Holocaust or Bonanza–Perle Said to Explore Oil Deal in Iraq

by on August 1, 2008 3

Neoconservatives Richard Perle and David Frum once wrote a book called An End to Evil, where they said it was “victory or holocaust” in going after Saddam Hussein. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Perle is exploring an oil deal in northern Iraq. It identifies him as a neocon at Juilliar Chairman Bruce Kovner’s American Enterprise Institute, and says he has hawkish views on Israel. That’s progress. Though maybe it should have said he has a house in France. This opportunity would seem to call on the sybarite in Perle, not the ideologue.

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  1. Joachim Martillo says:
    August 1, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Since 1973, removing Arab oil from the control of Arab states — according to the best Friedmanite principles :-) — so that it could never be used politically against Israel again has been the holy grail of Neocon politics.

    [Making sure that the revenue stream from Arab oil ended up going into the pockets of Zionist political economic oligarchs has long been an ancilliary goal, which may have been the reason that the French and UK Rothschilds originally became involved in Zionism.]

    To this end Zionists have cultivated native collaborators like Aydan Kodaloglu, who is a favorite of Neocon groups and who suddenly has a lot of untraceable cash.

    She publishes articles with the JCPA and is working with Perle on the oil deal.

    From Like Father, Like Sun:

    Alleged journalist Claudia Rosett hits the ground of SethAndIranistan running, readily adapting to the Sun practice of ignoring empirical reality in favor of preferred narrative. She likewise proves herself proficient in omitting rather crucial details when introducing sources. Rosett on the "Muslim world":
    Reports yesterday from places such as Syria and Egypt, as well as Iraq itself, quoted men-in-the-street as both stunned and contemptuous that Saddam, though armed with a pistol in his hole, surrendered without a shot. "He's such a coward, the way he was captured today," says Turkish businesswoman Aydan Kodaloglu, reached by phone in Ankara. "Every fundamentalist in the Muslim world is going to be thinking of this picture," added Ms. Kodaloglu, referring to the TV footage of a compliant, disheveled Saddam, opening his mouth wide for a flashlight and tongue depressor, and bowing his head while a doctor checked for lice.

    Businesswoman? American Enterprise stooge? "An Ankara political consultant active in promoting Israel-Turkey relations" (as reported by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency – a "venerable" and "highly credible wire" as SethAndIra told us last month – on November 20, 2002)? Rosett is of course not fooling her readers – simply because nobody reads the atrocious Sun.

    With "journalists" as thick-headed and oblivious to the story featuring so prominently in the paper's pages, there's no real reason to bother. Rosett's 700-page gloat plays up the fact that the once mighty Saddam reduced to the figure of a "bedraggled fugitive cowering facedown with his gun in a hole in the ground" will serve as a potent "symbol of defeat" for "terrorists," by which she means Muslims. Of immediate note to anyone at all paying attention, one wonders how this pathetic cowering tyrant was able to orchestrate the loyalists and foreign terrorists that comprise the Iraqi resistance in the Sun's telling literally from a hole in the ground. Ms. Rosett chooses not to trouble herself with so obvious a question.

  2. nitwt says:
    August 1, 2008 at 2:02 pm

    Sybarite

    just in case there are other nitwits around

    Every new word is a kingdom.

  3. Glenn Condell says:
    August 2, 2008 at 12:19 am

    'Now the Wall Street Journal reports that Perle is exploring an oil deal in northern Iraq.'

    Fucking vulture.

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