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A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran
By Barry Grey in Washington DC
2 February 2007
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration's policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in the Middle East and internationally.
Brzezinski, who opposed the March 2003 invasion and has publicly denounced the war as a colossal foreign policy blunder, began his remarks on what he called the "war of choice" in Iraq by characterizing it as "a historic,
strategic and moral calamity."
"Undertaken under false assumptions," he continued, "it is undermining America's global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America's moral credentials. Driven by Manichean
principles and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability."
Brzezinski derided Bush's talk of a "decisive ideological struggle" against radical Islam as "simplistic and demagogic," and called it a "mythical historical narrative" employed to justify a "protracted and potentially expanding war."
"To argue that America is already at war in the region with a wider Islamic threat, of which Iran is the epicenter, is to promote a self-fulfilling prophecy," he said.
Most stunning and disturbing was his description of a "plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran." It would, he suggested, involve "Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian
responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a 'defensive' US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading
and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan." [Emphasis added].
This was an unmistakable warning to the US Congress, replete with quotation marks to discount the "defensive" nature of such military action, that the Bush administration is seeking a pretext for an attack on Iran. Although he did not explicitly say so, Brzezinski came close to suggesting that the White House was capable of manufacturing a provocationincluding a possible
terrorist attack within the USto provide the casus belli for war.
That a man such as Brzezinski, with decades of experience in the top echelons of the US foreign policy establishment, a man who has the closest links to the military and to intelligence agencies, should issue such a
warning at an open hearing of the US Senate has immense and grave significance.
Brzezinski knows whereof he speaks, having authored provocations of his own while serving as Jimmy Carter's national security adviser. In that capacity, as he has since acknowledged in published writings, he drew up
the covert plan at the end of the 1970s to mobilize Islamic fundamentalist mujaheddin to topple the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan and draw the Soviet Union into a ruinous war in that country.
Following his opening remarks, in response to questions from the senators, Brzezinski reiterated his warning of a provocation.
He called the senators' attention to a March 27, 2006 report in the New York Times on "a private meeting between the president and Prime Minister Blair, two months before the war, based on a memorandum prepared by the British official present at this meeting." In the article, Brzezinski said, "the president is cited as saying he is concerned that there may not be weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, and that there must be some
consideration given to finding a different basis for undertaking the action."
He continued: "I'll just read you what this memo allegedly says, according to the New York Times: 'The memo states that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside
Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation.'
"He described the several ways in which this could be done. I won't go into that... the ways were quite sensational, at least one of them.
"If one is of the view that one is dealing with an implacable enemy that has to be removed, that course of action may under certain circumstances be appealing. I'm afraid that if this situation in Iraq continues to
deteriorate, and if Iran is perceived as in some fashion involved or responsible, or a potential beneficiary, that temptation could arise."
At another point Brzezinski remarked on the conspiratorial methods of the Bush administration and all but described it as a cabal. "I am perplexed," he said, "by the fact that major strategic decisions seem to be made within
a very narrow circle of individualsjust a few, probably a handful, perhaps not more than the fingers on my hand. And these are the individuals, all of whom but one, who made the original decision to go to war, and used the
original justifications to go to war."
None of the senators in attendance addressed themselves to the stark warning from Brzezinski. The Democrats in particular, flaccid, complacent and complicit in the war conspiracies of the Bush administration, said nothing about the danger of a provocation spelled out by the witness.
Following the hearing, this reporter asked Brzezinski directly if he was suggesting that the source of a possible provocation might be the US government itself. The former national security adviser was evasive.
The following exchange took place:
Q: Dr. Brzezinski, who do you think would be carrying out this possible provocation?
A: I have no idea. As I said, these things can never be predicted. It can be spontaneous.
Q: Are you suggesting there is a possibility it could originate within the US government itself?
A: I'm saying the whole situation can get out of hand and all sorts of calculations can produce a circumstance that would be very difficult to trace. |
| Anonymous Coward
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What kind of name is that? |
| Anonymous Coward
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Following the hearing, this reporter asked Brzezinski directly if he was suggesting that the source of a possible provocation might be the US government itself. The former national security adviser was evasive.
The following exchange took place:
Q: Dr. Brzezinski, who do you think would be carrying out this possible provocation?
A: I have no idea. As I said, these things can never be predicted. It can be spontaneous.
Q: Are you suggesting there is a possibility it could originate within the US government itself?
A: I'm saying the whole situation can get out of hand and all sorts of calculations can produce a circumstance that would be very difficult to trace. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190716
quote from the text of Viktor Suvorov's Spetsnaz.
