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PRESS
RELEASE
The Pollard
Affair Never Ended!
Sept. 8, 2002 (EIRNS)—The following statement was released
today by LaRouche in 2004, Lyndon LaRouche's campaign committee for the
Democratic Presidential nomination. The statement is being circulated
widely throughout the United States in leaflet form.
Lyndon
LaRouche reports that there is now firm evidence that the ongoing drive to
induce President George W. Bush to launch a war against Iraq, is a 1996
Israeli government policy that is being foisted on the President by a nest
of Israeli agents inside the U.S. government. This Israeli spy network
inside the United States was unable achieve their objective until
President Bush was entrapped by the events of Sept. 11, 2001 and the
falsified accounts of those events provided by this foreign intelligence
apparatus, and lured over to their policies. Lyndon LaRouche demands to
know: Is this not the motive that explains the who and why of the attacks
of Sept. 11, 2001? LaRouche demands an immediate Congressional
investigation, to help purge the U.S. government of this foreign
intelligence apparatus, which attempted, with the 9/11 events, to seize
control over U.S. foreign policy. The network of Pollard "stay-behinds"
inside the Bush Administration is engaged in a witting hoax, to induce the
President and the U.S. Congress to go to war.
When
you read the summary evidence below, you will certainly share Lyndon
LaRouche's conclusion that all of these people must be immediately fired
from their Administration posts, and that the U.S. Congress must launch
public hearings to get to the bottom of this criminal scheme.
The
summary facts are as follows:
On July
8, 1996, Richard Perle, now the Chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an
advisory group that reports to Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz,
presented a written document to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
spelling out a new Israeli foreign policy, calling for a repudiation of
the Oslo Accords and the underlying concept of "land for peace"; for the
permanent annexation of the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip; and for the
elimination of the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad, as a first step
towards overthrowing or destabilizing the governments of Syria, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia, and Iran. The document was prepared for the Jerusalem and
Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political
Studies (IASPS), a think tank financed by Richard Mellon-Scaife. The
report, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," was
co-authored by Perle; Douglas Feith, currently the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Policy; David Wurmser, currently special assistant to State
Department chief arms control negotiator John Bolton; and Meyrav Wurmser,
now director of Mideast Policy at the Hudson Institute.
Two
days after he received the foreign policy blueprint from Perle, Israeli
Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered a speech before a joint session of the
U.S. Congress, which strongly echoed the IASPS outline. The same day, the
Wall Street Journal published excerpts from the IASPS document, and
the next day, July 11, 1996, the Journal editorially endorsed the
Perle document.
Beginning in February 1998, the British government of Prime
Minister Tony Blair launched a concerted effort, in league with the
Netanyahu government in Israel, and the Perle Israeli agent-of-influence
networks inside the United States, to induce President William Clinton to
launch a war against Iraq, under precisely the terms spelled out for
Netanyahu in the "Clean Break" paper. The war was to be launched,
ostensibly, over Iraq's possession of "weapons of mass destruction."
United Nations weapons inspectors were, at this time, still on the ground
inside Iraq.
To
buttress the war drive, British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook issued an
official lying "white paper" on the Iraqi drive to obtain WMD. On Feb. 19,
1998, Richard Perle and former Congressman Stephen Solarz released an
"Open Letter to the President," demanding a full-scale U.S.-led drive for
"regime change" in Baghdad. The dangerously incompetent military scheme
for the overthrow of Saddam that was published in the Open Letter, has
been recently revived by the Perle-led network of "chickenhawks" in the
office of Secretary of Defense—but has been summarily rejected by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff. Among the signators on the original Perle-Solarz
letter were the following current Bush Administration officials: Elliott
Abrams (National Security Council), Richard Armitage (State Department),
John Bolton (State Department), Doug Feith (Defense Department), Fred Ikle
(Defense Policy Board), Zalmay Khalilzad (White House), Peter Rodman
(Defense Department), Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense), Paul
Wolfowitz (Defense Department), David Wurmser (State Department), and Dov
Zakheim (Defense Department).
