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White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Reagan official (Paul Craig Roberts Nutjob alert!)
RIA Novosti ^ | 7-24-07

Posted on 07/24/2007 3:27:40 PM PDT by SJackson

White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Reagan official 13:58 | 20/ 07/ 2007

WASHINGTON, July 20 (RIA Novosti) - A former Reagan official has issued a public warning that the Bush administration is preparing to orchestrate a staged terrorist attack in the United States, transform the country into a dictatorship and launch a war with Iran within a year.

Paul Craig Roberts, a former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury, blasted Thursday a new Executive Order, released July 17, allowing the White House to seize the assets of anyone who interferes with its Iraq policies and giving the government expanded police powers to exercise control in the country.

Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: "When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order], there's no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule."

"The American people don't really understand the danger that they face," Roberts said, adding that the so-called neoconservatives intended to use a renewal of the fight against terrorism to rally the American people around the fading Republican Party.

Old-line Republicans like Roberts have become increasingly disenchanted with the neoconservative politics of the Bush administration, which they see as a betrayal of fundamental conservative values.

According to a July 9-11 survey by Ipsos, an international public opinion research company, President Bush and the Republicans can claim a mere 31 percent approval rating for their handling of the Iraq war and 38 percent for their foreign policy in general, including terrorism.

"The administration figures themselves and prominent Republican propagandists ... are preparing us for another 9/11 event or series of events," he said. "You have to count on the fact that if al Qaeda is not going to do it, it is going to be orchestrated."

Roberts suggested that in the absence of a massive popular outcry, only the federal bureaucracy and perhaps the military could put constraints on Bush's current drive for a fully-fledged dictatorship.

"They may have had enough. They may not go along with it," he said.

The radio interview was a follow-up to Robert's latest column, in which he warned that "unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year from now the U.S. could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran."

Roberts, who has been dubbed the "Father of Reaganomics" and has recently gained popularity for his strong opposition to the Bush administration and the Iraq War, regularly contributes articles to Creators Syndicate, an independent distributor of comic strips and syndicated columns for daily newspapers.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: 911; communists; cuespookymusic; kgb; lhudesingcuccu; moonbats; morethorazineplease; paulcraigroberts; putin; russia; sovietunion; truther
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To: SJackson
Roberts, who spoke on the Thom Hartmann radio program, said: "When Bush exercises this authority [under the new Executive Order], there's no check to it. So it really is a form of total, absolute, one-man rule."

What an idiotic statement.

41 posted on 07/24/2007 3:56:17 PM PDT by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: 1rudeboy
Hey, Paul. This is for you.


42 posted on 07/24/2007 3:57:57 PM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: Diplomat
Among other things, he's a truther.

Myself I'd never trust Wiki, but they're a good source when they provide footnotes/sources, so my guess what he said, he said.

43 posted on 07/24/2007 3:58:16 PM PDT by SJackson (isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
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To: SJackson

...more crap from the Euro-religious identity Kennedy wing. Our President should kick the rest of them out of our Government, stop trying to be one of them, and put Iran down.


44 posted on 07/24/2007 3:58:27 PM PDT by familyop (cbt. engr. (cbt.)--has-been, will write Duncan Hunter in)
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To: Mase

We should have a one-day amnesty for all the banned FReepers to comment on this thread.


45 posted on 07/24/2007 4:01:16 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: SJackson

“White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Reagan official 13:58 | 20/ 07/ 2007”

Has anyone pinged the Paulistinians?


46 posted on 07/24/2007 4:02:32 PM PDT by Grunthor (God sends NO ONE to hell. That's why He gave you free will.)
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To: SJackson

Paul Craig Roberts, please meet Ramsey Clark and Micheal Moore. You have a lot in common.


47 posted on 07/24/2007 4:03:52 PM PDT by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1 - Take no prisoners))
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To: Thunder90
ColdWar-I sucked inhaled vigorously enough. I'm too old for a reprise. Don't the Russians ever get tired of being stupid?
48 posted on 07/24/2007 4:06:32 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets (I never consented to live in the Camp of the Saints.)
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To: Lonesome in Massachussets

It’s a long term thing, but I suspect they’re ready for a rematch. The mideast is still a rich prize


49 posted on 07/24/2007 4:09:15 PM PDT by SJackson (isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
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To: Grunthor

Does this executive order pass the Clinton test? Would we on Free republic be happy with Hillary at the reigns with this executive order in place?


50 posted on 07/24/2007 4:11:12 PM PDT by CJ Wolf
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To: SJackson

I don’t trust Wikipedia at all either; however, I have found it occassionally useful and entertaining. That said, his Wikipedia entry is a laugh riot.

More from wikipedia on Paul Craig Roberts:

Roberts is also a critic of a potential Bush administration attack on Iran. In an August 15, 2005 article, he states “Bush...dismisses all facts and assurances and is willing to attack Iran based on nothing but Israel’s paranoia.”

Although his criticisms of Bush often seem to align him with the political left, Roberts continues to praise Ronald Reagan and to endorse many of Reagan’s policies, arguing that “true conservatives” were the “first victims” of the neoconized Bush administration [2].

He has said that many supporters of George W. Bush “are brownshirts with the same low intelligence and morals as Hitler’s enthusiastic supporters.”[3]

In 1993 the Forbes Media Guide ranked him as one of the top seven journalists in the United States [1].


Back to me. You’ll note that each of the quotes I pulled have source references from the Wiki entry.

Feel the love people. I’d wager any amount of money this guy plays for the wrong team, if you know what I mean.


51 posted on 07/24/2007 4:13:54 PM PDT by Diplomat
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52 posted on 07/24/2007 4:18:02 PM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (Got Towel?)
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To: Diplomat

They’re a good source of sources, and often reliable, but political issues, trust but verify.


53 posted on 07/24/2007 4:23:18 PM PDT by SJackson (isolationism never was, never will be acceptable response to[expansionist] tyrannical governments)
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Paul Craig Roberts has been steadily slipping down the mental toilet for about seven years. I was there when he got a prestigious writing award. He's fallen apart since then. No one should take anything he says now with any seriousness. It's sad to see a talented person throw it all away.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Politics in this Neck of the Woods"

54 posted on 07/24/2007 4:24:01 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Please visit www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: SJackson

“...regularly contributes articles to Creators Syndicate, an independent distributor of comic strips...”


55 posted on 07/24/2007 4:24:32 PM PDT by John W
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To: SJackson

If anyone cares to read the EO:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html


56 posted on 07/24/2007 4:38:49 PM PDT by james500
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To: SJackson

I think Paul Craig Roberts has gone off the deep end. He has a BAD case of BDS!


57 posted on 07/24/2007 4:38:55 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: hinckley buzzard

There were folks on the right who were just SURE that x42 was going to do this in Jan. 2001.


58 posted on 07/24/2007 4:42:28 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: CJ Wolf

“Does this executive order pass the Clinton test? Would we on Free republic be happy with Hillary at the reigns with this executive order in place?”

I don’t hink the order is a good idea no matter who is in office, that being said whats’ that got to do with what I posted?


59 posted on 07/24/2007 4:44:31 PM PDT by Grunthor (God sends NO ONE to hell. That's why He gave you free will.)
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To: Chicos_Bail_Bonds

I remember some here saying the same thing about Clinton.


60 posted on 07/24/2007 4:46:51 PM PDT by ShandaLear (Extremists always meet each other full circle.)
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