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12/21/2007: "December 22"
The Hidden Links? Roger Ailes, Joe Lieberman, Judith Miller, Mort Zuckerman, Abe Foxman ET CETERA!
All of the above are surely the most deceitful and mendacious pack of scoundrels this nation has had to endure since our Civil War [and here we have the individual whose leadership we have been denied, by the above and their co-conspirators in the Media/Press]. Details at the end of the following "Mideast Peace Conference" segment. And secondly it's amusing to hear NPR and its various programs attempt to blunt the rapier-like thrust to the heart of Bush/Cheney, their ingrained defeat exposed, reluctantly, by The New York Times' leading front page story 12/4/07 as stated by Steven Lee Myers: "Rarely, if ever, has a single intelligence report so completely, so suddenly, and so surprisingly altered a foreign policy debate." The headline "U.S. Finding says Iran Halted Nuclear Arms Effort In 2003" directly contradicts the various Bush statements over the years claiming the threat posed by Iran - Iran an "Axis of Evil", and threatening "World War III". Near the very end of an accompanying story by Mark Mazzetti (paragraph #24 of a 26 paragraph story) we read the understatement of the decade: "Israel intelligence officials for years have put forward more urgent warnings about Iran's nuclear abilities than their American counterparts, positing that Iran could get a nuclear bomb this decade."
Also, we should not forget the bombshell which Scott McClellan dropped in November -
WASHINGTON NOV 21 - "Former White House press secretary Scott McClellan blames President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney for efforts to mislead the public about the role of White House aides in leaking the identity of a CIA operative.
In an excerpt from his forthcoming book, McClellan recounts the 2003 news conference in which he told reporters that aides Karl Rove and I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby were 'not involved' in the leak involving operative Valerie Plame.
'There was one problem. It was not true,' McClellan writes, according to a brief excerpt released Tuesday. 'I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest-ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice president, the president's chief of staff and the president himself.'
Bush's chief of staff at the time was Andrew Card." Matt Apuzzo Associated Press
This referred to the bogus charge which was the Bush/Israeli explanation for the invasion of Iraq, Saddam's WMDs. They did not exist. Cruel hoax extraordinaire.
Referencing the prior paragraphs - In our next edit we hope to have the quotes from Ray McGovern and Robert Parry exposing the bogus explanation which Carl Levin has exploited in the past (discrediting Abraham Lincoln) to conceal his alliance with fellow Jewish Americans Norman Podhoretz and Joseph Lieberman, to continue blocking the efforts in the United States Senate dedicated to trimming future funding for the American troops ordered to Iraq and, possibly, to attack Iran. The last paragraph of GOPBias.org brings to full circle the "high crimes and misdemeanors" of the persons pictured above.
The core of this recent debasement of American policy (other notables - Guatemala and Iran under Eisenhower, Vietnam under Johnson) is more deadly in that, like South Carolina Confederates firing on Fort Sumter in April of 1861, George Walker Bush disdains the Constitution of the United States. This costly misadventure will not abate until the policy is terminated, as the following 11/21/07 DemocracyNow segment makes clear.
The Bush administration has announced it will hold a long awaited Mideast peace conference next week. The White House says its invited more than fifty countries and institutions to convene in Annapolis, Maryland. State Department Spokesperson Sean McCormack says the U.S. expects the one-day gathering to kick-start final-status talks to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict.
State Dept. spokesperson Sean McCormack: "This conference will signal international support for the courageous efforts of Prime Minister Olmert and President Abbas and will serve as a launching point for negotiations with an eye towards establishing an Israeli and Palestinian state."
The White House is indicating its top concern ahead of the conference will be to convince Arab nations to attend. A senior administration official told the New York Times: "We're trying to rally the Arab world for support of this process, and they are master fence-sitters." But the Bush administration has refused to endorse a five-year-old Arab League-Palestinian plan offering Israel full peace in return for a complete withdrawal from the Occupied Territories. Israel has essentially rejected the deal, claiming it would only agree to unspecified elements. Israeli leaders have long vowed to hold on to the West Bank's major settlement blocs and water resources.
