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JohnyCanuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-21-11 09:12 AM
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3. We know the anthrax mailing was a false flag op
that helped out Bush, Cheney and the PNACers in stirring up war fever against Saddam Hussein and Iraq. The main question that maybe the FBI would rather not have to answer is, was it really just a lone-nutter who took on the role of amateur psy-war warrior and false flag op instigator, or was he acting in complicity with others.

Inside America's Biological Warfare Center: Q. & A. Interview With Attorney Barry Kissin

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Q: The anthrax letters had "Death to Israel," "Death to America " and "Allah is Great" printed in them. This seems like a crude propaganda plant to make the public believe the letters were sent by persons from the Middle East or their sympathizers. I've also heard it said the Bush Administration leaked information at the time of the anthrax attacks that the letters came from the Muslim world. What do you make of that?

A: This aspect of the anthrax letters is what makes the anthrax letters a "false flag" operation. A "false flag" operation is one wherein a country stages an attack made to look like an attack by an enemy, so as to justify an (aggressive) attack upon that enemy. Clearly, elements in the Bush administration and in the media, for as long as they could get away with it, pretended that the anthrax letters came from Iraq. This played an unmistakable role in gathering support for the invasion of Iraq.

Q: What do you believe was the motivation for the anthrax attacks?

A: The practice of inventing or exaggerating an attack or a threat in order to stimulate demand for military build-up and war has been in place forever. (The Gulf of Tonkin incident and the fabrication of Iraqi soldiers throwing Kuwaiti babies out of incubators before the first Gulf War are important, relatively recent examples.) In his 1961 Farewell Address, President Eisenhower warned about the "unwarranted influence" and "misplaced power" of the "military-industrial complex." Before that, General Douglas MacArthur declaimed: "Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear." And before that, General Smedley Butler: "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious." And while we are at it, let's also heed James Madison, the primary author of our Constitution: "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home." And: "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy."

http://www.sherwoodross.com/articles/inside-americas-biological-warfare-center
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