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To: Bill who wrote (134174)	5/24/2004 8:47:29 PM
From: Sarmad Y. Hermiz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

>> sweating, breathing sand and eating powder Unortunately your buddy was sent to Iraq not for America's security, but so that Israel could keep expanding without facing even minimal resistance. There isn't anyone, not even semi-morons who claim that the US is occupying Iraq for wmd's. It is there to install a puppet government to be friendly to Israel. Full morons still cling to that claim. juancole.com "The second mistake I think history will record is that the strategy was flawed. I couldn't believe what I was hearing about the benefits of this strategic move. That the road to Jerusalem led through Baghdad, when just the opposite is true, the road to Baghdad led through Jerusalem. You solve the Middle East peace process, you'd be surprised what kinds of others things will work out. cbsnews.com Now, in a new book about his career, co-written with Tom Clancy, called "Battle Ready," Zinni has handed up a scathing indictment of the Pentagon and its conduct of the war in Iraq. In the book, Zinni writes: "In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption." ............. Zinni is talking about a group of policymakers within the administration known as "the neo-conservatives" who saw the invasion of Iraq as a way to stabilize American interests in the region and strengthen the position of Israel. They include Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith; Former Defense Policy Board member Richard Perle; National Security Council member Eliot Abrams; and Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby. Zinni believes they are political ideologues who have hijacked American policy in Iraq.