AIPAC Wants You to Die in

May 25, 2005
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As a primary example how AIPAC runs the foreign policy of the United
States, consider Dana Milbank’s
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dy...> AIPAC’s Big, Bigger, Biggest
Moment, published in the Washington Post. Milbank tells us: at the
annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, held in
Washington recently, the pro-Israel "political action committee" (or
rather a political bribery and intimidation, to say nothing of
espionage, committee or more accurately racket) is "here to stay"
(according to Howard Kohr, executive director), that is to say no
niggling little investigation by the FBI will put a kink in the pressure
camarilla’s operations. Getting busted stealing U.S. secrets, according
to Kohr, is no big deal, although it is a "test of [AIPAC’s] collective
resolve" in its effort to dominate U.S. foreign policy in the name of
Israel.

Condi Rice and "congressional leaders" were in attendance, according to
Milbank. "AIPAC is a demanding crowd, and even Rice, introduced as a
’very special friend,’ did not satisfy universally. The participants
applauded heartily her reminder that Bush did not meet with Arafat, but
when she said Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, ’is committed to both
freedom and security,’ and when she mentioned more U.S. funds for
Palestinians, the room was quiet." In other words, for the AIPAC
faithful, helping out the Palestinians in any way is seriously frowned
upon-no doubt a lot of them feel the same way Ariel Sharon and the
Likudites do: the Palestinians (or "beasts walking on two legs," as the
warm and fuzzy former PM of Israel, Menachem Begin, once characterized
them) should expect nothing, maybe a few more "operations" (collective
punishment and mass murder), and they should most definitely think about
emigrating, maybe to Antarctica. Obviously, there is nothing Mahmoud
Abbas can do except convince his people to walk across the desert, maybe
with a bit of prodding from the munificent IDF, and settle in western
Iraq or maybe somewhere in Jordan (AIPACers and Zionists consider Jordan
the "real" home of the Palestinians, although none of them have ever
lived there, or very few of them did until Israel ran them out of the
country at gunpoint in 1948).

Milbank tells us "the attendees overall showed an impressive ideological
discipline-right down to AIPAC’s multimedia show, ’Iran’s Path to the
Bomb,’ in the convention center’s basement" (in Washington, a lot of
things happen in basements; ask
<http://www.webslingerz.com/eclauset...>
Oliver North). AIPAC and well-placed Zionists in the Pentagon and White
House have a fixation about Iran and its supposed desire to get its
hands on a couple nuclear bombs, ostensibly to "push the Jews into the
sea" by way of radiation.

The exhibit, worthy of a theme park, begins with a narrator condemning
the International Atomic Energy Agency for being "unwilling to conclude
that Iran is developing nuclear weapons" (it had similar reservations
about Iraq) and the Security Council because it "has yet to take up the
issue." In a succession of rooms, visitors see flashing lights and hear
rumbling sounds as Dr. Seuss-like contraptions make yellowcake uranium,
reprocess plutonium, and pop out nuclear warheads like so many gallons
of hummus for an AIPAC conference.

Of course, the IAEA was absolutely spot on about Iraq-it did not possess
nuclear weapons or, for that matter, many other weapons, or at least not
weapons of a threat to Israel (remember
<http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/01/10/wb...> Condi’s "smoking
gun" and "mushroom cloud" in response to Hans Blix’s assertion that Iraq
did not possess weapons of mass destruction, to which stand-up comedian
Ari Fleischer replied: "The problem with guns that are hidden is you
can’t see their smoke." ). It is a nostalgic addition for AIPAC to add a
yellowcake uranium processor to their circus sideshow. it reminds us of
the fiction Saddam was also in pursuit of the fabled
<http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/guid...> yellow cake.

Of particular interest at the AIPAC confab was a "debate" between Rep.
Jane Harman (D-Calif.) and the Prince of Darkness himself, Richard
Perle, former runner-up for the Jonathan Pollard "Sell Out Your Country"
Award (he was <http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/di...>
investigated by the Justice Department and found to have violated US
policies relating to unlawful transmission of sensitive classified US
information to Israel).

Perle drew cheers for denouncing Palestinian anti-Semitism and the
French. Harman mentioned that an aide once worked for AIPAC, called her
audience "very sophisticated" and celebrated Yasser Arafat’s death as "a
blessing." Debating a hard-liner in front of a pro-administration crowd,
Harman heaped praise on President Bush, calling the Iraqi elections
"sensationally impressive" and moving to "applaud" or "commend" Perle
and the administration a dozen times. "Richard is right, and so is
President Bush," she said at one point.

