| "Richard
Perle is a traitor. There's no other way to put it."
Seymour Hersh is a rarity in America these
days -- an investigative journalist.
"Hersh is not a nice man in the
Washington sense," writes Eric Alterman of Salon,
"he does not know how to make small talk, flatter his
bosses, spin his defeats and conceal his fierce
competitiveness. He is simply the best investigative
reporter alive and expects his work to speak for
itself."
Because Hersh does what he does so well,
the chicken hawk Richard Perle
called him a terrorist on CNN the other day.
That's right. Perle equated Hersh with
Osama bin Laden and Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. "Sy Hersh
is the closest thing American journalism has to a
terrorist," Perle told Wolf Blitzer.
Perle slandered Hersh because the award
winning journalist wrote
in the March 17th issue of the New Yorker: "There
is no question that Perle believes that removing Saddam from
power is the right thing to do. At the same time, he has set
up a company that may gain from a war."
I have not read the New Yorker article, so
I can't comment on it. I don't know if Perle set up a
company situated to profit from his boss' plan to mass
murder possibly a half million Iraqis or not. But if Hersh
said it, there must be something to it. Hersh is known for
his meticulous research. He conducts interviews, double
checks facts. Seymour Hersh does not make things up. Due to
his professionalism Hersh has won more than a dozen major
journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for
International Reporting and four George Polk Awards.
On the other hand, Perle and the neocons
are liars.
One big lie is that Mohammed Atta met with
Khalil Ibrahim Samir al-Ani, an official at Baghdad's
embassy in Prague. US intelligence agencies went over
records of Atta,s travels and concluded that during the
period in question he was in Virginia Beach, not in Prague.
Perle knew this was a fabrication. He attempted to pass it
off on the American people as truth. There are many other
lies, as well, but I will not bother you with enumeration.
That's how the neocons make their case
before the American people -- through deceit, half-truth,
fabrications, and outright lies. It should be considered
treason. It should be a crime. Maybe one day Richard Perle
will be prosecuted for his crimes. For now he is allowed to
bend the ear of George W. Bush and prod the half-wit
dictator into destroying America.
When Perle was working for Senator Scoop
Jackson, he was investigated by the Justice Department and
found to have violated US policies relating to unlawful
transmission of sensitive classified US information to
Israel.
"An FBI summary of a 1970 wiretap
recorded Perle discussing classified information with
someone at the Israeli embassy," writes Paul Findley
(They Dare To Speak Out, Chicago, Ill, Lawrence Hill Books
1989)."He came under fire in 1983 when newspapers
reported he received substantial payments to represent the
interests of an Israeli weapons company. Perle denied
conflict of interest, insisting that, although he received
payment for these services after he had assumed his position
in the Defense Department, he was between government jobs
when he worked for the Israeli firm."
In other words, Richard Perle is an
Israeli spy.
Perle should be expatriated immediately --
or made to share a cell with Jonathan Pollard, the spy who
spent 18 months collecting and selling classified American
intelligence to Israel from his position in U.S. Naval
Intelligence. So pleased were the Israelis with the
information passed on to them, two of the four government
officials who had dealt with Pollard were promoted (Col.
Aviem Sella, Pollard,s primary contact, was given full
control of a major Israeli Air Force base). So arrogant are
the Israelis that Sharon asked Bush to pardon and release
Pollard.
If these are our friends, who needs
enemies?
Okay, I'm going to use a word that will
upset some of you -- Zionist. These days if you use the word
Zionist you're going to be immediately accused of
anti-Semitism. I receive hate email for using this word on
occasion. You'd think I'm making excuses for the Holocaust
(which is another subject that can get you in hot water,
especially in France where you can go to prison for
questioning the official verson of historical events). I'm
not slandering Jews, I'm simply reporting the facts. Here's
an indisputable fact:
Richard Perle is a Zionist.
Now what exactly does this mean? It means
Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, and
others in the Bush administration -- are Israeli
nationalists. "Wolfowitz and fellow Jewish neo-cons
Richard Perle and Douglas Feith have emerged as the
Pentagon's Paladins," writes Ann Pettifer, "their
aim being to subdue the Islamic world through decisive,
pre-emptive use of American military superiority."
"Only in Washington does one get a
true sense of the obsession of these Pentagon
civilians," writes Hugo Young, a Guardian columnist.
"Conversationally, it is common talk that some of them,
not including Rumsfeld, are as much Israeli as American
nationalists. Behind nervous, confiding hands come sardonic
whispers of an American outpost of Likud. Most striking of
all, however, is how unmentionable this is in the liberal
press."
