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Published: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2004
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Cheney and His Policies Now Under Bipartisan Attack
by Edward Spannaus
Vice President Dick Cheney has made himself such an inviting target, that he is now under attack from both Democrats and Republicans. Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) delivered an extremely thoughtful speech on Jan. 14, which avoided the usual Democratic "blame-it-all-on-Bush" rhetoric in favor of a precise analysis of who in the Administration actually led Bush down the path to war against Iraq. Kennedy described what he called "an extraordinary policy coup," carried out by "Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Wolfowitz, the axis of war" (see Documentation).
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Kennedy traced the war party's origins back to the office Cheney held in the first Bush Administration, when he was Secretary of Defense and Paul Wolfowitz was one of his top advisors. Kennedy quoted from the 1997 book by George H.W. Bush and his National Security Advisor, Brent Scowcroft, in which they explained why they resisted pressures to eliminate Saddam in the first Gulf War: "We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed.... The United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land." Kennedy also referenced two other major developments which are feeding the clamor against Cheney: the publication of the new book based on the experiences of former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in the Bush-Cheney Administration, and the devastating report on Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction issued on Jan. 8 by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Kennedy noted that he knows Paul O'Neill from having worked with him on issues of job safety and health care, when O'Neill headed Alcoa in the 1990s. Describing O'Neill as "a person of great integrity, and intelligence and vision," Kennedy said, "it's easy to understand why he was so concerned about what he heard about Iraq in the Bush Administration"—namely, that overthrowing Saddam Hussein had been on the agenda from the very beginning.
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Read the full transcript of an interview that was aired live on KTKK in Salt Lake City, Utah, and was on the internet at www.k-talk.com.
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President Eisenhower and Nuclear Policy: Toe to Toe with the Utopians
When Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated as President of the United States on Jan. 20, 1953, the doctrine of preventive nuclear war had already gained a dangerous foothold in the thinking of many in the military and Congress. Contrary to popular myths about the peaceful, uneventful Eisenhower years, that period of time saw a massive attempt to legitimize and use nuclear weapons by any means possible. An escalating arms race between the U.S. and the Soviets was underway, and the Utopians of the day were itching to use the new atomic weapons, as they had in 1945, for terror, population control, and ultimate world government by a modern model of the British Empire. General Eisenhower had not approved of using the atomic bomb against Japan in 1945, and in his inaugural address of 1953 he promised that his Administration would "neither compromise, nor tire, nor ever cease" to seek an honorable worldwide peace. This quest was urgent because "science seems ready to confer upon us, as its final gift, the power to erase human life from this planet."
Eisenhower got an early taste of what was arrayed against him during the first six months of his Presidency, when he attempted to end the Korean War. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles advised letting the war go on, as did President Syngman Rhee of South Korea. According to Emmet John Hughes, an Eisenhower speechwriter, Dulles went so far as to say, "I don't think we can get much out of a Korean settlement until we have shown-- before all Asia--our clear superiority by giving the Chinese one hell of a licking."
When the Chinese government submitted a proposal on June 4 which was in substantial agreement with the last United Nations offer on allowing "voluntary repatriation" for POWs, it looked like peace was at hand. But then Rhee freed some 25,000 POWs, both Chinese and Korean, who scattered all over the countryside, thus breaking the terms of the armistice agreements. Simultaneously, the Republican "Old Guard" in the U.S. praised Rhee for his action, and a resolution was introduced in the House commending Rhee for releasing the prisoners. But each week after the prisoners' release, almost 1,000 American soldiers were killed, and Eisenhower stood his ground against the outcry in favor of continued war, including from most of his advisers. The truce was signed on July 27, 1953.
That same spring, President Eisenhower had been working out a policy on nuclear power that could free the world from ever-escalating terror. When Soviet leader Josef Stalin died in March 1953, his heir apparent, Georgi Malenkov, let the Americans know that he believed, "There is not one disputed or undecided question that cannot be decided by peaceful means." In response to Malenkov, Eisenhower developed a two-pronged initiative. The first was a major speech entitled "The Chance for Peace," delivered before the American Society of Newspaper Editors on April 16, which warned about the dangers and real cost of the arms race. "The worst to be feared and the best to be expected," said Eisenhower, "can be simply stated. The worst is atomic war. The best would be this: a life of perpetual fear and tension; a burden of arms draining the wealth and the labor of all peoples. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
"This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than thirty cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of sixty thousand population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half-million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than eight thousand people."
In conclusion, Eisenhower proposed that if the Soviets showed by deeds that they, too, were ready for peace, the United States would devote "a substantial percentage of the savings achieved by disarmament to a fund for world aid and reconstruction: to assist all peoples to know the blessings of productive freedom. The monuments to this new kind of war would be these: roads and schools, hospitals and homes, food and health."
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'Spirit' Rover Ready To Follow the Water on Mars
by Marsha Freeman
The Mars Exploration Rovers begin the intensive study of the planet Mars, which can lay the basis for its human exploration in the future.
