GORDON DUFF: TORTURE, TERRORISM AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY

THE REBIRTH OF THE NAZI/GEHLEN TORTURE CULT

AMERICA’S GANGSTER WAYS

Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

If Americans don’t like Iran, it is time they dug their history books out.  We made Iran.  In 1953, President Eisenhower ordered the overthrow of the legal government of Iran because they were giving our oil companies too much trouble.  How did we do it?  We started blowing up markets, buses, you know, 9/11 type attacks.  Our mentor in this enterprise was the Gehlen organization, at the heart of our CIA, a group of wanted war criminals we had allowed to take over our intelligence apparatus and guide us through then cold war.  We joined forces with our former enemy, Nazi Germany and became the thing we hated most in the world.  In Iran, we organized secret police that murdered tens of thousands, tortured and imprisoned an entire country.  Now they only “distrust” us.  We should consider ourselves lucky.

THE ROOTS OF AMERICA’S POLICE MENTALITY

World War 2 started, according to German history, when a group of Palestinians, no, I think they were from Afghanistan or were they Poles, never mind, its not important, anyway, this group from Poland attacked Germany on just the day the entire Germany army was on the border, gassed up, plans for the invasion of Poland in everyone’s pockets and engines warmed up.  Anyway, if we went back to 1939, Nazi Germany “says” they went to war because they were attacked by terrorists, terrorists with the worst timing in the history of the world.

Since then, this kind of thing has happened continually.

Today, when we wonder why what we had been told about how we treated “detainees,” lies of course, was only “enhanced interrogation.”  One leak, one scandal after another informed the world that it was not only waterboarding but electrocution, beatings, rape and murder, everything Nazi Germany did.

When we admit that this was how we made ourselves safe from terrorists under the Bush/Cheney regime, we lose our historical perspective.  We didn’t become Nazi Germany overnight.  They only helped us become more efficient and much more professional.  Anyone who doesn’t know the long associations between the Bush family and Nazi Germany need only do a minor internet search.  This partnership started even before Hitler took office.  In fact, without the Bush family, there would never have been an Adolf Hitler.

When Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft entered their war on “terrorism,” a war more and more suspect they may have been instrumental in fabricating themselves, they had a model to build on, a history, tied closely to the values and alliances of the Bush family, a family that held Adolf Hitler and his Nazi gang in the highest esteem.  When “little Bush” was appointed President, he sought the same quality of people to surround himself with.  One of the most fasinating, appointed to be our version of Heinrich Himmler, head of both the SS and Gestapo, was the bagman for the Gulliani “organization.”

The idea of putting Bernie Kerick in charge of a vast secret police organization running secret concentration camps and hauling away people in the middle of the night seemed “historically correct” to Bush, Cheney and Ashcroft.  After all, Hitler nearly conquered the world, or would have if it weren’t for Franklin Roosevelt, long enemy of the Bush family, and his “interference.”

We called that “interference” World War Two.

When we see concentration camps, or as we call them “secret prisons” or the Blackwater death squads or learn about secret tribunals, its nothing new, we saw it all before.  Nearly half a million Americans died to stop it.

TURNING PAKISTAN INTO 1920S CHICAGO

Pakistan, beset with enemies and confronted with terrorism, has been targeted by these modern day gangsters who use, not only spy agencies and a cabal of Pakistan’s enemies to attack it but have loaded the country with Mafia hit teams.

Our terror war has sent dozens of groups, well known mercenary teams, who are trying to undermine Pakistan.  Can you imagine if Al Capone ran a country with, not only nuclear weapons but next door to most of the world’s heroin supply?

Reports of murder squads, Americans tied to the Bush/Cheney regime currently thought to be “out of power” are coming out of Pakistan.  Political and military leaders standing up to gangsterism, the drug cartels and terrorists are being hunted down by American pretending to be fighting terrorism.  Even Hitler would have blushed before trying something like this.

