Anyone who wants to understand the seemingly incomprehensible Middle Eastern policy of the Bush Administration post 9/11 should read the "Clean Break" report.

The "Clean Break" report (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm) was prepared by the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000" in 1996 for Benjamin Netanyahu, the then-Prime Minister of Israel (and current leader of the fascist Likud party).

The group was led by Richard Perle and included many of the Zionist neocons who brought about the Iraq war (James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser). The goal of the report was to describe how to reconfigure the Middle East along lines favorable to Israel, starting with (you guessed it!) undoing Iraq. Iran and Syria are next.

As professors Mearsheimer and Walt wrote in their paper on the Israel Lobby published in the London Review of Books ((http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/print/mear01_.html), the "clean break" report (I quoted this from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Clean_Break:_A_New_Strategy_for_Securing_the_Realm)

"called for Israel to take steps to reorder the entire Middle East. Netanyahu did not follow their advice, but Feith, Perle and Wurmser were soon urging the Bush administration to pursue those same goals. The Ha’aretz columnist Akiva Eldar warned that Feith and Perle 'are walking a fine line between their loyalty to American governments ... and Israeli interests'."

As absurd as it sounds, I wouldn't put it past Hillary Clinton!

How convenient that Ivins "committed suicide" just as the Justice Department was about to charge him with responsibility for the attacks! I guess we won't hear much about the anthrax story anymore. Another key 9/11 story will be left largely undisturbed!

The reference to Israel in the letter is rather interesting. Could this be part of the conspiracy by the neocons to create sympathy for Israel and blur the difference between Israel and America in "the war on terror" in the minds of frightened Americans in the aftermath of 9/11. Just a thought!

to increasingly play the fear card as he realizes that Obama is likely to win.

"Elephantman", a neocon Israel-Lobby supporter, attempts to discredit a journalist who exposed the neocons' lies and deception. Now that's a surprise!

No amount of playing the victim will change the fact that Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz and fellow neocons/Israel-Lobby members were behind the lies and deception that led to the Iraq war.

The neocons and the lobby are now using the same tactics to start a war with Iran. Similar to the Iraq war, a war with Iran will be designed to achieve Israel's strategic objectives.

For you to attempt to silence this debate by reducing it to a supposed attack on Jews is rather pathetic and transparent.

knows that the neocons and Israel Lobby -keeping in mind that in most cases one cannot tell them apart- were behind the lies and deception that led to the disastrous Iraq war.

The two questions that remain:

1) Will the neocons ever face American justice for having intentionally misled America? (and having caused the death of thousands of American soldiers and over 1 million Iraqi civilians)

2) Will they be able to lead the US to war with Iran? I wouldn't underestimate the neocons by assuming they have given up on this after the NIE. It was only last week that Israeli defense minister Ehud Barack and former defense minister Shaul Mofaz ware in DC beating the drums of war.

to anyone with half a brain that the neocons/Israel Lobby have pulled a fast one on an America that was in a state of fear and confusion after 9/11. What I find amazing is how they have the audacity to play the same game having come close a number of times to getting America to start another disastrous war.

I guess there is no shortage of gullible and misinformed people (especially considering how the Lobby manipulates the MSM)

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v28/n06/mear01_.html

Israel's strategic domination of the Middle East. It will certainly be worth the trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives (not to mention over a million Iraqi lives) to achieve this noble goal.

After all, the US must support the Middle East's only democracy. Never mind that it is a state for one religious group that, for over 50 years, has brutally occupied and controlled the West Bank and Gaza Palestinians - who along with Palestinian Israelis - form about 50% of the total population!

My experience has been that on average women make better leaders than men (except when they try to prove they are "tougher" than men!)

After 9/11, the US had a golden opportunity to strengthen international law and institutions and bring about a new era of multi-lateralism, stability and prosperity for the world.

Instead, the neocons saw the terrorist attacks as their opportunity to lead a traumatized and frightened nation (and an intellectually challenged Bush administration) into fighting Israel's wars for domination over the Middle East.

Now we are seeing the results of this; a weakened and economically devastated US with a thinly spread military. Meanwhile Russia and China have become significantly stronger and much more able to project power.

One of the greatest things about Obama is that he deals in the currency of hope, rather than fear which Bush, Fox and the Israel Lobby have perfected to an art form.

I hope Obama is too smart to fall for the machinations of the Israel Lobby. I find his selection of Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff a bit disconcerting. Emanuel is a vicious Zionist who is also an Israeli citizen. His father was a member of Menahem Begin's terrorist Irgun organization which played a major role in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in the 1940's, using some of the most brutal terrorist tactics against Palestinian villagers, to create a Jewish majority there.