Former S.C. Senator Ernest Fritz Hollings voted for the disastrous Iraq war resolution in '02 because he bought the WMD malarkey, he says in his new memoir (from Univ. of South Carolina press). Hollings writes that the real reasons for the invasion were Oedipal (doing what daddy couldn't) and oil-fed, but that neoconservative plans to democratize the Middle East were the driver. "He [Bush] was determined to invade and democratize Iraq to secure Israel pursuant to Richard Perle's plan of 'Clean Break.'" Hollings studies the Clean Break plan that Perle, Doug Feith and David Wurmser tried to sell to Netanyahu.
When George W. Bush was elected president, proponents of "Clean Break" hit pay dirt. Suddenly, those who favored striking at Iraq held seats of power.
Hollings's argument is now an endless off-stage refrain in American public life, thereby exposing the haplessness of the press. Isn't it time the media finally took a close look at Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,–a George Lucas title if I ever heard one–and ultra-Zionism as a factor in neoconservative thought? The answer of course is No.
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You might find these interviews of Feith interesting. He admits that the CIA had NO intel about Iraq. He also states that the US should never set up an occupying government. The link is here: http://tv.nationalreview.com/uncommonknowledge
Our local JEWISH JOURNAL just ran an article by liberal Rabbi Bruce Warshal accurately pointing out that the Bush regime aims to colonize Iraq and this should be opposed by all decent people.
So far so good.
But he then argues that this is being done totally at the behest of oil interests — Israel and its powerful lobby have nothing to do with it.
I doubt he really believes this but probably worries that pointing out the role of the Israel lobby in this fiasco risks igniting a wave of anti-semitism in the USA.
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"Isn't it time the media finally took a close look at Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm?"
Actually, isn't it time a prosecutor took a close look at Feith, Perle, Wolfowitz and Wurmser?
I'm convinced that any halfway competent prosecutor could convict all four on capital charges of espionage, sedition and treason.
Even the Slimes and the WaPo would be obliged to report that.
"-and ultra-Zionism as a factor in neoconservative thought?"
what factor other than israel occupies the jewcon mind? 'neoconservative' is a hide-the-jew term.
"I'm convinced that any halfway competent prosecutor could convict all four on capital charges of espionage, sedition and treason."
yes, against americans, eg, the walkers, hansen.
you're listing jewcons/israelis. they are protected. israelis have the right to: murder, steal, start wars, lie, take secrets(secrets for all others), blame their victims and claim purity. (a short list.)
"REALM" – That says it all!
"Isn't it time the media finally took a close look at Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm?"
My guess us that many in the media know about the Clean Break, and were in on keeping it quiet for obvious reasons.
I'd say that the media needs to take a close look at itself, and let all of the blood and horror that they have helped bring about soak in. Maybe then they can jettison the bogus moral superiority that they hold over the rest of us. Maybe they'll even be honest about how recent U.S. history has been portrayed in the media, and their role in that creation.
The average American has taken a good look at the media, and dismal ratings are the proof!
Thank you Mr. Weiss, I will take it from here.
If there are any media types reading this blog, I would also invite them over to my lil' blog, which has articles and links galore re: Clean Break and how it all connects to American politics.
It's been said, that before he died, Tim Russert was preparing to unravel the Clean Break story by interviewing selected members of PNAC. Tim's passing, in this sense, was certainly untimely.
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