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"The Dec. 12, 2014 LaRouche PAC weekly webcast marked the beginning of the end of the post-9/11 era. The publication, by Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), of the previously classified material on the Bush/Cheney Torture Program, opens the door to finally ridding the United States of the Bush family dynasty.

The program was moderated by Matthew Ogden. We begin with Dennis Small’s remarks.

Dennis Small:

We’re at the end of an era, and the beginning of a new one, if, to paraphrase Ben Franklin, we can achieve it and keep it. Lyndon LaRouche said that the enemy is taking a real beating, and this is a true moment of opportunity. What the Feinstein revelations on CIA torture portend, is the end of the entire post-9/11 dynamic, which the United States—for the entire 14 years of this 21st Century, under two Bush administrations and two Obama administrations—has been marshaled by the British Empire as an aggressive imperial force, up to and including threatening thermonuclear war against Russia and China today. At the same time, the U.S. was being converted into a garrison national security state under the Nazi ideology of the likes of Dick Cheney and other followers of Leo Strauss, condoning everything from torture, to drone murders, and worse. That was the situation until this week.

LaRouche said that the Republicans are now gearing up to try to push Jeb Bush as the next President of the United States; and that would doom the United States to bankruptcy or worse. What Sen. Dianne Feinstein did, LaRouche stressed, along with the backing of important institutional forces who helped her to stand up to the kind of pressure she was getting both from the Bush league and also the Obama Administration—what she did, LaRouche said, is very, very good. "It may misfire, but I think it will go someplace," he said. It won’t be so easy to ram through more of the Bush league as the consequence of what was revealed here; and that Bush league includes not just Jeb Bush, but also grandfather Prescott Bush’s financing of Hitler’s rise to power, the first Bush President, George H.W., and then "W" himself.

This is going to be especially the case, now that the average American is aware of what is going on around the torture question, with the Feinstein revelations. The average American has no stomach for anything like this; and the average American, starting with those watching this webcast today, is going to respond even more strongly, as they learn the full story of what’s behind the CIA torture story, as we will present it today.

What 9/11 Really Was

It’s important to remember what 9/11 actually was, when we refer to the end of the post-9/11 period. What 9/11 was, was an attack by the British monarchy using Saudi cut-outs, which was intended to subject the United States to a Dick Cheney-led dictatorship under the nominal Presidency of coke-head George W. Bush, while using the incident to also justify wars of aggression and regime change around the world.

The Saudi role, in particular, is documented in the infamous 28 pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11, which Bush classified so that they would hopefully never see the light of day, he thought, in order to protect his role, and his allies, and which the Obama Administration has continued to maintain classified as well, until this week.

The post-9/11 dictatorship and imperial wars, LaRouche stressed, were designed to enforce a collapsing trans-Atlantic financial system, including Wall Street, which the Bush league has always represented. "The entire Wall Street policy is now in the process of disintegration," LaRouche said.

So what this means, is that we’re now also facing what could be called a "Glass-Steagall moment." As with Senator Feinstein’s courageous stand, significant chunks of the Democratic Party have also revolted against the Bush league’s and Obama’s alliance with Wall Street; as was seen in full technicolor in yesterday’s House vote on the Omnibus Budget Bill. A gathering army is coming to realize that the only way to stop war, and stop the annihilation of the American economy, is with a radical change in course.

So, as LaRouche has repeatedly stressed, we must urgently remove Obama from office; and we must reorganize the Democratic Party on traditional American System lines. We must create a future; and we can do that after Hillary Clinton’s likely removal of herself from the candidacy. That’s a required step so that Bill Clinton, who, after having been President two times, may not run again, but he should, LaRouche said, and probably will, help orchestrate the new candidacy he should be in—a leader on the case, and a spokesman for the new Presidency that the country requires at this time.

The issue underlying all of this, LaRouche said, is that of Wall Street, and how close we are to a blowout. You can’t evade the issue of Alexander Hamilton and his system. People think they’re going to save something in terms of money—by not bringing that up, by pretending it’s just not there—but that’s precisely what will kill them. It’s understandable—they’re terrified. But if they stick to that, it’s going to kill them. So, we have to dump Wall Street and return to Hamilton; which is exactly the prospect offered to the United States by joining the BRICS nations in the creation of a new international order. This week, now, we have the possibility of ending the post-9/11 period, and taking advantage of this Glass-Steagall moment which is now before us.

What Feinstein Said

Here is a transcript of an excerpt from Feinstein’s speech on the Senate floor Dec. 9, which was shown during the webcast.

Dianne Feinstein:

Mr. President, I want to thank the Leader for his words and for his support. They are extraordinarily welcome and appreciated. Today, a 500-page executive summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s five-and-a-half-year review of the CIA’s detention and interrogation program, which was conducted between 2002 and 2009, is being released publicly. The executive summary, which is going out today, is backed by a 6,700-page classified and unredacted report with 38,000 footnotes, which can be released if necessary at a later time.

