Seymour
Hersh is a rarity in America these days -- an investigative
journalist.
"Hersh is not a nice man in the Washington sense," writes Eric
Alterman of Salon, "he does not know how to make small talk, flatter
his bosses, spin his defeats and conceal his fierce competitiveness. He
is simply the best investigative reporter alive and expects his work to
speak for itself."
Because Hersh does what he does so well, the chicken hawk
Richard Perle called
him a terrorist on CNN the other
day.
That's right. Perle equated Hersh with Osama bin Laden and Khalid Shaikh
Mohammed. "Sy Hersh is the closest thing American journalism has to
a terrorist," Perle told Wolf Blitzer.
Perle slandered Hersh because the award winning journalist wrote in the
March 17th issue of the New Yorker: "There is no question that Perle
believes that removing Saddam from power is the right thing to do. At the
same time, he has set up a company that may gain from a war."
I have not read the New
Yorker article, so I can't comment on
it. I don't know if Perle set up a company situated to profit from his
boss' plan to mass murder possibly a half million Iraqis or not. But if
Hersh said it, there must be something to it. Hersh is known for his
meticulous research. He conducts interviews, double checks facts. Seymour
Hersh does not make things up. Due to his professionalism Hersh has won
more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer
Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards.
On the other hand, Perle and the neocons are liars.
One big lie is that Mohammed Atta met with Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani,
an official at Baghdad's embassy in Prague. US intelligence agencies went
over records of Atta's travels and concluded that during the period in
question he was in Virginia Beach, not in Prague. Perle knew this was a
fabrication. He attempted to pass it off on the American people as truth.
There are many other lies, as well, but I will not bother you with
enumeration.
That's how the neocons make their case before the American people --
through deceit, half-truth, fabrications, and outright lies. It should be
a crime. But for now he is allowed to bend the ear of George W. Bush and
prod the half-wit dictator into destroying America.
When Perle was working for Senator Scoop Jackson, he was investigated by
the Justice Department and found to have violated US policies relating to
unlawful transmission of sensitive classified US information to
Israel.
"An FBI summary of a 1970 wiretap recorded Perle discussing
classified information with someone at the Israeli embassy," writes
Paul Findley (They Dare To Speak Out, Chicago, Ill, Lawrence Hill Books
1989)."He came under fire in 1983 when newspapers reported he
received substantial payments to represent the interests of an Israeli
weapons company. Perle denied conflict of interest, insisting that,
although he received payment for these services after he had assumed his
position in the Defense Department, he was between government jobs when
he worked for the Israeli firm."
In other words, Richard Perle was spying for Israel.
Perle should be expatriated immediately -- or made to share a cell with
Jonathan Pollard, the spy who spent 18 months collecting and selling
classified American intelligence to Israel from his position in U.S.
Naval Intelligence. So pleased were the Israelis with the information
passed on to them, two of the four government officials who had dealt
with Pollard were promoted (Col. Aviem Sella, Pollard's primary contact,
was given full control of a major Israeli Air Force base). So arrogant
are the Israelis that Sharon asked Bush to pardon and release
Pollard.
If these are our friends, who needs enemies?
Okay, I'm going to use a word that will upset some of you -- Zionist.
These days if you use the word Zionist you're going to be immediately
accused of anti-Semitism. I receive hate email for using this word on
occasion. You'd think I'm making excuses for the Holocaust (which is
another subject that can get you in hot water, especially in France where
you can go to prison for questioning the official verson of historical
events). I'm not slandering Jews, I'm simply reporting the facts. Here's
an indisputable fact:
Richard Perle is a Zionist.
Now what exactly does this mean? It means Richard Perle -- and Paul
Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and others in the Bush administration -- are
Israeli nationalists. "Wolfowitz and fellow Jewish neo-cons Richard
Perle and Douglas Feith have emerged as the Pentagon's Paladins,"
writes Ann Pettifer, "their aim being to subdue the Islamic world
through decisive, pre-emptive use of American military
superiority."
"Only in Washington does one get a true sense of the obsession of
these Pentagon civilians," writes Hugo Young, a Guardian columnist.
"Conversationally, it is common talk that some of them, not
including Rumsfeld, are as much Israeli as American nationalists. Behind
nervous, confiding hands come sardonic whispers of an American outpost of
Likud. Most striking of all, however, is how unmentionable this is in the
liberal press."
