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Population: 37,056,169 (July 2015 est.), U.S. population:
321,368,864 (July 2015 est.)
Ethnic groups: Arab 75%-80%, Kurdish 15%-20%, Turkoman,
Assyrian, or other 5%
Religions: Muslim (official) 99% (Shia 60%-65%, Sunni 32%-
37%), Christian 0.8%
Languages: Arabic (official), Kurdish (official), Turkmen (a
Turkish dialect) and Assyrian (Neo-Aramaic) are official in
areas where they constitute a majority of the population),
Armenian
Iraq's oil provides more than 90% of government revenue and
80% of foreign exchange earnings
GDP (official exchange rate): $169.5 billion (2015 est.); U.S.
GDP: $17.95 trillion (2015 est.)
Border countries: Iran 1,458 km, Jordan 181 km, Kuwait 240
km, Saudi Arabia 814 km, Syria 605 km, Turkey 352 km
Source: CIA
Geography of Iraq
Iraq is in the middle of the Middle East, it is a cradle of
civilization and a historic seat of empires, it has both water and
oil resources, and it borders six countries and straddles several
cultural regions. Conflicts or wars in Iraq can spillover to the
neighboring countries.
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The Iraq war divided the Arabs, the Europeans, the Americans
and caused a structural damage to Iraq’s society, state, &
infrastructure
Aljazeera
Origin of Iraq war (2mn:40s):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmms5Eoixfs
Origin of ISIS (12mn)
http://truthinmedia.com/truth-in-media-the-origin-of-isis/
How is ISIS funded? (49mn)
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2015/07/29/george-galloway-
isil-presstv-comment
US Vice President Biden blames US allies in Middle East for
rise of ISIS (9mn)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQO81hKC3A
John Kerry In Leaked Audio Admits U.S. Allowed Rise Of ISIS
To Force Assad Out Of Power, 1/6/2017,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3KfmjdviHM
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1981: Israel bombs Baghdad [Osirak/Tammuz] nuclear reactor
BBC, June 7, 1981
Map of the Israeli Attack
Israel's Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the raid

Source: BBC, 5 June 2006,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5020778.stm
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Israel applied game theory to provoke the 1986 US bombing of
Libya
“The potential use of game theory to provoke the U.S. invasion
of Iraq dates from an earlier staged incident when Tel Aviv
displayed its expertise in deceiving the U.S. to deploy its
military in the region. As with the war in Iraq, that incident
involved a provocation that induced the U.S. to rely on
intelligence fixed around a predetermined goal.
The pre-staging: in February 1986, the Mossad launched
Operation Trojan, a broadcasting operation in Tripoli meant
[page 3] to make it appear that the Libyan leadership was
transmitting terrorist instructions to their embassies worldwide.
The orchestration: though the Israeli transmissions failed to
deceive Spanish or French intelligence, U.S. intelligence was
reassured when a trusted ally (Israel) confirmed the messages
were legitimate. With Mossad operatives tied into terrorist cells
throughout Europe, it was only a matter of time before an
American would become a victim.
The provocation: an April 5 terrorist attack on Berlin’s La Bell
Discotheque killed an American serviceman.
The game theory deployment: on April 14, 160 American,
British and German aircraft dropped sixty tons of bombs on
Libya, killing 40 civilians, including the adopted two-year-old
daughter of Libyan leader Moamer al Qadhafi....
With Israeli confidence boosted by its success in simultaneously
deceiving, endangering and discrediting its ally, Iraq and
Saddam Hussein became Tel Aviv’s next target. According to
the assessment of a senior Mossad operative five years before

the first Gulf War and 15 years before 9/11:
“After the bombing of Libya, our friend Qadhafi is sure to stay
out of the picture for some time. Iraq and Saddam Hussein are
the next target. We’re starting now to build him up as the big
villain. It will take some time, but in the end, there’s no doubt
that it’ll work” [cited in Victor Ostrovsky, The Other Side of
Deception, New York,: HarperCollins, 1994, pp. 113-117].” Jeff
Gates’ Guilt by Association: How Deception and Self-Deceit
Took America to War, State Street Publications, Ramsey, NJ,
2008, pages 3-4.
Israel applied game theory to provoke the 2003 US invasion of
Iraq
Criminal State - Part 1 of 3: A Closer Look at Israel's Role in
Terrorism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNjb1MGmGDc
Terrorism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxhMmjDlIC0
Terrorism: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrkpcbmXAWE
While “decision theory” is made for contexts in which there is
just ONE decision maker, “game theory” is designed to address
rational decision making in a social context where MULTIPLE
players are making interlocking decisions (Patrick Grim, The
Philosopher’s Toolkit, 2013)
Bill Kristol, Keeping Iraq in the Cross Hairs
“Moments after the [1991] Persian Gulf War was halted, Bill
Kristol got a call from columnist Charles Krauthammer, and
both were fuming over what they saw as unfinished business.”

Source: Washington Post, March 18, 2003; Page C01
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“A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”
Prepared by the Jerusalem-based Institute for Advanced
Strategic and Political Studies' Study Group on a New Israeli
Strategy Toward 2000
A report prepared in 1996 by a neoconservative study group led
by Richard Perle for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu. We read in the report:
“removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq” is “an
important Israeli strategic objective in its own right.”
Participants in the Study Group on "A New Israeli Strategy
Toward 2000:"
Richard Perle, American Enterprise Institute, Study Group
Leader
James Colbert, Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs
Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Johns Hopkins University/SAIS
Douglas Feith, Feith and Zell Associates
Robert Loewenberg, President, Institute for Advanced Strategic
and Political Studies
Jonathan Torop, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy
David Wurmser, Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political
Studies
Meyrav Wurmser, Johns Hopkins University
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1438.htm
“ If we destroy the Taliban in Afghanistan, and I’m confident
we will, and we then go on to destroy the regime of Saddam
Hussein, and we certainly could if we chose to do so, I think we
would have an impressive case to make to the Syrians… We
could deliver a short message, a two-word message: “You're
next.”---- Richard Perle, Chairman of the Defense Policy Board,

an advisory panel to the Defense Department, and a resident
fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, “Next Stop, Iraq,”
FPRI, 11/14/2001, http://www.fpri.org/article/2012/08/next-
stop-iraq/
Neocons turn on Bush for incompetence over Iraq war: Several
prominent neoconservatives have turned on George Bush days
before critical midterm elections, lambasting his administration
for incompetence in the handling of the Iraq war and
questioning the wisdom of the 2003 invasion they were
instrumental in promoting. Guardian, 11/4/2006,
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/nov/04/iraq.midterms2
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“A free Iraq will help secure Israel”
---U.S. President George W. Bush, September 2004 (NPR,
9/30/2004)
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“I'm going to get it right for those soldiers because it's
important to Israel”
--U.S. Senator and Presidential Candidate John Kerry,
September 2004 (NPR, 9/30/2004)
“If you believe that the State of Israel will be more secure if the
United States fails in Iraq, you and I have a disagreement.” ---
Republican presidential candidate John McCain (JTA,
10/30/2007)

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Iraq was invaded 'to protect Israel' - US official
Philip Zelikow, a member of the president’s Foreign
Intelligence Advisory Board (2001—03), executive director of
the 9/11 Commission, and counselor to Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice (2005-06), told a crowd at the University of
Virginia on September 10, 2002, speaking on a panel of foreign
policy experts assessing the impact of September 11 and the
future of the war on al-Qaeda:
“Why would Iraq attack America or use nuclear weapons against
us? I'll tell you what I think the real threat [is] and actually has
been since 1990 - it's the threat against Israel… And this is the
threat that dare not speak its name, because the Europeans don't
care deeply about that threat, I will tell you frankly. And the
American government doesn't want to lean too hard on it
rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell.”
Emad Mekay, “Iraq was invaded 'to protect Israel' - US
official,” Asia Times Online, 31 March 2004,
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FC31Aa01.html
John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Foreign Policy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux I, 2007,
page 31
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“The war was about Israel’s security”
Group* Urges Pro-Israel Leaders' Silence on Iraq;
Memo Outlines Response If Hostilities Occur, Discourages

Lecturing of Americans on Middle East” The Washington Post,
November 27, 2002:
“You do not want Americans to believe that the war on Iraq is
being waged to protect Israel rather than to protect America.”
The memo coached: "(A)s an Israeli, most certainly don't talk
about why some Arab leaders and their people dislike the
United States. Americans don't want to be told by an Israeli why
we have problems in the Middle East or why people hate us."
*the Israel Project, a group funded by American Jewish
organizations and individual donors.
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Israeli newspaper Haaretz
5 April 2003
The U.S. war in Iraq was conceived “by a small group of 25 or
30 neoconservatives, almost all of them Jewish.”
Amos Gilad, one of Israel’ premier spymasters, called the
American invasion of Iraq a “miracle for Israel” --- Scott Ritter,
Target Iran: the Truth about the White House’s Plans for
Regime Change, New York: Nation Books, 2006, page 32.
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Moran steps down from leadership post
Lawmaker under fire for saying Jews push war with Iraq
CNN, March 14, 2003.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/14/moran.remarks/
index.html

CNN, March 11, 2003,
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/03/11/moran.jews/ind
ex.html
Lawmaker under fire for saying Jews support Iraq war
Moran apologizes; White House blasts comments
The War Began March 19, 2003
Watch [Former US Congresswoman] Cynthia McKinney: US
Lawmakers FORCED to Support Israel!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_VNOk7Wv5A
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“Jews,” “Israel,” and “America”
Some times the words “Jews,” “Israel,” and “America” are
interchangeable in the minds of many people in the Arab and
Muslim worlds. For example, amidst the bloody chaos and
destruction in U.S.-occupied Iraq, Scott Pelley of CBS News’s
60 Minutes was reported going around and asking Iraqis on the
streets wondering if they had nicknames for Americans. He
found that Iraqis “call American soldiers ‘The Jews,’ as in,
‘Don’t go down that street, the Jews set up a roadblock’”
Source: Thomas Friedman, 2004, “Jews, Israel and America,”
The New York Times, October 24.
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“From Israel's perspective, the longstanding strategic threat of a
massive military attack from the east led by Iraq through Jordan

no longer exists because of the [Iraq] war.” --- Jewish Anti-
Defamation League National Director Abraham H. Foxman,
August 2006 (ADL, 8/1/2006)
Abe Foxman takes position at Israeli think tank
(JTA) — Abraham Foxman, the former longtime head of the
Anti-Defamation League, has accepted a role at an Israeli policy
think tank.
Foxman will be a distinguished nonresident fellow at the
Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, the
organization announced in a news release sent Wednesday.
He will work on “issues of combating anti-Semitism and
assaults on the state of Israel,” according to the release. Foxman
will perform research on Israeli-American relations, as well as
the ties between Israeli and Diaspora Jews. Jewish Telegraphic
Agency, 9/30/2015, http://www.jta.org/2015/09/30/news-
opinion/united-states/adls-abe-foxman-takes-position-at-israeli-
think-tank
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Israel’s 1957 secret plan to partition Iraq
Indian journalist Rustom Khurshedji Karanjia published the
book The dagger of Israel (Bombay, Blitz Publications, 1957).
(‫ر‬. ‫ك‬. ‫ايجنارك‬، ‫رجنخ‬ ‫ليئارسإ‬، ‫حرش‬ ‫قيلعتو‬ ‫ماسب‬ ‫يلسعلا‬، ‫اد‬ ‫ر‬
. (16 ‫ص‬ ،0891 ،‫ي‬ ‫األول‬ ‫عة‬ ‫ب‬ ‫ط‬ ‫ال‬ ،‫يروت‬ ‫ب‬ ،‫يرة‬ ‫س‬ ‫م‬ ‫ال‬
In the book, Karanjia published a secret Israeli plan involving,
among other things, the partition of Iraq
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Ze'ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Israel’s leading
newspaper Ha'aretz, wrote on 2 June 1982:

