Post by RPankn on Apr 2, 2006 20:24:51 GMT -5
Someone went to the trouble of collecting the neocon's statements about their strategy, Sept. 11th, Iraq and Iran, and posted it the Huffington Post.
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3034221.stm
Meyrav Wurmser is an expert in the Middle East and part of a neo-conservative family.
Her husband David is special assistant to Undersecretary of State John Bolton and a member of the American Enterprise Institute.
She is, along with a former Colonel in Israeli intelligence, the co-founder of a charity which monitors the Arab media for anti-semitic opinions.
Mrs Wurmser was among a group of neo-conservatives who wrote a report intended as advice for the then incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996.
Pentagon
The report, called "Rebuilding Zionism" called for a clean break with the Middle East peace process and talked about "rolling back Syria".
It also spoke about removing Saddam Hussein from power.
Other signatories of that report included Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith - who is now number three at the Pentagon.
www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=a_clean_break:_a_new_strategy_for_securing_the_realm
Quote, July 8, 1996
"While there are those who will counsel continuity, Israel has the opportunity to make a clean break; it can forge a peace process and strategy based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism ..." [Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, 7/8/96]
May 6, 2003 US confrontation with Iran
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosts "The Future of Iran Mullahcracy, Democracy, and the War on Terror" at Washington DC's Wohlstetter Conference Center. The forum, cosponsored by Hudson Institute and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, includes a discussion on "What lies ahead for Iran?" and "What steps can the United States take to promote democratization and regime change in Iran?" Noted moderators and panelists include: Meyrav Wurmser, The Hudson Institute; Uri Lubrani, Israeli Defense Ministry; US Senator Sam Brownback; Michael A. Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht, both of the AEI; Bernard Lewis, Princeton University; and Morris Amitay of The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. [American Enterprise website, n.d.]
People and organizations involved: American Enterprise Institute, Meyrav Wurmser, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Michael Ledeen
www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2003%20Opinion%20Editorials/May/30%20o/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20Meyrav%20Wurmser.htm
Israeli writer Uri Avnery describes the neocons as "A compact group, almost all of whose members are Jewish." He continues, "After the Twin Towers outrage, the neocons were the only group with a ready explanation and a solution. Only nine days later, William Kristol (the son of the group's founder, Irving Kristol) wrote in the Weekly Standard saying it was imperative to 'remove Saddam Hussein from power' and to 'retaliate against Syria and Iran for supporting Hezbollah.'"
The neocons and their fellow travelers include Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They also are associated with the "Project for the New American Century," which published a White Paper in 2002 with the aim "to preserve and enhance this 'American peace.'"
For this writer, one of the most interesting aspects of archetypical neocon Meyrav Wurmser is that she lives a double life. An occasional writer for the Jerusalem Post, her columns come from the far right but, to use a hackneyed phrase, are insightful and interesting. She does not resort to the simplistic writing found in MEMRI excerpts. Instead, her Jerusalem Post columns are topical, engaging and thought-provoking.
To take one example only, Wurmser wrote a perceptive essay on "Post-Zionism," in which she explained what Israel's intelligentsia think of the Palestinians and the cruel way in which Zionists have dismissed the truth of Palestinians' complaints. Now, Wurmser says, cutting-edge Zionists are trying to make amends without completely unraveling Zionism. In short, her propagandistic writing for MEMRI differs significantly from her carefully footnoted and original contributions to the Jerusalem Post.
By: plunger on April 01, 2006 at 06:24pm
"The next big push came on May 6, when Ledeen moderated a panel at a conference at AEI, on "The Future of Iran: Mullarchy, Democracy, and the War on Terror."
Co-sponsoring the event was the Hudson Institute--funded by the Russian and Jewish Mafia-linked Marc Rich (whose attorneys had included Cheney's "Scooter" Libby) and by British media baron Conrad Black--and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Opening the event was Meyrav Wurmser, director of Middle East programs at the Hudson Institute, whose husband, David Wurmser, is an adviser to Assistant Secretary of State John Bolton. Her morning panel was entitled, "Iran Today--A Reality Check," and panelists included Uri Lubrani of the Israeli Defense Ministry.
