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Who got us
into the
A List of prominent
Jewish Neocons and their role in getting
the U.S. into Iraq and
Homeland Security
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shown below has been taken word for word from the respective website
cited (primarily
Wikipedia).
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
“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.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Perle
“In
1996, Perle participated in a study group
that produced a report
for the incoming Likud-led government of
Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1315
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Wolfowitz
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
“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
“Feith favors
“His father, Dalck, was a member of
the Betar,
a Revisionist Zionist
youth organization”
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1146
“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.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betar
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
“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
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“we are a
warlike people (Americans)...we love war”
*
“Change -
above all violent change - is the essence of human history”
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“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”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Ledeen
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
“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.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scooter_Libby
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer
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
“Bryen had a role in choosing not only what
“Some
observers have accused Bryen of using his
insider
connections in
“In
a
January 2002 article for National Review Online, Bryen
pushed the erroneous thesis that
“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”
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/1063
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
“Frum writes a weekly column for
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frum
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
“He
is a
co-founder of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC)”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kagan
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
“In
2000, Wurmser helped draft a document
entitled “Ending
“After
the
“On
Wurmser’s
wife, Dr. Meyrav Wurmser,
co-founded the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Wurmser
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
“He is currently a Vice
President of Booz Allen
Hamilton.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dov_Zakheim
”Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.,
referred to as Booz
Allen is one of the oldest strategy consulting
firms in the world.[1]”
“the
firm generated annual total sales of over $4 billion in FY2007.[8]”
“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.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booz_Allen_Hamilton
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_kissinger
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
“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”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Podhoretz
John Podhoretz
“Podhoretz has been
one of the most steadfast supporters of
“Podhoretz is emphatic in his defense of
“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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Podhoretz
Elliot
Abrams
“American lawyer who has served in foreign
policy positions for two Republican
“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
“He
was one
of the signatories of the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Abrams
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”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Kagan
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”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Kagan
Alan Dershowtiz
He
is “”an
American political figure and criminal law professor at
“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
“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”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz
Daniel
Pipes
“American historian and
counter-terrorism analyst who specializes in the
“regular columnist for the
“Pipes
and
the organization were accused of attacking academic freedom in 2002 by
publishing a list of academics critical of
“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
“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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pipes
Eliot Cohen
“Cohen is the Director of the Strategic
Studies department at
“Cohen
was
one of the first neoconservatives to publicly advocate war against
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
“On
“Regarding the “academic
paper titled The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign
Policy.
The
paper criticizes the
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliot_Cohen
Bill Kristol
“He is the son of Irving Kristol,
one of the founders of the neoconservative movement”
“Kristol was a strong advocate of the
“Most
recently he has been a vocal supporter of the Israeli attack on
“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.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kristol
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.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Kristol
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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Boot
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
“Schlesinger was born in New York City
to Rae, a Russian
Jewish
immigrant, and
Julius Schlesinger, an Austrian
Jew.”
“On February 2,
1973 he
became Director of Central
Intelligence,
after Richard Helms”
“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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Schlesinger
Marc
Grossman
“Marc Grossman was the United States Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs
from 2001 to 2005.”“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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Grossman
”Religion: Jewish”
http://www.nndb.com/people/532/000119175/
Joshua Bolten
“Joshua Brewster Bolten (born
“Bolten's
father, Seymour, worked for the CIA”
“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
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bolten