President Clinton rejected the February 1998 demand for war,
sending both Netanyahu and Blair into fits of rage.
On Aug.
6, 1998, Angelo Codevilla, the Washington, D.C. co-director of IASPS
(along with David Wurmser), penned an op-ed in the Wall Street
Journal, demanding the freeing of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan
Pollard. Codevilla argued that Pollard had been right to pass U.S.
classified material to Israel, because of the threat posed by Saddam
Hussein. Days later, two members of the Netanyahu cabinet contacted Vice
President Al Gore, demanding Pollard's release.
After
again rejecting the Netanyahu and Blair demands for war on Iraq in
November 1998, President Clinton—under the impeachment onslaught, led by
the Mellon-Scaife-funded apparatus—finally caved in and authorized
Operation Desert Fox in December 1998, as he was returning on Air Force
One from a visit to Israel. But the 70 days of bombardment did not
eliminate the Saddam Hussein regime, and the issue remained dormant for
the next three years ... until Sept. 11, 2001.
Within
moments of the 9/11 attack on Washington and New York, the same
Pollard-linked American networks who had designed the Netanyahu foreign
policy were on the warpath, demanding that President Bush go to war
against Iraq, despite the fact that, to this day, there is no plausible
evidence linking Iraq to the September 2001 irregular warfare attacks. The
Sharon government in Israel instantly declared that the attack had been
ordered by Saddam Hussein, and called for massive retaliation against
Baghdad.
On
Sept. 22, 2001, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made a feverish
pitch for war on Iraq at a Camp David meeting with President Bush and most
of the Cabinet. Wolfowitz had been brought into the inner circle of George
W. Bush a year before the 2000 Presidential elections, at the initiative
of former Secretary of State George Shultz. By 1999, Wolfowitz and Condi
Rice had become co-responsible for pulling together the Bush campaign
foreign policy and national security team, which Ms. Rice dubbed "The
Vulcans." Wolfowitz immediately brought "X Committee" Israeli
agent-of-influence Richard Perle into the inner sanctum, from where he has
been peddling the Netanyahu-Israeli foreign policy agenda from day one.
Perle most recently staged the July 10, 2002 Defense Policy Board session,
which demanded the purging of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of all opponents
of the Iraq war, and called for a U.S. military occupation and takeover of
the Saudi oil fields and a total break with the House of Saud—just as his
July 1996 IASPS "Clean Break" study had proposed.
This is
but the briefest of summaries of the massive evidence in hand. The current
campaign to induce President Bush and the U.S. Congress into a war with
Iraq, one that would surely unleash the "Clash of Civilizations," is a
direct continuation of the Pollard affair. President Bush is being
pressured—from inside his own national security apparatus—to adopt an
Israeli Likud foreign policy! What nation is dictating policy to the
United States? This is a scandalous hoax, far worse than the Gulf of
Tonkin affair of the late 1960s.
From
the point that Perle, Feith, the Wurmsers, et al. first delivered the
"Clean Break" policy to Netanyahu, this crowd has been obsessed with
inducing the United States government to adopt and implement it. All prior
efforts failed, until Sept. 11, 2001 created a new context for reviving
and pushing it—under the guise of the "war on terrorism." Does this raise
questions about the true, mysterious authors of the 9/11 attack? What are
the links between the events of Sept. 11 and the subsequent unabated drive
for war against Iraq?
From
Perle and Feith, to others pressing the Netanyahu scheme from outside the
Administration—including Frank Gaffney, Steven Bryen, and Michael
Ledeen—the entire crew were among the leading suspected Israeli spies,
tasking Jonathan Pollard to steal the most precious national security
secrets of the U.S.A., from inside the Reagan-Bush national security
apparatus. They avoided prosecution, and later emerged as "The Vulcans,"
assigned to "teach" President Bush the ins and outs of foreign and
national security policy. Isn't it time that these co-conspirators joined
Jonathan Pollard behind bars? Isn't it time for President Bush to give
these clowns a "September Surprise"? |
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