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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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.
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.
link to time-blog.com
the military magazines are singing from the same sheet now…
link to military.com
Bill Kristol's infamous Project for the New American Century think tank wrote the neoconservative manifesto Rebuilding America's Defenses in September 2000. From it we know that their desire was to increase America's military footprint in the Middle East in order to control the flow of the region's oil. Saddam Hussein was little more than a convenient excuse to establish a strategically superior central base of operations from which they could dominate the region with U.S. troops. The neocons knew that they'd need something on the order of a "new Pearl Harbor" to get the American public on board with their ambitions, but as things turned out, 9/11 gave them just the catalyst they needed.
We know that they manufactured a case that Hussein had a hand in the 9/11 attacks and was actively pursing a weapons of mass destruction program, and the mainstream media, most notably the New York Times, helped Dick Cheney's White House Iraq Group and Donald Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans sell it to the American public.