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> Months prior to the war the concept of the invasion costing nothing,
to be paid for by Iraqi people, was also put forth by William Safire in
NYTimes.
> It would also be a 'snap', taking only a few battalions (not even
divisions).
>
> General Rummy, General Safire, General Wolfowitz.
>
> donovan
Paul Bremer, who would become the first Iraq occupation czar, spoke in
October 2001 of the US invading Iraq.
Those Greg Palast calls war corporatists are literally Prescott
Auschwitz Bush nazis, or synonymously, Noam Chomsky's "1930's
militarized state capitalism".
Prescott Bush managed the German franchise within 1930's militarized
state capitalism, on behalf of Germany's war capitalists Rockefeller,
Harriman and Ford, before the war and the post-war Marshall Plan. Then
Prescott Auschwitz Bush, instead of being hung at Nuremberg, returned
with Allen Dulles to start the CIA.
Soon, dinner guests of "liberal" cum neocon("Cold War liberal",
"Schlesinger liberal", equals neocon) Joseph Alsop, Vietnam's pied piper
extraordinaire, would find Allen Dulles at the table, and a rack of
generals, not a rack of liberal lamb. So you had a "liberal" neocon
illuminati circle leading the US into Vietnam as into Iraq, and a nazi
dot in that circle, in the form of Allen Dulles dipping the Alsop with
God, and then as now, and perennially, the nazi Bush monarchy. Always
the neocon motivational circle or Round Table surrounding the
unelectable nazi dot in a circle, neocons leading us to war and then
their circle serving as standoff armor as they liberally lead us out of
war. Again. Deja vu. Palast describes the neocon motivational
propagandist circle or Roundtable as taking a few hits as standoff armor
at a later stage.
-Bob D
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> Subject: PJM-> [cia-drugs] Was the Invasion of Iraq A Jewish
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> Was the Invasion of Iraq A Jewish Conspiracy?
>
> BY GREG PALAST
> Tikkun Magazine JULY/AUGUST 2006
>
> June 26, 2006
>
>
> Did the Jews do it?
>
> The US Congress will open hearings this week on the War in Iraq -- a
wee bit late one might think. But one question at the forefront of the
minds of many on both the Left and the Right is sure not to be asked:
Did the Jews do it? I mean, after killing Jesus, did the Elders of Zion
manipulate the government of the United States into invading Babylon as
part of a scheme to abet the expansion of Greater Israel?
>
> The question was first posed to me in 2004 when I was speaking at a
meeting of Mobilization for Peace in San Jose. A member of the audience
asked, "Put it together- Who's behind this war? Paul Wolfowitz and
Elliott Abrams and the Project for a "Jew" American Century and, and,
why don't you talk about that, huh? And ...."
>
> But the questioner never had the full opportunity to complete his
query because, flushed and red, he began to charge the stage. The peace
activists attempted to detain the gentleman-whose confederates then
grabbed some chairs to swing. As the Peace Center was taking on a
somewhat warlike character, I chose to call in the authorities and slip
out the back.
>
> Still, his question intrigued me. As an investigative reporter,
"Who's behind this war?" seemed like a reasonable challenge-and if it
were a plot of Christ-killers and Illuminati, so be it. I just report
the facts, ma'am.
>
> And frankly, at first, it seemed like the gent had a point, twisted
though his spin might be. There was Paul Wolfowitz, before Congress in
March 2003, offering Americans the bargain of the century: a free
Iraq-not "free" as in "freedom and democracy" but free in the sense of
this won't cost us a penny. Wolfowitz testified: "There's a lot of money
to pay for this that doesn't have to be U.S. taxpayer money."
>
>
> A "Free" Iraq
>
> And where would these billions come from? Wolfowitz told us: "It
starts with the assets of the Iraqi people.... The oil revenues of that
country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the next two or
three years."
>
> This was no small matter. The vulpine Deputy Defense Secretary knew
that the number one question on the minds of Americans was not, "Does
Saddam really have the bomb?" but "What's this little war going to cost
us?"
>
> However, Wolfowitz left something out of his testimony: the truth. I
hunted for weeks for the source of the Pentagon's oil revenue
projections-and found them. They were wildly different from the
Wolfowitz testimony. But this was not perjury. Ever since the conviction
of Elliott Abrams for perjury before Congress during the Iran-Contra
hearings, neither Wolfowitz nor the other Bush factotums swear an oath
before testifying. If you don't raise your hand and promise to tell the
truth, "so help me, God," you're off the hook with federal prosecutors.
