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Who’s to blame for the Iraq war?
14 March 2010
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This month marks the seventh anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. Despite the passage of time, there is still much confusion, some of it deliberate, about why America made that fateful decision. The following questions are intended to clarify who’s to blame for the Iraq war.
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1. Ahmed Chalabi, the source of much of the false “intelligence” about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, was introduced to his biggest boosters, Richard Perle and Paul Wolfowitz, by their mentor, a University of Chicago professor who had known the Iraqi conman since the 1960s. Who was this influential Cold War hawk who has an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) conference centre named in his honour?
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Albert Wohlstetter
-Alan F Wohlstetter 5803 Kirkside Dr; Chevy Chase, MD 20815-7119 (301) 656-7527 [Age: 65+]
-Alan F Wohlstetter Jr 866 Skyline Dr; Erdenheim, PA 19038-7857 (215) 233-1975 [Age: 50-54 / Household: Cheryl L Wohlstetter]
-Job: Denning & Wohlstetter, Owner, Alan Wohlstetter 1050 17th St NW; Washington, DC 20036-5503 (202) 833-8884
-Job: Alan F Wohlstetter Jr Attorney, Principal, Alan Wohlstetter Jr 1900 Market St Philadelphia, PA 19103-3527 (215) 665-2023
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2. In 1982, “A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s” appeared in Kivunim, a journal published by the World Zionist Organization, which stated: “Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel.” Who wrote this seminal article?
A:
Oded Yinon
-”Israel”
-Other Possible Records for Oded Yinon
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3. “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” a report prepared for Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in 1996, recommended “removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq – an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right”. Which then member of the Pentagon’s Defence Policy Board was the study group leader?
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Richard Perle
AEI associate, former Reagan administration official, and member (and former chairman) of the Defense Policy Board. http://www.wake-up-america.net/jewish_and_israeli_spies.htm
Pentagon Policy Advisor (resigned February 2004), member – Defense Policy Board. / Member: Balkan Action Committee, Committee on the Present Danger, American Enterprise Institute associate. On advisory board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. / History: Assistant Secretary of Defense under Reagan. FBI suspected Perle of spying for Israel in 1970 – not prosecuted, etc. http://www.reasoned.org/e_PNAC2.htm
-Richard N Perle 5 Grafton St; Chevy Chase, MD 20815-3427 (301) 656-0390 [Household: Jonathan B Perle, Leslie J Barr]
-Job: Patrick Clawson, Assistant Secretary, Richard Perle 1541 33rd St NW; Washington, DC 20007-2750 (202) 342-9427
-Job: Jewish Institute For National Security Affairs, Board of Directors, Richard Perle 1779 Massachusetts Ave NW, Ste 515; Washington, DC 20036-2131 (202) 667-3900
-Job: American Center For Democracy, Board of Directors, Richard Perle 330 W 56th St, Apt 24E; New York, NY 10019-4236 (212) 399-4246
-Job: Autonomy Inc, Richard Perle 3120 Fairview Park Dr; Falls Church, VA 22042-4504 (703) 289-8800
-Job: Tapestry Pharmaceuticals, Director, Richard Perle 2825 Wilderness Pl; Boulder, CO 80301-5432 (303) 569-6451
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4. A November 1997 Weekly Standard editorial entitled “Saddam Must Go” stated: “We know it seems unthinkable to propose another ground attack to take Baghdad. But it’s time to start thinking the unthinkable.” The following year, the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an influential neo-conservative think tank, published a letter to President Clinton urging war against Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a “hazard” to “a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil”. The co-founders of PNAC were also the authors of the “Saddam Must Go” editorial. Who are they?
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Co-founder of the PNAC. Columnist for (and co-founder of) the Weekly Standard. / History: Chief of Staff to Vice President Dan Quayle, Secretary of Education Chief of Staff under William Bennett during the Reagan administration, etc. / Son of Irving Kristol / Spouse(s) Susan Scheinberg.
-Job: Weekly Standard, Editor, Project For New America Century, Chairman of the Board, William Kristol 1150 17th St NW, Ste 505; Washington, DC 20036-4627 (202) 293-4900 / (202) 463-6535
-Susan Kristol Job: Gesher School, Board of Directors 4700 Shirley Gate Rd; Fairfax, VA 2030-5545 (703) 978-9789
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Co-founder of the PNAC. Contributing Editor for the Weekly Standard and the New Republic; columnist for the Washington Post. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Husband of Victoria Nuland, Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President. / History: Deputy in the Department of State under Elliot Abrams during the Reagan administration, etc.
Born in Athens, Greece, in 1958. / Married to Victoria Nuland (Nuland is the daughter of Yale bioethics and medicine professor Sherwin B. Nuland), the former U.S. ambassador to NATO; two children.
