Romney-Ryan: a return to neo-con war rule
A match made in hell: Mormonism and Zionism
A Mitt Romney-Paul Ryan administration would bring back to American foreign and domestic policy all the worst elements of the Bush administration, along with a greater degree of militarism, home-grown fascism, and a greater likelihood of war with such countries as Iran, Syria, Venezuela, North Korea, China, and Russia.
In fact, the most alarming aspect of a Romney administration would be the appointment of members of the Mormon Latter Day Saints Church, a sect that is not considered Christian by most traditional Christian denominations, to senior government positions.
Mormons believe in the imminent apocalypse and would have no problem pushing the world to the edge of nuclear annihilation as a fulfillment of their prophecies of a band of 19th-century con-men who convinced their followers that Jesus ministered in North America and that the Garden of Eden was located in what is now the state of Missouri.
The founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, believed that one day the United States would become a theocratic nation run by the Mormon Church. Romney, a former Mormon missionary and bishop of the sect, has referred to Smith’s prophecy as “not official church doctrine,” but he has refused to condemn it outright.
The Mormons and Romney are also in lockstep with the goals of Zionism and, in fact, the Mormons owe more of their beliefs to the Jewish Old Testament than to the Christian New Testament. Only recently and because of political expediency have Christian evangelical leaders who support Romney eliminated their church’s references to Mormonism as a “cult” and even as “Satanic” in nature.
Romney has surrounded himself with some of Israel’s strongest supporters in senior foreign policy advisory positions. These include the former spokesman for the fraud-laden Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, Dan Senor, as well as former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton. Senor, who helped preside over the failure of the U.S. occupation of Iraq and is partly responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, as well as American and allied military personnel, serves as Romney’s senior foreign policy adviser. Senor, like Romney, is a personal friend of Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu.
Also part of Romney’s brain trust is William Kristol, the neocon editor of The Weekly Standard and a cheerleader for all of the Bush-Cheney administration’s disastrous foreign policy policies.
Romney also receives advice from former CIA counter-terrorism chief Cofer Black, who, after leaving the CIA, became a senior executive of the mercenary firm Blackwater. Former National Security Agency and CIA director Michael Hayden, who helped usher into place a total surveillance society in America, is also a key Romney national security adviser.
The man who can be expected to drive a stake into the heart of Obamacare is Romney adviser and former Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt, a former governor or Utah and a fellow Mormon. Leavitt’s reign at Health and Human Services was marked by Mormon-style nepotism, appointing family and friends to key positions within the department, and favoritism. Leavitt is a principal of The Leavitt Group, a large health care corporation, and The Leavitt Group, which consults for the health care and food safety industries.
A top military adviser to Romney is former Navy Secretary John Lehman. Under Ronald Reagan, Lehman presided over a needless build-up of the Navy to 600 ships, many of which, including re-commissioned mothball battleships from World War II, were simply unnecessary. Lehman has convinced Romney that the U.S. Navy now needs a 350-ship Navy.
Other neocons from the Bush-Cheney administration are also waiting in the wings to join a Romney Cabinet. The list looks like the membership roster for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and includes such pro-Israeli operatives as Eric Edelman, Eliot Cohen, Paula Dobriansky, and Michael Chertoff.
Many Romney advisers were signatories of the Project of the New American Century (PNAC), which is viewed as the template for U.S. invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq. The Romney team includes those who have a track record of one-sided support for Israel and support for Arab dictatorships.
The fall of autocratic regimes in the Middle East has resulted in Romney neocon advisers being forced to deal with a new ground game. The likes of Robert Kagan, Robert Joseph, Walid Phares, Pierre Prosper, Dov Zakheim, Norm Coleman, and Andrew Natsios can be expected to try and turn the clock back in the Middle East by using U.S. covert assets to try to eliminate Islamist-tendency governments in Egypt, Tunisia, and Turkey and attempt to install autocratic pro-Western regimes in Libya, Yemen, Syria and Sudan.
A Romney administration will bring about military showdowns with not only Iran and North Korea but also China and Russia.
In summation, a Romney-Ryan administration means a return to the Cold War era, playing fire with nuclear Armageddon, and a United States that is mocked and hated around the world.
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Wayne Madsen is an investigative journalist, author and syndicated columnist. Has some twenty years experience in security issues. As a U.S. Naval Officer, he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He has been a frequent political and national security commentator on Fox News and has also appeared on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera, and MS-NBC. He has been invited to testify as a witness before the US House of Representatives, the UN Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and an terrorism investigation panel of the French government. A member of the Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) and the National Press Club. Lives in Washington, D.C. His website is here.
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