But after half an hour of this, Harman could not keep up. Perle provoked
cheers from the crowd when he favored a military raid on Iran, saying
that "if Iran is on the verge of a nuclear weapon, I think we will have
no choice but to take decisive action." When Harman said the "best
short-term option" is the U.N. Security Council, the crowd reacted with
boos.

In other words, when it comes to Israel and bombing Muslim and Arab
nations (and forcing so-called "elections" on them), there is little
difference between Democrats and Strausscons such as Richard Perle. It
would seem the only difference between to two camps is in regard to
Iran-Democrats such as Harman want a check for mass murder written by
the United Nations while Perle believes no such check or permission is
required and wants the United States to go it alone and bomb Iran in the
name of AIPAC and Israel.

Iran will be attacked, maybe next month, possibly down the road a
stretch (see <http://www.ufppc.org/content/view/2295/2> Scott Ritter’s
analysis). Naturally, this will be an unmitigated disaster since Iran
will not stand still and do nothing during and after the bombs fall.
"The entire Zionist territory, including its nuclear facilities and
atomic arsenal, are currently within range of Iran’s advanced missiles,"
a senior Iranian official said last August. An attack on Iran "could
only be carried out by angry or stupid people. For that reason,
officials of the Islamic Republic must always be prepared to counter
possible military threats," declared
<http://www.informationclearinghouse...> Yadollah
Javani, head of the Revolutionary Guards political bureau. "Iran would
respond within 15 minutes to any attack by the United States or any
other country," an anonymous Iranian official linked to the ruling
mullahs told
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic...> Borzou Daragahi of the San Francisco Chronicle in February.
"Iranian authorities," Daragahi continues, "say they have been getting
ready for a possible attack. Newspapers have announced efforts to
increase the number of the country’s 7 million-strong ’Basiji’ volunteer
militia, which was deployed in human-wave attacks during the Iran-Iraq
war in the 1980s. Iranian military authorities have paraded long-range
North Korean-designed Shahab missiles before television cameras." But
the Iranians, paying heed to the lessons on guerilla warfare against the
United States in Iraq, are not limiting their potential response to
conventional military readiness. "Over the last year, they’ve developed
their tactics of ’asymmetrical’ war, which would aim not at resisting a
penetration of foreign forces, but to then use them on the ground to all
kinds of harmful effect," a military expert based in Tehran added. It is
also a sure bet the Iranians would stir up trouble in neighboring Iraq
if the United States or Israel invaded.

So here’s what Richard Perle and AIPAC are not telling you: if Iran is
invaded (or simply bombed) it will respond in kind and this will
necessitate a more robust military response by the United States, i.e.,
more bullet-stoppers will need to be thrown into the mix. Since the
Pentagon is having big problems recruiting soldiers (even the cell phone
generation, more or less lost in oblivious consumerism, realizes joining
the military may translate into serious bodily harm or even death), if
all hell breaks loose in Iran and Iraq, as the Iranians warn, the only
option will be to kick start conscription, otherwise known as
involuntary servitude, or less politely slavery.

In essence, Richard Perle and AIPAC want you to donate your kids (or
yourself) to the plan for Greater Israel and the long-envisioned Pax
Israelica empire. Perle and the Strausscons realize they cannot attack
Iran without a large influx of troops (a fact mentioned by the
Strausscon
<http://www.house.gov/hasc/openingst...> William Kristol, who more or less, between the
lines, asked for military conscription since brow-beating military
recruiters bearing fistfuls of sign-up cash at the local mall or high
school are not working out).

Maybe by this time next year, while AIPAC is chewing through "26,000
kosher meals, 32,640 hors d’oeuvres, 2,500 pounds of salmon, 1,200
pounds of turkey, 900 pounds of chicken, 700 pounds of beef and 125
gallons of hummus," as Milbank notates, your 20-something son and
daughter will be slumped over MREs (Meals Ready to Eat) in a foxhole
somewhere in the Persian desert with deadly depleted uranium blowing
around. Since there are 66,622,704 (as of 2002) Iranians, and many of
them are young males, and 24,001,816 Iraqis (minus a hundred or more
thousand, killed over the last couple years by "our troops" under the
vicious guidance of the likes of Donald Rumsfeld), we can expect the
(unphotographed) flag-draped caskets to arrive at Dover AFB in record
numbers.