The Secret of Iraq---(by Eustace Mullins)

[indigobusiness]

If you don't know Eustace Mullins, he is an amazing figure in history (protege' of Ezra Pound, etc). His story is unique and astonishing. The Iraq article follows this short bio.
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A Short Biography
Watch for Eustace Mullins' autobiography, coming early 2005.

After forty years of continuous activity in the American conservative movement, Eustace Mullins has garnered an impressive number of firsts - the first writer to have a book burned in Europe since World War II - the first person to be fired from the staff of the Library of Congress for political reasons - and the first writer to detail the history of our Federal Reserve System.

A native Virginian, Eustace Mullins is a direct descendant of William Mullins (Guillaume Molines), who wrote the Mayflower Compact, a governmental code written at the behest of the Mayflower settlers, and the first governing code composed in the new world. He served thiry-eight months in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, and subsequently studied at Washington & Lee University, Ohio State University, The University of North Dakota, New York University, Escuela des Bellas Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Washington, D.C. His groundbreaking work was largely the result of a fortuitous circumstance: he became, successively, the protege of Ezra Pound, the leading literary force of the twentieth century; George Stimpson, founder of the National Press Club, and the most widely quoted journalist in Washington; and H.L. Hunt, the anti-Communist entrepreneur. After Ezra Pound's passing, he founded the Ezra Pound Institute of Civilization, which Carries on Pound's important work in literature and economics.
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THE SECRET OF IRAQ
12/30/2004
Eustace Mullins


The secret of our involvement in Iraq is no secret. This area has been known from 600,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. as a Paleolithic era country. We cowered in terror before the threat of Iraq's weapons of mass delusion, a la Harry Houdini and its threat of imminent nuclear annihilation, only to find, on inventing Iraq in a desperate attempt to stave off destruction, that its present leader, Saddam Hussein, had been a CIA asset for the past forty years, with his handlers numbering both Bush pere at fils, and that his nuclear capability had been destroyed years ago by Israeli assaults using American planes AND BOMBS, etc. Did we heave a sigh of relief upon learning this news? No, we were more terrified than ever, as we entered the defining Age of America, the Age of Terror, under which we labor today.

Now Iowa farm youths are dying in unarmored pleasure vehicles manufactured by General Motors, the infamous Hummers. They are dying in Babylon, a name unfamiliar to most Americans, because Dan Rather tells us it is Bagdad, a modern version of the notorious Whore of Babylon.

Has anyone in Washington ever heard of the Sumerian Empire? The Assyrian Empire? Certainly none of the 3800 overpaid, highly trained "investigative reporters" downing their martinis and New York strip steaks at the National Press Club ever heard of these empires. They have come and gone. Babylon-Bagdad itself veered into oblivion in 2800 B.C. after some three thousand years of prominence. Why are Americans dying in a city which reached its peak three thousand years ago? Answer anyone, anyone. It is because we are embroiled in World War III, stupid. A new crusade from the 12th century, in which Christians and Muslims rush like lemmings into mutual destruction, while the instigators wait on the sidelines, enjoying the gladiators in our modern Coliseum, the television set.

Two names are never mentioned in contemporary accounts of this imbroglio--Woodrow Wilson and Ronald Reagan, yet they account for the entire story. You can throw in the ubiquitous FDR and Wilson's mentor, Colonel House, and you have it all. Why was Ronald Reagan accorded a Pharoah's funeral when he passed away recently? He was honored as the maestro of World War III, which he arranged during his Presidency. Reagan is revered for his monumental feat in ending the Communist "threat", which he did by a simple act-he cut off the flow of cash from the taxpayers of the United States, an unending stream which had been launched by Woodrow Wilson in 1917, and which ended in 1989, aided by Senator Joe McCarthy's astounding discovery that the world headquarters of Communism was not in Moscow, as we had been taught since childhood, but in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of our fake money, the Federal Reserve System. When Joe began to rattle the branches, the money tree stopped its manna, and the dreaded Soviet empire, unable to survive for a single day on its own, quickly joined the Sumerians and Assyrians on the dust heap of history.