[Widespread terrorist and sabotage operations in advance of World War III] are known officially in the GRU as the "preparatory period," and unofficially as the "overture." The overture is a series of large and small operations the purpose of which is, before actual military operations begin, to weaken the enemy's morale, create an atmosphere of suspicion, fear and uncertainty, and divert the attention of the enemy's armies and police forces to a huge number of different targets, each of which may be the object of the next attack.
The overture is carried out by agents of the secret services of the Soviet satellite countries and by mercenaries recruited by intermediaries. The principal method employed at this stage is "gray terror," that is, a kind of terror which is not conducted in the name of the Soviet Union. The Soviet secret services do not at this stage leave their visiting cards, or leave other people's cards. The terror is carried out in the name of already existing extremist groups not connected in any way with the Soviet Union, or in the name of fictitious organizations. |
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| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 3:12 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
What kind of name is that? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 118161
Damn it, why are people so frickin lazy? Simply Google it and you'll find out. |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 3:13 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
no shit, sherlock  |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 3:13 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
in 1998 I asked a former Russian intelligence official how Moscow might successfully pull off a surprise nuclear attack against the United States without suffering a devastating retaliation. He replied without hesitation, saying: "If you ever hear that Arab terrorists have attacked an American city with nuclear weapons don't believe it." The attack, he said, would be from Russia.
[link to www.jrnyquist.com] |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 3:18 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
What kind of name is that?
Damn it, why are people so frickin lazy? Simply Google it and you'll find out. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190716
Ooops, so sorry. His name is
Zbigniew Brzezinski |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 3:21 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
What kind of name is that? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 118161
The name of somebody who did a lot for your Great American Empire! |
| Evil American
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2/3/2007 3:21 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
check the world map my friends. Afghanistan Iraq , WHATS IN THE MIDDLE ?? (DUH) |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 3:22 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
What kind of name is that? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 118161
[link to www.sourcewatch.org]
Zbigniew Brzezinski
From SourceWatch
Zbigniew Brzezinski, born in Warsaw, Poland, in 1928, the son of a diplomat posted to Canada in 1938, serves as Counselor, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and is Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, Washington, D.C. Brzezinski is said to be a protege' of both Nelson A. Rockefeller and Paul H. Nitze (see Nitze School).
In the private sector, Brzezinski serves as an "international advisor of several major US/global corporations." He is a "frequent participant in annual business/trade conventions" and is President of Z.B. Inc. "(an advisory firm on international issues to corporations and financial institutions). Also a frequent public speaker and commentator on major domestic and foreign TV programs, and contributor to domestic and foreign newspapers and journals."[1]
Brzezinski's career with the U.S. Government spans several presidents: advisor to John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Lyndon Baines Johnson; policy advisor to James Earl Carter, Jr.; and George Herbert Walker Bush's co-chair on the National Security Advisory Task Force (1988).[2]
He earned his B.A. (1949) and M.A. (1950) at McGill University and his Ph.D. at Harvard University (1953). He holds honorary degrees from several universities.[3] |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 3:25 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
check the world map my friends. Afghanistan Iraq , WHATS IN THE MIDDLE ?? (DUH) Quoting: Evil American
Why don't you read the article, you dummy? The man WORKED FOR THE USA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| Daniel
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2/3/2007 3:27 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration's policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in the Middle East and internationally.
Brzezinski came close to suggesting that the White House was capable of manufacturing a provocationincluding a possible
terrorist attack within the USto provide the casus belli for war.
He continued: "I'll just read you what this memo allegedly says, according to the New York Times: 'The memo states that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside
Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation.'
"He described the several ways in which this could be done. I won't go into that... the ways were quite sensational, at least one of them.
"I am perplexed," he said, "by the fact that major strategic decisions seem to be made within
a very narrow circle of individualsjust a few, probably a handful, perhaps not more than the fingers on my hand. And these are the individuals, all of whom but one, who made the original decision to go to war, and used the
original justifications to go to war."
None of the senators in attendance addressed themselves to the stark warning from Brzezinski. The Democrats in particular, flaccid, complacent and complicit in the war conspiracies of the Bush administration, said nothing about the danger of a provocation spelled out by the witness. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190716
More Fuel to the Fire that of COLLUSION between -
Democrat /Republican -
BOTH are Israel Firsters!!!!
Daniel
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| Green Man
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2/3/2007 3:37 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a 'defensive' US military action against Iran Quoting: OP
It's one thing when GLP folks say this. When Z.B. says it, I get seriously worried.
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| Dervish
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2/3/2007 3:53 PM
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Good God, he said this in open session?
