RAND CORPORATION CONFIRMS WAR ON TERROR IS A HOAX

CHESTER COUNTY, PA – Sixteenth District Independent congressional candidate John Murphy has been calling the so-called War on Terror "bogus" for over three years on his website. On Tuesday, July 29, 2008 the Rand Corporation, a leading adviser to the United States military released a study titled: "How Terrorist Groups End: Lessons for Countering Al Qaeda". The report concludes that terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals not holy warriors and that there is no battlefield solution to terrorism.

According to John Murphy, "the ‘war on terror’ is an absolute fraud. I said this over two years ago and it remains more obviously true two years hence. It is a war designed specifically to mask the injustices and inequalities which afflict millions of Americans by aggravating and amplifying the injustices and inequalities inflicted upon millions of non-Americans. Its very existence represents continuous and ever-expanding victory for only the most vicious, opportunistic, and hateful elements among humanity, who will impose upon us tragedy upon tragedy, and terror upon terror, until we break cleanly and completely from the rotted chains of mindless fealty to false national leaders and forge links with those abroad whose friendships we have forgone for far too long."

Murphy went on to say "I am overwhelmingly pleased that the Rand Corporation has concluded that the ‘war on terror’ is a hoax and that military efforts to deal with terrorism have always been ineffective. As I have always maintained, and the Rand report concludes, we must make policing and intelligence the backbone of US efforts. This will require careful involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency and the Federal Bureau of Investigation as well as collaboration with foreign police and intelligence agencies.

"It is also not surprising that the Rand Corporation further suggests that a second aspect of a counterterrorism effort would minimize the use of US military force. It further concludes that using the term ‘war on terror’ suggest that there is a battlefield solution. Terrorist should be perceived as criminals not as warriors. Nearly every US ally, including the UK and Australia, has stopped using the term 'war on terror' and replaced it with the term 'counterterrorism'.

Murphy concluded, "although it should have been obvious many years ago, I am nevertheless pleased at the Rand Corporation has finally concluded that terrorist organizations end either because of operations carried out by police and intelligence agencies or because they join the political process; not because of military operations. The terrorism of Timothy McVeigh was brought to an end through police action not by bombing New York, his home state. The terrorism in Northern Ireland ended with a political solution showing the futility of years of military action."

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