The Vast and Messy Neocon Experiment in Iraq and the Middle East

By Rodrigue Tremblay

""We shall have no peace as long as the whole territory of the Land of Israel will not return under Jewish control.... A stable peace will come only then, when Israel will return to itself all its historical lands, and will thus control both the Suez and the Ormudz channel.... We must remember that Iraqi oil fields too are located on the Jewish land." - Avrom Shmulevic, rabbi and historian

"[American] strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power."..[His removal is absolutely vital to] "the security of the world in the first part of the 21st century" and for "the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world's supply of oil." - Neocons' January 26, 1998 letter to President Bill Clinton

"Israel made a large contribution to the decision to embark on this [Iraq] war. I know that on the eve of the war, [Ariel] Sharon said, in a closed conversation with senators, that if they could succeed in getting rid of Saddam Hussein, it would solve Israel's security problems." - Robert (Bob) Novak, American veteran reporter......

Like apprentice sorcerers, a group of pro-Israel Neocons, took hold of U.S. foreign policy under President George W. Bush and designed the most wicked and the most improvised war of aggression by any country against another that one can remember. This small group of ideologues, lacking in judgment, knowledge and wisdom but full of fanaticism, arrogance and hubris seized upon a double opportunity to advance their narrow interests at the expense of the American people, the Iraqi people and world peace and order.......

The Neocon plan for the Middle East was initially crafted in Israel, in 1996, by a group of advisors to then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, of the Likud Party. These advisors were Richard Perle, James Colbert, Charles Fairbanks Jr., Douglas Feith, Robert Loewenberg, David Wurmser, and Meyrav Wurmser, all of them directing or collaborating with the Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies (IASPS), a think tank headquartered in Jerusalem, with a Washington office, and supported by the Scaife Foundation and the Bradley Foundation. —It is to be noted also that many of these individuals later found their way to the highest echelons of the Bush-Cheney administration. Their Israeli policy plan for the Middle East entitled "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm", was published by IASPS, and it called for a grand strategy of total war in the Middle East, using the military power of the United States to do the job......."