True to form, within three days of "President" Bush's 11/28/07 expansive statement to the White House Press Corps in the Rose Garden, no less, "America will do everything in its power" to secure a just Israeli-Palestinian peace, Bush, out of the public eye, reverses course. Amy Goodman's DemocracyNow.org keeps us informed 12/3/07.
"Meanwhile at the UN, the Bush administration has pulled a diplomatic about-face on a resolution endorsing last week's Israeli-Palestinian agreement in Annapolis. On Friday, the U.S. withdrew the measure just one day after introducing it to the Security Council. Israeli officials say they had privately objected to the White House over concerns it could have granted the United Nations a role in future negotiations. The Annapolis agreement effectively removed the involvement of the UN, European Union and Russia. It foresees the U.S. as the 'sole judge' and arbiter of implementing the road map."
"The Washington Post is reporting the CIA has used the headquarters of Jordan's spy agency as a secret holding cell for prisoners captured abroad. At least a dozen non-Jordanian nationals have been held and interrogated at the General Intelligence Department over the past seven years. The Jordanian spy center was used to hide prisoners before they were sent to Guantanamo Bay or secret prisons around the world. Jordanian officials are said to have carried out the interrogations despite widespread allegations of torture. A report from a U.N. special investigator recently concluded torture is 'routine' at the center amidst "total impunity for torture and ill-treatment" country-wide (Israel has very close ties to today's Jordanian King Hussein.)."
"In 1948 the Jewish army expelled three-quarter of a million Palestinians from what then became the State of Israel. Ilan Pappe, the Israeli historian, said he still felt haunted by the story, and then, in 1998, the Israelis opened the military archives, and it became clear that the Zionist's movement had planned to expel the Palestinians long before 1948. In 2006 Ilan Pappe published his most recent book The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. He spoke about his work at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands in January/February of 2007." - Maria Gilardin June 2007
Ilan Pappe: "(a synopsis) David Ben Gurion, who led an ideological movement ever since the 19th century, wanted to turn Palestine into a Jewish state with as few Palestinians in it as possible (when he was out of office this first Prime Minister of Israel was annoyed by the presence of so many Palestinians remaining in Israel, particularly in the Galilee). It shows that the leader of the Zionist movement, the 1st Prime Minister of Israel, someone at the heart of the Zionist movement, so annoyed by so many Palestinians in the Galilee, he is committed to a vision that sees historic Palestine as empty of Palestinians. Most of the Israeli Jews in the 1950's thought the same way, and nothing has changed in Israel in 2006. How to get there, how to de-Arabize Palestine. How to make Palestine a Jewish state, (i.e.) get rid of the people who live there (except, of course, for that number of Jewish settlers who in the 1930s had grown to one-third of the population in Palestine as they left the turmoil in Europe). How to deal with the majority in Palestine, the Palestinians. In February of 1947 the Zionists were very focused under Ben Gurion and the advisory committee he organized around him (only hardliners) and it took them a year, to February of 1948 to develop the plan to rid Palestine of the Palestinians, that as many as possible of the one million Palestinians should be expelled. How to do it? The experiment? The Jewish/Zionist army expelled about eight to nine villages. They wanted to see how the world would react. Nothing. So, you come with buses, lorrys - you go into someone's house, there are children, women, men, people have lived in these houses for hundreds of years: 'You have twenty minutes' to get on the bus and out you go. And half an hour after you leave on the bus someone detonates the house and blows it up. So Ben Gurion and others were not sure how the world and the young soldiers would react. Nothing. So, the master plan. They divided Palestine into twelve areas, the Haganah had twelve brigades, each brigade was given a list of villages, neighborhoods in mixed towns and systematically, in seven months, they expelled three-quarter of a million Palestinians, 531 villages were destroyed, eleven towns were demolished."