>
> How the Lord will judge that little ploy, we cannot say.
>
> But Wolfowitz's little numbers game can hardly count as a Great
Zionist conspiracy. That seemed to come, at first glance, in the form
of a confidential 101-page document slipped to our team at BBC's
Newsnight. It detailed the economic "recovery" of Iraq's post-conquest
economy. This blueprint for occupation, we learned, was first devised
in secret in late 2001.
>
> Notably, this program for Iraq's recovery wasn't written by Iraqis;
rather, it was promoted by the neo-conservatives of the Defense
Department, home of Abrams, Wolfowitz, Harold Rhode and other desktop
Napoleons unafraid of moving toy tanks around the Pentagon war room.
>
> Nose-Twist's Hidden Hand
>
> The neo-cons' 101-page confidential document, which came to me in a
brown envelope in February 2001, just before the tanks rolled, goes
boldly where no U.S. invasion plan had gone before: the complete rewrite
of the conquered state's "policies, law and regulations." A cap on the
income taxes of Iraq's wealthiest was included as a matter of course.
And this was undoubtedly history's first military assault plan appended
to a program for toughening the target nation's copyright laws. Once the
82nd Airborne liberated Iraq, never again would the Ba'athist
dictatorship threaten America with bootleg dubs of Britney Spears's
"...Baby One More Time."
>
> It was more like a corporate takeover, except with Abrams tanks
instead of junk bonds. It didn't strike me as the work of a Kosher
Cabal for an Imperial Israel. In fact, it smelled of pork-Pig Heaven for
corporate America looking for a slice of Iraq, and I suspected its
porcine source. I gave it a big sniff and, sure enough, I smelled Grover
Norquist.
>
> Norquist is the capo di capi of right-wing, big-money influence
peddlers in Washington. Those jealous of his inside track to the White
House call him "Gopher Nose-Twist."
>
> A devout Christian, Norquist channeled a million dollars to the
Christian Coalition to fight the devil's tool, legalized gambling. He
didn't tell the Coalition that the loot came from an Indian tribe
represented by Norquist's associate, Jack Abramoff. (The tribe didn't
want competition for its own casino operations.)
>
> I took a chance and dropped in on Norquist's L Street office, and
under a poster of his idol ["NIXON- NOW MORE THAN EVER"], Norquist took
a look at the "recovery" plan for Iraq and practically jumped over my
desk to sign it, filled with pride at seeing his baby. Yes, he promoted
the privatizations, the tax limit for the rich, and the change in
copyright law, all concerns close to the hearts and wallets of his
clients.
>
>
> "The Oil" on Page 73
>
> The very un-Jewish Norquist may have framed much of the U.S.
occupation grabfest, but there was, without doubt, one notable item in
the 101-page plan for Iraq which clearly had the mark of Zion on it. On
page seventy-three the plan called for the "privatization....[of] the
oil and supporting industries," the sell-off of every ounce of Iraq's
oil fields and reserves. Its mastermind, I learned, was Ariel Cohen of
the Heritage Foundation.
>
> For the neo-cons, this was The Big One. Behind it, no less a goal
than to bring down the lynchpin of Arab power, Saudi Arabia.
>
> It would work like this: the Saudi's power rests on control of OPEC,
the oil cartel which, as any good monopoly, withholds oil from the
market, kicking up prices. Sell-off Iraq's oil fields and private
companies will pump oil in their little Iraqi patches to the max. Iraq,
the neo-cons hoped, would crank out six million barrels of oil a day,
bust its OPEC quota, flood the world market, demolish OPEC and, as the
price of oil fell off a cliff, Saudi Arabia would
> fall to its knees.
>
> "It's a no-brainer," Cohen told me, at his office at Heritage. It
was a dim little cubby, in which, in our hour or two together, the phone
rang only once. For a guy who was supposed to be The Godfather of a
globe-spanning Zionist scheme to destroy the Arab oil monopoly, he
seemed kind of, well...pathetic.
>
> And he failed. While the Norquist-promoted sell-offs, flat taxes
and copyright laws were dictated into Iraqi law by occupation chief Paul
Bremer, the Cohen neo-con oil privatization died an unhappy death.
What happened, Ari?
