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2004-12-29 18:33 | User Profile
From The American Conservative, available online at: [url]http://www.libertyforum.org/showflat.php?Cat=&Board=news_international&Number=293208381&page=&view=&sb=&o=&vc=1&t=-1#Post293208381[/url]
Fifth Columnists
By Taki
January 17, 2005
They were originally Falangist sympathizers inside Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, prepared to side with General Franco's four columns that were besieging the city. By 1939, as Germany and France were poised for war, French Fifth Columnists were busy undermining those who preached resistance to German demands. Until now, America has not had a Fifth Column in its midst, unless one counts the media during the war in Vietnam. (Roosevelt unfairly and needlessly detained Japanese-Americans during World War II as potential Fifth Columnists, when he should have been detaining some of his cabinet).
The first real case (Benedict Arnold aside) of Fifth Columnists inside America working for foreign interests are the neoconservatives, the best known of whom include David Frum, William Kristol, Norman and John Podhoretz, Michael Ledeen, Richard Perle, Paul Wolfowitz, and the egregious Douglas Feith, as close to being a foreign agent as is possible to be but still holding on to his job at the Pentagon. America's Fifth Columnists aim to shape United States foreign policy to suit Israeli interests. The gruesome carnage in Iraq is proof that this administration is ready to fight Israeli battles to the last American marine.
We have lost more than 1,200 dead, 30,000 wounded, and have killed an unknown number of Iraqis, not all of them insurgents or terrorists. We have military hospitals full of blind and crippled young men and women, while thousands of Iraqis and their children are mortared and shot daily. Despite the bloodshed, however, victory in Iraq is still up for grabs. Not only have the neocons not bothered to apologize, they want more blood. Mind you, there are no Frums dying among our troops. Instead, they are ensconced inside the Beltway appearing on television and egging the president on to Tehran and Damascus.
In a soundbite age, "War on Terror" has a good ring to it. Once upon a time, Christian missionaries tried to vanquish "evil savages" by teaching them religion. Now we try to teach them democracy. The way America's Fifth Column operates is a simple one. It uses the charge of anti-Semitism to smear honorable conservatives who do not believe that Uncle Sam's and Israel's interests are one and the same. (The most outrageous exampie was when Midge Decter accused the venerable conservative Russell Kirk of anti-Semitism.) David Frum, a sleazy self-promoter, infamously painted conservative writers like Pat Buchanan, Paul Gottfried, Samuel Francis, Tom Fleming, and others as unpatriotic Americans, forgetting to mention that in his book "unpatriotic" means not serving the interests of the state of Israel. Norman Podhoretz's "World War-IV" is a blueprint for an endless campaign to destroy all of Israel's enemies. Why are these bogus patriots getting away with such stuff? Alas, it is a very easy question to answer.
With 85,000 members, a staff of 165, and a $33.4 million annual budget, AIPAC, the American Israel Political Affairs Committee, is Washington's most influential and most feared lobby. It is forceful, extremely aggressive, and more or less calls the tune inside the Beltway where the Middle East is concerned. Woe to the politician who ignores its wishes. He will be targeted, his opponents showered with donations, his reputation immediately shredded by charges of anti-Semitism.
Neocons work closely with AIPAC and the Israeli embassy. As Philip Giraldi wrote in this magazine, "Principal neocons have been accused of illegally providing classified information to Israel. None was ever prosecuted." Last I heard AIPAC was busy accusing the FBI and the CIA of pursuing a vendetta against Israel and the Pentagon, while neocon Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute alleges that the Franklin affair was motivated by anti-Semitism.
America's pro-Israel stand is nothing new. Israel is, after all, our closest ally in the region, despite the spying it regularly conducts on Uncle Sam. If there ever was a one-sided marriage, this is it. As Thomas Friedman wrote in the New York Times, "there is a steadily rising perception across the Arab-Muslim world that the great enemy of Islam is JIA -- Jews, Israel and America, all lumped together in a single threat." Friedman goes on to say that Arab satellite television stations show split-screen images of Israelis bashing Palestinians and Americans beating up Iraqi insurgents. Nothing new here. Arab preachers, mostly paid by our other "allies," the Saudi rulers, explain all the world's ills by wrapping them up in JIA. But Arab lies and outrageous anti-Western propaganda aside, the Bush regime's total embrace of Ariel Sharon makes it impossible to know where American policy stops and Sharon's begins.
Now, with Colin Powell gone, my fears are that Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz; and Undersecretary Douglas Feith -- two of the most bluster-prone cheerleaders of the Iraq War and of Ariel Sharon's brutal and expansionist strategy on the West Bank-will enjoy even more power and influence. Under normal circumstances, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, and others would have been dismissed on the spot, and neocon propagandists such as Frum, Kristol, Podhoretz, Perle, and their ilk denounced as working for a foreign power. But we are not living in normal times. This is the time of AIPAC, and woe to those who oppose America's Fifth Column, starting with poor little me.