GOPBias.org will highlight our key focus - the Jewish American/Right-Wing Republican/Evangelical monopoly of Congress, news and commentary regarding United States foreign policy...and, as our name implies, how our Media/Press, particularly with the impending return (to secure the Republican nomination for John McCain) to the airwaves December 3rd of the media darling Jewish American John Donald Imus Jr., how the American Media/Press will report the Israeli maneuver to deny the Palestinians an equitable and viable state in that land, precious to both, between the Mediterranean and the Jordan River valley. The much-heralded US sponsored Annapolis, Maryland peace conference to be held this month, November, has yet to have a date certain (now 11/26-27/07), a list of participants or even an agenda. To bring us up to date (12/8/07), regarding Imus there is this Jacques Steinberg quote noting the returning Imus to radio in the 12/4/07 The New York Times: "Senators John McCain and Christopher Dodd traipsed right back behind him. Both were favorite guests of Mr. Imus for years." No, Jacques. You know better than most that a Senator from Connecticut was an Imus "favorite for years", but it wasn't Chris Dodd. It was Joe Lieberman. You are correct with John McCain. Senator McCain has had and continues to have Imus support. "'You're still my choice,' Imus assured Mr. McCain."
Elsewhere on this site is a link to the Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech which Albert Gore delivered in Oslo, one day short of the seventh anniversary of the Republican theft of the United States Presidency which Mr. Gore had won in 2000. Mr. John Donald Imus Jr. was instrumental in obfuscating the monstrous political crime which had taken place. Here a characteristic slander of Mr. Gore, one of many which Mr. Imus used before and after the election of 2000, to protect George Walker Bush.
"(4/17/00 Imus programming) There are actually people out there who want to continue this? Who think that Al Gore is the answer? Here's the question. Is there a flip-flopping...lying...dissembling. . .two-faced...fork-tongued...campaign cash-chiseling...half-bald pothead...recovering tobacco addict - - with a piano-legged...bottle-blonded ditzy wife...and a pair of dead-eyed Depro daughters available...who would like to run for the presidency? All he needs is Haldeman, Erlichman, Liddy and Maurice Stans...and Gore 2000 could start knocking over banks. The only real difference between Gore and John Gotti (imprisoned mafia don)...is Gotti never had to have Naomi Wolfe pick out his suits."
The "I-man", emphasis on "I" is THE most influential media individual regarding national politics, and he proved it again even though he's only been back on the air for two weeks (12/17/07). John McCain received the Des Moines Register endorsement (even though he's been a no-show in Iowa), the Boston Globe, some newspaper in Rhode Island and THE newspaper in New Hampshire...and predictably (no, Margaret, it's not "unusual", "unpredictable", "unexpected" or "surprising"), the endorsement of Joe Lieberman I-Conn (the "I" stands for Israel). Imus has been championing Lieberman for years, ever since Bill Buckley got him in the Senate. The divorced, Orthodox Lieberman is characteristic of the rot in Washington. He, Imus and Larry Tisch sabotaged the Honorable Albert Arnold Gore Jr., but that's another story.
And here a Bill Moyers' 12/14/07 guest Keith Olbermann, perhaps surprisingly, taking issue with the benefactor of Mr. Imus' radio/TV program this last ten years.
December 14, 2007 - "'I don't care if you're a Democrat or a Republican,' said Keith Olbermann in a recent interview with NPR.
'You're not doing what you said you were going to do. You have not restored habeas corpus fully. We're still in Gitmo. We're still in Iraq. We're not out fast enough. These are still going to be issues. They don't go away with George Bush.'
The launch of COUNTDOWN on MSNBC in March 2003 coincided with the American invasion of Iraq, yet Olbermann did not begin delivering the types of extended commentaries for which he is most known until August 2006. According to ROLLING STONE, Olbermann:
'...was stuck in a plane on a runway and happened to read that Donald Rumsfeld had compared war critics to Nazi appeasers. That night he ended COUNTDOWN with a furious six-and-a-half-minute attack that began, 'The man who sees absolutes where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning is either a prophet or a quack. Donald H. Rumsfeld is not a prophet.''
In his interview with Bill Moyers, Olbermann discusses the 'organic' nature of these commentaries, which have helped to significantly boost the program's ratings:
'When I get angry on the air, it's because I'm angry about that particular subject and because of the revision of this country that has been done under our noses for the last seven years against the will of the people. And when something happens that touches into that general anger, combined with the specific anger for the actual event that we're talking about, it swells up and I feel like, all right, here comes another one.'"
