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.
What an idiotic statement.
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.
...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.
We should have a one-day amnesty for all the banned FReepers to comment on this thread.
“White House preparing to stage new September 11 - Reagan official 13:58 | 20/ 07/ 2007”
Has anyone pinged the Paulistinians?
Paul Craig Roberts, please meet Ramsey Clark and Micheal Moore. You have a lot in common.
It’s a long term thing, but I suspect they’re ready for a rematch. The mideast is still a rich prize
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 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].
Feel the love people. I’d wager any amount of money this guy plays for the wrong team, if you know what I mean.
They’re a good source of sources, and often reliable, but political issues, trust but verify.
Congressman Billybob
“...regularly contributes articles to Creators Syndicate, an independent distributor of comic strips...”
I think Paul Craig Roberts has gone off the deep end. He has a BAD case of BDS!
There were folks on the right who were just SURE that x42 was going to do this in Jan. 2001.
“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?
I remember some here saying the same thing about Clinton.
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