2004-12-29 18:45 | User Profile
Hail Taki!
Anyone who has doubted his worth has been demonstrated to be wrong. This is crystalline clear. Anyone not subscribing to [url=http://www.amconmag.com]The American Conservative[/url] needs to pull their head out of their ass, frankly.
2005-01-03 19:23 | User Profile
IMO this is the best thing the mag has run since PJB's "Whose War?"
2005-01-09 04:59 | User Profile
[url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/printer.php?id=4444[/url]
Bush White House: 5th Column Operatives Move Up Ladder
News; Posted on: 2005-01-08 22:58:11
Middle East war hawks to fill top international security post, No. 2 job at State Department.
Robert Zoellick has been promoted to Deputy Secretary of State, while Robert G. Joseph has been pegged for Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, replacing John Bolton, who is expected to resign or be fired after complaining about Zoellick's appointment. Both Zoellick and Joseph are Jews with strong ties to Israel.
Robert G. Joseph (pictured, left) is a former Reagan administration official who also works closely with the Center for Security Policy, a rabidly hawkish advocacy outfit that pushed for war in Iraq and publishes Zionist screeds about the many threats posed to Israel by "terrorists" and "rogue states."
Joseph was the person most responsible for allowing that famous line regarding Saddam Hussein's alleged efforts to get enriched uranium from Niger to appear in President Bush's 2003 pre-invasion state of the union address. That outrageous lie was inserted into the speech to justify the case for bypassing the United Nations Security Council, for chasing U.N. inspectors out of Iraq and for invading and occupying the oil-rich enemy of Israel.
The CIA had warned the White House that the story didn't pan out. (The uranium claim later turned out to be based on crude forgeries.)
Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill) described White House officials as "hell-bent" on working the uranium allegation into the text. "Somebody in the White House decided they needed this to build a case," noting that CIA chief Tenet personally had intervened to get similar language removed from a speech Bush delivered in Cincinnati months earlier.
Among the most vocal proponents of publicizing the phony Niger connection were Cheney and Rumsfeld. However, the effort was led by Joseph, the senior adviser on counter-proliferation issues and homeland security to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice. This was revealed during CIA testimony during senate hearings. See links below.
You may recall that in appearances on Sunday morning news shows Rice lied when she said the White House was unaware of the CIA's doubts. "Maybe someone knew in the bowels of the agency, but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery," she said on Meet the Press.
Robert Zoellick, White House Special Trade Representative (pictured, right), has spent the last four years negotiating trade deals and working to eliminate multilateral trade barriers. The New World Order guru is a former Goldman Sachs executive, and former Enron stockholder, who represented the fraudulent company as its most influential paid consultant.
Zoellick's trade deals are characterized by secrecy and intense political pressure. He applied said pressure on behalf of Israel last year, to force Egypt to accept a trade agreement with the Jewish state. The agreement enables Egypt to export some products duty-free to the United States, provided they contain "input from Israel" -- the exports have to benefit Israel. This gives Israel a political 'foot in the door' making it easier for the Jews to infiltrate the country. Israeli Minister of Industry and Trade, Ehud Olmert, said: "It's good business for us, but more important for the dream of changing the atmosphere in the Middle East."
Egyptians protested the agreement across the country, slamming it as a form of colonialism. Ahmed Atef, chairman of the Federation of Industry, said the accord would benefit Israel first and foremost. "Such an accord would give the Israelis a chance to penetrate our market," he said.
Mr. Zoellick is also one of the original "regime changers" on Iraq. He was working to make the case for an American invasion of Iraq as early as 1997 - nearly four years before the Sept. 11 attacks and three years before President Bush took office. As a member of the neoconservative policy group called Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, he urged then-President Clinton to invade Iraq back in January 1998.
"We urge you to... enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world," stated the letter to Clinton, signed by Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Zoellick. "That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power." The letter concluded: "If you act now to end the threat of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or its allies, you will be acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our interests and our future at risk." (Full Text)
Zoellick and the PNAC also lobbied GOP leaders in Congress to push for Saddam's removal - by force if necessary. "We should establish and maintain a strong U.S. military presence in the region, and be prepared to use that force to protect our vital interests in the Gulf - and, if necessary, to help remove Saddam from power," the group wrote to Rep. Newt Gingrich and Sen. Trent Lott in May 1998.
Source: Jeff Hook, Josh McNair ââ¬Â¢ Printed from National Vanguard ( [url]http://www.nationalvanguard.org/story.php?id=4444[/url] ) National Alliance ââ¬Â¢ Box 90 ââ¬Â¢ Hillsboro ââ¬Â¢ WV 24946 ââ¬Â¢ USA NationalVanguard.org
2005-01-09 20:46 | User Profile
Great stuff!
The term "pro-Israel fifth column" describes the neocons perfectly, and it needs to be repeated as much as possible by all anti-neocon commentators and by the rest of us who are aware of the alien hand guiding US Mideast policy.