The “best” that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: “The
dissolution of Iraq into a Shi'ite state, a Sunni state and the
separation of the Kurdish part” (Ha'aretz 6/2/1982).
"Israel, which has had a close clandestine relationship with
Kurdish groups that dates to the 1960s, has generally been
supportive of Kurdish rights. In January, Justice Minister
Ayelet Shaked expressed support for Kurdish independence."
The Jerusalem Post, 5/12/2016, http://www.jpost.com/Middle-
East/This-is-our-1948-Kurds-kindle-a-close-relationship-with-
Jews-and-Israel-453715
Boots on the ground: U.S. Special Forces pictured fighting side-
by-side with Kurds just 18 miles from ISIS capital Raqqa
U.S. Special Forces seen near the front line in Syria with
Kurdish troops
They are believed to be just 18 miles from ISIS' de facto
capital, Raqqa
Soldiers are meant to be advising Kurds but pictures suggest
active role
Forces were seen in town of Fatisah just hours after ISIS
militants left
Turkish fury after U.S. soldiers wore badges of Kurdish unit
linked to PKK
Daily Mail, 5/27/2016, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-
3613190/U-S-Special-Forces-fighting-Kurds-line-Syria-just-18-
miles-ISIS-capital-Raqqa.html
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Oded Yinon's “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties”
Oded Yinon's article which appeared in Kivunim (Directions),
the journal of the Department of Information of the World
Zionist Organization. Oded Yinon is an Israeli journalist and
was formerly attached to the Foreign Ministry of Israel.

This essay originally appeared in Hebrew in KIVUNIM
(Directions), A Journal for Judaism and Zionism; Issue No, 14--
Winter, 5742, February 1982, Editor: Yoram Beck. Editorial
Committee: Eli Eyal, Yoram Beck, Amnon Hadari, Yohanan
Manor, Elieser Schweid. Published by the Department of
Publicity/The World Zionist Organization, Jerusalem.
Published by the Association of Arab-American University
Graduates, Inc. , Belmont, Massachusetts, 1982 , Special
Document No. 1, (ISBN 0-937694-56-8),
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/The%20Zionist%
20Plan%20for%20the%20Middle%20East.pdf
“The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel
must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect
the division of the whole area into small states by the
dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend
on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state.
Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states
become Israel's satellites and, ironically, its source of moral
legitimation.”--Khalil Nakhleh
“All the Arab States east of Israel are torn apart, broken up and
riddled with inner conflict even more than those of the
Maghreb… Lebanon's total dissolution into five provinces
serves as a precedent for the entire Arab world including Egypt,
Syria, Iraq and the Arabian peninsula and is already following
that track. The dissolution of Syria and Iraq later on into
ethnically or religiously unique areas such as in Lebanon, is
Israel's primary target on the Eastern front in the long run,
while the dissolution of the military power of those states
serves as the primary short term target…. Iraq, rich in oil on
the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a
candidate for Israel's targets. Its dissolution is even more
important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria.
In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest
threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and

cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a
struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab
confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the
way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into
denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon. In Iraq, a division
into provinces along ethnic/religious lines as in Syria during
Ottoman times
is possible. So, three (or more) states will exist around the
three major cities: Basra, Baghdad and Mosul, and Shi'ite areas
in the south will separate from the Sunni and Kurdish north. It
is possible that the present Iranian-Iraqi confrontation will
deepen this polarization.”--Oded Yinon
See also: http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-
zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815 and
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/The%20Zionist%
20Plan%20for%20the%20Middle%20East.pdf
Israel sees opportunity in possible US strike on Iraq
Israel promised support and assistance this week for a US war
against Iraq
“If the Americans do not do this now,” said Israeli Deputy
Defense Minister and Labor Party member Weizman Shiry on
Wednesday, “it will be harder to do it in the future. In a year or
two, Saddam Hussein will be further along in developing
weapons of mass destruction. It is a world interest, but
especially an American interest to attack Iraq.”
“And as deputy defense minister, I can tell you that the United
States will receive any assistance it needs from Israel,” he
added…
In the view of Bar-Ilan University political scientist Menachem
Klein, "it is too pessimistic to think that under cover of an

attack on Iraq and in an atmosphere of Palestinian pro-Saddam
demonstrations, Israel can transfer out the Palestinian
population. What Israel can do is to expel Arafat and
completely destroy the Palestinian Authority."
Yuval Steinitz, a Likud party member of the Knesset's Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee, says he sees another advantage
for Israel. The installation of a pro-American government in
Iraq would help Israel vis-à-vis another enemy: Syria.
"After Iraq is taken by US troops and we see a new regime
installed as in Afghanistan, and Iraqi bases become American
bases, it will be very easy to pressure Syria to stop supporting
terrorist organizations like Hizbullah and Islamic Jihad, to
allow the Lebanese army to dismantle Hizbullah, and maybe to
put an end to the Syrian occupation in Lebanon," he says. "If
this happens we will really see a new Middle East."
Source: The Christian Science Monitor, August 30, 2002,
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0830/p08s01-wome.htm
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Gelb’s Idea of Partitioning Iraq
Leslie Gelb, former editor and columnist for The Times and
president emeritus of the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in
The New York Times of 11/25/2003:
The United States should “move in stages toward a three-state
solution: Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center and Shiites in
the south.”
Senator Joseph R. Biden of Delaware, chairman of the Foreign
Relations Committee and candidate for the Democratic
presidential nomination, picked up the idea, while The New
York Times of 19 August 2007 dubbed it “The Biden-Gelb
plan.”
10 new wars that could be unleashed as a result of the one

against ISIS
[partly because the U.S. strategy relies on a variety of regional
allies and local armed groups who are often bitterly at odds].
WAR NO. 1: U.S.-backed Syrian Kurdish forces and Turkish-
backed Arab forces
WAR NO. 2: Turkey and the Syrian Kurds
WAR NO. 3: Syrian Kurds and the Syrian government
WAR NO. 4: The United States and Syria
WAR NO. 5: Turkey and Syria
WAR NO. 6: Iraqi Kurds and the Iraqi government
WAR NO. 7: Iraqi Kurds and Shiite militias
WAR NO. 8: Kurds against Kurds
WAR NO. 9: Sunni Arabs against Shiites and/or Kurds
WAR NO. 10: The remnants of the Islamic State against
everyone
The Islamic State still controls a big chunk of territory in Syria
and Iraq. Offensives to control its twin capitals, Mosul and
Raqqa, have yet to begin. If the groups who are supposed to
participate in the offensives fight among themselves, those
battles could be delayed indefinitely.
Even if they don’t, these other conflicts, left unresolved, will
herald long-term instability in the region. Military gains are
not being matched by political solutions to the wider chaos and
dysfunction that enabled the rise of the Islamic State in the first
place. If the current war begets new wars, the Islamic State may
yet endure.
The Washington Post, 9/7/2016,
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/
07/10-new-wars-that-could-be-unleashed-as-a-result-of-the-one-
against-isis /
The “best” that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: “The
dissolution of Iraq into a Shi'ite state, a Sunni state and the
separation of the Kurdish part” (Ha'aretz 6/2/1982).

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Sunday evening
that Israel supports the establishment of an independent Kurdish
state in northern Iraq. Haaretz, 6/30/2014,
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-
1.601997
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On 27 September, the Senate passed a resolution (75-23) urging
the Bush administration to support "a political settlement
among Iraq's major factions based upon the provisions of the
Constitution of Iraq that create a federal system of government
and allow for the creation of federal regions." CNN.com
9/30/07…. Heartland Eurasian Review of Geopolitics
[originally created in China and Italy!?] apparently made and
posted this map on its website, http://temi.repubblica.it/limes-
heartland/iraqs-partition/1106
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/15/opinion/sunday/ross-
douthat-changing-maps-in-the-mideast.html
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How 5 Countries Could Become 14
Slowly, the map of the Middle East could be redrawn.
An analysis by Robin Wright, The New York Times, 9/28/2013,
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/09/29/sunday-
review/how-5-countries-could-become-14.html
SYRIA: THE TRIGGER?
Sectarian and ethnic rivalries could break it into at least three
pieces:

1. Alawites, a minority that has controlled Syria for decades,
dominate a coastal corridor.
2. A Syrian Kurdistan could break off and eventually merge
with the Kurds of Iraq.
3. The Sunni heartland secedes and then may combine with
provinces in Iraq to form Sunnistan.
SPILLOVER TO IRAQ
In the simplest of several possibilities, northern Kurds join
Syrian Kurds. Many central areas, dominated by Sunnis, join
Syria’s Sunnis. And the south becomes Shiitestan. It’s not likely
to be so clean.
LIBYA UNGLUED
As a result of powerful tribal and regional rivalries, Libya could
break into its two historic parts — Tripolitania and Cyrenaica
— and possibly a third Fezzan state in the southwest.
YEMEN SPLITS
The poorest Arab country could break (again) into two pieces
following a potential referendum in South Yemen on
independence.
PRE-MONARCHY SAUDI ARABIA
Long term, Saudi Arabia faces its own (suppressed) internal
divisions that could surface as power shifts to the next
generation of princes. The kingdom’s unity is further threatened
by tribal differences, the Sunni-Shiite divide and economic
challenges. It could break into the five regions that preceded the
modern state.
In a more powerful twist, all or part of South Yemen could then
become part of Saudi Arabia. Nearly all Saudi commerce is via
sea, and direct access to the Arabian Sea would diminish
dependence on the Persian Gulf — and fears of Iran’s ability to
cut off the Strait of Hormuz.
Ian Greenhalgh, "ESSENTIAL READING: The Zionist plan for
the Middle East," VT, 1/9/2017,
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/01/09/the-zionist-plan-for-
the-middle-east/