Ledeen gave the introduction for former British military intelligence operative and Princeton Professor Emeritus Bernard Lewis, who is the inventor of the idea of a "Clash of Civilizations," later popularized in a book by that name by Samuel Huntington. Lewis' thesis, cloaked in phrases of Athenian democracy, is that which President Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski formerly called "the Arc of Crisis" and today calls "the Zone of Instability." It calls for stopping Eurasian integration through manipulating tribal, ethnic, and religious axioms to destroy nation-states, beginning especially in the Middle East. Ledeen introduced Lewis as "the reigning genius of Middle East studies everywhere."
Lewis openly called for a "revolution" in Iran, to follow the military conquest of Iraq; he compared Iran to Napoleonic France or Stalin's Soviet Union. Lewis said that the most important and dangerous neighbor of Iraq was Iran, adding, "It is, I suppose, in Iran that this fear of a success of democracy in Iraq is most strongly felt, and with the very best of reasons." Pointing to the fact that there are more Shi'ites than Sunnis among Islamic religious denominations in Iraq, Lewis continued, "Shi'ism is [also] the predominant religion in Iran and the one which ... [is] invoked by the current leadership of that country and the theocracy that was established by the revolution in '79.""
www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3027ledeen_iran.html...
By: plunger on April 01, 2006 at 06:25pm
www.waynemadsenreport.com/...
March 25, 2006 -- The Pentagon's role as a source of media disinformation. First it was the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs, which morphed into the Office of Special Plans. Both served as conduits for neo-con propaganda spewed forth by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Heritage Foundation, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), the Hudson Institute, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), among others prior to the invasion of Iraq.
Now the Pentagon has issued an "unclassified report" stating that in the lead up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Russia obtained war plans and planned U.S. troop movements from "inside the American Central Command." The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) denied the charge, stating that "similar, baseless accusations concerning Russia's intelligence have been made more than once."
The Pentagon cited as its source two captured Iraqi documents that describe Russian penetration of the US Central Command in Qatar. [Funny how these "captured documents" keep showing up and the most convenient times.] However, the Pentagon's story later changed. The revised story stated the Russians obtained the war plans from signals intelligence intercepts of pre-war U.S. military communications. In either case, the citing of "captured" Iraqi documents has been used in the past to falsely implicate various anti-war international politicians with being in league with Saddam's "Oil for Food" program. Many of these "captured" documents were forgeries emanating from notorious Iraqi con man Ahmad Chalabi. Bogus Niger government documents were forged by a neo-con cabal based in Rome, Washington, and Jerusalem to justify an attack on Iraq based on non-existent weapons of mass destruction. The information contained in the two "secret" Iraqi documents could have been obtained from any number of open sources, including Jane's Defence Weekly. The "sic" appearing next to "special forces unit 'Papa'" in the purported Iraqi documents is a clue to a forgery. The standard NATO/DoD phonetic code for the letter "P" is "Papa." Why the authors would indicate a possible misspelling of Papa in the document is curious unless its because the real authors include some of our most noted neo-con draft dodgers who are unfamiliar with U.S. and NATO military nomenclatures. The two secret Iraqi documents are handwritten and contain no official government seal or stamps, another clear indication of a forgery. Update: The memo dated March 25, 2003 is also a likely forgery because of the use of the Western calendar and not the lunar Muslim Hijri calendar used in many Arab and other predominantly Muslim countries. The Muslim date would have been 16 Muharram 1424.
The neo-con stranglehold on the Pentagon continues to permit this cabal of provocateurs and dual loyalists to pump out false charges in an attempt to damage relations with Russia and President Vladimir Putin as Russia continues to push for negotiations with Iran and lay the possible groundwork for Russian casualties at Iranian nuclear facilities in the event of war with Iran. Neo-cons would argue that such casualties were legitimate considering previous Russian support for Saddam against the United States.
