ZGram - June 21, 2002 - "Was 9/11 another Pearl Harbor?" - Part II

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ZGRAM - WHERE TRUTH IS DESTINY

JUNE 21, 2002

GOOD MORNGING FROM THE ZUNDELSITE:

PART II OF "WAS 9/11 ANOTHER PEARL HARBOR?" by The Questioning Patriot

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Consider the following historical items of interest about which the 
history books don't bother to tell you very much:

      1. The Mexican War (1846-1848) was, in my opinion, the 
culmination of the unofficial policy of "Manifest Destiny," and the 
official 1822 Monroe Doctrine that loudly proclaimed that European 
interference in the Western Hemisphere would not be tolerated. Major 
business interests in the U. S. wanted control of all of the land 
from "sea to shining sea" to include all of the natural resources, 
and were willing to do whatever was necessary to get it. The Texas 
War for Independence from Mexico (1835-1836) along with the 
annexation of Texas in March of 1845, was one of the two major 
provocations leading to the Mexican War because we knew that Mexico 
would never recognize the independence of Texas nor its annexation. 
The second major provocation took place in January of 1846 when Polk 
sent Gen. Zachary Taylor's newly raised military force at Corpus 
Christi to the Rio Grande. In April of 1846, Mexican cavalry crossed 
the Rio Grande and killed some members of an American scouting 
expedition, and the U. S. had the major event necessary to create the 
rationale for going to war with Mexico. With the signing of the July 
1848 peace treaty with Mexico, the U. S. had acquired huge tracts of 
land north of the current border with Mexico. In 1853, the Gadsden 
Purchase acquired some additional territory that is now in Arizona.

      2. The Spanish-American War of 1898 took place as a direct 
result of the sinking of the USS Maine in Cuba's Havana Harbor, and 
the efforts by the so-called "yellow press" of William Randolph 
Hearst ( and Joseph Pulitzer to whip up anti-Spanish sentiment. As 
originally written by the Hearst and Pulitzer newspapers, a mine 
attached to the hull by Spanish and/or Cuban saboteurs had sunk the 
USS Maine. Again, U. S. business interests achieved their desired 
results with the elimination of all Spanish military interests in the 
Western Hemisphere to include the Philippines. It was only much later 
that it became known that the hull-plates of the Maine had been blown 
outward, not inward as would have been expected from the explosive 
blast of an externally-placed mine. What caused the explosion on the 
Maine? Or rather, what caused the TWO explosions that were described 
in detail by the ship's captain in his log? We are now expected to 
believe the last "official" theory that coal dust in one of the 
ship's coal bins exploded, causing the Maine to sink.

      3. U. S. military involvement in World War I lasted from 1916 
to 1918, and was a direct result of the anti-German feeling that grew 
out of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915 off the southern 
coast of Ireland with the loss of 124 American lives. The fact that 
the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat is incontestable ... 
however, there has been considerable controversy surrounding whether 
or not the Germans were tipped-off to the route of the Lusitania, and 
why the captain chose to sail in waters that he supposedly had been 
warned to avoid. Was it a British conspiracy to get the Americans 
into the war, or was it a joint U. S.-British conspiracy that got the 
U. S. into the war to achieve certain U. S. business objectives?

      4. Much has been written about the Japanese attack on Pearl 
Harbor, the event that galvanized the previously isolationist 
American public to enter World War II. WWII Pacific Theater veteran 
Robert B. Stinnett has recently written Day of Deceit, published by 
Touchstone Books, 2000, in which he details from previously 
unreleased military and government documents that we had broken the 
Japanese codes in early 1940. FDR had tried desperately to get the U. 
S. into the war in Europe without success ... the American people 
were once again taking an isolationist view, and nothing short of a 
major event would cause them to consider fighting in another World 
War. FDR used an eight-point plan developed by Lt. Cdr. Arthur 
McCollum to provoke the Japanese into attacking our assets in the 
Pacific, assets that were moved into place from 1940 to just before 
the attack on Pearl Harbor. Using the information supplied from the 
broken codes, FDR was able to anticipate the Japanese moves in the 
Pacific, and was fully aware of the plans to attack the U. S. fleet 
at Pearl Harbor. This fleet had originally been based on the U. S. 
West Coast and was moved to Pearl Harbor over the objections of 
Admiral Richardson, the commander of that fleet. Because Japan was 
allied with Germany and Italy, any attack by Japan on U. S. assets in 
the Pacific would warrant a declaration of war against Japan, one 
that would also involve us in the war in Europe, which had been FDR's 
primary objective all along. It was also well-known among the leaders 
of major U. S. business interests that getting into another war would 
be good for those U. S. business interests, during and after the 
completion of the war ... FDR knew that he could count on their 
support. The Bush, Walker, and Harriman families were among those 
that profited, along with Ford, General Motors, and IBM to name but a 
very few major U. S. corporations that did quite well financially.

