Quote from dddooo:
Jeez, another idiot reciting the protocols. Two oilmen in the white house (one of them having a family feud with a middle-eastern dictator who tried to kill his daddy) invade an oil-rich country, the Israelis warn them against the invasion, neighboring arab states provide support and assistance for the invasion and hugely benefit from it... but of course it's the fault of the jews. And Israel is a fascist state because Israeli Arabs can vote, have their representatives in the government, can freely practice their religion and preach their [anti-Israel] views. Your are indeed an alien, what planet are you from?
The israelis warned them??? Hahahahahahahahahah!
Jewish-Zionist plans for war against Iraq had been in place for years.
In mid-1996, a policy paper prepared for then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined a grand strategy for Israel in the Middle East. Entitled âA Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,â it was written under the auspices of an Israeli think tank, the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies. Specifically, it called for an âeffort [that] can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq, an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right...â [8]
The authors of âA Clean Breakâ included Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser, three influential Jews who later held high-level positions in the Bush administration, 2001-2004: Perle as chair of the Defense Policy Board, Feith as Undersecretary of Defense, and Wurmser as special assistant to the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control.
The role played by Bush administration officials who are associated with two major pro-Zionist âneoconservativeâ research centers has come under scrutiny from The Nation, the influential public affairs weekly. [9]
The author, Jason Vest, examined the close links between the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) and the Center for Security Policy (CSP), detailing the ties between these groups and various politicians, arms merchants, military men, wealthy pro-Israel American Jews, and Republican presidential administrations
JINSA and CSP members, notes Vest, âhave ascended to powerful government posts, where... theyâve managed to weave a number of issues â support for national missile defense, opposition to arms control treaties, championing of wasteful weapons systems, arms aid to Turkey and American unilateralism in general â into a hard line, with support for the Israeli right at its core... On no issue is the JINSA/CSP hard line more evident than in its relentless campaign for war â not just with Iraq, but âtotal war,â as Michael Ledeen, one of the most influential JINSAns in Washington, put it... For this crew, âregime changeâ by any means necessary in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia and the Palestinian Authority is an urgent imperative.â
Samuel Francis, author, editor and columnist, also looked into the âneo-conservativeâ role in fomenting war. [10]
âMy own answer,â he wrote, âis that the lie [that a massively-armed Iraq posed a grave and imminent threat to the US] was fabricated by neo-conservatives in the administration whose first loyalty is to Israel and its interests and who wanted the United States to smash Iraq because it was the biggest potential threat to Israel in the region. They are known to have been pushing for war with Iraq since at least 1996, but they could not make an effective case for it until after Sept. 11, 2001...â
In the aftermath of the 2001 Nine-Eleven terror attacks, ardently pro-Zionist âneo-conservativesâ in the Bush administration â who for years had sought a Middle East war to bolster Israelâs security in the region â exploited the tragedy to press their agenda. In this they were backed by the Israeli government, which also pressured the White House to strike Iraq.
âThe [Israeli] military and political leadership yearns for war in Iraq,â reported a leading Israeli daily paper, Haaretz, in February 2002. [11]
The Jerusalem correspondent for the Guardian, the respected British daily, reported in August 2002: âIsrael signalled its decision yesterday to put public pressure on President George Bush to go ahead with a military attack on Iraq, even though it believes Saddam Hussein may well retaliate by striking Israel.â [12]
Three months before the US invasion, the well-informed Washington journalist Robert Novak reported that Israeli prime minister Sharon was telling American political leaders that âthe greatest US assistance to Israel would be to overthrow Saddam Husseinâs Iraqi regime.â Moreover, added Novak, âthat view is widely shared inside the Bush administration, and is a major reason why US forces today are assembling for war.â [13]
Israelâs spy agencies were a âfull partnerâ with the US and Britain in producing greatly exaggerated prewar assessments of Iraqâs ability to wage war, a former senior Israeli military intelligence official has acknowledged. Shlomo Bron, a brigadier general in the Israel army reserves, and a senior researcher at a major Israeli think tank, said that intelligence provided by Israel played a significant role in supporting the US and British case for making war. Israeli intelligence agencies, he said, âbadly overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and British belief that the weapons [of mass destruction] existed.â [14]