When asked by Nahum Barnea and Shimon Shiffer of the Israeli
newspaper Yediot Ahronot to clarify whether there was any
Israeli involvement in his decision to invade Iraq, President
George W. Bush said “No, not at all. None whatsoever.”[1]
Elsewhere in the same interview President Bush acknowledged
that “one of the things in politics that happens often is people
sometimes won't tell you really what's on their mind.” [1] The
White House, “Interview of the President by Nahum Barnea and
Shimon Shiffer of Yediot Ahronot,” Oval Office, 2 January
2008,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/01/20080104-
9.html
Tariq Aziz [was a member of the Revolutionary Command
Council, a leader of the Ba'ath party, Iraq’s deputy prime
minister, foreign minister]: 'Britain and the US killed Iraq. I
wish I was martyred': .... "Bush and Blair lied intentionally.
They were both pro-Zionist. They wanted to destroy Iraq for the
sake of Israel, not for the sake of the US and Britain."....
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/05/iraq-us-tariq-
aziz-iran
At a moment when almost all countries around the world were
offering sincere sympathy and support to the United States after
the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Bush addressed the world in
these terms:
“Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make.
Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.”
http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2001-09/a-2001-09-
21-14-Bush.cfm
Lloyd Gardner and Marilyn Young reported that President

George W. Bush said:
“I’m driven with a mission from God. God would tell me,
George, go and fight those terrorists in Afghanistan. An I did,
and then God would tell me, George, go and end the tyranny in
Iraq.”
Lloyd Gardner and Marilyn Young, “Introduction,” in Lloyd
Gardner and Marilyn Young, eds. Iraq and the Lessons of
Vietnam, Or How Not to Learn from the Past, New York: The
new Press, 2007, pp. 1-15, page 12.
March 19, 2008: President Bush spoke at the Pentagon to mark
the fifth anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom:
“The battle in Iraq is noble, necessary, and just.”
The White House, 3/19/2008
March 19, 2008: President Bush spoke at the Pentagon to mark
the fifth anniversary of Operation Iraqi Freedom:
“The battle in Iraq is noble, necessary, and just.”
“Defeating the enemy in Iraq will make it less likely we will
face this enemy here at home.”
“Because we acted against Saddam Hussein, the world is better
and America is safer.”
“The ‘Surge’ Strategy Has Produced Dramatic Results In Iraq”
“The Stakes In Iraq Are Great”
“Political Progress Is Taking Place In Iraq” [10/2005: new
constitution; 12/2005: election under new constitution]
The White House, 3/19/2008
President George W. Bush speaks to members of the Regimental
Combat Team-2, Marine Wing Support Combat Patrol at Al
Asad Airbase, Al Anbar Province, Iraq, Monday, September 3,
2007. White House photo by Eric Draper, The White House,

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/09/images/2007
0903-1_d-0318-4-515h.html
Karen Hughes, Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy
and Public Affairs , said she was tired of seeing the president
presented as a “caricature.”
The New York Times, 10/31/2007
President Bush told the AEI neoconservatives: “You are some
of the best brains in our country and my government employs
about 20 of you.” …"Employs" is too weak a verb,” wrote
James Atlas.
The New York Times, May 4, 2003
Israel
USA
Al-Majalla , 4/21/2001, http://www.al-majalla.com/ar/
A representation of the stereotypical view of US-Israel relations
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America
Palestine
Iraq
Afghanistan
Pakistan
Libya
Lebanon

Syria
Sudan
Yemen
Iran
Islam
Etcetera
Israel
Adapted from Work by Ian Antonio, http://www.creative-
holidays-spain.com/painting.html
“I know what America is.. America is a thing you can move
very easily, move it in the right direction.”--Benjamin
Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, 1996-99 & 2009-present,
“Fibi Netanyahu, In 2001, PM boasted of manipulating Oslo
accords,” Tablet: A New Read on Jewish Life,
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/39692/fibi-netanyahu
Benjamin Netanyahu, quoted in Naomi Zeveloff, “What Do
Israelis Think About Americans?”, The Jewish Daily Forward,
March 8, 2015, http://forward.com/articles/216074/what-do-
israelis-think-about-americans-start-with
Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, 1996-99 & 2009-
present, when asked what 9/11 would mean for American-Israeli
relations, responded: "It's very good." Realizing his maladroit
gaffe, he then added: "Well, it's not good, but it will generate
immediate sympathy" for Israel from the United States:
http://www.counterpunch.org/sugg10252005.html
“The U.S. can no longer afford $725 billion each year for
defense, much of it borrowed. Given the poor return on our
investment, it’s clear we need another strategy, one free of
Zionist goals that advance behind serial conflicts and the debt
incurred to fund them. We know what to do. What’s required is
the leadership to do it.” Jeff Gates, 12/29/2010,
http://criminalstate.com/2010/12/a-commonsense-solar-defense/
“There’s no question in my mind that months before 9/11, some
ranking leaders at the top of the government already anticipated

this strike scenario, and decided that Iraq would pay the
ultimate price if and when this 9/11 style of attack occurred.
They were already prepping parts of the Intelligence
Community to accept the inevitability of War with Iraq in the
aftermath….
In mid June [2001], an Al Qaeda video became public, in which
Osama bin Laden announced, “Your brothers in Palestine are
waiting for you. It’s time to penetrate America and Israel, and
hit them where it hurts the most”—[“U.S. Asset”] Susan
Lindauer, Extreme Prejudice: The Terrifying Story of the
Patriot Act and the Cover Ups of 9/11 and Iraq , 2010, Made in
the USA, Lexington, Kentucky, May 3, 2011, pages 21, 24.
“Of course, while Israel employs many proxies in the service of
its security interests, the proxy of choice, and by far the most
powerful and capable of these proxies, is the United States…
America, in the eyes of those who formulate Israeli security
policy, is but a tool to be wielded in support of the larger Israeli
interest” --- Scott Ritter, Target Iran: the Truth about the White
House’s Plans for Regime Change, New York: Nation Books,
2006. page 33-34.
"only by force can a Jewish state in Palestine be established or
maintained"--US Army Lt. Col. Harold Hoskins, 1943
Attorney Brian Shaughnessy wrote, “Ms. Lindauer was always
competent to stand trial, only the Justice Department wanted to
avoid embarrassing revelations from her case”, page vii
‘a minnow swallowing a whale’ ‘the tail wagging the dog’
27
Islamic world
Israel
USA

alarabonline, http://www.alarab.co.uk/
President Bush Middle East Tour
The Israelis
The Americans
The Arabs
Millions Worldwide Protest Iraq War
LONDON, Feb.15 -- Several million demonstrators took to the
streets of Europe and the rest of the world today in a vast wave
of protest against the prospect of a U.S.-led war against Iraq.
Washington Post
Sunday, February 16, 2003
Madrid, Spain
Berlin, Germany
Istanbul, Turkey

Prague, Czech Rep.
Sydney, Australia
Seoul, South Korea
London, United Kingdom
Rome, Italy
New York, USA
John E. Peters and Howard Deshong, Out of Area or Out of
Reach: European Military Support for Operations in Southwest
Asia, National Defense Research Institute, Prepared for the

Office of the Secretary of Defense, RAND, 1995, pages 23-24,
http://www.rand.org/pubs/monograph_reports/2007/MR629.pdf
U.S.-Led Coalition Air and Ground Forces Deployed Against
Iraq in the 1991 Gulf War
In the wake of the US invasion of Iraq in 2003
Iraq did not even control its airspace, shorelines, or a third of
its territory.
Iraq was still recovering from:
The Iran-Iraq war 1980-88
The Gulf war of 1991
The no-fly zone war 1991-03
CIA Covert Operations 1995-96
UN/US Sanctions 1990-2003 (Sanctions killed some 1.7 million
Iraqis between 1990-2000, WRMA 12/31/00)
Depleted uranium 1991– present
Some have said that the DU used in Iraq makes the Agent
Orange used in Vietnam look like “orange juice.”
DoD, http://www.defendamerica.mil/iraq/iraq_nofly.html
Professor Doug Rokke, the US army physicist in charge of
cleaning up depleted uranium in Kuwait told film maker John
Pilger (The Secret War on Iraq, 12/20/2002):
“I am like most people in southern Iraq. I have 5,000 times the
recommended level of radiation in my body.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-8PlJVhogs

40
“The conventional wisdom about Nixon-Kissinger relationship
was that they worked as equals, or even that Kissinger was the
teacher and Nixon the student” p. 135
“When I returned to government service in 2001, I invited
Henry [Kissinger] to join the Defense Policy Board. He was
routinely involved in advising me on national security issues. I
also arranged for him to be able to meet regularly and privately
with President Bush” p. 206
“Fifteen days after 9/11, the President asked me to join him in
the Oval Office alone… He asked that I take a look at the shape
of our military plans on Iraq… ‘Dick told me about your son’,
he [Bush] said… What happened to [my son] Nick [who suffers
from drug addiction]—coupled with the [9/11] wounds to our
country and the Pentagon—all started to hit me. At that
moment, I couldn’t speak… I had not imagined I might choke
up in a meeting with the President of the United States” p. 425-
426
"I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go down as one of the worst
secretaries of defence in history”—Senator John McCain,
Sentinel, 2011
In the book My Year in Iraq (Simon & Schuster, 2006),
Ambassador L. Paul Bremer III wrote, “Among my own
assignments during almost three decades and as an American
diplomat, I’d been Secretary of State Henry Kissinger’s chief of
staff and ambassador-at-large for counterterrorism under
President Ronald Reagan, jobs that had taken me to almost

every capital in the region. Every one but Baghdad.” Page 4
Paul Bremer “ was a radical neocon ideologue who had cut his
teeth working for Henry Kissinger”—Jeremy Scahill,
Democracy Now, 10/3/2014,
http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/3/jeremy_scahill_on_ob
amas_orwellian_war
2006
As the senior American in Baghdad, I would be President
George W. Bush’s personal envoy. My chain of command ran
through Secretary of of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and straight
to the president. I would be the only paramount authority
figure—other than dictator Saddam--Iraqis had ever known.
Page 4
2006
Like Adolf Hitler, Saddam was convinced destiny had chosen
him for greatness… On May 9 [2003], my last day of
preparation at the Pentagon, Don Rumsfeld had given me my
marching orders in a memo… Undersecretary Douglas Feith had
shown me a draft order for the ‘De-Baathification of Iraqi
Society.’ He had underscored the political importance of the
decree. ‘We’ve got to show all the Iraqis that we’re serious
about building a New Iraq. Page 39
2006
In early May [2003], before we left for Iraq, [Senior Advisor for
defense and security affairs, Walt] Slocombe had began
discussions with top Pentagon officials, including Deputy

Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, about the policy
implications of Saddam’s army having melted away. Page 54
Proposal to Arm Sunnis Adds to Iraqi Suspicions of the U.S.
"Iraqis have long suspected a nefarious plot by the Americans to
break up their country... when news came out this week that
congressional Republicans were proposing to directly arm Iraqi
Sunnis and Kurds without the involvement of the Shiite-led
central government, it was immediately and widely taken as
proof that the American plot against Iraq had entered a new
phase." New York Times, April 30, 2015,
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/01/world/middleeast/proposal-
to-arm-sunnis-adds-to-iraqi-suspicions-of-the-us.html
2006
On May 9, 2003, the day before our departure, I sent a memo to
Secretary Rumsfeld, copied to Wolfowitz, DOD’s policy office
and the General Counsel, summarizing these discussions and the
tentative conclusion that we should formally dissolve Saddam’s
army as well the security and intelligence services as a prelude
to establishing Iraq’s new security services … and because we
have to take into account the ethnic make-up and the history of
the country, assembling a New Iraqi Army (NIA) would not be
easy. Page 54
Iraq turmoil today a consequence of 2003 invasion – ex-UN
chief Annan
The fragile state Iraq is now in is directly linked to the US-led
invasion of 2003, which happened without a US Security
Council mandate, Kofi Annan, who was UN Secretary General
between 1997 and 2006, told RT.
“You cannot disassociate the situation in Iraq today from the
US intervention of 2003. Because not only did the intervention
take place, but they dismantled the Iraqi Army, which was the

tool of Saddam to maintain law and order,” Annan said in
Oksana Boyko’s Worlds Apart show.
“The civil service, the Baathist Party were all [dismantled]. So
the structures and state institutions vanished overnight, creating
a very serious vacuum, which has led to where we are today. So
I don't think anybody can argue with that. The link is clear,” he
added. RT, May 1, 2015, http://rt.com/news/254881-annan-
interview-iraq-intervention/
2006
The “exiles” comprised the small Iraqi Leadership Council
(ILC) who had been selected during a conference of several
hundred Iraqis in London in December 2002, which in turn had
been a product of the Iraqi Liberation Act that President Bill
Clinton had signed into law in 1998. This law made it U.S.
policy to support efforts to “… remove the regime headed by
Saddam Hussein.” Page 42….
On Friday [May 16, 2003] afternoon, we were expecting seven
Iraqi representatives to meet us in the palace conference room
where I held staff meeting. The group, whom we had come to
refer to as the G-7, included:
Ahmad Chalabi, of the Iraqi National Congress,a Shiite
Ayad Allawi, leader of the Iraqi National Accord, also a secular
Shiite, was Chalabi’s chief rival
The two Kurds were Massoud Barzani, head of the Kurdish
Democratic Party, and his sometime ally and sometime rival,
Jalal Talabani of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
The ILC also included Naseer Chaderchi, a respected seventy-
year-old Sunni lawyer, who led the small, secular National
Party
The other Shiite Islamist party, the Supreme Council for the
Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), was represented by Dr.

Adel Mahdi and Hamid al-Bayati, reportedly because the party’s
most senior leader in Baghdad, Abdul Aziz Hakim, was ill. I
suspected Hakim’s illness might be “diplomatic,” since he was
known to be distrustful of the Coalition’s motives. Page 46
2006
On May 19, I sent a memo to Secretary Rumsfeld detailing our
recommendations for the dissolution of the Iraqi Defense
Ministry and its ‘related entities.’… At the Pentagon on May 22
[2003], Feith carefully reviewed our draft order, which would
formally abolish Saddam’s security and intelligence services.
He asked us to clarify some of the wording, which we did to his
full satisfaction…. Later that day, when Rumsfeld authorized
me to proceed, I informed the president of the plan in a video
teleconference. On Friday, May 23, 2003, I signed CPA Order
No. 2, “Dissolution of Entities” Page 57
2006
It was after 11:00 P.M. when Brian McCormack and I got into
my armored SUV for the run back to the Green Zone. Our
convoy, as usual, consisted of two “up-armored” Humvees
sheathed in tan slabs of hardened steel, a lead-armored
Suburban, our Suburban, another armored Suburban following,
and two more Humvees. Overhead, we had a pair of buzzing
Bell helicopters with two Blackwater snipers each. Page 245
Simon & Schuster, 2006
For the last time, and again in the sweltering heat of Baghdad
summer, I took off from the Green Zone for the twenty-minute
flight to Baghdad Airport. The Chinooks landed behind several

camouflaged C-130s, one of which was designated to fly me out
of Iraq….After a ninety-minute flight, we landed at the military
airport in Amman, Jordan. I called Francie, who by now had
seen news reports of the early transfer of sovereignty. “I’m safe
and free,” I said. “And I’m coming home.” Pages 394 and 396
I suppose the best place is to begin at the beginning and to
thank my wonderful agent, Marvin Josephson. It was he, on a
visit to Baghdad, who first suggested that I write this book. So
readers disappointed that I have followed his advice should take
their grievance to Marvin. To me, however, Marvin was gift. I
thank him for his help identifying a publisher and willingness to
give sound advice on the book as the writing proceeded. And I
am further indebted to him for suggesting that I engage
Malcolm McConnell as my collaborator on the project. Page 399
Some media treat March 19, 2003 as the beginning of the war,
but the conflict for ordinary Iraqis never ended in March 1991
following Iraq's defeat and exit from Kuwait. They [the Iraqis]
would endure 12 years of punitive sanctions which the UN
estimates killed nearly 1.7 million Iraqis.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80C83F02-A0D6-4624-
8BD2-106439605C04.htm
Smoke rises from explosions during the first few minutes of a
massive air attack on March 20, 2003 in Baghdad [GETTY]
“War is hell, but for Hollywood it has been a Godsend,
providing the perfect dramatic setting against which courageous
heroes win the hearts and minds of the movie going public. The
Pentagon recognises the power of these celluloid dreams and
encourages Hollywood to create heroic myths; to rewrite history

to suit its own strategy and as a recruiting tool to provide a
steady flow of willing young patriots for its wars....'Give a
nineteen-year-old kid an automatic weapon, and it takes him
four days to become God’” -- Watch “Hollywood and the war
machine” at
http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/empire/2010/12/201012
1681345363793.html
US Human Cost of the Iraq War
Over 4,398 dead and over 31,762 wounded in Iraq
93 dead and 722 wounded from Indiana
US dead and wounded in Iraq by state, 3/2003-3/2010
http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/war.casualties/http://icasualties
.org/Iraq/USCasualtiesByState.aspx
No available estimates of Iraqi wounded
At the end of 12/2007, the number of Iraqi “detainees” stood at
51,133--- UN Assistance Mission for Iraq, December 2007,
http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Press/UNAMIJuly-
December2007EN.pdf
Iraq’s cultural heritage (National Library and Archives,
National Museum, and other significant cultural heritage sites)
was looted
“Over 1000,000 Iraqi citizens have died as a result of the
conflict which started in 2003” ---The British Opinion Research
Business, January 2008,
http://www.opinion.co.uk/Newsroom_details.aspx?NewsId=120
See also the impact of sanctions:

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/80C83F02-A0D6-4624-
8BD2-106439605C04.htm
4.7 million Iraqis were made refugees within the country or
across the borders---United Nations News Centre, October
2007,
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=24378&Cr=Ira
q&Cr1=
Iraqi Human Cost of the War
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Source: Iraq Body Count,
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/ and
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/database/individuals/page1
Documented civilian deaths from violence
95,755 – 104,460
Confusion about the numbers produced by the project can be
avoided by bearing in mind that: (1) IBC’s figures are not
‘estimates’ but a record of actual, documented deaths.; (2) IBC
records solely violent deaths; (3) IBC records solely civilian
(strictly, ‘non-combatant’) deaths.; (4) IBC’s figures are
constantly updated and revised as new data comes in, and
frequent consultation is advised.
http://www.iraqbodycount.org/about/
Falluja doctors report rise in birth defects:
Doctors in the Iraqi city of Falluja are reporting a high level of
birth defects, with some blaming weapons used by the US after
the Iraq invasion. BBC, 3/4/2010,
Financial Cost

“The Iraq War Will Cost Us $3 Trillion, and Much More
As we head toward November [2008], opinion polls say that
voters' main worry is now the economy, not the war. But there's
no way to disentangle the two. The United States will be paying
the price of Iraq for decades to come. The price tag will be all
the greater because we tried to ignore the laws of economics --
and the cost will grow the longer we remain”
Linda J. Bilmes, a former chief financial officer at the
Commerce Department, teaches at Harvard University's
Kennedy School of Government. Joseph E. Stiglitz, a professor
at Columbia University, served as chairman of the Council of
Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton. They are co-
authors of "The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the
Iraq Conflict. The Washington Post, 3/9/2008,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2008/03/07/AR2008030702846_2.html
Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study
(Reuters) - The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an
additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans,
expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next
four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday
said. Reuter, 3/14/2013,
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/14/us-iraq-war-
anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314
President-elect Donald Trump said: "We've spent as of this
week according to the latest count, we've spent $6 trillion in the
Middle East." "THANK YOU" Rally in Cincinnati, Ohio (12-1-
2016) Trump Live Ohio Speech,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fbDUWe4ko
“Three trillion dollars is a lot of money. In fact, for one sixth of
that money, the US could put its entire social security system on
a sound financial basis for the next 75 years.” BBC, 2/26/2008

US House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security
Hearing on Wartime Contracting
There are 280,000 contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan (80
percent of the foreign nationals)—a ratio of 1 contractor per
soldier deployed (C-Span, 8/21/2009)
“the State Department continues to award the company,
formerly known as Blackwater, more than $400 million in
contracts to fly its diplomats around Iraq, guard them in
Afghanistan, and train security forces in antiterrorism tactics at
its remote camp in North Carolina” (The New York Times,
8/21/2009)
An American flag flies in front of the United States Embassy in
Baghdad.
By TIM ARANGO, New York Times, February 7, 2012
U.S. Planning to Slash Iraq Embassy Staff by as Much as Half
“BAGHDAD — Less than two months after American troops
left, the State Department is preparing to slash by as much as
half the enormous diplomatic presence it had planned for Iraq, a
sharp sign of declining American influence in the country.
Officials in Baghdad and Washington said that Ambassador
James F. Jeffrey and other senior State Department officials
were reconsidering the size and scope of the embassy, where the
staff has swelled to nearly 16,000 people, mostly contractors.
The expansive diplomatic operation and the $750 million
embassy building, the largest of its kind in the world, were
billed as necessary to nurture a postwar Iraq on its shaky path to
democracy and establish normal relations between two countries
linked by blood and mutual suspicion. But the Americans have

been frustrated by what they see as Iraqi obstructionism and are
now largely confined to the embassy because of security
concerns, unable to interact enough with ordinary Iraqis to
justify the $6 billion annual price tag.” New York Times,
2/7/2012
SYNOPSIS: These extraordinary times--unprecedented in
modern history--are marked by a worldwide depression and
regional wars involving all the major imperial powers. This
book exposes the roots of the crisis in the unsustainability of
the United States' military-driven empire building based on a
volatile speculative economy, and influenced by Zionist policy
makers committed to the colonialist state of Israel. It offers a
critical study of the collapse of the empire and a profound
indictment of the respectable and prestigious personalities
either responsible for the debacle, or for its continuance. Petras
provides clear insight into how the ramifications of the world
depression and regional wars that originated in Washington and
on Wall Street are extending throughout the world, provoking
popular challenges especially in Latin America, while
reinforcing the belligerency and increasingly fascistic nature of
the state of Israel. He demonstrates how unending wars and a
deepening capitalist depression have demolished the ideology of
free market neo-liberalism and forced to the forefront the need
for structural changes. He points out how the collapse of the
capitalist free market and the need for large-scale, long-term
interventions by the state have once again raised the question of
whose interests states are presently promoting, and whose
interests in actuality they should serve. Both in the United
States and Latin America, center-left regimes are proposing
economic reforms to try to save the capitalist system. However
the deepening crisis is raising the prospect of mass support for
21st Century socialism, which focuses on public investment,
ownership and control.

