American Zionist Neoconservatives: a gallery of rogues
Richard Perle
“American political advisor
and lobbyist who worked for the Reagan administration as an assistant Secretary
of Defense and worked on the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee from 1987
to 2004. He was Chairman of the Board from 2001 to 2003 under the Bush
Administration.”
“He is a member of several conservative think-tanks, such as Project for
the New American Century (PNAC), the Hudson Institute, and (as a resident
fellow) the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research. He is
also a Patron of the Henry Jackson Society. “
“Perle has
written extensively on a number of issues; his cited research interests
including defense, national security, and the Middle East. Perle had long been an advocate of regime change in Iraq. He also linked
Saddam to Osama Bin
Laden just a few days after 9/11”
“Perle chaired
a study group that included Douglas Feith and
David Wurmser that
produced a strategy paper for the incoming Likud Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: “A Clean Break: A New
Strategy for Securing the Realm””
“In a New York Times article Perle was
criticized for recommending that the Army purchase an armaments system from an
Israeli company that a year earlier had paid him $50,000 in consulting fees.”
“In 1996, Perle
participated in a study group that produced a report for the incoming Likud-led government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel that
urged the country to break off then-ongoing peace initiatives and suggested
strategies for reshaping the Middle East. Among the group’s arguments was the
idea that “removing Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq [was] an important
Israeli strategic objective in its own right.”
Paul Wolfowitz
“As U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense during the Presidency of
George W. Bush, he was “a major architect of President Bush’s Iraq policy and,
within the Administration, its most passionate and compelling advocate” (Boyer
1)”
Douglas Feith
“Douglas Feith is a
former Pentagon official closely associated with the neoconservative political
faction who has been investigated for allegedly distorting prewar intelligence
on Iraq. Feith served
as the deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, the number three position
at the Pentagon, from July 2001 to August 2005.”
“Feith has been
questioned by the FBI in relation to the passing by one of his employees of
confidential Pentagon documents to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee
(AIPAC), which in turn passed them to the Israeli Embassy. The Senate
Intelligence Committee is also investigating Feith.”
“There seems little doubt that he operated in the Pentagon in such a way
as to produce false and misleading ‘intelligence,’ that he created an entirely
false impression of Iraqi weapons capabilities and ties to al-Qaida, and that he is among the chief facilitators of the U.S. war in Iraq. Feith is clearly resigning ahead of the possible breaking of major scandals
concerning his tenure at the Department of Defense, which is among the more
disgraceful cases of the misleading of the American people in American
history.”
“Although Feith was not
formally charged in connection to his work at the Pentagon, his work has been
repeatedly investigated, and official reports have linked him to efforts to
push faulty evidence to justify the war. One investigation, by the Department
of Defense’s inspector general (IG), was set up to assess whether the Office of
Special Plans (OSP), a specialized outfit set up by Feith within the Pentagon to scrutinize intelligence on Iraq, deliberately
skewed information about the regime of Saddam Hussein (New York Times, May 25,
2006).”
“Feith also
served on the board of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA),
a think tank that promotes a military and strategic alliance between the United
States and Israel. [8]”
“Feith favors
US support for Israel and has promoted US-Israeli cooperation. He also favors
stronger US-Turkish cooperation, and increased military ties between Turkey and
Israel. Both Feith and his
father have been honored by the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), a
conservative organization that often makes common cause on foreign policy
issues with conservative Christian
organizations."
“The Betar Movement
(בית"ר, also
spelled Beitar) is a Revisionist Zionist youth
movement founded in 1923 in Riga, Latvia, by Ze'ev Jabotinsky. Betar members played important roles in the fight against the British during
the Mandate, and in the creation of Israel. It has
been traditionally linked to the original Herut and then
Likud Israeli
political parties.”
Michael Ledeen
“Ledeen was a
founding member of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and he
served on the JINSA Board of Advisors. In 2003, the Washington Post alleged
that he was consulted by Karl Rove, George W. Bush’s closest advisor, as his
main international affairs adviser.”
“Michael Ledeen had been
accused of being involved in the forgery which claimed that Saddam Hussein had
bought yellowcake in Niger.”
