Gordon Prather: Neocons Preparing the Sequel to Plan of Attack
http://www.antiwar.com/prather/?articleid=3506 You might want to re-read Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack now that you know the FBI has been attempting for at least two years to determine whether or not the development of that plan and/or associated National Security Presidential Directives (NSPD) involved any acts of treason.
Treason?
That's right. Not spying. Treason. It would be an act of treason for any American to deliberately develop an NSPD that was in the best interests of some other country, but not in our best interests.
Of course, the neo-crazies and their media sycophants claim that the FBI is merely looking for Israeli spies, and that there are none because Israel doesn't need them.
The neo-crazies boast that if the Israelis or their paid lobbyists at the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) want to know something, all they have to do is drop by the White House and National Security Adviser Condi Rice or one of her deputies will tell them anything – literally anything – they want to know.
But, one of the "persons of interest" in the FBI investigation is Larry Franklin – a munchkin in the neo-crazy fiefdom of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith. According to news reports, Franklin is not suspected of spying. But he has apparently been observed by the FBI asking AIPAC lobbyists if there is anything in a top secret "draft" NSPD on Iran that the Israelis object to. Or if there is anything that isn't in the NSPD on Iran that the Israelis want included.
One wonders what other Bush administration weenies or munchkins the FBI have on tape, coordinating the development of some other top secret NSPD with the Israelis or their paid lobbyists.
One thinks immediately of NSPD-17 – "National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction."
An unclassified version of NSPD-17 was released in December 2002, shortly after Woodward tells us President Bush had finally "decided" to launch an unprovoked war of aggression against Iraq.
In the unclassified version of NSPD-17, Bush vows to "respond with overwhelming force," including, possibly, the use of nuclear weapons, "to the use of biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear weapons on the nation, its troops or its allies."
You can probably guess which "ally" the folks who developed NSPD-17 had in mind.
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