A secret deal being negotiated in Baghdad would perpetuate the American military occupation of Iraq indefinitely, regardless of the outcome of the US presidential election in November.

The terms of the impending deal, details of which have been leaked to The Independent, are likely to have an explosive political effect in Iraq. Iraqi officials fear that the accord, under which US troops would occupy permanent bases, conduct military operations, arrest Iraqis and enjoy immunity from Iraqi law, will destabilise Iraq's position in the Middle East and lay the basis for unending conflict in their country.

But the accord also threatens to provoke a political crisis in the US. President Bush wants to push it through by the end of next month so he can declare a military victory and claim his 2003 invasion has been vindicated. But by perpetuating the US presence in Iraq, the long-term settlement would undercut pledges by the Democratic presidential nominee, Barack Obama, to withdraw US troops if he is elected president in November.

I am not convinced that the presidency of G.W. Bush has had a positive effect on the nation or the world.

“There is no question we all relied on flawed intelligence," Rockefeller's statement continued. "But, there is a fundamental difference between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately painting a picture to the American people that you know is not fully accurate."

What an utterly self-serving, CYA, "conventional wisdom", steaming pile of Washington BS. There was PLENTY of dissent among prominent, vocal critics of a possible Iraq invasion. Ray McGovern, Scott Ritter, the UN, I would have to research but there are a dozen people (at least) who were in a position to ACTUALLY KNOW what was going on that were saying that there was no reason to attack Iraq.

Scott Ritter was the target of a Bush Administration smear campaign (remember the child porn scandal?). The UN was demonized, former intelligence officers were marginalized as kooks and commies, and the corporate press became the de facto Ministry of Propaganda for the Bushies.

The knowledge that Iraq had no WMD was available before the invasion to anyone who had the political will to acknowledge it. To claim after the fact that the intelligence was "flawed" is disingenuous. The Democrats lacked the political spine to stand up to Bush and demand real proof. They rolled over like dying dogs for everything Bush crammed down their throats.... the Iraq War Resolution, the Patriot Act, unlimited war funding, rubber stamping appointments, signing statements, FISA violations, contempt of Congress, outing a CIA agent, and so on, and so on.

That doesn't indicate flawed intelligence, it indicates character flaws. To the few brave Dems (and fewer GOPERs) who stood up to Bush, hats off. To the rest of you, you are accomplices, not victims, so stop acting like you're innocent.

-Wexler

Ledeen is the the creepiest creep, the scurviest creature among all the swindlers and propagandists who conned this country into this war of conquest, this oil grab, this "aggressive war" in Iraq.

Bush and his administration must be impeached along with a blanket coverage revoke of what he has done until it can all be sifted out. I do not think jail is the place for this bunch, because they will get out and start right back again. It appears to me that this blatantly corrupt administration should be handled like the same situation was handled in Italy with Benito Mussolini.

One only has to look west at Isreal, or east to India, & see what democrecy has to offer Iraq, only time will tell, as far as Geo W Bush, inaction was not the answer, time & what happens will be the Judge..... I think after the rest of Irag's deside to join the 21th century, not the 14th he'll be judged to have done right.

Part of that alarming story is the way that the US has sequestered the Iraqi oil deposit at New York City Bank as leverage to force Iraqi compliance to U.S. policy. See web links: www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/revealed-secret-plan-to-keep-iraq-under-us-control-840512.html

The Iraq debacle is being blamed on "Curveball," and now we have "Lowball," as his estimates will surely prove. But the real problem lies with Screwball and Cueball in the White House.

I'm not so worried about the napkin as the cocktails the obviously profusely accompanied the genesis of yet another harebrained scheme.