“Writing in The Nation, a left-wing magazine, Jack Huberman, who describes Ledeen as “the most influential and unabashed warmonger of our time”,
attributes these quotes to Ledeen:[19]
* “the level of casualties (in Iraq) is secondary”
* “we are a warlike people (Americans)...we love war”
* “Change - above all violent change - is the essence of human history”
* “the only way to achieve peace is through total war”
* “The purpose of total war is to permanently force your will onto
another people”
* “Every ten years or so, the United States needs to pick up some small
crappy little country and throw it against the wall, just to show the world we
mean business”
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Scooter Libby
“an American former corporate lawyer, policy advisor, and novelist
who served as Assistant to the President of the United States, George W. Bush,
Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States, Dick Cheney, and
Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs from 2001 to
2005.”
“Libby was active in the Defense Policy Board Advisory Committee of the
Pentagon when it was chaired by Richard Perle during the early years of the George W. Bush administration (2001-2003).[44]”
“British Secretary of State for Justice Jack Straw said of Libby: “It’s
a toss-up whether [he] is working for the Israelis or the Americans on any
given day.”
Charles Krauthammer
“Neoconservative columnist
and commentator. Krauthammer appears regularly as a guest
commentator on Fox News. His print work appears in the Washington Post, Time
magazine and The Weekly Standard.”
“Krauthammer asserted that Saddam Hussein’s possession of weapons of
mass destruction was certain”
“Krauthammer guaranteed that the weapons would eventually be discovered”
“Krauthammer has been a defender of the Likud party in Israel”
Stephen Bryen
“Bryen is also
closely connected to various high-profile neoconservatives like Richard Perle, under whom Bryen served
when Perle was
President Ronald Reagan’s assistant secretary of defense, and has supported the
work of a number of hardline
pro-Israel groups like the Center for Security Policy (CSP) and the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA).”
“In the mid-1970s, Bryen and a
group of other mainly neoconservative figures, including Michael Ledeen, helped establish JINSA as an important Washington-based think tank
specializing in fostering close ties between the U.S. and Israeli militaries”
“Bryen had a
role in choosing not only what U.S. weaponry Israel would be allowed to
purchase with those funds, but also what sensitive U.S. military technology
would be made available to Israel for use in its own burgeoning arms industry.”
“Some observers have accused Bryen of using
his insider connections in Washington to the benefit of Israel.”
“In a January 2002 article for National Review Online, Bryen pushed the erroneous thesis that Iraq had maintained a well-developed
biological weapons program since the first Gulf War in 1991, making it the
“leading threat” to “global survival.””
“Even prior to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Bryen was part of a core group of foreign policy hardliners and
neoconservatives who pushed for overthrowing Saddam Hussein”
David Frum
“David J. Frum (born
1960) is a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush”
“Frum is
widely cited as having authored the phrase “axis of evil,” “
“Frum’s latest
book, An End to Evil, was co-written with Richard Perle. It provided a defense of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and advocated
regime change in Iran and Syria”
“Frum writes a
weekly column for Canada’s National Post newspaper and is a commentator for American
Public Radio’s “Marketplace.” His writings appear frequently in the New York
Times, Italy’s Il Foglio, and the
Daily Telegraph. He also writes a blog, David Frum’s Diary at the National Review Online Web site.”
Robert Kagan
“American neoconservative
scholar and political commentator.”
“Kagan worked
at the State Department Bureau of Inter-American Affairs (1985-1988) and was a
speechwriter for Secretary of State George P. Shultz (1984-1985). Prior to
that, he was foreign policy advisor to New York Representative and future
Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp”
“Kagan, who has
written for The New Republic, Policy Review, the Washington Post (monthly), and
the Weekly Standard, now lives in Brussels, Belgium, with his family.”
“He is a co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)”
David Wurmser
“David Wurmser is a
Swiss-American dual citizen and the Middle East Adviser to US Vice President
Dick Cheney. Wurmser, a
neoconservative, previously served as special assistant to John R. Bolton at
the State Department and was a former research fellow on the Middle East at the
American Enterprise Institute (AEI).”
