To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (560947 ) 4/6/2004 11:01:00 PM From: Emile Vidrine Respond to of 769670 The Iraq War--the Zionist connection: November 26th Hearing on “The ‘Clean Break’ Plan: Implications for US Middle East Policy.” In 1996, a policy paper called “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm” was prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic Political Studies for then Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. This ambitious report recommended toppling Saddam Hussein in Iraq, “rolling back” Syria and Iran, and “electrifying” support for Israel in the US Congress. Consider who is shaping US Foreign Policy: three of the authors of the “Clean Break” plan are now high-level policy makers in the Bush Administration. Richard Perle is the former chair and a current member of the Defense Policy Board of the Pentagon. Douglas Feith is Undersecretary of Defense. David Wurmser is Vice-President Richard Cheney’s recently hired Middle East advisor. Last week, in a hearing on Capitol Hill, a distinguished panel of experts, including one of the members of CNIF’s board, E. Faye Williams, reviewed the implications of the “Clean Break” plan on U.S. Middle East Policy. October 22nd Hearing on the USS Liberty: Attorney Charges Official Cover-up of 1967 USS Liberty Attack A former Navy attorney who led the initial inquiry into the attack of the USS Liberty in 1967 that left 34 US servicemen dead and 170 wounded testified in a sworn affidavit released on Capitol Hill on October 22 that former President Lyndon Johnson and his secretary of defense Robert McNamara ordered those involved in the inquiry conclude that the attack was an accident. The Democratic Candidates Speak Out Find out your candidate's position on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Talking Points The Failures of Camp David 2000 Historic Palestine and the Palestinians September 11th and Anti-Americanism Israeli Democracy and the Arab-Israelis Quotes: The awful part is that George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein were both staring into the same cracked spook- house mirror. Thanks to David Kay, we now have an amazing image of the president and the dictator, both divorced from reality over weapons, glaring at each other from opposite sides of bizarro, paranoid universes where fiction trumped fact. It would be like a wacky Peter Sellers satire if so many Iraqis and Americans hadn't died in Iraq. -- Maureen Dowd, Dump Cheney Now!, January 28, 2004