http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2094.shtml The vast and messy neocon experiment in Iraq and the Middle East
By Rodrigue Tremblay
Online Journal Guest Writer
Jun 18, 2007, 00:38
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Like apprentice sorcerers, a group of pro-Israel neocons, took hold of U.S. foreign policy under President George W. Bush and designed the most wicked and the most improvised war of aggression by any country against another that one can remember. This small group of ideologues, lacking in judgment, knowledge and wisdom but full of fanaticism, arrogance and hubris seized upon a double opportunity to advance their narrow interests at the expense of the American people, the Iraqi people and world peace and order.
Their first opportunity came when an inept and an inexperienced politician was selected president of the United States in November 2000, Texas Governor George W. Bush. Clustered around Vice President Dick Cheney and around then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, they successfully established a parallel government within the Bush-Cheney administration, de facto independent of the Office of the National Security Advisor (Condoleezza Rice), of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) (George Tenet) and of the State Department (Colin Powell).
The leading warmongering neocons were Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby (recently convicted of perjury) and Cheney's Middle East advisor, David Wurmser, plus the top decision makers at the Pentagon, Deputy Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and Under Secretary Douglas Feith, assisted by the head of the Defense Policy Board, Richard Perle and by Elliott Abrams, head of Middle East policy at the National Security Council. On the ground in Iraq, they later could count on an advisor and protégé of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and a director of Kissinger Associates, L. Paul (Jerry) Bremer III, whose fateful decisions involved dismantling the entire Iraqi government and firing the heavily armed 400,000 strong Iraqi army. This small group of insiders was supported by a host of outside lobbies, by an army of sycophants in Washington pro-Israel think tanks and by far-right journalists and media at large.
The second opportunity arose with the September 11, 2001, alleged terrorist attacks that traumatized the American people and made them vulnerable to manipulation, deception forgery and lies, and any other tactics used to justify an illegal war of aggression against Iraq.
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What Bush was echoing in his declaration is that grand plan designed by pro-Israel neocon ideologues within and outside the Bush-Cheney administration to reshape the entire Middle East region to fit American oil interests and Israel's strategic interests. Unfortunately, this is a flawed and illegal plan that was crafted and implemented in a climate of arrogance, amateurishness, stupidity and incompetence on a high scale. The gruesome and messy results are all there to be seen by everyone with eyes to see.
The great scandal is that much of the raw truth about the Iraq war has been hidden from the vast majority of Americans. Maybe a paper like the New York Times should publish this article to compensate for all the falsehoods it published on their front page during the months that preceded the war.
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