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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (2487)	11/5/2002 1:17:38 AM
From: Thomas M.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3959

Hence the current media bamboozling: Americans are told that they're gonna fight either to save the free world (the rightist spin) or to save their gas-guzzling American-Way-of-Life (the leftist spin). Nobody tells them they're gonna fight to keep East Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. It is remarkable how nobody looks at this crucial cog in the war machine. <<< In 1996, an Israeli think tank called the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies published a paper by Richard Perle and Douglas Feith titled, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," which advised incoming Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to renege on the Oslo Peace Process. Perle is now the chairman of the Defense Policy Board at the Pentagon and Feith holds one of the top four posts at the Pentagon as under-secretary of policy. The paper is basically a plan by which Israel would "shape its strategic environment," beginning with the removal of Saddam Hussein and putting in place the Hashemite monarchy in Baghdad. Iraq is "the tactical pivot," as a recent presentation at the Pentagon put it, for re-mapping the Middle East on Israeli-American interests. Destabilization of other "despotic regimes" will follow, according to plan. So the plan to attack Iraq was plotted six years ago by pro-Israelis who now hold key positions in the Pentagon. >>> commondreams.org Tom