CIA Death Squads

A couple of weeks ago I wrote in this space how President Obama better be careful that he isn’t the target of a Republican hit squad. My reasoning was that now that the GOP is totally out of power and disabled, it makes them doubly desperate and dangerous.

Probably, one or two readers of this site figured me to be a paranoid psychotic. I’m willing to run that risk. The way I figure it, how many Roman emperors, Julius Caesar to name one, were done in by their loyal opposition?

It turns out that I was just a couple of weeks premature in formulating my little theory. Last night on MSNBC, investigative reporter Seymour Hirsch, who has built a career by exposing deadly conspiracies and cover-ups dating back to the Vietnam war, revealed the existence of a CIA death squad directed by Republican former vice-president Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, who bypassed legal procedures and sent out teams to perform assassinations in at least ten countries. What elements of information these pineappleheads were taking into consideration, and whether their intended targets were limited only to rogue islamists, or whether they were guided by their own zany proclivities, is anybody's guess.

That doesn’t shock me in the least. Anyway, as a person who was working in an office two blocks from Ground Zero when the planes crashed into the World Trade Center, I had to walk through the unbelievable mess created on Wall Street after the towers collapsed. I remember thinking that whatever it took, we as a country had to get at the people who did that to us. Seeing the chaos up-close and first hand, as I did, a person might be excused for hoping for a little payback.

The problem is, any assassination that had to be performed should have been authorized with the assent of Congress, who would have gladly assisted, and not by a handful of equally deranged lunatics operating independently within the executive branch.

When you set up a mechanism like that, answerable only to a couple of crackpots like Cheney and Rumsfeld, with their marbles rolling around in their heads like a pinball machine, where does it end? Remember, a school of thought still exists that attributes the Kennedy assassination to a CIA network that was formed to get rid of Fidel Castro, and, failing to get at him, decided to do the (in their minds) next best thing – get Kennedy.

Anybody who believes that the Roman Empire, where more than one emperor was done in by the very people assigned to protect him, the Praetorian Guard, is ancient history better smoke some medical marijuana. In fact, the Romans were so distrustful of their military establishment that they had a law banning the Roman army from entering the city of Rome.

This might explain why Barack Obama is not in any hurry to bring the troops home from Iraq, knowing that they could be used to maintain order in the event of a coup d’état engineered against him. Those individuals who believe that the Republicans are not capable of staging a coup need only recall the 2000 presidential elections.

This Cheney-Rumsfeld death squad revelation should remind our politicians that the Republicans have still got teeth, and that they are not above banging a few heads together to achieve power. People have got to wrap their minds around the fact that this is power politics, and not a high school civics lesson.

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Posted on 3/13/2009 ( Permanent Link )
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