Ladies and gentlemen, I would assume now that we will have hi level officials resign for health reasons shortly.
This was not a shot across the bow, this was a shot into the ship. Lets see who has the bigger guns.
Dervish
"Blood and destruction shall be so in use
And dreadful objects so familiar
That mothers shall but smile when they behold
Their infants quarter'd with the hands of war"
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
Rudyard Kipling |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 3:54 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a 'defensive' US military action against Iran
It's one thing when GLP folks say this. When Z.B. says it, I get seriously worried.
AS WE ALL SHOULD!!! |
| Terrier
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2/3/2007 3:57 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
This is an excerpt from Brzezinski's book "The Grand Chessboard" in which he argues that America as the world's only remaining superpower should take control of the Middle East onward to establishing one world government...
[link to www.treemedia.com]
Eurasia is thus the chessboard on which the struggle for global primacy continues to be played. Although geostrategy -- the strategic management of geopolitical interests -- may be compared to chess, the somewhat oval-shaped Eurasian chessboard engages not just two but several players, each possessing differing amounts of power. The key players are located on the chessboard's west, east, center, and south. Both the western and the eastern extremities of the chessboard contain densely populated regions, organized on relatively congested space into several powerful states. In the case of Eurasia's small western periphery, American power is deployed directly on it. The far eastern mainland is the seat of an increasingly powerful and independent player, controlling an enormous population, while the territory of its energetic rival -- confined on several nearby islands -- and half of a small far-eastern peninsula provide a perch for American power.
Stretching between the western and eastern extremities is a sparsely populated and currently politically fluid and organizationally fragmented vast middle space that was formerly occupied by a powerful rival to US preeminence -- a rival that was once committed to the goal of pushing America out of Eurasia. To the south of that large central Eurasian plateau lies a politically anarchic but energy-rich region of potentially great importance to both the western and the eastern Eurasian states, including in the southernmost area a highly populated aspirant to regional hegemony.
This huge, oddly shaped Eurasian chessboard -- extending from Lisbon to Vladivostok -- provides the setting for 'the game." If the middle space can be drawn increasingly into the expanding orbit of the West (where America preponderates), if the southern region is not subjected to domination by a single player, and if the East is not unified in a manner that prompts the expulsion of America from its offshore bases, America can then be said to prevail. But if the middle space rebuffs the West, becomes an assertive single entity, and either gains control over the South or forms an alliance with the major Eastern actor, then America's primacy in Eurasia shrinks dramatically. The same would be the case if the two major Eastern players were somehow to unite. Finally, any election of America by its Western partners from its perch on the western periphery would automatically spell the end of America's participation in the game on the Eurasian chessboard, even though that would probably also mean the eventual subordination of the western extremity to a revived player occupying the middle space.
The scope of America's global hegemony is admittedly great, but its depth is shallow, limited by both domestic and external restraints. American hegemony involves the exercise of decisive influence but, unlike the empires of the past, not of direct control. The very scale and diversity of Eurasia, as well as the power of some of its states, limits the depth of American influence and the scope of control over the course of events. That megacontinent is just too large, too populous, culturally too varied, and composed of too many historically ambitious and politically energetic states to be compliant toward even the most economically successful and politically preeminent global power. This condition places a premium on geostrategic skill, on the careful, selective, and very deliberate deployment of America's resources on the huge Eurasian chessboard.
It is also a fact that America is too democratic at home to be autocratic abroad. This limits the use of America's power, especially its capacity for military intimidation. Never before has a populist democracy attained international supremacy. But the pursuit of power is not a goal that commands popular passion, except in conditions of a sudden threat or challenge to the public's sense of domestic well-being. The economic self-denial (that is, defense spending) and the human sacrifice (casualties even among professional soldiers) required in the effort are uncongenial to democratic instincts. Democracy is inimical to imperial mobilization.
Moreover, most Americans by and large do not derive any special gratification from their country's new status as the sole global superpower. Political "triumphalism' connected with America's victory in the Cold War has generally tended to receive a cold reception and has been the object of some derision on the part of the more liberal-minded commentators. If anything, two rather varying views of the implications for America of its historic success in the competition with the former Soviet Union have been politically more appealing: on the one hand, there is the view that the end of the Cold War justifies a significant reduction in America's global engagement, irrespective of the consequences for America's global standing; and on the other hand, there is the perspective that the time has come for genuine international multilateralism, to which America should even yield some of its sovereignty. Both schools of thought have commanded the loyalty of committed constituencies.
