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Team-B' Targets Bush-Powell
President George Bush and
Secretary of State Colin Powell are under increasing fire from highly-placed
lobbyists for Israel who want the United States to launch an all-out global
war against the Muslim world.
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By Michael Collins Piper
A story in The New York Times,
widely reprinted in newspapers across the United States, confirms a report
in American Free Press on Oct. 8 that, in the words of the Times, "a tight-knit
group of Pentagon officials and defense experts outside government is working
to mobilize support for a military operation to oust Iraqi President Saddam
Hussein as the next phase of the war against terrorism."
Times writers Elaine Sciolino
and Patrick E. Tyler said the group, "which some in the State Department
and on Capitol Hill refer to as the 'Wolfowitz cabal,' " (after its leader,
Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz) has "largely excluded the State
Department, where Secretary of State Colin Powell has adamantly argued
that such an attack would destroy the international coalition that Bush
has assembled."
In the meantime, President
Bush and Powell are facing an uprising among supporters of Israel in Congress
who support the "Wolfowitz cabal."
The Oct. 19 issue of Forward,
an influential Jewish weekly, reported that Rep. Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.) defiantly
declared that "Israel is not going to be sacrificed for the war on terrorism"
and that Brett Heimov, an aide to Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) had charged
that while "there hasn't been a real selling out of Israel" that "they
[Bush and Powell] are waiting for that excuse and it hasn't quite come
yet." Forward also reported that an unnamed House staff member alleged
that the Bush administration is giving Israel "the cold shoulder" by supporting
the establishment of a Palestinian state and by attempting to build bridges
to the Arab and Muslim worlds.
The refusal by Bush and Powell
to blame Iraq for the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has left Israel's supporters
in Congress and in the "Wolfowitz cabal" scrambling to generate support
by both the public and in government policy-making circles for an all-out
attack on Iraq-and then the remaining Muslim states that Israel perceives
to be enemies to survival.
While the Times report admitted
that "Both Powell and Vice President Dick Cheney have said there is no
evidence linking Iraq to the attacks" of Sept. 11, Wolf owitz and his allies,
such as Richard Perle, a member of the Defense Policy Board-described as
"a prestigious bipartisan board of national security experts that advises
the Pentagon,"-are promoting "the need to turn to Iraq as soon as the initial
phase of the war against Afghanistan and bin Laden and his organization
is over."
Amazingly, a two-day series
of meetings of the Defense Policy Board, which included Wolfowitz and Perle,
did not even brief Powell despite the saber-rattling tone underlying the
board's efforts.
The Times reported that Powell
was "surprised" and "quite distressed" to learn that the president's deputy
national security advisor, Stephen Hadley, inserted what was described
as "a far-reaching sentence" into a letter sent to the United Nations Security
Council threatening possible action against Iraq and other na tions that
Wolfowitz, Perle and their allies are alleging are sponsors of terrorism.
What the Times writers did
not mention are the following facts about Wolfowitz and Perle re ported
by AFP based on the pioneering investigative work of the late Spotlight
correspondent Andrew St. George:
Perle is perhaps the singular
driving force behind a closely-knit group (including Wolfowitz) whose origins
in the modern-day national security establishment go back to the 1970s
when Perle was a top aide to the late Sen. Henry M. Jackson (D-Wash.).
Not only was Perle a key
"inside" player on behalf of the Israeli lobby on Capitol Hill, but he
also played a critical part in the selection of a formal body-officially
known as "Team B"-that functioned as a purportedly "independent" advisory
council on intelligence estimates relating to Soviet aims and capabilities.
In fact, the members of Team
B were bound by their determination to make literally every aspect of U.S.
foreign policy geared toward policies that would prove beneficial to Israel.
Solid evidence compiled
over the years by a variety of independent researchers in and out of government
indicates that Team B exaggerated Soviet influence.
Team B's purpose in so doing
was to advance the theory that Israel was vital to U.S. defense against
the Soviets and that Israel therefore needed vast infusions of U.S. tax
dollars.
Today Wolfowitz and Perle,
working with a "war party" connected to the circles spawned by "Team B,"
are using the new war on terrorism to force the military to carry out a
geopolitical agenda that not only represents the interests of a foreign
nation-Israel-but which could also be dangerous to America's interests
abroad.
Joining Wolfowitz and Perle
as the self-appointed publicist for the "war party" is Perle's fellow Bilderberg
member, William Kristol, publisher of The Weekly Standard, a "conservative"
journal owned by Rupert Mur doch, a longtime media front man for the allied
fi nancial interests of the powerful Rothschild and Bronfman families and
other patrons of Israel.
Wolfowitz, Perle and Kristol
propose broadening the targets of the war on terrorism to include not only
Iraq, but also the Arab Republic of Syria and the Islamic Republic of Iran-a
formula for a global conflagration that would unite 400 million followers
of the Islamic faith against the United States. H