This should be enough of a history lesson for one session, but I will go a bit further. How did the Hollywood sycophant, Ronald Reagan, arrange World War III? He was an actor, all of whose scripts were carefully written for him. And so was this one. When he was elected President in 1980, a day of despair for the doomsayers, the same ones who greeted Bush's re-election as the end of this world, which they would celebrate by moving to Canada or Australia. Reagan made his triumphant entry into Washington, accompanied by a carefully selected and trained "advisors" who had been recruited from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University...its full name is the Hoover Institution of War, Revolution and Peace, I am the only historian who has ever accounted for its miraculous growth as THE think tank for all think tanks. After World War I, the Rothschilds realized that someone might actually find out how World War I made its unexplained appearance on the world scene. These clever bankers hired 400 recently discharged U.S. Army Officers to travel around Europe, carefully gathering up all documents which might reveal their complicity in the war. These papers are stored at Stanford University. The name of the think tank had no connection with J. Edgar Hoover, but with the sainted former President, who was revered in Russia as the saviour of Communism, with Russina Relief in 1921, and again in subsequent relief efforts. Because of thie revealing connection, a quickly manufactured story, which became gospel, claimed that he was a fanatical anti-Communist, which the gullible believe today.

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http://www.eustacemullins.com/

[codswallop]

1. Man, oh man...Eustace really cuts to the chase.

This is what I expect from an old guard conservative. He's pissed about the 'big lie' and he knows how the cow ate the cabbage. Damn.

Let this be a lesson. Limbaugh, are you listening?

It's clear old Eustace didn't vote for Bush, Bush's daddy, or his daddy's daddy (Reagan).

[izzybeans]

2. What's the meaning of this:

"aided by Senator Joe McCarthy's astounding discovery that the world headquarters of Communism was not in Moscow, as we had been taught since childhood, but in Washington, D.C., the headquarters of our fake money, the Federal Reserve System. When Joe began to rattle the branches, the money tree stopped its manna, and the dreaded Soviet empire, unable to survive for a single day on its own, quickly joined the Sumerians and Assyrians on the dust heap of history."

The rest of this essay is pretty erratic and incomprehensible. Jumping from hysterical anti-communism to a progressive take on war. This guy is perhaps a wolf in sheep's clothing. Herbert Hoover "the Soviet Savior", the Federal Reserve as a center for jewish control of American Capital, with beliefs like this there are more appropriate words to describe him than "amazing historical figure."

Some of his other writings come off as paranoid and anti-Semitic. His take on Leo Strauss as a Zionist conspiracy to steal civilization pretty much takes the cake. He makes absolutely no mention of PNAC (other than to point out that the new "chicken hawks" are not Christian) and ultra-American nationalism-as a professional historian might do. Perhaps he is just a horrible writer and his point gets lost in his mutterings. Maybe I'm misreading it but this doesn't seem to be a solid source of information.

[indigobusiness]

3. Yeah, his writing treads into some areas that

would seem to contradict his overall perspective. The writing is far more strident in tone than his discussion of these matters. And the message is muddled more than clarified by his handling of these "hot button" topics. He seems to be trying to stir the pot, and provoke discussion of unresolved issues in American history. He is not the paranoid anti-Semite that one might think. At least he doesn't come across that way to me in discussions.

Listen to him speak on these topics, and you might come away with a more favorable view of his opinions. I would agree with your assertions, though. There are many hard questions to be asked of him, and the writing could be better. If I had read this before hearing him interviewed, my opinion of him would be far different, I'm sure. But his story is truly remarkable, and when listened to carefully, his message is as well.

This wasn't posted as an advocacy of all of his views. If there are erudite rebuttals to what he has to say, then they can serve the discussion of these less-than resolved historical matters.

[izzybeans]

4. Certainly, I'll be sure to dig a little deeper.

I was just extremely confused by some of the other essays on his website.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Many think he's an extreme anti-semite

which wouldn't be surprising for a disciple of Ezra Pound.

Take a look at this bibliography:

http://slisweb.lis.wisc.edu/~jcherney/gutmanis.html

Compares Jews to biological "parasites" and non-Jews as their "hosts." Asserts that Jews, as parasites, destroy their Gentile hosts.
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In this one-page statement, Mullins asserts that the Korean War is a "useless Zionist-Communist-inspired United Nations War." He maintains that in order to save the lives of American soldiers, it is necessary that "fifty international Jewish bankers," presumably believed to be the key players in the alliance, "meet with speedy and well-deserved death."
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Mullins discusses a document which he refers to as "The Will of Canaan," describing it as a three-thousand-year-old document found only in the "Babylonian Talmud." The Will of Canaan instructs its followers, an "ethnic group" that Mullins terms the Canaanites, in effect, to unite and to follow a path of evil. The Canaanites are to commit acts of violence and evil against the fundamentally good "Shem" people. Mullins appears to name the descendants of Canaan as the international Freemasons.
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Book cover makes the claim of "exposing the plot behind the passage of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. . .placing the nation's money reserves in the hands of the Jewish International Bankers for the purpose of carrying out their nearly fulfilled world dictatorship plan."
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[indigobusiness]

6. He seems to think that Corporatism ,via the bankers

in America, is killing the country and stealing the treasure of the people. He makes remarks about Freemasonry that leads me to believe he is no freemason.