In fact, the Pentagon neo-cons now have more power than ever considering the current presence of anti-Russian neo-con-influenced governments in Poland, Ukraine, and Georgia. Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, an AEI alum and colleague of Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen, is married to the Washington Post's Anne Applebaum. All four are virulently anti-Putin, especially since Putin began cracking down on the Russian oligarchs who looted the USSR's treasury and resources and made themselves instant billionaires, at the expense of the peoples of the former Soviet Union.
Over 70 percent of Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs carry Israeli passports. Ukraine President Viktor Yuschenko's wife, Kateryna Chumachenko Yushchenko, is an American citizen and held positions in the Reagan White House that were directed against "the evil empire." She was, and remains, close to the leading neo-con war hawks of the Reagan years, including Perle, Ledeen, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and Ken Adelman. Georgia's President, Mikhail Saakashvili, in an anti-Putin U.S.-trained lawyer who ousted his predecessor in a U.S.-financed and supported coup backed by oil companies like Halliburton and Exxon Mobil. In addition to the offices of AEI, AIPAC, Hudson, WINEP, and Heritage, in addition to the Pentagon, the embassies of Poland, Ukraine, and Georgia in Washington have become virtual neo-con nesting places, working overtime to formulate all sorts of anti-Russian propaganda aimed at destabilizing Russia and toppling Putin. They are assisted in these efforts by the US Mission to the United Nations, which under arch neo-con John Bolton, has become a favorite off-site meeting place for Washington-based neo-cons right in the middle of Manhattan.
By: plunger on April 01, 2006 at 06:27pm
www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/04/01/iraq-may-be-escalating-t_n_18291.html?p=9#comments
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/3034221.stm
Meyrav Wurmser is an expert in the Middle East and part of a neo-conservative family.
Her husband David is special assistant to Undersecretary of State John Bolton and a member of the American Enterprise Institute.
She is, along with a former Colonel in Israeli intelligence, the co-founder of a charity which monitors the Arab media for anti-semitic opinions.
Mrs Wurmser was among a group of neo-conservatives who wrote a report intended as advice for the then incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996.
Pentagon
The report, called "Rebuilding Zionism" called for a clean break with the Middle East peace process and talked about "rolling back Syria".
It also spoke about removing Saddam Hussein from power.
Other signatories of that report included Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas Feith - who is now number three at the Pentagon.
www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?entity=a_clean_break:_a_new_strategy_for_securing_the_realm
Quote, July 8, 1996
"While there are those who will counsel continuity, Israel has the opportunity to make a clean break; it can forge a peace process and strategy based on an entirely new intellectual foundation, one that restores strategic initiative and provides the nation the room to engage every possible energy on rebuilding Zionism ..." [Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, 7/8/96]
May 6, 2003 US confrontation with Iran
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) hosts "The Future of Iran Mullahcracy, Democracy, and the War on Terror" at Washington DC's Wohlstetter Conference Center. The forum, cosponsored by Hudson Institute and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, includes a discussion on "What lies ahead for Iran?" and "What steps can the United States take to promote democratization and regime change in Iran?" Noted moderators and panelists include: Meyrav Wurmser, The Hudson Institute; Uri Lubrani, Israeli Defense Ministry; US Senator Sam Brownback; Michael A. Ledeen and Reuel Marc Gerecht, both of the AEI; Bernard Lewis, Princeton University; and Morris Amitay of The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. [American Enterprise website, n.d.]
