"This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, about why America made that fateful decision. The following questions are intended to clarify who’s to blame for the Iraq war.
1. Ahmed Chalabi, the source of much of the false “intelligence” about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, was introduced to his biggest boosters, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz ,by their mentor, a University of Chicago professor who had known the Iraqi conman since the 1960s. Who was this influential Cold War hawk who has an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) conference centre named in his honour?
2. In 1982, “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” appeared in Kivunim, a journal published by the World Zionist Organization, which stated: “Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel.” Who wrote this seminal article?
3. “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” a report prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in 1996, recommended “removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq – an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right”. Which then member of the Pentagon’s Defence Policy Board was the study group leader?
4. A November 1997 Weekly Standard editorial entitled “Saddam Must Go” stated: “We know it seems unthinkable to propose another ground attack to take Baghdad. But it’s time to start thinking the unthinkable.” The following year, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an influential neo-conservative think tank, published a letter to President clinton urging war against Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a “hazard” to “a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil”. The co-founders of PNAC were also the authors of the “Saddam Must Go” editorial. Who are they?
5. In Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein, published by AEI Press in 1999, he argued that clinton policies in Iraq were failing to contain the country and proposed that the US use its military to redraw the map of the Middle East. Who was this Middle East adviser to Vice-President Dick cheney from 2003 to mid-2007?
6. On 15 September 2001 at Camp David, the deputy defence secretary attempted to justify a US attack on Iraq rather than Afghanistan because it was “doable”. In the lead-up to the war, he said that it was “wildly off the mark” to think hundreds of thousands of troops would be needed to pacify a postwar Iraq; that the Iraqis “are going to welcome us as liberators”; and that “it is just wrong” to assume that the United States would have to fund the Iraq war. Who is this chief architect of the Iraq war?
7. On 23 September 2001, which US senator, who had pushed for the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there was evidence that “suggests Saddam Hussein may have had contact with Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network, perhaps [was] even involved in the 11 September attack”?
8. A 12 November 2001 New York Times editorial called an alleged meeting between Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent in Prague an “undisputed fact”? Who was the columnist, celebrated for his linguistic prowess, who was sloppy in his use of language here?
9. A 20 November 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that the US should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism, claiming, “Iraq is the obvious candidate, having not only helped al-Qaeda, but attacked Americans directly (including an assassination attempt against the first President bush) and developed weapons of mass destruction”. Who is the professor of strategic studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, who made these spurious claims?
10. George W. bush’s January 2002 State of the Union address described Iraq as part of an “axis of evil”. Who was bush’s Canadian-born speechwriter who coined the provocative phrase?
11. “Yet whether or not Iraq becomes the second front in the war against terrorism, one thing is certain: there can be no victory in this war if it ends with Saddam Hussein still in power.” Who is the longtime editor of Commentary magazine who made this assertion in a February 2002 article entitled “How to win World War IV”?
12. Which Pentagon Defence Policy Board member and PNAC signatory wrote in the Washington Post on 13 February 2002: “I believe that demolishing Hussein’s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk”?
13. “If we win the war, we are in control of Iraq, it is the single largest source of oil in the world... We will have a bonanza, a financial one, at the other end, if the war is successful.” Who is the psychiatrist-turned-Washington Post columnist who tempted Americans with this illusory carrot on 3 August 2002?
14. In a 20 September 2002 Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled “The Case of Toppling Saddam,” which current national leader claimed that Saddam Hussein could be hiding nuclear material “in centrifuges the size of washing machines” throughout the country?
15. “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.” Despite this candid admission to a foreign policy conference at the University of Virginia on 10 September 2002, he authored the National Security Strategy of September 2002, which provided the justification for a preemptive war against Iraq. Who was this member of President bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board?
16. According to a 7 December 2002 New York Times article, during Secretary of State Colin Powell’s efforts to negotiate a resolution on Iraq at the United Nations, this Iran-Contra conspirator’s role was “to make sure that Secretary Powell did not make too many concessions to the Europeans on the resolution’s wording, pressing a hard-line view.” Who was this senior director of Near East and North African affairs at the National Security Council during the George W. bush administration?
17. Who was Vice-President cheney’s chief of staff, until he was indicted for lying to federal investigators in the Valerie Plame case, who drafted Colin Powell’s fraudulent 5 February 2003 UN speech?
18. According to Julian Borger’s 17 July 2003 Guardian article entitled “The spies who pushed for war,” the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans (OSP) “forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon’s office in Israel” to provide the bush administration with alarmist reports on Saddam’s Iraq. Who was the under secretary of defence for policy who headed the OSP?
19. Which British-born professor emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, whose 1990 essay “The Roots of Muslim Rage” introduced the dubious concept of a “Clash of Civilizations”, has been called “perhaps the most significant intellectual influence behind the invasion of Iraq”?
20. Apart from their key role in taking America to war against Iraq, what do the answers to questions 1 to 19 all have in common?
Answers: 1. Albert Wohlstetter 2. Oded Yinon 3. Richard Perle 4. William Kristol and Robert Kagan 5. David Wurmser 6. Paul Wolfowitz 7. Joseph Lieberman 8. William Safire 9. Eliot Cohen 10. David Frum 11. Norman Podhoretz 12. Kenneth Adelman 13. Charles Krauthammer 14. Benjamin Netanyahu 15. Philip Zelikow 16. Elliott Abrams 17. Lewis “Scooter” Libby 18. Douglas Feith 19. Bernard Lewis 20.
"7. On 23 September 2001, which US senator, who had pushed for the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there was evidence that “suggests Saddam Hussein may have had contact with Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network, perhaps [was] even involved in the 11 September attack”?"
