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• Monday, April 9, 2007 08:19 AM

  Realname - Think about It - The US had nothing to gain from invading Iraq

  Many Jews have opposed the Neocons' plans for the invasion of Iraq and have been leading voices against the Bush Administration's mad rush to war.

  It is a fact, however, that most leading Neocons are ideologically aligned with the right-wing Likud party in Israel. They themselves explained their motives in "Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm" a report prepared by The Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies’ "Study Group on a New Israeli Strategy Toward 2000." for the Netanyahu Likud government at the time (the authors incuded leading Neocon idealogues Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks, Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser). In the report they stated:

  "Israel can shape its strategic environment, in cooperation with Turkey and Jordan, by weakening, containing, and even rolling back Syria. This effort can focus on removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq — an important Israeli strategic objective in its own right" http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm

  THE US HAD NOTHING TO GAIN FROM INVADING IRAQ AND THE WAR WOULD NOT HAVE TKEN PLACE WERE IT NOT FOR THE FALSE INTELLIGENCE AND SPIN OF THE NEOCONS. Surely, any objective observer of facts can see this!

  Also to gain better insights into the Neocons' plans for Iraq, you may want to read about it on Counter Punch http://www.counterpunch.org/walsh03092006.html

  —Anonymous
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