This lineup is ... ah ... [Garner is a Tool of the Jewish Lobby (Molly Ivins Alert)]

Ft. Worth Star-Telegram ^ | April, 10, 2003 | Molly Ivins

[Inyokern]

This lineup is ... ah ...

By Molly Ivins

Creators Syndicate

Oh, good. It looks as though we're going to have as big a fight over postwar plans for Iraq as we did over the war itself. Just what we need -- more of everybody being at everybody else's throat.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who seems prepared to run the world, favors one Ahmed Chalabi of the Iraqi National Congress, an exile-emigre group, as postwar leader (read figurehead-puppet). Chalabi is bitterly opposed by both the State Department and the CIA.

According to Knight-Ridder's Jonathan Landay, American military planes flew Chalabi and 700 troops, the newly named "First Battalion of Free Iraqi Forces," into Nasiriyah on Sunday to be integrated into Gen. Tommy Franks' command.

Landay reports: "Senior administration officials said that Chalabi had had difficulty recruiting enough forces to go into southern Iraq and may have tapped the discredited Badr Brigade, an Iranian-backed Shiite Muslim group, to get his 700 soldiers." Think how happy the Iraqis will be to see some detachment from their old enemy Iran.

Landay also reports: "It was information provided by Chalabi that led Rumsfeld and [Paul] Wolfowitz to a prewar belief that Iraqis would rise up and welcome the invading coalition with open arms, that the Republican Guard would surrender in droves and the government of Saddam Hussein would crumble in a matter of days."

This gets better. Chalabi has been in exile for four decades, and in 1992 he was convicted on multiple counts of embezzlement of hundreds of millions of dollars in Jordan after the failure of his bank there. He was sentenced to 22 years in prison. He escaped from Jordan, reportedly in the trunk of a car, and wound up in London.

The Iraqi National Congress has received millions in American aid money, but the accounting has been very poor (a familiar story), and quite a bit of the money is unaccounted for.

The Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz choice for "viceroy designate" of Iraq is Gen. Jay Garner, head of the Pentagon's Office for Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance. Garner is a retired military man with links to both the international arms industry and a Jewish lobby group.

After retiring from the Army, Garner became president of SY Coleman, a defense contractor specializing in military defense technology. He is currently on leave of absence from the company.

The problem of Garner's alleged Zionist sympathies is also causing talk: He visited Israel as the guest of the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs and signed a statement in October 2000 blaming the Palestinian Authority for the violence after the collapse of peace talks and praising the "remarkable restraint" of the Israeli army.

The third member of the triumvirate that Rumsfeld & Co. want to run Iraq is former CIA chief James Woolsey, who said last week that Iraq is the opening of the "Fourth World War" (counting the Cold War as III) and that America's enemies include the religious rulers in Iran, states like Syria and Islamic terrorist groups.

So we've got a crook, a Zionist and an old spy who thinks this is the beginning of WW IV set to run Iraq. How lucky can the Iraqis get? Is this what we thought we were fighting for?

According to David Sanger's analysis in The New York Times, "Some hawks in the administration are convinced that Iraq will serve as a cautionary example of what can happen to other states that refuse to abandon their programs to build weapons of mass destruction, an argument that John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control, has made several times in recent speeches."

The administration's more pragmatic wing fears that the war's lesson will be just the opposite: that the best way to avoid American military action is to build a fearsome arsenal quickly and make the cost of conflict too high for Washington.

[Dr. Thorne]

I always thought of Ivins as a plagiarizing, drunken slattern.

Now I can think of her as an Anti-Semitic, plagiarizing,drunken slattern.

[tet68]

This column probably sounded better in the original German.

Your wish is my command.


Dies leinet. ist auf.. ah.. Durch Moleen Ivins


Schöpfer Syndikat


Ach, gut. Es schaut an, als ob wir haben werden, als groß ein Kampf über Nachkriegsplänen für Irak, als wir über der Krieg sich machten. Nur brauchen was wir -mehr von jedem Werden an jedem sonst Kehle.

Verteidigung Sekretär Donald Rumsfeld, der scheint hat vorbereitet zu laufen die Welt, bevorzugt einen Ahmed Chalabi von den irakischen Nationalen Congress, eine Exil Emigre Gruppe, während Nachkriegsleiter (lesen Figurehead Puppe). Sie. Chalabi wird bitterlich von sowohl die Staatliche Abteilung als auch den CIA entgegengesetzt.

Gemäß Knight-Ridder Jonathan Landay sind Amerikaner Militärebenen Chalabi und 700 Truppen, das neu genannt geflogen "Zuerst Bataillon Kräfte Freien Irakers," in Nasiriyah am Sonntag, in Gen. eingegliedert zu werden. Tommy Frank Befehl.

Landay Berichte: "Ältere Verwaltung haben Beamte gesagt, daß Chalabi Schwierigkeit Anwerbung genug gehabt hatte, zwingt, in südlichen Irak und kann abgezapft haben die Machen unglaubwürdig Schlechtere Brigade, eine Iraner Unterstützten Schiiten Muslim Gruppe zu gehen, seine 700 Soldaten zu erhalten." Denken Sie, wie glücklich die Iraker sein werden, irgendeine Absonderung von ihrem alten Feind Iran zu sehen.

Landay auch Berichte: "Es war Informationen, die durch Chalabi jene LED Rumsfeld versorgt worden sind, und [Paul] Wolfowitz zu einem prewar Glauben der Iraker auf würden steigen und würden willkommen die angreifende Koalition mit Arme heißen öffnet, die die Republikanische Wache würde übergeben in droves und der Regierung von Saddam Hussein würde zerbrökkeln in einer Materie der Tage."

