AIPAC Pushing US into Next War

From What Really Happened:

‘The Israel lobby is aiming to soften up US public opinion for an attack on Iran,’ writes Richard Silverstein, ‘Americans should resist its propaganda’.

I’m not so sure Obama would keep us out of war with Iran. Events could unfold conveniently that could draw us into an even deeper hole than Afghanistan.

The `Military Industrial Complex’ Danger: A Presidential Warning

Washington’s War Cry for Iranian Blood

Pat Buchanan’s final post for February spotlighted the renewed cry for war with Iran. Make no mistake about this, there is a concerted effort among many in Washington, the self-aggrandizing that believe they are above us commoners, to spill young American blood for the further conquest of the Near and Middle East. To be assured, the two main political parties are joined at the hip with this perpetual war policy. (It’s time for a new way, a new party!)

PJB said:

For, unlike Israel, Pakistan and India, none of which signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and all of which ran clandestine programs and built atom bombs, Iran signed the NPT and has abided by its Safeguards Agreement. What it refuses to accept are the broader demands of the U.N. Security Council because these go beyond the NPT and sanction Iran for doing what it has a legal right to do.

Moreover, Adm. Dennis Blair, who heads U.S. intelligence, has just restated the consensus of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that Iran does not now possess and is not now pursuing a nuclear weapons program.

Bottom line: Neither the United States nor the IAEA has conclusive evidence that Iran either has the fissile material for a bomb or an active program to build a bomb. It has never tested a nuclear device and has never demonstrated a capacity to weaponize a nuclear device, if it had one.

Why, then, the hype, the hysteria, the clamor for “Action This Day!”? It is to divert America from her true national interests and stampede her into embracing as her own the alien agenda of a renascent War Party.

None of this is to suggest the Iranians are saintly souls seeking only peace and progress. Like South Korea, Japan and other nations with nuclear power plants, they may well want the ability to break out of the NPT, should it be necessary to deter, defend against or defeat enemies.

But that is no threat to us to justify war. For decades, we lived under the threat that hundreds of Russian warheads could rain down upon us in hours, ending our national existence. If deterrence worked with Stalin and Mao, it can work with an Iran that has not launched an offensive war against any nation within the memory of any living American.

Can we Americans say the same?

No we can’t; we have misused the tremendous might this country has at it’s right hand. We have wielded our great power for everything other than “defense.”

The call must go out to every citizen to rebuke the Washington insiders march to war. We must demand our congressional representatives exercise their constitutional authority and stop this maddening march to war. Congress decides where, when and if we go to war, not the self-annointed aristocracy, or some Caesar.

U.S. Army To Buy $6 Million Of Riot Equipment

Steve Watson writing at Infowars has an article about the US Army’s plan to buy $6 million of riot gear. I am not really sure this equates to a concerted effort to suppress Americans because $6 million dollars spread over the entire force is not really a lot of money.

However what it tells me is that there are no plans to scale back “nation building” and our forces will continue to engage in police style engagements while being forever mired in peace keeping operations in the middle east, for that matter around the world. Considering the creation of the new Africa Command we can expect our forces will be toppling third world dictators for years to come, especially with Obama as president, so they will need this “police gear.”

With that said, folks should be asking their friends and families in the National Guard if they are receiving new riot control equipment as described in Watson’s article, because if they are, and in large quantities, then this is a good indicator that we may moving in the direction Watson states. The National Guard will be the first military employed for any domestic civil suppression.

But let me be clear, I do know that many in the military defense establishment, both in the government and private sectors, are planning to suppress this country. Watson may not be connecting the dots exactly, but he is seeing the end result clearly.

Gun Confiscation Drill in Iowa

Thanks to the folks at the Ohio Freedom Alliance for this tip.

In a very subtle manner the Iowa Army National Guard is planning to conduct what is called in military terms a cordon and search operation to search for a known “weapons” dealer and to confiscate weapons in the small Iowa town of Carroll. Basically during a cordon and search the military unit will seal off a given area not allowing for traffic or movement in or out of the area, and then they bring in search unit that will systematically move from one side of the search area to the other looking for caches of weapons and explosives and also suspected insurgents. It is conducted swiftly and is quite deliberate in order for the operation to use the military component of surprise. Surprise is one of the key components needed for the operation, quite simply because if the enemy knows you are coming they can escape.

Cordon and search is mission the US Army and Marine Corps conducts regularly, and are conducting on an on-going basis in Afghanistan and Iraq. But the question I have is why is the NG doing this locally when there are national military training areas throughout the US that are prepared for the given scenario and set up to defray the potential liability that can and does result from conducting this type of training? Also why is the scenario a US centric scenario and not one that is consistent with our two battle theaters?

I consider this as another of the long and growing list of examples where the US military is “softening” the US public preparing them psychologically for marshal law. I could be wrong, and this could be an example of an over ambitious commander just trying to make his command look good in the eyes of his superiors, but I have to wonder. Does this guy know something we don’t: is he being exposed to discussions among his Guard brethren that would lead to a conclusion that gun confiscation is a mission the National Guard should be prepared to do?

Check out this YouTube video from a local Iowa guy commenting on the issue. He has a local radio broadcast included that expresses the troubling concern the radio personality rightfully has.

During Vietnam this type of operation was called search and destroy until the press picked up on the term, which created quite the uproar with the American public, so the Pentagon changed the name to something kindler and gentler, ergo cordon and search.

One Oar in the Water has some comments worth considering about this situation. Namely sitting down with your county sheriff and discussing the issue of federalization, marshal law and the potential for gun confiscation.

For more information about your Ohio sheriff check out this link.

Update: One Oar just sent me an email telling me the National Guard has canceled the gun confiscation exercise. Check out One Oar’s comment. Knowing where the funding came from is key to knowing if this commander acted of his own accord, or was exercising based upon a larger effort.

Who Directs the Information into Intelligence?

Washington Technology has a short feature linking to a Washington Post article describing the number of private contractors engaged in the Intelligence Community (IC). In fact contactors make up 27 percent of the total number of the analysts in the IC.

I have to wonder with such a large number of contracted intelligence analysts, is the analysis skewed to support defense industry business expansion? Hopefully those government appointees are ensuring quality control, but I have to believe our intelligence community is ripe for commercial penetration.