A recognition. This George Bush Jr. government has mastered the pomp and circumstance, the ceremonial aspect of governing (as he and his supporters bankrupt the country) that in the past was so integral...so necessary in regimes in which the people had no voice - which is why to our Founding Fathers, particularly to Washington and Jefferson, ceremony without substance was anathema. The Israeli-Palestinian peace conference gatherings at the U.S. Naval Academy 11/27 and at the White House 11/26 & 11/28/07 gave the appearance of significance to the media and its viewers and listeners [and, incidentally, afforded an opportunity for Brian Williams and Mike Taibbi on NBC Universal Nightly News 11/28 to grant Karl Rove TV facetime to interject "The congress rushed the country into war against Iraq, not the president (Bush)". Nonsense (read the Ray McGovern paragraph near the end of GOPBias.org)].
The conference and its coverage sidestepped a key factor. George Walker Bush and the Jewish American leadership in our Congress could facilitate a forthright and responsible Israeli attitude overnight, the one ingredient missing this past forty years. We the people of the United States GIVE ISRAEL OVER THREE BILLION DOLLAR$ EVERY YEAR! We can stipulate that the Israelis adopt forthright, equitable and honest negotiations with their fellow human beings, the Arabs, with whom they share a reverence for that land that both inhabit. God knows that this George W. Bush will have a legacy steeped in infamy. This is his one opportunity to salvage a portion of his reputation.
[Editor's note: The year 2008 will be a trying one, not only because of our quadrennial elections which includes our presidency. The year is also the 60th anniversary of the problematic founding of the Jewish State of Israel and, not surprisingly, the year will begin with a major series on the Public Broadcasting System, PBS, and a "companion landmark book (which) chronicles three hundred years of Jewish American history".]
An anecdotal note is Bob Simon's 11/4/07 faux-sensational 60 Minutes segment entitled "Curve Ball", purportedly a central part in the bogus-charge array of Saddam Hussein's WMDs (editor's note: EVERYONE ON THE PLANET KNEW SADDAM HAD NO WMDs!), and is a recent example of Jewish American use of its power and placement (and Leslie Moonves heads CBS) to mislead the American people regarding the actual background, conspiratorial procedure and ultimate purpose of the United States invasion and occupation of Iraq. Mr. Simon's own leadin hyperbolic delivery informs his audience: "...fantastically, the most compelling part came from one obscure Iraqi defector who came in and out of history like a comet. His code name, ironically, was 'Curve Ball'. We spent two years and traveled to nine countries trying to solve the mystery. We talked to intelligence sources, to people who knew (him) and to people who worked with him. 'Curve Ball's' real name has never been made public, nor has any video of him (pause for emphasis), until now!" Hm-m-m. Mr. Simon knows, surely better than most, that United States action against Iraq was a "fantastically" successful result of the organized infiltration of Jewish Americans into positions of influence and direct power (Paul Wolfowitz as Deputy Secretary of Defense)...with the "Curve Ball" broadcast an example of diversions from the actual conspiracy taking place, one of a panoply of diversionary tactics used by the Jewish American element to shroud the actual conspiracy taking place (Philip Roth's The Plot Against America had a similar intention), all to conceal from the American people the ultimate purpose of removing Saddam, which was the elimination of one (the other being Iran) of two obstacles to Israeli plans for the Middle East.
For Iran we paraphrase 10/2/07 Seymour Hersh appearance on Amy Goodman's DemocracyNow.org.
"It just so happens that in the White House they've come to terms...that Iran is a minimum of five years from the bomb. Iran has been five years away for fifteen or twenty years...there's no near threat at all (2nd Hersh quote)."
Amy Goodman: "Sy Hersh, let me play a clip of David Petraeus, the top US commander in Iraq, his report last month to Congress accusing Iran of fighting a proxy war inside Iraq.
Gen. David Petraeus: "In the past six months we have captured senior Shia leaders and fighters and the deputy commander of Lebanese Hezbollah Department 2800 which supports the Iranian Republican Guard Corp Quds Force, which have assassinated and kidnapped Iraqi leaders and killed and wounded our soldiers."