The neocons. are so eager to go to the extream to push for a war with Iran.In doing so, they would create a world of allegations and will do their utmost to impose it upon the Administration. Thats how it happened with Iraq and now more probably, will happen with Iran, and unless somebody stands up to such wanton schemes, the world will find itself in a more catastorphic situation than Iraq.Logic dictates, that one should learn from past experience and especially contemporary ones, but judging by recent Israeli flares-up agaist Iran's exagerated threat, one would take it seriuosly that thje US might oblige the Israeli concern.It has been noticed that American arrogance and total dependancy on military might are the causes behind the existing pethatic state of intelligence. Its eqally true that overconfidence is more likely to tempt minor players to divert decisions to serve their lobbying interests rather than the national ones.Its said, that when one is in a hall, the first thing to do is to stop digging.Hope somebody at the WhiteHouse will listen.

BillW posted...

One only has to look west at Isreal, or east to India, & see what democrecy has to offer Iraq, only time will tell, as far as Geo W Bush, inaction was not the answer, time & what happens will be the Judge..... I think after the rest of Irag's deside to join the 21th century, not the 14th he'll be judged to have done right.

Posted by: BillW on 06/08/08 at 6:59 AM Respond

Bill, you can't seriously be comparing Iraq's prospects for adopting a pro-western style democracy to Israel and India, can you?

Regarding Israel, Israel is a creation of the Western democracy, carved out of Arab land and established with massive military aid, brute force, and a population of western-leaning people. Iraq is an Arab nation with 3 factions of Muslims who have been at each other's throats for centuries. No comparison there. It's not going to happen.

India, for all their efforts to modernize, is still a third world country with its own religion and cultural issues that make life there completely dissimilar to "democracy".

And, just FYI, we are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

-Wexler

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Scott Ritter was the target of a Bush Administration smear campaign (remember the child porn scandal?). The UN was demonized, former intelligence officers were marginalized as kooks and commies, and the corporate press became the de facto Ministry of Propaganda for the Bushies.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

You got that right, brother. I propose a name for this process, esp. now that we know of the Pentagon Propaganda Program that operated undetected for years, and no doubt still distorts our shared narrative: The Goering Treatment.

We are not being "disserved," we are being DECEIVED! It's a deliberate effort to use false narratives--lies--to jack the nation to war. Here's how it works.

Using themes drawn from the population's dominant religion, conflate yourself with the Great Cosmic Machine: bound by math alone, answerable to NO1; assume the role of NO1 to your personal self, e.g., "for god, king, and country!" Which of the Louis's was it who said, "L'etat, c'est moi?" The state is me.

Second, as Lord Cheney of Abu Ghraib and Gitmo did in Baghdad several weeks ago, fake the numbers in your favor, thereby claiming the blessing of the Great Cosmic Machine. Electoral fraud.

Voila! Conflate yourself with the Almighty, fake the numbers in your favor, and jack the nation to hell, making sure to stick the peons with the bill on your way out.

Little kittens are sometimes lured into burlap sacks, there to be drowned, not saved; same goes for we, the People, and our shared narratives. I call it MYTH-JACKING, the Goering Treatment; call it what you like, as Hermann Goering himself said, "It works the same in any country."

Let's update our notions of how we were lied to war, the better to recognize and defeat this myth-jacking already in progress.

read between the lines folks..

now we know who made and passed along to US Gov the forged Italian documents in the Niger Yellow Cake counter-intel Op.

I believe Busch has made such a mess he should clean it up before leaving office.

We are the most powerful nation in the world and it is time to remind the workd which hates us.

Nuke Iran, Korea and any others that oppose. I mean the entire country.

That action from Bush would leave with Bush and really make a statement which would wake up the ones who already want to kill us.

I would like to see Cheney and Bush sent to Guantanamo and water-boarded until they come clean - if that's possible.

As for you Vic, how many violent video games have you played? I think your brain is tweaked. Poor man...

Someone better think of regime change in Iran- Who is going to save us from this dark dictatrship of fucking mullahs

Who is going to save Iran from this curse,? Mother jones? I didn't think so!

Fucking lunatic far left pot heads!