It is somewhat disconcerting on its face, and I admit to being put off by some of his rhetoric, but the message of an elite class ripping off the world seems accurate. He doesn't seem to take on a race of people so much as a club of power-brokers.

He exposed the fraudulent FDA, which was run and manipulated for decades by a man with real interest or training in medicine. Mullins doesn't like fraudulency at the expense of the people, and he goes after it.

Ezra Pound was vilified unfairly. IMHO. But, if you have another opinion, I'd be interested.

[starroute]

7. What total right-wing conspiracy theory bullshit!

For starters, the history is wildly screwy. I can't even begin to guess at the meaning of, "This area has been known from 600,000 B.C. to 5,000 B.C. as a Paleolithic era country." There never was a "Sumerian Empire" -- just a bunch of city-states. And "Babylon-Bagdad itself veered into oblivion in 2800 B.C. after some three thousand years of prominence" has more errors than I can begin to count, since Bablylon was not founded until about 1800 BC and Baghdad only by the Moslems c. 700 AD.

I've got to think he's getting his history out of Madame Blavatsky, or somebody equally eccentric. Pure 19th-century style lost race stuff.

Second, he boasts of his connections not only to Ezra Pound but also to H.L. Hunt, that crazy old right-wing extremist of the McCarthy era, the father of Nelson Bunker Hunt. If those names don't set off alarm bells for you, just Google a little.

Third, rantings about the Federal Reserve and the Rothschilds are a sure tipoff to extreme right-wing (and generally anti-Semitic) conspiracy theory. Don't let the fact that he doesn't like the Hoover Institute or the Iraq War fool you. The total nutcases over on the most extreme wing of the right have always regarded the right-wing establishment as their ultimate enemy, far more than anyone on the left.

In the case of this guy, the scroogied history suggests that he's not merely an example of the relatively sane right-wing conspiracy nuts who trace things back to the Bavarian Illuminati of two hundred years ago. He's one of the full-bore, old-style type of conspiracy nuts, whose rantings span thousands of years and (at least for some of these guys) even go beyond the human sphere entirely and into hideous Lovecraftian entities manipulating human history from some extra-mundane sphere.

In short, just the sort of person your mommy told you to stay away from on the playground.

[starroute]

8. Here's a good introduction to right-wing conspiracy theory

I was reminded of this article by Mullins' use of the "parasite" meme.

http://www.publiceye.org/rightist/salvi.html

Conspiracy theories range in their complexity, irrationality, and degree of bigotry. They are spread in a mild form by the John Birch Society-primarily through its magazine The New American; and in a more virulent racist and anti-Semitic form by the Liberty Lobby-primarily through its newspaper, The Spotlight, but also through a syndicated radio program, Radio Free America. Other leading purveyors of conspiracy theories include the Lyndon LaRouche network and a number of right-wing Christian groups.

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The idea that a conspiracy of Freemasons controls the economy through the manipulation of paper money is based on conspiracy theories originally spread in the 1700's and 1800's. Salvi's Freemason theory is one current variation of these earlier theories, and persons who embrace this theory often point to Masonic symbols on the dollar bill as evidence of the conspiracy. The basic premise of this worldview is that a conspiracy of secret wealthy elites controls the US. Variations on these themes include overtly bigoted theories concerning Jews, theories of a secular humanist conspiracy of liberals to take God out of society, One World Global Government theories, and many others. Symptoms of the corrosive nature of this alleged conspiracy are seen variously as abortion, homosexuality, the feminist movement, sex education, Outcomes Based Education, the environmental movement, and various others.

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A major element of many conspiracy theories, including those circulated by the militias, is that the country is composed of two types of persons: parasites and producers. The parasites are at the top and the bottom, with the producers being the hard-working average citizen in the middle. This is the theory of right-wing populism. The parasites at the top are seen as lazy and corrupt government officials in league with wealthy elites who control banking and manipulate paper currency. The parasites at the bottom are the lazy and shiftless who do not deserve the assistance they receive from society. Salvi echoes this scapegoating refrain when he complains about persons on welfare. In the current political scene this dichotomy between parasites and producers takes on elements of racism because the people at the bottom who are seen as parasites are usually viewed as people of color, primarily Black and Hispanic, even though most persons who receive government assistance are White. Jews are frequently scapegoated as being part of the parasitic elite at the top.

[yardwork]

9. I am locking this thread. Please do not link to anti-semitic sites

Much of Eustace Mullins's writing is considered anti-semitic. His site is not appropriate for DU. Please do not link to this or other anti-semitic or Jewish conspiracy sites again. Thank you.