Kenneth Timmerman was on CSPAN-2 just now [Sunday, 07.08.05] hyping his new book, but mainly trying to make the case for a dangerous Iranian nuclear build-up intensity, himself stoking the fires of Apocalypse while wearing a relatively dapper cream-colored suit:
Appendix III: Unclassified Working Papers
On March 23, 1998, System Planning Corporation hosted a roundtable discussion on Iran and Iraq for the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States. SPC assembled four prominent experts on Iraqi and Iranian ballistic missile capabilities in an unclassified forum:
Michael Eisenstadt, Kenneth Katzman, Kenneth Timmerman, and Seth Carus.
Timmerman presented the most adamant conclusions to the Commission. He asserted that West has continuously underestimated Iraq's technical skills, scientific achievements, and willingness to re-acquire a long range ballistic missile capability. He asserted that Iraq employs tens of thousands of Western trained engineers who continue to work on developing new weapons. Timmerman also asserted that Iraq can develop an IRBM without testing it as they have the manpower, skills and make-do with what they have.
Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the United States
The Honorable Donald H. Rumsfeld, Chairman
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Timmerman on the anti-Semitic nature of the UN:
The NGO statement in Durban [UN World Conference against Racism 31 August to 7 September, 2001] went even further, calling for the convening of an international war-crimes tribunal to try Israel for alleged crimes against the Palestinian people. And while Mary Robinson condemned it, she ultimately couldn't prevent it from being adopted at the NGO forum.WorldNet 12.11.03
"It is perhaps the most horrific document ever presented and finalized under the overall tent of the United Nations," Rabbi Cooper told reporters in Durban on Septrmber 1.
Until the American delegation walked out with the Israelis, U.S. diplomats worked with a handful of Europeans behind the scenes to eliminate some of the worst excesses from the conference documents, which the Americans feared could lay the legal groundwork for a war crimes tribunal against Israel and possibly the United States. Those were legitimate fears. But Shimon Samuels saw a far deeper harm in the works at Durban: the banalization of intolerance and hate. "Durban set a new baseline for institutionalized anti-Semitism at the U.N.," he said.
Alan Baker is a human-rights lawyer who served as a legal adviser to the Israeli negotiating team in Durban. He expressed concern that the NGO document "calls upon the U.N. to create educational packets for schools and universities explaining the "racist" nature of Israel, and how it is 'an apartheid state.'"
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Lopez: What do you mean when you say that "It begins with the Jews, but it never ends with the Jews."Q&A with journalist Kenneth Timmerman
Timmerman: Jews have always been the targets of opportunity for haters of this world. But since 1979, we've seen the basic antisemitic beliefs morph into an ideology that goes beyond religious hate. Increasingly, radical Islam and the institutional Left, especially in Europe, find themselves on the same side in hating Jews, rejecting Israel's right to exist, and demanding an end to America's "hegemony." For the haters, Jews and America are one and the same. They hate us for our freedom, for our secular societies, for our tolerance. That is the great Jewish world conspiracy, and it is something Jews have shared with America. It is a conspiracy of freedom.
Kathryn Jean Lopez/National Review Online 21.11.03
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Timmerman on the anti-Semitic and pusillanimous French:
Two nights later, my wife and I were having a splendid dinner in a 15th-century castle on the outskirts of Avallon, a small but beautifully preserved city at the northern gates of the Burgundy wine country.National Review Online 01.11.04
Among our table-mates in the giant stone kitchen was a sophisticated and agreeable French couple. The man had traveled the world on business, and had set up companies in the United States and in the Arab world. His views - all so reasonable, all so normal and matter of fact - give a better idea of why I believe France is becoming the enemy of freedom.
Saddam was a secular leader, he argued. If the United States had wanted to attack Islamic fundamentalism after 9/11, it should have hit Saudi Arabia.
The United States didn't go to Iraq to find WMD, but to gain control of Iraq's oil and win contracts for Halliburton.
France will never be a target of terrorists, because France is not their enemy.
And anyway, the core of the Middle East problem [is] not radical Islam, but Israel. If there were no Israel, everything would return to normal.
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When it comes to military power, France doesn't count for much these days. But they do still have a veto at the U.N., where Mr. Chirac rallied a coalition of the coerced and the bribed (literally) with the aim of defeating us and preserving Saddam. Added to that is a formidable diplomatic and propaganda machine, which is working intensely to undermine U.S. interests around the world. Radio France International broadcasts anti-American venom throughout the Arab and Muslim world, and ranks along with al Jazeera in its incitement of hatred and delegitimizing of the state of Israel.
To help those French patriots who believe their country still treasures the values of liberty, free speech, and representative government, we should consider launching a French language service of Radio Free Europe. Six years after the fall of the Berlin wall, the French have erected a new wall of propaganda and anti-American filth. The next American president should help tear it down.
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We have a regime that, any second now, might have a capability to launch a WMD attack or to give WMDs to a bin Laden or to an al Zarqawi. How legitimate is a U.S. military strike sooner than later? And if we strike, what are the benefits and what are the costs?FrontPageMagazine/Committee on the Present Danger 29.07.05
Mr. Timmerman?
Timmerman: As in Iraq, a military strike against Iran is what happens when all other options have been exhausted. With Iraq, we had 12 years of defiance of a relatively strict regime of sanctions set up by 17 UN Security Council resolutions. So far, Iran's equally egregious defiance of the IAEA inspection process has not been referred to the UNSC. In my book, that is the very first step the U.S. must take. And it is a step which John Bolton and others in the administration have been arguing we must take for some time.
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"Only when the Islamist ideological roots of the current war are acknowledged can we successfully wage and win the war.""Just as the Reagan administration rolled back Communist tyranny, today we can roll back the tyranny of radical Islam and the terrorist regimes it has spawned. But the first battle will be here at home, where we must defeat the blame-America-first pundits of political correction."
Kenneth R. Timmerman
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Daniel Pipes
Committee on Present Danger
The lie Pipes tells here is a truth with only a slight alteration.
We can say, with Pipes, that the ideological roots of the current war must be acknowledged; we can say that not until then will the war be successfully waged and won. We just can't put all the blame on Islam, or Islamism, or Islamists.
And we can say, with Timmerman, that the first battle of that war will be at home. It's here, now. We just can't pretend to each other that the blame should be placed on "the blame-America-first pundits".
I'm certainly not advocating that, and to step inside the funhouse mirror of Timmerman's awkward prose again - I'm not in anyway "blaming America first".
I'm saying as clearly as I can that America, the common people of the United States at least, have been lied to and frightened intentionally, have been led like domestic animals through a series of gates and fences to a holding-paddock where their energy, political and material, has been bled away in small unnoticable amounts. The tragedy of that misuse is made more piercing because the overall weight and power of that energy, when the process began, was profound and never before seen in the human world.
And I'm saying that men like Pipes and Timmerman are responsible for those lies and that intentionally-created fear, in order to be able to use that energy to wage an unwinnable war that has nothing to do with, and is in direct opposition to, the well-being of America and its people; and that they are now leading us directly toward nuclear conflict in the Middle-East.
More lies will only feed that fire.