-Robert Kagan 1317 Ranleigh Rd; Mc Lean, VA 22101-2425 (703) 356-1735 [Household: Victoria J Kagan]
-Job: Project For New America Century, Director, Robert Kagan 1150 17th St NW, Ste 510; Washington, DC 20036-4621 (202) 293-4571
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5. In Tyranny’s Ally: America’s Failure to Defeat Saddam Hussein, published by AEI Press in 1999, he argued that Clinton policies in Iraq were failing to contain the country and proposed that the US use its military to redraw the map of the Middle East. Who was this Middle East adviser to Vice-President Dick Cheney from 2003 to mid-2007?
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David Wurmser
Special Assistant to John Bolton, the under-secretary for arms control and international security. Wurmser also worked at the AEI with Perle and Bolton. His wife, Meyrav Wurmser, along with Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military intelligence, co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri), a Washington-based Israeli outfit which distributes articles translated from Arabic newspapers portraying Arabs in a bad light. etc.
-David Wurmser 503 Bonnibelle Pl; Rockville, MD 20850-5711 [Age: 45-49 / Household: Meyrav Wurmser]
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6. On 15 September 2001 at Camp David, the deputy defence secretary attempted to justify a US attack on Iraq rather than Afghanistan because it was “doable”. In the lead-up to the war, he said that it was “wildly off the mark” to think hundreds of thousands of troops would be needed to pacify a postwar Iraq; that the Iraqis “are going to welcome us as liberators”; and that “it is just wrong” to assume that the United States would have to fund the Iraq war. Who is this chief architect of the Iraq war?
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Deputy Secretary of Defense, and Assistant to the Vice President (Cheney). / History: Head of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff under Reagan. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Regional Programs under Carter. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, World Bank, etc.
-Paul D Wolfowitz 3804 Shepherd St Chevy Chase, MD 20815-4128 [Age: 65+ / Household: David S Wolfowitz, Clare S Wolfowitz]
-Paul D Wolfowitz 7104 Pinehurst Pkwy Chevy Chase, MD 20815-3145 [Age: 65+ / Household: Claire S Wolfowitz]
-?>Paul Wolfowitz 1160 Park Ave New York, NY 10128-1212 (212) 289-0750 [Household: Linda R Wolfowitz]
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7. On 23 September 2001, which US senator, who had pushed for the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” that there was evidence that “suggests Saddam Hussein may have had contact with Osama bin Laden and the al-Qaeda network, perhaps [was] even involved in the 11 September attack”?
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Joseph Isadore “Joe” Lieberman / Spouse(s) 1) Elizabeth Haas (div.); 2) Hadassah Lieberman / Residence New Haven, Connecticut.
-Joseph I Lieberman 44 Strawberry Hill Ave; Stamford, CT 06902-2632 [Age: 65+ / Household: Hadassah I Lieberman, Bernard L Manger]
-Joseph I Lieberman 3921 Ivy Terrace Ct NW; Washington, DC 20007-2139 [was:] (202) 342-3372 [Age: 65+ / Household: Hadassah F Lieberman]
-Job: Joseph R Lieberman, Principal, Joseph Lieberman 701 Sand Stone Dr; South Windsor, CT 06074-2865
-?>Joseph I Lieberman 32 Tabor Rd; Enfield, CT 06082-2055 (860) 745-3944 [Age: 65+ / Household: David M Lieberman, Jacqueline I Lieberman, Suzanne L Lieberman]
Job: Merrill Industries, General Manager, Joseph Lieberman 26 Village St; Ellington, CT 06029-3815 (860) 871-1888
Job: Susan Kane Catering, Manager, Joe Lieberman 76 Progress Dr; Stamford, CT 06902-3600 (203) 327-6668
-?>30 LAUREL ST HARTFORD, CT 06106 (860) 342-4866
-?>10 ALSTON AVE NEW HAVEN, CT 06515 (203) 342-4866
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8. A 12 November 2001 New York Times editorial called an alleged meeting between Mohammed Atta and an Iraqi agent in Prague an “undisputed fact”? Who was the columnist, celebrated for his linguistic prowess, who was sloppy in his use of language here?
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William Safire
Now (thankfully) deceased, and he has moved to a much warmer clime - but once upon a time he festered here:
-William L Safire 6200 Elmwood Rd; Chevy Chase, MD 20815-6624 [Age: 65+ / Household: Helene B Safire]
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9. A 20 November 2001 Wall Street Journal op-ed argued that the US should continue to target regimes that sponsor terrorism, claiming, “Iraq is the obvious candidate, having not only helped al-Qaeda, but attacked Americans directly (including an assassination attempt against the first President Bush) and developed weapons of mass destruction”. Who is the professor of strategic studies at the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, who made these spurious claims?
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Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. / History: professor at the Naval War College. Previously worked for D. Rumsfeld, etc.