Seymour Hersch: "Well, that's way over the top. He made a lot of assertions that are really seriously questioned by the intelligence community. Prime Minister Maliki lived in exile for many years in Iran (6th Hersh quote)."
"There's no incentive for Syria, for Iran, for Jordan, Kuwait (to generate more Iraqi violence), all of whom (are) flooded with refugees coming out of Iraq, we now have a refugee crisis that's going to be worse than the Palestinian crisis. If you remember, after the Israelis invaded Palestine in '48, we generated a million or so refugees in Syria, in Lebanon, elsewhere in the world. It's a mess that nobody wants to talk about in this country (7th Hersh quote, 6th paragraph)."
"Cheney is very powerful. He picked Elliott Abrams as PRESIDENT'S (editor's caps) National Security Advisor, the refugee from Iran-Contra (and) son-in-law to Norman Podhoretz, and very pro-Israel and determined to use American policy to benefit Israel. Abrams is a key player (9th Hersh quote)."
Juan Gonzalez: "And, Sy Hersh, the role of our commercial media and the whole furor
over Ahmadinejad and his speech at Columbia?"
"I wish the American press would have published his speech to the UN, because it was pretty interesting, what he actually said (is) of great interest, and not at all irrational. And the line about homosexuality?
In Farsi he said 'Homosexuality is not a problem in Iraq.' In other words, it's just not a problem (10th Hersh quote)."
Amy Goodman: "This has to do with Democrats who on 9/26/07 approved a Senate resolution designating the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corp a terrorist organization (editor's note: It took a revolution to rid Iran of the brutal Shah which we imposed in 1954). The vote occurred on the date of the Tim Russert-conducted Democratic debate.
Mike Gravel: 'This is fantasyland. We're talking about ending the war in Iraq. My God, we're starting another war right today. Joe Lieberman, who authored the Iraq Resolution, offered this one to let George Bush go to war against Iran.'"
Seymour Hersh (explaining Hillary's yes vote): "Money. A lot of Jewish money from New York. Come on let's not kid about it. Many leading American Jews support the Israeli position that Iran is an existential (?) threat."
An additional Jewish American factor is AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the lobby extraordinaire, the subject of an obscure Philip Shenon piece, on a formerly untouchable subject, in the 11/3/07 NY Times (A-14) which relates the efforts of Steven Rosen and Keith Weissman (US vs Steven Rosen & Keith Weissman case #1:05CR225 Federal District Court Alexandria, Va.) to call Condoleezza Rice and others, including Paul Wolfowitz, to substantiate Rosen/Weissman claims that their secret contacts with the State of Israel, relating classified information, were the norm this last ten years. Fortunately for the American public the National Archives has finally released documents from the Nixon Library, papers which should have been made public in 1994, records which document that Israeli deception of the United States has been long-standing and persistent. On July 19th of 1969 Richard Nixon's national security adviser Henry Kissinger informed the president that "fissionable material available for Israel's weapons development was 'illegally' obtained from the United States about 1965" and "This is one program on which the Israelis have persistently deceived us and may even have stolen from us." Flaunting its sub rosa relationship with the United States, to this day Israel has refused to sign the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The Bob Simon/60 Minutes and Rosen & Weissman/AIPAC stories should be enough to finally expose the Jewish American component of this outrageous conspiracy, to misuse for the benefit of a foreign power, the Congress, the Treasury and most important, the people of the United States. But the intransigence of the Jewish Americans is not universal, as the following paragraph demonstrates.
On July 30th (2005) this paragraph appeared in The New York Times under the byline of Steven Weisman: "The State Department has admitted that, as Mr. Biden charged, Mr. Bolton had been interviewed in a previous inquiry into one particular intelligence failure on Iraq, the finding that Iraq had tried to buy raw uranium from Niger for a nuclear arms program. That finding turned out to be based on FORGED DOCUMENTS (editors caps)." This forged documents term may be its first use in the mainstream media associated with the Bush Administration since our media/press trumpeted the term in an attempt to discredit Dan Rather's accurate, publicly acknowledged spotty National Guard record of the junior George Bush during the war against Vietnam, even though, with respect to Iraq, it has such a prominent role (pp. 402-403) in James Bamford's A Pretext for War, published in early 2004 by Doubleday.