"The new Senate Intelligence committee report presents more evidence that the U.S. government under the Bush administration has been uniquely vulnerable to the intelligence schemes and foreign policy freelancing of discredited individuals and deemed fabricators"

I just love this statement. How incredibly naive. These neocon fascist have been planning what they have done and worse for decades. They pick and choose the data. If they can't find it they make it up. They know these guys are lying and use them as scapegoats to facilitate their plans.

Thank you for this succinct and accurate analysis. I might add that the event be televised so we all can savor the moment!

And to think that some of you are going to vote for John Mccain/McBush Jr. Jesus, will this nightmare ever end. Will

"Iran Citizen" -keep trying, mate. Avoid using shallow US political stereotypes and one day someone might even think you are Iranian. A glimmer of intelligence sufficient to suggest that you are at least a primate would be useful also.

This article is interesting because it shows the extent to which neocons like Ledeen are willing to act outside the law and accepted rules in order to get the USA to do what they want.

Nothing marks a neocon so reliably as that massive arrogance and presumption. It is not surprising if you look at where they came from.

(quote):"And, just FYI, we are a Constitutional Republic, not a democracy.

-Wexler (unquote)We haven`t been a Constitutional Republic in some 100 years.
IMHO, the start of the very unconstitutional War on(some) Drug(users) via the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1910, pretty much ended any notion of America being a "Constitutional Republic".

I am surprised, then again maybe not, that Mother Jones did not dig deeper into Ghorbanifar's past.

If homework was done, Mother Jones would have found that Ghorbanifar goes back to the President Carter days when he was a figure in the Top Secret deal that was cut to supply arms to Afgan resistance fighters 6 months before Russia invaded Afgan. Ghorbanifar is also possibly linked to Reagans Iran/Contra arms covert operation and also to the Clinton secret arms supplies to the Muslims factions of the war in the Balkans, such deal being against UN restrictions of arms being sent to the Balkans.

Some people need to do their homework. History did not start when Bush took office.

This article missed to mention that Israel had nothing to do with anything!

THisis what I wrote back 10 years ago-..

" year--1997
Irak is right in demanding ouster of anglo-saxon spies from hollowed Iraki's soil.In name of uno, and before that leage of friends ,and now Amnesty International, this heyena country called england has installed a lot bof speis all over World and has virtually hijacked Americans to do their domestic and foreign policies for furtherance of british (england's ) interest than even American 's interest.

These days for last few years a lot of Kurdish refugees(who by the way are more aryans than all the europeans combined-though it is irrelevant here)are escaping from Turkey because of Turkish pressure. But nobody has ever stopped Turkey from having her air space nor has anyone bobed them. and why should anyone?Who has given right to a handfull of countries to be a policeman? Could they dare demand such thing at time of so called cold war? Every december,ever since gulf war there is a show of bullying tactics by anglo-saxons in middle east. There is really no ground but excuse is created because this race feels uplifted when others are insultated. Also there is a low cost exercise in bullying any other nation by military postures. Why should Iraq not have weapons as he desires?in 1981, when the israelis had bombed the iraqui nuclear reacto(a few days before going critical) it was britain)govt, and british media) who had vwhemently opposed Israeli daring action and did a lot of anti-jewish propaganda. Atleast Begin had a reason to fear from the arab enemy of israel. even in '82 Lebanon war it was britain which was most vociferous in criticizing Isreali militay action at the same time minimizing the Isreali Airforce's achievement in destroying Bacca's valley missiles through high tech method.In fact What americans did in gulf war was what Isreali had achieved way back in '82 in Lebanon war and America obtained that military know-how from Israelis after Lebanon war. But gulf war is justifiable on basis of military superirity but not Lebanon war. In fact when an american general said that america learned a lot from Israelis' achievement then the american defense minister Winnberg said that itAmerica learned not from Israeli but from British. Ofcourse we all know that Wnnberg was (awarded sir) more of anbritish defense minister than american one. He was pro-british and anti-jewish (and antirussian and all others aswell). In fact in lebanon war the american foreign secratary was changed because the british did not like Hague's attitude. This much britain exercises influence in american affairs. Now having installed all the stooges in Arab world britain has discarded her sham veil of Arabists and openly insults(through america ofcouse because on own britain is not even a fourh grade power)the arab world.Talking about the stooge, have you wondered why these days even Yeltsin's bad health no longer makes any headline news in anglosaxon world?Before any cold that Yeltsin had was niticed and still before that any peon from Russia had a headline news ' material. The reaon is simple. Britain has installed in Russia not only a mad man likes yelstin but also a second line of stooge successor to him. After Yelstin usefullness is over then he will be replaced by those second line of british stooge who at the moment are already controlling Russia and destroying her everyday. Democracy ,as understood today, basically means any system which gives free hand to britain to exploit other races. If their is one example of what an evil this so called capitalism is and what a saviour communism(britain does not dislike communism, she dislikes other's prosperity and independence whether it comes from communism, nationalism or what ever)is: this ruinous example of Russia is the real lesson. China is right to hold on to her nationalistic pursuit. It really is a war between anglo-saxons and the rest of the world. It is a race war.Sooner the rest of the world realizes that better it would be and this danger would be sorted out.

