More likely, McVeigh was a patsy, whose fertilizer bomb was a cover for explosives planted inside the building.



by Paul Craig Roberts 18 March 2010 RebelNews



According to news reports, the U.S. military is shipping
“bunker-buster” bombs to the U.S. Air Force base at Diego Garcia in the
Indian Ocean. The Herald Scotland reports that experts say the bombs
are being assembled for an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities.



The newspaper quotes Dan Piesch, director of the Centre for
International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of London: “They
are gearing up totally for the destruction of Iran.”



The next step will be a staged “terrorist attack,” a “false flag”
operation as per Operation Northwoods, for which Iran will be blamed.
As Iran and its leadership have already been demonized, the “false
flag” attack will suffice to obtain US and European public support for
bombing Iran. The bombing will include more than the nuclear facilities
and will continue until the Iranians agree to regime change and the
installation of a puppet government. The corrupt American media will
present the new puppet as “freedom and democracy.”



If the past is a guide, Americans will fall for the deception. In the
February issue of the American Behavioral Scientist, a scholarly
journal, Professor Lance DeHaven-Smith writes that state crimes against
democracy (SCAD) involve government officials, often in combination
with private interests, that engage in covert activities in order to
implement an agenda. Examples include McCarthyism or the fabrication of
evidence of communist infiltration, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution based
on false claims of President Johnson and Pentagon chief McNamara that
North Vietnam attacked a U.S. naval vessel, the burglary of the office
of Daniel Ellsberg’s psychiatrist in order to discredit Ellsberg (the
Pentagon Papers) as “disturbed,” and the falsified “intelligence” that
Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction in order to justify the U.S.
invasion of Iraq.



There are many other examples. I have always regarded the 1995 bombing
of the Murrah Federal Office Building in Oklahoma City as a SCAD.
Allegedly, a disturbed Tim McVeigh used a fertilizer bomb in a truck
parked outside the building. More likely, McVeigh was a patsy, whose
fertilizer bomb was a cover for explosives planted inside the building.

A number of experts dismissed the possibility of McVeigh’s bomb producing such structural damage.



For example, General Benton K. Partin, who was in charge of U.S. Air
Force munitions design and testing, produced a thick report on the
Murrah building bombing which concluded that the building blew up from
the inside out. Gen. Partin concluded that “the pattern of damage would
have been technically impossible without supplementary demolition
charges at some of the reinforced concrete bases inside the building, a
standard demolition technique. For a simplistic blast truck bomb, of
the size and composition reported, to be able to reach out on the order
of 60 feet and collapse a reinforced column base the size of column A7
is beyond credulity.” Gen. Partin dismissed the official report as “a
massive cover-up of immense proportions.”



Of course, the general’s unquestionable expertise had no bearing on the
outcome. One reason is that his and other expert voices were drowned
out by media pumping the official story. Another reason is that public
beliefs in a democracy run counter to suspicion of government as a
terrorist agent. Professor Laurie Manwell of the University of Guelph
says that “false flag” operations have the advantage over truth:
“research shows that people are far less willing to examine information
that disputes, rather than confirms, their beliefs.” Professor Steven
Hoffman agrees: “Our data shows substantial support for a cognitive
theory known as ‘motivated reasoning,’ which suggests that rather than
search rationally for information that either confirms or disconfirms a
particular belief, people actually seek out information that confirms
what they already believe. In fact, for the most part, people
completely ignore contrary information.”



Even when hard evidence turns up, it can be discredited as a
“conspiracy theory.” All that is necessary for success of “false flag”
or “black ops” events is for the government to have its story ready and
to have a reliable and compliant media. Once an official story is in
place, thought and investigation are precluded. Any formal inquiry that
is convened serves to buttress the already provided explanation.



An explanation ready-at-hand is almost a give-away that an incident is
a “black ops” event. Notice how quickly the U.S. government, allegedly
so totally deceived by al Qaida, provided the explanation for 9/11.
When President Kennedy was assassinated, the government produced the
culprit immediately. The alleged culprit was conveniently shot inside a
jail by a civilian before he could be questioned. But the official
story was ready, and it held.



Professors Manwell and Hoffman’s research resonates with me. I remember
reading in my graduate studies that the Czarist secret police set off
bombs in order to create excuses to arrest their targets. My
inclination was to dismiss the accounts as anti-Czarist propaganda by
pro-communist historians. It was only later when Robert Conquest
confirmed to me that this was indeed the practice of the Czarist secret
police that the scales fell from my eyes.



Former CIA official Philip Giraldi in his article, “The Rogue Nation,”
makes it clear that the U.S. government has a hegemonic agenda that it
is pursuing without congressional or public awareness. The agenda
unfolds piecemeal as a response to “terrorism,” and the big picture is
not understood by the public or by most in Congress. Giraldi protests
that the agenda is illegal under both U.S. and international law, but
that the illegality of the agenda does not serve as a barrier. Only a
naif could believe that such a government would not employ “false flag”
operations that advance the agenda.



The U.S. population, it seems, is comprised of naifs whose lack of comprehension is bringing ruin to other lands..