THE AUTHOR: James Petras is a Bartle Professor (Emeritus) of
Sociology at Binghamton University, New York. He is the
author of 64 books published in 29 languages, and over 560
articles in professional journals, including the American
Sociological Review, British Journal of Sociology, Social
Research, Journal of Contemporary Asia, and Journal of Peasant
Studies. He has published over 2000 articles in nonprofessional
journals such as the New York Times, the Guardian, the Nation,
Christian Science Monitor, Foreign Policy, New Left Review,
Partisan Review, Temps Moderne, Le Monde Diplomatique, and
his commentary is widely carried on the internet.
Source: The James Petras Website, 8/21/2009,
http://petras.lahaine.org/articulo.php?p=1785&more=1&c=1
U.S. debt overpowers National Debt Clock
NEW YORK (AP) -- The National Debt Clock in New York City
has run out of digits to record the growing figure. As a short-
term fix, the digital dollar sign on the billboard-style clock near
Times Square has been switched to a figure -- the "1" in $10
trillion. It's marking the federal government's current debt at
about $10.2 trillion. The Durst Organization says it plans to
update the sign next year by adding two digits. That will make
it capable of tracking debt up to a quadrillion dollars. The late
Manhattan real estate developer Seymour Durst put the sign up
in 1989 to call attention to what was then a $2.7 trillion debt.
CNN, October 30, 2008,
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/10/09/national.debt.clock.ap/#cnn
STCText
U.S. national debt clock in Times Square, New York.

U.S.-run Abu Ghraib prison
near Baghdad
U.N. expert says torture in Iraq worse than under Saddam, USA
Today, 9/21/2006
ISIS leader was in US custody for 1 year, RT, 2/19/2015,
http://rt.com/news/233583-isis-leader-baghdadi-files
On February 7, 2002, President Bush signs an executive order
that says Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions does not
apply to Qaeda and Taliban captives. NYT, 12/8/07
Moral Cost
Top interrogators attended an "anti-terror" training camp in
Israel and their boss received an award from Israeli Defense
Minister Shaul Mofaz—Robert Fisk, The Independent, 5/26/
2004
Video--Inside the U.S. Torture Chambers: Prisoner’s
Guantánamo Diary Details 12 Years of Abuse, Terror,
Democracy Now,
1/22/2015,http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/22/inside_the_
us_torture_chambers_prisoners
For two detainees who told what they knew, Guantanamo
becomes a gilded cage
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2010/03/24/AR2010032403135_pf.html
Did this savagery inspire ISIS?
‘I helped create ISIS’: Iraq War veteran says US policy caused
'blowback' in Middle East, RT, 12/30/2015,
https://www.rt.com/usa/327404-usa-helped-create-isis-marine/
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No diplomacy!
No gaffe!
Vice President Joe Biden celebrated the 2009 Independence Day
with US troops, including his soldier son Beau, at their base
near Baghdad, giving a speech that mocked Saddam Hussein….
“We did it in Saddam's palace and I can think of nothing
better… That SOB is rolling over in his grave right now.”
Alarabiya, 7/4/2009,
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/07/04/77806.html
Haaretz, 7/4/2009,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1097692.html
Video: Unfinished Business
An expose on the U.S. government’s overt and covert attempts
to oust Sadam Hussein from power in Iraq
By Peter Jennings, ABC News, 1997
The Anti-Saddam Comic Book: PETER JENNINGS (VO)
“According to the Rendon group's own records, which we have
obtained, Rendon spent more than $23 million in the first year
of its contract alone. Rendon organized a traveling photo
exhibit of Iraqi atrocities. He produced videos and radio skits
that ridiculed Saddam Hussein, even an anti-Saddam comic
book. The mission to eliminate the Iraqi dictator began as a
covert public relations campaign.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZHHAI-eq2I
The CIA considered even depicting Saddam as gay
“According to the Washington Post's security blog, some of
America's spooks believed that shooting a fake video of Saddam
cavorting with a teenage boy might destabilise his regime in the
runup to the US-led invasion in 2003. "It would look like it was
taken by a hidden camera. Very grainy, like it was a secret
videotaping of a sex session," the Washington Post quoted one

former CIA official as saying.
Nor was the Saddam sex tape the only idea floating around the
more bizarre corners of the CIA's Iraq Operations Group. Other
ploys involved interrupting Iraqi television with a false
newsflash that would announce Saddam was handing over power
to his hated and feared son Uday. The presumed idea was to
shock the Iraqi people into rising up against their leaders and
thus make the invasion a lot easier.
Perhaps thankfully, the tape and fake news broadcast were never
made and the Post reported that top CIA brass repeatedly
rejected the ideas.” The Guardian, 5/26/2010,
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/may/26/cia-saddam-
hussein-gay-sex-smear-plot
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“Bush Makes Final [Sneak] Visit to Iraq
A man, apparently a journalist, threw two shoes at President
Bush during a news conference in Baghdad”---The New York
Times, December 14, 2008--
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/12/14/multimedia/1194835
546483/bush-makes-final-visit-to-iraq.html
“Hitting someone with a shoe is a strong insult in Iraq. It means
the person is as low as the dirt underneath the sole of a shoe,
and the actions of Muntader al-Zaidi, a correspondent for an
independent Iraqi television station, were condemned by Prime
Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki, the Iraqi government and other
reporters at the news conference. Mr. Bush was unhurt and
made a joke afterward, but the shoes have overshadowed other
news coverage of the trip, including an attempt to showcase the
new security agreement.” NYT, 12/15/2008

Video: Bush Dodges Shoes on Visit to Iraq:
http://video.nytimes.com/video/2008/12/14/multimedia/1194835
546483/bush-makes-final-visit-to-iraq.html
Iraqi reporter shouting: "This is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi
people, you dog."
http://www.alarab.co.uk/index.asp?fname=20081212-
16970c1.htm&dismode=x&ts=16/12/2008%2008:07:36%20‫ص‬
The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC)
The United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) was
created in 1991 as a subsidiary organ of the UN Security
Council. Its mandate is to process claims and pay compensation
for losses and damage suffered as a direct result of Iraq's
unlawful invasion and occupation of Kuwait.
UNCC received approximately 2.7 million claims seeking
approximately US$352.5 billion
So far UNCC awarded approximately US$52.4 billion in respect
of approximately 1.55 million of these claims.
So far UNCC paid a total of US$26 billion to individuals,
corporations, governments and international organizations.
http://www2.unog.ch/uncc/ataglance.htm
“Iraqi parliamentarians are demanding Israel pay billions of
dollars in reparations for a 1981 Israeli attack on an Iraqi
nuclear reactor, Baghdad's daily al-Sabbah reported Thursday
[2/12/2009]. “Iraq MPs seek reparation for 1981 Israeli attack
on nuclear reactor,” Haaretz, 2/12/2009,
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1063718.html

U.S. Occupation and Iraqi Resistance
“Marines Cast as 'Mongols' in Baghdad.”
Time,4/19/2003
Corporal Edward Chin, an ethnic Chinese from Burma, told
CNN's Paula Zahn (4/10/2003): "They wanted a flag on his
head, the American flag."
Aljazeera
Iraq ranked at the bottom of the 149 countries on the Global
Peace Index 2010, http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-
data/#/2010/iraq/IQ
Baghdad ranked at the bottom of the 221 cities of the world's
best quality of living cities in 2010,
http://www.vancouversun.com/life/food/Vancouver+Canucks+fi
gure+they+need+momentum+Game+tonight/2944199/Vienna+w
orld+best+city+live+Study/3073294/story.html?id=3073294#ixz
z0qUeKeRCl
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98.8 percent of the inmates in American detention centers in
Iraq are Iraqis. The New York Times, 11/22/07
92.7 percent of coalition casualties in Iraq are Americans, CNN,
11/22/07
“Agreement Between the United States of America and the
Republic of Iraq On the Withdrawal of United States Forces

from Iraq and the Organization of Their Activities during Their
Temporary Presence in Iraq”
“Signed in duplicate in Baghdad on this 17th day of November,
2008, in the English and Arabic languages, each text being
equally authentic”
“Article 4: Missions: “The Government of Iraq requests the
temporary assistance of the United States Forces for the
purposes of supporting Iraq in its efforts to maintain security
and stability in Iraq, including cooperation in the conduct of
operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, outlaw
groups, and remnants of the former regime.”
Article 12: Jurisdiction: “The United States shall have the
primary right to exercise jurisdiction over members of the
United States Forces and of the civilian component for matters
arising inside agreed facilities and areas; during duty status
outside agreed facilities and areas; and in circumstances not
covered by paragraph 1.”
Article 21: Claims: “With the exception of claims arising from
contracts, each Party shall waive the right to claim
compensation against the other Party for any damage, loss, or
destruction of property, or compensation for injuries or deaths
that could happen to members of the force or civilian
component of either Party arising out of the performance of
their official duties in Iraq.”
Article 24: Withdrawal of the United States Forces from Iraq:
“All the United States Forces shall withdraw from all Iraqi
territory no later than December 31, 2011”
Article 26 Iraqi Assets: “the United States shall ensure
maximum efforts to: a. Support Iraq to obtain forgiveness of
international debt resulting from the policies of the former
regime. b. Support Iraq to achieve a comprehensive and final
resolution of outstanding reparation claims inherited from the
previous regime, including compensation requirements imposed
by the UN Security Council on Iraq.”
Article 27: Deterrence of Security Threats: (1) “In the event of

any external or internal threat or aggression against Iraq that
would violate its sovereignty, political independence, or
territorial integrity, waters, airspace, its democratic system or
its elected institutions, and upon request by the Government of
Iraq, the Parties shall immediately initiate strategic
deliberations and, as may be mutually agreed, the United States
shall take appropriate measures, including diplomatic,
economic, or military measures, or any other measure, to deter
such a threat… Iraqi land, sea, and air shall not be used as a
launching or transit point for attacks against other countries.”
Source: The New York Times, 11/19/2008,
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/world/20081119_SO
FA_FINAL_AGREED_TEXT.pdf
Guide to groups competing in Iraqi polls
STATE OF LAW COALITION--This alliance is led by Prime
Minister Nouri Maliki and purportedly cuts across religious and
tribal lines.
IRAQI NATIONAL ALLIANCE (INA)--This mainly Shia
alliance is seen as one of the biggest rivals to the prime
minister's coalition.
KURDISTAN ALL--The Kurdish coalition is dominated by the
two parties administering Iraq's northern, semi-autonomous
Kurdish region.
AL-IRAQIYYA (IRAQI NATIONAL MOVEMENT)--This
alliance includes national Vice-President Tariq al-Hashemi, a
Sunni Arab, former prime minister Iyad Allawi, a secular Shia,
and senior Sunni politician Saleh al-Mutlaq. They ran on a
nationalist platform.
UNITY OF IRAQ COALITION--This group brings together a
range of significant political figures, including Interior Minister
Jawad Bolani and a leader of the Sunni anti-al-Qaeda militia in
al-Anbar province, Ahmad Abu-Risha.

