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.
She writes like a banned poster.
IMHO, this a whole bunch of steaming, stinking bull exrement.
Think what you want...doesn’t bother me..tata!
You get no disagreement from me.
Your opinion is a good one.
Are we going to have this from the left, from now on?
I suspect we will.
Falls right into the communist manifesto, that I posted earlier at:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1853040/posts?page=1911#1911
later troll
You pinged a “Paulistinian”.
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?”
Grunthor - I don’t think the order is a good idea no matter who is in office, that being said whats’ that got to do with what I posted?
CJ Wolf - You pinged a “Paulistinian”.
That being said, whats’ that got to do with what I posted?
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