Compounding the dilemmas facing the American leadership are the changes in the character of the global situation itself: the direct use of power now tends to be more constrained than was the case in the past. Nuclear weapons have dramatically reduced the utility of war as a tool of policy or even as a threat. The growing economic interdependence among nations is making the political exploitation of economic blackmail less compelling. Thus maneuver, diplomacy, coalition building, co-optation, and the very deliberate deployment of one's political assets have become the key ingredients of the successful exercise of geostrategic power on the Eurasian chessboard.
"I'm digging to the bottom of the rabbit hole, Ray." |
| Terrier
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2/3/2007 3:59 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Carter was quickly absorbed by the Trilateral Commission (AKA the new Council on Foreign relations – founded by David Rockefeller who is still the honorary chairman) The TC was “founded by Zbigniew Brzezinski (CFR member and founding member of the Trilateral Commission, and National Security Advisor to five presidents….) who called for a Pearl Harbor style event to secure the Globalist agenda in his book “The Grand Chessboard” that reared its ugly head again with the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) many years later. Brzezinski also predicted the future in his book “Between Two Ages” when he wrote, ” "The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values." He wasn’t kidding.
[link to thebloodreport.blogspot.com]
"I'm digging to the bottom of the rabbit hole, Ray." |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 4:01 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Brzezinski is CFR and Trilateral commission.
It's all part of the plan. |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 4:05 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Zbig is setting Bush up for the fall if the next terrorist attack gets exposed. |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 4:06 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Brzezinski is CFR and Trilateral commission.
It's all part of the plan. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 18517
Excuse my ignorance, but what is CFR? |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 4:08 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Brzezinski is CFR and Trilateral commission.
It's all part of the plan.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is CFR? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190716
Ignore my question. I took my own advice and googled it. hehehe
Council on Foreign Relations |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 4:09 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Brzezinski is CFR and Trilateral commission.
It's all part of the plan.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is CFR? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190716
Council on Foriegn Relations, google it for weeks worth of conspiracy reading. |
| Terrier
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2/3/2007 4:09 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Brzezinski is CFR and Trilateral commission.
It's all part of the plan.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is CFR? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190716
CFR = Council on Foreign Relations.
A "think tank" set up years ago to advance the agenda of the new world order crowd.
"I'm digging to the bottom of the rabbit hole, Ray." |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 4:15 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Brzezinski is CFR and Trilateral commission.
It's all part of the plan.
Excuse my ignorance, but what is CFR?
CFR = Council on Foreign Relations.
A "think tank" set up years ago to advance the agenda of the new world order crowd. Quoting: Terrier
Thanks Terrier for the info |
| Terrier
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2/3/2007 4:16 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Dick Cheney speaks with David Rockefeller about his former directorship at the CFR and admits how he had to keep it secret from the voters of Wyoming.
[link to www.youtube.com]
"I'm digging to the bottom of the rabbit hole, Ray." |
| Daniel
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2/3/2007 4:17 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
Zig was Sec of State for Podunk Carter.
It was Kissinger also that PLEADED to let the Shah come to the USA.
ALL to set up to LOSE the 1980 election and Herald in the
BUSH CABAL - which has been in POWER ever since -
Including bubba Klinton and Faux opponent Kerry.
Are you starting to get the picture???
But then the Israel Firsters that have taken over Congress - including the Democrats.
HHHHHHHHHHHHMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmm!!!!!!
Daniel
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| Wasayo
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2/3/2007 4:24 PM
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[ link to wsws.org]
A political bombshell from Zbigniew Brzezinski
Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush is seeking a pretext to attack Iran
By Barry Grey in Washington DC
2 February 2007
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration's policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in the Middle East and internationally.
Brzezinski, who opposed the March 2003 invasion and has publicly denounced the war as a colossal foreign policy blunder, began his remarks on what he called the "war of choice" in Iraq by characterizing it as "a historic,
strategic and moral calamity."
"Undertaken under false assumptions," he continued, "it is undermining America's global legitimacy. Its collateral civilian casualties as well as some abuses are tarnishing America's moral credentials. Driven by Manichean
principles and imperial hubris, it is intensifying regional instability."
Brzezinski derided Bush's talk of a "decisive ideological struggle" against radical Islam as "simplistic and demagogic," and called it a "mythical historical narrative" employed to justify a "protracted and potentially expanding war."
"To argue that America is already at war in the region with a wider Islamic threat, of which Iran is the epicenter, is to promote a self-fulfilling prophecy," he said.
