Christina

"Whose War?" Patrick J. Buchanan,
The American Conservative, March 24, 2003.


Buchanan contends that US involvement in
Iraq is due to the influence of Neoconservatives
in the US government, whose policies are
informed in turn by the agenda of both Israelis
in the US government and Ariel Sharon and the
Likud Party in Israel. According to him, the
neocons aka "the War Party" believe that what's
good for Israel is good for America.

1. The neocons' plan to invade Iraq was in place
long before 9/11, which was seen as an opportunity
to make inroads into Iraq.
2. Bush's incorporation of the "Wolfowitz memo" into
foreign policy meant that the US was to seek
establishment of permanent military bases on six
continents in order to pursue something more serious
than containment, the policy that the US always
utilized before.
3. Immediately following 9/11, Bush was presented
with a plan of action by several prominent neocons,
which centered around attacking several targets that
had little to do with 9/11. These targets were Hamas,
Hezbollah, Iran, Iraq, and "the Palestinian enclave."
None of the abovementioned had attacked the US,
but they were all enemies of Israel.
4. Subsequent target lists by prominent neocons
included: Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Sudan, Lebanon,
Syria, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas,
Palestine, and "militant Islam."