People and organizations involved: American Enterprise Institute, Meyrav Wurmser, Reuel Marc Gerecht, Michael Ledeen
www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2003%20Opinion%20Editorials/May/30%20o/The%20Secret%20Life%20of%20Meyrav%20Wurmser.htm
Israeli writer Uri Avnery describes the neocons as "A compact group, almost all of whose members are Jewish." He continues, "After the Twin Towers outrage, the neocons were the only group with a ready explanation and a solution. Only nine days later, William Kristol (the son of the group's founder, Irving Kristol) wrote in the Weekly Standard saying it was imperative to 'remove Saddam Hussein from power' and to 'retaliate against Syria and Iran for supporting Hezbollah.'"
The neocons and their fellow travelers include Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. They also are associated with the "Project for the New American Century," which published a White Paper in 2002 with the aim "to preserve and enhance this 'American peace.'"
For this writer, one of the most interesting aspects of archetypical neocon Meyrav Wurmser is that she lives a double life. An occasional writer for the Jerusalem Post, her columns come from the far right but, to use a hackneyed phrase, are insightful and interesting. She does not resort to the simplistic writing found in MEMRI excerpts. Instead, her Jerusalem Post columns are topical, engaging and thought-provoking.
To take one example only, Wurmser wrote a perceptive essay on "Post-Zionism," in which she explained what Israel's intelligentsia think of the Palestinians and the cruel way in which Zionists have dismissed the truth of Palestinians' complaints. Now, Wurmser says, cutting-edge Zionists are trying to make amends without completely unraveling Zionism. In short, her propagandistic writing for MEMRI differs significantly from her carefully footnoted and original contributions to the Jerusalem Post.
By: plunger on April 01, 2006 at 06:24pm
"The next big push came on May 6, when Ledeen moderated a panel at a conference at AEI, on "The Future of Iran: Mullarchy, Democracy, and the War on Terror."
Co-sponsoring the event was the Hudson Institute--funded by the Russian and Jewish Mafia-linked Marc Rich (whose attorneys had included Cheney's "Scooter" Libby) and by British media baron Conrad Black--and the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies.
Opening the event was Meyrav Wurmser, director of Middle East programs at the Hudson Institute, whose husband, David Wurmser, is an adviser to Assistant Secretary of State John Bolton. Her morning panel was entitled, "Iran Today--A Reality Check," and panelists included Uri Lubrani of the Israeli Defense Ministry.
Ledeen gave the introduction for former British military intelligence operative and Princeton Professor Emeritus Bernard Lewis, who is the inventor of the idea of a "Clash of Civilizations," later popularized in a book by that name by Samuel Huntington. Lewis' thesis, cloaked in phrases of Athenian democracy, is that which President Carter's National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski formerly called "the Arc of Crisis" and today calls "the Zone of Instability." It calls for stopping Eurasian integration through manipulating tribal, ethnic, and religious axioms to destroy nation-states, beginning especially in the Middle East. Ledeen introduced Lewis as "the reigning genius of Middle East studies everywhere."
Lewis openly called for a "revolution" in Iran, to follow the military conquest of Iraq; he compared Iran to Napoleonic France or Stalin's Soviet Union. Lewis said that the most important and dangerous neighbor of Iraq was Iran, adding, "It is, I suppose, in Iran that this fear of a success of democracy in Iraq is most strongly felt, and with the very best of reasons." Pointing to the fact that there are more Shi'ites than Sunnis among Islamic religious denominations in Iraq, Lewis continued, "Shi'ism is [also] the predominant religion in Iran and the one which ... [is] invoked by the current leadership of that country and the theocracy that was established by the revolution in '79.""
www.larouchepub.com/other/2003/3027ledeen_iran.html...
By: plunger on April 01, 2006 at 06:25pm
www.waynemadsenreport.com/...
March 25, 2006 -- The Pentagon's role as a source of media disinformation. First it was the Office of Northern Gulf Affairs, which morphed into the Office of Special Plans. Both served as conduits for neo-con propaganda spewed forth by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Heritage Foundation, Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), the Hudson Institute, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), among others prior to the invasion of Iraq.
