This is the text that had gone by "accident"... Who knows...

Gift of the gab...
Last Sunday night (14/08/05) on the ABC was a short movie about a low-life clever con artist who robbed a publican and had an affair with his (the publican’s) lovely wife (he also robbed a little old lady of her savings), then let everyone hang, taking the loot with him to start all again with a newly engaged couple on a bus... He was having a ball...
All done with the gift of the gab.
Creating the illusions and managing porkies with great skills, except the time when he got his butt burned by a disgruntled self-absorbed beau who was the first geezer to see he’d been had, but by then it was too late for all. The con-artist was only superficially hurt. The con man had also served a few biscuits and drinks laced with drugs to some of his victims to manage the inevitable few conflicts of events.
I have been conned a few times in my life and the last one was about a couple of years ago when a senior salesperson lied big time on the blower and sold me a telco (no, not) package which on invoice was about three time what he had promised (I had taken copious notes). Thus I complained and changed straight away but one feels grubby, one feels unclean for having been had. And then there is all this mucking about resetting everything straight...
As a kid, I used to see these people who were selling “china” from the back of vans to an audience of captivated ordinary folks. If the person who’d been specially targeted to buy the product did not budge, even on the very cheap price, the spruikers would break the merchandise rather than give it away. Under the spell of a smart lash of the tongue from the blabbers and the prospect of seeing good value china being destroyed, the public would soon part with money to buy what was, not obviously, reject “china”. The manufacturers used these skilled motor-mouths to sell the product that was unsaleable via the normal channels and thus recoup production costs that would have gone down the drain otherwise. Some were freelance con-artists who’d buy the stuff for a paltry nominal sum, others would work on various “incentives”... But sell they did.
As I was watching my ABC, I felt this pang in my heart. The same techniques were used to con masses of people to let president Bush-of-the-desert-fizzle sell, on a more complex and massive worldwide scale, his massive deception. I have already expressed a few rabid ideas on the subject here, but I felt the need to reiterate and go slightly deeper in the secret structure of this giant tragic porkie.
So I went back to my files and extracted the drawing above which I first released in mid 2003, before the end of hostilities declared as “mission accomplished” by the little clown.
For some people it could seem a bit obscure or quite glib and I can understand that. But I can say with certainty that it was an accurate diagram of the process, much of it extracted from serious analysis of the double-cross system in the UK during WWII, and other true spy accounts, as well as adaptation to the news and events in relation to the pre-war period. I will thus now explain the steps the Iraq war was sold, in grubby medium size details, at it would take a lifetime to explain all the many little and broad moves, since many people were involved but only a handful knew the whole scope of the machination.

BUSH WANTS A LITTLE WAR
Wanting to conquer a few more oil wells, and armed with other smaller value reasons, Bush-the-porkyist needed to create a storm-proof furphy that would convince enough people. To do that on a world scale, it is a logistic nightmare but not impossible. People are gullible and a war campaign need to built like an advertising campaign for breakfast cereals, mostly using spruiking from the dummy-in-the-white-house and strong resonating advertorial in the media by alluding to a few “provable” furphies.

Thus on the onset, it needed some secret “conspiracy” glue, but beyond that, it needed resolve in the push, especially in the domain of “morality in” politics.

Like advertising, once is never enough... Joseph Goebbels knew that... Any advertising agencies worth their salt know that. Repeat and repeat with targeted variations in order to maintain the public interest is the key. Our own Mr Clowner publicly said “Saddam has Weapons of Mass Destruction” about 8,000 times. So, crafted words were very well chosen to maintain a reactive fear, and who would not be afraid after the 9/11 attack. Piece of cake to spruik “revenge” in the guise of “a noble cause”. It was thus easy to pin all the ills of the world on two mongrels, Saddam and Bin Laden. Three (3) mongrels would have been too hard to manage, that’s why the North Korean problem was put on hold.

Saddam was lobbed in the same bag as Bin Laden, although their politics were completely opposed. Saddam was painted black by killing “his people” which in fact were the same “Muslim extremists” that we have now branded as insurgents, terrorists and evil as they’re fighting against our side like they were fighting against him... and others from his side are also fighting against us... It’s a bloody mess... So Saddam was going to wear the can... After Bin Laden was going to be not-caught in Afghanistan... But this is another shamboozle for another time...

The WHOPPERATOR was the name I gave to the advertising operation which had been started way back, as soon as Bush-the-hyperactive-kid had been sworn in, at the White house... The advertising agency was the CIA.

