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2003-07-22 13:37 | User Profile
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July 22, 2003
The Entertainer: Amid the Ruins of Babylon, Paul Wolfowitz Finds "Final Vindication"
by Michael A. Hoffman II
Paul Wolfowitz is something of an entertaining figure in this writer's eyes. He represents the Likud wing of meshuganah Israelidom and as such, he's the main belt of transmission for the Israeli terror-tactic of assassination which has been openly and shamelessly embraced by George Bush and the Pentagon's Task Force 20, as part of the Federal government's profound retreat from traditional American statesmanship. This retreat began under Ronald Reagan, when the latter tried to assassinate Muammar Qaddafi in 1986, and ended up killing only his infant daughter.
Two years later, Col. Qaddafi took his infamous Lockerbie revenge on an American jetliner with 270 people aboard. The fact that the infanticide that triggered his revenge is mostly unknown, is testimony to the means by which our homegrown tyrants rule--by media conspiracy.
The Reagan/Clinton/Bush assassination policy even extends to the murder of the families of combatants, and not just the combatants themselves, as General Tommy Franks admitted at a recent press conference, calling attacks on the families of Hussein supporters, "a really good mission." ("Franks Details Raid Near Syrian Line," NY Times, July 10, p. A10).
I find Wolfowitz entertaining because I savor the spectacle of a fellow more mad than the Mad Hatter leading the US Dept. of Defense. Wolfowitz runs the Pentagon under figurehead Rumsfeld almost solely due to the electoral muscle of the American Zionist lobby, and not due to any military acumen on his part. True, certain American boobs from the misnamed Bible Belt imagine that the Israelis are great warriors and strategists, but these same people don't intend on being "left behind" after the "rupture," so presumably it's not too much of a stretch to question their lucidity.
Now comes Wolfowitz to Iraq, an "evil empire" he said was bristling with those weapons of you-know-what. Was Wolfowitz even a mite penitent or contrite while in Iraq? Did he even mention the fabled weapons while he was there? Perish the thought! The bigger the con, the more necessary it is to brazenly insist that it's not a con. When Nixon tried this he was laughed off the stage of history. Bush, Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld are now into their third month of viewing the supposed apocalyptic landscape of the Saddamites first hand, and finding it empty of all weapons save those pesky little rocket-propelled grenades which bedevil our armored SUVs with Vietcong-like persistence.
The Bush regime's Iraq project has unraveled. Yet in true Zionist fashion, here is Wolfowitz shuffling around the Arabian desert with an air of "final vindication." Is there any better evidence of the delusional mentality of your garden variety Zionist than this charade?
Even whackier are the taxpaying, flag-waving psychos footing the $5 billion a month tab for this made-in-the-synagogue "American foreign policy," even as the government quietly released details the other day of its intention to drastically curtail the US postal system by closing post offices and raising already highly inflated postage rates, as a result of the "budget crunch."
The US government could efficiently chug along for decades if it were helmed by crafty Machiavellians of the past like Robert S. McNamara, who told a 1976 Senate investigation committee, "I just can't understand how it (US government assassinations of Lumumba, Trujillo and Abdul Karim Kassem) could have happened."
With village idiot Bush appointing clinically insane spokesmen like Wolfowitz and Lubavitcher cultist Ari Fleischer, the US is as patently thuggish and ugly as the hideous Ariel Sharon and his government. McNamara didn't dare admit that US government assassinations were the deliberate result of high level White House decisions, but last autumn Ari Fleischer frankly told the nation that war with Iraq could be avoided at the cost of "one bullet." Here was open US government incitement to the assassination of head of state Saddam Hussein by the President's own press secretary.
With crazies like Fleischer at the Washington wheel, the US government is losing goodwill and influence around the world, while opening a lid on a retributive Pandora's box brimming with vendetta, state terror and popular rage. Pandora's door swings both ways, of course. One can't help noting in the wake of Fleischer's obscene remark, that the war with Iraq might also have been prevented with a single bullet aimed at another head of state besides Saddam.
I confess to being an unabashed Wolfowitz fan. Who better to bring this filthy, rotten System crashing down upon the lodge brothers than the Wolf of the White House himself, the exalted policy wonk who, in actuality, is little more than a tribalist of the most primitive and chauvinistic dye? No American government can long maintain its prestige and effectiveness when led by a fanatic (the p.c. term is "activist"), from the fever swamps of Israeli apartheid.
The ruins of Babylon are found not only in Iraq, but on the banks of the Potomac.
