, anyway? Not that long ago some British soldiers were caught dressed up like Arabs. The Brits did some dirty deeds in Northern Ireland, trying to implicate the IRA.

"Yup, maybe the Brits," One Nostril went on. "But it could also be black-bag operatives of our own. And what about the Golden Mosque bombing? If Iraq goes into full-blown civil war, Bush can make a case for staying forever to restore 'order.' A huge scam could be going down."

At this juncture, let's shift to documented data concerning an infamous scheme from several decades ago.

Operation Northwoods

"In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba." --David Ruppe, ABC News, May 1, 2001

Uncovered by investigative journalist James Bamford, "Operation Northwoods" was calculated to dupe us into backing a war against Cuba via a series of staged actions involving murdering even our own citizens.

Approved by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the amazing proposal is mind boggling: "We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba," and, "casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation."

Stung by the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, key figures in the Pentagon were obsessed with getting rid of the "communist menace" 90 miles from our coast.

The plan suggested deliberately flying a U-2 spy plane low enough over Cuba that it could be shot down, permitting propaganda incitement thereafter.

Additionally, had John Glenn's sub-orbital space flight tragically failed, Castro was to have been blamed for an envisioned booster explosion.

Bamford's book, Body of Secrets, discloses that Operation Northwoods "called for innocent people to be shot on American streets; for boats carrying refugees fleeing Cuba to be sunk on the high seas; for a wave of violent terrorism to be launched in Washington, D.C., Miami, and elsewhere. People would be framed for bombings they did not commit; planes would be hijacked."

Joint Chiefs chairman Gen. Lyman L. Lemnitzer met with Defense Secretary Robert McNamara on March 13, 1962, urging that Operation Northwoods be approved.

McNamara refused, with President Kennedy informing Lemnitzer a few days later that there would be no further use of force against Cuba. Lemnitzer was subsequently dismissed.

But, during intense conflict between military hardliners and a Kennedy administration that sought to assert greater civilian control, the President himself was "removed" from office by an assassin's (or assassins') bullets.

Operation Northwoods' existence was hidden from Congress for forty years.

Is it really so implausible?

We've all read books and seen movies about astonishing crimes perpetrated by those completely without scruples. Usually they involve individuals or gangs, and we understand the selfishly immoral motivation. Are corporations or government really that different?

The United States isn't at war with Islam, or even "terrorism."

George Bush invaded Iraq to assure U.S. multinational-corporate access to oil, giving America a decisive upper hand over its capitalist rivals. It's all about who'll be international top dog. Untold billions of dollars are at stake. The same goes for Iran, Washington's likely, next target.

It isn't preposterous to think evil conspiracies are unfolding.

In fact, it's a logical, first expectation -- with the burden of providing contrary, absolute proof falling squarely on those we're routinely given such good reason to seriously suspect.

Dennis Rahkonen, from Superior, Wisconsin, has been writing progressive commentary for various outlets since the Sixties. He can be reached at dennisr@cp.duluth.mn.us