Joe Klein Opposed Neocon ‘Fantasy’ of Baghdad-for-Jerusalem Back When It Counted

by on June 25, 2008 3

Responding to my post of yesterday, my friend Nim Chimpsky, a primate, pointed out to me that Joe Klein was brave before about the make-Israel-safe logic in the minds of the Iraq war planners. Klein wrote this piece in February 2003, before the Iraq War, and openly discussed the agenda that "dare not speak its name"– the neoconservative "fantasy" of erasing the peace process by democratizing the region. My old friend Peter Kaplan has said to me, Where were the reporters, where were the journalists–as the galloping troika of this disastrous war went flying off the cliff. Well Klein was standing in the road…

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  1. LeaNder says:
    June 25, 2008 at 6:11 pm

    hmmm? February, 10 2003, these are the real guys. Not the Scott McClellan's, don't waste your money on them.

    I would like to read a review by him of Douglas Feith book.

  2. MRW says:
    June 25, 2008 at 6:16 pm

    Read Joe Klein's response "Neocons Gone Wild" to accusations that he was being anti-semitic accusing neocons of going to war in Irq fro Israel's security.

  3. samuel burke says:
    June 26, 2008 at 8:36 am

    the military magazines are singing from the same sheet now…

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