Paul Wolfowitz, in the latest Vanity Fair, basically justified using a �convenient� argument, i.e. weapons of mass destruction, to achieve the great goal: Iraqi oil. Such politically vulgar messages are not new from Wolfowitz and his neo-con gang, but they spread reasonable doubt regarding America�s �democratic� intentions for the Middle East. Now as Wolfowitz is visiting Baghdad, his face can�t conceal a sense of worry....
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The question that is asked frequently is: Who fed all these lies about the Iraqi weapons WMD program to the president? Most fingers point at the Pentagon�s Office of Special Plans, headed by Adam Shulsky, a hard-line neo-conservative. The Office of Special Plans was set up in the fall of 2001 as a two-man shop, but it grew into an eighteen-member nerve center of the Pentagon�s effort to create disinformation, alleging that Iraq possessed WMD and had connections with terrorist groups. Much of the garbage produced by that office found its way into speeches by Rumsfeld, Cheney and Bush.
It should be noted that the office was created after Sept. 11 by two of the most fervent and determined neo-cons: Paul Wolfowitz himself, the deputy defense secretary, and Douglas Feith, undersecretary of defense for policy, to probe into Saddam�s WMD programs and his links to Al-Qaeda, because, it is alleged, they did not trust other intelligence agencies of the US government to come up with the goods.
Most prominent neo-cons are right-wing Jews, and tend to be pro-Israeli zealots who believe that American and Israeli interests are inseparable � much to the alarm of the liberal pro-peace Jews, whether in America, Europe, or Israel itself.
Friends of Ariel Sharon�s Likud party, they tend to loathe Arabs and Muslims. For them, the cause of �liberating� Iraq had little to do with the well being of Iraqis, just as the cause of �liberating� Iran and ending its nuclear program � recently advocated by Shimon Peres � has little to do with the well being of Iranians. What they seek is an improvement in Israel�s military and strategic environment.
Hussein Shobokshi Arab News 22 July,2003{there are two groups working in the American political landscape, who both, while declaring their hatred for each other, co-operate in erasing a vital and necessary distinction whose validity threatens each of them. the first are what Mr. Shobokshi calls 'neo-cons' which is essentially a euphemism for right-wing-Jews, and the other are the truly anti-Semitic groups and individuals, organized and unorganized, that function outside the limited scan of American mass media.
the distinction being erased is between the same 'neo-cons', or right wing Jews, and the rest of the Jewish people.
so you have two seemingly antagonistic forces united in agreement that all Jews are one thing.
this is still an untruth, though enough pressure and enough violence can make it a reality.
hiding for protection behind the unjust suffering of innocent people, to advance your own selfish aims, is despicable. to call someone anti-Semitic because they object to American policy being directed by people who have no loyalty to American principles and ideals is absurd, until it becomes a matter of a threat to survival, then it's evil.
the 'neo-cons' depend absolutely on the inability of common Americans to distinguish between the innocent victims of holocaust and pogrom, and the vicious and dishonest cowards now running the country.
it would help greatly if someone from within the Jewish community could provide us all a way of describing these cowards more apt than calling them 'neo-cons'.}
