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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (30989)	11/4/2003 11:39:31 AM
From: Crimson Ghost	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

CHENEYGATE U.S. HIJACKED BY ISRAELI-JEWISH-LOBBY CONNECTED GROUP "What these people are doing now makes Iran-Contra [a Reagan administration national security scandal] look like amateur hour. . . it's worse than Iran-Contra, worse than what happened in Vietnam," said...a former air force lieutenant-colonel...who retired this year after 20 years service [and] was a Middle East specialist in the office of the Undersecretary of Defence for Policy, headed by Douglas Feith." US and ISRAEL PREPARING AGAIN TO STRIKE BIG MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 4 November 2003: There are growing rumors in Washington now that the US is preparing hard air strikes somewhere in the Middle East. Secret heavy bomber deployments may be underway to European bases as has been the case in previous years when major strikes were being readied. Whether the targets are in Iran or Syria, or even North Korea for that matter, are of course highly classified. Ariel Sharon's surprise visit to Moscow this week to again meet personally with Putin could be another ominous sign. The Israelis will probably try to blackmail or threaten Putin in one way or another to stay out of whatever is coming, especially if it involves Iran, now Israel's top target. Meanwhile, as in previous MER analysis reports, the hijacking of Bush-Washington by the Israeli-Jewish lobby hardliners working closely with Vice-President Cheney was too much for a former ranking insider. The former Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel is now trying to blow the whistle; but few in Washington have the courage or understanding to both listen and act. Among other things MER has learned that President Bush personally some time ago promised Ariel Sharon that he would have advance copies of all Presidential speeches dealing with the Middle East in case the Israelis felt any changes might be necessary. Cheney's Hawks 'Hijacking Policy' By Ritt Goldstein Sydney Morning Herald - Australia, 30 October 2003: A former Pentagon officer turned whistleblower says a group of hawks in the Bush Administration, including the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, is running a shadow foreign policy, contravening Washington's official line. "What these people are doing now makes Iran-Contra [a Reagan administration national security scandal] look like amateur hour. . . it's worse than Iran-Contra, worse than what happened in Vietnam," said Karen Kwiatkowski, a former air force lieutenant-colonel. "[President] George Bush isn't in control . . . the country's been hijacked," she said, describing how "key [governmental] areas of neoconservative concern were politically staffed". Ms Kwiatkowski, who retired this year after 20 years service, was a Middle East specialist in the office of the Undersecretary of Defence for Policy, headed by Douglas Feith. She described "a subversion of constitutional limits on executive power and a co-optation through deceit of a large segment of the Congress", adding that "in order to take that first step - Iraq - lies had to be told to Congress to bring them on board". Ms Kwiatkowski said the pursuit of national security decisions often bypassed "civil service and active-duty military professionals", and was handled instead by political appointees who shared common ideological ties. There was speculation earlier this year that such an ideologue group had emerged, and that it was behind the US attack on an Iraqi convoy in Syria in June. The New York Times quoted Patrick Lang, a former senior Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) official, as saying that many in the Government believed the incursion was an effort by ideologues to disrupt co-operation between the US and Syria. Ms Kwiatkowski said there was an extra-governmental network operating outside normal structures and practices, "a network of political appointees in key positions who felt they needed to take some action, to make things happen in a foreign affairs, national security way". She said Pentagon personnel and the DIA were pressured to favourably alter assessments and reports. In a separate interview, Chalmers Johnson, an authority on US policy, said that the Administration's neo-conservatives had in effect seized power from Mr Bush. Dr Johnson said the neo-conservatives had pursued an agenda outlined in the controversial 1992 Defence Planning Guidance. That document, drawn up at the direction of Mr Cheney when he was defence secretary, said the world's only superpower should not be cautious about asserting its power.