“In 2000, Wurmser helped
draft a document entitled “Ending Syria’s Occupation of Lebanon: the US Role?”, which called for a confrontation with the regime in Damascus. The
document said that Syria was developing “weapons of mass destruction”.[2]”
“After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Undersecretary of Defense Douglas
Feith
appointed Wurmser and
veteran defense analyst Michael Maloof as a
secret two-man Pentagon intelligence unit. One of their products, days after
the attacks, was a memo that suggested “hitting targets outside the Middle East
in the initial offensive” or a “non-Al Qaeda target like Iraq.” “
“On September 4, 2004, the Washington Post reported that FBI
counterintelligence investigators had questioned Wurmser, along with Feith, Harold
Rhode, and Paul Wolfowitz about
the passing of classified information to Ahmad Chalabi and/or the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. [4]”
Wurmser’s wife,
Dr. Meyrav Wurmser, co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).”
Dov Zakheim
“During the 2000 U.S. Presidential election
campaign, Zakheim served
as a foreign policy advisor to George
W. Bush “
“appointed to be
Undersecretary of Defense and Comptroller from 2001 to 2004 under the George W.
Bush administration, and served in this capacity until April 2004. During his
term as Comptroller, he was tasked to help track down the Pentagon’s 2.6
trillion dollars ($2,600,000,000,000) worth of unaccounted transactions”
“As an Orthodox Jew, he gained notoriety for his involvement in ending
the Israeli fighter program, the IAI Lavi. He
argued that Israeli and U.S. interests would be best served by having Israel
purchase F-16 fighters, rather than investing in an entirely new aircraft.”
”Booz Allen
Hamilton, Inc., referred to as Booz Allen is
one of the oldest strategy consulting firms in
the world.[1]”
“In 2006 at the request of the Article 29 Working Group, an advisory
group to the European Commission (EC),
the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
and Privacy International (PI)
investigated the U.S. government’s SWIFT
surveillance program and Booz Allen’s
role therein. The ACLU and PI filed a memo at the end of their investigation
which called into question the ethics and legality of a government contractor
(in this case Booz Allen)
acting as auditors of a government program, when that contractor is heavily
involved with those same agencies on other contracts. The basic statement was
that a conflict of interest may exist. Beyond that, the implication was also made
that Booz Allen
may be complicit in a program (electronic surveillance of SWIFT) that may be
deemed illegal by the EC.”
“A June 28, 2007 Washington
Post article [13] related
how a U.S. Department of Homeland Security contract
with Booz Allen
increased from $2 million to more than $70 million through two no-bid
contracts, one occurring after the DHS’s legal
office had advised DHS not to continue the contract until after a review.”
Henry Kissenger
“In 2002, President George W. Bush appointed Kissinger to chair a committee
to investigate the events of the September 11 attacks. “
“In 2006, it was reported in the book State of Denial by Bob Woodward
that Kissinger was meeting regularly with President George W. Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney to offer advice on the War in Iraq.[38] Kissinger confirmed in recorded interviews with Woodward”
Norman Podhoretz
“He asserts that the War on Terror is a war against Islamofascism, and constitutes World War IV (World War III
having been the Cold War), and advocates the bombing of Iran to pre-empt their
acquisition of nuclear weapons.”
“Project for the New American Century, PNAC, original signer”
“”Podhoretz is the
father of John Podhoretz, a
columnist for the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post, who also acts as a
ubiquitous booster of the hawks”
John Podhoretz
“Podhoretz has been
one of the most steadfast supporters of U.S. president George W. Bush, and even
wrote a book extolling Bush as “the first great leader of the 21st
century”.”
“Podhoretz is
emphatic in his defense of Israel”
“However, Podhoretz was
critical of the tactics used by Israel’s leadership in the recent Lebanon
conflict, and argued that the Olmert
government should have been more forceful in its efforts to weaken Hezbollah as
a political and military force.”
“Podhoretz has a
regular column at the New York Post, has been a political commentator on Fox
News, and regularly appeared on CNN’s Reliable Sources. He has also worked at
Time, the Washington Times, Insight, and U.S. News & World Report. Podhoretz is a contributor to The Corner, a group blog run by National Review.”
Elliot Abrams
“American lawyer who has served in foreign policy positions for
two Republican U.S. Presidents, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush.”
