Wake Up America!

Sean McBride wrote (in the comments section of the following blog entry by Stephen Walt):

http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/02/08/i_dont_mean_to_say_i_told_you_so_but

I agree that not too much emphasis should be placed on Blair’s words, which are subject to multiple interpretations. In any case, Colin Powell is a more reliable source than Blair on the political dynamics within the Bush/Cheney administration with regard to the propaganda campaign to invade and occupy Iraq:

“Colin Powell Blamed Iraq War Plans on ‘Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs’”

by Philip Weiss on October 20, 2008

In Karen DeYoung’s bio, Soldier, Colin Powell said that Truman’s Sec’y of State George Marshall–a former Army chief of staff–was his “revered” role model, especially in his principled opposition to Truman’s ’48 decision to recognize the new state of Israel in defiance of the Arab world. In that book, Powell also twice refers to the Iraq war as being the product of Donald Rumsfeld’s absorption in the “JINSA crowd,” the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. In a word: Defense Under Secretary Douglas Feith, neocon, son of a Holocaust survivor, who helped cofound One Jerusalem, and whose former law partner is living in a settlement in the West Bank.

http://mondoweiss.net/2008/10/and-much-of-mccains-braintrust-has-ties-to-jinsa-so-this-is-a-pro-jinsa-anti-jinsa-election-remember-when-cool-waspy-hubs.html

The “JINSA crowd” = the neocons at JINSA, AEI, WINEP, CSP, FDD and other neocon think tanks and policy centers.

Interesting comment on this page:

Dick Cheney was on JINSA’s Board of Advisors before becoming vice president, where he was joined by Ledeen, Feith, Perle, James Woolsey, and John Bolton. JINSA’s stated policy aims included regime change in “rogue” nations such as Iraq.

Israel did not just lobby US into the Iraq quagmire but cooked and manipulated intelligence in order to as well (see the following article):

The spies who pushed for war

Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/17/iraq.usa

The Jewish neocons (like Douglas Feith) of JINSA/PNAC/AEI pushed US into the Iraq quagmire in order to secure the realm for Israel in accordance with their nefarious ‘A Clean Break’ agenda (access the ‘A Clean Break’ agenda link at the upper right side of http://NEOCONZIONISTTHREAT.COM if interested further). See how Feith had Israeli generals visit his office at the Pentagon:

http://www.amconmag.com/article/2004/jan/19/00027/

Karen Kwiatkowski mentioned General Zinni in the above posted article as the ‘JINSA crowd’ hated him because he was against going into Iraq as well.. Look how he even said that the war was for Israel in the following ’60 Minutes’ interview:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/05/21/60minutes/main618896.shtml

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.