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---BeginMessage--- Whose War By Marge O'Brien One of the most important articles to make the rounds last week was entitled Who Wants This War and Why. It was written by a Washington area journalist who sometimes uses the pen name Gilbert Blythe. Here's what he wrote: (1) In the October 29 issue of The Weekly Standard, a leading neoconservative magazine, William Kristol and Robert Kagan write that 'when all is said and done, the conflict in Afghanistan will be to the war on terrorism what the North Africa campaign was to World War II--an essential beginning on the path to victory. ... a war that will 'spread and engulf a number of countries' and that 'could well require the use of American military power in multiple places simultaneously.' In the turmoil that would follow, Kristol and Kagan think it likely that Israel could reoccupy the West Bank and depose Yasser Arafat; that several moderate Arab governments could be overthrown; and that America's war against terrorism could resemble the clash of civilizations that everyone has hoped to avoid. They add that in a conflict of such scale, some countries might use biological or chemical weapons. Though they do not say so explicitly, they are telling us to prepare for World War III. According to Mr. Blythe, Kristol and Kagan are not alone in urging us toward what they call The Right War (2), but are joined by Charles Krauthammer, Norman Podhoretz, William Safire, Morton Kondracke, Don Feder, Ben Wattenberg, and Mona Charen. He adds that In the Bush administration, Paul Wolfowitz is the most prominent advocate of a multi-front war. And he points out that all of these people are Jewish. Just as Kristol and Kagan are not alone in pushing for a war of catastrophic dimensions, Gilbert Blythe is not alone in noting that the leaders of this effort are predominantly Israeli-firsters. Georgie Anne Geyer writes that a smaller war of interests, beliefs and realities is going on beneath the surface, consisting of a Get Iraq campaign that originated with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and adviser Richard Perle, and includes those neoconservatives, journalists and congressmen who are known to always put Israeli policy, or even their perception of it, above anything else. She states that an important goal of this campaign is to diminish, or ruin, the United States' relations with any Arab states, and that without proof of Iraqi involvement, ...it would be the worst kind of madness to isolate America in this difficult, poisonous struggle. (3) In other words, the people who are pressuring our government into entering a large-scale war against Iraq and other Arab countries--a war that will certainly result in a high number of American casualties--are not looking out for the interests of America or the American people, but for the interests of Israel and the Jews. In a September 18 memo to Henry Kissinger entitled The Prince of Darkness, Jude Wanniski, a former Washington journalist and present president of Polyconomics, wrote this: There is no single American more responsible for inciting outrage among Muslims globally than Richard [Perle], whose maniacal prescriptions led inexorably to last week's cataclysm. It was no surprise to me to see Richard on CNN... on Sunday, calling for all-out war against the Arab world with a coalition entirely composed of western Europeans. If he were just an ordinary maniac, we could live with him, Henry, but he is chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon, and which gives him total access to all military secrets. Do you have any doubt that he is now in constant communication with Ariel Sharon and Binjamin Netanyahu, the leaders of the coo-coo wing of the Likud Party in Israel? Now I see you practically in lockstep with Perle, whom we have always known as the Prince of Darkness, ! a master of disinformation ... who now wants to bring the Muslim world to its knees... In case you did not know it, Secretary of State Colin Powell refers to Perle and his network as the bombers. They include the WSJournal editorial page, which Perle has in his back pocket, The Weekly Standard, which he has in his front pocket, and Bill Safire, his mouthpiece at the NYTimes. (4) In a memo to Donald Rumsfeld, Wanniski writes, Do you realize that Wolfowitz, and his pal Richard Perle who chairs your Defense Policy Board, have been calling all their friends in the press corps, urging them to beat the drums for war with Iraq? in order to finish the war against Saddam Hussein. He reminds Rumsfeld that Iraq was the least radical of all the Islamic states, the most civilized and modern and hospitable to Jews and multiculturalismwhich is why the Iran/Iraq war was fought, with Saddam doing our killing for us, at times with the chemical weapons the CIA supplied him with Bin Laden DOES speak for the entire Islamic world in noting that at least a million Iraqi civilians