“During Bush’s first term in office, he was appointed the post of
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director on the National Security
Council for Near East and North African Affairs. At the start of Bush’s second
term, Abrams was promoted to be his Deputy National Security Advisor for Global
Democracy Strategy, responsible for advancing Bush’s strategy of advancing
democracy abroad. Although Abrams is considered a leading neoconservative”
“He was one of the signatories of the 26 January 1998 PNAC letter sent
to President Bill Clinton which called for regime-change in Iraq.[17]”
Frederick Kagan
“Frederick Kagan and his
father Donald Kagan, who is
a professor at Yale and a fellow at the Hudson Institute, together authored
While America Sleeps: Self-Delusion, Military Weakness, and the Threat to Peace
Today (2000). The book argued in favor of massive military spending and warned
of future threats, including from a potential revival of Iraq’s WMD program.[1] Frederick along with his brother Robert Kagan, who is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group, and their father Donald
are all signatories to the neoconservative Project for the New American Century
manifesto titled Rebuilding America’s Defenses (2000)”
“Kagan was said
to have won-over the ear of President George W. Bush,[3] strongly influencing his subsequent “surge” plan for changing the
course of the Iraq War”
Donald Kagan
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“became one of
the original signers to the 1997 Statement of Principles by the neoconservative
“think tank,” Project for the New American Century”
Alan Dershowtiz
He is “”an American political figure and criminal law professor at
Harvard Law School”
“Dershowitz comments
regularly on issues related to Judaism, Israel, civil liberties, the war on
terror, and the First Amendment, and appears frequently in the mainstream media
as a guest commentator.””
“Dershowitz
published an essay in the San Francisco Chronicle entitled “Want to Torture?
Get a Warrant,” in which he advocates the issuance of warrants permitting the
torture of terrorism suspects if there were an “absolute need to obtain
immediate information in order to save lives”
“James Bamford, in his column for The Washington Post of September 8, 2002, reviews Dershowitz’s “idea of torture” and describes “[o]ne form of torture recommended by Dershowitz—‘the sterilized needle being shoved under
the fingernails’” as “chillingly Nazi-like.””
“In his book Beyond
Chutzpah, Norman Finkelstein” [who is
Jewish] “comments: "It is hard to make out any difference between the
policy Dershowitz
advocates and the Nazi destruction of Lidice, for
which he expresses abhorrence-except that Jews, not Germans, would be
implementing it."[33]”
“His parents, Harry and Claire, were both devout Orthodox Jews”
Daniel Pipes
“American historian and
counter-terrorism analyst who specializes in the Middle East.”
“regular
columnist for the New York Sun and The Jerusalem Post. He contributes regularly
to David Horowitz’s online publication FrontPage Magazine, and he has had his work
published by many newspapers across North America, including the Washington
Post, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal.[citation needed] He is frequently invited to discuss the Middle East on
American network television, as well as by universities and think tanks, has
appeared on the BBC and Al Jazeera”
“Pipes and the organization were accused of attacking academic freedom
in 2002 by publishing a list of academics critical of Israel and U.S. foreign
policy”
“Pipes has served in various capacities at the Departments of State and
Defense, while his father served on the National Security Council, and he has
testified to the United States Congress”
“Pipes is an
outspoken Zionist.”
“In 1987, Pipes encouraged the United States to provide Saddam Hussein with
upgraded weapons and intelligence,[30]
ostensibly to counterbalance Iran’s successes in the Iran-Iraq War”
“Pipes was a strong backer of the Iraq War, saying that Saddam Hussein
posed an “imminent threat” to the United States.[2] In a New York Post article published April 8, 2003, Pipes expressed
his opposition to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s concerned prediction that “[the] war [in
Iraq] will have horrible consequences...Terrorism will be
aggravated...Terrorist organizations will be united...Everything will be
insecure.” Though this concern was echoed by various other politicians and
academics cited by Pipes in his article,[18] Pipes argued that “the precise opposite is more likely to happen:
The war in Iraq will lead to a reduction in terrorism.””
Eliot Cohen
“Cohen is the Director of the Strategic Studies department at SAIS
and has specialized in strategic studies, the Middle East, Persian Gulf, Iraq,
arms control, and NATO. He is a member of the Project for the New American
Century and was called “the most influential neoconservative in academe” by
energy economist Ahmad Faruqui.[1] He is
currently serving as Counselor to the U.S. State Department.”
“Cohen was one of the first neoconservatives to publicly advocate war
against Iran and Iraq”
Quote by Cohen: “We know that he [Saddam Hussain] supports terror. There’s very solid evidence that the Iraqis were
behind an attempt to assassinate President Bush’s father. And we—by the way, we
do know that there is a connection with the 9/11 terrorists.”
