re: bush tries to shed warmonger image
His speech, to the American Enterprise Institute.... ---snip
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. ---snip
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. >
