"At first, in the early days of his power, he is full of smiles, and he salutes everyone whom he meets; he to be called a tyrant, who is making promises in public and also in private! liberating debtors, and distributing land to the people and his followers, and wanting to be so kind and good to everyone! But when he has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. Has he not also another object, which is that they may be impoverished by payment of taxes, and thus compelled to devote themselves to their daily wants and therefore less likely to conspire against him. And if any of them are suspected by him of having notions of freedom, and of resistance to his authority, he will have a good pretext for destroying them by placing them at the mercy of the enemy; and for all these reasons the tyrant must be always getting up a war. He must." -Plato's Republic

When studying the history of war I came to a few realizations that I think are important: 1: the winner of the battle gets to tell the story, and 2: the government needs the support of its people, having revolts within your own borders could quickly lead to defeat abroad. So naturally I've wondered about the various causes so many millions of people have fought, killed and died for...

"Why, of course, the people don't want war, why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.....voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." -Herman Goering during the Nuremberg Trials

"Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond whether real or promulgated that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." - Henry Kissinger, Bilderberg Conference, 1991

"Let us keep in mind that all people of all countries want peace, only their governments want war." -Dwight D. Eisenhower

Legend tells us Nero fiddled as Rome burned. Nearly two thirds of Rome was destroyed in 64 AD as the city was consumed in fire for over a week while the Emperor watched in delight. It is even widely believed Nero started the fires, knowing he could direct the resulting public outrage towards the Christians. This initiated history's most horrific examples of Christian persecution; Christians were publicly fed to lions, crucified and burned at night as human torches.

In 1846, President James Polk, anxious to expand the American empire, had the U.S. army build a fort on the Rio Grande, some 150 miles south of the commonly accepted border between Texas and Mexico. After 16 U.S. soldiers died in a skirmish, Polk told Congress that Mexico had "shed American blood upon the American soil." This claim was called "the sheerest deception" by a congressman named Abraham Lincoln. Nevertheless, the Mexican-American war was on and in 1848, Mexico, being out-gunned, signed a peace treaty ceding away half of its country for a paltry sum.

In 1898, the United States falsely accused Spain of blowing up a battleship, the USS Maine, which President McKinley had sent to Havana Harbor uninvited. This accusation, which led to the chant "Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain," was used as a pretext to start the Spanish-American war, through which America took control of Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. In the latter case, the United States, after helping the Filipinos defeat the Spanish, went to war against the Filipinos, claiming that they had fired on American soldiers. A quarter of a million Filipinos died in the resulting slaughter.

In 1931, Japan, which had been exploiting Manchuria for its resources, decided to take over the whole province. To have a pretext, the Japanese army blew up the tracks of its own railway near the Chinese military post of Mukden, then blamed the sabotage on Chinese soldiers.

Nazi Germany

Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a “war on terrorism” and to establish his legitimacy as a leader, even though he hadn’t won a majority in the previous election.

“You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,” he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. “This fire,” he said, his voice trembling with emotion, “is the beginning.” He used the occasion – “a sign from God,” he called it – to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their “evil” deeds in their religion.

Two weeks later, the first prison for terrorists was built in Oranianberg, holding the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the nation’s flag was everywhere, even printed in newspapers suitable for display.

Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation’s now-popular leader had pushed through legislation, in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it, that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people’s homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.

To get his patriotic “Decree on the Protection of People and State” passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack on the Reichstag building was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained.

Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. Instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as The Fatherland. As hoped, people’s hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was “the” homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands.

Within a year of the terrorist attack, Hitler’s advisors determined that the various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the nation, including those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist sympathizers. He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the Fatherland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police, border, and investigative agencies under a single powerful leader.

Most Americans remember his Office of Fatherland Security, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and Schutzstaffel, simply by its most famous agency’s initials: the SS.

And, perhaps most important, he invited his supporters in industry into the halls of government to help build his new detention camps, his new military, and his new empire which was to herald a thousand years of peace. Industry and government worked hand-in-glove, in a new type of pseudo-democracy first proposed by Mussolini and sustained by war.

This same series of events has occurred in the wake of the 9/11 attacks.

In 1939, Nazi government officials seized a radio station and broadcasted a message in Polish urging the Poles to attack the Germans; they immediately staged the attacks themselves. Consequently, Hitler told the German people they were being attacked by Polish insurgents, which provided the support he needed to invade Poland and to kick start World War II.

In December 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt told the American people the attack on Pearl Harbor was an unprovoked surprise attack; it was neither. If you doubt this, you can hear it from the horse's mouth in this video of Paul Wolfowitz addressing West Point's graduating class of 2001. Using an 8-step plan provided to Roosevelt by the Office of Naval Intelligence, the U.S. government purposely provoked Japan into the attack to provide a cause for American involvement in World War II.

In 1964, Lyndon B. Johnson, with the help of the media, used the Gulf of Tonkin incident to support a cause for war in Vietnam. The American people were told the attacks were unprovoked; in reality, the attacks never occurred.