Ain't that the truth.
But then the corporate press in America rarely criticizes the Zionists.
Notice how Perle can jump from one TV news show to another and nobody
mentions his spying for the Israelis or working for an Israeli arms
manufacturer. Nobody mentions his "dual loyalties," which are
common knowledge in Washington. Nobody calls him a traitor. Nobody in the
corporate media dares -- that is if they want to keep their jobs.
Perle can insult the Germans and French at the same time and the
corporate media looks the other way. In fact, he is allowed to denigrate
the whole of Europe. "I think Europe has lost its moral compass.
Many Europeans have become so obsessed by the prospect of violence they
have failed to notice who we are dealing with," he told the
Guardian.
Gee, Richard. Maybe the Germans remember the horror of American Flying
Fortresses dumping gasoline bombs on Dresden in 1945, an act of barbarity
that resulted in the murder of 100,000 people. Maybe the French recall
the Nazi occupation. Maybe there's still thousands of Dutch, Italians,
Poles, and other Europeans alive who remember none too fondly the
systematic and engineered mass murder of the Second World War. No doubt,
as well, there's plenty of Jews who remember the monstrosity of Hitler's
concentration camps.
I bet if you asked them if Saddam Hussein is Hitler reborn they would
laugh in your face.
Actually, Saddam is not a threat to a single person in the United States.
Perle and the Zionist neocons know this, of course. They also know that
Iraq is not a serious threat to Israel, especially after a decade of war
and sanctions have reduced Iraq to one of the poorest countries in the
world. "We don't lose sleep over Iraq's military threat to us,"
Lt Gen. Moshe Yaalon, Israel's Chief of Staff, told the New York
Times.
So why are the Zionists pushing for a US invasion of Iraq?
First, the Zionists believe that bad relations between the US and Arab
nations is good for Israel. It's no mistake Iraq and Iran were
specifically fingered as part of an "axis of evil," nations the
Bushites have singled out for invasion and "democratization."
Sharon told fellow Zionist and U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton
last month he wants Syria and Libya attacked next. As if to make sure he
received the correct marching orders, Bolton also met with Foreign
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Housing and Construction Minister Natan
Sharansky.
The Israeli Zionists don't care if perpetual war destroys the American
economy. It does not bother them if Americans will die in the
thousands.
Second, the Zionists are itching to "transfer" -- i.e., to
ethnically cleanse -- as many Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza as
possible. Israel will do this while the US is busy slaughtering Iraqis.
"Israel should have exploited the repression of the demonstrations
in China, when world attention focused on that country, to carry out mass
expulsions among the Arabs of the territories," Netanyahu told
students at Bar-Ilan University in 1989. Americans may be clueless about
the intentions of Zionists toward the Palestinians, but in Israel ethnic
cleansing is a popular subject of discussion. Fifty percent or more of
Israelis think ethnic cleansing is a good idea. This from a nation that
supposedly remembers the Holocaust.
"The idea of transfer is as old as modern Zionism and has
accompanied its evolution and praxis during the past century,"
remarks Israeli historian Benny Morris. Moreover, the Palestinian
"demographic threat" was something that "once left Golda
Meir sleepless at night and now serves as the subject of obsession for
Israeli conferences and nervous policy analysts," notes Will
Youmans.
Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, and their fellow travelers from the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), the Center for Security
Policy (CSP), the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Hudson
Institute -- as well as defense contractors and conservative foundations
bankrolled by far-right American Zionists -- are calling the shots on
Bush's invasion of Iraq.
It has nothing to do with the security of the American people. It has
everything to do with Israel and the Likudites.
The Zionists in the Bush administration are pulling a fast one on the
American people. It's criminal behavior. It should not be tolerated. The
Zionist plan to bomb and kill Arabs across the Middle East will result in
dismal failure and pointless mass murder. It will destroy America. It
will wreck our economy and kill our sons. Perle and his cronies are
mountebanks, swindlers, hypocrites.
If Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Elliot Abrams, and
all the other Zionists embedded in the Bush administration -- love Israel
so much, they should pack their bags and go there.
If they won't go on their own, they should be forced to leave.
In the meantime, their treacherous deceits need to be exposed.
Kurt Nimmo is a photographer and multimedia developer in Las
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