-Eliot A Cohen 300 Lamberton Dr Silver Spring, MD 20902-1621 [Age: 50-54 / Household: Judith R Cohen, Rebecca H Cohen, Nathan Cohen, Michal Cohen, Raphael S Cohen]
-Job: The Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Director Eliot Cohen 1619 Massachusetts Ave NW Washington, DC 20036-2209 (202) 663-5886
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10. George W. Bush’s January 2002 State of the Union address described Iraq as part of an “axis of evil”. Who was Bush’s Canadian-born speechwriter who coined the provocative phrase?
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David Frum
-David J Frum 3111 Foxhall Rd NW; Washington, DC 20016-3432 (202) 363-3111 [Age: 45-49 / Household: Danielle A Frum]
-Job: Jewish Policy Center, Board of Directors, David Frum 50 F St NW, Ste 100; Washington, DC 20001-1590 (202) 638-2411
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11. “Yet whether or not Iraq becomes the second front in the war against terrorism, one thing is certain: there can be no victory in this war if it ends with Saddam Hussein still in power.” Who is the longtime editor of Commentary magazine who made this assertion in a February 2002 article entitled “How to win World War IV”?
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Norman Podhoretz
-Norman Podhoretz Jr 120 E 81st St, Apt 7H; New York, NY 10028-1432 [Age: 65+]
-Job: Jewish Policy Center, Board of Directors, Norman Podhoretz 50 F St NW, Ste 100; Washington, DC 20001-1590 (202) 638-2411
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12. Which Pentagon Defence Policy Board member and PNAC signatory wrote in the Washington Post on 13 February 2002: “I believe that demolishing Hussein’s military power and liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk”?
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One of many Pentagon Advisors, Adelman also sat on the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board under Perle, and is another extremist pro-Israel advisor, who supported going to war against Iraq. Adelman frequently is a guest on Fox News, and often expresses extremist and often ridiculous anti-Arab and anti-Muslim views. Through his racism or ignorance, he actually called Arabs “anti-Semitic” on Fox News (11/28/2001), when he could have looked it up in the dictionary to find out that Arabs by definition are Semites, etc.
-Kenneth L Adelman 4018 27th St N; Arlington, VA 22207-5207 (703) 525-0106 [Age: 60-64 / Household: Carol C Adelman]
-Ken Adelman 501 W Smuggler St Aspen, CO 81611-1260 (970) 920-4404 [Household: Carol Adelman]
-Job: Frontier Strategy Group Sttg, Board Director, Kenneth Adelman 555 12th St NW; Washington, DC 20004-1202 (202) 628-6841
-Job: Frontier Strategy Group, Board of Directors, Kenneth Adelman 1150 18th St NW, Ste 350; Washington, DC 20036-3818 (202) 741-1333
-Job: Movers & Shakespeares, Member, Ken Adelman 4018 27th St N; Arlington, VA 22207-5207 (703) 525-0100
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13. “If we win the war, we are in control of Iraq, it is the single largest source of oil in the world… We will have a bonanza, a financial one, at the other end, if the war is successful.” Who is the psychiatrist-turned-Washington Post columnist who tempted Americans with this illusory carrot on 3 August 2002?
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Presidential appointee to the President’s Council On “Bioethics”. Columnist for the Washington Post. Contributing Editor for the New Republic, and the Weekly Standard. Member of the Editorial Board for the National Interest, and the Public Interest, etc.
-Charles I Krauthammer 7416 Western Ave Chevy Chase, MD 20815-3107 [Household: Robyn Y Krauthammer]
-Charles Krauthammer 361 N Ferry Point Rd; Pasadena, MD 21122-5114 [Household: Robyn Krauthammer]
-Job: Charles Krauthammer Md, Owner, Charles Krauthammer 1225 19th St NW; Washington, DC 20036-2410 (202) 872-8109
-Charles Krauthammer 4925 Collins Ave; Miami Beach, FL 33140-2740 [Household: Marcel Krauthammer]
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14. In a 20 September 2002 Wall Street Journal op-ed entitled “The Case of Toppling Saddam,” which current national leader claimed that Saddam Hussein could be hiding nuclear material “in centrifuges the size of washing machines” throughout the country?
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Benjamin Netanyahu
-”Israel”
-2 Netanyahu’s listed in the U.S. (both in NY, oc): http://www.whitepages.com/search/FindPerson?firstname_begins_with=1&firstname=&name=Netanyahu+&where=
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15. “Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against us? I’ll tell you what I think the real threat [is] and actually has been since 1990 – it’s the threat against Israel.” Despite this candid admission to a foreign policy conference at the University of Virginia on 10 September 2002, he authored the National Security Strategy of September 2002, which provided the justification for a preemptive war against Iraq. Who was this member of President Bush’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board?