Northwoods

In March of 1962 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Lyman Louis Lemnitzer presented a plan to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara named Operation Northwoods. This document proposed staging terrorist attacks in and around Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to provide the pretext for military intervention in Cuba. The plans included starting rumors about Cuba via the media, then staging Cuban attacks, starting riots at the main gate, sabotaging ammunition and vehicles inside the base, bombing the base with mortar shells, sinking a ship, staging funerals for mock victims, staging a terror campaign in Miami and D.C., and the grand finale: blowing up a drone aircraft (with federal agents posing as college student victims) over Cuban waters.

Although this plan was rejected, the declassified documents provide us with a clear understanding of what measures our government is willing to explore in order to accomplish their agenda.

And what is the agenda? Ultimately it is world government - total globalization - a new world order. The art of war has been meticulously analyzed, practiced and mastered by only a few men who have considered themselves to be extraordinary in wealth and wisdom; incidentally, it is these who have secretly and methodically played both sides of every war since the American Revolution.

"Stalin paid tribute to the assistance rendered by the U.S. to Soviet industry before and during the war. He said that about two-thirds of all the large industrial enterprises in the Soviet Union had been built with U.S. help or technical assistance." -Extract from a report by Ambassador Harriman in Moscow to the State Department, June 30, 1944

It is a well-documented fact American capitalists (i.e. Wall Street & the US economy) financed communism from its inception. This may not necessarily come as a surprise, when we consider the fact the commies were our allies in WWII against Hitler and Mussolini. The facts which do not make sense however, are those which reveal some of the very same Americans heavily financing Adolf Hitler and the Nazi's military-industrial complex. You can find more detailed information regarding these subjects in the Timeline section. I challenge you to investigate these issues thoroughly and you'll see the truth is indeed stranger than fiction.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"As America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may become more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstance of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat." -Zbigniew Brzezinski, The Grand Chessboard, 1997

According to PNAC's document entitled Rebuilding America's Defenses, the primary objective of United States foreign policy is to accomplish the following four missions:

Defend the American homeland; America must defend its homeland. During the Cold War, nuclear deterrence was the key element in homeland defense; it remains essential. But the new century has brought with it new challenges. While reconfiguring its nuclear force, the United States also must counteract the effects of the proliferation of ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction that may soon allow lesser states to deter U.S. military action by threatening U.S. allies and the American homeland itself. Of all the new and current missions for U.S. armed forces, this must have priority.

Fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars; The United States must retain sufficient forces able to rapidly deploy and win multiple simultaneous large-scale wars and also to be able to respond to unanticipated contingencies in regions where it does not maintain forward-based forces. This resembles the “two-war” standard that has been the basis of U.S. force planning over the past decade. Yet this standard needs to be updated to account for new realities and potential new conflicts.

Perform the "constabulary" duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions; The Pentagon must retain forces to preserve the current peace in ways that fall short of conduction major theater campaigns. A decade’s experience and the policies of two administrations have shown that such forces must be expanded to meet the needs of the new, long-term NATO mission in the Balkans, the continuing no-fly-zone and other missions in Southwest Asia, and other presence missions in vital regions of East Asia. These duties are today’s most frequent missions, requiring forces configured for combat but capable of long-term, independent constabulary operations.

Transform the US forces in exploit the "revolution in military affairs;" The Pentagon must begin now to exploit the so-called “revolution in military affairs,” sparked by the introduction of advanced technologies into military systems; this must be regarded as a separate and critical mission worthy of a share of force structure and defense budgets.

The report continues:

To carry out these core missions, we need to provide sufficient force and budgetary allocations. In particular, the United States must:

Maintain nuclear strategic superiority, basing the US nuclear deterrent upon a global, ,nuclear net assessment that weighs the full range of current and emerging threats, not merely the US-Russia balance.

Restore the personnel strength of today’s force to roughly the levels anticipated in the “Base Force” outlined by the Bush Administration, an increase in active-duty strength from 1.4 million to 1.6 million.

Reposition US forces to respond to 21st century strategic realities by shifting permanently-based forces to Southeast Europe and Southeast Asia, and by changing naval deployment patterns to reflect growing U.S. strategic concerns in East Asia.

Modernize current US forces selectively, proceeding with the F-22 program while increasing purchases of lift, electronic support and other aircraft; expanding submarine and surface combatant fleets; purchasing Comanche helicopters and medium-weight ground vehicles for the Army, and the V-22 Osprey “tilt-rotor” aircraft for the Marine Corps.

Cancel “roadblock” programs such as the Joint Strike Fighter, CVX aircraft carrier, and Crusader howitzer system that would absorb exorbitant amounts of Pentagon funding while providing limited improvements to current capabilities. Savings from these cancelled programs should be used to spur the process of military transformation.

Develop and deploy global missile defenses to defend the American homeland and American allies, and to provide a secure basis for U.S. power projection around the world.

Control the new "international commons" of space and "cyberspace," and pave the way for the creation of a new military service – U.S. Space Forces – with the mission of space control.

Exploit the "revolution in military affairs" to insure the long-term superiority of U.S. conventional forces. Establish a two-stage transformation process which maximizes the value of current weapons systems through the application of advanced technologies, and produces more profound improvements in military capabilities, encourages competition between single services and joint-service experimentation efforts.

Increase defense spending gradually to a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense spending annually.

The document then concludes:

Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.

Their neccessary new Pearl Harbor event occurred within a year on September 11, 2001.