THE DELUGE: CHENEY AND RUMSFELD KNEW ALL ALONG IRAQ WOULD DESCEND INTO CIVIL WAR. They wanted it, they planned it, they guaranteed it.

Just as they planned a war FOR terror, they planned a civil war FOR Iraq: In September 2002 it was revealed that Cheney backed a plan to merge Iraq with Jordan. Civil war was a necessary precursor to the execution of this plan.

For all true believers still loyal to the White House when it whimpers that NOBODY could have predicted planes would be used as WMDs, NOBODY could have predicted the levees would fail, or NOBODY could have foreseen that Iraq would descend into hellish civil war, your world is about to end.

Soon after sending death squad expert Negroponte to Iraq, the steady, daily stream of tortured & murdered Iraqis began. Civil war in Iraq was a GOAL, not a concern. This explains why they had NO PLAN to restore and maintain the infrastructure and civilian services in Iraq, NO PLAN to safeguard the museums despite expert warnings and advice on how to do it, and NO PLAN to protect the Iraqi people from the looting and anarchy of incipient civil war.

In marked contrast, the White House was quite diligent in organizing their own laundry list for Iraq, as seen in their 101-page document called PLAN B, a blueprint for the rape and selloff of Iraq. You can read this in Palast's book "Armed Madhouse," pp 55-59. Palast even interviewed Grover Norquist, who gleefully bragged of his own participation. These are not clues, but overt evidence that speaks directly to a consciousness of the crimes they would commit and a complete lack of concern for that criminality. Another overt "clue" lies in the pre-invasion article published in the International News on September 29, 2002, and filed from Islamabad under the title: U.S. PLANS TO MERGE IRAQ, JORDAN AFTER WAR. It said:

"The U.S. is working on a plan to merge Iraq and Jordan into a unitary kingdom to be ruled by the Hashemite dynasty headed by King Abdullah of Jordan with Amman as the capital of the proposed new country, reveals a startling report made available here Friday."

The plan was authored by Dick Cheney. Much of the article appears to quote Stratfor, a forecasting think tank in the U.S. The White House favored this plan because the then-current goal of replacing Hussein with a pro-US Iraqi government "still would not guarantee long-term U.S. control over the territory and its oil..."

And the reasons why hundreds of thousands of Iraqis had to be slaughtered instead of stabilized? Read on:

"FIRST, it may become too hard for a new government in Baghdad to control the whole country..... SECOND, the new government's attempts to establish control over all of Iraq may well lead to a civil war... Uniting them (Iraq and Jordan) will give the U.S. several strategic advantages....shifting the balance of forces in the region heavily in the U.S. favor..."

That's why they had to be slaughtered. It is all about killing and about creating an empire that kills.

Maybe we should joke about this, as Bush did about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction: Do you see anything in there about democracy? Where is it? Where did it go? Is it under the bed? How about the table? Maybe it's in the garage. Where oh where did democracy go? To democracy heaven?

Because after they kill and instigate the murders of neighbor on neighbor in numbers that bring shame to all humanity in the New Killing Fields of Palestine Writ Large.... you may wonder, who will be next? History tells us they will not stop. These fabulously jealous failures took one look at Gorbachev's and Reagan's gift to the world, stabbed it to near death and is presently torturing and drowning the baby in the bathtub.

For over a year the experts have been telling us that terror attacks have increased significantly since the launch of the U.S. War For Terror. Do you see how the "incompetence" and sabotage of this White House has CAUSED the problem to worsen? And how it therefore makes a handy PRETEXT for Israel to start World War II for them?

We call it a failure and a tragedy. They call it part of the plan. They call it their due glory.

From wise people we learned the phrase, NEVER AGAIN. Yet cowards who have hidden in shadows have dared to plan it ALL OVER AGAIN.

I had hoped that the above thoughts were overwrought. But I have just read the output from Chomsky and Palast, and they too are bearing witness with equal urgency to this growing evil and vast conspiracy that is breaking out of its box.

Bevin Gilmore