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Date: February 7, 2007 2:19:40 PM PST
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Subject: Fwd: Important - Bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
*Ex-National Security Adviser Warns That Bush Is Seeking A Pretext
To Attack Iran*
By Barry Grey in Washington, D.C.
2 February 2007
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on
Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the
Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in
Iraq and warned that the Bush administration’s policy was leading
inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for
U.S. imperialism in the Middle East and internationally.
Brzezinski, who opposed the March 2003 invasion and has publicly
denounced the war as a colossal foreign policy blunder, began his
remarks on what he called the "war of choice" in Iraq by
characterizing it as "a historic, strategic, and moral calamity."
"Undertaken under false assumptions," he continued, "it is
undermining America's global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian
casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America's moral
credentials. Driven by Manichean principles and imperial hubris, it
is intensifying regional instability."
Brzezinski derided Bush's talk of a "decisive ideological struggle"
against radical Islam as “simplistic and demagogic," and called it
a "mythical historical narrative" employed to justify a "protracted
and potentially expanding war."
"To argue that America is already at war in the region with a wider
Islamic threat, of which Iran is the epicenter, is to promote a
self-fulfilling prophecy," he said.
Most stunning and disturbing was his description of a "plausible
scenario for a military collision with Iran." It would, he
suggested, involve “Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed
by accusations of Iranian responsibility for the failure, then by
some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the U.S. blamed on
Iran, culminating in a 'defensive' U.S. military action against
Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading and deepening
quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and
Pakistan." [Emphasis added].
This was an unmistakable warning to the U.S. Congress, replete with
quotation marks to discount the "defensive" nature of such military
action, that the Bush administration is seeking a pretext for an
attack on Iran. Although he did not explicitly say so, Brzezinski
came close to suggesting that the White House was capable of
manufacturing a provocation including a possible terrorist attack
within the U.S. to provide the casus belli for war.
That a man such as Brzezinski, with decades of experience in the
top echelons of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, a man who
has the closest links to the military and to intelligence agencies,
should issue such a warning at an open hearing of the U.S. Senate
has immense and grave significance.
Brzezinski knows whereof he speaks, having authored provocations of
his own while serving as Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser.
In that capacity, as he has since acknowledged in published
writings, he drew up the covert plan at the end of the 1970s to
mobilize Islamic fundamentalist mujaheddin to topple the pro-Soviet
regime in Afghanistan and draw the Soviet Union into a ruinous war
in that country.
Following his opening remarks, in response to questions from the
senators, Brzezinski reiterated his warning of a provocation.
He called the senators’ attention to a March 27, 2006 report in the
New York Times on "a private meeting between the president and
Prime Minister Blair, two months before the war, based on a
memorandum prepared by the British official present at this
meeting." In the >article, Brzezinski said, “the president is cited
as saying he is concerned that there may not be weapons of mass
destruction found in Iraq, and that there must be some
consideration given to finding a different basis for undertaking
the action."
He continued: "I'll just read you what this memo allegedly says,
according to the New York Times: 'The memo states that the
president and the prime minister acknowledged that no
unconventional weapons had been found inside Iraq. Faced with the
possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr.
Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation.'
"He described the several ways in which this could be done. I won't
go into that... the ways were quite sensational, at least one of them.
"If one is of the view that one is dealing with an implacable enemy
that has to be removed, that course of action may under certain
circumstances be appealing. I’m afraid that if this situation in
Iraq continues to deteriorate, and if Iran is perceived as in some
fashion involved or responsible, or a potential beneficiary, that
temptation could arise."
At another point Brzezinski remarked on the conspiratorial methods
of the Bush administration and all but described it as a cabal. "I
am perplexed," he said, "by the fact that major strategic decisions
seem to be made within a very narrow circle of individuals just a
few, probably a handful, perhaps not more than the fingers on my
hand. And these are the individuals, all of whom but one, who made
the original decision to go to war, and used the original
justifications to go to war."
None of the senators in attendance addressed themselves to the
stark warning from Brzezinski. The Democrats in particular,
flaccid, complacent, and complicit in the war conspiracies of the
Bush administration, said nothing about the danger of a provocation
spelled out by the witness.
Following the hearing, this reporter asked Brzezinski directly if
he was suggesting that the source of a possible provocation might
be the U.S. government itself. The former national security adviser
was evasive.
The following exchange took place:
Q: Dr. Brzezinski, who do you think would be carrying out this
possible provocation?
A: I have no idea. As I said, these things can never be predicted.
It can be spontaneous.
Q: Are you suggesting there is a possibility it could originate
within the U.S. government itself?
A: I'm saying the whole situation can get out of hand and all sorts
of calculations can produce a circumstance that would be very
difficult to trace.
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