Ain't that the truth.
But then the corporate press in America
rarely criticizes the Zionists. Notice how Perle can jump
from one TV news show to another and nobody mentions his
spying for the Israelis or working for an Israeli arms
manufacturer. Nobody mentions his "dual
loyalties," which are common knowledge in Washington.
Nobody calls him a traitor. Nobody in the corporate media
dares -- that is if they want to keep their jobs.
Perle can insult the Germans and French at
the same time and the corporate media looks the other way.
In fact, he is allowed to denigrate the whole of Europe.
"I think Europe has lost its moral compass. Many
Europeans have become so obsessed by the prospect of
violence they have failed to notice who we are dealing
with," he told the Guardian.
Gee, Richard. Maybe the Germans remember
the horror of American Flying Fortresses dumping gasoline
bombs on Dresden in 1945, an act of barbarity that resulted
in the murder of 100,000 people. Maybe the French recall the
Nazi occupation. Maybe there's still thousands of Dutch,
Italians, Poles, and other Europeans alive who remember none
too fondly the systematic and engineered mass murder of the
Second World War. No doubt, as well, there's plenty of Jews
who remember the monstrosity of Hitler's concentration
camps.
I bet if you asked them if Saddam Hussein
is Hitler reborn they would laugh in your face.
Actually, Saddam is not a threat to a
single person in the United States. Perle and the Zionist
neocons know this, of course. They also know that Iraq is
not a serious threat to Israel, especially after a decade of
war and sanctions have reduced Iraq to one of the poorest
countries in the world. "We don't lose sleep over
Iraq's military threat to us," Lt Gen. Moshe Yaalon,
Israel,s Chief of Staff, told the New York Times.
So why are the Zionists pushing for a US
invasion of Iraq?
First, the Zionists believe that bad
relations between the US and Arab nations is good for
Israel. It's no mistake Iraq and Iran were specifically
fingered as part of an "axis of evil," nations the
Bushites have singled out for invasion and
"democratization." Sharon told fellow Zionist and
U.S. Undersecretary of State John Bolton last month he wants
Syria and Libya attacked next. As if to make sure he
received the correct marching orders, Bolton also met with
Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Housing and
Construction Minister Natan Sharansky.
The Israeli Zionists don't care if
perpetual war destroys the American economy. It does not
bother them if Americans will die in the thousands.
Second, the Zionists are itching to
"transfer" -- i.e., to ethnically cleanse -- as
many Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza as possible.
Israel will do this while the US is busy slaughtering
Iraqis. "Israel should have exploited the repression of
the demonstrations in China, when world attention focused on
that country, to carry out mass expulsions among the Arabs
of the territories," Netanyahu told students at Bar-Ilan
University in 1989. Americans may be clueless about the
intentions of Zionists toward the Palestinians, but in
Israel ethnic cleansing is a popular subject of discussion.
Fifty percent or more of Israelis think ethnic cleansing is
a good idea. This from a nation that supposedly remembers
the Holocaust.
"The idea of transfer is as old as
modern Zionism and has accompanied its evolution and praxis
during the past century," remarks Israeli historian
Benny Morris. Moreover, the Palestinian "demographic
threat" was something that "once left Golda Meir
sleepless at night and now serves as the subject of
obsession for Israeli conferences and nervous policy
analysts," notes Will Youmans.
Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, and their fellow
travelers from the Jewish Institute for National Security
Affairs (JINSA), the Center for Security Policy (CSP), the
American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and the Hudson Institute
-- as well as defense contractors and conservative
foundations bankrolled by far-right American Zionists -- are
calling the shots on Bush's invasion of Iraq.
It has nothing to do with the security of
the American people. It has everything to do with Israel and
the Likudites.
The Zionists in the Bush administration
are pulling a fast one on the American people. It's criminal
behavior. It should not be tolerated. The Zionist plan to
bomb and kill Arabs across the Middle East will result in
dismal failure and pointless mass murder. It will destroy
America. It will wreck our economy and kill our sons. Perle
and his cronies are mountebanks, swindlers, hypocrites. They
are war criminals.
Richard Perle is a traitor. There's no
other way to put it.
If Richard Perle -- and Paul Wolfowitz,
Douglas Feith, Elliot Abrams, and all the other Zionists
embedded in the Bush administration -- love Israel so much,
they should pack their bags and go there.
If they won't go on their own, they should
be forced to leave.
In the meantime, their treacherous crimes
need to be exposed.
nimmo@zianet.com Kurt Nimmo's Another Day
in the Empire http://nimmo.blogspot.com/
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