`Wolfowitz Cabal' Is an Enemy Within U.S.
by
Michele Steinberg
On
Oct. 14, the London Observer published one of the now
familiar—and totally false—propaganda scare stories, entitled
"Iraq 'Behind U.S. Anthrax Outbreaks.' " The story
gave credence to the ravings of "American hawks" who say
there is "a growing mass of evidence that [Iraqi President]
Saddam Hussein was involved, possibly indirectly, with the Sept.
11 suicide hijacks." If confirmed, said the Observer,
"the pressure now building ... for an attack [on Iraq] may be
irresistible." One of these "hawks," an unnamed
U.S. "administration official," told the Observer
that British Prime Minister Tony Blair is a "faithful
ally" in the war against terrorism and that "if it
means we are embarking on the next Hundred Years' War, then that's
what we are doing" (emphasis added).
The
"next Hundred Year's War"? Who are the U.S. maniacs who
use such language, and are they not as dangerous as Osama bin
Laden's jihad?
Here
we will name the names of the fanatics in this anti-Iraq grouping
who have become known as the "Wolfowitz cabal," named
after Assistant Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. According to
the New York Times, which published a leak about their
activities on Oct. 12, this grouping wants an immediate war with
Iraq, believing that the targetting of Afghanistan, already an
impoverished wasteland, falls far short of the global war that
they are hoping for. But Iraq is just another stepping stone to
turning the anti-terrorist "war" into a full-blown
"Clash of Civilizations," where the Islamic religion
would become the "enemy image" in a "new Cold
War."
The
"Clash of Civilizations" theory, developed by Harvard
professor-turned President Jimmy Carter's National Security
Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and his protégés, including Harvard
Prof. Samuel Huntington, defined the Arab and Islamic world as an
"arc of crisis" from the Middle East to the Islamic
countries of Central Asia in the then-Soviet Union. Brzezinski
wanted to use the "Islamic card" against the Soviet
Union, and in so doing, began the policy of promoting Islamic
fundamentalists against moderate and pro-Western Arab and Islamic
governments. After the end of the Cold War, the Brzezinski/Huntington
crowd updated their "arc of crisis," declaring that the
Islamic religion is the enemy, in a new war in which religions,
rather than political systems, inevitably battle each other.
However, trained by British and U.S. special intelligence services
and the CIA, and armed by Israeli military networks, the very
terrorist drug-runners in the Islamic world who were launched by
Brzezinski and "adopted" by the Iran-Contra networks run
by Lt. Col. Oliver North, under the elder George Bush's Executive
Order 12333, have become the main suspects in terrorist attacks
against the United States.
A
Network Throughout the Government
The
adherents of the so-called "Wolfowitz cabal," pushing
the "Clash of Civilizations" theory, are nothing less
than "an enemy within" the United States, a network that
cuts across the Defense Department, the State Department, the
White House, and the National Security Council. This report is not
a "good guys" versus "bad guys" description of
the Bush Administration; rather it is a warning that this cabal is
a close-knit rogue network that is trying to hijack U.S. policy,
and turn the current Afghanistan mess into a global war. The cabal
bears a dangerous resemblance to the "secret parallel
government" of North and Gen. Richard Secord's "Project
Democracy" operation that ran Iran-Contra. In fact, some of
the cabal members now in the Bush Administration are convicted
criminals as a result of their activity in North's
"Enterprise"!
On
Oct. 12, the New York Times revealed deep divisions in the
Bush Administration, describing how the cabal plots policy behind
the back of Cabinet officials, such as Secretary of State Colin
Powell, in the name of the U.S. government. The group wants to
obliterate Iraq, put Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat
and the Palestinian Authority on the terrorism list (if not the
obituary list), and declare war on nation-states.
The
Times revealed that a key section of the "Wolfowitz
cabal," is the 18-member Defense Policy Board, which met for
more than 19 hours on Sept. 19-20 to "make the case"
against Saddam Hussein. The meeting pushed for a renewed war
against Iraq as soon as the war against Afghanistan had concluded
its initial phase. It discussed overthrowing Saddam Hussein,
partitioning Iraq into mini-states led by U.S.-funded dissidents
who would steal the proceeds from the Basra oil revenues for their
quisling government. The meeting discussed how to manipulate
information so as to pin the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States
on Saddam Hussein.
According
to the Times, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld attended
the meetings for only "part" of both days, and on Sept.
22, President George Bush rejected the Policy Board's
recommendation to declare war against Iraq. But to the
"Wolfowitz cabal," Bush's decision didn't really
matter—senior members of the Policy Board had been selected for
their broad international connections, especially to the United
Kingdom and Israel, allowing them to force changes in U.S. policy
through an "outside-inside" operation. If unable to
change policy through advising, the network could also run covert
operations as a "government within a government," as
they had maneuvered during Iran-Contra.
The
chairman of the Defense Policy Board is Richard Perle, the former
Reagan Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security
Affairs, now based at the neo-conservative American Enterprise
Institute.
