If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

—- usually misattributed to James Madison

       Nine days after 9-1-1 (9/11/2001), Republican (fascist/socialist) de facto President George W. Bush (having received an unlawful advantage of 52 ineligible Electoral votes) declares “War on Terror”:

      “On September 11th, enemies of freedom committed an act of war against our country.  Americans have known wars, but for the past 136 years, they have been wars on foreign soil, except for one Sunday in 1941.”
       NOTE: Bush seems to be saying here that the United states has a tradition of fighting foreign wars for empire, as opposed to defensive wars for liberty.

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      “ … Deliver to United [s]tates authorities all the leaders of Al Qaida who hide in your land. …”
       NOTE: The government of Afghanistan was willing to deliver the leadership of al-Qaida to a neutral nation, but Bush rejected the offer.

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      “Americans are asking, ‘why do they hate us?’  They hate what we see right here in this Chamber, a democratically elected government.  … They hate our freedoms—our freedom of religion, our freedom of speech, our freedom to vote and assemble and disagree with each other.”
       NOTE: “[I]t would be more accurate to say we hate their freedoms.” —- Noam Chomsky

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      “ … By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism and Nazism and totalitarianism.”
       NOTE: Bush mentioned three “isms” that the U.s. defeated in the twentieth century, “Nazism, fascism and militarism.”  But “communism” (which killed at least eight times the number that Nazism did) was left conspicuously absent.  Why?· · · · · ·

    “  … Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make: Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
       NOTE: This is an ultimatum, so typical of U.s. foreign policy.

       NOTE: Bush ignored the plainly stated goal of Osama bin Laden’s illegitimate Fatwah of February 23, 1998, which was to remove the western presence from the birthplace of Islam, Saudi Arabia.  Bin Laden never said anything regarding the United States’ form of government. 

       Questions:

• Why was Bush so concerned about not offending “communist” China, which for a generation has been moving toward fascism, but still calls itself “communist?”
• Why is Bush so eager to court favor from a nation that has, is, and intends to continue to commit acts of terrorism against the Moslem Uighur Turks and Tibetans, both of whom have been forcibly incorporated; the Christian and Falun Gong religious sects; and against the Republic of Taiwan?
• Was Bush aware that China was the number one source of weapons to most of the world’s terrorist organizations?

       Postscript: In the fifteen years since this declaration, and an expenditure of over 5,000,000,000,000 “dollars” the incidences of terrorist attacks across the world had increased 65-fold.

       [updated 6/17/2023] Thanks to G. Edward Griffin for this entry.

      The United states Customs Service arrests Clark Anthony Miller, a Border Patrol inspector, for conspiracy to smuggle a half ton of cocaine into the U.s., by waving a 1996 Buick Regal through his lane that was laden with the illegal cargo.

       [restored 7/4/2021]