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Staged Provocations on Saturday, February 16, 2008 9:39:36 PM
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The Commonwealth, September 17, 2001, Published by The Commonwealth Club of San Francisco. Journalist Robert Stinnettt documents the "Day of Deceit" bombing of Pearl Harbor, arranged by FDR. He also describes other provocations: "This isn't the first time that the U.S. has used provocations. In the Mexican War in 1846, President Polk provoked Mexico, I'm told, as did President Lincoln at Fort Sumpter on South Carolina militia. It was used in the Spanish-American War and in the Vietnam War to get the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution."
The evidence suggests that September 11 was a provocation.
What the Democrats could fear most of all is a provocation to enliven the existing fear that we have to fight "them" in the Middle East so we won't have to fight them here, shunting fearful voters to McCain.