You remember that at the height of cold war in mid 80's there was a lot of activities of C.N.D. You would expect that with so called cold war finished, this C.N.D. would be asking to the british peoples to leave the nuclear weopons given to her,out of pity and filiaty, by the United states. But exactly opposite happened. C.N.D. has been defunct since than. It is as if that was a front of the british govt. to show by way of propaganda that that country had some moral voice.In other words, C.N.D. was a sham created by the british to give them respectability. Ofcourse when a non-anglosaxon country aould perfect their nuclear weopon,as France rightly did, then there would be a lot of hue and cry by the anglo-saxons' media. France and china are right in strenghtening their independent military power. The real danger to world comes from england and her anglosaxons agents. France understand that and Germany was a fool in not supporting France in Nato meeting this Summer. Just as Cnd has been proved a sham of british propaganda, more so is the sham which goes by the name of amnesty international. It is interesting that as soon falkland war started, within a few weeks this amnesty international presented a dozier on Argentina. In the same way as soon gulf war started(soon after Iraqui's intervention in kuwait) the same amnesty international presented a dozier and report on Iraqui's atrocities. an fact many of the amnesty allegations were just a copy of what british media was saying and which later on proved to be fabrication and great big lies. But bthis did not dent the reputation of amnesty international. british propaganda ensured that. IN '88 when Dalia lama,at the height of Tibetan disturbances, visited west, the then british prime minister refused to meet Him. Later on with the demise of Russia and usefullness of China gone and with manipulation to keep power in Hongkong somehow intact, the same british media and government ,like dog, started barking at China. It is interesting that amnesty international selectively targets those very countries(as it did china after cold war) who are out of faviour(because they would not be a brtish sttoge)of the british media and govt. This is not surprizing as amnesty international is the creation of british govt, and british media. england with the most appaling record of human rights in last 200 years of her evil rule, needed some organisation to keep the others from chrging england off her past and current evil practices. In other words it went for aggresive posture in propaganda war so that others can be demoralized and stopped from ponting out the real evil which is england. That is why amnesty international is one armour of the british lies to exploit the rest of the world. Amnesty international must be ignored and an independent human watchdog (which england will simply ignore) created. One purpose of amnesty international is to create an atmosphere for hatred towards the would be vitims of british exploitation so that a victim could be blamed to have deserved the consequences. That is why ,now amnesty international sometimes threatens China, sometimes India and etc. India because india needs to be cowed down and also so that India does not make nuclear wepon and thus feel free from future american(read english and anglosaxon)aggression. This is all to create an atmoshphere of mis information. The other countries are also responsible(out of sheer inferority complex) for giving these instuments of british propaganda so much imporatance. If they simply ignore and then the british lies and then themselves go in offensive(they can do it-no problem)against british exploitation and propaganda then tose countries would not in such dire strait as they are now. Think, this deteriration has happened in only last 20 years(thogh the british have been at this game for a long time but they were not always succesful when others have been vigilant).Ignoring and fighting all this anglosaxons propaganda, the other races(yes it comes to that) must unite and support each other against this common enemy england. The other nations should also go nuclear and assemble as much arm as possible ,collaborate on it and ignoring this anglosaxon race they must be prepared for war which tjhen would be prevented otherwise it would come inevitably. The other nations need to arm themselves to protect themselves from anglo saxon race. Thinking any other way is simply kidding oneself. And it can be done and will be done.

