The PowerPoint That Rocked the Pentagon...

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[Bob J]

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[dighton]

Helga Zupp LaRouche

You couldn't make that up.

[Prodigal Son]

Hot Dog! That sounds like a plan! I do hope the Saudis have a copy of this by now.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Powerful stuff.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Interesting slide show. What exactly was controversial about it?

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

Sometimes I wonder how much of this leaked stuff is really unintentionally leaked, you know what I mean?

[Gritty]

IMHO, this was a planned shot across the Saudi bow to get them into line for the coming military operations, with the implied warning,... "cooperate; you could be next!"

[RightOnline]

"Egypt the prize?

Because none of the Defense Policy Board attendees are talking candidly about the session, it's hard to divine what "Egypt the prize" means or if Murawiec's briefing put it into any context."

Context????????? Hoisted by their own petard, these twits.

JUST let's talk about context, shall we, boys and girls?

I, and probably thousands of you, use PowerPoint or Freelance or something of that ilk on a damned near daily basis (or, Heaven forbid, we're subjected to others' use of such presentation tools) as we conduct our daily business in the corporate world.

I cannot possibly tell you how many of the damned things (such presentations) I have saved on various hard drives of the various computers I maintain........but there are many. What's always fun is to go to one that seemed oh-so-valuable a few months ago or a year ago and open it up now for review.

Without verbal accompaniment.........i.e., CONTEXT...........most are damned-near incomprehensible. I mean, you can't make hide nor hair out of what the creator of the presentation was trying to say!!!

What I'm pointing out is the obvious: These twits ADMIT they don't know the context.......nor have the slightest clue about the accompanying discussion points...........of these slides, yet publish an entire article on "how extreme" they are and what a nutcase this guy is.

Sloppy, transparent, horrifically one-sided bulls**t.

[vance]

Lyndon LaRouche is nutty as a fruitcake. The Saudis are not our allies.

[muawiyah]

All of the stuff in this presentation has been the heart of professorial lectures on the matter for the last 100 years.

Sometimes they note that the crisis has lasted for the last 1000 years, not just the last 200 years.

It's just about a millenium ago when the Arabs lost control of their own empire. It was taken over by the Turks, then the Kurds, and then the Turks again.

In the aftermath of WWI, it was taken over by the Brits.

Oh, yes, the Arabs "double whammied" themselves. Not only did they lose their empire to foreign powers, they also inflicted the Sharia Law on themselves.

[uncbob]

The briefing declared Saudi Arabia an enemy of the United States and advocated that the United States invade the country, seize its oil fields, and confiscate its financial assets unless the Saudis stop supporting the anti-Western terror network.

I have been advocating this ever since 9/11

[section9]

I see what he's driving at about Egypt. Egypt is the intellectual center of the Arab world. It has been that way since the Nasser era. The rest of the Arab world is a collection of oil dictatorships. The Egyptians actually have a civilization.

Never call an Egyptian an "Arab".

Anyway, the power point presentation that is being roundly condemned is actually embarrassing only because it is a public pronouncement of what is already being said in private among American strategic planners: Saudi Arabia is a focus of global terrorism. There is where Bin Laden and others were able to get their money.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[eno_]

He says it like it is. Egypt is the center of the Arab world. If radical Islam is extinguished in Egypt, it is over with the Arabs. We are fighting Islamist Arabs, everywhere they live.

[BradyLS]

My guess is that "Egypt is the prize" means that they would have cntrol of the canal. Which would mean a tremendous shortening of the distance that oil would have to travel in case the Egyptians closed it down due to a US war against an oil-producing Arab state.

That's merely a guess, though...

[mathurine]

A recent report suggested that if we rolled Iraq over, we would have to keep 60,000 troops there in the aftermath for a while in order to keep the peace, etc. If all we need to pacify Iraq is 60,000 then we wouldn't need but a few hundred for the Saudi Arabian peckerheaded monarchy and the handful who would give their all or even some part for their king or his 400 kids.

[Tokhtamish]

Larouchites make the John Birch Society seem sane. If Perle has been inveigled into letting 'ex'-Larouchites anywhere near centers of power, he has been royally played.

[BradyLS]

Wahhabism loathes modernity, capitalism, human rights, religious freedom, democracy, republics, an open society -- and practices the very opposite

WTF???

[Prodigal Son]

Sometimes I wonder how much of this leaked stuff is really unintentionally leaked, you know what I mean?

Yep. The Saudis have got to be feeling a little uneasy at the moment. Personally, I believe the Saudis are the bullseye on the target. That's the home of radical Islam. They are who we're going to have to deal with one day- soon hopefully.

[Wonder Warthog]

Terror as an accepted, legitimate means of carrying out politics, has been incubated for 30 years ..."

What you mean! 30 Years?!?!?!? How long ago did the "Assassin's Cult" exercise terrorism to gain power?? Wasn't that more like 900 years ago?? Or even longer.

That aside--most of the guy's points seem pretty much on target.