The report released today examines the CIA’s secret overseas detention of at least 119 individuals, and the use of coercive interrogation techniques, in some cases, amounting to torture. Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve gone through a great deal of introspection about whether to delay the release of this report to a later time. This clearly is a period of turmoil and instability in many parts of the world. Unfortunately, that’s going to continue for the foreseeable future, whether this report is released or not.

There are those who will seize upon the report, and say, "See what the Americans did?" And they will try to use it to justify evil actions, or incite more violence. We can’t prevent that. But history will judge us by our commitment to a just society, governed by law, and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say, "Never again."

Matthew Ogden: I encourage you to watch this speech in full, but what you just heard Senator Feinstein end with here, when she said "history will judge us by our commitment to a just society, governed by law, and the willingness to face an ugly truth and say, ‘Never again,’ " I think gets directly at the core of the issue here. After the Nuremberg trials, when the Nazi war criminals were being tried and hung, what did we say? "Never again." The full extent of the evil that the Nazis represented had to be exposed and put on full display for the entire world to see, in order to ensure that this type of evil never happened again. So today, this torture program, which is now being exposed by the Feinstein report, in its full and horrifying detail, was itself nothing but a purely Nazi program put in practice by a purely Nazi administration. And Feinstein is saying the same thing; we must show the world the evil that was committed, in order to ensure that this type of evil occurs "Never again."

And I think that’s a phrase that also applies perfectly to Jeb Bush, or any other Bush league candidate for President of the United States. President Bush? Never again. What the Bush-Cheney Administration represented was the attempt to transform the United States from a Constitutional republic into a fascist dictatorship in the aftermath of 9/11. And this is largely what has occurred in the intervening 13 years; both in terms of the internal police-state policies, including the domestic surveillance of the NSA, and in terms of the permanent warfare policies abroad. We’ve been in a constant state of war for the entirety of this century to date.

However, what occurred following Sept. 11, 2001, did not originate in the events of Sept. 11. This is something that Lyndon LaRouche warned about explicitly nine months prior to the attacks that occurred on Sept. 11; warning that the incoming Bush Administration would use a Reichstag Fire-type event to impose dictatorial emergency rule on the United States.

Let me show you a clip from a webcast that Mr. LaRouche delivered on Jan. 3, 2001—nine months before 9/11.

LaRouche’s January 2001 Warning

Lyndon LaRouche:

You’re going to have something like a Nazi regime....

What you’re going to get with a frustrated Bush Administration, if it’s determined to prevent itself from being opposed—you’re going to get crisis management, where members of the special warfare types, of the secret government, the secret police teams, and so forth, will set off provocations, which will be used to bring about dictatorial powers and emotion, in the name of crisis management. You will have small wars set off in various parts of the world, which the Bush Administration will respond to, with crisis-management methods of provocation. That’s what you’ll get. And that’s what the problem is, and you have to face that.

The ‘Neo-Con Manifesto’

Ogden:

Nine months later, the 9/11 attacks occurred, and everything that LaRouche warned about happened. How did LaRouche know? It wasn’t because he had some sort of secret information, or some sort of inside knowledge or something like that. The Nazi character of the Bush Administration was plain for anyone to see, if they cared to look. It was preprogrammed into the Administration long before Bush was even selected to become President of the United States.

The most immediate antecedent for this, is what should be called the "Neo-Con Manifesto," or the "Roadmap to a New British-American Empire," or the statement of the founding principles which set up the Project for a New American Century—or PNAC. One of the founding members of PNAC was none other than Jeb Bush—George W. Bush’s brother—along with a whole retinue of neo-cons who would later come to comprise practically the entirety of the Bush-Cheney Administration. And who was the original co-founder of PNAC? Mr. Robert Kagan, also known as Mr. Victoria Nuland.

What did this manifesto say? It asserted that in the aftermath of the Cold War—this was released in 1997—American foreign policy must be to do everything possible to maintain the hegemony of the United States and its leading ally, the United Kingdom. And to prevent the rise of Russia, of China, or of any other nation that might challenge this hegemony. It asserted, "The history of the 20th Century should have taught us that it is important to shape circumstances before crises emerge, and to meet threats before they become dire."

Now, what do they mean by "shape circumstances before crises emerge"? Well, long before Sept. 11 ever happened, what were the founders of PNAC arguing for? Already in 1998, PNAC representatives were openly campaigning for regime change against Saddam Hussein, on the premise that he possessed weapons of mass destruction that he was about to unleash against the United States. Sound familiar? This was the big lie that Bush, Cheney, and Tony Blair used to bomb Iraq five years later, in 2003, while also claiming that Saddam was somehow connected to the attacks on 9/11—also a lie.

