The News:
- An
Israeli Playground, Fortified Against Rockets, NYT March 12, 2009
- Israel
Stance Was Undoing of Nominee for Intelligence
Post, NYT
March 12, 2009
- As
U.S. Weighs Taliban Negotiations, Afghans Are Already
Talking , NYT
March 11, 2009
- Bomber
Kills Dozens in Iraq as Fears of New Violence Rise, NYT March 11, 2009
- Clinton:
U.S. Gaza aid tied to recognition of Israel , Haaretz, March 12, 2009
- Saudi-Syrian
thaw in ties 'benefits' Lebanon,
Daily Star (Beirut), March 12, 2009
Two years ago:
- Jordan’s King
Seeks Greater U.S. Role in Peace Effort
NYT March 8, 2007
- Libby
Guilty of Lying in C.I.A. Leak Case NYT
March 7, 2007
- A Libby
Verdict NYT editorial March 7,
2007
- For Cheney,
Political Toll May Follow Libby Verdict
NYT March 7, 2007
- Justin Raimondo, A Corrupt
Endeavor, Antiwar.com, March 7,
2007
- When
a Leader Missteps, a World Can Go Astray - review of Brzezinski's latest book, NYT March 6,
2007
- Obama,
the Lobby, and the next war by Justin Raimondo March 5, 2007
- Rice
Picks Neo-Con Champion of Iraq War as Counselor, Interpress News, March 2, 2007
- Funds
told to cut ties to Iran USA Today,
March 7, 2007
Going to War in Iraq - why, how, and with what
consequences
- WHY?
- pre-911 policy of "dual containment" of Iran
and Iraq
- Iran Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) 1996
- 1991 sanctions regime against Iraq; no fly
zones; Desert Fox 1998 and withdrawal of UN inspectors
- 911 and Bush Doctrine
- "War of the Imagination" spring and summer of
2002 ("to humilate them" [forces of radical Islam] - Henry
Kissinger)
- Neo-Conservative Ideology - democratic domino
theory? (moderating Iran?!) shock and awe like Berlin Wall
revol.utions?
- Oil? Cheney-Halliburton connection?? (see
latest
on oil law - as of July 2008 - and still in limbo, with service contracts canceled
in September - and reformulated, still
under discussion as of February
2009)
- Israel factor? (Richard
Perle, Douglas
Feith, David
Wurmser, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy
for Securing the Realm" paper for Netanyahu, 1996) And
Evangelicals?
- Weapons of Mass Destruction? ("lowest common
denominator"-Paul
Wolfowitz)
- Post Cold War strategy: P Wolfowitz and I.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Defense
Planning Guidance 1992 draft
- HOW?
- Rumsfeld's military doctrine vs Powell
Doctrine
- State Dept vs. Defense Department - the
bureaucratic politics of postwar planning - "the interagency" of
NSC and various intergovernmental committes was "broken" after 911
(see Abels. p44 Cheney-Rice-Card-Rove-Tenet-Rumsfeld:
"constructive instability"--bold action makes us safer?)
- Douglas Feith's intelligence analysis in
Pentagon
- Secretary of State Powell's faulty CIA
intelligence testimony of Feb. 5, 2003 (for a 2nd UN resolution
that never happened - after Security Council Resolution
No.
1441 (Nov 8, 2002) on Iraq.
- Consequences:
- quick victory: March 20 invasion to fall of
Baghdad and "Mission
Accomplished" April 9
- political vacuum and looting
- Ahmed Chalabi to the rescue?
- Garner and Franks both reporting to Rumsfeld
not NSC - then Sanchez vs Bremer!: the Coalition Provisional
Authority 2003-05
- who decided De-Baathification and disbanding
of army, ministries of Defense and Interior? (May 15, 16,
2003)
- Constitution of October 2005 and "sovereign"
Iraqi government
- Arab and Muslim public opinion
- the only winner: Iran
- Medals of Freedom to General Tommy Franks, CIA
Director George Tenet, and CPA head Paul Bremmer
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