Dies erholt sich. Chalabi ist in Exil für vier Jahrzehnte gewesen, und in 1992 wurde er auf mehrfachen Zahlen der Veruntreuung von Hunderten von Millionen der Dollar in Jordanien nach dem Ausfall seiner Bank dort verurteilt. Er wurde in Gefängnis zu 22 Jahren verurteilt. Er ist von Jordanien, angeblich im Übertragungsweg eines Autos, und Verletzung auf in London entgangen.

Der irakisch National Congress hat Millionen in Amerikaner Hilfe Geld empfangen, aber die Buchhaltung ist sehr arm (eine vertraute Geschichte) gewesen, und ziemlich viel ist das Geld ungeklärt.

Die Rumsfeld Wolfowitz Wahl für von Irak ist Gen. "Vizekönig bestimmt". Jay Speicher, Kopf das Büro des des Fünfecks für Wiederaufbau und Humanitäre Hilfe. Speicher ist ein pensionierter Militär Mann mit Kettengliedern zu beider der internationalen Armen Industrie und einer jüdischen Vorhalle Gruppe.

Nachdem Pensionieren von der Armee, ist Speicher Präsident von SY Coleman, eine Verteidigung Bauunternehmer Spezialisierung in Militärverteidigung Technologie geworden. Er ist momentan auf von Abwesenheit von der Firma verläßt.

Das Problem des Speichers hat angebliche Zionist Sympathien auch Rede verursachen: Er hat Israel besucht, als der Gast des jüdischen Instituts für Staatssicherheit Angelegenheiten und eine Aussage im Oktober 2000 tadelnd der Palästinensische Autorität für die Gewalttätigkeit nach dem Zusammenbruch von Frieden Reden und Loben der "bemerkenswerten Zurückhaltung" von der israelischen Armee unterzeichnet hat.

Das dritte Mitglied des Triumvirats, das Rumsfeld & Co. will laufen (den des Kalten Kriegs zählt, als III) Irak ehemaliges CIA Oberhaupt Klemmen Woolsey ist, das letzte Woche gesagt hat, der Irak das Öffnen vom "Vierten Weltkreig" und ist, daß Amerikas Feinde die religiösen Herrscher in Iran, Staaten wie Syrien und islamische Terrorgruppen miteinschließt.

Damit wir eine Krümmung, einen Zionist und einen alten Spion erhalten haben, die denkt dies das Beginnen von WW IV Satz ist, Irak zu laufen. Wie glückliche Dose, die die Iraker erhalten? Ist dies was wir daß wir für haben gedacht kämpften?

Gemäß Analyse David Sanger in Der New York Zeiten "Einige Habichte in der Verwaltung werden überzeugt, daß Irak als einem warnenden Beispiel dienen wird, für was kann geschehen zu anderen Staaten die zu verlassen ihre Programme zu bauen Waffen von Masse Zerstörung, einem Argument jenem John Bolton, dem undersecretary des Staats für Arme Steuerung abweisen, haben mehrere Mal in neuen Sprachen gemacht."

Der mehr pragmatic sollen Flügel Ängste der Verwaltung, daß die Lektion des Kriegs nur das Gegenteil: daß der beste Weg sein wird, Amerikaner Militärhandlung zu vermeiden, ein furchterregendes Arsenal schnell bauen und sollen die Kosten des Konflikts machen der zu hoh ist für Washington.

[Urbane_Guerilla]

Ivins is a fine writer

Ivins is a terrible writer, period. Her tone is almost always juvenile, she never has anything clever, insightful or original to say, and she has no coherent sense of organization in making her point.

Ivins lucked out when W became president, because as a reliable Bush hater from Texas she was able to go national. Otherwise she would still be the fourth rate local writer she started out as.

[B-Chan]

"In German, "Yid" is a derogatory term for "Jew", sort of like "Zionist" is today in English."

My point exactly. I was curious why you used it. Perhaps to attribute this attitude to Frau Molly?

That's it exactly. It's apparent to me that Miss Ivins probably doesn't care too much for Middle Easterners of the Hebrew persuasion -- why, I'll never know. Anti-semitism never has made sense to me, frankly.

(I doubt Molly Ivins will ever be anyone's Frau, if you know what I mean...)

[B-Chan]

"Yid" is the Yiddish word for "Jew" and in that context it is not derogatory in the slightest.

Yeah, I know. That's why I was careful to say "In German, 'Yid' is a derogatory term for 'Jew'." I don't know from Yiddish except for various showbiz terms and what little I remember from reading various L*E*O*R*O*S*T*E*N books.

It doesn't bother me to hear that word and I use it myself all the time. It is usually the left-wing, assimilated, non-religious Yids who get all bent out of shape at being called "Yid."

That may be so, but Mother Chan taught me to always err on the side of caution when it comes to ethnic nicknames. Since the word "Yid" is derogatory in German, I don't use the word in ordinary conversation-- that way, there's no risk of hurt feelings.

[B-Chan]

Ungläublich! LOL!

[driftless]

Ivins is no "rat", she's an out and out socialist. She, and other socialists like her, only tolerates Dems when the Dems carry water for them. They tolerated opportunist Bill because he would occasionally do the bidding of real socialist Hillary. Of course to Red Molly there can be absolutely no tolerance of anyone right of center. And yes I realize Dems have become far more leftist over the years, but Slick Willy was more of throwback to the old days of rogue politicians who are only in it for themselves rather than an out an out ideologue. The bent one would adopt any program or position that he thought would increase his power. He was and still is only interested in one thing: increasing the power of William J. Clinton. He would sell Chelsea into white slavery if he thought it would help him.

[RichInOC]

Dankeschön, tet68. I was recalling her comment on Pat Buchanan's speech to the '92 Republican convention. What comes around, goes around.