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 |  We are America[1].  We are our own worst Enemy.  Who needs
 |  Friends when we can manufacture Enemies at will?
 |
 |  `Axis of Evil'?[2] -- We made Iran what it is today![3]  We
 |  made Iraq what it is today![4]  We even made Korea what it
 |  is today![5][6]  And, as if that wasn't enough, we made
 |  America what it is today.[7]
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 |  Who needs Friends when we can manufacture Enemies at will? 
 |  We are our own worst Enemy.  We are America[1].
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 |  First Morning Thoughts
 |  Sunday, September 21, 2003
 |  Leif Erlingsson
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 |  NOTES:
 |
 |  (1): ``At some point we may be the only ones left.  That's
 |  okay with me.  We are America.'' -- George Bush, January
 |  31st, 2002, At Camp David, Advise and Dissent, Washington
 |  Post A01, 
 |  http://unansweredquestions.org/timeline/2002/wpost013102.html ,
 |  http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64802-2002Jan30&notFound=true ,
 |  http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A64858-2002Jan30&notFound=true
 |
 |  (2): The ``President's'' State of the Union Address, George
 |  W. Bush, The United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.,
 |  January 29, 2002, 
 |  http://whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020129-11.html:
 |  ``Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror
 |  from threatening America or our friends and allies with
 |  weapons of mass destruction.  Some of these regimes have
 |  been pretty quiet since September the 11th.  But we know
 |  their true nature.  North Korea is a regime arming with
 |  missiles and weapons of mass destruction, while starving its
 |  citizens.    Iran aggressively pursues these weapons and
 |  exports terror, while an unelected few repress the Iranian
 |  people's hope for freedom.    Iraq continues to flaunt its
 |  hostility toward America and to support terror.  The Iraqi
 |  regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and
 |  nuclear weapons for over a decade.  This is a regime that
 |  has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own
 |  citizens -- leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their
 |  dead children.  This is a regime that agreed to
 |  international inspections -- then kicked out the inspectors.
 |  This is a regime that has something to hide from the
 |  civilized world.    States like these, and their terrorist
 |  allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the
 |  peace of the world.''
 |
 |  (3): New York Times Special Report: The C.I.A. in Iran  by
 |  James Risen, 
 |  http://nytimes.com/library/world/mideast/041600iran-cia-index.html
 |  and  http://holycrime.com/EnglishPlotIran1.pdf  plus 
 |  http://holycrime.com/EnglishPlotIran2.pdf .  Also see Kermit
 |  Replaced Mossadegh with the Shah, 
 |  http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/issue51/articles/51_14-15.pdf
 |
 |  (4): Foreign Policy, January | February 2003, An Unnecessary
 |  War, by John J. Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt, 
 |  http://foreignpolicy.com/wwwboard/walts.html :  ``In a now
 |  famous interview with the Iraqi leader, U.S. Ambassador
 |  April Glaspie told Saddam, "[W]e have no opinion on the
 |  Arab-Arab conflicts, like your border disagreement with
 |  Kuwait." The U.S. State Department had earlier told Saddam
 |  that Washington had "no special defense or security
 |  commitments to Kuwait." The United States may not have
 |  intended to give Iraq a green light, but that is effectively
 |  what it did.  ...  The United States backed Iraq during the
 |  1980s-when Saddam was gassing Kurds and Iranians-and helped
 |  Iraq use chemical weapons more effectively by providing it
 |  with satellite imagery of Iranian troop positions. The
 |  Reagan administration also facilitated Iraq's efforts to
 |  develop biological weapons by allowing Baghdad to import
 |  disease-producing biological materials such as anthrax, West
 |  Nile virus, and botulinal toxin. A central figure in the
 |  effort to court Iraq was none other than current U.S.
 |  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who was then President
 |  Ronald Reagan's special envoy to the Middle East.''
