Oh the Tangled Web PNAC Weaves

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PNAC involvement with US Committee for a Free Lebanon:

Ziad Abdelnour, a Lebanese American devoted to the cause of driving Syria from Lebanon, has been involved in a number of neocon-led initiatives on Middle East politics. He is the founder of the U.S. Committee for a Free Lebanon (USCFL), an advocacy group supported by Michael Ledeen, Jeane Kirkpatrick, James Woolsey, Elliot Abrams, Douglas Feith, and Frank Gaffney. http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/abdelnour/abdelnour....


The United States Committee for a Free Lebanon ("USCFL") is a non-profit, non-sectarian think tank, founded in 1997 by prominent New York based investment banker and financier Ziad K. Abdelnour, along with 56 other Lebanese American activists, to educate the American public as to Lebanon's strategic and moral significance as an ally of the United States and an outpost of Western values in the Middle East.
http://www.freelebanon.org /

Middle Eastern Intelligence Bulletin links to the Free Lebanon page.
http://www.meib.org/about.htm
(PNAC members Daniel Pipes, Michael Rubin are listed)
Gary C. Gambill is the editor - here's a brief on him:
A specialist in Lebanese and Syrian politics, state sponsorship of terrorist organizations, and authoritarianism in the Arab world, he is interviewed frequently by the audio-visual and print media. Gambill can be reached by phone at (646-242-1101) or by email at [e-mail] . (go ahead, give him a call!)

More on Daniel Pipes - his website: http://www.danielpipes.org /
The wall street journal calls him an authoritative commentator on the Middle East. Was nominated by * to the United States Institute of Peace in 2003. (ugh).
Here's a horrifying quote from Pipes (not sure if the source is reliable):
Pipes said the following about Bush’s invasion of Iraq: “WMD was never the basic reason for war. Nor was it the horrid repression in Iraq. Or the danger Saddam posed to his neighbors. … The campaign in Iraq is about keeping promises to the United States or paying the consequences. … Keep your promises or you are gone. It’s a powerful precedent that U.S. leaders should make the most of.” http://kurtnimmo.com/blog/index.php?m=20050130

Obvious to me the neocons consider Syria a "quickie"; an almost effortless invasion by simply moving troops across the border. Of course they need an excuse - the Lebanese assassination is perfect. Listen to the outcry from Bushco.

[Avalux]

1. Kick

Hey, important stuff, folks! :kick:

[MissMarple]

2. Tom Delay, Bob Beauprez (R-Co) , Dick Cheney are anti- Arab?

or just Israel's friends?

Curiouser, and curiouser.

Here's some more:

"I received an interesting email this afternoon from an American Jewish woman. She claims that David Bukay of the Political Science department at Haifa University in Israel is using his post to advocate “racist expressions” directed against Arabs and Muslims. According to a student in the Philosophy Department at the university, Bukay supports “the killing Arabs only for being Arabs, claiming that they are criminals by their nature and recommending to humiliate Palestinians in front of cameras, spreading those pictures—and all this in a seminar, which is being classified by the University as a duty in their studies toward fulfillment of bachelor’s degree in the Department of Political Science.”

Bukay is not only a university professor, but also an author, editor, public speaker, and “his fields of specialization are,” according to the Ariel Center for Policy Research (ACPR), “the Arab-Israeli conflict; inter-Arab relations and the Palestinian question; international terrorism and fundamental Islam; theoretical issues and political applications in the Middle-East; Asad’s foreign policy towards Israel and Lebanon; the culture approach to understanding the Middle-East.” It should be noted that the ACPR counts as “Isreal’s Friends” several Congress critters, including Jim Saxon, Bill McCollum, and Tom DeLay. “Contributing Experts” include the Strausscons Frank J. Gaffney and Meyrav Wurmser, wife of David Wurmser, who is Principal Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs in the Office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Burkay, who teaches his students that Arabs must be “shot in their heads by a gun,” according to student mentioned above, hosted a round table discussion at the latest Jerusalem Summit, where Rep. Bob Beauprez (R-CO) and the Islamophobe Daniel Pipes also gave speeches. “Over 150 leading thinkers and statesmen from the US, Europe, Asia and Israel have convened at the 3-day Jerusalem Summit, (Nov 27-30th, 2004), at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel,” notes the Michael Cherney Foundation, a “humanitarian” organization founded after “the night of the heinous terrorist bombing outside the Dolphinarium Disco in Tel Aviv,” on June 1, 2001 (no mention here of the “heinous” terrorist bombings of Gaza by the IDF, killing far more than died outside of the Dolphinarium Disco).
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"One last note: Daniel Pipes, “the nation’s leading Islamaphobe” (according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations), who attended the Jerusalem Summit and likely rubbed elbows with David Bukay, had made a career out of trashing the livelihood of professors in America he considers not loyal enough to Israel. For his effort, Bush announced in early 2003 Pipe’s nomination to the U.S. Institute of Peace, an irony, to say the least. ..."

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3. Sure seems to me they're doing what they have always done.

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[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. Obvious to me the neocons consider Syria a "quickie

an almost effortless invasion by simply moving troops across the border

Well Bush did say that some of our troops would be leaving Iraq soon, he just wasn't clear about where they would be going.