WE throw a challenge to these low lifes-if the English feel themselves
ao powerful them let them attack and win even Irak(already weaken by u.n.sanctions)without the help of u.n.sanctioins(that means Irak would have same freedom to acquire arms and means and Arabs and Israeli had in thier war)
and with out u.s.a. England is neither Isreal of today nor Sparta of yesterday.Let them be reminded that at height of thier empire in 1917, England was almost defeated
by Germans when German army's 3/4 th division was concentrated on Eastern front. These english are that weak and coward people.But thir mouth will have to shut for ever
when all the whites ,European and Thirld world unite against this english disese.
There is no point in telling them truth, they understand only one thing which they will soon get-tatal beating physically-the only language these animals understand. Hitler,who these worship
was wrong about the jews who were only british agents-what Hitler said about jews applied not to jews but to the english(anglo-saxons).race-pity he did not do the the british what should have been done instead. Well It is never too late.

For all those who talk of globalization and protection of intellectual property right, a small news which was never in prominent place in any of english speaking papers or news but was very much reported in French media. In the last weeks of October 98 was reported in French papers that 4 different French members of European Parliament were going to raise the question of industrial espionage of some 100 each of French and German companies by england in collaboration with u.s.a. and other anglo-saxon countries like Autralia and new zealand. In other words they same countries who made a lot of hue and cry over Indias nuclear test and who are the ones pushing for intellectual property rights and globalization. Thier modus operandi? Checking all satellite bases communication(telephone, fax, internet,etc)with help of klistening devices in anglosaxon countries and spying ao all the talks and messages all over world.This illegal activity is cordinated in england. European countries are loosins billions of dollars each years through leak of confidential techiqe and discovery. Apart form the fact that for tea,china, spices and plants this thief country england never paid anything for others' intellectual property right(why does royal doulton or british tea company not pay royalty to China?) this thief country england has done theft of German technology like urea making ang consequently ammunition making. In fact Standarsd oil company of america made a lot of theft of BAAs. a Germany company and many of the bombs which fell on Germany came from german tech. stolen by anglosaxon thieves england and america. That is not counting stolen from germans the tech. to make nuclear bomb and rockets. With these stolen technology has this anglo-american race been able to bully the rest of the world. And it wants to freeze the DIFFERENCE between it and other races in stone-for ever so that it can rule others unhindered. By the same mechanism it destroyed japanes and other Asian econmis. That is why India and others need very badly neclear deterence against enemies of the rest of the world.And the rest of world wants to break from ythier cluthes but has no courage because most of thirld world is governed by the likes of traitors like manmohan singh and Ahulliavala and spineless people like Jaswant Singh and Gujral and Atal bihari Vajpaye types

That is nothing new. A similar contract was made with the Shah after 1953. That is when we overthrown the democratic prime minister in Iran and put back the ruthless Shah’s regime. Did I mention that made the whole country hostage for another 26 years (not for 444 days).

not only that--the anglosaxon parasites have been encouraging the muslims extremism for a long time and are inviolved in terrorism and money laungdering as a second job.
this article was written 6 years ago.

"october, 2002.