Perle,
nicknamed "The Prince of Darkness" because of his
nuclear Armageddon views during the Cold War, is, more
importantly, an asset of Conrad Black's Hollinger International,
Inc., which grew out of British Empire Security Coordinator
William Stephenson's efforts to secure arms for Britain during
World War II. At present, Hollinger owns the British Tory
Party-linked Telegraph PLC, whose International Advisory Board is
headed by former British Prime Minister, now Lady Margaret
Thatcher. Hollinger also owns the Jerusalem Post, another
war-mongering press outlet.
The
"heavy hitters" on the Defense Policy Board are the
worst of the Anglo-American-Israeli geopolitical fanatics from the
last several decades, including: former Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger, who is also a member of Hollinger's International
Advisory Board; former House Speaker Newt Gingrich; former Clinton
Administration Director of Central Intelligence R. James Woolsey;
former Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. David E.
Jeremiah; former Vice President Dan Quayle; former Defense and
Energy Secretary James R. Schlesinger; and former President
Carter's Defense Secretary Harold Brown.
Though
Perle was only recently appointed to head the Defense Policy
Board, he and Wolfowitz have been collaborators for more than two
decades, as agents-of-influence of the right-wing Israeli war
faction. In 1985, when it was clear that Jonathan Jay Pollard, an
American convicted that year of spying for Israel, could not have
been working alone in stealing such high-level U.S. secrets for
Israel to sell to the Soviet Union, top-level intelligence
officials told EIR that an entire "X Committee"
of high-level U.S. officials, was being investigated. Wolfowitz
and Perle were on the list of "X Committee" suspects,
and Israeli spying against the United States was so thick that
investigators told EIR they had found "not moles, but
entire molehills." Pollard and his Israeli defenders later
claimed that Pollard "had to" spy against the United
States because the Americans were soft on Iraq and other Arab
countries.
The
"Wolfowitz cabal" is deterimined to push the United
States in the direction of the most dangerous Israeli right-wing
policy, including a possible Israeli nuclear attack on an Arab
state. They are implementers of the very "breakaway
ally" scenario about which 2004 Democratic Party Presidential
pre-candidate Lyndon LaRouche warned in his statement of Oct. 12
(see International).
Plan B: Wagging the Dog
The
"Wolfowitz cabal" is out to destroy any potential for a
Middle East peace, and simultaneously is determined to crush
Eurasian economic development centered around cooperation among
Europe, Russia, and China. After being rebuffed after the marathon
Defense Policy Board meetings, the Wolfowitz cabal set various
operations in motion to plant propaganda stories, falsify reports
of U.S. policy, and carry out other maneuvers, whereby the tail
would "wag the dog." Unapproved statements are made by
cabal members, interviews misrepresenting U.S. policy are planted
around the globe, and intelligence reports are altered or
manufactured to further the policy goals.
The
pattern is becoming crystal clear.
In
the first such instance, shortly after the attacks of Sept. 11,
Wolfowitz declared that the United States will "end states
harboring terrorism," and insisted that under the principle
of self-defense, the United States could act alone, without the
United Nations, or cooperation from any other country. He wanted
to establish the "doctrine" that the United States would
hit a country "anywhere, anytime" based on secret
evidence. But, Wolfowitz was forced to retract his statements, in
a visible rift with the White House. Some days later, NATO allies
at its Brussels headquarters snubbed Wolfowitz, and refused to
formalize cooperation with the United States under NATO agreements
at a meeting where Wolfowitz represented the Bush Administration.
In
the same vein, on Oct. 7, the day the Afghanistan bombings began,
the cabal again attempted to provoke a rift between the United
States and members of the UN Security Council, especially Russia
and China, by altering the text of a letter from U.S. Ambassador
to the UN John D. Negroponte. (Not coincidentally, Negroponte was
a notorious insider in the Iran-Contra operation, who was accused
of collaborating with narcotics-linked military death squads in
Honduras in the 1980s.) The changes in the letter were made
without notifying Negroponte's boss, Secretary of State Powell.
In
the letter, Negroponte echoed Wolfowitz's so-called gaffe,
writing, "We may find that our self-defense requires further
action with respect to other organizations and states"
(emphasis added). The statement implicitly targetted Iraq, Syria,
and Sudan, all countries which are on the State Department's list
of countries that support terrorism. The statement violated
promises the United States had made, that it would limit
"coalition" action to redressing the attack of Sept. 11.
Upon learning of the statement, from the press, Powell reportedly
"hit the roof." The insertion was drafted by Stephen J.
Hadley, who is the Deputy Adviser to the National Security
Council. The stunt may have been planned at the Defense Policy
Board meetings.