The Right-Wing Republican/Evangelical legs of this formidable triumvirate are exemplified primarily by Rush Limbaugh and his facsimiles and, secondarily, by these quotes supplied by Bill Moyers on his 10/5/07 Journal which covered the 7/17/07 power convention in Washington DC in which "Over 4,500 people from every state in the union and ten countries celebrate their solidarity with Israel. They call their organization Christians United for Israel or CUFI. The man behind it is Pastor John Hagee who from the 18,000 people who belong to his church in San Antonio, Texas to the 99 million homes he says tune into his weekly radio and television broadcasts has an empire sharing the gospel of Israel with evangelicals around the world."
John Hagee: "I would like to read you the greeting from the President of the United States.
'I appreciate CUFI members and all event participants for your passion and dedication to enhancing the relationship between the United States and Israel. Your efforts set a shining example for others and help lay the foundation of peace for generations to come. Laura and I send our best wishes for a memorable event. May God bless you. George W. Bush, president of the United States.'
Bill Moyers: "Many of Washington's political elites came to them. Presidential contender Senator John McCain.
John McCain: "It's very hard trying to do the Lord's work in the city of Satan and I'm very grateful to have all of you here.
Bill Moyers: "And Senator Joe Lieberman.
Joseph Lieberman: "Of describing Pastor Hagee in the words that the Torah uses to describe Moses, he is an 'Ish Elokim,' a man of god and those words really do fit him; and I'd add something else, like Moses he's become the leader of a mighty multitude, even greater than the multitude that Moses led from Egypt to the promised land."
To refresh our memories, in June Senator Lieberman had told a sympathetic Bob Schieffer on Schieffer's Face the Nation "I think we've got to be prepared to take aggressive military action against these Iranians to stop them from killing Americans in Iraq."
On July 1st the Senator told a sympathetic George Stephanopoulos on his This Week "I had an Arab diplomat say to me two weeks ago that what is happening in the Middle East today reminds him of what happened in Europe during the 1930s when Nazi Germany began to make moves and the rest of Europe and the United States did not act quick enough to stop the Second World War. He was talking about Iran. Iran is on the move in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Afghanistan. And if we pull out of Iraq, Iran and al-Qaeda are the victors. And so, my answer is, as long as we have a reasonable chance of success in Iraq, then I am going to say it's worth it for us to stay, because if Iran and al-Qaeda take over Iraq, they will destabilize the entire Middle East, and they will strike us here at home with more frequency and ferocity."
The unbridled arrogance of this man, like Philip Roth's The Plot Against America, to evoke the suffering of millions to further his narrow vision for the Middle East. *Regarding Roth's "The Plot": The title is significant. Like all well-connected nationally-prominent Jewish Americans Mr. Roth knew, particularly with his ethnic fellows Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith in their key Pentagon positions, that there was a "Plot" to use American blood, treasure and military might to eliminate one of Israel's two major obstacles to its plans for a Greater Israel (the detailing of which is why Bamford's Pretext for War is such a threat to the Jewish Lobby worldwide).
Note: Headline! ElBaradei: No Evidence That Iran is Building Nuclear Weapons.
UN atomic watchdog chief Mohamed ElBaradei said Sunday (10/28/07) the International Atomic Energy Agency has no evidence that Iran is building nuclear weapons. During an interview on CNN, ElBaradei urged the Bush administration to back away from its bellicose statements about Iran.
* Mohamed ElBaradei: "I very much have concern about confrontation, building confrontation, Wolf, because that would lead absolutely to a disaster. I see no military solution. The only durable solution is through negotiations and inspections. My fear if that we continue to escalate from both sides that we would end up into a precipice, we would end up into an abyss. As I said, the Middle East is in a total mess, to say the least. And we cannot add fuel to the fire."