      5. The Korean War (1950-1953) () was fought primarily to stem 
the flow of Communism in the Far East, at least that's what we've 
been told. It was really all about protecting U. S. business 
interests in the Far East, and creating a permanent base in South 
Korea that would require constant funding.

      6. The events surrounding the creation of what we know to be 
modern-day Cuba are still shrouded in partial secrecy. From Fidel 
Castro's seizure of power in 1959, with CIA assistance, until 1963, 
we have seen the Bay of Pigs fiasco (April 1961), the attempt to 
activate Operation Northwoods (March 1962), the Cuban Missile Crises 
(October 1962), and the JFK Assassination (November 1963). What, 
besides Cuba itself, was the common thread in all of these events? 
The common thread was the attempt by U. S. business, intelligence, 
military and criminal interests to regain what they had lost when 
Castro's men took control of the government of Cuba. 6.A. The Bay of 
Pigs was meant to be the spark that would cause the anti-Castro 
Cubans to revolt. Like L. Fletcher Prouty, I find it very interesting 
that two of the transport ships associated with this operation were 
named the "Barbara J." and the "Houston" after they were acquired by 
L. Fletcher Prouty (then military liaison in the Pentagon to the CIA) 
from the Navy and repainted - Barbara is George H. W. Bush's wife, 
and Houston is where they lived in 1963. Another interesting fact 
about the Bay of Pigs is that it was code-named "Operation Zapata," 
which just happens to be the name of the elder Bush's first business, 
the Zapata Offshore Oil Drilling Company. Is it possible that that 
George H. W. Bush played some part in the Bay of Pigs operation, or 
could all of this be chalked up to a mere coincidence?

      6.B. I also find it interesting that among the contemporaries 
of George H. W. Bush during the boom of the Cuban Task Force based in 
Miami, Florida, were Vice President Richard Nixon, CIA agents E. 
Howard Hunt, Frank Sturgis (Fiorini), and Bernard Barker, and CIA 
contract agent George DeMohrenschildt. Richard Nixon was intimately 
involved in the planning of the covert and overt operations against 
Cuba, as he was with all active and planned intelligence operations 
at that time. Hunt was known in Miami as "The Bagman" because he 
controlled large sums of money used to pay for some of the 
Miami-based anti-Castro Cuban operations, Sturgis is believed to have 
assisted Castro's forces during Castro's rise to power, and Barker 
was involved in the Bay of Pigs Operation. Hunt, Sturgis and Barker 
became famous, or infamous, for their work as White House Plumbers 
during the Watergate Scandal. DeMohrenschildt is an interesting 
historical figure that I will discuss a greater length below.

      6.C. Operation Northwoods was a plan drafted by the JCS and 
forwarded for approval to McNamara ... a plan that called for the U. 
S. military to carry out domestic acts of terrorism against U. S. 
cities to build public opinion for an invasion of Cuba. Does this 
plan sound similar to anything that has happened recently?

      6.D. The Cuban Missile Crisis during the month of October 1962 
was an attempt by U. S. hardliners to up the ante, so to speak ... to 
enable the U. S. military to have the excuse necessary to attack the 
old Soviet Union and to re-take Cuba.

      6.E. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy was the 
last attempt to create the "war fever" necessary to support a war 
against the Soviet Union. As soon as the last gunshot echo died in 
Dealey Plaza, the media was inundated with information about Lee 
Harvey Oswald. What better person to blame for the killing of JFK 
than a "deserter" who had lived in the Soviet Union and had been 
documented handing out leaflets in New Orleans supportive of Fidel 
Castro? But how does that square with the fact that while in the 
Marines he was a radar operator involved with tracking U-2 flights in 
and out of the Atsugi Air Force Base in Japan? And how exactly did 
Oswald end up with a 201 personnel file in CIA records? It's 
interesting to me that the Warren Commission and the House Select 
Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) documented the fact that George 
DeMohrenschildt, a Russian who, oil geologist, and the man who had 
befriended Oswald and Marina in Fort Worth, Texas, had the name of 
George H. W. Bush listed in his address book. Maybe it had something 
to do with the fact that he was a contract agent for the CIA. It's 
also interesting that the HSCA makes note of the fact that "George 
Bush of the CIA" was briefed by an FBI man in Houston following the 
JFK assassination. And finally, why did Nixon say to the CIA that 
they didn't want the subject of the "Bay of Pigs" brought up? Why did 
he say, in recently revealed audiotapes, that the Warren Commission 
was the "biggest hoax"? Why was he in Dallas on November 22, 1963, 
and only fly out of Dallas 30 minutes before the assassination took 
place ... and why did he later deny three different times that he had 
even been there?

