Interesting commentary by our Saudi "friends". David Bier
http://english.daralhayat.com/opinion/OPED/12-2005/Article-20051227- 6d024106-c0a8-10ed-00d8-7731782f8f9d/story.html Back to the Neoconservatives (2) Jihad el Khazen Al-Hayat - 27/12/05// What do Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and David Wurmser have in common? We know that they're in the cabal of neocons, who want to destroy the Middle East in order to benefit Israel. But what they specifically have in common, after the fall of Iraq, is their hostility toward Syria. When he was Deputy Secretary of Defense, Wolfowitz launched the White House's campaign against Syria. He was the first one to accuse the Syrians of giving haven to leaders of the former Iraqi regime and possessing weapons of mass destruction. Wolfowitz accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in particular of practicing "extreme violence" and said, "there should be change in Syria." Perle, meanwhile, supported Israel air strikes against Syria in 2003 and said that "I am happy to see the message was delivered to Syria by the Israeli Air Force, and I hope it is the first of many such messages." He expressed his "hope" that the US would strike Syria. Wurmser is not the most important of the three, but he's an Israeli Likudnik to the bone, like his Israeli wife Meyrav. Wurmser's disastrous presence in the Bush administration was founded on his calls for an attack on Syria, his incitement against Syria, and his promoting the venality of the neoconservatives when it came to weapons of mass destruction. You would think that someone like this extremist, with his loyalty to a foreign power, wouldn't be able to enter any US administration. However, he was recently appointed an advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney within the National Security Council, with responsibility for the Middle East. What's Wurmser's policy? There's no secret in it. His name has been linked to Richard Perle's since the mid-1990s, involved in incitement against Iraq, then Syria. They've been trying to out-do Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to extremism. When the latter was Israeli prime minister from 1996-1999, he worked within the Oslo Accords, which the neoconservatives said should be rejected; they also called for preventing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. I've mentioned on several occasions in this column a study of the cabal that appeared in 1996, entitled "Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." It contains a call for removing the Saddam Hussein regime, followed by attacking Syria and finding an alternative to Yasser Arafat. This study became the Bush administration's policy after 11 September 2001. Since the part related to Iraq has been achieved, the cabal is now working to implement the portion concerning Syria. Iran remains a final goal, but Iran is very strong and the US needs to isolate all of its allies (such as Syria) and disarm them (such as Hezbollah), before taking on the Islamic Republic. The study called on Israel to ally with Turkey and Iran and strike at Syria through Lebanon, just as Wurmser has written time and time again calling for joint US-Israeli efforts against Syria. Wurmser repeated this call in 2000 in another study that involves incitement against Syria, and also in a book published in 1999. This is the person who Cheney appointed as his advisor on Middle East affairs. We don't have to imagine the type of advice that this extremist Likudnik will offer - we can guarantee it. The Vice president is an extremely venal individual. His top aide, Lewis Libby, resigned under pressure from the Plamegate scandal, as he faces official charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Cheney chose David Addington to succeed Libby; Addington produced a famous study that condones the torture of prisoners, while John Hannah is from the same cabal and was selected as Cheney's national security adviser. Whatever I say about Wurmser isn't sufficient to describe how dangerous he is for the Palestinians, Syria and every Arab country. He's absolutely Israeli; he wants the US to wage Israel's wars in the Middle East. Wurmser's name has been linked to the Office of Special Plans, which Douglas Feith at the Pentagon created to shape intelligence supporting a war against Iraq when the intelligence organizations failed to provide the necessary lies. Wurmser worked as an advisor to John Bolton at the Pentagon and the two try to outdo each other in peddling lies about Syria and inciting the Bush administration against it. Bolton moved to the United Nations, where Bush appointed him Washington's ambassador in the face of congressional opposition, and during its summer recess. Wurmser, meanwhile, moved to Dick Cheney's office and both continued to spread their poison against Arabs and Muslims. Iraq was one step, and Syria was another. The cause is Israel and how it can dominate the region in the face of a huge majority of peoples that the cabal is trying to strip of their independence. I hope readers appreciate the fact that I'm not exaggerating, because it is difficult to exaggerate the danger posed by an Israeli apologist like Wurmser to Arab interests. The older study called specifically for striking Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah, and proposed that the US help Israel. The cabal has changed nothing of this policy; instead it encouraged the bringing down of the Saddam Hussein regime. All of Wurmser, Perle and Feith's statements since the 1990s until the present have repeated these same positions. There is no difference between Netanyahu or Wurmser being Cheney's adviser. If there's any hope of ridding ourselves of the danger of the vice president and his advisers, it lies in the investigation by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name to the media, to exact revenge against her husband, Joseph Wilson, who returned from Niger to say that reports of Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium yellow cake were trumped up. We know that the investigation has gotten rid of Libby and threatens the position of Karl Rove, Bush's adviser or "brain." However, I read that the special prosecutor is interested in the role of Wurmser, who has agreed to provide information in order to protect himself. There's also suspicion that he and Bolton leaked Plame's name when the former was the latter's adviser at the Pentagon, and that the leak took place thanks to advice "from above." Personally, I think that the charges will reach Cheney himself in the end, but I await the results of the official investigation. Then we will see. http://www.j-khazen.blogspot.com <h1>Back to the Neoconservatives (2)</h1> <h4>Jihad el Khazen Al-Hayat - 27/12/05//</h4> <p> <p>What do Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, and David Wurmser have in common? We know that they're in the cabal of neocons, who want to destroy the Middle East in order to benefit Israel. But what they specifically have in common, after the fall of Iraq, is their hostility toward Syria.