Earlier this month (October) President Bush warned that World War III could begin if Iran obtains the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon. But on Sunday Mohamed ElBaradei said the UN has no evidence that Iran is running a nuclear weapons program.
* Mohamed ElBaradei: "But have we seen having the nuclear material that can be readily used into a weapon? No. Have we seen an active weaponization program? No. So there is a concern, but there is also time to clarify these concerns."
The Bush/Cheney response to Mr. ElBaradei - "U.S. Interrogators in Iraq Pressured to Find Evidence About Iran (11/12/07 DemocracyNow)
The Observer newspaper of London reports the Pentagon is putting huge pressure on U.S. interrogators in Iraq to find incriminating evidence about Iran. Micah Brose, a privately contracted interrogator working for American forces in Iraq, told The Observer that information on Iran is 'gold'. Brose said: 'They push a lot for us to establish a link with Iran. They have pre-categories for us to go through, and .... of all the recent requests I've had, I'd say 60 to 70 percent are about Iran.' Brose went on to say: 'If nothing changes in the current course, I'd say military action is inevitable.' Last week the Inter Press Service reported that a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran has been held up for more than a year. It is reportedly part of an effort by Vice President Dick Cheney to pressure intelligence analysts to remove any dissenting judgments about Iran's alleged nuclear weapons program."
A brief history of what has brought us to this point.
We can begin by revisiting James Bamford's A Pretext for War, pp. 270-350, which details the elaborate Israeli-Jewish American hoax (Saddam with nuclear WMDs) used to justify the invasion and generate public support. From Michiko Kakutani's 6/18/04 review:
"What he does focus on is the role that Israel has played in shaping American policy. Mr. Bamford contends that 'the blueprint for the new Bush policy' on the Middle East 'had actually been drawn up five years earlier by three of his top national security advisors' (Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser) for the Israeli prime minister at the time, Benjamin Netanyahu (who rejected the plan), and that when they entered office in January 2001, all these hawks needed was 'a pretext' for war against Iraq. Citing a report from the British newspaper The Guardian, Mr. Bamford adds that the Office of Special Plans, a Pentagon unit set up by Mr. Feith, 'forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence unit within Ariel Sharon's office in Israel,' which 'was designed to go around the country's own intelligence organization, Mossad.'"
*(From GOPBias.com 9/13/06) Further, Jim Bamford, recognized for twenty years as THE expert on United States intelligence agencies and with unparalleled access to CIA insiders, has made available for all to read, in his recent A Pretext for War PUBLISHED TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO by Doubleday, a detailed expose' of the convoluted flimsy scam (pages 299-309) charging that Saddam Hussein had WMDs - which Bush/Cheney, in conjunction with Tony Blair and Israel, knowingly and unconscionably used that fraudulent information to manipulate the American public and the Congress of the United States into supporting the invasion of Iraq.
Last night, 9/11/06, Mr. Bush invoked 9/11/01 shamelessly in an effort to convince Americans that the reelection of Republican Party candidates was required in order to protect the United States of America: "The outcome of the battle on the streets of Baghdad" will determine the security of these United States. Mr. Bush was then followed by the Republican Party's House majority leader John Boehner who charged that Democrats were more interested in protecting terrorists than they are in protecting the American people. What we see clearly is that the Republicans are more interested in their own political security than that of the nation!
Jim Bamford: "(page 301) With little analysis, the (American and British) intelligence experts should surely have seen the trapdoors hidden in the documents."
"(page 302) The letters were obviously a blend of several genuine older documents, possibly obtained during the earlier break-in (of the Niger embassy in Rome), which were used to masquerade the counterfeit newer ones...in fact, al-Zahawiah's trip had nothing to do with uranium...nevertheless, the SISMI (Italian intelligence, in the pocket of Silvio Berlusconi)...with their British MI-6 liaison...'The British bought it (page 304)'...At CIA...not solid enough to include in the President's Daily Brief...(but) the CIA began giving the questionable Niger item more prominence...(and page 305) as it moved to the Bush inner circle, it made a herculean leap in credibility."
