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11. Of course, the intellectual origins of the neocon agenda belong to the Israeli-American RW
Fri Dec 11, 2015, 01:56 PM
Dec 2015

The most comprehensive articulation was the 1996 planning document written for then PM Beneyam Netanyahu by Paul Wolfowitz, Doug Feith, and the Wurmsers. These are the conspirators who were later identified as operating a disinformation factory in the Rumsfeld Pentagon Office of Special Plans (OSP). The OSP cherry-picked Iraq WMD intel to provide the Bush Administration with fraudulent justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. You may remember them.

Years earlier, this group wrote a strategy paper for Netanyahu that called for the serial regime change in the Mideast starting with Iraq moving to Syria and Lebanon ending with the overthrow of Iran as the path to creating a Greater Israel that is powerful enough to throw off limitations imposed by Washington. The strategy is essentially for the Israeli Right-wing to take over Israeli politics and militarily dominate the region along with "moderate" Arab allies. This remarkably prescient document is available as, "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm," http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1438.htm

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