So according the the Guardian editorial on 2nd of Decemebr 2002 The british should try to topple, if they could have the power, the persons like daddam hussain, Dr. M. mahathir of malasia. Mr. Mugabe of Zimbawe, and Mr. Jacque Ciraque Of france. All of these people have one thinmg in common-they have all challneged the english bastardy and bully tactics . In fact their oppesition ot english intersts must make them heroes for the rest of world becasue entglish are the curse of this world and are real pestilence which should ebe eliminated. Remmeber when israel had bombed Iraques nuclear reactor in summer of 1981 days befor it going critical then it was the english media and their stooge english media who wre doing anti israeli propaganda along with Iraq-ofcourse at that time english thought that the only way to get ARAB MONEY WAS BY LICKING ARAB'S ARSE.- when america is kicking that arse then english like a hyena-that they are-have joined them. In fact english are actively sabotaging and spying european trade secrets-english are enemies not only of coloured population of the world but all other whites of Europe and of even america-english infiltration inside america has ensured that america foreign policy and even domestic policy is run for english benefit and small number of anglosaxonx(who are basically plumber class in america just like in england)-english is a race of pirates turned blumbers)That is why english have infiltrated media and hollywpood and are boring the rest of the world with their rubbish actors and actreess-who are more of whores than anything-that too ugly english whore. That is why though england does not produce anything worthwhile-may be infected beef?-it is still not under recession while japan .far east and whiole of europe has been made to live in prolonged recession by the english manipulation of stock market world bank and all unproductive financial transations.

The French prseident is right is demanding that britain give back to E. U. what it has been taking
unfairly for so long. After all it was never entitled to those money . Besides it has n=been britain who has been vociferous in wanting the enlargement of europe. The prupose why england wanted enlargement was basically to derail european integration and create a rift amonst partner states so that wiht the hepl of america braitain can As a pet dog of super=power(but never a power in itself though
propaganda would be about engand being some sort of power) this rubbish thirld rate country would terrorize and hopefully rule_as american proxy over other countries outside europe. In opther word england is harbouring an ambition of proxy empire(with american help_If it could do on its own then it owuld not have cared for america). tHAT ABITION OF enGLAND MUST BE CRUSHED.
eUROPE SHOULD DEMAND NOT ONLY MONEY BACK ABUT IF POSSIBLE SHOULD KICK ENGLAND OUT OF E.U.
eNGLAND IS ENNEMY OF NOT ONLY EUROPE BUT ALOS THE ALL OF THIRLD WORLD AND EVEN AMEIRCA. LOOK HOW RUBBISH ENGLISH PLUMBERS AND FOOTBALERSLAND UP SUSHY JOB IN HOLLYWOOD WHILE THE REST OF WORLD HAS TO GET VISA TO ENTER AMERICA AND WHILE MOST OF AMERICANS(WHO ARE NOT DESCENENDETS OF ANGLOSAXONS) HAVE TO FACE DISCRIMINATION.).

tHE SOONER THE WORLD REALIZE THIS AXIS OF EVIL(ENGLAND AND ANGLOSAXONS RACE) THAT SOONER IT CAN THWART THE EVIL DESIGN OF THIS ENGLISH-PIRATE TURNED SHOPKEEPRES TURNES PLUMBERS RACE).

