Informant38

This is from a post on a thread on a blog that doesn't need the heat of being linked to, by me, now:

General Anthony Zinni, U.S.M.C. (Ret.) a past chief of the U.S. Central Command and President Bush's former Middle East special envoy, told "60 Minutes" on Sunday that the neoconservatives' role in pushing the war for Israel's benefit was "the worst-kept secret in Washington." Three days earlier, Senator Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, a South Carolina Democrat, rose on the Senate floor to defend a newspaper essay he had written earlier in the month making the same charge. Both men complained that they had been unfairly labeled antisemitic for speaking out.

That's from a story at infoshopnews that's no longer in their archives. It's a reprint from the original in the Forward. Maybe you've heard of it? A Jewish publication? Out on the barricades when it was extremely dangerous to be there, and at the front ever since. I'm not sure but my guess is Ori Nir's a Jew. Here's another story by him:

Senate Report on Iraq Intel Points to Role of Jerusalem
Cooperation between Israel and the United States helped produce a series of intelligence failures in the lead up to the Iraq war, according to separate reports issued by members of the Senate and the Knesset.

story here
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Israel stands to benefit greatly from the US led war on Iraq, primarily by getting rid of an implacable foe in President Saddam Hussein and the threat from the weapons of mass destruction he was alleged to possess. But it seems the Israelis have other things in mind.

An intriguing pointer to one potentially significant benefit was a report by Haaretz on 31 March that minister for national infrastructures Joseph Paritzky was considering the possibility of reopening the long-defunct oil pipeline from Mosul to the Mediterranean port of Haifa. With Israel lacking energy resources of its own and depending on highly expensive oil from Russia, reopening the pipeline would transform its economy.

I know you'd rather it was Lyndon LaRouche or David Duke, but that's from Jane's Information Group, formerly Jane's Fighting Ships, the premier non-governmental source for military news in the world. Nobody has better credentials or a stronger reputation for unbiased accuracy. Trying to pin it on me and my disturbed mentality won't work.
Two of the most important women in my life had Jewish fathers. Joseph Brodsky, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsberg are heroes of mine, without reservation or qualification, men whose work and stance in the world I try to emulate every day.
I'm violently sick of being labeled an anti-Semite for saying what should be obvious to relatively bright ten-year olds. You guys all mewl around with terms like Straussian and neo-cons because you don't have the vocabulary to describe accurately what you're really talking about. And neither do I. It's hiding behind those vague terms, just like it's hiding behind the victims of Holocaust and genocide, and whenever it's accused it throws up the bodies of the innocent as shield.
Does it make you feel brave and slightly heroic to step into the breach like that? With the whole of American culture behind you? Try doing this.
That smug sense of moral superiority is repellent, by itself, when it's mistaken it's even more disgusting, and when it's focused on me personally, without a trace of recognition for the heat generated by this near-public expression of social taboo, it's insulting.
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Things you probaly aren't clearly aware of about Iraq:

The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem by the Babylonians, and the subsequent enslavement of the Jews, was and is huge in the list of wrongs carried by a long-memoried people. Paul Bremer is a Jew. You think that's trivial and unimportant? Putting a Jew in his position over a nation already festering with anti-Semitism, you think that was an oversight? So unimportant it slipped right by everybody? Except those ignorant anti-Semitic Arabs, right? They probably noticed it huh? You think? Maybe? Remember Tommy Franks? He was the general that led the invasion. Slipped that right by you too huh? Trivial unimportant anti-Semitic nonsense. The top miliitary commander of the invasion, and the head of the occupation, both Jews. But only an anti-Semite would notice that, and only a rabid anti-Semite would mention it in polite company.
Janis Karpinski, the fall-person for the Abu Ghraib atrocities has said on the record she encountered anomalous agents while on duty who purported to be Israelis.
The Israeli and American governments both denied vehemently the presence of any Israeli agents in Iraq much less at Abu Ghraib.
Here's Jane's again on the presence of Israeli agents in Iraq:

Foreign Report has learnt that top Shin Bet interrogation experts were sent to Iraq to help with the most difficult interrogations, such as the captured heads of the Iraqi intelligence - and perhaps with former president Saddam Hussein. US sources say that in spite of the incidences of abuse in Abu Ghraib prison, such events are not representative of the sophisticated methods that Shin Bet used in Iraq.

The point-for-dummies of all this is that hiding behind the real sufferings of a complex and multi-faceted people are the most heinous villains in the world. Safe from attack because every accusation is deflected onto the innocent victims they shield themseves with.
And knee-jerk responses like yours, aside from the sort of benignly delivered insult to me personally, play right into that.
I'm talking about a group of men powerful enough to seize control of the American government, and the electoral process. They haven't been even slightly inconvenienced by the trickle of criticism that exists in the US, thanks in large part to the voluntary assistance rendered by well-meaning but essentially clueless individuals such as yourself.