Washington Post Ombudsman: A Zionist neocon war
LIBERAL MEDIA BLOG
Observing that in February of 2001, Secretary of State Colin Powell stated in a news conference that sanctions against Iraq “have worked,” Washington Post ombudsman Michael Getler finds the real cause of the war in Iraq. He strongly implies that the war in Iraq is the result of a neocon conspiracy to use the tragedy of 9/11 to serve Israel's interests:
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"Were other factors also at work to a much greater degree than we understood, especially the intense, focused and demonstrated preoccupation of several top administration officials, over many years, with remaking the map of the Middle East and, in their view, enhancing Israeli security in the process?…
In 1996 three neoconservative thinkers -- Richard Perle, David Wurmser and Douglas J. Feith, none of whom were in government at the time but all of whom were eventually to occupy important policy or advisory positions in the Bush administration -- were part of an unusual study group that proposed to Israel's then-prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, a strategic plan that included ousting Saddam Hussein. Netanyahu rejected the plan. But it survived, transformed into an American option and neoconservative doctrine by an expanded group of adherents that, eventually, came to include the top of the Bush-Cheney administration."
These are serious charges, echoing the old dual-loyalty charge leveled against Jewish citizens by anti-Semites, and deserve a more thorough examination than Getler's sly insinuations. For example, Getler never explains why three non-cabinet level individuals would have such power over American foreign policy.
It’s also curious that the Post’s ombudsman would choose to level these charges two days before a Presidential election. |