25th october 2002

On the day chechnyan terrorists tokk hostage of 500 civilains in
A Moscow theatre, The headline of BBC was not about that but about sharp shooter terrorist being suppsedly caught in washington> In fact theis chechnyian news was fifth in item(including head line) . These days atlast the british media even say about chechnyian terrorist as terrorist otherwise 2 years ago they were always calling them freedom fighters(which they are -but that is another story). In fact the british media and england as a country had been actively supporting and giving material help to checnyaina terrorists9aided by cia and british spy and british media aswell).
If you lok at the report of british media then you realize the british involvemnt in terrorism by the chechnyian terrorists. When three multistory falts were wiped pout by terrorist in central Moscow a few years ago there was a gleee in british reprting and a criticism of later security arrangemnt by Russian forces in Moscow. ofcourse the british media would have been horrified and bar=king like a dog(which they are) if the Russians had decided to destory checknian civilians as the americans did in afganistan. Then you realize the humbug of british propaganda against terrorism-it is selective and meant to facilitate british infiltration in other countries, In fact the afganistan govet(after fall of Taliban) was oppsed to british tyroops (after all americans fought -what have british got?)presence in afgansitan-but armtwisting by british through american help ensures that rbtitish troops are there in afgansitan0they are forgeing infioltrators and thus should be eliminated(they have less legal reason to be in afgansitan than the soviets who had been primarily invited by the govt, of the day). the british involvemtn in international terrorism is not confined to agasnt Russian interset only.
When the kashmiris killed several Indian soldiers(regular phenomenon) the british paper(independent) blamed India for being a target of terrrism and not talking enough with what it called freedom fighters.(terminology changes according to british interts). Infact during the 80s when India was really relatively stable and srtongatlest the govet, was) then the british decided to destabilize India by sponsoring Sikh terrorismand taliban terorism aswell(agasnt INDIA AND AFGANSITAN). It is only when India has virtually been subjugated to look after british and american interst in economics and (with rteal weakening of india as military power) that the british decided to take supprt for terrrism somewhere else.
The whole world is being put under sieze by theis thrird rate power-england-a nation of plumbers(graduation from a nation of pirates turned shopkeepers) The modus operandi of english is by propaganda and spying through british media-paper, bbc and television-they have infiltrated american media and holly wood and are taking jobs from real americans too, They are real enemy of europe and are the main peple respnisnble for truning nations into thrild world and putting them down to status of thrirld world. Look ate how they destryed japansesw economy through manipulative stock market-while their market never crashes and their low life living in factory turned apartmnets-so ugly-never gets busted.
The world has to rise against this anglosaxon who are waging race war agasint all non anglosaxonas -, That evil can be defeated and eliminated -only people have to recognize real enemyaand then eliminate them.

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"starroute said...

I also noticed that reference in the French documents to Chechen rebels -- and what it immediately reminded me of was not Feith's and Perle's adventures, but Peter Dale Scott's "The Global Drug Meta-Group."

I've never felt I've fully understood Scott's article, bit as a result I get something new out of it every time I look at it. In this case, what jumped out at me was these paragraphs:

(The goal of splitting up Russia attributed here to Surikov is that which, in an earlier text co-authored by Surikov, is attributed by Russian "radicals" to the United States:

The radicals believe that the US actively utilizes Turkish and Muslim elements....From Azerbaijan, radicals foresee a strategic penetration which would irrevocably split the Federation. US influence would be distributed to the former Soviet Central Asian Republics, to Chechnya and the other North Caucasus Muslim autonomous republics of T[at]arstan and Bashkortostan. As a result Russian territorial integrity would be irreparably compromised.) . . .

In my conclusion I shall return to the possibility that U.S. government might share common goals with Hizb ut-Tahrir and the meta-group in Russia, even while combating the Islamist terrorism of al-Qaeda in the Middle East and the West.

Most major media outlets have spelled out with a profusion of details the "exact" events that led to the death of what some claim to have been hundreds of people in the eastern Uzbekistan town of Andijan on May 13. Led by British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the world media condemned much-maligned Uzbekistan President Islam Karimov for yet another bloody and ruthless suppression of "public dissent". Yet, all the details so far provided do not explain who the real players were or their end objectives.

It is certain, however, that the puzzle cannot be solved unless the London factor is understood. The answers lie in London, Birmingham, Bradford and Liverpool. The old British colonial establishment, with former intelligence officer Bernard Lewis as its mentor, appears to have set in motion a series of events that will bring endless bloodshed to Central Asia. London's objective would appear to be to keep both China and Russia under an open-ended threat. At this point, there is no one who can better serve this "Lewis Doctrine" than Muslims nurtured in Britain - the Hizbut-Tehrir (HT). . . .