"(page 308)...the OSP (Pentagon Office of Special Plans manned by Douglas Feith at the direction of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz) forged close ties to a parallel unit (in) Ariel Sharon's office in Israel (end of 9-13-06 segment)."*
ITEM - In Sept. '01 Italian intelligence SISMI (details pp. 297-303 Bamford's A Pretext for War) forwards known-bogus Saddam-WMD "documents" to MI6 and CIA, both of which "legitimize" Saddam threat.
- In Sept. '02 Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League informs Italy's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi that the League will present its Distinguished Statesman Award to him in Sept. '03.
- On Tuesday, 9/23/03 (article in 9/19/03 N. Y. Times) Mr. Foxman and Jacob Isaacson, director of the American Jewish Committee make the presentation at a gala Plaza Hotel dinner co-hosted by Henry Kissinger, Rupert Murdoch and Mort Zuckerman (Here, a few phrases from The New Yorker 7/23/07, Nick Paumgarten's interview The Tycoon with Mr. Zuckerman: "Then he began to speak about Israel: 'I met all the major players...I have been involved with these people for years and years and years.'").
ITEM - A N. Y. Times 7/13/06 article datelined London by a Sarah Lyall: "like the so-called Downing Street memo, which showed that the decision to go to war had already been made in July 2002." In fact, former CIA agent/analyst Ray McGovern details a 9/20/01 (But nine days after 9/11!) a private dinner conversation between Tony Blair and George Bush in which Blair and Bush agree to invade Iraq.
RAY McGOVERN (27-year CIA analyst on 6/6/05 Lehrer NewsHour): "I would go back to an earlier conversation, and this happened on the 20th of September 2001, and this happened nine days after 9/11. This involved Tony Blair, who was in Washington having dinner with the President. How do we know about this? We know this because Christopher Meyer, the UK ambassador was there at that dinner. What does he say? The conversation went like this. President Bush: 'Uh, Tony. Uh, we're going into Afghanistan in a week or two, but that won't take long and we get out of there and we're going right into Iraq. Are you with me, Tony? Are you with me?' And Christopher Meyer says 'My goodness, it was really, and Tony was really sort of nonplussed, but he said 'Yes sir, I'm with you Mr. President.' (Margaret Warner tries to interrupt, but Mr. McGovern continues) So that goes back (a flustered Ms. Margaret Warner) "Mr. McGovern, speed up!" (Mr. McGovern) "so that goes back to 2001" (Ms. Warner) "We're almost out of time. Get to the next part!" (Mr. McGovern) "Okay, that's it." (Ms. Warner, almost shouting) "So, it's not about Iraq, it's about Afghanistan!" (Mr. McGovern) "Well, no. This has to do with Iraq. What the President said to Tony Blair, on the 20th of September (2001) according to the UK ambassador who was there, is 'We're going into Afghanistan in a couple of weeks. It won't take us long there, and we're going right into Iraq right after that. Are you with me?' And Tony Blair said 'Yes!'"
All of the above was put in play on day one of this Bush administration, following the theft 12/12/00 of the American presidency by the five rabid Republican members of the United States Supreme Court: Anthony Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia & Clarence Thomas. These individuals are particularly accountable for the "high crimes and misdemeanors" of George Walker Bush, which "high crimes" have been reintroduced by the bombshell remarks of former press secretary to Mr. Bush, Scott McClellan in his forthcoming memoir to be published in April. They are at the center of the initial Bush presidential conspiracy; to risk the blood, treasure and international goodwill of the United States to benefit a foreign power, the state of Israel. Here are corroborating excerpts from James Bamford's 2004 publication A Pretext For War, pages 261 & 399.
"Then Bush addressed the sole items on the agenda for his first high-level national security meeting. The topics were not terrorism - a subject he barely mentioned during the campaign - or nervousness over China or Russia, but Israel and Iraq. From the very first moment, the Bush foreign policy would focus on three key objectives: Get rid of Saddam Hussein, end American involvement in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, and rearrange the dominoes in the Middle East. A key to the policy shift would be the concept of 'preemption'"..."A key part of the plan was to get the United States to pull out of peace negotiations and simply let Israel take care of the Palestinians as it saw fit."