[CTRL] Fwd: RIGHT POINT: Whose War
---BeginMessage--- Whose War By Marge O'Brien One of the most important articles to make the rounds last week was entitled Who Wants This War and Why. It was written by a Washington area journalist who sometimes uses the pen name Gilbert Blythe. Here's what he wrote: (1) In the October 29 issue of The Weekly Standard, a leading neoconservative magazine, William Kristol and Robert Kagan write that 'when all is said and done, the conflict in Afghanistan will be to the war on terrorism what the North Africa campaign was to World War II--an essential beginning on the path to victory. ... a war that will 'spread and engulf a number of countries' and that 'could well require the use of American military power in multiple places simultaneously.' In the turmoil that would follow, Kristol and Kagan think it likely that Israel could reoccupy the West Bank and depose Yasser Arafat; that several moderate Arab governments could be overthrown; and that America's war against terrorism could resemble the clash of civilizations that everyone has hoped to avoid. They add that in a conflict of such scale, some countries might use biological or chemical weapons. Though they do not say so explicitly, they are telling us to prepare for World War III. According to Mr. Blythe, Kristol and Kagan are not alone in urging us toward what they call The Right War (2), but are joined by Charles Krauthammer, Norman Podhoretz, William Safire, Morton Kondracke, Don Feder, Ben Wattenberg, and Mona Charen. He adds that In the Bush administration, Paul Wolfowitz is the most prominent advocate of a multi-front war. And he points out that all of these people are Jewish. Just as Kristol and Kagan are not alone in pushing for a war of catastrophic dimensions, Gilbert Blythe is not alone in noting that the leaders of this effort are predominantly Israeli-firsters. Georgie Anne Geyer writes that a smaller war of interests, beliefs and realities is going on beneath the surface, consisting of a Get Iraq campaign that originated with Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and adviser Richard Perle, and includes those neoconservatives, journalists and congressmen who are known to always put Israeli policy, or even their perception of it, above anything else. She states that an important goal of this campaign is to diminish, or ruin, the United States' relations with any Arab states, and that without proof of Iraqi involvement, ...it would be the worst kind of madness to isolate America in this difficult, poisonous struggle. (3) In other words, the people who are pressuring our government into entering a large-scale war against Iraq and other Arab countries--a war that will certainly result in a high number of American casualties--are not looking out for the interests of America or the American people, but for the interests of Israel and the Jews. In a September 18 memo to Henry Kissinger entitled The Prince of Darkness, Jude Wanniski, a former Washington journalist and present president of Polyconomics, wrote this: There is no single American more responsible for inciting outrage among Muslims globally than Richard [Perle], whose maniacal prescriptions led inexorably to last week's cataclysm. It was no surprise to me to see Richard on CNN... on Sunday, calling for all-out war against the Arab world with a coalition entirely composed of western Europeans. If he were just an ordinary maniac, we could live with him, Henry, but he is chairman of the Defense Policy Board, which advises the Pentagon, and which gives him total access to all military secrets. Do you have any doubt that he is now in constant communication with Ariel Sharon and Binjamin Netanyahu, the leaders of the coo-coo wing of the Likud Party in Israel? Now I see you practically in lockstep with Perle, whom we have always known as the Prince of Darkness, ! a master of disinformation ... who now wants to bring the Muslim world to its knees... In case you did not know it, Secretary of State Colin Powell refers to Perle and his network as the bombers. They include the WSJournal editorial page, which Perle has in his back pocket, The Weekly Standard, which he has in his front pocket, and Bill Safire, his mouthpiece at the NYTimes. (4) In a memo to Donald Rumsfeld, Wanniski writes, Do you realize that Wolfowitz, and his pal Richard Perle who chairs your Defense Policy Board, have been calling all their friends in the press corps, urging them to beat the drums for war with Iraq? in order to finish the war against Saddam Hussein. He reminds Rumsfeld that Iraq was the least radical of all the Islamic states, the most civilized and modern and hospitable to Jews and multiculturalismwhich is why the Iran/Iraq war was fought, with Saddam doing our killing for us, at times with the chemical weapons the CIA supplied him with Bin Laden DOES speak for the entire Islamic world in noting that at least a million Iraqi civilians
