End of the Republic?

We are experiencing the greatest constitutional crisis in our nations history. Bush and Cheney should be impeached. They have lied and flagrantly ignored the law and the constitution. Josh Marshall has been opposed impeachment and his reasons are solid - the votes aren't there.

Find me seventeen Republican senators who are going to convict President Bush in a senate trial.

That perhaps is the real constitutional crisis. I suspect that there are seventeen Senators who know that Bush (and Cheney) should be impeached but will place partisan politics before the future of the nation. Perhaps they should listen to a couple of Republicans. I discussed Bruce Fein in the link above. That brings us to Paul Craig Roberts. To hear Paul Craig Roberts speak you would think he must be wearing the most elaborate tin foil hat ever. Keep in mind that Dr Roberts has been a Republican insider who knows and has worked with Dick Cheney and others. We heard him on Thom Hartmann but you can also read it Counterpunch.

Or Face the End of Constitutional Democracy
Impeach Now

Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.

Bush has put in place all the necessary measures for dictatorship in the form of "executive orders" that are triggered whenever Bush declares a national emergency. Recent statements by Homeland Security Chief Michael Chertoff, former Republican senator Rick Santorum and others suggest that Americans might expect a series of staged, or false flag, "terrorist" events in the near future.

Many attentive people believe that the reason the Bush administration will not bow to expert advice and public opinion and begin withdrawing US troops from Iraq is that the administration intends to rescue its unpopular position with false flag operations that can be used to expand the war to Iran.

Too much is going wrong for the Bush administration: the failure of its Middle East wars, Republican senators jumping ship, Turkish troops massed on northern Iraq's border poised for an invasion to deal with Kurds, and a majority of Americans favoring the impeachment of Cheney and a near-majority favoring Bush's impeachment. The Bush administration desperately needs dramatic events to scare the American people and the Congress back in line with the militarist-police state that Bush and Cheney have fostered.

William Norman Grigg recently wrote that the GOP is "praying for a terrorist strike" to save the party from electoral wipeout in 2008.
Chertoff, Cheney, the neocon nazis, and Mossad would have no qualms about saving the bacon for the Republicans, who have enabled Bush to start two unjustified wars, with Iran waiting in the wings to be attacked in a third war.

The Bush administration has tried unsuccessfully to resurrect the terrorist fear factor by infiltrating some blowhard groups and encouraging them to talk about staging "terrorist" events. The talk, encouraged by federal agents, resulted in "terrorist" arrests hyped by the media, but even the captive media was unable to scare people with such transparent sting operations.

If the Bush administration wants to continue its wars in the Middle East and to entrench the "unitary executive" at home, it will have to conduct some false flag operations that will both frighten and anger the American people and make them accept Bush's declaration of "national emergency" and the return of the draft. Alternatively, the administration could simply allow any real terrorist plot to proceed without hindrance.

A series of staged or permitted attacks would be spun by the captive media as a vindication of the neoconsevatives' Islamophobic policy, the intention of which is to destroy all Middle Eastern governments that are not American puppet states. Success would give the US control over oil, but the main purpose is to eliminate any resistance to Israel's complete absorption of Palestine into Greater Israel.

That's right, Dr Roberts thinks that the the Bush/Cheney administration is capable of staging or allowing an attack on the United States in order to maintain power. As Dr Roberts points out it wouldn't be the first time in history.

Ask yourself: Would a government that has lied us into two wars and is working to lie us into an attack on Iran shrink from staging "terrorist" attacks in order to remove opposition to its agenda?

Only a diehard minority believes in the honesty and integrity of the Bush-Cheney administration and in the truthfulness of the corporate media.

Hitler, who never achieved majority support in a German election, used the Reichstag fire to fan hysteria and push through the Enabling Act, which made him dictator. Determined tyrants never require majority support in order to overthrow constitutional orders.

The American constitutional system is near to being overthrown. Are coming "terrorist" events of which Chertoff warns and Santorum promises the means for overthrowing our constitutional democracy?

Dr Roberts is not confident that this can be avoided. The administration has the corporate media in their camp. But keep in mind this is not from the left, this is from a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Reagan and editor of the Wall Street Journal and National Review. A man who knows the personalities he is talking about.