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"For America, the chief geopolitical prize is Eurasia…
Now a non-Eurasian power is preeminent in Eurasia - and
America's global primacy is directly dependent on how long
and how effectively its preponderance on the Eurasian continent
is sustained." Zbigniew Brzezinski
Sometimes law enforcement officers can become so frustrated
with being unable to catch their suspect red-handed, that
they will plant evidence. The question of guilt is already
decided in the officer's mind; it's only a matter of convincing
his superiors and down the line the judge or jury. Something
similar is now going on regarding the question of Iraq's
possesion of an actual or potential nuclear capability.
The allegation is that Iraq has all components in place
to make a bomb except the uranium. How convenient would
it be for Iraq's accusers if it could be proven that they
tried to acquire that last essential component. The British
thought they had the proof in the form of ducuments about
secret deals between Niger and Iraq. They handed them over
to the IAEA, which declared them inauthentic. The question
is of course, who has the motive and capability to excecute
an elaborate operation of forging and distributing incriminating
documents. The fact that the British and American intelligence
agencies did not make the discovery themselves gives pause
to think. It would well fit the pattern of 'politicized'
intelligence work, which becomes the basis then of deceptive
statements by government officials.
The first four articles of this batch will address this
point of deception. The first two are the most substantive.
One by a scholar of international studies, Dr. Alan Gilbert,
the other by Joel Skousen, the son of Cleon Skousen, who
wrote The Naked Capitalist, a book-length review
of Caroll Quigley's Tragedy and Hope. Both have provided
solid critiques of domestic and foreign policies from a
conservative constitutionalist point of view. The article
"An Unnecessary War" is a plea for the feasibility
of an effective inspections regime.
The article by Stephen J. Sniegoski highlights the role
and interests of the Israeli government, their lobbyists
in Washington and their sympathizers in USA government circles.
In the pursuit of truth these stones have to be turned over,
and certain facts have to be aired, even if a critique of
key players in the Jewish community risks to be labeled
as anti-Semitic. This label is quite often used to silence
those who expose and oppose their policies, eventhough it
might in some cases be blatantly clear that the label will
not stick, because either the persons in question are Jewish
themselves or have spoken out against anti-Semitism. Therefore
careful distinctions have to be made between a) critique
of Israeli policies as a matter of legitimate questioning
and disagreement, b) anti-Zionism as a legitimate critique
of the nationalistic and often racist ideology of Zionism,
and c) anti-Semitism as an illegitimate racist attitude
towards Jewish people.
The article by Michael Rupert is a review of Zbigniew Brzezinski's
1997 book The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and
It's Geostrategic Imperatives. This book and its review
should be read carefully, because Brzezinski is a highly
influential key-player in the transnational power elite.
He was the architect of trilateralism, i.e. the coordination
of the corporate and political interests of North America,
Western Europe and Japan, and he was with David Rockefeller
the founding director in 1973 of the Trilateral Commission,
which, on a yearly basis, consolidates and fine-tunes the
trilateral agenda set by the Council on Foreign Relations,
of which Brzezinski was a director.
If it were a choice between inspections or war, I would
prefer a stepped-up inspections regime, which would establish
with real hard evidence the compliance or non-compliance
of the Iraqi government with UN resolutions. After finding
Iraq free of WMD's, or having destroyed whatever is found,
the unfair, even murderous sanctions should be lifted, and
Iraq and its people should be left in peace. If you like
to help the Iraqis with regime change do it voluntarily.
If it were a choice between domestic and foreign interventionist
policies or minimal government, I would prefer the latter.
Get the US Government out of private interests and get the
private interests out of the US Government in order that
its bureaucratic, diplomatic and military tools will not
be used for the securing and expansion of private and corporate
interests both within and outside its borders. The undoing
of the corporate take-over of the US government and the
de-transformation of the US informal global empire back
into a neutral nation-state (and let's throw in also the
dismantling of the welfare state) should be high on the
agenda of the American people as necessary components of
the struggle, not only against terrorism, but also against
corporate exploitation, against the creation of dictatorial
client-states, against the creation of a domestic police-state,
against pre-emptive militarism, and a host of other problems
generated by the greed for money and power by the trans-national
power elite, which so far has been insufficiently challenged
and checked.
The problems and dangers of WMD's and terrorism as they
face us now have to be dealt with, but not in such a way
that would aggravate their cause in the first place. The
people of the West are being hoodwinked by talk of freedom,
safety, democracy, human rights etc. to make it side with
those who have time after time broken their promises and
delivered the opposite. We are truly entering Orwellian
times of double-speak, where surveillance will secure privacy,
restrictions will secure freedom, war will secure peace,
and, down the line, a state of national emergency will surely
secure the constitution. The scary thing is not so much
that persons in power try to deceive and manipulate--after
all, power corrupts--but that too many people are willing
to believe and follow. There is no shred of evidence that
Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attack, but a recent poll
shows that 51% of the American people believe it was involved,
transforming vague hints and suggestions from the government
into a conviction. Even the pundits on TV are baffled. America
is getting ripe for its own unique brand of bi-partisan
fascism, and nobody will be out there to liberate us, but
ourselves.