>
> "Arab economists," he hissed, "hired by the State Department . the
witches brew of the Saudi Royal family and Soviet Ostblock."
>
> Well, the Soviet Ostblock does not exist, but the Arab economists
do. I spoke with them in Riyadh, in London, in California, in wry
accents mixing desert and Oxford drawls. They speak with confidence,
knowing Saudi Arabia's political authority is protected by the royal
families -- of Houston petroleum.
>
>
> "Enhance OPEC"
>
> After two mad years of hunting, I discovered the real plan for
Iraq's oil, the one that keeps our troops in Fallujah. Some 323 pages
long and deeply confidential, it was drafted at the James A. Baker III
Institute in Houston, Texas, under the strict guidance of Big Oil's
minions. It was the culmination of a series of planning groups that
began in December 2000 with key players from the Baker Institute and
Council on Foreign Relations (including one Ken Lay of Enron). This was
followed by a State Department invasion-planning session in Walnut
Creek, California, in February 2001, only weeks after Bush and Cheney
took office. Its concepts received official blessing after a March 2001
gathering of oil chiefs (and Lay) with Dick Cheney where the group
reviewed with the Vice-President the map of Iraq's oil fields.
>
> Once I discovered the Big Oil plan, several of the players agreed to
speak with me (not, to the chagrin of some, realizing that I rarely hold
such conversions without secretly recording them). Most forthright was
Philip Carroll, former CEO of Shell Oil USA, who was flown into Baghdad
on a C-17 to make sure there would be no neo-con monkey business in
America's newest oil fields.
>
> It had been a very good war for Big Oil, with tripled oil prices
meaning tripled profits. In Houston, I asked Carroll, a commanding,
steel-straight chief executive, about Ari Cohen's oil privatization
plan, the anti-Saudi "no-brainer."
>
> "I would agree with that statement" Caroll told me, "privatization
is a no-brainer. It would only be thought about by someone with no
brain."
>
> Bush world is divided in two: neo-cons on one side, and the
Establishment (which includes the oil companies and the Saudis) on the
other. The plan the Establishment created, crafted by Houston oil men,
called for locking up Iraq's oil with agreements between a new state oil
company under "profit-sharing agreements" with "IOCs" (International Oil
Companies). The combine could "enhance the [Iraq's] government's
relationship with OPEC," it read, by holding the line on quotas and
thereby upholding high prices.
>
>
> Wolfowitz Dammerung: Twilight Of The Neo-Con Gods
>
> So there you have it. Wolfowitz and his neo-con clique- bookish,
foolish, vainglorious-had their asses kicked utterly, finally, and
convincingly by the powers of petroleum, the Houston-Riyadh Big Oil
axis.
>
> Between the neo-cons and Big Oil, it wasn't much of a contest. The
end-game was crushing, final. The Israelites had lost again in the land
of Babylon. And to make certain the arriviste neo-cons got the point,
public punishment was exacted, from exile to demotion to banishment. In
January 2005, neo-con pointman Douglas Feith resigned from the Defense
Department; his assistant
> Larry Franklin later was busted for passing documents to pro-Israel
lobbyists.
> The State Department's knuckle-dragging enforcer of neo-con
orthodoxies, John Bolton, was booted from Washington to New York to the
powerless post of U.N. Ambassador.
>
> Finally, on March 16, 2005, second anniversary of the invasion,
neo-con leader of the pack Wolfowitz was cast out of the Pentagon war
room and tossed into the World Bank, moving from the
testosterone-powered, war-making decision center to the lending office
for Bangladeshi chicken farmers.
> "The realists," crowed the triumphant editor of the journal of the
Council on Foreign Relations, "have defeated the fantasists!"
>
> So much for the Big Zionist Conspiracy that supposedly directed this
war. A half- dozen confused Jews, wandering in the policy desert a long
distance from mainstream Jewish views, armed only with Leo Strauss'
silly aphorisms, were no match for Texas oil majors and OPEC potentates
with a combined throw weight of half a trillion barrels of oil.
>
> **********
>
> Investigative Reporter Greg Palast is the author of the New York
Times bestseller, Armed Madhouse: Who's Afraid of Osama Wolf?, China
Floats,
> Bush Sinks, the Scheme to Steal '08, No Child's Behind Left and
other
> Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Class War to be released next
week in United Kingdom and Ireland by Penguin UK, from which this essay
is adapted.
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