Apart from various Islamic preachers, two major Islamic groups function in the Ferghana Valley, whose common objective is to change the regimes in Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan. These are the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) and the HT. While the IMU openly thrives on violence, the HT is strongly promoted by the United Kingdom, where it is headquartered, as peaceful. But records indicate that that the IMU and the HT work hand-in-hand. Most of the IMU recruits are from the HT, according to Rohan Gunaratna, an expert on world terrorist outfits. Gunaratna claims that Khaled Sheikh Muhammad, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in the US, and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian of Chechen origin who has remained active in the Iraqi insurgency against the US occupying forces, were both once members of the HT. . . .

The West's policy - in other words, the policy of the Anglo-Americans, as the European Union does not have a policy worth citing - toward the Middle East has long been formulated by Bernard Lewis. The British-born Lewis started his career as an intelligence officer and has remained in bed with British intelligence ever since. Avowedly anti-Russia and pro-Israel, Lewis reaped a rich harvest among US academia and policymakers. He brought president Jimmy Carter's virulently anti-Russian National Security Council chief, Zbigniew Brzezinski, into his fold in the 1980s, and made the US neo-conservatives, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, dance to his tune on the Middle East in 2001. In between, he penned dozens of books and was taken seriously by people as a historian. But, in fact, Lewis is what he always was: a British intelligence officer. . . .

The recent developments in Uzbekistan have all the hallmarks of the same process. This time the objective is to weaken China, Russia, and possibly India, using the HT to unleash the dogs of war in Central Asia. It is not difficult for those on the ground to see what is happening. The leader of the Islamic Party of Tajikistan, Deputy Prime Minister Hoji Akbar Turajonzoda, has identified HT as a Western-sponsored bogeyman for "remaking Central Asia". . . .

It is not a lack of understanding on the part of American neo-conservatives associated with the Bush administration, but their keenness to use the "Lewis Doctrine" to achieve what they believe is justified that promises untold danger. How important a brains-trust is Lewis to the neo-conservatives? Just read the words of Richard Perle, a leading neo-conservative who remains a close adviser to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld: "Bernard Lewis has been the single-most important intellectual influence countering the conventional wisdom on managing the conflict between radical Islam and the West."

So -- we end by coming back round again to Richard Perle, but hopefully in a larger context.

It ain't really about the Middle East, boys and girls -- it's about world domination, by any means necessary. The only question is one of identifying the moves as they happen, instead of many years later."

No more wars for Israel. No more American blood for Israel. (2005-12-14) the Arabian author Ghazi Abu Daqa writes about Ahmadinejad: "The Iranian president has nothing against the followers of Judaism [...] Ahmadinejad is against Zionism as well as its expansionist and occupying policy. That is why he managed to declare to the world with courage that there is no place for the Zionist regime in the world civilized community."

Haven't you noticed that Bush democracy means stolen elections and "unitary executive"?

These filthy neo-cons are writing checks that America can no longer cash.

The US account is way overdrawn.

One more war and the coffin lid of debt will slam shut for good.

these guys make up their own intelligence

Avatar Singh...

you are gravely misinformed.

About what?

Everything.

Iran Citizen...

your word choice and cultural stereotypes are more reminiscent of a poorly-educated American redneck Faux News junkie than an Iranian. However, if you are truly Iranian and you truly do wonder who is going to save you from the "f*cking Mullahs", I suggest that you get off your ass and save yourself. That's what real patriots do.

-Wexler

George, You are a master of undertatement. How can you put your tongue so very deeply in your cheek?

He was an agent of SAVAK, the Shah's notorious secret police, and a long-time Israeli agent. We are fighting Israel's enemies, not ours, and footing the bill in American blood and treasure. Israel has the neutron bomb, they stole the technology from us, so let them defend their own interests - instead of tricking the stupid politicians in DC into doing their dirty work for them.

I think Dr. Ledeen has very nicely, answered all of you appeasers with his latest blog entry "You Mean Bushitlercheney Isn’t Going to Bomb Iran?" Get a clue, and go read it....Its funny the only fans of your blog seem to be those who believe that "protocols of elder zion" was a real book.