That Gates’ acknowledgment of the blindingly obvious about the most important issue before us is haled as such a positive development is not a positive sign for the state of our governance.

Pertinent contribution by the foremost expert on state-sponsored terrorism:

Wed. Dec. 6
Webster G. Tarpley
Washington DC

In the final report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, Lawrence Walsh left little doubt that he believed Gates had given perjured testimony during that investigation. But Walsh concluded that the matters involved were so complicated that it would be very difficult to prove them before a jury. For this reason and for no other, Gates did not face criminal charges for perjury.

Most damning of all is the fact that Gates was one of the founders of al Qaeda, the CIA’s Arab Legion which was assembled to attack the Soviets in Afghanistan. Gates is thus part of the infrastructure that produced the patsies of 9/11:

According to former CIA Director Robert Gates’s memoir From the Shadows, the big expansion of the US covert operation in Afghanistan began in 1984. During this year, “the size of the CIA’s covert program to help the Mujaheddin increased several times over,” reaching a level of about $500 million in US and Saudi payments funneled through the Zia regime in Pakistan. As Gates recalled, “it was during this period [1985] that we began to learn of a significant increase in the number of Arab nationals from other countries who had traveled to Afghanistan to fight in the Holy War against the Soviets. They came from Syria, Iraq, Algeria, and elsewhere, and most fought with the Islamic fundamentalist Muj groups, particularly that headed by Abdul Resaul Sayyaf. We examined ways to increase their participation, perhaps in the form of some sort of ‘international brigade,’ but nothing came of it. Years later, these fundamentalist fighters trained by the Mujaheddin in Afghanistan would begin to show up around the world, from the Middle East to New York City, still fighting their Holy War – only now including the United States among their enemies. Our mission was to push the Soviets out of Afghanistan. We expected a post-Soviet Afghanistan to be ugly, but never considered that it would become a haven for terrorists operating worldwide.” (Gates 349) But the international brigade Gates talked about was in fact created – as the group now known as al Qaeda. (Tarpley, 9/11 Synthetic Terror, pp.139-140 )

This is the same al Qaeda which provided the troupe of patsies, psychotics, and double agents (bin Laden, Atta, Moussaoui, etc.) which were used to pin the 9/11 attacks on Arabs and Moslems – instead of the US bankers’ rogue network which actually carried out 9/11 for geopolitical reasons. Gates is up to his ears in the terror apparatus of this rogue network, the September criminals who created 9/11.

There can be no question of approving such a candidate. Even the Senate’s willingness to hold hearings for so compromised a figure amounts to an obscene farce. In the recent election, Democrats campaigned against the rubber-stamp Republican Congress. These same Democrats dare not rubber stamp the Gates nomination now. In particular, Democratic presidential candidates in the Senate are reminded that if they fail to filibuster Gates, the aroused anti-war base of the Democratic Party will demand accountability on the campaign trail. We do not want bi-partisan sellouts, but rather a real opposition to the Bush regime and its crimes. Above all, we want 9/11 truth as the essential precondition for restoring lawful government.

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Of course, the recommendations in this report are worthless when the president of the United States, as is currently George W. Bush, is the one who gets to “decides"what happens”.  Hello!
the president is not well and should be removed from office per the 25th ammendment. Then Dick(war criminal)Cheney must be impeached, along with Alberto Gonzales and the rest of the criminals that have perpetrated this crime.  The prez will have to be kept under constant medication, as is usually what happens. Impeachgment is what should happen, but the system has been so corrupted that it is naive to think that justice will be done.  It’s just too sad. I’m sure glad that I don’t have chrildren.

Congress has absolute control over the Iraq war.  It’s called “funding”.  They should demand to be told the amount needed to safely withdraw our troops, then appropriate that amount and no more.

Gates agreeing that “chaos” is really “chaos” doesn’t mean much. The only thing that matters is action. I don’t know how this country transformed seemingly overnight from a republic to a dictatorship where the will of one man, no matter how deluded, overrides everything else. Bush Inc. should be “fast tracked” to impeachment.
Politicians from both parties willing to state the obvious do not solve the problem. Either stand up and be counted or resign and let someone else do the job. Get rid of this guy and his cronies. The American people have had enough.
Another day, another lie, democracy dies.

No matter what Gates or any commission says this King George is going to do what he wants, just because the Democrats won the House does not mean anything, the dictator has the veto power and he has his singing statements, the only thing the House can do is start impeachment hearings from the jump, otherwise, like I said this dictator is going to do what he wants and his underdictator Chaney will tell him what to do all the way.

Impeach, Impeach, Impeach.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington