This War on Terror ushered in years and years of endless wars with no real strategic goals and clear objectives, but was sold to Americans and the world as rooting out terrorism, and invading Iraq under the guise of hunting down Saddam Hussain and his “weapons of mass destruction” ruse.
According to an archived blog post on the Bush White House website published in 2004, concluding Bush’s first term in office, the administration detailed all the orders and bills passed that would tackle this “terrorism.” In their words, according to a quote by The National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, February 2003, they said,
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, were acts of war against the United States of America, its allies, friends, and against the very idea of civilized society. No cause justifies terrorism. The world must respond and fight this evil that is intent on threatening and destroying our basic freedoms and our way of life. Freedom and fear are at war. The enemy is not one person. It is not a single political regime. Certainly it is not a religion. The enemy is terrorism.
The Bush administration used this panic and hysteria-driven initiative to vastly inflate the government’s size, power, authority, and overreach; practically using the cloak of defeating terrorism for just about anything they wanted to do, across a plethora of sectors that are completely unrelated to domestic security and foreign military operations – and Americans ate it up like Halloween candy.
The Bush administration went on to provide a broad overview of the initiatives accomplished and their explicit goals in the forward of their document. Read how they worded it (emphasis mine):
The United States is engaged in a comprehensive effort to protect and defend the homeland and defeat terrorism. Using all instruments of national power, the United States and its partners are attacking terrorists both at home and abroad, denying terrorists sanctuary and sponsorship, disrupting the financing of terror, and building and maintaining a united global front against terrorism.
With the help of our friends and allies, we have eliminated Afghanistan as a safe haven for al- Qaida and disrupted terrorist cells around the world. Iraq is now the central front for the war on terror. While the United States and its partners have defeated Saddam Hussein’s regime of terror, enemies of freedom — both members of the old regime and foreign terrorists who have come to Iraq — are making a desperate stance to reclaim this liberated nation for tyranny. They will be defeated. In the past, terrorists have cited Beirut and Somalia as examples of America fleeing from challenge when harmed. In this, the President has affirmed, they are mistaken. We are resolved to win the global war on terrorism.
America and all free nations are fighting an enemy that wishes to strike with indiscriminate terror to weaken our resolve, and exploit the way of life that makes our nation both strong and inherently vulnerable. Our best defense against terrorists is to root them out wherever they hide – – in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters and throughout the world — and preempt acts of terror by using all the tools of statecraft. We will continue to invigorate traditional alliances and build new partnerships to carry this effort forward.
The U.S. government has no more important mission than protecting the homeland from future terrorist attacks. We are reforming and improving our threat warning and intelligence, expanding our law enforcement capability, increasing security in key sectors such as transportation, borders and ports, and other critical infrastructure, developing new vaccines and technologies to counter potential threats, and ensuring our Federal, state, and local responders are prepared to manage crises effectively. The United States has undertaken sweeping organizational changes, the magnitude of which has not been seen in 50 years.
This report highlights the Administration’s efforts to defeat terrorism and secure the homeland. It also underscores the nature of the continuing threat and the Administration’s dedication to bringing to justice those who plot against America. Despite accumulating successes in the war on terrorism — some seen, some unseen — terrorists continue to wage war on the civilized world. Murderous attacks in Bali, Jakarta, Mombasa, Riyadh, Casablanca, Jerusalem, Baghdad, and Najaf underscore terrorists’ continued contempt for the innocent, their fear of progress, and their hatred of peace. The civilized world must remain vigilant and committed to a long and critical struggle — until Americans and people around the world can lead their lives free from fear of terrorism.
[…] Since September 11, 2001, the President has signed numerous critical pieces of legislation into law, including:- Homeland Security Act of 2002
- USA PATRIOT Act of 2001
- Aviation and Transportation Security Act of 2001
- Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002
- Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act of 2002
- Maritime Transportation Security Act of 2002
Well, it’s been two decades later and “terrorism” has not been defeated, and, by all accounts, continues to remain at large (at least from their lying perspective that is); and Americans and many of those living elsewhere have seen an exponential amount of their freedoms and liberties taken away.
The PATRIOT Act is easily the most glaring thing to come out of Bush’s War on Terror – a bill that was drafted well in advance before 9/11, with many of the core tenets framed by none other than the current President then Senator Joe Biden in 1995 (!), a 342-page playbook that supersedes a myriad of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and other basic civil liberties – which was rapidly signed into law without hesitation as Americans clamored for a response to defeat these so-called terrorists.
On this most recent anniversary of 9/11 John Whitehead of the Rutherford Institute wrote a piece titled, “Death by a Thousand Cuts: The Many Ways Our Rights Have Been Usurped Since 9/11.” In short, Whitehead details that “The Patriot Act drove a stake through the heart of the Bill of Rights, violating at least six of the ten original amendments—the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Amendments—and possibly the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Amendments, as well;” and such Orwellian overreach is achieved because Americans are simply “constitutionally illiterate” and hardly know their own basic rights.
The Mises Institute echoed a similar sentiment, noting: ‘Ridiculously, all of this has been justified by George W. Bush’s slogan purporting to explain why terrorists target the US: “They hate us because we’re free.” (If too much freedom in America is the cause of terrorism, surely the problem has now been eliminated.)’
But beyond all the draconian measures that have taken root and produce poisonous fruit since, it was how the propagandistic measures were sold and shoved on the public, giving them the false sense that were only two black and white choices, one being good and one being bad.
In order to justify creating multiple wars overseas, and defend all the draconian overreach at home, George W. Bush on more than one occasion had used a tagline that has now been immortalized in infamy and ignominy, but first stated to the nation and the world on September 20th, 2021:
Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
This statement forced the world and Americans to act irrationally and be forced into a false illusion, a mirage of sorts, of artificial choice that really wasn’t. By not allowing themselves to be force-feed and made to choke down the unjustified wars of actual terror that proceeded, and legitimate terror on beguiled Americans and Westerners, then you would have (and still would be in some ways) considered an ally of and suspected terrorist, and unpatriotic, unworthy of showing your face in town and should be forced to emigrate elsewhere perhaps.
Bush’s sophistry is easily one of the prime examples that demonstrations the age-old, tried and true philosophy that is used to control and maneuver the man’s minds and actions into a predetermined solution. This is known as the “Hegelian Dialectic.” It is best defined as this: “A framework for guiding thoughts and actions into conflicts that lead to synthetic solutions which can only be introduced once those being manipulated take a side that will advance the predetermined agenda.”
Or, to truncate it’s meaning, it can be remembered by understanding this basic formula: Thesis. Antithesis. Synthesis; or, Problem. Reaction. Solution. It’s either black or white; it’s either Blue vs. Red; “the choice is clear: what side are you on?” Pick a side, pick a side, pick a side!” There is no middle ground.
Take Bush’s War on Terror and all that has happened since, and apply it to the basic formula. Problem: The Pentagon and Donald Rumsfeld can’t account for trillions of dollars in military spending, and then the Trade Towers (where those records were stored) were demolished, Building Seven “mysteriously” is destroyed in a controlled demolition, the Pentagon was hit with a “jet” that left a relatively small hole with no shrapnel to speak of, and Americans and first responders die because of the attack. Reaction: Now that everyone is in complete shock and disarray, the mourning quickly turns to rage and “righteous indignation,” demanding swift action be taken. Solution: All the handlers involved got the expected reaction they wanted, and then implemented all these countermeasures that only sought to take away our basic rights, justified wars built on false pretenses and killed untold millions of innocents, and went deep into debt to do it. “Either you are with us, or you with the terrorists.”
Now, going back to Bush’s full State of the Union address made on September 20th, (which you can read here), pay attention to some of the things Bush said:
Tonight we are a country awakened to danger and called to defend freedom. Our grief has turned to anger, and anger to resolution. Whether we bring our enemies to justice, or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done. (Applause.)
Americans have known surprise attacks — but never before on thousands of civilians. All of this was brought upon us in a single day — and night fell on a different world, a world where freedom itself is under attack.
Al Qaeda is to terror what the mafia is to crime. But its goal is not making money; its goal is remaking the world — and imposing its radical beliefs on people everywhere.
The terrorists practice a fringe form of Islamic extremism that has been rejected by Muslim scholars and the vast majority of Muslim clerics — a fringe movement that perverts the peaceful teachings of Islam. The terrorists’ directive commands them to kill Christians and Jews, to kill all Americans, and make no distinction among military and civilians, including women and children.
[…] Close immediately and permanently every terrorist training camp in Afghanistan, and hand over every terrorist, and every person in their support structure, to appropriate authorities. (Applause.) Give the United States full access to terrorist training camps, so we can make sure they are no longer operating. […] These demands are not open to negotiation or discussion. (Applause.) The Taliban must act, and act immediately. They will hand over the terrorists, or they will share in their fate.We are not deceived by their pretenses to piety. We have seen their kind before. They are the heirs of all the murderous ideologies of the 20th century. By sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions — by abandoning every value except the will to power — they follow in the path of fascism, and Nazism, and totalitarianism. And they will follow that path all the way, to where it ends: in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies. (Applause.)
Our response involves far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes. Americans should not expect one battle, but a lengthy campaign, unlike any other we have ever seen. It may include dramatic strikes, visible on TV, and covert operations, secret even in success. We will starve terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest. And we will pursue nations that provide aid or safe haven to terrorism. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists. (Applause.) From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.
I ask for your patience, with the delays and inconveniences that may accompany tighter security; and for your patience in what will be a long struggle.
This is not, however, just America’s fight. And what is at stake is not just America’s freedom. This is the world’s fight. This is civilization’s fight. This is the fight of all who believe in progress and pluralism, tolerance and freedom.
It is my hope that in the months and years ahead, life will return almost to normal.
Does this language sound familiar to you?
Friend, we are now in a new War on Terror 2.0; and this time Israel and Hamas, and all the forces at be that will get entangled in their struggle. The verbiage by Bush and many others like him are being nearly repeated exactly the same way as they were then, on both sides.
On November 3rd, Lior Haiat, spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Ministry, stated during a virtual meeting that there can be no neutrality and the world must be forced to pick a side. Haiat claimed that Hamas is planning “another October 7th massacre, and another one after that, and another one after that.” But because of the attack Israel has received “unprecedented international support,” because “no one could see those atrocities and not understand what we are dealing with.”
Haiat then said this:
I want to send a very clear message to the international community. If you do not condemn Hamas, if you do not [support] Israel’s right to self-defense, you are supporting Hamas.
There is no middle way. You are either standing with Israel or you are standing with Hamas.
And there you have it: this man has literally parroted Bush’s rhetoric almost exactly.
And he by no means is the only one saying this: there have been plenty of others since this thing got started on October 7th who have stated things that are “Bush-esk.”
Go back to that day it started. Prime Minister Netanyahu, after he formally declared war on Hamas and vowed “to clear the [affected] urban areas of the terrorists who penetrated them,” ans the opposition leader Yair Lapid – who made up a near 50% majority who hated Netanyahu and were trying to get in jail for corruption crimes – threw that out the window and said, “We will give full backing to the security forces for a harsh response against terrorism and its proxies.”
More recently Israel, and its U.S. allies, have made it clear that there will be no ceasefire to speak of. Netanyahu’s reasoning for this is if they do it would be a “surrender” to terrorism, where he again drew a line in the sand and forced the world to make their choice where they stand, calling this their “9/11.”
I want to make clear Israel’s position regarding a ceasefire. Just as the United States would not agree to a ceasefire after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or after the terrorist attack of 9/11, Israel will not agree to a cessation of hostilities with Hamas.
After the horrific attacks of October 7, calls for a ceasefire are calls for Israel to surrender to Hamas, to surrender to terrorism, to surrender to barbarism. That will not happen.
This is a time for war. A war for a common future. Today we draw a line between the forces of civilization and the forces of barbarism. It is a time for everyone to decide where they stand.
Israel’s fight is your fight because if Hamas and Iran’s axis of evil win, you will be their next target. That’s why Israel’s victory will be your victory.
It begins with knowing the difference between good and evil, between right and wrong…
The PM said
Again, this is literally identical to what Bush was saying: just replace the countries and one might think it was Bush talking. And, similar to what Bush once said, Netanyahu has also said that this war will be “long” and strenuous.
And it’s been this way across the board from both political parties in the United States. Former Secretary of State Hilary Clinton also said a ceasefire is “not possible.”
President Joe Biden, in an address to the nation about giving support to Israel and Ukraine, gave his reinterpretation of Bush’s spiel and used the buzz word of defeating terrorism.
You know, just as in World War Two, today, patriotic American workers are building the arsenal of democracy and serving the cause of freedom.
We are, as my friend Madeleine Albright said, “the indispensable nation.”
We cannot and will not let terrorists like Hamas and tyrants like Putin win. I refuse to let that happen.
This of course the same Albright who remarked on 60 Minutes that the mass slaughter of roughly 500,000 Iraqi children, sayin, “We think the price is worth it.” So, regardless of how you feel about other nations – when they hear the talk of a being an “indispensable nation,” how do you suppose they interpret that?
On the flipside on the so-called Right, the calls for mass slaughter to fight this “terrorism” at whatever the cost is heard quite loudly.
We of course have heard South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham run his mouth plenty enough already, purposefully calling for strokes and annihilation of not just Hamas, but Iran and sticking it to this newly-minted “axis of evil” (Russia, China, Iran) Israel and Western allies are now referring to. (Again, notice how they are repeating the same propagandistic terms). When asked if there is a limit to the number of civilian casualties are racked up by Israel, Graham has said “the answer is no. There is no limit.”
Florida Senator Marco Rubio (R) told CNN’s Jake Tapper, referring to the Palestinians in Gaza, not Hamas, but the actual Palestinians: “You can’t exist. They have to be eradicated.”
Former President Donald Trump did not hesitate to say that when he returns to office that we use the full military might to eradicate Hamas If you spill a drop of American blood, we spill a gallon of yours;” and, “We’re doing it because we want to start peace.”
The new U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson also referred to Russia, China, and Iran as this “new axis of evil;” and has pledged continually support for Israel. After his selection to the new role he told Fox News’ Sean Hannity to “go pick up a Bible off your shelf and read it — that’s my worldview.” And yet we see him pictured in front of this poster that provides a quote reading, “Blessed are those who bless Israel,” with no citation.
Book, chapter, and verse? Where does the Bible say that exact phrase as printed on your sign, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Jordan? Oh, but they wouldn’t change scripture to force an agenda now would they?
And of course by threatening and vowing aid to Israel that would mean it’s more money for Israel, or basically American taxpayer’s money and the Federal Reserve’s money printer to fund it. Senator Graham has said, “I understand that we need to start paying for things around here, I get that, but this is truly an emergency, and I don’t think we’ve ever offset emergency aid.” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis says he is sending some weapons and aid from Florida’s stockpile to Israel.
Man, wouldn’t it be nice if American politicians actually supported American’s for once, and actually put that money to use here? Never mind the 529,000 and 840,000 veterans who are homeless at some time during the year; or the rotting infrastructure; the poor food and water quality; the insane inflation of everything and depreciating dollar, and on and on. Apparently the U.S. can’t fund the government and faces constant shutdown, and supposedly has to keep raising the debt ceiling to pull future cash into the new; but when the prospect of fighting “terrorism” and funding wars arises, Washington doesn’t miss a beat. But I digress
The point is, surely by now you can see the trend. These people are repeating what Bush stated; and not only that, but the same tactics. Bush talked about “starv[ing] terrorists of funding, turn them one against another, drive them from place to place, until there is no refuge or no rest.” This is what Israel is doing right now with their blockade of Gaza, cutting off their food and energy into the state, and preventing any humanitarian aid from entering in, and has had a blatant disregard for the civilians in these refugee camps.
Moreover, as we discussed earlier, Bush’s War on Terror led to a slew of freedoms and liberties being taken away, and blatant invasions of privacy that were touted as temporary, but only stuck and festered into something worse out of that. We are again seeing that now.
Already we have seen a sharp increase in more censorship in a month’s time. In less than two weeks after the war started, the Europe Union is looking to accelerate the implementation of their Digital Services Act, that forces Big Tech companies to censor any speech and content the EU governing members deem to be mis- and disinformation. It was going to take affect in February 2024, but Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen purports that because of the Israel-Gaza War the DSA not only needs to be fast-tracked, but strengthened even further. Not surprisingly, she says it’s to combat “terrorism.”
Hamas’ terrorist attack has also led to an online assault of heinous, illegal content promoting hatred and terror.
With our Digital Services Act, Europe now has strong rules to protect users, including vulnerable population groups, from intimidation and to ensure fundamental freedoms online. Major platforms are subject to new obligations to mitigate such risks from their services.
Today’s recommendation will help us to coordinate our responses with Member States and protect our society.
Ursula von der Leyen said in a statement
Withal Governor DeSantis has also barred free speech on college campuses in his state, bragging and openly admitting to shuttering First Amendment rights by barring any and all perceived Pro-Palestinian speech and anti-Israel rhetoric, though the order will probably be rescinded in Court. “Well, you know you may have a First Amendment right to say a lot of dumb things, but you do not have the right to give material support to terrorists,” he stated at a pro-Jewish conference.
