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Default Prince Bandar Allegedly Advocating Military Response Against Iran:

Prince Bandar Allegedly Advocating Military Response Against Iran:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steve-...a_b_36364.html


Here is the tinyurl for the above URL:

http://tinyurl.com/yybfm6


Israel First McCain Pushing Attack on Iran for Israel

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0...ic.php?t=64415




Iran: The Next War for Israel:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0...ic.php?t=49800

Olmert Counting on Jewish Lobby to foil Baker-Hamilton

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0...ic.php?t=63541

More Evidence That Mearsheimer and Walt Are Largely Right:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-a...h_b_36373.html

Here is the tinyurl for the above URL:

http://tinyurl.com/v4n7n



Carter says Mearsheimer and Walt were right:

http://www.warwithoutend.co.uk/zone0...ic.php?t=63875


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December 14, 2006
Is James Baker a Match
for AIPAC?

by Paul Craig Roberts
The report by the Iraq Study Group is an attempt by elder statesmen of
the American political establishment to take U.S. foreign policy out of
the incompetent hands of President Bush and the self-serving hands of
the Israeli Lobby. The Iraq Study Group's effort may or may not
succeed.
Others have expressed disappointment that the ISG elder statesmen did
not call for Bush's impeachment and immediate withdrawal of all U.S.
troops from Iraq. Such wishful thinking caused writers to pour cold
water over the establishment's attempt to save Bush and the U.S. from a
"grave and deteriorating" situation.
Even war critic Pat Buchanan is dismissive of the ISG report. Buchanan,
however, comes closer to the truth than the report's other critics when
he writes that the purpose of the report is to save the establishment
from any responsibility for the debacle that Bush and his
neoconservative government have produced.
The Iraq Study Group, which includes Bush's new secretary of defense,
Robert Gates, realizes that far from being the macho superpower that
controls the world's destiny, the U.S. does not even control its own
destiny. The U.S. is in a "grave and deteriorating" situation that can
easily result in a far greater calamity than merely a bruised ego from
a lost war. The entire Middle East can come undone.
The real problem is the Israeli Lobby's powerful influence - about
which the Lobby brags - over U.S. policy in the Middle East and
Israel's inflexibility toward the Palestinians, whose land Israel has
stolen. As long as Israel exercises a veto over U.S. policy in the
Middle East, the powder keg will remain alight.
The members of the ISG are elder statesmen. They have held high
positions and accumulated the honors. Their careers are behind them.
They have nothing to lose. They can afford to tell the truth and to
address the real problem.
If news reports are correct (see, for example, this), former Secretary
of State James Baker has proposed a Middle East peace conference
without Israeli participation. According to an official quoted by
Insight magazine, "As Baker sees this, the conference would provide a
unique opportunity for the United States to strike a deal without
Jewish pressure. This has become the hottest proposal examined by the
foreign policy people over the last month."
According to Insight, "officials said the Baker proposal to exclude
Israel garnered support in the wake of Vice President Dick Cheney's
visit to Saudi Arabia on Nov. 25. They said Mr. Cheney spent most of
his meetings listening to Saudi warnings that Israel, rather than Iran,
is the leading cause of instability in the Middle East." The official
told Insight that the administration "has fallen in line," but that
"Bush is not in the daily loop. He is shocked by the elections and he's
hoping for a miracle on Iraq."
President Bush lacks the knowledge, judgment, and experience to be in
the Oval Office. He has been deceived and manipulated by
neoconservatives who live in the fantasy world of their own ideology
and who have been aligned with Israel's right-wing Likud Party for most
of their careers.
The neoconservatives put Bush and the U.S., along with Iraqis, Afghans,
and Lebanese, in harm's way. Their fantasy enterprise failed, and now
they damn Bush for a lost war that they said would be a cakewalk.
Neoconservatives told Bush that U.S. troops would have flowers thrown
at them, not bombs.
Many neoconservatives have been cleared out of the Bush administration.
But other neoconservatives still occupy media positions, which they
will continue to use to lie to the American public. As long as the
neoconservatives' protector, Vice President Cheney, continues to have
influence, the Israeli Lobby might again succeed in overthrowing
American public opinion and win its war against the Iraq Study Group.







Find this article at:
http://www.antiwar.com/roberts

 




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