WOULD RIGHT WING POLS TURN TERROR ON AMERICANS TO PROVOKE WAR? OF COURSE... AND THERE'S PROOF

You probably never heard of Operation Northwoods. Until today when ABC-News reported it, I never had either. "In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba. Code named Operation Northwoods, the plans reportedly included the possible assassination of Cuban émigrés, sinking boats of Cuban refugees on the high seas, hijacking planes, blowing up a U.S. ship, and even orchestrating violent terrorism in U.S. cities. The plans were developed as ways to trick the American public and the international community into supporting a war to oust Cuba's then new leader, communist Fidel Castro. America's top military brass even contemplated causing U.S. military casualties, writing: 'We could blow up a U.S. ship in Guantanamo Bay and blame Cuba,' and, 'casualty lists in U.S. newspapers would cause a helpful wave of national indignation.'"

This all came out in James Bamford's book, Body of Secrets. President Kennedy rejected the fascist scheme (put together by the far right maniacs who ran the Pentagon when Eisenhower was president, particularly drooling Republican fascist Lyman Lemnitzer)... but... well, they've just been sitting in the archives, and ticking away waiting for the right little cabal of obsessed fascist dickheads to find them. Did they? Would you reject the notion out of hand that they did? Were Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the whole stinking regime as obsessed about destroying Iraq as the Pentagon was about destroying Cuba is the early 60s? Yeah, more so.

Bamford told ABC News that the Joint Chiefs kept the documents secret because they were so embarrassing. At one point someone wanted to include the murder of astronaut (later Democratic Senator) John Glenn in the plan. "The whole point of a democracy is to have leaders responding to the public will, and here this is the complete reverse, the military trying to trick the American people into a war that they want but that nobody else wants."