 |
 |  (5): The Global System -- Deterring Democracy: Chapter 3
 |  [1/5],  http://zmag.org/chomsky/dd/dd-c03-s01.html :  ``The
 |  Korean war, shortly after, provided "an excellent
 |  opportunity...to disrupt the Soviet peace offensive,
 |  which...is assuming serious proportions and having a certain
 |  effect on public opinion"''
 |
 |  (6): 2. The General Outlines -- Deterring Democracy: Chapter
 |  11 [2/7],  http://zmag.org/chomsky/dd/dd-c11-s02.html : 
 |  ``Quite apart from the superpower confrontation, the United
 |  States was committed to restoring the traditional
 |  conservative order. To achieve this aim, it was necessary to
 |  destroy the anti-fascist resistance, often in favor of Nazi
 |  and fascist collaborators, to weaken unions and other
 |  popular organizations, and to block the threat of radical
 |  democracy and social reform, which were live options under
 |  the conditions of the time. These policies were pursued
 |  worldwide: in Asia, including South Korea, the Philippines,
 |  Thailand, Indochina, and crucially Japan; in Europe,
 |  including Greece, Italy, France, and crucially Germany; in
 |  Latin America, including what the CIA took to be the most
 |  severe threats at the time, "radical nationalism" in
 |  Guatemala and Bolivia. Sometimes the task required
 |  considerable brutality. In South Korea, about 100,000 people
 |  were killed in the late 1940s by security forces installed
 |  and directed by the United States. This was before the
 |  Korean war, which Jon Halliday and Bruce Cumings describe as
 |  "in essence" a phase -- marked by massive outside
 |  intervention -- in "a civil war fought between two domestic
 |  forces: a revolutionary nationalist movement, which had its
 |  roots in tough anti-colonial struggle, and a conservative
 |  movement tied to the status quo, especially to an unequal
 |  land system," restored to power under the U.S. occupation.''
 |
 |  (7): Homeland Security Act: The Rise of the American Police
 |  State, by Jennifer Van Bergen, Tuesday, December 3, 2002, 
 |  http://truthout.org/docs_02/12.04B.jvb.hsa.2.htm :  ``One
 |  does not need to look into the Council on Foreign Relations,
 |  however, to discover the hidden agenda behind the Homeland
 |  Security Act.  David Armstrong recently wrote a detailed
 |  article for Harper's Magazine on "Dick Cheney's Song of
 |  America: Drafting a Plan for Global Dominance." ... "The
 |  plan," according to Armstrong, "is to rule the world.  The
 |  overt theme is unilateralism, but it is ultimately a story
 |  of domination.  It calls for the United States to maintain
 |  its overwhelming military superiority and prevent new rivals
 |  from rising up to challenge it on the world stage.  It calls
 |  for dominion over friends and enemies alike.  It says not
 |  that the United States must be more powerful, or most
 |  powerful, but that it must be absolutely powerful." ... When
 |  the Plan was leaked in March 1992 to the New York Times,
 |  Delaware Senator Joseph Biden criticized its proposal of "a
 |  global security system where threats to stability are
 |  suppressed or destroyed by U.S. military power." ... From
 |  military "base force" and a tentative "forward presence" to
 |  "preemptive strikes" and "unwarned attacks." ... Armstrong
 |  notes: "This country once rejected "unwarned" attacks such
 |  as Pearl Harbor as barbarous and unworthy of a civilized
 |  nation." Armstrong further states that we "also once
 |  denounced those who tried to rule the world." ... The Plan,
 |  finally, envisions unilateral action without alliances. 
 |  Coalitions are relegated to "ad hoc assemblies, often not
 |  lasting beyond the crisis being confronted." Where it cannot
 |  get others to agree with its goals or decisions, the United
 |  States will "act independently" to address "selectively
 |  those wrongs which threaten not only our interests, but
 |  those of our allies or friends." Coalitions "must not
 |  determine the mission." American interests, according to the
 |  Plan, include "access to vital raw materials, primarily
 |  Persian Gulf oil, proliferation of weapons of mass
 |  destruction and ballistic missiles, [and] threats to U.S.
 |  citizens from terrorism."''
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 |  Copyright © Leif Erlingsson 2003.  The above may be
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 |  as long as this copyright message is also cited in full.
 |  This includes the notes, in full!  However, please drop me
 |  a line at leif@lege.com when you use my text, citing the
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