Here’s another chilling example: In 2000, PNAC authored another report titled "Rebuilding America’s Defenses," which called for preserving Anglo-American preeminence through a massive military build-up, in order to "deter the rise of a new great power competitor," calling specifically for the military encirclement of China. The report also called for regime change in Iraq, Iran, Syria, and pretty much any other state in the region that was deemed hostile to Anglo-American interests.

And finally, it called for "consolidating the victory of the Cold War in Europe by the creation of a Europe whole and free from the Baltic to the Black Sea," i.e., running color revolutions on Russia’s border, including in Ukraine. Remember, this is Robert Kagan writing this, husband of Victoria Nuland.

I should also note that Robert Kagan has explicitly attacked John Quincy Adams, who famously said, "America goes not in search of monsters to destroy. She is a well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is a champion and vindicator only of her own." Kagan stated, "But why not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy? Because America has the power to contain or destroy many of the world’s monsters, a policy of sitting on a hill and leading by example becomes in practice a policy of cowardice and dishonor." Hence, an imperial policy of regime change and perpetual war.

The most chilling thing about this 2000 report, which was written a full year before Sept. 11, is that it admits that such a military buildup to encircle Russia and China would take a very long time to accomplish under ordinary peacetime circumstances, absent "some catastrophic and catalyzing event like a new Pearl Harbor." So, should it be a surprise that this apparatus was in place and ready to go the minute that Sept. 11 occurred? Ready to launch wars, domestic surveillance, police-state tactics, and torture.

The 28 Pages

So as you read this Feinstein report, it’s necessary to keep all of this in the back of your head, and remember that the premise for this entire torture program has this as its background. If Bush and Cheney were serious about getting to the root of who did 9/11, and preventing another attack from occurring, why did they classify the 28 pages of the 9/11 Joint Inquiry report, which documented the Saudi sponsorship of the 9/11 attacks under the then-Ambassador to Washington Prince Bandar—also known as "Bandar Bush"? Why did Tony Blair shut down the investigation into the BAE/Al Yamamah deal, which would have exposed the British role in facilitating the Saudi 9/11 operation? Why is Obama continuing to cover up the 28 pages? Not to mention working directly with the Saudis in the Middle East, to arm and train a whole new batch of jihadi terrorists.

Is this not aiding and abetting the sworn enemies of the United States, who attacked us on 9/11, and who intend to do it again?

Now, also when you read this Feinstein report, ask yourself this: What sort of character did these people have to have, to condone such bestial and inhuman torture policies? This comes out very clearly in an interview that none other than Dick Cheney did yesterday [Dec. 11] on Fox News, in which he declared that the Feinstein report was "full of crap," and said absolutely remorselessly, with a sneer on his face, "I was strongly supportive of this program. We were perfectly justified in doing it, and I’d do it again in a minute."

I think what else Cheney said, is also very telling; he said, he "strongly believes that the ends justified the means." Now this happens to be an explicit statement of the fascist ideology of Leo Strauss, who was the intellectual mentor of the entire neo-con apparatus. LaRouchePAC documented this very thoroughly in our now-famous—or infamous, depending on who you are—Children of Satan book in 2004. And PNAC really was an open conspiracy of this grouping of so-called Straussians, who had planted themselves deeply within the institutions of the U.S. government, and were waiting for the moment to put their fascist ideas into action. And that moment occurred on Sept. 11, 2001.

Strauss’s Noble Lie

So, who was Leo Strauss? Leo Strauss was a protégé of the "Crown Jurist" of the Nazi Third Reich, Carl Schmitt. What both Strauss and Schmitt believed, was, quite literally, that the end justifies the means. That an elite must rule society, using what they called "the noble lie" to pacify and control what they believed were a stupid population, who were unable to govern themselves. Schmitt and Strauss both based their philosophy on the belief that man is inherently evil, and that [Thomas] Hobbes was right when he described the world as a war of each against all.

For example, Leo Strauss wrote a letter to his mentor, Carl Schmitt, in September of 1932—right before Hitler’s ascent to power—in which he said the following: "The ultimate foundation of right, is the principle of the natural evil of man. Because man is by nature evil, he therefore needs dominion. But dominion can be established, that is, men can be unified, only in unity against other men." So clearly, the Hobbesian bestial idea of man.

Schmitt believed that the Treaty of Westphalia had been nullified by World War I, and therefore, the only international law that applied, was that of the struggle for the preservation of power of one state against another. Sound familiar? Let me read that quote from the 2000 PNAC report again: The goal of American post-Cold War foreign policy must be "to deter the rise of a new great-power competitor"—China, Russia, and so forth. And this end justifies all the means, including regime change, coups d’état, color revolution, etc.—even pre-emptive nuclear war. This was the argument that was used to justify the war in Iraq, which was premised on Saddam Hussein’s so-called weapons of mass destruction—which Cheney all along knew to be one big lie, as did Tony Blair."

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