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Philip Zelikow
Led the 9-11 Cover-Up Commission; personally wrote the 9-11 Omission Commission Report, a best-selling work of fiction; appointed Counselor of US Department of State; “dual citizen” of US and Israel, etc.
-Philip D Zelikow 811 Village Rd; Charlottesville, VA 22903-4030 (434) 244-0767 [Household: Paige D Zelikow]
-Job: America Abroad Media, Board of Directors, Philip Zelikow 1020 19th St NW, Ste 650; Washington, DC 20036-6119 (202) 457-8050
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16. According to a 7 December 2002 New York Times article, during Secretary of State Colin Powell’s efforts to negotiate a resolution on Iraq at the United Nations, this Iran-Contra conspirator’s role was “to make sure that Secretary Powell did not make too many concessions to the Europeans on the resolution’s wording, pressing a hard-line view.” Who was this senior director of Near East and North African affairs at the National Security Council during the George W. Bush administration?
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Former Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs. During the Iran/Contra scandal, Abrams pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of lying to Congress but was later pardoned by the first Bush administration. He subsequently became president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. …served in foreign policy positions for two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush. He is currently a Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. / National Security Council – top advisor on the Middle East. Alumnus of the Heritage Foundation. / History: As Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs under Reagan, was responsible for covering up war crimes committed by the U.S. backed Contras. Was charged in connection with the Iran-Contra affair, and pled to lesser charges. Was later pardoned by Bush Sr. The British media reported Elliot was behind the attempted Chavez coup in Venezuela, etc. / Wife: Rachel Decter, the stepdaughter of Norman Podhoretz…three children: Jacob, Sarah and Joseph.
-Elliott E Abrams 10607 Dogwood Farm Ln Great Falls, VA 22066-2937 (703) 757-2877 [Age: 60-64 / Household: Rachel D Abrams, Joseph Abrams, Sarah Abrams]
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17. Who was Vice-President Cheney’s chief of staff, until he was indicted for lying to federal investigators in the Valerie Plame case, who drafted Colin Powell’s fraudulent 5 February 2003 UN speech?
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Irving Lewis Liebowitz – Former Assistant to the President, and Chief of Staff to the Vice President. / History: after graduating law school, went to work for Paul Wolfowitz (1981 – 1985) at the State Department. Hired again by Wolfowitz in 1989, this time at the Pentagon, etc.
Convicted felon – indicted on federal charges of obstruction and perjury resulting from the grand jury investigation into the leak of the covert identity of Central Intelligence Agency officer Valerie Plame, etc. / Spouse Harriet Grant / son and daughter.
-Lewis Libby 670 Live Oak Dr; Mc Lean, VA 22101-1569 [Age: 65+ / Household: Irv L Libby, Scooter Libby]
-Job: Cuts Unlimited, Vice President, Lewis Libby 3676 Sewells Point Rd, Ste B; Norfolk, VA 23513-3516 (757) 853-8180
-daughter?> Mary S Libby 1347 Lancia Dr; McLean, VA 22102 (703) 827-4011
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18. According to Julian Borger’s 17 July 2003 Guardian article entitled “The spies who pushed for war,” the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans (OSP) “forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon’s office in Israel” to provide the Bush administration with alarmist reports on Saddam’s Iraq. Who was the under secretary of defence for policy who headed the OSP?
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Douglas Feith
-Douglas J Feith 6216 Clearwood Rd; Bethesda, MD 20817-5633 [Household: Yana B Feith]
-Douglas E Feith 515 Brethour Ct; Sterling, VA 20164-1449 (703) 444-3399 [Age: 55-59]
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19. Which British-born professor emeritus of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, whose 1990 essay “The Roots of Muslim Rage” introduced the dubious concept of a “Clash of Civilizations”, has been called “perhaps the most significant intellectual influence behind the invasion of Iraq”?
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Bernard Lewis
Lewis has been a naturalized citizen of the United States since 1982. He married Ruth Hélène Oppenhejm in 1947 with whom he had a daughter and a son before the marriage was dissolved in 1974. …His 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture, given to the American Enterprise Institute, was published as Europe and Islam. etc, etc, etc.
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20. Apart from their key role in taking America to war against Iraq, what do the answers to questions 1 to 19 all have in common?
[A:} They are all Jewish Zionists. [Emphasis mine.]
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Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely published writer based in Japan.
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Read also: Anti-Semitism: Zionism’s indispensable alibi
15 March 2010
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hattip to http://wakeupfromyourslumber.com/
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“…Recently a secret El Al/Israel flight from JFK in New York has been discovered, a flight authorized by top Bush officials, one previously kept secret and now being tied covering up 9/11 intelligence failures. The El Al Boeing 747 left only hours after the 9/11 attack, at a time all air traffic in the United States was grounded, etc.”
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Full El Al flight took off on 9/11 from JFK to Tel Aviv
By Wayne Madsen
By Wayne Madsen
