re: bush tries to shed warmonger image His speech, to the American Enterprise Institute....
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But indications are that argument persists among the President's top advisers along now-familiar lines. While hardliners such as Vice-President Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary, talk of "transition" implying America will pull out as soon as a satisfactory new government has been installed the State Department under General Powell has placed the emphasis on "transformation", accepting that America had to be in Iraq for the long haul.
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repeat - America will pull out as soon as a satisfactory new government has been installed -
why ? so the Zionist can finish the job themself ?
about American Enterprise Institute :
> During the Clinton administration, neoconservatives promoted their
> views from a strong interlocking network of think tanks - the American
> Enterprise Institute (AEI), Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri),
> Hudson Institute, Washington Institute for Near East Policy, Middle East
> Forum, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), Center
> for Security Policy (CSP) - which have had great influence in the media
> and which have helped to staff Republican administrations. Some of the
> organizations were originally set up by mainline conservatives and only
> later taken over by neoconservatives; [14] others were established by >
> neocons, with some of the groups having a direct Israeli connection.
> For example, Colonel Yigal Carmon, formerly of Israeli military
> intelligence, was a co-founder of the Middle East Media Research
> Institute (Memri). And the various organizations have been closely
> interconnected. For example, the other co-founder of Memri, Meyrav
> Wurmser, was a member of the Hudson Institute, while her husband,
> David Wurmser, headed the Middle East studies department of AEI.
> And Perle was both a "resident fellow" at the American Enterprise
> Institute (AEI) and a trustee of the Hudson Institute. [15]
>
> In a recent article in the The Nation, Jason Vest discusses the immense
> influence in the current Bush administration of people from two major
> neocon research organizations, JINSA and CSP. Vest details the close
> links among the two organizations, right-wing politicians, arms merchants,
> military men, Jewish billionaires, and Republican administrations. [16]
> Regarding JINSA, Vest writes:
>
> Founded in 1976 by neoconservatives concerned that the United States
> might not be able to provide Israel with adequate military supplies in the
> event of another Arab-Israeli war, over the past twenty-five years JINSA
> has gone from a loose-knit proto-group to a $1.4-million-a-year operation
> with a formidable array of Washington power players on its rolls. Until the
> beginning of the current Bush administration, JINSA's board of advisors
> included such heavy hitters as Cheney, John Bolton (now Under Secretary
> of State for Arms Control) and Douglas J. Feith, the third-highest-ranking
> executive in the Pentagon. Both Perle and former Director of Central
> Intelligence James Woolsey, two of the loudest voices in the attack-Iraq
> chorus, are still on the board, as are such Reagan-era relics as Jeane
> Kirkpatrick, Eugene Rostow, and [Michael] Ledeen - Oliver North's
> Iran/contra liaison with the Israelis. [17]
>
> Vest notes that "dozens" of JINSA and CSP "members have ascended to
> powerful government posts, where their advocacy in support of the same
> agenda continues, abetted by the out-of-government adjuncts from which
> they came. Industrious and persistent, they've managed to weave a number
> of issues - support for national missile defense, opposition to arms control
> treaties, championing of wasteful weapons systems, arms aid to Turkey and
> American unilateralism in general - into a hard line, with support for the
> Israeli right at its core." And Vest continues: "On no issue is the
> JINSA/CSP hard line more evident than in its relentless campaign for
> war - not just with Iraq, but 'total war,' as Michael Ledeen, one of the
> most influential JINSAns in Washington, put it last year. For this crew,
> 'regime change' by any means necessary in Iraq, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia
> and the Palestinian Authority is an urgent imperative." [18]
>
> Let's recapitulate Vest's major points. The JINSA/CSP network has
> "support for the Israeli right at its core." In line with the views of the
> Israeli right, it has advocated a Middle Eastern war to eliminate the
> enemies of Israel. And members of the JINSA/CSP network have gained
> influential foreign policy positions in Republican administrations, most
> especially in the current administration of George W. Bush.
>
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