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(Nixon:
)"Last Friday, in Moscow, we witnessed the beginning of the end of
that era which began in 1945. With this step, we have enhanced the
security of both nations. We have begun to reduce the level of fear
by reducing the causes of fear, for our two peoples, and for all peoples in
the world."
But
a world without fear was not what the Neo-Conservatives needed to pursue
their project. They now set out to destroy Henry Kissinger's vision
[ie., of detente].
They
found willing -accomplices in
Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld.
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Press
conference, 1976 — DefSec Rumsfeld
"The
Soviet Union has been busy. They've been busy in terms of their
effort, they've been busy in terms of the actual weapons they've been
producing, they've been busy in terms of expanding production rates,
they've been busy in terms of expanding their institutional capability to
produce additional weapons at additional rates, they've been busy in terms
of expanding their ability to in- — increasingly improve the sophistication
of those weapons."
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Team B
began examining all the CIA data on the Soviet Union. But however
closely they looked, there was little evidence of the dangerous weapons or
defense systems they claimed the Soviets were developing. But rather
than accept that this meant the systems didn't exist, Team B made an
assumption that the Soviets had developed systems that were so
sophisticated they were undetectable. For example, they could find no
evidence that the Soviet submarine fleet had an acoustic defense system.
What this meant, Team B said, was that the Soviets had actually invented a
new non-acoustic system, which was impossible to detect. And this meant
that the whole of the American submarine fleet was at risk from an
invisible threat that was there, even though there was no evidence for it.
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"The British government
has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of
uranium from Africa."
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We
know where they are. They are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.
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In the Office of Special
Plans, the NeoCons were again, twenty-five years later, digging thru
the trash at the CIA, constructing fantasies out of scraps.
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In the wild goose chase of
the 80's Team B and the Committee on the Present Danger convinced Reagan to
abandon his intentions of "friendly persuasion" and spend A
TRILLION DOLLARS OF YOUR MONEY to defend against an enemy that the CIA
rightly judged was falling apart on its own. All the money that could
have been spent on infrastructure, health care, education, research into
great opportunities such as alternative energy, medicine, genomics,
nanotechnology, &c., &c., was HANDED OVER TO THE MILITARY
INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX THAT EISENHOWER WARNED US ABOUT.
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Dr. Anne Hessing Cahn, of the
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, wrote a piece for the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists entitled Team B: The
trillion-dollar experiment (please
take a copy). Her last two paragraphs are:
"For more than a third of a century, perceptions about U.S. national
security were colored by the view that the Soviet Union was on the road to
military superiority over the United States. Neither Team B nor the
multibillion dollar intelligence agencies could see that the Soviet Union
was dissolving from within.
For more
than a third of a century, assertions of Soviet superiority created calls
for the United States to "rearm." In the 1980s, the call was
heeded so thoroughly that the United States embarked on a trillion-dollar
defense buildup. As a result, the country neglected its schools, cities,
roads and bridges, and health care system. From the world's greatest
creditor nation, the United States became the world's greatest debtor--in
order to pay for arms to counter the threat of a nation that was collapsing.
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