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for more military adventurism by "W" is strongly opposed by two thirds of Americans, the history of use of "false flag operations" makes it a real possibility. Bush has used 9-11 to build an imperial presidency and he feels bound by no law or moral force. His historical legacy is the only real impediment.

As recently as early 2008, V.P. Cheney privately discussed use of American troops to impersonate Iranian forces to create a "causus belli" in order to justify attacking Iran. How different things can look with a new job. While C.E.O. of Halliburton, Cheney ignored executive orders of President Clinton and sold centrifuges for nuclear enrichment to Iran. At the time, Cheney publicly and privately advocated elimination of government prohibitions on commercial trading. However, after his election, Cheney has been a vehement proponent of embargoing Iran and attacking it. In both situations, his retirement benefits stood to benefit from increased business for Halliburton. Is that his abiding motivation or did he have a change of heart consistent with the neo-con strategy of foreign military intervention? Or did Zionist ambitions for a Greater Israel impact his actions? Regardless of the true motivations of the American Republican leadership for the last 30 years, it is clear that wars in Iraq and the Middle East have been an abiding strategy, pursued with Democratic acquiescence. It is the American and Iraqi people who have effectively been their cannon fodder.

As long as Israel maintains control of America's Middle East strategies, Iraq and its neighbors will be subject to attack and intervention, based on flimsy or no rationale. Although AIPAC works "hand in glove" with Israel and together with others, funnels enormous financial resources into Congressional campaigns to ensure that only Israel-friendly candidates are elected, it does not register as working for a foreign government. In effect, Israel receives carte blanche support for virtually anything it wants, even above the support given by Congress to Americans. Although this fact is unnatural and cannot stand indefinitely, the tremendous power of the Israeli lobby remains unrestrained. It even managed to prevent Jimmy Carter, one of only two living Democratic ex-presidents, from addressing the 8/2008 party convention. These are open secrets which show how even America is being subverted by a foreign power, due to an institutionalized "fifth column" that exists within both major parties. That Iraq has been

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