4a) A documented drafted by JINSA (the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs) became the Iraq Liberation Act, signed into law by Clinton, and used as a preamble to the Congressional Act authorizing Bush to go to war in 2002.
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I SIT IN MY BASEMENT AND ROCK BACK AND FORTH, AND FOAM COMES OUT OF MY MOUTH
JEWS CAN FLY
JEWS RUN EVERYTHING AND OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
MY DOG IS SECRETLY A ZIONIST. I SHAKE HIM FOR ANSWERS BUT HE WAS TAUGHT TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT. DAMN MOSSAD SECRET AGENT HOUSEPETS.
JEWS CAN TELEPORT
JERRY SEINFELD IS A SPACE ALIEN WHO CAME FROM THE JEWISH MOTHERSHIP
JEWS OWN AND RUN EVERYTHING BUT THEY ARE NOT SMART, NO SIR, THEY ARE REALLY DUMB.
I LIKE TO ACCUSE JEWS OF MANY THINGS, AND THEN ACCUSE THEM OF WHINING WHEN THEY RESPOND TO MY ATTACK
YOU ARE SECRETLY JEWISH
EVERYONE IS JEWISH
I LIKE TO ACCUSE JEWS OF BEING CHEAP. THEN I ACCUSE JEWS OF BEING RICH AND FLAUNTING THEIR WEALTH. YOU'D THINK THOSE STATEMENTS CONFLICT EACH OTHER, BUT I GUESS NOT.
TEHRE ARE NO JEWS
HELP ME, THE VOICES IN MY HEAD FRIGHTEN ME
HOW COME JEWS WHO GET MASTERS DEGREES AND PHDS GET BETTER JOBS THAN ME, I SPENT MY CHILDHOOD BLOWING UP RODENTS, DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL AND CANNOT SPELL MY OWN NAME, WHY AM I NOT A CEO
Whoever compiled that is a wonderful journalist - and likely has become unemployed by the cablistic tribe.
This is what the citizens need to be told, but they are mesmerized by the spam and confusion and nonsense called news on the Jewtube. The piece is short, concise, and hardhitting, but only alt.news readers will ever get wind of it.
Posted 3/14/2010 5:59 am
Israel was actually against the Iraq war because it strengthened Iran. But you guys are idiot anti-semites so who cares about the facts?
Posted 3/14/2010 6:00 am
The 8923982398239823923 Christian and Catholic people behind the decision to attack Iraq had nothing to do with attacking Iraq!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yep. It's what really happened. All the rest is smoke and mirrors by Pelosi, Boxer, Clinton, etc. Both parties knew exactly what they were doing when they signed into law the Iraq Libertion Act, and when they authozized Bush to go to war in 2002, since they were getting their signals from the same source, namely AIPAC.
They lay claim to all that land between the Euphrates and the Nile - all of it. So Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, parts of Egypt and Syria live in perpetual danger as it is only a matter of time for them.
Clearly Israel wanted to steal the oil in Iraq. And since the US has been there 7 years, US oil prices have only gone up, UP, up. There are numerous articles about this - where is all that Iraqi oil going?
And then the WATER. Israel is thirsty, and they are stealing Iraq's water, too.
I SIT IN MY BASEMENT AND ROCK BACK AND FORTH, AND FOAM COMES OUT OF MY MOUTH
JEWS CAN FLY
JEWS RUN EVERYTHING AND OWN EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE
MY DOG IS SECRETLY A ZIONIST. I SHAKE HIM FOR ANSWERS BUT HE WAS TAUGHT TO KEEP HIS MOUTH SHUT. DAMN MOSSAD SECRET AGENT HOUSEPETS.
JEWS CAN TELEPORT
JERRY SEINFELD IS A SPACE ALIEN WHO CAME FROM THE JEWISH MOTHERSHIP
JEWS OWN AND RUN EVERYTHING BUT THEY ARE NOT SMART, NO SIR, THEY ARE REALLY DUMB.
I LIKE TO ACCUSE JEWS OF MANY THINGS, AND THEN ACCUSE THEM OF WHINING WHEN THEY RESPOND TO MY ATTACK
YOU ARE SECRETLY JEWISH
EVERYONE IS JEWISH
I LIKE TO ACCUSE JEWS OF BEING CHEAP. THEN I ACCUSE JEWS OF BEING RICH AND FLAUNTING THEIR WEALTH. YOU'D THINK THOSE STATEMENTS CONFLICT EACH OTHER, BUT I GUESS NOT.
TEHRE ARE NO JEWS
HELP ME, THE VOICES IN MY HEAD FRIGHTEN ME
HOW COME JEWS WHO GET MASTERS DEGREES AND PHDS GET BETTER JOBS THAN ME, I SPENT MY CHILDHOOD BLOWING UP RODENTS, DROPPED OUT OF SCHOOL AND CANNOT SPELL MY OWN NAME, WHY AM I NOT A CEO
That's a very sad desperate post. The 20 points are all referenced. What is your problem? Are you not proud of what you do? If you want to say "Israel" was against going into Iraq, then why were all the "Israel" dual citizen Israeli agents listed in the 20 promoting it? You stupid fool - it was never in the interests of America or Americans or coalition nations either to go into Iraq - THE ONLY NATION THAT BENEFITS IS ISRAEL, and the jews are damn happy to have driven USA and the coalition nations in to further miserable FINANCIAL DEBT TO THE JEWS IN LONDON AND BASEL through this debacle in Iraq.
Your people are a joke. They lie out both sides of their mouths. Anyone who reads the news can see this, and nothing any Jew says should ever be taken at face value but instead should be inspected for the lie within.
Everything out of their mouths is innuendo, rumor, lies and nonsense.
or shut up