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"One reason
George W. Bush is down in
the polls is that he's giving the impression that he's trying to change the
subject from "our mistaken
invasion" to "building
democracy in Iraq."
George W. Bush would
serve himself and the county better if he simply explained that
he's been
right all along." - Jonah
Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, March 23, 2006
"Most of the
original neo-cons started out as
left wing Jewish
intellectuals.
The neo-cons, mostly former Trotskyites, had the
good fortune of changing their minds about almost everything starting in the
mid 1960's, just as
the political fortunes
of the left began to collapse. " - Jonathan Chait
"If you want
to see when (neo)conservatives were in trouble, go back 35 years to 1973, the
year the Heritage
Foundation set up shop.
We were just a handful of people in a
few rented rooms.
At that time there were no cable outlets like Fox
News.
There was no (neo)conservative talk radio, because the Fairness Doctrine
was still in effect." - Edwin Feulner, Heritage
Foundation
"Neoconservatism usually has a recognizable
meaning.
It connotes a potent moralism and idealism
in world affairs, a belief in America's
exceptional role as a promoter of the principles of liberty and democracy,
a belief in the preservation of American primacy and in the
exercise of power,
including military power, as
a tool for defending and
advancing moralistic and idealistic causes, as well as
a suspicion of international
institutions and a tendency toward
unilateralism.
Even these deliberately polemical caricatures point
to something recognizable, a foreign
policy that combines an idealist's moralism, and
even messianism, with
a realist's belief in the importance of power."
- Robert Kagan, Spring 2008 World Affairs
Journal, Neocon Nation: Neoconservatism
"It may be observed that both the extreme right and the extreme
left of the conventional political spectrum are absolutely collectivist.
The national socialist (the
fascist) and the
international socialist (the
communist) both
recommend totalitarian
economic systems based on naked,
unfettered political power and
individual coercion.
Both systems require
monopolistic control of
society.
An alternative concept of the control of ideas and economic
systems would be that of ranking the degree of individual freedom versus the
degree of centralized political control.
Under such an ordering the
corporate welfare state
and socialism are
at the same end of the spectrum.
Hence we see that attempts at
monopolistic control of society can have
different labels while owning common features." -
Antony Sutton
1970 "Many of the first generation neo-cons originally were
liberal Democrats, or even socialists and
Marxists, often Trotskyites.
They drifted to the right in the 1960s and 1970s as the Democratic
Party moved to the antiwar McGovernite left.
Concern for Israel loomed
large in that rightward drift." - Stephen J. Sniegoski
1976 An enlightening example of the shift from liberal to
neoconservative can be seen in the person of
Alan Merril
Gottlieb.
Alan Gottlieb: The Merchant of Fear
Alan Merril
Gottlieb: Merril Press
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
1978 "An arc of crisis stretches along the
shores of the Indian Ocean, with fragile social and political structures in a
region of vital importance to us threatened with fragmentation.
The
resulting political chaos could well be filled by elements hostile to our
values and sympathetic to our adversaries." -
Zbigniew
Brzezinski
Bernard Lewis, British intelligence officer, claims Islam
is incompatible with pragmatic
materialism, and they were
destined to
clash.
Bernard
Lewis uses the term "Clash of
Civilizations."
Bernard
Lewis played a critical role as professor, mentor, and guru to two
generations of academics, US and British intelligence 'specialists',
think tank denizens,
and neoconservatives.
1979 "Bilderberg member,
Bernard Lewis, presented a
British-American strategy to the Bilderberg Group during the 1979 meeting,
which, "supported the radical Muslim Brotherhood movement in order to promote
balkanization of the entire Muslim Near East along tribal and religious lines.
Lewis argued that the West should encourage autonomous groups such as
the Kurds,
Armenians,
Lebanese Maronites,
Ethiopian Copts,
Azerbaijani
Turks, and so forth.
The chaos would spread in what he termed an
Arc of Crisis,' which would spill over into the Muslim regions of the
Soviet Union." - Andrew G.
Marshall
1992 Bernard Lewis writes an article in
Foreign Affairs, the journal of the Council on Foreign Relations,
titled, "Rethinking the Middle East."
Bernard Lewis
claimed that with a little push most of
the artificially constructed states of the Middle East which "have no real
civil society to hold the polity together, no real sense of common national
identity or overriding allegiance to the nation-state will disintegrate into a
chaos of squabbling, feuding, fighting sects, tribes, regions and parties."
Iraq vs. Iran,
Kurds vs. Turks,
Shi'a vs. Sunni
1994 "Pope John Paul II will visit Lebanon next month to try
to reconstruct the shattered confidence, if not the homes, of the once-reigning
Catholics.
