Despite the ever-receding horizon of massive future
oil profits, the Iraq war has been an utter disaster for the U.S.A, as all
informed experts predicted it would be. But, as Netanyahu continues to brag,
it has been a triumph for Israel. All of this was completely predictable and
widely known by experts even before the war started. Given all of this, we
are forced to ask: Did pro-Israel forces help orchestrate the war?
Prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Saddam Hussein's
government had been supporting the Palestinian resistance against Israeli
occupation. Most famously, Hussein had been providing generous sums for the
families of martyrs who died fighting the Israelis. Thanks in part to help
from Iraq, the Palestinian intifada had been successfully damaging the
Israeli economy by scaring away tourists and would-be immigrants. The
Palestinians had even equalized the casualty ratio to a certain extent.
Before the Iraq invasion, "only" five Palestinians were being killed for
each Israeli death. The Israelis were being forced to taste at least a small
portion of the suffering they were inflicting. After the invasion, Iraqi aid
disappeared, and the Israelis were able to massacre Palestinians at will;
the casualty ratio grew to dozens of Palestinians killed for each Israeli
death.
Did
Zionists manipulate the U.S. into invading Iraq? We have seen that the
neoconservatives, most of whom are Jewish U.S.-Israeli dual citizens, wrote
the script for the Iraq war in 1995 with their Clean Break statement, which
was commissioned by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. Then these same
Jewish-Zionist neoconservative minions of Netanyahu swept into power when
Bush stole the 2000 election. Perle, Feith, Wurmsur, Wolfowitz, Libby,
Fleischer -- all Jewish-Zionist fanatics! These were the people who took
over U.S. foreign policy in 2001. As a senior Bush Administration official
told the Washington Post in 2003, "The Likudniks are really in charge
now."[i] (Israel's extremist Likud Party was the party of Netanyahu and
Ariel Sharon.)
Another
senior Bush Administration official actually admitted that the U.S. invasion
of Iraq had nothing to do with U.S. security, but was really about the
threat "that dare not speak its name" -- the threat to Israel. That official
was Philip Zelikow, then a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence
Advisory Board (PFIAB), which reports directly to the president. Before
that, Zelikow was part of Bush's transition team, and co-authored a book
with Condoleeza Rice. Zelikow later became the czar of the 9/11 Commission
and, essentially, the sole author of the 9/11 Commission Report. As we have
seen, Zelikow, whose academic speciality is the creation and maintenance of
public myths based "searing or moulding" events, appears to have had
foreknowledge of the 9/11 attacks.
Here are Zelikow's own words during a September 10,
2002 speech at the University of Virginia:
"Why would Iraq attack America
or use nuclear weapons against us? I'll tell you what I think the real
threat (is) and actually has been since 1990 -- it's the threat against
Israel. And this is the threat that dare not speak its name, because the
Europeans don't care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And
the American government doesn't wasnt to lean too hard on it rhetorically,
because it is not a popular sell."[ii]
Did Zelikow -- himself a pro-Zionist Jew -- let the cat
out of the bag? Many well-informed Americans think so. James Petras, a
widely-respected sociology professor who has published more than 60 books in
29 languages along with over 560 scholarly articles, argues that the Jewish
lobby has a stranglehold over U.S. Middle East policy.[iii] Petras is now
calling for an "American national liberation struggle" to free the U.S.A
from Zionist rule.[iv]
Time Magazine columnist Joe Klein, himself Jewish and
pro-Israel, writes: "The fact that a great many Jewish neoconservatives —
people like Joe Lieberman and the crowd over at Commentary — plumped for
this (Iraq) war, and now for an even more foolish assault on Iran, raised
the question of divided loyalties: using U.S. military power, U.S. lives and
money, to make the world safe for Israel." After the predictable squeals
from the neocons, Klein fired back:
"You want evidence of divided loyalties? How about
the 'benign domino theory' that so many Jewish neoconservatives talked to
me about--off the record, of course--in the runup to the Iraq war, the
idea that Israel's security could be won by taking out Saddam, which would
set off a cascade of disaster for Israel's enemies in the region? As my
grandmother would say, feh! Do you actually deny that the casus belli that
dare not speak its name wasn't, as I wrote in February 2003, a desire to
make the world safe for Israel? Why the rush now to bomb Iran, a country
that poses some threat to Israel but none--for the moment--to the United
States...unless we go ahead, attack it, and the mullahs unleash Hezbollah
terrorists against us?"[v]
Former CIA analysts Bill and Kathleen Christison, in
their 2003 article "Too Many Smoking Guns to Ignore: Israel, American Jews,
and the War on Iraq" made the same point. So have dozens of other respected
analysts.
Could Zelikow, the author of the government's official
conspiracy theory of 9/11, be correct in his assertion that the Iraq war was
a Zionist conspiracy? If he is correct, were those who pushed us into a war
on behalf of another country with which we are not even allied guilty of
treason against the United States of America? (Israel is not a U.S. ally; it
refuses to enter into any alliance with the U.S. because if it did, it would
have to declare official borders.)[vi]
These are questions that deserve serious thought and
investigation.
[i] Robert G. Kaiser, "Bush and Sharon Nearly Identical
On Mideast Policy." Washington Post, February 9, 2003
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A45652-2003Feb8¬Found=true
[ii] Emad Mekay, " IRAQ: War Launched to Protect Israel
- Bush Adviser." IPS, March 29, 2004
http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23083
[iii] James Petras, The Power of Israel in the United
States (Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2006). [iv] James Petras, statement on
Dynamic Duo radio show, March 28th, 2008
http://www.gcnlive.com
[v]
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/06/neocons_gone_wild.html
[vi] Ray McGovern, former President's Daily Briefer for
the CIA, discusses the fact that Israel is not a U.S. ally, and the reasons
why Israel refused formal alliance with the U.S., in Dahr Jamail, "Interview
With Ray McGovern, Part 2"
http://dahrjamailiraq.com/hard_news/archives/newscommentary/000459.php
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