Wolfowitz Sees Challenges and Vindication in Iraq New York Times, July 22, 2003
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EXCERPT: "Mr. Wolfowitz's five-day journey seemed to produce a welter of soaring emotions as well as a sense of final vindication... Much of the trip had the feel of being stage-managed... Throughout the trip, in conformity with his activist bent, Mr. Wolfowitz referred to Mr. Hussein as 'tyrant, killer' and 'sadist.' But not once during the entire trip did he speak to any expert about the hunt for Iraq's unconventional weapons. That was despite the fact that Iraq's illicit weapons were the principal reason President Bush decided to wage war to topple Mr. Hussein's government...An aide to Mr. Wolfowitz said there just was not time in his busy schedule 'even though he managed to squeeze in an hourlong tour of the ruins of Babylon."
Mosul, Iraq, July 21 ââ¬â The fruits of a long personal mission for Paul D. Wolfowitz were spread out before him today in a modest second-floor conference room in this bustling city in northern Iraq.
There sat the newly elected mayor and his council ââ¬â Arabs, Kurds, Christians and Turkmens. It was the kind of mix of ethnic groups and faiths that Mr. Wolfowitz has long argued could thrive if Saddam Hussein was ousted, and Iraq became free and democratic.
Now Mr. Hussein is gone, and Mr. Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary and a main intellectual architect of the Bush administration's Iraq policy, today expressed both elation at meeting the council ââ¬â part of a carefully choreographed visit to Iraq ââ¬â and sounded a cautionary note to his new allies in what he says is a running war on terror.
"You don't build a democracy like you build a house," Mr. Wolfowitz said over tea, honey pastries and water buffalo cheese. "Democracy grows like a garden. If you keep the weeds out and water the plants and you're patient, eventually you get something magnificent."
Mr. Wolfowitz crisscrossed Iraq on a fact-finding trip to gauge the road ahead for America's strategy here, as attacks against United States troops continued to put pressure on the Bush administration.
In the latest strike on Americans, a roadside bomb exploded today near a military convoy in north Baghdad, killing one soldier and his Iraqi interpreter, The Associated Press reported. Three other members of the First Armored Division were wounded. The American military credited an Iraqi bystander who helped the troops out of the damaged vehicles with saving the life of one of the soldiers.
Mr. Wolfowitz's five-day journey seemed to produce a welter of soaring emotions as well as a sense of final vindication in a man who had warned since 1979 of the menace posed by Mr. Hussein and his Baath Party followers ââ¬â long before anyone feared Iraq's suspected chemical and biological weapons arsenal.
Much of the trip had the feel of being stage-managed to support those long-stated views. Reporters joined Mr. Wolfowitz on a tour of a mass grave in Hilla, where 3,000 bodies had been unearthed from shallow pits. He led another tour through the notorious Abu Ghraib prison outside Baghdad where thousands of Iraqis were tortured and executed. Mr. Wolfowitz has long compared the rule of Mr. Hussein to that of Nicolae Ceaucescu, the deposed head of Communist Romania. So when the occupation authority's senior civilian adviser to the Iraqi Foreign Ministry turned out to be a Romanian diplomat, Mr. Wolfowitz was delighted when the diplomat agreed with his comparison.
Throughout the trip, in conformity with his activist bent, Mr. Wolfowitz referred to Mr. Hussein as "tyrant," "killer" and "sadist."
But not once during the entire trip did he speak to any expert about the hunt for Iraq's unconventional weapons. That was despite the fact that Iraq's illicit weapons were the principal reason President Bush decided to wage war to topple Mr. Hussein's government and that about 1,500 military and civilian specialists headed by a two-star Army general recently arrived to take up the search.
An aide to Mr. Wolfowitz said there just was not time in his busy schedule "even though he managed to squeeze in an hourlong tour of the ruins of Babylon." Besides, aides added, that mission now belongs to American intelligence agencies.
Mr. Wolfowitz said at a news conference here that Washington would welcome outside help in rebuilding Iraq, but he warned its neighbors and suspected foreign guerrilla fighters who may have arrived in the country against meddling.
"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq," he said. "Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not."
During his tour, Mr. Wolfowitz was greeted as a liberator by two groups who suffered the most under Mr. Hussein's three-decade rule ââ¬â Kurds here in the north and Shiites in the south, especially marshland Arabs ââ¬â and he listened to their horrific tales of loved ones tortured or killed by Mr. Hussein's followers.