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Title: "Rice's Former Prof Says Bush Admin Deliberately
Deceives"
Author: Omar Jabara
Source: www.prioritypeace.org
URL: http://www.rense.com/general35/del.htm
Excerpt: " Average citizens will now be able to gauge
whether or not Iraq actually poses a threat to them and
their families, thanks to a new report issued today by one
of National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice's former professors
at the University of Denver (DU). Dr. Alan Gilbert, distinguished
John Evans Professor at the Graduate School of International
Studies at DU, said the new report 'lays out the facts and
exposes Bush Administration claims as nothing short of a
deliberate pattern of deception.' "
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Title: "Powell's Show And Tell At The UN"
Author: Joel Skousen
Source: World Affairs Brief, 2-12-3
URL: http://www.rense.com/general34/powellsshowandtell.htm
Excerpt: "While most Americans were impressed by Sec.
of State Collin Powell's Feb 5th case against Iraq before
the UN Security Council, I was struck by the weakness of
it all. The presentation was a masterpiece of propaganda,
designed to lead the general public down a path of seemingly
perfect logic, to conclusions predetermined by the Bush
administration. However, anyone with any background in US
intelligence methods would have been able to perceive multiple
ironies and contradictions in the Powell presentation."
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Title: "UK nuclear evidence a fake "
Author: Ian Traynor
Source: the Guardian, March 8, 2003
URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/
0%2C2763%2C910113%2C00.html
Excerpt: "The chief nuclear inspector for Iraq, Mohammed
El Baradei, yesterday flatly contradicted Downing Street's
and British intelligence's claims of attempted uranium smuggling
by Iraq and said that the documents used to substantiate
the British claim were 'not authentic.' … The fabrication
was transparently obvious and quickly established, the sources
added, suggesting that British intelligence was either easily
hoodwinked or a knowing party to the deceit."
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Title: "Angry Arms Inspectors hit out"
Author: Richard Wallace
Source: The Mirror, Feb 22 2003
URL: http://www.mail-archive.com/ugandanet@kym.net/msg03408.html
Excerpt: "US spy chiefs were branded 'time wasters'
yesterday after weapons inspectors rubbished their evidence
of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. Angry and frustrated
at being given vague or wrong information, a senior member
of the UN team said they had been fed 'garbage after garbage
after garbage.'
The inspector said: 'It took a long time for the US to hand
over intelligence in the first place and when they did it
has proved to be highly inaccurate.' "
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Title: "An Unnecessary War"
Author: John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison
Source: Foreign Policy
URL: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/users/login.php?story_id=169&URL=
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/story/cms.php?story_id=169&page=1
Excerpt: "If the United States is, or soon will be,
at war with Iraq, Americans should understand that a compelling
strategic rationale is absent. This war would be one the
Bush administration chose to fight but did not have to fight.
Even if such a war goes well and has positive long-range
consequences, it will still have been unnecessary. And if
it goes badly-whether in the form of high U.S. casualties,
significant civilian deaths, a heightened risk of terrorism,
or increased hatred of the United States in the Arab and
Islamic world-then its architects will have even more to
answer for."
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Title: "The war on Iraq: Conceived in Israel "
Author: Stephen J. Sniegoski
Source: WTM Enterprises
URL: http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/conc_toc.htm
Excerpt: "The suggestion that the war with Iraq is
being planned at Israel's behest, or at the instigation
of policymakers whose main motivation is trying to create
a secure environment for Israel, is strong. Many Israeli
analysts believe this. The Israeli commentator Akiva Eldar
recently observed frankly in a Ha'aretz column that [Richard]
Perle, [Douglas] Feith, and their fellow strategists "are
walking a fine line between their loyalty to American governments
and Israeli interests." The suggestion of dual loyalties
is not a verboten subject in the Israeli press, as it is
in the United States. Peace activist Uri Avnery, who knows
Israeli Prime Minister Sharon well, has written that Sharon
has long planned grandiose schemes for restructuring the
Middle East and that "the winds blowing now in Washington
remind me of Sharon. I have absolutely no proof that the
Bushies got their ideas from him. But the style is the same."
In the following essay I attempt to flesh out that thesis
and show the link between the war position of the neoconservatives
and the long-time strategy of the Israeli Right, if not
of the Israeli mainstream itself. In brief, the idea of
a Middle East war has been bandied about in Israel for many
years as a means of enhancing Israeli security, which revolves
around an ultimate solution to the Palestinian problem.
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Title: "A War in the Planning for Four Years"
Author: Michael Ruppert
Source: From The Wilderness Publications
URL: http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/zbig.html
Excerpt: "The current Central Asian war is not a response
to terrorism, nor is it a reaction to Islamic fundamentalism.
It is in fact, in the words of one of the most powerful
men on the planet, the beginning of a final conflict before
total world domination by the United States leads to the
dissolution of all national governments. This, says Council
on Foreign Relations (CFR) member and former Carter National
Security Advisor, Zbigniew Brzezinski, will lead to nation
states being incorporated into a new world order, controlled
solely by economic interests as dictated by banks, corporations
and ruling elites concerned with the maintenance (by manipulation
and war) of their power. As a means of intimidation for
the unenlightened reader who happens upon this frightening
plan - the plan of the CFR - Brzezinski offers the alternative
of a world in chaos unless the U.S. controls the planet
by whatever means are necessary and likely to succeed. "
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Title: "Mo' War with Iraq: My Thoughts on the Current
Crisis"
Author: Moryam Van Opstal
Source: Personal web site
Excerpt: "There is no guarantee that inspectors can
disarm Iraq, and no evidence that they'll be more than marginally
effective. Substantial Iraqi cooperation--essential to effective
inspections--is not forthcoming, and will never be. If Saddam
Hussein gets a nuclear weapon, and thirty years of history
demonstrate that it is his goal to do so, he will be in
a good situation to control a significant percentage of
world oil production and to undermine the fragile state
of middle eastern affairs. He does not currently present
a threat to the United States or the world, but by the time
he does the costs of removing him from power will have risen
prohibitively."
[See also: First and second
collection of articles regarding War and Truth]
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