      7. The Tonkin Gulf Incident in August 1964 off the coast of 
Vietnam was used as an excuse by LBJ to escalate the war in Vietnam, 
a war that was to drag on for ten long years from 1963 to 1973. JFK 
had signed NSAM (National Security Action Memorandum) 263 on October 
11, 1963 that called for the beginning of the removal of U. S. troops 
from Vietnam. Less than a month and a half later, JFK was lying dead 
in a Dallas hospital. On November 26, 1963, four days after the death 
of JFK, President Johnson signed NSAM 273 calling for the renewed 
support of South Vietnam and doing whatever it took to help the South 
Vietnamese. But, the American public had to be convinced that 
fighting in Vietnam was "justified," and the Tonkin Gulf Incident 
supplied that motive. What exactly was the Tonkin Gulf Incident? The 
official story was that North Vietnamese torpedo boats launched an 
"unprovoked attack" against a U.S. destroyer on "routine patrol" in 
the Tonkin Gulf on August 2, 1964 - and that North Vietnamese PT 
boats followed up with a "deliberate attack" on a pair of U.S. ships 
two days later. Rather than being on a routine patrol August 2, the 
U.S. destroyer USS Maddox was actually engaged in aggressive 
intelligence-gathering maneuvers - in sync with coordinated attacks 
on North Vietnam by the South Vietnamese navy and the Laotian air 
force. On the night of August 4, 1964, the Pentagon proclaimed that a 
second attack by North Vietnamese PT boats had taken place earlier 
that day in the Tonkin Gulf - a report cited by LBJ as he went on 
national TV that evening to announce a momentous escalation in the 
war: air strikes against North Vietnam. Prior to the U.S. air 
strikes, top officials in Washington had reason to doubt that any 
August 4 attack by North Vietnam had occurred. Cables from the U.S. 
task force commander in the Tonkin Gulf, Captain John J. Herrick, 
referred to "freak weather effects," "almost total darkness," and an 
"overeager sonarman" who "was hearing ship's own propeller beat." One 
of the Navy pilots flying overhead that night was squadron commander 
James Stockdale, who gained fame later as a POW and then Ross Perot's 
vice presidential candidate. "I had the best seat in the house to 
watch that event," recalled Stockdale a few years ago, "and our 
destroyers were just shooting at phantom targets - there were no PT 
boats there ... . There was nothing there but black water and 
American fire power." In 1965, Lyndon Johnson commented: "For all I 
know, our Navy was shooting at whales out there." But Johnson's 
deceitful speech of August 4, 1964, won accolades from editorial 
writers. The president, proclaimed the New York Times, "went to the 
American people last night with the somber facts." The Los Angeles 
Times urged Americans to "face the fact that the Communists, by their 
attack on American vessels in international waters, have themselves 
escalated the hostilities."

      8. The 1991 Desert Storm Campaign raises a number of issues, 
primarily what were the events leading up to the War with Iraq, and 
what role did the U. S. play in creating the conditions that allowed 
the war to take place? Did a U. S. Ambassador tell an Iraqi senior 
functionary that the U. S. would do nothing if Iraq invaded Kuwait? 
Was the young woman who tearfully testified to a Congressional 
Committee that Iraqi soldiers had taken Kuwaiti babies off 
respirators in a Kuwaiti hospital really the daughter of a senior 
Kuwaiti ambassador and not a nurse as she had claimed, and that she 
had lied about those events to Congress? The answer to both of those 
questions is "Yes," and they were used to bolster the case for war 
against Iraq following their invasion of Kuwait. Iraq was the only 
country at that time militarily capable of hindering the continued 
acquisition of Middle Eastern oil, and our country's business 
interests required that Iraq be dealt with in a way that would 
convince other countries around the world via the American mainstream 
media that the U. S. was the only Superpower in the world. Since 
history has this rather annoying habit of repeating itself, take a 
guess as to which country is now perceived to be a current hindrance 
to our acquisition of the vast oil reserves of the Caspian Sea area.

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      It is all too clear that the U. S. has used fabricated means in 
the past to achieve political, economic and military objectives. It 
is also becoming very clear that Bush and his supporters launched the 
"war against terror" by seizing on the overwhelming national sense of 
fear and hate toward an enemy the average American knew very little 
about. It is also clear that this is a war that has met none of the 
original objectives and continues to produce American casualties.

      Where is Osama Bin Laden? Unknown.

      Where is Mullah Omar? Unknown.

      Has the Al Qaeda terrorist organization been truly crippled as 
we have been told repeatedly for the last several months, or have 
they just vanished to regroup and strike again? Unknown.

      Is the list of hijackers accurate? Not according to the latest 
testimony by FBI Director Mueller.

      In how many countries do we now have American combat troops? Unknown.

      Has the new Afghani government agreed to allow the construction 
of an oil pipeline across Afghanistan? Yes.

      Does Halliburton (Cheney's former company) have a long-term 
contract with the U. S. to build advance military bases wherever 
directed by the "war on terror"? Yes.

      Was September 11, 2001, another Pearl Harbor in the way that we 
have always been taught in school? Yes.

      Was September 11, 2001, another Pearl Harbor that was allowed 
to happen? You be the judge.

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