Most stunning and disturbing was his description of a "plausible scenario for a military collision with Iran." It would, he suggested, involve "Iraqi failure to meet the benchmarks, followed by accusations of Iranian
responsibility for the failure, then by some provocation in Iraq or a terrorist act in the US blamed on Iran, culminating in a 'defensive' US military action against Iran that plunges a lonely America into a spreading
and deepening quagmire eventually ranging across Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan." [Emphasis added].
This was an unmistakable warning to the US Congress, replete with quotation marks to discount the "defensive" nature of such military action, that the Bush administration is seeking a pretext for an attack on Iran. Although he did not explicitly say so, Brzezinski came close to suggesting that the White House was capable of manufacturing a provocationincluding a possible
terrorist attack within the USto provide the casus belli for war.
That a man such as Brzezinski, with decades of experience in the top echelons of the US foreign policy establishment, a man who has the closest links to the military and to intelligence agencies, should issue such a
warning at an open hearing of the US Senate has immense and grave significance.
Brzezinski knows whereof he speaks, having authored provocations of his own while serving as Jimmy Carter's national security adviser. In that capacity, as he has since acknowledged in published writings, he drew up
the covert plan at the end of the 1970s to mobilize Islamic fundamentalist mujaheddin to topple the pro-Soviet regime in Afghanistan and draw the Soviet Union into a ruinous war in that country.
Following his opening remarks, in response to questions from the senators, Brzezinski reiterated his warning of a provocation.
He called the senators' attention to a March 27, 2006 report in the New York Times on "a private meeting between the president and Prime Minister Blair, two months before the war, based on a memorandum prepared by the British official present at this meeting." In the article, Brzezinski said, "the president is cited as saying he is concerned that there may not be weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, and that there must be some
consideration given to finding a different basis for undertaking the action."
He continued: "I'll just read you what this memo allegedly says, according to the New York Times: 'The memo states that the president and the prime minister acknowledged that no unconventional weapons had been found inside
Iraq. Faced with the possibility of not finding any before the planned invasion, Mr. Bush talked about several ways to provoke a confrontation.'
"He described the several ways in which this could be done. I won't go into that... the ways were quite sensational, at least one of them.
"If one is of the view that one is dealing with an implacable enemy that has to be removed, that course of action may under certain circumstances be appealing. I'm afraid that if this situation in Iraq continues to
deteriorate, and if Iran is perceived as in some fashion involved or responsible, or a potential beneficiary, that temptation could arise."
At another point Brzezinski remarked on the conspiratorial methods of the Bush administration and all but described it as a cabal. "I am perplexed," he said, "by the fact that major strategic decisions seem to be made within
a very narrow circle of individualsjust a few, probably a handful, perhaps not more than the fingers on my hand. And these are the individuals, all of whom but one, who made the original decision to go to war, and used the
original justifications to go to war."
None of the senators in attendance addressed themselves to the stark warning from Brzezinski. The Democrats in particular, flaccid, complacent and complicit in the war conspiracies of the Bush administration, said nothing about the danger of a provocation spelled out by the witness.
Following the hearing, this reporter asked Brzezinski directly if he was suggesting that the source of a possible provocation might be the US government itself. The former national security adviser was evasive.
The following exchange took place:
Q: Dr. Brzezinski, who do you think would be carrying out this possible provocation?
A: I have no idea. As I said, these things can never be predicted. It can be spontaneous.
Q: Are you suggesting there is a possibility it could originate within the US government itself?
A: I'm saying the whole situation can get out of hand and all sorts of calculations can produce a circumstance that would be very difficult to trace.
AC 190716,
This is *so* important I don't have words to express it.
Thank you for this seminal information.
"Every word of God is pure: He is a shield unto them that put their trust in Him." Prov. 30:5 |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 4:25 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
As a non-American, can you please clue me in as to where Brzezinski stands today? His speech makes me feel he is not in favor of what the Bush administration is trying to achieve. Am I wrong? |
| Anonymous Coward
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2/3/2007 4:29 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
How do you Americans pronounce Zbigniew Brzezinski ? I always wondered it , couse it is a Polish name. |
| Daniel
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2/3/2007 4:34 PM | | Re: A POLITICAL BOMBSHELL FROM FRZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI, Ex-national security adviser warns that Bush........ | Quote |
As a non-American, can you please clue me in as to where Brzezinski stands today? His speech makes me feel he is not in favor of what the Bush administration is trying to achieve. Am I wrong? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 190716
{{{By Barry Grey in Washington DC
2 February 2007
Testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the national security adviser in the Carter administration, delivered a scathing critique of the war in Iraq and warned that the Bush administration's policy was leading inevitably to a war with Iran, with incalculable consequences for US imperialism in the Middle East and internationally.}}}
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Looks to me like just a few days ago.
Daniel
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