American political analyst and activist Bill Dores has criticized former US Secretary of State Condoleezza “Condi” Rice who said on Sunday that Americans are safer today because the United States invaded Afghanistan and Iraq following the 9\/11 attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rice, who served as the US secretary of state from 2005 to 2009 and as the national security advisor from 2001 to 2005, also said she is concerned that the United States has lost what she calls its “eyes and ears” in Afghanistan, following the American military withdrawal after implementing a policy of death and destruction for twenty years.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn September 5, nearly 8 million jobless US workers lost their benefits. They have no means of support. Are they safer because the US government spent $6.4 trillion bombings and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cMoratoriums on evictions, home foreclosures, and utility shutoffs are ending in most states. Tens of millions are affected. Are they safer? Will the Pentagon war machine protect their homes?\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat about the people who lost their homes to Hurricane Ida? Some saw their loved ones drowned. They could use some of that \u2018defense\u2019 money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, the Louisiana National Guard was not there to help. It had been deployed to Iraq. Nearly 2000 people drowned in the floods. Guard members come back to find their homes destroyed,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cCuba and Venezuela offered to help. Nearly 2000 Cuban doctors and nurses were ready to get on a plane. The Bush regime refused to let them in,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen fuel prices spiked that winter, Venezuela supplied free heating oil to poor communities in the United States. US-imposed sanctions stopped that. That\u2019s how the US military state makes people in the United States \u2018safer,\u2019\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

What happened to trillions of dollars spent on the \u2018war on terror?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The analyst said, \u201cUS troops and contractors have left Afghanistan. But not a dime is being cut from the \u2018defense\u2019 budget. It\u2019s going up to $752 billion next year. That doesn\u2019t even count funds for the CIA, nuclear weapons, the endless flow of arms to the Israeli occupation regime in Palestine. Or the interest on all that money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe trillions spent on \u2018the war on terror did not go into the ocean. They are still here, in the bank vaults of the corporate war profiteers,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe \u2018war on terror was not the only slaughter of innocent people around the world. It was a giant robbery of working-class and oppressed people inside the United States. The military-industrial complex was not even the biggest profiteers,\u201d the activist said.<\/p>\n

\u201cCondoleezza Rice was George W. Bush\u2019s national security adviser when the 9\/11 attacks happened. Before that she was on the board of Chevron, the second-biggest US oil monopoly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, combined with sanctions on Iran and Venezuela, saved Chevron and other US oil majors from financial disaster. It brought them their most profitable years ever. Today, Chevron is plundering natural gas from the waters of occupied Palestine under the protection of the Israeli occupation regime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u2018Endless war makes Wall Street bankers richer, ordinary Americans poorer\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was the \u2018war on terror.\u2019 It was a desperate attempt to seize back the monopoly of the world\u2019s energy resources US companies enjoyed after World War II. Not because the United States needed oil, but because US corporations needed profits,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt did not begin on 9\/11\/01. From 1991 to 2001, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians, mostly children, were murdered by US bombs and sanctions. The plans for the first US war against Iraq were on George Bush Sr.\u2019s desk months before Iraqi troops went into Kuwait. The plans to invade Afghanistan wherein his son\u2019s desk on Sept. 10, 2021,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe second Bush regime was run by members of the Project for a New American Century. A 1998 PNAC document said a \u2018new Pearl Harbor\u2019 was needed to galvanize support for a wider war. On Sept. 11, 2001, their wishes came true. A few weeks later, as the US bombed Afghanistan, Gen. Wesley Clark was told the Pentagon planned to \u2018take out seven countries in the region in five years,\u2019\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cEndless war may make Wall Street bankers and CEOs richer. But it doesn\u2019t make ordinary people here safer. It just makes us poorer. We need an end to the military-financial state and an end to Wall Street\u2019s wars,\u201d the analyst concluded.
\nIn an interview on Sunday, Rice said that the United States is safer than it was before the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, which was a series of strikes that killed nearly 3,000 people and caused about $10 billion worth of property and infrastructure damage in the United States.<\/p>\n

US officials assert that the attacks were carried out by 19 al-Qaeda terrorists, but many experts and independent researchers have raised questions about the official account.<\/p>\n

They believe that rogue elements within the US government, such as former Vice President Dick Cheney, orchestrated or at least encouraged the 9\/11 attacks in order to accelerate the US war machine and advance the Zionist agenda.<\/p>\n

Following the 9\/11 attacks, the United States under the presidency of Republican George W. Bush invaded and occupied Afghanistan, despite the fact that no Afghan was involved in the attacks. The occupation continued for 20 years. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans died in the US war on the country.<\/p>\n

Wesley Clark, the retired 4-star US Army general and Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the 1999 War on Yugoslavia said in the famous 2007 interview that the purpose of the 9\/11 attack was to take out the governments of seven countries in five years. These seven countries were Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, and Iran.<\/p>\n

Clark\u2019s interview serves as a reminder regarding the diabolical timeline of the American Empire\u2019s hegemonic project. All of these countries have been directly or indirectly been the object of US aggression.<\/p>\n

Iran has been a target of malicious US intentions but the United States failed to launch a war against it due to the Islamic Republic\u2019s strong defense against the global hegemon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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