gjohnson5 said:
It could be that we are off the mark, but I don't think so
I would like you to go read around the internet and find just
one 1/2 way credible source who thinks that America will enter a war over guilt for the holocaust and I will take back everything I said.
If this is not the point of these comments
http://www.elitefitness.com/forum/showpost.php?p=6436883&postcount=113
Then please explain further...
I've read how neoconservative lobbyist may have influenced Bush to attack Iraq and may do it again here. I simply don't believe a religious group has that much influence much less a minority one.
SOme people think Bush attack Iraq so Saddam wouldn't be a threat to Israel. So now that the US is occupying Iraq , Iran will have to go through Iraq to attack Israel.
Here's this is pretty interesting
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/pathtowar.html
William Hamilton "Bush Began to Plan War Three Months After 9/11"
The Washington Post (USA)
April 17, 2004
Now, a new firsthand account of life in the US Defense Department shows just how pro-Israeli groups exerted their influence from within the government. Karen Kwiatkowski retired as a lieutenant colonel in the US Air Force after two decades of distinguished service. Her last posting was at the Near East South Asia (NESA) directorate at the Pentagon. In a lengthy article in the online journal Salon.com, Kwiatkowski writes, "From May 2002 until February 2003, I observed firsthand the formation of the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans and watched the latter stages of the neoconservative capture of the policy-intelligence nexus in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq." The "seizure of the reins of US Middle East policy," Kwiatkowski recounts, "was directly visible to many of us working in the Near East South Asia Policy office, and yet there seemed to be little any of us could do about it." All this happened under the watch of Bill Luti, the deputy secretary of defense for NESA, and went up and down the chain of command. Some of the specific incidents Kwiatkowski recalls are illustrative: "Longtime office director Joe McMillan was reassigned to the National Defense University. The director's job in the time of transition was to help bring the newly appointed deputy assistant secretary up to speed, ensure office continuity, act as a resource relating to regional histories and policies ... Removing such a critical continuity factor was not only unusual but also seemed like willful handicapping." Kwiatkowski said "the expertise on Mideast policy was not only being removed, but was also being exchanged for that from various agenda-bearing think tanks, including the Middle East Media Research Institute, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs." The main agenda of all these organizations is advocating closer US-Israel ties. She saw the "replacement of the civilian head of the Israel, Lebanon and Syria desk office with a young political appointee from the Washington Institute, David Schenker. Word was that the former experienced civilian desk officer tended to be evenhanded toward the policies of Israeli Premier Ariel Sharon of Israel, but there were complaints and he was gone." As the personnel changed, so did the atmosphere; Kwiatkowski recalls that a "career civil servant rather unhappily advised me that if I wanted to be successful here, I'd better remember not to say anything positive about the Palestinians." In an official meeting at which Kwiatkowski was present, Luti openly called Marine General, former Chief of Central Command, and Middle East envoy Anthony Zinni, a "traitor" for having reservations about the march to war, and open contempt and calls for Secretary of State Colin Powell to resign were common. What she observed until her voluntary early retirement was nothing less than a full- scale assault on the intelligence and policymaking apparatus of the United States. She witnessed intelligence and careful analysis being replaced with propaganda, falsehoods and manipulation and fed to the Congress and the Executive Office of the President. This "fear peddling" was, Kwiatkowski writes, "designed to take Congress and the country into a war of executive choice, a war based on false pretenses." Ali Abunimah "It's worse than you thought: pro-Israel influence on US policy" The Electronic Intifada (USA)
March 15, 2004
http://electronicintifada.net/
v2/article2503.shtml