Bushie’s neocon-minions had prepared the background, the directive and the incentive to sell a little war with Saddam NO-MATTER WHAT at any cost, even before 9/11. Patience had to be the key but not to much of it, as presidential terms are only four fixed years.
For many years before, some pegs had already been put in place by a few neocon businessmen who had a good idea that the US public mood may be right for a republican prez... and with the help of a few discounted votes in Florida, George-the-Minus would come across the line.
Amongst these pegs, some were the secret bribing of the UN personnel in what would eventually become the “oil for Food Scandal”. This is part of a network of backstop positions with which you can exert some pressure to get what you want from delegates.
Others are straight out “incentives” which are overt bribes to a whole country, in why the glitter of gold can become irresistible for their leaders, since there could also be a secret percentage kickback attached to the deal. But there are also other ways to compromise people to be able to use then as puppets. For example in Panama, Colonel Noriega was known to the US to be a corrupt drug peddler for at least 20 years, but the US kept him on the payola of the CIA for all that time, because he was useful to the spread of US interests in that country, until it was needed to remove him once he started to become a bit cocky and dreaming of independence. A bit like Saddam when he invaded Kuwait... He was basically given a vague green light to go ahead by the Bush — CIA-in-chief administration or at least was given mixed diplomatic signals that the US would not stop him which they could have before he even tried... But the UN forced the US hand to act once the deed had been done. The US did not mind, it provided a good training, a real-style op for its troops and for tweaking new weaponry, like depleted uranium shells already used in Kosovo. This semi-orange-green light is why Saddam was not removed after his defeat as he should have been. Had elections been held then, of course George-the-first knew Iraq would fall straight away in the hands of Muslim extremists — something the US wanted to avoid at all cost. On this basis, the US is still working at manufacturing an Iraqi government and constitution that they can “approve” and minimise the “Muslim” ideal in that country.
All to say that such actions/reactions/through-lines in corruption are not accidental but are planned a bit like a “bowls” player is placing a ball beyond the jack just in case the blither gets put in the ditch by a drive: you can thus collect the points by end-game.

From Halliburton Watch, October 2004:
“““So far, the Bush administration has admitted that U.S. companies bribed Saddam Hussein’s government in order to win business from the dictator. The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, John Negroponte, told Congress last April that U.S. companies had bribed Saddam Hussein’s government in exchange for government contracts during the 1990s. Senators. Richard Lugar (R-IN) and Joseph Biden (D-DE) urged Negroponte to disclose the names of U.S. companies involved in the bribes, but he refused.
The congressional General Accounting Office estimated that Saddam’s regime acquired $10.1 billion illegally through the sale of $5.7 billion in oil smuggled to Syria, Turkey and Jordan, and $4.4 billion through kickbacks paid by firms selling food, medicine and other goods to Iraq. The illegal sales occurred between 1997 and 2002. Ironically, some of that money ultimately was paid to Halliburton to finance Iraq’s reconstruction after Saddam’s downfall.”””””

So the “food-for-oil-scandal” as it filters in the media is only savagely attacking the small potatoes — the naive UN officers who have no “protection” and may have been offered a ligit commission now presented as a “bribe”. I’d say if you are going to be corrupt, you’d need to make sure you can bring the whole house of cards down with you should there be any personal exposure. In the picture, the UN regulator is on the left-hand side where you see the official Niet and Non, etc from Europe.

On the right hand side there is the BRIBERATOR that poured stuff into the pipe going back above the UN but as we all know the official offers were too cheap and the UN, under the French and German leadership, did not accept that war was needed (FIZZLE). (The US also knew that a minimum of three countries in their coalition of the willing was needed to go and blow the hell out Saddam, not so much for strength but for “morality” added rectitude. I believe that had Australia not gone to war, the US would not have done so, unless they’d found someone else. Even England alone would not have been enough to “convince” most of the people.)

But there is also a RESTRICTOR through which CIA information to the UN inspectors was basically completely distorted, false and misleading... as well this restrictor represents those secret shut up bribes to some UN officials. The flow of proper understanding between the UN and the US administration was thus totally screwed up and fizzled.
The UN REGULATOR was designed like one of those steam engine regulator — the faster the engine goes the more difficult it is to go faster... except when the regulator is disconnected.

Below, on the left hand side of the picture is the BRIEFATOR. This is the small secret section of the CIA that takes direct command from the president’s office. The brief is to create “PORKIES” (the core of the ad campaign) by guiding the whole operation of creating reasons to go to war into specific details. This unit manages the FABRICATOR, the cone at the top the CIA that pours unified porkie into the BULLSHITOR which is the controller of the DEFECTOR.

DEFECTORS are rarely working on their own, especially when they are used in a greater conspiracy to spread crafted information. Like double-agents, they are psychologically managed (amazing what a bit of money and a pat on the back, combined with a psycho-managed trauma can do) to learn and then BELIEVE a few lines... We all know it is quite easy to create what is well-known as the false memory syndrome... say no more... Tactics crudely used during WWII. The defectors have been supplied by and managed by the INC (Ahmed Chalabi was paid US$350,000 per month for expenses and pocket moneys — now, after having been disentangled from the CIA by a couple of well-crafted “disgrace”, Chalabi is one of the vice-president of Iraq. Gus believes he still works for the CIA and the disgrace was only manufactured to make him more palatable to voters...) and various organisations. Via the carefully managed defectors, the dissemination of the porkies re-enters different department of the CIA for “analysis” and official consumption (no-one there is alerted to the now porkie-status of the information) and filters mostly through media outlets (using fox/News for propagandist comments and public TV for releasing sensitive “exclusive” porkies). Clever preparation of the information makes sure that if questions are asked, answers can only be cryptically given to a point which cannot go beyond the excuse of “national security”. Remember we are dealing with highly professional spruiking and con-artistry, even if the voice at the top seems to be that of a moronic president.

