APRIL 2007
Our Very Own War Criminals
Taki Theodoracopulos
February 19, 2007
http://www.takimag.com/site/archive/Theodoracopulos
The neocons who helped bamboozle the U.S. into its
current futile war-and are ginning Americans up for the
next one-claim that their actions and disinformation
tactics were undertaken for the moral good of the world.
The mind reels at their continued arrogance after the
disaster of Iraq. Secure in their think tanks and
comfortable government pensions, these Fifth Column
fanatics have not had the
grace to even do a mea culpa
after the destruction they have caused. To the contrary,
the leading warmonger, William Kristol, has been provided
with a column in Time Magazine in order to spread his
poisonto a larger audience. There is only one thing to
do. Boycott Time, the Fox news programs in which he
appears, and, of course, the Weekly Standard which he
edits. Please inform your friends. Boycotts, alas,
bring results. The neocons have been doing it for years.
Let's give them some of their own medicine back.
Cheney, Kristol, Abrams,
Abraham, Gaffney, Adelman, Krauthammer,
Reynolds, Frum, Wolfowitz, Giuliani, Feith, Podhoretz,
Perle, Pipes,
the Kagans and their ilk are as shameless and
contemptible as most
traitors are, but with a difference. Most traitors
at least take some
risks-to the point of life and limb. These pundits didn't
risk their
lives in pursuit of their dishonourable goals. Oh yes, I
forgot a
little man by the name of Abraham Shulsky, the Pentagon's
chief ofSpecial Plans, who helped sell the Iraq war with
false claims about the Al Qaeda connection. This slimy
individual is now heading the war against Iran campaign
in the Pentagon's aptly named "Iranian
Directorate." In the meantime, Congress is sitting
on its hands, too
scared of AIPAC to rein in these con men, or even to
denounce them by name during a special Congressional
hearing.
AIPAC and the neocons use that tired old canard of
anti-Semitism against any and every one who disagrees
with them-including Jews. For instance, the eminent
academic Tony Judt, who has found his ability to speak in
public trammeled by back-channel phone calls placed by
power brokers who disapprove of him. Another group of
honorable folks are the eminent physicists who recently
urged the Congress to pass binding legislation to
restrict the authority of the U.S. president to order
nuclear strikes against non-nuclear-weapon states.
Reading over the names, it seems to me that at least half
of these peace-loving researchers are Jewish. Not that
such trivial concerns as the truth
will stop the likes of Kristol. Foxman, Dershowitz and
the rest of the gang from slinging the slurs far and
wide. One might well recall the way some Catholic leaders
hurled charges of anti-Catholicism at the reporters who
uncovered the priestly sex abuse scandal--until the cases
and evidence piled up, and it became clear that this was
nothing but a smoke screen, designed to help corrupt and
powerful men get away with murder. It's the same thing
when powerful policymakers in Washington try to silence
their critics by hiding behind the photos of poor
murdered Anne Frank. And the public is catching on.
In fact, Congress needs to pass such legislation as soon
as possible. The United States has no right to use
nuclear weapons except in response to a nuclear attack.
Nuking a nation that does not possess them, and has not
attacked us, is in fact a war crime-the kind of crime for
which we rightly hanged the Nazis at Nuremberg. (What a
pity that we couldn't have swung the Russians, too-and
perhaps the Brits and Americans who ordered bombings like
Dresden.) Israel might contemplate it, but if I might
make a subtle point. the United States is not Israel. Nor
is the converse true. They are. hold your breath, and
listen carefully my friends: two. separate. countries.
Got that?
Try to keep in mind; it may turn out to be
important.
Craig Unger, writing in this month's Vanity Fair said it
all: "The neocons orchestrated a spectacular
disinformation operation-and once again neo-con
ideologues have been flogging questionable intelligence
about WMDs. Once again, dubious Middle East exile groups
are making the rounds in Washington urging regime change
in Syria and Iran. Once again, heroic exile leaders are
promising freedom."
And it gets worse. Washington is actually discouraging
those Israelis who want to make peace-for instance, our
bold diplomats helped scotch a rapprochement between
Jerusalem and Damascus last summer. Elliott Abrams, the
admitted liar-to-Congress who handles the peace
processportfolio for the White House (and Norman
Podhoretz's son-in-law) has assured the hard-line
Israelis, including Ehud Olmert, that there will
be no real peace initiative from Washington with the
Palestinians. (elliott abrams right)
In other words, the Bush administration is recognizing
"realities on the ground." Which means we have
recognized the legality of Jewish settlements on
territories captured by Israel in the 1967 war, and many
more since. Although this should make the neocons happy,
it is like asking a very greedy person to stop eating.
They will always want more. Now the neo-cons want Iran.
It is up to us to stop them.
Jewish
settlement on a hill top in the West Bank.
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