IRAQI ACCORD FRONT/AL-TAWAFUQ FRONT--The Iraqi
Accord Front, an alliance of parties led by Sunni politicians,
participated in the December 2005 elections but has since been
weakened by splits and defections. It includes the Speaker of
parliament Ayad al-Samarrai.
TRIBAL LEADERS--Tribal leaders were courted by major
parties as it was thought they would play an important role in
the election. Some of Iraq's Sunni tribal leaders sprang to
prominence when US forces began backing local sheikhs against
al Qaeda in 2006.
MINORITIES--Smaller minorities, including Turkmen,
Christians, Yazidis, Sabeans, Shabak and others, were thought
likely to ally with bigger electoral lists in areas where they
were not dominant.
BBC, 3/8/2010,
Dr. Dhari: Forthcoming Election is Formality
Dr. Sheikh Harith al-Dhari Secretary General of the Association
of Muslim Scholars in Iraq (HEYET) stated his suspicion over
the transparency and fairness of the elections scheduled for Iraq
in the seventh of March.
Sheikh al-Dari in an interview with the agency of Quds Press
told that the results of these elections were pre-prepared by the
U.S. administration and distributed to political allies in Iraq...
He stressed that the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq
(HEYET) will not be part of the forthcoming legislative
elections, nor of the political process which is under brutal
occupation.
Prof. Dr. Harith al-Dari described the current political process

as a way to legalize the occupation and the confirmation of
American hegemony over Iraq saying: "We will not be a party
in the electoral process and in the political process as long as
the occupation exists in Iraq. It is a principle we abide by it and
we will be at the same position till the withdrawal of the
occupation. Because realities on the ground proved that the
political process is not the right path to the security of Iraq and
its liberation. But it has been and still the U.S. project to
achieve the wishes of America and its allies. "
Sheikh Dari drew attention to the current political process
saying: “It is fully built on the quota system and the
constitution is biased and far from many communities in Iraq.
Then the so-called security pact came to mortgage Iraq to
decades and even centuries.
Secretary General clarified that the U.S. administration does not
comply with provisions of the humiliated Agreement signed by
the current government at end of 2008, as America will not
withdraw from Iraqi cities during 2009 and will not withdraw
from Iraq in 2011. It has also not committed to defending Iraq's
borders and sovereignty...
He pointed out that Iran is now roaming in Iraq in full view and
eyes of the world, even it occupied al Fakka oil well that is
Iraqi oil without doubt. When it is asked about America, she
said that it is an internal matter, as if Iran and Iraq are one
thing!! . .
Prof. Dr. Harith al-Dari concluded his statement saying that the
"next election will be a formality and seats will be deployed by
U.S. forces to allied forces, which would extend the security
agreement. So do not count on anyone to these elections and
should not pay attention to the media in the Arab world."
AMSI, 3/6/2010, http://www.heyetnet.org/eng/amsinews/5311-
dhari-forthcoming-election-is-formality.html
Iraq election turnout 62%, officials say

Voting to elect 325-member parliament.
About 19 million eligible voters out of 28 million
Around 6,200 candidates from 86 factions competing
200,000 security personnel on duty in Baghdad
Key issues: Security, services and disqualification of alleged
Baathists
Previous votes: Jan 2005 (transitional national assembly), Oct
2005 (constitution), Dec 2005 first post-invasion parliament,
Feb 2009 (local elections)
BBC, 3/9/2010,
Iraq coalition talks 'open to all' - Iyad Allawi
The leader of the secular alliance that narrowly won Iraq's
parliamentary election has offered to work with all parties to
form a coalition government.
Iyad Allawi said his Iraqiya bloc would start by talking with the
rival State of Law alliance of Prime Minister Nouri Maliki,
which it beat by two seats.
Mr Maliki has refused to accept the result and said he would
challenge the count through the
courts.
Both the UN and US envoys to Iraq have said the 7 March poll
was credible.
There is concern that a challenge to the result could be lengthy
and divisive, endangering progress towards greater stability.
Sectarian violence erupted in Iraq as politicians took months to
form a government after the last parliamentary election in 2005.
Police on Saturday raised the death toll to at least 52 from twin
bombings a day earlier near a restaurant in the town of Khalis,
80km (50 miles) north of Baghdad. More than 70 people were
injured in the blasts. BBC, 3/27/2010,

Iyad Allawi has appointed a member of his bloc to begin
coalition talks
Talabani, Hill discuss political moves and talks among winning
blocs
Baghdad (NINA) – President Jalal Talabani discussed on
Thursday evening, Apr. 1, with American Ambassador to Iraq,
Christopher Hill, the on going political moves and talks among
political blocs that won the election.
In the meeting, Talabani stressed, “The necessity to provide
suitable ground for joint work and constructive cooperation
toward entrenching genuine partnership in the coming
government.”
He pointed out to the efforts being exerted to activate and
expand dialogue among political forces toward consolidating
national unity.
They also discussed the Iraq-American relations on all levels.
For his part, Ambassador Hill asserted his country’s resolve to
go ahead in supporting Iraq’s political and democratic process. /
End

NINA, 4/1/2010,
http://www.ninanews.com/English/News_Details.asp?ar95_VQ=
ELLGEF
Video: The secret files:
Washington, Israel and the Gulf/ WETA, Washington. 1
videocassette (VHS) (60 min.), DS63.2.U5 S34 1992, Scheduled
to be shown
Discusses how secret agreements and documents, since
declassified, helped to shape U.S. foreign policy which led to
our involvement in the Persian Gulf War of 1991.
The video reveals that in a 1943 secret memo to President
Franklin D. Roosevelt, special envoy to the Middle East US
Army Lt. Col. Harold Hoskins, warned against the creation of a
Jewish state in Palestine: “… Not only you as President but the
American people as a whole should realize that, if the American
government decides to support the establishment of a Jewish
state in Palestine… they are committing the American people to
the use of force in that area, since only by force can a Jewish
state in Palestine be established or maintained.”
Video: Paying the Price: John Pilger exposes the devastating
effect that UN sanctions have had on the children of Iraq. 2000
In a hard-hitting special report, award-winning journalist and
filmmaker John Pilger investigates the effects of sanctions on
the people of Iraq and finds that ten years of extraordinary
isolation, imposed by the UN and enforced by the US and
Britain, have killed more people than the two atomic bombs
dropped on Japan.
The UN Security Council imposed the sanctions and demanded

the destruction of Saddam Hussein's chemical and biological
weapons under the supervision of a UN Special Commission
(UNSCOM). Iraq is permitted to sell a limited amount of oil in
exchange for some food and medicine.
Pilger takes the former Assistant Secretary-General of the
United Nations, Denis Halliday, back to the crippled country for
the first time since he resigned in protest over the sanctions
back in September 1998. Together, they reveal an extraordinary
portrait of life in a country with a decaying infrastructure and a
population that Pilger says is being held hostage to the
compliance of Saddam Hussein.
Pilger has brought back disturbing evidence that the "holds" on
humanitarian supplies have paralyzed the country and
devastated millions of people, many dying from curable
diseases because life saving drugs are only available
intermittently. He also finds that the breakdown of the clean
water system and health facilities are having a tragic effect on
young children, contributing to an alarming rise in their
mortality rate.
Pilger also exposes the suffering caused to the civilian
population by the illegal bombing campaign being conducted by
US and Britain in the "no-fly zones" in northern and southern
Iraq.
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Video: Hijacking catastrophe: 9/11, fear, & the selling of
American empire
This film discusses how the events of September 11, 2001 have
influenced United States politics, from advancing a pre-existing
military agenda to curtailing civil liberties and social programs.

Places the Bush administration’s justifications for the war in the
context of the struggle by neo-conservatives to increase
American power globally by means of force. Contends that the
administration has deliberately manipulated intelligence,
political imagery, and fear to garner support for American
military intervention.
Written & directed by Jeremy Earp & Sut Jhally; Produced by
Jeremy Earp; Edited by Kenyon King; Includes the full 64 min.
version, an abridged 34 min. version, and 161 min. of additional
footage, 2004.
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Video:
Iraqi Exodus: The Iraq War and the Middle East’s Refugee
Crisis
This Wide Angle report travels to the front lines of the
staggering refugee crisis that continues to unfold in the Middle
East as Iraqis flee their war-torn hometowns to live either as
exiles in neighboring countries or dislocated within Iraq’s
borders. The situation in Syria and Jordan, where refugees cope
with their new surroundings amidst government pressure and
rising resentment from the local population, are spotlighted. In
addition, Aaron Brown speaks with regional leaders about how
the catastrophe is impacting the Middle East—and these
millions of homeless Iraqis whose hope of return grows dimmer
with each passing year. HV 640.5 .I75 I73 2008 (57 mn).
http://video.pbs.org/video/1163078349/search/Iraqi%20Exodus/t
ag/Iraqi%20Exodus
Think Tanks

In political strategy, a think tank is a group or an institution or
a committee of experts organized to undertake intensive
research and to give advice, especially to a government .
Because they often receive funding from private donors, think
tanks escape academic and government scrutiny and
accountability.
“Think Tanks That Think One Way
Pro-Israel forces wield significant influence in think tanks,
which play an increasingly important role in shaping public
debate as well as actual policy on key issues. Instead of relying
on government officials or academics to provide analysis and
commentary, news media increasingly depend on experts from
Washington-based think tanks, most of which have energetic
public relations and media relations offices designed to promote
their experts’ views in the public arena… former AIPAC
president Larry Weinberg; his wife, Barbi Weinberg; AIPAC’s
vice president; and AIPAC deputy director for research Martin
Indyk founded the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
[WINEP] in 1985…. WINEP is funded and run by individuals
who are deeply committed to advancing Israel’s agenda. Its
board of advisers includes prominent pro-Israel figures such as
Edward Luttwark, Martin Peretz, Richard Perle, James Woolsey,
and Mortimer Zuckerman… The lobby’s influence in the think
tank world extends well beyond WINEP. As discussed in
chapter 4, over the past twenty-five years, pro-Israel individuals
have established a commanding presence at the American
Enterprise Institute, the Center for Security Policy, the Foreign
Policy Research Institute, the Heritage Foundation, the Hudson
Institute, the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, and the
Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs… Another
indication of the lobby’s influence in the think tank world is the
evolution of the Brookings Institution… Today, however,
Brookings’s work on these issues is conducted through its
Saban Center for Middle East Policy, which was established in
2002 with a $13 million grant, primarily financed by Haim
Saban , an ardent Zionist. The New York Times described him

as ‘perhaps the most politically connected mogul in Hollywood,
throwing his weight and money around Washington and,
increasingly, the world, trying to influence all things Israeli.’
This ‘tireless cheerleader for Israel’ told the Times, ‘I’m a one-
issue guy, and my issue is Israel.’ The man chosen to run the
Saban Center was Martin Indyk, the former Clinton
administration official who had previously served as AIPAC’s
deputy director of research and helped found WINEP”---- John
Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby and U.S.
Foreign Policy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2007,
pages 175-176
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Irving Kristol, Norman Podhoretz, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard
Perle, Douglas Feith, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, John Bolton,
Elliott Abrams, Robert Kagan, Michael Ledeen, William
Kristol, Frank Gaffney Jr. Source: The Christian Science
Monitor, June 2005
“If there is an intellectual movement in America to whose
invention Jews can lay sole claim, neoconservatism is it.”
Source: Forward (Volume 109, Issue 31,583), January 6, 2006,
page 12.
One of the political strategies of the neoconservatives is to talk
about universalism to cover up their particularism
Key neoconservative figures