With only a month into this war, based on the statements we have and actions taken, and comparing them to post-9/11 events, a whole lot more censorship and loss of the most trivial rights and privacies will be stripped. I mean, they all already are at this point, but you know what I mean. Thus, it is why I have expressly warned that a false flag is coming, and that will only expand the players involved in this war and increase the oppression of the peoples all over the world.
What I have said is not an anti-Palestine position, nor is it anti-Israel stance. What it is a stance that aligns with scripture, and that is, ladies and gentlemen, is to not get bewitched with this new War on Terror 2.0., and for all the same propaganda that is now being dusted off the shelf and deployed all over again.
Remember the words of Hitler’s in Mein Kampf about effective propaganda:
But the most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in the mind constantly and unflagging attention. It must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over. Here, as so often in this world, persistence is the first and most important requirement for success.
The purpose of propaganda is not to provide interesting distraction for blasé young gentlemen, but to convince, and what I mean is to convince the masses. But the masses are slow-moving, and they always require a certain time before they are ready to even notice a thing, and only after the simplest ideas are repeated thousands of times will the masses finally remember them.
At first the claims of the propaganda were so impudent that people thought it insane; later, it got on people’s nerves; and in the end, it was believed.
Just because the rest of the world will get ensnared into this doesn’t me you have to…
[20] My son, attend to my words; incline thine ear unto my sayings. [21] Let them not depart from thine eyes; keep them in the midst of thine heart. [22] For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh. [23] Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life. [24] Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee. [25] Let thine eyes look right on, and let thine eyelids look straight before thee. [26] Ponder the path of thy feet, and let all thy ways be established. [27] Turn not to the right hand nor to the left: remove thy foot from evil. Proverbs 4:20-27
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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This is bigger than men though the sins of all certainly contributed to the scriptural fulfillment & judgment. It’s part of the bigger picture of antichrist craft Rome’s desire to control & set their man on a throne in Jerusalem, as well as of the antichrist spirit behind them. All we can do is watch & pray for the peace of Jerusalem as commanded, speak the truth while not pretending to self-righteousness ourselves even as the contributing idolatrous humanists who crafted this mess, & avoid being yoked into any part of it. Anyone knowledgeable of the cultivated hate of Islam & its devil god for the Jews & Christians of the Book should be able to see past the smokescreens & comparisons amongst those who are not wise. The ignorance of Bible believing Christians on the history of the ‘Palestinians’ & the connection to Rome from Pontifex Maximus Emperor Hadrian on to the manipulating godmen of craft today is appalling: the success of antichrist brainwashing, & lack of biblical discernment & understanding of prophecy is very apparent. Men are calling good, evil and evil, good as supposed gods & judges just like the Jews were originally judged for, & as though they are gods & not men! God is more than capable of breaking off the unnatural branches graffed in as they repeat the presumptions & idolatries the Jews were judged for, & to restore & graff back in the natural ones. The road will be rough, but watch….and be careful what you yoke with & with interpretive blameshifting potentially pitting yourself against God. What Islamic or idolatrous humanist socialist army ever valued life, and eschewed covetousness & thievery, sufficiently to warn civilians to remove themselves from harm’s way, and what ‘caring’ worldwide outraged have ever been more hypocritical in their refusal to actually help or offer asylum to those few innocents caught in the crossfire, most justifying & being complicit with the evil, terror, murder etc? Israel has offered paid transportation out to any ‘caring’ nation or religious affiliation truly willing to receive those people, but that’s not the agenda. Slandering God, despising his word, & wiping out the Jews & evidence of Christ & his true word & salvation is the goal….and bringing in the antichrist ‘hope’ & ‘salvation’. Read the prophets & Revelation. More scorched earth coming, & none are sinless & exempt of some share of the responsibility & chastening, if not judgment. The repentant thief was not magically removed from the cross or exempt from suffering when he came to his senses & salvation. Should we despise the honeycomb that becomes bitter in the belly? Should we neglect the humility & simplicity of Christ, & the foolishness of preaching, along with the responsibility to bear the sword for defense & protection, turning to loud & proud blame & accusation lifting self as some presuming ‘elect’ Augustinian Calvinist or Catholic, or craft Jew of those synagogues of Satan? Do we not fear God?
Fake something, call for gang; let’s have a heck of a party, make some money and let’s thin down the herd some…
Psa 2:1 Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
Psa 2:2 The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,
Psa 2:3 Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us.
Psa 2:4 He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision.
Psa 2:5 Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.