Bush's Moon-Mars Mission: Will It Fly?
by Marsha Freeman
The long-term idea is right and essential, but NASA's space infrastructure must be expanded and built on, not "backed away from."
'The Woman on Mars'
This dramatic presentation—a script, later the basis for a famous television broadcast—was Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche's 1987 bold proposal of a mission to colonize Mars, and to envision how such a 40-year mission would transform the United States. His idea—often ridiculed or attacked by his enemies—is clearly one whose time has come.
Economics:
Wal-Mart's WaltonFamily:
The Beasts of Bentonville
by Richard Freeman
The world's wealthiest family scratched its way to its immense fortune by a worldwide looting spree, facilitated by Wall Street power-brokers who wanted to shift the economy to rapcious free-trade "globalization."
Parmalat: 'The Banks Aimed Their Gun at Our Head'
by Claudio Celani
On Jan. 9, police raided the Milan offices of the Bank of America, in the most spectacular development of the ongoing investigation into the Parmalat bankruptcy case. As EIR wrote last week, the Italian food firm Parmalat, whose insolvency revealed a hole of 8-plus billion euros, had become a vehicle for derivatives-backed financial operations led by national and international banks, in schemes used to support the expansion of the global financial bubble.
Rubin, IMF Warn of U.S. Economic Catastrophe
by John Hoefle
Former Treasury Secretaries rarely make the news, but Paul O'Neill's revelations about a dysfunctional Presidency and Robert Rubin's revelations about that Presidency's dysfunctional economic policy, have sent shockwaves through political and financial circles. The backdrop for both Rubin's and O'Neill's actions is the growing realization among certain Establishment institutional layers, that the combination of incompetence and arrogance of the Cheney-Bush Administration is a strategic threat to the United States and the world as a whole.
Greenspin Confronted in Berlin
Before an elite gathering at the Bundesbank Lecture in Berlin on Jan. 13, Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan was confronted by LaRouche representative Dr. Jonathan Tennenbaum,who chided him for ignoring and abetting 'the collapse of the greatestfinancial bubble in history.' (see bottom of pdf document)
Albanese: 'Evangelize the Economy!' The World Needs a New Bretton Woods System
Il Mondo Capovolto (The World Upside-Down) is the title of a small book recently published in Italy by the Einaudi Publishing House. The author is Father Giulio Albanese. In March 2003, Albanese wrote an analysis, later carried by Misna, in which he endorsed Lyndon LaRouche's proposal for a New Bretton Woods monetary conference and system. He was interviewed on these subjects by Paolo Raimondi, head of LaRouche's Civil Rights Movement/Solidarity in Italy, in the Misna central office in Rome.
International:
Bremer's 'Transition': Shotgun Wedding Will Not Work in Iraq
by Muriel Mirak-Weissbach
If Ayatollah al-Sistani, the highest authority of the Shi'ites in Iraq, does not agree to U.S. proconsul Paul Bremer's plan for creation of a new government, it will not happen. And this is exactly the way events are unfoldiing.
New Year's Political Shocks Strike Britain
by Mark Burdman
The first days of 2004 have seen elements of the British monarchy, Prime Minister Tony Blair, and the Bank of England facing dramatic challenges.
An Official Inquest Has British Royals Frantic
by Jeffrey Steinberg
After a delay of more than six years, the British Royal Coroner has initiated a formal inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed, in an Aug. 31, 1997 Paris car crash. The mere launching of the probe could spell political disaster for Prince Charles and also for Prime Minister Tony Blair.
India's BJP Can't Wait, Wants Early Elections
by Ramtanu Maitra
At the National Executive meeting of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Jan. 12, India's Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee called for early parliamentary elections, expressing hope that the resulting government will be in place before the end of April.
IMF's Paul Martin Now Canada's Prime Minister
by Gilles Gervais
Upon Prime Minister Jean Chrétien's pre-scheduled retirement on Dec. 12 of last year, Paul Martin became Canada's 21st Prime Minister. How will a changing of the guard in Canada affect the United States' relation with its most important trading partner and its former closest ally?
Investigation:
LaRouche Blast Exposes Synarchist Pro-Terrorist Operation
by Dennis Small
The recent activities of a small group of former associates of Lyndon LaRouche, notably their association with South American Synarchist forces, points to an issue which may be a significant security problem within the Americas.
Synarchists Target Argentina's Kirchner
by Cynthia Rush
In the midst of Argentina’s highly publicized brawl with the International Monetary Fund, the Synarchist networks which Democratic Presidential pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche has identified as part of a new fascist international, are openly calling for a coup against President Ne´stor Kirchner, on the grounds that his alleged Godless atheism will destroy the country.
National:
Cheney and His Policies Now Under Bipartisan Attack
by Edward Spannaus
A diverse array of individuals and institutions are speaking out: Sen. Ted Kennedy, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Dr. Jeffrey Record of the Air War College, and uniformed military lawyers assigned by the Pentagon to defend Guantanamo prisoners before military tribunals.
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