Mr. Wolfowitz was, however, also a magnet for complaints that the all-powerful United States had failed to provide more security, more electricity and more jobs. "Even though there are many things we can do, we are not gods, and the things we can do take time," Mr. Wolfowitz told the leaders here. "It's important for you and your colleagues to teach patience."
Clearly Iraq is still a very dangerous place. On the ground, Mr. Wolfowitz traveled in a heavily armed convoy, often with attack helicopters buzzing overhead. Word of his destinations was not widely disseminated in advance. His C-130 transport plane detected enemy ground radar on a flight today to Kirkuk, and discharged flares as a defensive measure. Crew members said they saw no missiles.
Immense challenges lie ahead ââ¬â some glimpsed by Mr. Wolfowitz and others discussed in his many meetings with Iraqis and Americans now trying to run Iraq. Thieves in Basra tap into pipelines and smuggle oil into nearby Iran. The slightest rumor of fuel shortages creates huge lines at gas stations, requiring Army soldiers to stand guard. The country needs tens of thousands of new police officers.
In Baghdad and Mosul, Iraqis who work for the occupation authority have received death threats. Foreign guerrilla fighters and terrorists continue to infiltrate Iraq's porous borders and ambush American troops. The United States is scrambling to set up a new Iraqi civil defense force to free up thousands of American troops to conduct antiguerrilla missions and to put more of an Iraqi face on the post war security effort.
Despite the challenges, Mr. Wolfowitz found an ebullient note here as he wrapped up his trip.
"I feel very encouraged overall that conditions here are much better than I thought they were before I came," Mr. Wolfowitz said at a news conference for mainly Kurdish journalists. "The biggest challenge we face immediately is a very serious security challenge. But I believe it's just a very small minority of Iraqis and some foreigners who are doing that.
"You can't deal with the complex situation of Iraq in simply a one-dimensional way," he said today. "The problem of security is related to the problem of electricity. They're both related to the problem of employment. And the question of governance affects everything. We need a strategy that moves forward on all those things."
Indeed, there is some progress. Here in northern Iraq, the 101st Airborne Division says it has helped establish interim city and provincial governments, restore commerce along the Syrian and Turkish borders, and repair schools, bridges and courthouses.
In the Shiite holy cities of Najaf and Karbala in south-central Iraq ââ¬â despite a tense confrontation between Americans and crowds of Iraqis in Najaf over the weekend ââ¬â American marines have worked closely with tribal and religious leaders. At one point, Mr. Wolfowitz gloated that many of the dire predictions of "uninformed commentators" and Middle East experts that Shiites would rise up against the American occupation forces have so far not materialized.
But in Najaf today, protests continued as thousands of followers of the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr marched to the American headquarters, shouting slogans against the Iraqi Governing Council and the Americans, The A.P. reported.
Troops barricaded the building with Humvees. The crowd, some throwing rocks, finally left after clerics read out an appeal by Mr. Sadr to go home. Earlier, Mr. Sadr said in a statement that he wanted allied forces to leave Najaf. Shiite demonstrators also protested today outside an American base in Baghdad.
During his trip, Mr. Wolfowitz took copious notes, constantly throwing out questions. He said the barrage of information and impressions over the five days had felt like drinking out of "two or three fire hoses" at once, and many questions remain.
None, perhaps, is as pointed as the fate of Mr. Hussein himself. Military commanders say he is still alive and almost surely in Iraq, and Mr. Wolfowitz said he would eventually be captured or killed. He acknowledged this was crucial for ending the state of fear Mr. Hussein still engenders in many Iraqis.
At a city council meeting in Najaf, one councilman even asked if the United States was secretly holding Mr. Hussein to ensure that Iraqis did what the occupation authority wanted. It set off a rare flash of anger, and strong language, from Mr. Wolfowitz. "We're not playing any games with Saddam Hussein," he said. "The sooner we can catch that bastard, excuse me, the better."
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**One can't help noting in the wake of Fleischer's obscene remark, that the war with Iraq might also have been prevented with a single bullet aimed at another head of state besides Saddam. ** This is where he's entirely mistaken -- even if he DID mean Wolfowitz instead of Bush -- the TRIBE would have ensured the "war with Iraq" came no matter WHO was left over to run the "american" government!!!
2003-07-22 15:11 | User Profile
Great post, Avalanche,
It appears Wolfowitz is America's real ruler. There are more Jews in America than Israel; it's only a question of time before they bring the hammer down and turn us all into Palestinians.
-Z-