U.S. General Wesley Clark:
U.S. Military Plan To Overthrow 7 Countries In 5 Years
General Clark mentioned a "policy coup" in which "some hard-
nosed people [the neoconservatives] took over the direction of
American policy and they never bothered to inform the rest of
us."
WATCH the 2mn:40s video clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xmms5Eoixfs
The Neoconservative Branch of the Israel Lobby
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"This book has maintained that the origins of the American war
on Iraq revolve around the United States’ adoption of a war
agenda whose basic format was conceived in Israel to advance
Israeli interests and was ardently pushed by the influential pro-
Israeli American neoconservatives, both inside and outside the
Bush administration. Voluminous evidence, much of it derived
from a lengthy neoconservative paper trail, has been marshaled
to substantiate these contentions.
Some have questioned how such a small group as the neocons
could wield so much power in influencing U.S. foreign policy.
History, however, has shown that small numbers never have
precluded success in the political realm, with minorities
frequently dominating governments. Moreover, the
neoconservatives were perfectly organized to be an influential
minority. They were more than a congeries of individuals;
rather, they represented people from an extensive, interlocking
network of organizations whose very raison d’être was to shape
American policy. It was this network that enabled them not only
to influence the heights of government power – gaining
important positions in the Bush II administration – but also to
shape educated and mass opinion. The neocons essentially sold
their war agenda to Congress and the American public. It is

apparent that the neocons essentially did far more than simply
get the president to accept significant parts of their war agenda;
they played the major role in having their war policy
implemented. Without that effort, it is unlikely that the Bush
administration would have had the necessary political support to
attack Iraq, even if Bush had personally converted to the neocon
cause."
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Leo Strauss Fathered the Neoconservatives
Edward Rothstein wrote:
“Could any tyrant have plotted a more patient, thorough and
ruthless path to power? Leo Strauss, the political philosopher
who died in 1973, might have seemed just a harmless German-
Jewish emigre, teaching Plato and Machiavelli at the University
of Chicago.
But according to recent critics, he was actually preparing an
intellectual putsch, which would take place 30 years after his
death and culminate in the war in Iraq. His students and
followers, these critics say, learned their lessons well and like
good soldiers began a long march through a variety of
institutions, seeking control. They maneuvered into foundations,
institutes and departments of state and war. Then they began
their shadow rule, leading the nation into foolhardy war.” …
Leo Strauss was “a believer in the use of ''noble lies'' to
manipulate the masses.” Strauss has been linked to “Paul
Wolfowitz, the former deputy secretary of defense; and Richard
Perle, former chairman of the Defense Policy Board” [emphasis
added]…..

The New York Times, 10 July 2006.
Leo Strauss: the intellectual father of the Neo-Cons/Leo-
Cons..The child of middle-class Orthodox Jews, Strauss
converted to Zionism while still in his teens... He advocated
Zionism as a kind of “honest atheism.”
The neoconservatives “carry around literary or political
magazines, not the Bible; they wear tweed jackets, not the
petrol blue suits of Southern televangelists. Most of the time,
they profess liberal ideas on social and moral questions. They
are trying neither to ban abortion nor to impose school prayer.
Their ambition lies elsewhere." By "elsewhere" is meant the
world of Washington politics and power…” President Bush told
them: “You are some of the best brains in our country and my
government employs about 20 of you.” …"Employs" is too weak
a verb,” wrote James Atlas.
Leo Strauss, Leo Strauss: The Early Writings, 1921-1932,
translated and edited by Michael Zank, State University of New
York Press, 2002, page 64.
The New York Times, May 4, 2003
“I wish to say that the founder of Zionism, Herzl, was
fundamentally a conservative man, guided in his Zionism by
conservative considerations. The moral spine of the Jews was in
danger of being broken by the so-called emancipation which in
many cases has alienated them from their heritage, and yet not
given them anything more than merely formal equality; it had
brought about a condition which has been called “external
freedom and inner servitude”… Political Zionism is problematic
for obvious reasons. But I can never forget what it achieved as a
moral force in an era of complete dissolution. It helped to stem
the tide of “progressive” leveling of venerable, ancestral
differences; it fulfilled a conservative function.” Leo Strauss’
Letter to the Editor of National Review, January 5, 1956,

http://www.amnation.com/vfr/archives/005967.html
Neoconservative Political Strategy
In his book Breaking Ranks, Norman Podhoretz pinpoints the
focus of the neoconservative branch of the Israel lobby: (1)
“The inextricable connection between the survival of Israel and
American military strength” (page 351), and (2) therefore
supporting Israel means supporting “the [U.S.] defense
appropriations out of which aid to Israel had to come” (page
357).
The neoconservatives reinforce the belief that America is “the
only force for good”
The neoconservatives praise Theodore Roosevelt’s "big stick"
and some of Woodrow Wilson's ideals
The neoconservatives assert inspiring myths (true or not) that
everyone could believe
The neoconservatives preach the myth in public without
necessarily having to believe it in private
The neoconservatives talk about universalism to cover up their
particularism
Norman Podhoretz, Breaking Ranks: A political Memoir (New
York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1979), pages 357 and 351. See
also Adam Curtis, The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the
Politics of Fear, A 2005 BBC film,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/video1037.htm
The Project for the New American Century Think Tank
“Established in the spring of 1997, the Project for the New
American Century is a non-profit, educational organization
whose goal is to promote American global leadership. The
Project is an initiative of the New Citizenship Project (501c3);

the New Citizenship Project's chairman is William Kristol and
its president is Gary Schmitt.”
Source: http://www.newamericancentury.org/aboutpnac.htm
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Signatories of the Letter Calling for the removal of Saddam
Hussein’s regime from power in Iraq
Elliott Abrams
Richard L. Armitage
William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner
John Bolton
Paula Dobriansky
Francis Fukuyama
Robert Kagan
Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol
Richard Perle
Peter W. Rodman
Donald Rumsfeld
William Schneider, Jr.
Vin Weber
Paul Wolfowitz
R. James Woolsey
Robert B. Zoellick
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Neocons’ Letter to President Clinton (January 26, 1998)
“We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new

strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our
friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim,
above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from
power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult
but necessary endeavor.”
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Neocons’ Letter to Newt Gingrich,
Speaker of the House, and Trent Lott
Senate Majority Leader
May 29, 1998
We recommended [to Clinton] a substantial change in the
direction of U.S. policy: Instead of further, futile efforts to
"contain" Saddam, we argued that the only way to protect the
United States and its allies from the threat of weapons of mass
destruction was to put in place policies that would lead to the
removal of Saddam and his regime from power.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqletter1998.htm
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President Clinton Signed The Iraq Liberation Act of October 31,
1998
“This is in our interest and that of our allies within the region” -
----President Clinton
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Neocons’ Proposal of Rebuilding America’s Defenses,
September 2000
The Neocons indicated that to speed up the process of
transformation they had in mind they need:
“some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl
Harbor.”
The twin towers of the World Trade Center burn behind the
Empire State Building in New York, September 11, 2001.Photo
by AP,
http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/outside-edge/1.596298
One year later, 9/11 provided the ‘catalyzing event’ used by the
neoconservatives to ‘justify’ the Iraq war.
The 9/11 attacks killed nearly 3000 people.
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Neocons’ Letter to President Bush (September 20, 2001)
…. "But even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the
[9/11] attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism
and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove
Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq"
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Vice President Cheney Kicked off the campaign for Iraq war on
8/26/2002
6. 8/26/2002: “The risks of inaction are far greater than the
risk of action,” Cheney told a meeting of the Veterans of
Foreign Wars.

http://edition.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/08/26/cheney.iraq/i
ndex.html
5. 8/16/2002: CBSNews.com reported: “Israel To U.S.: Don't
Delay Iraq Attack”
4. 8/13/2002: Israeli Prime Minister Sharon told the Foreign
Affairs Committee of the Knesset that Iraq “is the greatest
danger facing Israel.”
3. 6/8/2002, former Israeli Prime Minister Barak wrote in the
Washington Post: Bush “should, first of all, focus on Iraq and
the removal of Saddam Hussein.”
2. 5/12/2002: Israeli Foreign Minister Peres appeared on
CNN to say that “Saddam Hussein is as dangerous as bin
Laden”
1. 4/14/2002: former Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu came
to Washington to brief U.S Senators and the editor of the
Washington Post on the removal of Saddam. Mearsheimer &
Walt, p 234
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Bernard Lewis:
Dick Cheney’s intellectual and political mentor on the Middle
East
US Vice President Dick Cheney considers Bernard Lewis his
intellectual and political mentor on the Middle East when he
said “You simply cannot find a greater authority on Middle
Eastern history -- from classical Islamic civilization, to the

Ottoman Empire, to the modern period -- than this man [Lewis
Bernard] and his works.”… After listening to Bernard Lewis’
advice on “the history and the way forward in the Middle East”
following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990, Secretary of
Defense Dick Cheney said “I decided that day that this was a
man I wanted to keep in touch with, and whose work I should
follow carefully in the years ahead. Since then we have met
often, particularly during the last four-and-a-half years, and
Bernard has always had some very good meetings with
President Bush… More than three decades ago, at the height of
a secular era, he wrote a prescient article titled The Return of
Islam. In the 1970s he studied the writings of an obscure cleric
named Khomeini, and saw the seeds of a movement that would
deliver theocratic despotism. In 1990, he wrote The Roots of
Muslim Rage, which anticipated the terrorism of that decade.
And in this new century, his wisdom is sought daily by
policymakers, diplomats, fellow academics, and the news
media.”[1]
[1] Dick Cheney, “Vice President's Remarks at the World
Affairs Council of Philadelphia Luncheon Honoring Professor
Bernard Lewis,” Park Hyatt Philadelphia at the Bellevue,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 May 2006,
The White House,
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/05/20060501-
3.html
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Bernard Lewis and the Iraq War
“When Saddam Hussein invaded and occupied Kuwait in 1990,
… Almost every Middle expert in the country was invited to
Washington and was asked his comments on the situation. That
was my first meeting with high-level official Washington, and