HUMAN RIGHTS WERE ALWAYS “NEGOTIABLE”

It all didn’t start with Bush, it was just reborn and taken to extremes that our system of laws and treaties would never have allowed by Bush.  9/11 was used as a pretext to end the US Constitution, the Geneva Convention and rush out with our one national purpose in mind, to seize the world’s oil supply.  Ok, it wasn’t a “national purpose” but it might as well have been.

We also inherited the Nazi propaganda machine built by Josef Goebbels.  Our version used Fox News and Rush Limbaugh to lead the way and others quickly fell in line, coward fearing being called “soft on terrorism” or afraid of losing “access” to the fuhrer.

America didn’t invent genocide but we did perfect germ warfare to wipe out the Cherokee Nation.  This started a 50 year terror war in North America.  One of the “bin Ladens” of the time was Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce tribe.  His father told him this, a lesson others in the world have since learned:

“My son, my body is returning to my mother earth, and my spirit is going very soon to see the Great Spirit Chief. When I am gone, think of your country. You are the chief of these people. They look to you to guide them. Always remember that your father never sold his country. You must stop your ears whenever you are asked to sign a treaty selling your home. A few years more and white men will be all around you. They have their eyes on this land. My son, never forget my dying words. This country holds your father’s body. Never sell the bones of your father and your mother.”

Eventually, the US Army hunted down and defeated this “not so warlike” tribe of Indians who had been cheated, abused and lied to.  The general who won the war, General Howard, is forgotten and despised.  Chief Joseph and his words live on:

“Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Too-hul-hul-sote is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are—perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.”

Chief Joseph was the “bin Laden” of his day.  When he was captured, few in America cheered. In fact, the American press responded with outrage.  Most of our children learn nothing of Chief Joseph, perhaps America greatest military leader next to Geronimo, whose skull is worshiped as a Bush family memento.

ONCE WE HAD GIANTS

It took a rank and file Marine, two time Medal of Honor winner, General Smedley Butler to explain the game, a game we are playing now.  Butler showed real courage, the courage to tell the truth in a profession where lying had become a road to success:

“War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives. A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small ‘inside’ group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes.” “I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912.I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.”

Those of us who served in the Marines know Butler to be the greatest Marine hero of all time.  Today, few Marines are taught his words and beliefs, the beliefs that defined his heroism.  Perhaps if we stopped defining our heroes with lies, we might live in a different America.

A STEP FURTHER

After the disputed election in 2000, a new generation of “Robber Barons” under the guise of a religious crusade against Islam and protecting America from terrorism began a systematic attack on America’s institutions, the free press, Constitutional government, separation of church and state, legal due process, free elections and posse comitatus, the law prohibiting the use of American military inside the United States.

A broad system of deregulation, restructuring the American economy on the basis of, not the efficiency of Nazi Germany but, rather the inefficiency of the Robber Baron era of the 19th and 20th century ending in an inevitable decapitalization of all but the wealthiest classes and an eventual collapse of all banking, insurance and financial institutions.  Supporting this effort was the Bush/Cheney policy of military adventurism, that, when engaged in by others, rather than being referred to as “unilateralism” is typically called “gangsterism.”

STUMBLING BLOCK AND ULTIMATE FAILURE

Hitler failed because he stood against the massive American economy and the endless will of the British and Russian people.  The economic efficiency of Nazi Germany is legend as is much of what her military forces accomplished, nearly ruling the world.

The American version was doomed to failure from the outset.  A cabal of narcissistic bunglers and “drug store” generals in league with a pack of petty financial crooks was more than slightly ill prepared to take on a task requiring something more than fund raising and stock swindles.

GET OUT OF JAIL FREE CARD

No matter how many crimes, domestic or international, be it treason, fraud or “unjust aggressive war” or how many “crimes against humanity” have been committed, we live in a world totally lacking in moral authority.  Victors, or as America may be more rightly described, powerful failed survivors, are never held accountable.

Even within the United States itself, no high ranking criminal will ever be held accountable for ordering murder, rigging elections or starting wars for personal profit.  It seems, everyone who enters the Whitehouse is infected with the disease.

Is it baser instincts overruling our humanity or is it simply lack of personal courage?  We can only guess as there is no one left to tell us.

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Veterans Today Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.

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