We like to think that Watergate was all about Woodward and Bernstein destroying the political career of Richard Nixon when in fact the cancer has continued to grow without pause. It is consequently clear and obvious, when the facts are recognized and acknowledged, that the current political mess is deeply rooted in the failure to hold Richard Nixon accountable.

To make a long story short, Watergate operatives were not third-rate burglars. They were trained assassins and historian Mat Wilson, exposed the truth in the following terms:

"In particular, Nixon allies like Howard Hunt, Gordon Liddy and Frank Sturgis have clearly established a track record of plotting murder in effort to destroy their political enemies, and their well established reputation is solidly documented. In fact, the relationship between Sturgis and Nixon stretches back to the Eisenhower years when they were co-patriots in the struggle to assassinate Castro. The bizarre assassination plots they engaged makes the assassination of John F. Kennedy the Sunday school picnic of their covert operations. For example, they had even tried to brainwash Castro's mistress in effort to turn her into a CIA-trained assassin. The plot to murder Castro through a poisoned cigar was equally bizarre and Sturgis enthusiastically embraced these methods for use against both foreign and domestic enemies. Consequently, what the public has been told about Watergate is uneventful, compared to the real schemes and operations that men like Sturgis, Liddy and Hunt embraced."

Sturgis had initially supported the revolution in Cuba and fought side by side with Castro, but anti-Communist hysteria turned the former object of an honorable revolution into a target of assassination.

In 1963, President Kennedy declared war on the paramilitary operations of anti-Castro extremists and they responded with disdainful comments like: "In Florida, where we were once welcome, we must now operate in the hills of Escambray. We are watched like criminals." By the fall of 1963, former soldiers-of-fortune like Sturgis, who had expected the cooperation of their government, were primed to oppose a new enemy -not Castro, the Communist abroad, but Kennedy, the so-called Communist at home."

When Richard Nixon became President, assassins who had more luck killing Kennedy than Castro, remained his henchmen and they continued to strike and blunder; Chappaquiddick was evidently a failed effort to assassinate Ted Kennedy, but who could possibly believe that as long as we call do not understand the difference between third-rate burglars and politically motivated assassins?

Watergate burglars did not merely break into buildings, plant bugs, and photograph documents in effort to re-elect Nixon. That was the tip of the iceberg. In fact, they plotted the destruction of their political enemies and men like Richard Nixon were catapulted into office by men like Roger Stone.

People who thought America's nightmare was over when Nixon resigned should now understand that it was the beginning of what is currently happening.

Nixon biographer Sam Anson, initially uncovered the fact that Nixon has had an almost uninterrupted capacity to influence White House decisions AFTER he was impeached. Code-named the Wizard, Nixon even had direct access to the Ford White House through an elaborate secret communication set up. His unbroken link to the office of the president was briefly interrupted by the Carter administration, but Reagan restored his ability to control the office of the presidency.

When actor, Ronald Reagan became president, Nixon's white House power was omnipotent because Reagan was a hands-off President who handed Nixon and CIA Director, Bill Casey the opportunity to direct American foreign policy. Historian, Sam Anson described the degree of influence Nixon exercised over the Reagan White House when he said:

"Nixon gets into his office every morning about 7:30. By noon he Will have made and taken 40 calls, most of them to Washington. First he calls the White House and talks to (presidential counsellor) Ed Meese, (national security adviser) Bud McEarlane, and President Reagan. Then he starts working the State Department. Everyone from (Secretary of State) George Schultz on down. He not only gives advice on foreign policy, but on politics in general. What he says is taken very seriously. The tone of the Reagan era was set during the election campaign, when Ronald Reagan offered Casey the opportunity to be his campaign manager. Reagan was in awe of the intelligence spook who organized intelligence missions behind enemy lines for Eisenhower during World War II and as soon as Casey joined the campaign, Reagan said: "You're the expert Bill. Just point me in the right direction and I'll go".

Richard Nixon, Casey's ideological twin, became the senior partner of the foreign policy that was shaped in the 1980's. Ronald Reagan was merely a trusting subject who enthusiastically embraced the path that Nixon and Casey paved.

Absolute loyalty defined the relationship between Casey and Nixon. In 1970, when anti-war demonstrators disturbed President Nixon, Bill Casey let it be known that anyone who opposed the war was misinformed and irresponsible. With Ronald Reagan in the White House, Bill Casey and Richard Nixon claimed the right to define the course of American foreign policy and Casey's unswerving support for Nixon made it all possible.

Casey had even supported Nixon through the Watergate crisis when he wrote:

"All of your friends, all of us who view you as a national asset with a historic mission, and the general public, want to pull all the political shenanigans behind us and get on with the vital things to be done."

Consequently, American foreign policy was effectively privatized. The book, October Surprisse, which exposes the plot to delay the release of American hostages held in Tehran until after the election, to sabotage Jimmy Carter's prospect of winning the election, was the beginning of one debacle over another. The allegation was vigorously denied but a brief item in the New York Times dated July, 30 1980, exposed the foreign policy, international manoevers of Reagan's campaign manager in the following terms; "William Casey plans to open negotiations with the Right to Life group when he returns from a trip abroad."

An interesting question; Why wasn't Ronald Reagan impeached for the fact that his Administration had privatized American Foreighn Policy? The obvious answer; It is, because Watergate was never properly investigated and exposed.

The Casey/Nixon agenda defined the Reagan years and the so-called Reagan revolution was in fact a re-visitation of the lawless Nixon years. Accomplished in the art of plotting clandestine schemes, Nixon and Casey ushered in an unprecedented reign of terror with a vengeance. The first act of the Reagan-elect/Nixon White House was to produce the dissent-free environment through the prompt "liquidation" of priority target, John Lennon, and this is the man who provided Richard Nixon with the opportunity to assassinate John Lennon.

On December 2, 1980, Richard Nixon betrayed the pre-planned agenda of the Reagan White House in his book, The Real War, wherein he claimed confidence in what he called "the background of those new policies that will now begin to emerge as the new administration takes office." Nixon's book paints a portrait of a paranoid megalomaniac waging an obsessive battle to win World War III, and he made himself the hero of that particular agenda.

The home front of Nixon's so-called Real War was the realm of ideals and ideas, and according to the perversity he actively promoted "we will have to compromise some of our cherished ideals" as long as the battle is waged "in the name of that supreme priority." Having extolled the virtue of waging a covert, unethical war to support friends and destroy enemies, Nixon essentially justified his absolute commitment to do whatever was necessary, including the need to murder a "peacnik" like John Lennon, because, as Nixon insisted, "in World War III there is no substitute for victory." Committed to contain communism through the methods and means that totalitarian states deploy, Richard Nixon claimed that "senseless terrorism is often not as senseless as it may seem. To the Soviets and their allies, [and to those who deploy their tactics] it is a calculated instrument of national policy."

This calculated instrument is currently being deployed like clockwork by today's proud boy republicans.

And that's the truth.