“As a member of the Defense
Policy Board Advisory Committee Cohen had also been engaged in meetings
involving US President George Bush. During these meetings
Cohen provided advice on strategy in the Iraq conflict”
“On 2 March 2007 it was reported by the Washington Post that Cohen was
to be appointed as Condoleezza Rice’s “counselor” at the United States
Department of State.”
“Regarding the “academic
paper titled The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. The
paper criticizes the Israel lobby for influencing U.S. foreign policy in the
Middle East away from U.S. interests and towards Israel’s interests. Eliot
Cohen, who is Jewish, wrote in a prominent op-ed piece in The Washington Post
that the academic working paper bears all the traditional hallmarks of
anti-Semitism”
Bill Kristol
“He is the son of Irving Kristol, one of
the founders of the neoconservative movement”
“Kristol was a
strong advocate of the Iraq war”
“Most recently he has been a vocal supporter of the Israeli attack on
Lebanon, stating that the war is “our war too,” referring to the United States.
He continues to back the Iraq war, and favors a war with Iran”
“Kristol caused
controversy by praising President George W. Bush’s second inaugural address
without disclosing his role as a consultant to the writing of the speech.”
Irving Kristol
“considered the
founder of American neoconservatism”
“Kristol is the
founder of the politics and culture journal The Public Interest and the foreign
affairs journal The National Interest.”
Max Boot
“He has been a prominent advocate for neoconservative foreign
policy, once describing his own position as support for the use of “American
might to promote American ideals” throughout the world.[1]”
“He is a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a
contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, a weekly columnist for the Los
Angeles Times and a regular contributor to other publications including the
Financial Times and The New York Times. “
“He is also a consultant to the U.S. military and a regular lecturer at
U.S. military institutions such as the Army War College and the Command and
General Staff College. He has previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and
The Christian Science Monitor”
James Schlesinger
“James Rodney Schlesinger (born February
15, 1929) was United States Secretary of
Defense from 1973 to 1975 under
presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald
Ford. He became America's first Secretary of Energy under Jimmy
Carter.”
“Schlesinger was born in New
York City to Rae, a Russian Jewish
immigrant, and Julius Schlesinger, an Austrian Jew.”
“Thereafter he resumed his writing and speaking career and was employed
as a senior adviser to Lehman Brothers, Kuhn Loeb Inc., of New
York City. On June 11, 2002 he was
appointed by U.S. President George
W. Bush to the Homeland Security Advisory
Council. He also serves as a consultant to the United States Department of
Defense, and is a member of the Defense Policy Board. On January
5, 2006, he
participated in a meeting at the White
House of former Secretaries of Defense and State to discuss United States
foreign policy with Bush administration officials. On January
31, 2006 he was
appointed by the Secretary of State to be a member of the Arms Control and
Nonproliferation Advisory Board. On May
2, 2006, he was
named to be a co-chairman of a Defense Science Board study on DOD Energy
Strategy.”
Marc Grossman
“Before assuming these duties, Grossman served as Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs.”
“He was Director General of the Foreign Service and Director of Human
Resources, from June 2000 to February 2001, and Assistant Secretary of State
for European Affairs, from August 1997 to May 2000. From November 1994 to June
1997, he served as U.S. Ambassador to Turkey. Prior
to this, from January 1993 to September 1994, he was Special Assistant to the
Secretary of State and Executive Secretary of the Department of State.
Before assuming these duties, Grossman served as Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs. He was Executive
Assistant to Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead from September 1986 to
January 1989.“
“he retired
from the State Department as the Under Secretary of State for Political
Affairs. Ambassador Grossman served as the Department’s third-ranking official,
supporting U.S. diplomacy worldwide. Following the September 11th attacks, he
helped marshal international diplomatic support for the Global war on Terrorism
and for the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
Joshua Bolten
“Joshua Brewster Bolten (born
August 16 1954) is the current White House Chief of Staff serving U.S. President George
W. Bush. Bolten replaced
Andrew
Card on April 14, 2006.”
“Formerly the Director of Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Bolten was confirmed by the U.S.
Senate to that position in 2003. Bolten was Deputy Chief of Staff for
Policy at the White House from
2001 to 2003. He previously served as policy director for the 2000 George
W. Bush Presidential campaign from 1999 to 2000 and as
Executive Director for Legal and Government Affairs at Goldman
Sachs in London from 1994 to 1999.”
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