Posted on 04/14/2011 11:19:37 AM PDT by wendy1946
.....Another provocative bit of data circulating on the net is a 2007 Democracy Now! interview of US Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.). In it he says that about ten days after September 11, 2001, he was told by a general that the decision had been made to go to war with Iraq. Clark was surprised and asked why. "I don't know!" was the response. "I guess they don't know what else to do!" Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran.....
What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). That evidently puts them outside the long regulatory arm of the central bankers' central bank in Switzerland......
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Did they mention taking the US economy out too? Yes, I know this would make Bush pretty stupid, or in on it.
All this seems to be Soros-like thinking. And now we have Wall Street trying t scare Boehner away from doing anything meaningful telling him he will drive us into default. Rush is talking about this now. The debt ceiling hold out until congress returns to common sense is the only hammer we have. We are now about to be scared off from saving the country. It’s a show down. Capitalism vs. Marxism
France is going broke just like the Greeks , maybe more so, they need to steal the oil, to pay their bills. How many trillions did the fed deposit in the world bank. One of the actions under TARP.
This whole thing is total bullshit. Soros apparently sat down with the slammite brotherhood branch of AlQuaeda and told them something like "You boys play ball with me, and I'll put you in charge of Libya." Another "orange revolution" in another place which doesn't need it.
Sorry, I stopped reading with “Later, the same general said they planned to take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Iran”.
Given the parlous state of the military in 2001, nobody would even think of proposing such a plan. Why do you think that the order of battle for Iraq-2003 was inadequate?
This article does in fact make sense out of what's going on in Libya; I'd been trying to figure out a motive for this one for the last several weeks and hadn't been able to come up with anything.
“What do these seven countries have in common? In the context of banking, one that sticks out is that none of them is listed among the 56 member banks of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS).”
And neither is or was Albania, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Malta, or Taiwan, or Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, or the Ukraine, Moldava, Azerbaijan or Georgia, not to mention the “western allies in Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Egypt, Qatar, and the U.A.E. (which lack of BIS membership hasn’t seemed to hurt their U.S. relations); and in terms of BIS membership neither is or was Yemen, or Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan or Uzbekistan members, yet, in terms of “U.S. interests” or even “western interests” that does not seem to be a problem in diplomacy or trade.
And of course that still leaves out Angola, Armenia, Benin, Botswana, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Luxembourg, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mongolia, Morocco, Mozambique. Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, São Tomé and Príncipe, Western Sahara Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, Senegal, Seychelles. Sierra Leone, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Tunisia, Turkmenistan, Uganda, Uzbekistan, Zambia, Zimbabwe all of whom have no interest in the BIS either.
So, are they all next on the hit list.
So much for conspiracy theories and anonymous generals.
I haven't seen any other theory which makes any sense on this one.
I haven’t seen how this theory makes any sense; but it gets everyone’s tinfoil hats out.
For one thing, minimally, life in Libya being as good as the Russians claim it is would explain why large segments of the population appear willing to fight on Khadaffi’s side; that would be just another mystery given the spin we’ve been reading.
Yes, I know this would make Bush pretty stupid, or in on it.
We have always maintained this. And we always continued to think of him as a decent guy (and still do), my age and certain things in common.
But you do not initiate the things he did without either being clueless or in on it.
Incidentally this is why "they" hate Sarah; think of all the forces that do. (And I'm not a bandwagon fan.)
Johnny Suntrade
No, I can’t be that charitable to Clark. He is a retired General (4-star). He therefore is well-aware of the personnel constraints on the Armed Forces, and he understands that the logistical capabilities do not exist to support so many far-flung operations. Therefore, if he heard the cited rumor, he would immediately recognize it as fatuous. Any general officer would so recognize it, so I don’t believe that he heard it from another general.
Also, if he has a shred of political sense, he would see that the requisite political support to engage in so many operations could not be mustered, even in the immediate post 9/11/2001 period.
Sorry, his purported story is rancid.
I still think this one is believable. What in the world, otherwise, are the slammite brotherhood doing creating a central bank before they have a country, and what is anybody doing talking about “oppression(TM)” in a place like Libya when they clearly don’t give a rat’s ass about real oppresion in places like Sudan or the Ivory Coast. This one has Soros’ fingerprints all over it.
"I have never before heard of a central bank being created in just a matter of weeks out of a popular uprising. This suggests we have a bit more than a rag tag bunch of rebels running around and that there are some pretty sophisticated influences."
"As the United Nations works feverishly to condemn Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi for cracking down on protesters, the body's Human Rights Council is poised to adopt a report chock-full of praise for Libya's human rights record. The review commends Libya for improving educational opportunities, for making human rights a "priority" and for bettering its "constitutional" framework. Several countries, including Iran, Venezuela, North Korea, and Saudi Arabia but also Canada, give Libya positive marks for the legal protections afforded to its citizens - who are now revolting against the regime and facing bloody reprisal."
[Libyans] are entitled to free treatment and their hospitals provide the best in the world of medical equipment. Education in Libya is free, capable young people have the opportunity to study abroad at government expense. When marrying, young couples receive 60,000 Libyan dinars (about 50,000 US dollars) of financial assistance. Non-interest state loans and as practice shows, undated. Due to government subsidies the price of cars is much lower than in Europe and they are affordable for every family. Gasoline and bread cost a penny, no taxes for those who are engaged in agriculture. The Libyan people are quiet and peaceful, are not inclined to drink and are very religious.
They maintained that the international community had been misinformed about the struggle against the regime. "Tell us," they said, "who would not like such a regime?"
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