He has called an extraordinary meeting, or synod, of the
Latin churches in Lebanon to encourage them to regroup, spiritually and
politically.
He will encourage the 1,500-year-old mountain sect of
Maronite Catholics, once the most powerful Christian community in the Middle
East, not to leave Lebanon.
For much of its modern history, this was
the single Christian bastion in the Middle East, a conspicuous cross standing
before a tide of Islam.
Now, the Christians have lost their power.
The Muslims and Druze who long ago became the majority finally have
wrested it away.
Christians are in a political free-fall, wounded by
enemies within and without. The civil war ended their rule.
It was 15
years of fratricide, from 1975 to 1990.
The war was a pack-fight in
which each dog bit blindly at the next: Christians vs. Muslims, Druze vs.
Christians, Palestinians vs. Israelis, Christians vs. Christians." - Doug
Struck, Mrejat, Lebanon; BALTIMORE SUN, April 3
1998 Neo-conservatives, many with close ties to Israel's
Likud Party publish two open letters to
William Jefferson Clinton calling
for Saddam Hussein
to be removed from power.
The signatories included Elliot Abrams,
John Bolton, Douglas Feith, William Kristol, Bernard Lewis,
Donald Rumsfeld,
Richard Perle and
Paul Wolfowitz.
"During the Clinton
administration, neoconservatives promoted their views from a strong
interlocking network of think tanks - American Enterprise
Institute (AEI), Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri),
Hudson Institute, Washington Institute for Near East Policy,
Middle East Forum, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
(JINSA), Center for Security Policy (CSP) - which have had great
influence in the media and which have helped to staff presidential
administrations.
Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli
military intelligence, was a co-founder of
the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri).
"The
other co-founder of Memri, Meyrav Wurmser, was a member of the Hudson
Institute, while her husband, David Wurmser, headed the Middle East studies
department of American Enterprise
Institute.
Richard Perle was both a
"resident fellow" at the American Enterprise Institute and a trustee of
the Hudson Institute. " - Stephen J. Sniegoski
Frederick Kagan is a writer for the American Enterprise
Institute.
He is brother to
foreign policy analyst
Robert Kagan.
Frederick Kagan, Robert Kagan and their father Donald Kagan are all
signatories to the neoconservative Project for the New American Century
manifesto titled Rebuilding America's Defenses
(2000).
"I've read lists with the names
of up to sixteen men with dual citizenship among the big players in Washington.
It includes rabbi Dov S.
Zakheim, who was comptroller of DoD when it came up missing $2.3 trillion.
Paul
Dundes Wolfowitz, Richard Norman
Perle, Michael Chertoff, head of
Homeland Security, George Tenet, former
head of the CIA, and Eliot
Abrams, who played a key role in the
Iran-Contra scandal
under President Reagan as Assistant Secretary of State, and has served
George W. Bush as Deputy Assistant to the President, and Deputy
National Security Advisor.
The list also includes
Donald Kagan, one of the chief engineers of
the Project for the New American Century, as well as Marc Grossman,
Douglas J. Feith and a half dozen others whose names aren't as well known
(Richard Haas, Kenneth
Adelman, Edward Luttwak, Robert Satloff,
David Frum, David Wurmser, and Steven
Goldsmith.
Citizens of Israel determine national policy in ways the
clearly benefit Israel.
Many of these men were contributors to the
Project for the New American Century, which was published in September
2000 and which contained the blueprint for the
American imperialism that has
come to life since 911.
Limitless profit-seeking has always
been the goal of neoconservativism.
With the
War on Terror, the neocons
didn't abandon their
predatory economic goals; they found a new, much more effective way to
achieve them.
Both in Israel and the US, we now have a
state of endless war
abroad, and a security
state at home." - Davidson Loehr
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the
ambitious.
But it cannot survive
treason from within.
An
enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner
openly.
But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his
sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of
government itself.
For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in
accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and
their arguments, he appeals to
the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
He rots the soul
of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the
pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer
resist.
A murderer is less to
fear.
The traitor is the
plague." - Marcus Tullius Cicero, Senate speech, 42 BC
2001 The cover of the Weekly
Standard October 1, 2001 issue contained a single word - "WANTED" -
above stark black and white photographs of Usamah bin Mohammad bin Laden and
Saddam Hussein.
The
Weekly Standard issue, co-edited Robert
Kagan and William Kristol, called for regime change in Iraq immediately after
the Taliban is defeated.
That same day,
Charles Krauthammer argued in the
Washington Post that after
Afghanistan,
Syria should be next,
followed by Iran and
Iraq.