Now the Pentagon has issued an "unclassified report" stating that in the lead up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Russia obtained war plans and planned U.S. troop movements from "inside the American Central Command." The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) denied the charge, stating that "similar, baseless accusations concerning Russia's intelligence have been made more than once."
The Pentagon cited as its source two captured Iraqi documents that describe Russian penetration of the US Central Command in Qatar. [Funny how these "captured documents" keep showing up and the most convenient times.] However, the Pentagon's story later changed. The revised story stated the Russians obtained the war plans from signals intelligence intercepts of pre-war U.S. military communications. In either case, the citing of "captured" Iraqi documents has been used in the past to falsely implicate various anti-war international politicians with being in league with Saddam's "Oil for Food" program. Many of these "captured" documents were forgeries emanating from notorious Iraqi con man Ahmad Chalabi. Bogus Niger government documents were forged by a neo-con cabal based in Rome, Washington, and Jerusalem to justify an attack on Iraq based on non-existent weapons of mass destruction. The information contained in the two "secret" Iraqi documents could have been obtained from any number of open sources, including Jane's Defence Weekly. The "sic" appearing next to "special forces unit 'Papa'" in the purported Iraqi documents is a clue to a forgery. The standard NATO/DoD phonetic code for the letter "P" is "Papa." Why the authors would indicate a possible misspelling of Papa in the document is curious unless its because the real authors include some of our most noted neo-con draft dodgers who are unfamiliar with U.S. and NATO military nomenclatures. The two secret Iraqi documents are handwritten and contain no official government seal or stamps, another clear indication of a forgery. Update: The memo dated March 25, 2003 is also a likely forgery because of the use of the Western calendar and not the lunar Muslim Hijri calendar used in many Arab and other predominantly Muslim countries. The Muslim date would have been 16 Muharram 1424.
The neo-con stranglehold on the Pentagon continues to permit this cabal of provocateurs and dual loyalists to pump out false charges in an attempt to damage relations with Russia and President Vladimir Putin as Russia continues to push for negotiations with Iran and lay the possible groundwork for Russian casualties at Iranian nuclear facilities in the event of war with Iran. Neo-cons would argue that such casualties were legitimate considering previous Russian support for Saddam against the United States.
In fact, the Pentagon neo-cons now have more power than ever considering the current presence of anti-Russian neo-con-influenced governments in Poland, Ukraine, and Georgia. Polish Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, an AEI alum and colleague of Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen, is married to the Washington Post's Anne Applebaum. All four are virulently anti-Putin, especially since Putin began cracking down on the Russian oligarchs who looted the USSR's treasury and resources and made themselves instant billionaires, at the expense of the peoples of the former Soviet Union.
Over 70 percent of Russian and Ukrainian oligarchs carry Israeli passports. Ukraine President Viktor Yuschenko's wife, Kateryna Chumachenko Yushchenko, is an American citizen and held positions in the Reagan White House that were directed against "the evil empire." She was, and remains, close to the leading neo-con war hawks of the Reagan years, including Perle, Ledeen, Douglas Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, and Ken Adelman. Georgia's President, Mikhail Saakashvili, in an anti-Putin U.S.-trained lawyer who ousted his predecessor in a U.S.-financed and supported coup backed by oil companies like Halliburton and Exxon Mobil. In addition to the offices of AEI, AIPAC, Hudson, WINEP, and Heritage, in addition to the Pentagon, the embassies of Poland, Ukraine, and Georgia in Washington have become virtual neo-con nesting places, working overtime to formulate all sorts of anti-Russian propaganda aimed at destabilizing Russia and toppling Putin. They are assisted in these efforts by the US Mission to the United Nations, which under arch neo-con John Bolton, has become a favorite off-site meeting place for Washington-based neo-cons right in the middle of Manhattan.
By: plunger on April 01, 2006 at 06:27pm
www.huffingtonpost.com/2006/04/01/iraq-may-be-escalating-t_n_18291.html?p=9#comments