more important, my first meeting with Dick Cheney, at that time
Secretary of Defense. We met on subsequent occasions over the
years… The general feeling was that this …could be ‘another
Vietnam’… I told them that I thought that the war, when it
came, would be ‘quick, cheap and easy.’… The prompt and
effective American response not only saved Kuwait but also
Saudi Arabia, which was threatened and whose rulers relied
entirely on American action to save them. Indeed, a quip at the
time was that the marching song of the Saudi Arabian armed
forces was ‘Onward Christian Soldiers.’ … I was invited to
Cheney’s home twice after 9/11 to dine with him and a small
group of staff. My task was to talk about the Middle East and
Islam and I found them a receptive audience asking excellent
questions… I was invited to meet President George W. Bush on
three occasions’—Source: Notes on a Century: Reflections of a
Middle East Historian, Bernard Lewis with Buntzie Ellis
Churchill, Viking, New York, 2012, pages 324, 326, 330, 331 .
Jacob Weisberg regards Bernard Lewis, who received the
National Humanities Medal from President Bush in 2006 and
the Irving Kristol Award from his disciples at the American
Enterprise Institute in 2007, as “the most significant intellectual
influence behind the invasion of Iraq.”[1]
[1] Jacob Weisberg, “Party of Defeat: AEI’s Weird
Celebration,” Slate, 14 March 2007, accessed 30 June 2007,
http://www.slate.com/id/2161800
93
The Iraq war is one of the noblest things this country has ever
attempted abroad
Thomas L. Friedman wrote in an “Editorial Desk” of The New
York Times (November 30, 2003): “this [Iraq] war is the most

important liberal, revolutionary U.S. democracy-building
project since the Marshall Plan… it is one of the noblest things
this country has ever attempted abroad and it is a moral and
strategic imperative that we give it our best shot.”
Paul Wolfowitz:
“Jerusalem Post’s Man of the Year”
2003
Paul Wolfowitz is “the principal author of the doctrine of
preemption, which framed the war in Iraq” [and which became
Bush Doctrine]….. he was declared the Jerusalem Post’s Man of
the Year (the Jerusalem Post emphasized that “of course the
year we are speaking of is the Jewish year”) in 2003 after U.S.
forces invaded and occupied Iraq as he advised Bush to do so at
a meeting in Camp David on September 15, 2001.
The Jerusalem Post, September 26, 2003.
95
Shadia Drury documents [father of neoconservatives] German-
Jewish émigré Leo Strauss’s understanding of the three types of
men: the wise, the gentlemen, and the vulgar:
The wise are the lovers of the harsh unadulterated truth. They
are capable of looking into the abyss without fear and
trembling; for they recognize neither God nor moral
imperatives. They are devoted above all else to their own
pursuit of the ‘higher’ pleasures, which amount to consorting
with their ‘puppies’ or young initiates.
The second type is the gentlemen, who are lovers of honour and
glory. They are the biggest dupes for the conventions of their

society, or the ‘illusions of the cave’, in Straussian lingo.
Gentlemen are the true believer in God, honour, and moral
imperatives; as a result, they are ready and willing to embark on
acts of great courage and self-sacrifice on a moment’s notice.
The third type is the vulgar many who are lovers of wealth and
pleasure. They are selfish, slothful, and indolent. They can be
inspired to rise above their brutish existence only by fear of
impending death or catastrophe.
The covert rule of the philosophers is facilitated by the
overwhelming credulity of the gentlemen. For all his nobility,
the gentleman is gullible and unworldly. And the more gullible
and unperceptive he is, the easier it is for the wise to control
and manipulate him. The philosopher must impart to him the
harsh truths about the word and about his inferiors without
destroying his ideals. The message is this. You are noble and
honest; and the world is bound to be a better place if noble men
such as yourself reign supreme. But virtue is bound to be
defeated if she is naïve enough to play by the rules. If you want
political power and success, you have to rely on deception,
guile, and fraud. Besides, you know what the ordinary masses
are like; they are content to live and die like beasts—eating,
drinking, gambling, and fornicating. If you wish to move them
to acts or courage and self-sacrifice, you must make them
believe that their very existence is under threat. Anyone who
thinks that politics is possible without guile and fraud is a fool.
In this way, the wise provides the gentlemen with a brutalizing
education. George W. Bush may well have been the perfect
gentleman.”
Shadia B. Drury, The Political Ideas of Leo Strauss, Updated
Edition with a New Introduction by the Author, New York:
Palgrave Macmilla, 2005, pages xv-xvi.
President Bush’s academic credentials
President Bush received a bachelor’s degree in history from

Yale University in 1968 and a Master of Business
Administration from Harvard Business School in 1975. He
began a career in the energy business. Source: The White
House, “Biography of President George W. Bush,”
http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/biography.html
Bill Clinton-Monica Lewinsky scandal: Former US President's
denial, grand jury, and admittance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV7zqaKHY3Y
http://www.wrmea.org/1998-march/with-mideast-peace-and-
clinton-presidency-about-to-both-go-over-a-cliff-is-there-a-
connection.html
CNN Official Interview: George W. Bush reflects on no WMDs
in Iraq, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18M70UgmV40
“This crusade, this war on terrorism, is going to take awhile.” --
-President Bush
Immediately after the terrorist attacks of Sep 11, 2001, US Pres
George W. Bush referred to America's war on terrorism as a
“crusade.”
Vern L Bullough, “Set a place for Islam,” Free Inquiry, Buffalo:
Spring 2002, Vol. 22, Iss. 2; pg. 20, 2 pgs
Anonymous, “Crusade in Iraq?” The Christian Century,
Chicago: April 5, 2005, Vol. 122, Iss. 7; pg. 60, 2 pgs
Gary Leupp, “Is the war on terrorism really a Crusade?” The
Arab American News, Dearborn, Mich.: June 4-June 10, 2005,
Vol. 21, Iss. 1008; pg. 13
“The war was about weapons of mass destruction”

No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq
No ties between Iraq and AlQaeda existed
No threats to US security existed in Iraq
How Zionists Corrupt Knowledge
Those who induced the U.S. to war in the Middle East deployed
knowledge like a weapon. With lengthy pre-staging, a narrative
emerged that made it appear plausible—even desirable—to
invade Iraq in response to the provocation of 911.
In retrospect, we now know that the knowledge on which the
U.S. relied was false. All of it.
Iraqi WMD. Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda. Iraqi meetings in Prague
with Al Qaeda. Iraqi yellowcake uranium from Niger. Iraqi
mobile biological laboratories. All false, all traceable to pro-
Israelis and all portrayed as true by media outlets dominated by
pro-Israelis. Jeff Gates,
http://criminalstate.com/2011/01/the-seduction-of-the-
knowledge-based-society/
http://criminalstate.com/2010/01/criminal-state-documentary/
99
“The war was about spreading democracy”
US closest friends and allies in the Middle East are eight Arab
monarchies (Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar,
Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates) and one Jewish
ethnocracy--the rule of one ethnic group--(The State of Israel).
The Iraqi resistance movements question the legitimacy of the
Iraqi Constitution because it was written under foreign
occupation. The same could be said about the Iraqi elections.
The democratically elected Palestinian government (2006) was
greeted by sanctions and blockade because it was led by Hamas

(Arabic acronym of Harakat al-Muqawama al-Islamiyya, or
Islamic Resistance Movement), which does not recognize Israel
very much as Israel does not recognize Hamas.
100
“The war was about oil”
There is no public record of the big oil companies supporting
the war in Iraq or the current confrontation with Iran. ---James
Petras, Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton
University, New York
President Bush repeatedly promised to replace more than 75%
of US oil imports from the Middle East by 2025.
Third, President Obama’s ENERGY POLICY states explicitly
that its central goal is to “end our addiction to foreign oil” and
eliminate our current imports from the Middle East and
Venezuela within 10 Years.”
The American Jewish Committee’s top ENERGY POLICY is
focused on ending US oil imports from the Middle East as a
strategy to weaken Arab dominated OPEC
NB: oil prices increased from around $22 a barrel in 2002
(before the Iraq war) to $147 in July 2008
“instead of speculating on benefits to be derived by American
oil companies from U.S. control of Iraq, it is much more
reasonable to actually look at Big Oil’s position on attacking
Iraq. Did oil companies actually push for war? On the contrary,
the representatives of the U.S. oil industry
actually sought less hostile relations with Iraq. They had been
solid in opposing the embargo on Iraq, which had kept them out
of that country. After George W. Bush assumed the presidency
in 2000, they lobbied hard for a repeal of the Iran-Libya
Sanctions Act and other embargoes that curbed their expansion
of holdings in the Middle East. That put the oil industry at

loggerheads with the neoconservatives, who for years had been
calling for regime change in Iraq.” Stephen J. Sniegoski,
Transparent cabal: the neoconservative agenda, war in the
Middle East, and the national interest of Israel,” Enigma
Editions, 2008, page 335
101
The Iraq Study Group Report concludes that the United States
“will not be able to achieve its goals in the Middle East unless
the United States deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict.”
p. 39.
http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/ir
aq_study_group_report.pdf
Population: 31,822,848 (July 2014 est.)
Ethnic groups: Pashtun 42%, Tajik 27%, Hazara 9%, Uzbek 9%,
Aimak 4%, Turkmen 3%, Baloch 2%, other 4%
Religions: Sunni Muslim 80%, Shia Muslim 19%, other 1%
Languages: Afghan Persian or Dari (official) 50%, Pashto
(official) 35%, Turkic languages (primarily Uzbek and
Turkmen) 11%, 30 minor languages (primarily Balochi and
Pashai) 4%, much bilingualism
GDP per capita (OER): $1,100 (2013 est.), (U.S. GDP per
capita: $52,800 (2013 est.)
Border countries: China 76 km, Iran 936 km, Pakistan 2,430 km,

Tajikistan 1,206 km, Turkmenistan 744 km, Uzbekistan 137 km
Geography of Afghanistan
The Khyber Pass links Afghanistan and Pakistan
Afghanistan’s distinctive relief and ethnic makeup
104
The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89
When Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the CIA
(under President Carter and his NSA Brzezinski, and under
Reagan and Bush administrations) and its associates elsewhere
in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Britain, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt,
and China organized and trained a mujahedeen army of Afghani,
Arab, and Pakistani Muslims to fight and defeat the Soviets in
Afghanistan
105
The Soviet-Afghan War, 1979-89
The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) ended with the defeat of
the Soviet Union and the destruction of Afghanistan.
The war killed between 700,000 and 1.3 million Afghans and
threw another 4.5 million into refugee camps in Pakistan and
Iran, while about 15,000 Soviet troops were killed and 37,000
wounded in Afghanistan

106
Movements of CIA-trained guerillas and drugs outwards from
Afghanistan after the 1979-89 Afghanistan war. Cooley’s
Unholy Wars, page vii.
107
Defining Terrorism
“Premeditated, politically motivated violence perpetrated
against noncombatant [including military personnel who at the
time of the incident are unarmed or not on duty] targets by
subnational groups or clandestine agents, usually intended to
influence an audience”---Title 22 of the United States Code,
Section 2656f(d),
http://www.state.gov/www/global/terrorism/1999report/intro.ht
ml
Does Terrorism Work?
Following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait, Israel accepted to
negotiate with the Palestinians in 1993
Following Hezbollah’s attacks, Israel accepted to withdraw
from southern Lebanon in 2000
Following Al-Qaida’s 9/11 attacks, the US accepted the
principle of a Palestinian state in 20002
Following Hamas’ suicide bombing campaigns, Israel accepted
to withdraw from Gaza in 2005
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