<br>When he was Deputy Secretary of Defense, Wolfowitz launched the White House's campaign against Syria. He was the first one to accuse the Syrians of giving haven to leaders of the former Iraqi regime and possessing weapons of mass destruction. Wolfowitz accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in particular of practicing "extreme violence" and said, "there should be change in Syria."<br>Perle, meanwhile, supported Israel air strikes against Syria in 2003 and said that "I am happy to see the message was delivered to Syria by the Israeli Air Force, and I hope it is the first of many such messages." He expressed his "hope" that the US would strike Syria.<br>Wurmser is not the most important of the three, but he's an Israeli Likudnik to the bone, like his Israeli wife Meyrav. Wurmser's disastrous presence in the Bush administration was founded on his calls for an attack on Syria, his incitement against Syria, and his promoting the venality of the neoconservatives when it came to weapons of mass destruction.<br>You would think that someone like this extremist, with his loyalty to a foreign power, wouldn't be able to enter any US administration. However, he was recently appointed an advisor to Vice President Dick Cheney within the National Security Council, with responsibility for the Middle East.<br>What's Wurmser's policy? There's no secret in it. His name has been linked to Richard Perle's since the mid-1990s, involved in incitement against Iraq, then Syria. They've been trying to out-do Benjamin Netanyahu when it comes to extremism. When the latter was Israeli prime minister from 1996-1999, he worked within the Oslo Accords, which the neoconservatives said should be rejected; they also called for preventing the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.<br>I've mentioned on several occasions in this column a study of the cabal that appeared in 1996, entitled "Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." It contains a call for removing the Saddam Hussein regime, followed by attacking Syria and finding an alternative to Yasser Arafat.<br>This study became the Bush administration's policy after 11 September 2001. Since the part related to Iraq has been achieved, the cabal is now working to implement the portion concerning Syria.<br>Iran remains a final goal, but Iran is very strong and the US needs to isolate all of its allies (such as Syria) and disarm them (such as Hezbollah), before taking on the Islamic Republic.<br>The study called on Israel to ally with Turkey and Iran and strike at Syria through Lebanon, just as Wurmser has written time and time again calling for joint US-Israeli efforts against Syria. Wurmser repeated this call in 2000 in another study that involves incitement against Syria, and also in a book published in 1999.<br>This is the person who Cheney appointed as his advisor on Middle East affairs. We don't have to imagine the type of advice that this extremist Likudnik will offer - we can guarantee it. The Vice president is an extremely venal individual. His top aide, Lewis Libby, resigned under pressure from the Plamegate scandal, as he faces official charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. Cheney chose David Addington to succeed Libby; Addington produced a famous study that condones the torture of prisoners, while John Hannah is from the same cabal and was selected as Cheney's national security adviser.<br>Whatever I say about Wurmser isn't sufficient to describe how dangerous he is for the Palestinians, Syria and every Arab country. He's absolutely Israeli; he wants the US to wage Israel's wars in the Middle East. Wurmser's name has been linked to the Office of Special Plans, which Douglas Feith at the Pentagon created to shape intelligence supporting a war against Iraq when the intelligence organizations failed to provide the necessary lies. Wurmser worked as an advisor to John Bolton at the Pentagon and the two try to outdo each other in peddling lies about Syria and inciting the Bush administration against it. Bolton moved to the United Nations, where Bush appointed him Washington's ambassador in the face of congressional opposition, and during its summer recess. Wurmser, meanwhile, moved to Dick Cheney's office and both continued to spread their poison against Arabs and Muslims. Iraq was one step, and Syria was another. The cause is Israel and how it can dominate the region in the face of a huge majority of peoples that the cabal is trying to strip of their independence.<br>I hope readers appreciate the fact that I'm not exaggerating, because it is difficult to exaggerate the danger posed by an Israeli apologist like Wurmser to Arab interests. The older study called specifically for striking Syria, Iran, and Hezbollah, and proposed that the US help Israel. The cabal has changed nothing of this policy; instead it encouraged the bringing down of the Saddam Hussein regime. All of Wurmser, Perle and Feith's statements since the 1990s until the present have repeated these same positions.<br>There is no difference between Netanyahu or Wurmser being Cheney's adviser. If there's any hope of ridding ourselves of the danger of the vice president and his advisers, it lies in the investigation by special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into the leaking of CIA agent Valerie Plame's name to the media, to exact revenge against her husband, Joseph Wilson, who returned from Niger to say that reports of Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium yellow cake were trumped up.<br>We know that the investigation has gotten rid of Libby and threatens the position of Karl Rove, Bush's adviser or "brain." However, I read that the special prosecutor is interested in the role of Wurmser, who has agreed to provide information in order to protect himself. There's also suspicion that he and Bolton leaked Plame's name when the former was the latter's adviser at the Pentagon, and that the leak took place thanks to advice "from above."<br>Personally, I think that the charges will reach Cheney himself in the end, but I await the results of the official investigation. Then we will see.</p> <p> <a href="http://www.j-khazen.blogspot.com/">http://www.j- khazen.blogspot.com</a> ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/U6CDDD/izNLAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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