Then
there's the case of former CIA director R. James Woolsey, whose
defined role is as the Policy Board member who is most public in
demanding the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. The Knight-Ridder
newspaper chain reported on Oct. 11, that Woolsey had been
authorized the prior month to fly to London on a U.S. government
plane, accompanied by Justice and Defense Department officials, on
a secret mission to gather evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the
Sept. 11 attack. In a Sept. 18 press conference by Defense Week,
Woolsey called for creating a "no-fly and no-drive zone"
in the north and south of Iraq, so that the Kurds and the Shi'ites,
respectively, could better fight Saddam. "The watchword of
the day," Woolsey said, is, "It's the Regimes,
Stupid!"
Since
the Oct. 5 death from anthrax of Bob Stevens, the Sun
tabloid photo editor, from anthrax, Woolsey has been the world's
leading finger-pointer at Saddam as being behind the anthrax
attack. His so-called evidence is dated, prejudiced, and
completely unreliable.
It
was no accident that Woolsey role-played a prominent
character—CIA Director—in the New York Council on Foreign
Relations 1999-2000 scenario the previous year, "The Next
Financial Crisis: Warning Signs, Damage Control, and Impact,"
that acted out a virtual coup d'état coming on the heels of a
combined financial crisis and terrorist attack. In the CFR
war-game, the U.S. President would be taken out of the picture,
leaving the country under the control of a crisis management
dictatorship.
Also
dispatched to London to propagandize for a "rolling war"
that would attack Afghanistan, then Iraq, then country after
country until revenge is exacted, was fellow Policy Board member
Newt Gingrich. Talking to the London Times, owned by top
British-Israeli propagandist Rupert Murdoch, Gingrich said that
the United States is "at war" with "organized,
systematic extensions of terror, supported by nation-states."
He said that targetting the Afghan Taliban without defeating Iraq
would be "like defeating Imperial Japan and leaving the Nazis
alone." Gingrich threatened that countries judged not
cooperative against terrorism would face the consequences:
"The U.S. and the coalition forces will assist your own
people in removing you."
Setting
the pace for his team, Perle was the joint initiator with neo-con
William Kristol of the Rupert Murdoch-funded Weekly Standard,
of an open letter to President Bush, that, while ostensibly
supporting the President in the war against terrorism, was, in
fact, an ultimatum to support a "Clash of Civilizations"
Thirty Years' War in the Middle East. Among the non-negotiable
demands set forth in that letter was the overthrow of Saddam
Hussein, "even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the
[Sept. 11] attack."
There
is no doubt that the Wolfowitz/Perle duo is at the heart of the
network that can use Israel in the "breakaway ally
scenario." Indeed, Wolfowitz is one of great hopes of
right-wing extremists in Israel, including among the radical
settlers movement, who are demanding the assassination of Arafat
and the expulsion of all Palestinians from the Occupied
Territories (see coverage in International). But, Wolfowitz
and Perle are not "Israeli agents." Rather, they
are second-generation operatives both mentored by the RAND Corp.'s
Albert Wohlstetter, a former Trotskyite communist turned nuclear
strategist. Nor are the cabal war-mongers Seven Days in May
militarists.
A
key member of the cabal is Richard Armitage, the number-two man in
the U.S. State Department, who was investigated in the Iran-Contra
scandal, and who is a longtime collaborator of Wolfowitz in the
targetting of Iraq. The cabal also has high-level operatives at
the National Security Council (NSC):
Gen.
Wayne Downing, former Commander in Chief of the Special
Operations Command, was just appointed as Director of Combatting
Terrorism for the Homeland Defense Board, headed by former
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge. In 1997-98, Downing drew up a
military plan to overthrow Saddam, by assassination, if necessary.
The plan hinged on heavily arming dissident gangs of Iraqi
Shi'ites in the south of Iraq, and Kurdish fighters in the north.
Invasion by U.S. Special Forces ground troops was not ruled out.
The promoter of the neo-Conservative yahoos in Congress and the
think-tanks was Wolfowitz, then head of the Paul Nitze School of
Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Unable
to ram this plan through the Clinton Administration, Wolfowitz
shopped the plan to Perle, an expert in "chain-letter"
pressure politics, who garnered signatures. Now at the NSC,
Downing has the ready-made plan to hit Iraq.
Richard
Clarke, Adviser to the President for Cyberspace Warfare.
Clarke, who was originally with the State Department during the
elder Bush's Administration, was demoted for covering up Israeli
violations of the Arms Exporting laws. In August 1998, Clarke was
one of the key figures who planted false information about Sudan's
involvement in the East Africa U.S. Embassy bombings, which led to
U.S. cruise missile attacks on a Sudanese pharmaceutical company
in Khartoum. Clarke shopped in disinformation from British-Israeli
covert operations stringer Yosef Bodansky that targetted Sudan.
Elliott
Abrams, NSC staff. Abrams, who was convicted in the
Iran-Contra scandal, was quietly placed on the NSC as a specialist
in "religion and human rights." He is a longtime member
of the right-wing Zionist networks that infiltrated the U.S.
security establishment. He worked closely with Secord and North in
Central America, also providing a link to the Israeli gun-running
networks that delivered arms to Khomeini's Iran.
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