Sept. 8, 2002 (EIRNS)-The following statement was released today by
LaRouche in 2004, Lyndon LaRouche's campaign committee for the Democratic
Presidential nomination. The statement is being circulated widely
throughout the United States in leaflet form.
Lyndon LaRouche reports that there is now firm evidence that the
ongoing drive to induce President George W. Bush to launch a war against
Iraq, is a 1996 Israeli government policy that is being foisted on the
President by a nest of Israeli agents inside the U.S. government. This
Israeli spy network inside the United States was unable achieve their
objective until President Bush was entrapped by the events of Sept. 11,
2001 and the falsified accounts of those events provided by this foreign
intelligence apparatus, and lured over to their policies. Lyndon LaRouche
demands to know: Is this not the motive that explains the who and why of
the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001? LaRouche demands an immediate Congressional
investigation, to help purge the U.S. government of this foreign
intelligence apparatus, which attempted, with the 9/11 events, to seize
control over U.S. foreign policy. The network of Pollard "stay-behinds"
inside the Bush Administration is engaged in a witting hoax, to induce the
President and the U.S. Congress to go to war.
When you read the summary evidence below, you will certainly share
Lyndon LaRouche's conclusion that all of these people must be immediately
fired from their Administration posts, and that the U.S. Congress must
launch public hearings to get to the bottom of this criminal scheme.
The summary facts are as follows:
On July 8, 1996, Richard Perle, now the Chairman of the Defense
Policy Board, an advisory group that reports to Deputy Defense Secretary
Paul Wolfowitz, presented a written document to Israeli Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu, spelling out a new Israeli foreign policy, calling for
a repudiation of the Oslo Accords and the underlying concept of "land for
peace"; for the permanent annexation of the entire West Bank and Gaza
Strip; and for the elimination of the Saddam Hussein regime in Baghdad, as
a first step towards overthrowing or destabilizing the governments of
Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iran. The document was prepared for the
Jerusalem and Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Advanced Strategic and
Political Studies (IASPS), a think tank financed by Richard Mellon-Scaife.
The report, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," was
co-authored by Perle; Douglas Feith, currently the Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Policy; David Wurmser, currently special assistant to State
Department chief arms control negotiator John Bolton; and Meyrav Wurmser,
now director of Mideast Policy at the Hudson Institute.
Two days after he received the foreign policy blueprint from Perle,
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu delivered a speech before a joint session
of the U.S. Congress, which strongly echoed the IASPS outline. The same
day, the Wall Street Journal published excerpts from the IASPS document,
and the next day, July 11, 1996, the Journal editorially endorsed the Perle
document.
Beginning in February 1998, the British government of Prime Minister
Tony Blair launched a concerted effort, in league with the Netanyahu
government in Israel, and the Perle Israeli agent-of-influence networks
inside the United States, to induce President William Clinton to launch a
war against Iraq, under precisely the terms spelled out for Netanyahu in
the "Clean Break" paper. The war was to be launched, ostensibly, over
Iraq's possession of "weapons of mass destruction." United Nations weapons
inspectors were, at this time, still on the ground inside Iraq.
To buttress the war drive, British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook
issued an official lying "white paper" on the Iraqi drive to obtain WMD. On
Feb. 19, 1998, Richard Perle and former Congressman Stephen Solarz released
an "Open Letter to the President," demanding a full-scale U.S.-led drive
for "regime change" in Baghdad. The dangerously incompetent military scheme
for the overthrow of Saddam that was published in the Open Letter, has been
recently revived by the Perle-led network of "chickenhawks" in the office
of Secretary of Defense-but has been summarily rejected by the Joint Chiefs
of Staff. Among the signators on the original Perle-Solarz letter were the
following current Bush Administration officials: Elliott Abrams (National
Security Council), Richard Armitage (State Department), John Bolton (State
Department), Doug Feith (Defense Department), Fred Ikle (Defense Policy
Board), Zalmay Khalilzad (White House), Peter Rodman (Defense Department),
Donald Rumsfeld (Secretary of Defense), Paul Wolfowitz (Defense
Department), David Wurmser (State Department), and Dov Zakheim (Defense
Department).