On top of the CIA is DOUBT, the anti-responsibility valve which already plans for the thereafter of the war, in which of course WMDs will not be found since the Administration knows there are none. This unit also is also employed to delay, after the invasion, the knowledge that there aren’t any WMDs in Iraq... But despite all this, the processing machines of the CIA and even that of MI6 have to be coerced a bit in accepting the porkie-information which does not match too well with what they already know... So some cleverly encouraged gymnastic are performed enough time by the administration, to enforce a more positive concept and conclude that “there could be”, this repeated often enough to then let believe that “the probability is quite strong” to the point where in Bush-the-con’s speeches it becomes certainty. We are being conned...

The ELIMINATOR is that vexed issue which some people may not agree with: the elimination of those who start to investigate the information in depth and know there is something fishy going on... People who start finding discrepancies in what they can see and what is told... (remember David Kelly and many journalists on the ground in Iraq shot by US troops in accidental events...) .This is contentious but necessary. Coincidences are not enough to explain the disappearance or death of many... Elimination is not new. In many constructs of the double-cross system, this is integral to maintain the desired result should an agent be captured or a double-agent not performing according to the porkies he has been fed which he believes to be truths. Classified dossiers are shredded... People go missing... The sun still rises in the morning...  In certain circumstances you may need to eliminate journalists or agents who are efficiently spreading your own lies like butter, so that the information increases in value.

To ELIMINATE in various fashion as to be discreet, an independent branch is used to brief external paid agents or even unsuspecting enemy that, “alerted to some treachery” will do the work for you: SADDAM’S SYMPATHISERS on the diagram.

The whole machine is a clever, successive and separate-but-related lot of manipulations of events and information in the general direction of the desired goal.

The EXTRACTOR is the voices of the President and of the Prime Ministers and such who are guiding the general public with enticing comments and waving dossiers of evidence upon which they can rely, since it has been manufactured and digested to suit the rattle despite a few “doubts”. These suggest a “moral questioning” and integrity of reasoning. But these doubts, all part of the con, are cleverly reset and stopped by words to the effect “we cannot wait to be hit. We’ve got to hit first” all this by now bathing in morality and fear...
Pictures are shown at the UN, stories are spruiked to match... All you need is to convince enough voters to cross the finish line ahead of the opposition, using past cliches like “hour of needs” etc......

The MEDIA in its greater proportion is “managed” with dexterity and carrots. For example, if Mr Murdoch did not support the war, then the war would not have been. Simple fact. But we know that the Right has stage-managed a complex web of ways to win hearts and minds in its homeland through the cultivation of opportunist like Mr M, or by feeding lazy ones like those networks that buy in directly from the white-house propaganda sets of newsreels...
Most of the press secretaries in government are former journalists who know how the system work. Phillip Knightley expresses that very well in his speech reproduced in Margo’s webdiaries on “how to restore citizens’ respect for journalism”... In fact the only problem here is that very few “citizen” know that journalists can have respect.
Most people are just happy to be given their two daily spoonful of biased news without having to think about anything... It becomes a simple war of proportion in the for and against... Governments can thus weather the storm of reality but then can deliver a blitzkrieg of porkies that will restore the voting patterns in its favour... Morality becomes the desired “result” of a majority, rather than a truthful ethical value.
Of course this had to be a simplified diagram... Selling wars or selling products have basic strategies and follow on, including painting yourself white and the opposition black at every opportunity...

I wish the Labor Party had understood many under-valued advertising principles before the last election... But then it even did not understand itself and was very fuzzy on some issues because it conned itself that some of the Howardian policies was what people wanted! And it got weak-kneed on its own principles. It had not properly understood that the mind of the people had been primed and primed to believe Johnnee’s pork by his clever spruiking. The Labor party only had to present a STRONG case to dismantle the spruiking as IT HAPPENED, not ten days later. In opposition, one has to oppose NO MATTER WHAT, and then find the proper reason to oppose (easy when counter punching Johnnee, unlike Brogden [leader of the opposition in NSW] who opposes-no-matter-what with no proper excuses to sustain his stand except a dash of “morality” that does not wash on proper inspection.

The Labor party should have organised a special briefing with Andrew Wilkie, who without breaching the secret service act could have reinforced the porkie-nature of the information peddled by the government on the WMDs. I don’t know if they did but it  seems the Labor Party chose to diddle-fiddle instead, more or less believing the Howardian Government porkies, all chuffed of being in the loop, including being conned in the support of the troops once they were engaged. The Labor Party was wishy-washy trying to please most people while losing its integrity and purpose. I believe that this state of affair came from “advisors” rather than from the true believers... remember “advisors” are not elected and can be sleeping plants... Unforgivable.

Conspiracy to go to war in Iraq? ... No question.

By Gus Leonisky at 19 August, 2005