WASHINGTON SCENE:
CHENEYGATE
U.S. HIJACKED BY ISRAELI-JEWISH-LOBBY CONNECTED GROUP
"What these
people are doing now makes Iran-Contra
[a Reagan administration national security scandal] look
like amateur hour. . . it's worse than Iran-Contra, worse
than what happened in Vietnam," said...a former air force
lieutenant-colonel...who retired this year after 20 years service [and]
was a Middle East specialist in the office of the Undersecretary
of Defence for Policy, headed by Douglas Feith."
US and ISRAEL PREPARING AGAIN TO STRIKE BIG
MID-EAST REALITIES - MER - www.MiddleEast.Org - Washington - 4 November
2003: There are growing rumors in Washington
now that the US is preparing hard air strikes somewhere in the Middle
East. Secret heavy bomber deployments may be underway
to European bases as has been the case in previous years when
major strikes were being readied. Whether the targets are in Iran
or Syria, or even North Korea for that matter, are of course highly
classified. Ariel Sharon's surprise visit to Moscow this
week to again meet personally with Putin could be another ominous sign.
The Israelis will probably try to blackmail or threaten Putin in
one way or another to stay out of whatever is coming, especially if it
involves Iran, now Israel's top target. Meanwhile, as in
previous MER analysis reports, the
hijacking of Bush-Washington by the Israeli-Jewish lobby hardliners working closely with Vice-President Cheney was too much for a former
ranking insider. The former Air Force Lieutenant-Colonel is
now trying to blow the whistle; but few in Washington have the courage
or understanding to both listen and act. Among other things MER has learned
that President Bush personally some time ago promised Ariel Sharon that
he would have advance copies of all Presidential speeches dealing with
the Middle East in case the Israelis felt any changes might be
necessary.
Cheney's Hawks 'Hijacking Policy'
By Ritt Goldstein
Sydney Morning Herald - Australia, 30 October 2003:
A former Pentagon officer
turned whistleblower says a group of hawks in the Bush Administration,
including the Vice-President, Dick Cheney, is running a shadow foreign
policy, contravening Washington's official line.
"What these people are doing
now makes Iran-Contra [a Reagan administration national security
scandal] look like amateur hour. . . it's worse than Iran-Contra, worse
than what happened in Vietnam," said Karen Kwiatkowski, a former air
force lieutenant-colonel.
"[President] George Bush isn't in control
. . . the country's been hijacked," she said, describing how "key
[governmental] areas of neoconservative concern were politically staffed".
Ms Kwiatkowski, who retired this year
after 20 years service, was a Middle East specialist in the office of
the Undersecretary of Defence for Policy, headed by Douglas Feith.
She described "a subversion of
constitutional limits on executive power and a co-optation through
deceit of a large segment of the Congress", adding that "in order to
take that first step - Iraq - lies had to be told to Congress to bring
them on board".
Ms Kwiatkowski said the pursuit of
national security decisions often bypassed "civil service and
active-duty military professionals", and was handled instead by political
appointees who shared common ideological ties.
There was speculation earlier this year
that such an ideologue group had emerged, and that it was behind the US
attack on an Iraqi convoy in Syria in June.
The New York Times quoted Patrick Lang, a
former senior Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) official, as saying
that many in the Government believed the incursion was an effort by
ideologues to disrupt co-operation between the US and Syria.
Ms Kwiatkowski said there was an
extra-governmental network operating outside normal structures and
practices, "a network of political appointees in key positions who felt
they needed to take some action, to make things happen in a foreign
affairs, national security way". She said Pentagon personnel and the
DIA were pressured to favourably alter assessments and reports.
In a separate interview, Chalmers Johnson,
an authority on US policy, said that the Administration's
neo-conservatives had in effect seized power from Mr Bush.
Dr Johnson said the neo-conservatives had
pursued an agenda outlined in the controversial 1992 Defence Planning
Guidance. That document, drawn up at the direction of Mr Cheney when he
was defence secretary, said the world's only superpower should not be
cautious about asserting its power.
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