President Clinton rejected the February 1998 demand for war, sending
both Netanyahu and Blair into fits of rage.
On Aug. 6, 1998, Angelo Codevilla, the Washington, D.C. co-director
of IASPS (along with David Wurmser), penned an op-ed in the Wall Street
Journal, demanding the freeing of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.
Codevilla argued that Pollard had been right to pass U.S. classified
material to Israel, because of the threat posed by Saddam Hussein. Days
later, two members of the Netanyahu cabinet contacted Vice President Al
Gore, demanding Pollard's release.
After again rejecting the Netanyahu and Blair demands for war on
Iraq in November 1998, President Clinton-under the impeachment onslaught,
led by the Mellon-Scaife-funded apparatus-finally caved in and authorized
Operation Desert Fox in December 1998, as he was returning on Air Force One
from a visit to Israel. But the 70 days of bombardment did not eliminate
the Saddam Hussein regime, and the issue remained dormant for the next
three years ... until Sept. 11, 2001.
Within moments of the 9/11 attack on Washington and New York, the
same Pollard-linked American networks who had designed the Netanyahu
foreign policy were on the warpath, demanding that President Bush go to war
against Iraq, despite the fact that, to this day, there is no plausible
evidence linking Iraq to the September 2001 irregular warfare attacks. The
Sharon government in Israel instantly declared that the attack had been
ordered by Saddam Hussein, and called for massive retaliation against
Baghdad.
On Sept. 22, 2001, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz made a
feverish pitch for war on Iraq at a Camp David meeting with President Bush
and most of the Cabinet. Wolfowitz had been brought into the inner circle
of George W. Bush a year before the 2000 Presidential elections, at the
initiative of former Secretary of State George Shultz. By 1999, Wolfowitz
and Condi Rice had become co-responsible for pulling together the Bush
campaign foreign policy and national security team, which Ms. Rice dubbed
"The Vulcans." Wolfowitz immediately brought "X Committee" Israeli
agent-of-influence Richard Perle into the inner sanctum, from where he has
been peddling the Netanyahu-Israeli foreign policy agenda from day one.
Perle most recently staged the July 10, 2002 Defense Policy Board session,
which demanded the purging of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of all opponents of
the Iraq war, and called for a U.S. military occupation and takeover of the
Saudi oil fields and a total break with the House of Saud-just as his July
1996 IASPS "Clean Break" study had proposed.
This is but the briefest of summaries of the massive evidence in
hand. The current campaign to induce President Bush and the U.S. Congress
into a war with Iraq, one that would surely unleash the "Clash of
Civilizations," is a direct continuation of the Pollard affair. President
Bush is being pressured-from inside his own national security apparatus-to
adopt an Israeli Likud foreign policy! What nation is dictating policy to
the United States? This is a scandalous hoax, far worse than the Gulf of
Tonkin affair of the late 1960s.
From the point that Perle, Feith, the Wurmsers, et al. first
delivered the "Clean Break" policy to Netanyahu, this crowd has been
obsessed with inducing the United States government to adopt and implement
it. All prior efforts failed, until Sept. 11, 2001 created a new context
for reviving and pushing it-under the guise of the "war on terrorism." Does
this raise questions about the true, mysterious authors of the 9/11 attack?
What are the links between the events of Sept. 11 and the subsequent
unabated drive for war against Iraq?
From Perle and Feith, to others pressing the Netanyahu scheme from
outside the Administration-including Frank Gaffney, Steven Bryen, and
Michael Ledeen-the entire crew were among the leading suspected Israeli
spies, tasking Jonathan Pollard to steal the most precious national
security secrets of the U.S.A., from inside the Reagan-Bush national
security apparatus. They avoided prosecution, and later emerged as "The
Vulcans," assigned to "teach" President Bush the ins and outs of foreign
and national security policy. Isn't it time that these co-conspirators
joined Jonathan Pollard behind bars? Isn't it time for President Bush to
give these clowns a "September Surprise"?