The Red Line and the Rat Line
America’s Legacy of Regime Change
"The war on
terrorism will conclude in
Baghdad." - Charles Krauthammer
In the campaign to
manipulate intelligence I. Lewis "Scooter"
Libby pressured CIA analysts several times to find evidence that would make
the case for war while he helped prepare
a detailed briefing on the Iraq
threat.
The campaign to manipulate intelligence involved two
organizations created after September 11, 2001 that reported directly to
Douglas Feith.
Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group is tasked to find links
between al-Qa`ida
and Iraq.
Office of Special Plans is
tasked with creating the
propaganda product that will be used to sell the war on Iraq to the American
people.
Paul
Wolfowitz described in The Forward as "the most hawkishly pro-Israel
voice in the Bush
administration" is selected in 2002 as the first among fifty notables who
"have consciously pursued Jewish activism."
Jewish Institute for
National Security Affairs gives
Paul Wolfowitz its Henry
M. Jackson Distinguished Service Award for promoting a strong partnership
between Israel and America.
Jerusalem Post, describing
Wolfowitz as "devoutly pro-Israel," names him "Man of the Year" in 2003.
Paul Dundes
Wolfowitz is rewarded and becomes World Bank
president.
"George W. Bush was inaugurated president in January 2001.
The neocons who were moving into key jobs in the Pentagon knew they
would soon have new wars to fight in the Middle East, with
invasion plans for Afghanistan and
Iraq ready to be pulled off the shelf.
But the US had no economic
engine available to
generate the tax revenues Bush would need for the planned wars.
At
this moment Alan Greenspan of the
Federal Reserve stepped in.
Over a two year period from 2001-2003 the Fed lowered interest rates by
over 500 basis points.
Meanwhile,
the federal
government removed all
regulatory controls on mortgage lending, and
the housing bubble is on.
$4 trillion in new home loans
were pumped into the economy, much of it through subprime loans borrowers could
not afford." - Richard C. Cook
March 2004
Dual Israeli/American citizen, Yeshivat Sha’alvim rabbi
Dov S. Zakheim resigns as the Pentagon
Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer after an audit of the Pentagon
budget is unable to account for the disappearance of $2.6 trillion including
defense inventory of:
56 planes; 32 tanks; and 36 Javelin missile
command launch-units.
Records seem to have been destroyed in the attack
on the Pentagon on 911.
March 7, 2006 "Israel, and the US, and all civilized nations
will win the war on
terror.
America experienced on September 11th, 2001, the terrorist
enemy is brutal and heartless.
The terrorists want to end all American
and Western influence in the Middle East.
Their goal in that region is
to seize control of a country, so
they have a base from which to
launch attacks and wage war
against governments that do not meet their demands.
Ultimately to
establish a totalitarian empire that encompasses a region from Spain, across
North Africa, through the Middle East and South Asia, all the way around to
Indonesia." -
Richard Bruce
Cheney, keynote address at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC) policy conference
"There is a growing arc of nuclear powers
running from Israel in the west through an emerging Iran to
Pakistan, India and on to
China,
North Korea and Russia in the
east.
Unfortunately, that nuclear arc coincides with areas of
considerable instability which are of enormous interest to the US." - US Joint
Forces Command, Joint Operating Environment (JOE) document, November 2008,
Pentagon website
David B. Rivkin, Jr. legal opinions played a
significant role in developing the Reagan and Bush Administrations' regulatory
and legislative proposals affecting natural gas and electric utility industries
which lead to the California energy market debacle.
David B. Rivkin, Jr. handled the development and
implementation of President Bush's de-regulatory initiatives, carried out
during 1991-92 which included a leading role in the development of Order 636,
which introduced major changes to the regulation of the interstate natural gas
pipelines, and simultaneously served as the Special Assistant for Domestic
Policy to then Vice President Dan Quayle.
David B. Rivkin, Jr. served as
Legal Advisor to the Counsel to the President; Deputy Director of the Office of
Policy Development (OPD); Associate General Counsel, US Department of Energy
(DOE) responsible for international, constitutional, environmental and energy
matters from 1990-91; Associate Executive Director and Counsel of the
President's Council on Competitiveness; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations who legally
supported the pardon of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
2008 Robert Kagan in "Neocon
Nation: Neoconservatism, C. 1776 " says it has always been the
alturistic purpose of America to
"free" backward social
cultures from the reigning
tyrant by "teaching them to
elect good men".
Robert Kagan fails to mention
in each case of military
intervention America protects corporate assets by enforcing "contractual
obligations."
Throughout the 19th and 20th
centuries newspapers, beholden to interlocking corporate boards of
directors, supported by
corporate advertising,
used the banner of
freedom as a propaganda foil to get the
American population behind
every military intervention
requested.
Robert Kagan says
Zionism, "combines an idealist's moralism, and even
messianism, with
a realist's belief in the importance of
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