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Blair Reveals Cheney's War Agenda
By Robert Parry
Ex-British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s new memoir offers the expected rationalizations for his joining in an illegal, aggressive war against Iraq, even to the point of quibbling about the death toll. But Blair does reveal how much more war was favored by Vice President Dick Cheney and the neocons.
In A Journey: My Political Life, Blair depicts Cheney as believing the United States was at war not only with Islamic terrorists but with “rogue states that supported them” and that “the only way of defeating [this threat] was head-on, with maximum American strength.”
Cheney wanted forcible “regime change” in all Middle Eastern countries that he considered hostile to U.S. interests, according to Blair.
“He would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it – Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.,” Blair wrote. “In other words, he [Cheney] thought the world had to be made anew, and that after 11 September, it had to be done by force and with urgency. So he was for hard, hard power. No ifs, no buts, no maybes.”
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"the danger of a wider regional war has not fully abated", and think that the article is fine, for it only reports some of what Blair wrote in his memoir, instead of Robert Parry saying that he agrees with everything he quoted from the memoir.
But Blair is clearly not someone to rely on for a serious understanding of either Cheney or the real reasons for these wars, or the one on Iraq, since that's the one that Robert Parry's article is about. What the article quotes from Blair, some of the quoted text anyway, indicates that either Blair is an idiot, or that he's lying. F.e., bringing democracy to anyone anywhere was [never] part of the reasons for either of these wars. And neither of the wars were or are for the sake of Israel, which certainly profits from these wars, Israeli elites and their financially well-to-do supporters do, that is; but,
*) Israel is also lead by psychopathically brutal, murderous leadership, political, military and financial leadership;
*) Israel is the 4th or 5th military power on Earth and the sole one to be nuclear-armed in the Middle East;
*) the Israelis, the leadership ones and most of the population, aren't Arabs or Persians, and they aren't Muslims, who are the people with countries possessing huge amounts of oil and natural gas reserves, which the ruling elites in the U.S. want to have control over;
(Muslim countries, I've read, have around 75% of the world's oil reserves.)
*) the Israeli leadership has some of its so-called "intelligence" people, Mossad, covertly assist the U.S. in its imperialist wars, both theatre and low profile, covert, through-proxy wars, like in the Congo, f.e.;
*) the only threat to Israel in the Middle East is the Israeli leadership, just like the greatest enemy of all for Americans is U.S. leadership, political, military, Corporate America and Big Bank America leadership; and,
*) the ruling elites of the U.S. are the war-making and -profiteering elites and they really do clearly want global dominance for themselves, all while realizing that Israel's military might and psychopathically commanded and employable military power and Mossad constitute a real and serious strategic asset for the U.S. elites in the Middle East.
Some of the neocons likely wanted to profit Israel by pushing for the war on Iraq, but they and Cheney aren't the top ruling elites in the U.S.; and those elites could certainly prevent the government from launching wars if they so desired. They, and not the neocons, are the power elites; but the public doesn't clearly see this because these elites are cunning enough to not reveal themselves openly to the public, while the neocons are dumb enough to do so.
F.e., we won't find the top power elites writing up documented plans like PNAC's plan, because such documents are traceable back to the authors. We also won't usually find them speaking in war-mongering or evil ways such that the public would readily learn about this, as the public has been experiencing with AIPAC. Et cetera.
Maybe some of the top power elites can be discerned by very informed people who are very careful in their analyses, but much like AIPAC, the neocons make their evil ways quite obvious. It evidently doesn't take much to be able to accurately identify them and this is not something top elites will normally allow themselves to do. The latter operate to control in secrecy, as much as they can. AIPAC is very obvious.
The same is true of Israeli leadership, whose evil nature has been rather blatantly obvious for many years for anyone who's [sane] and reasonably informed about the situation for Palestinians. The Israeli leadership could hardly be more obviously psychopathic.
I've read that Rothschild in England is very much in control in what the Israeli leadership does, but I don't have enough knowledge of the details to be able to say more than having read this and that a Rockefeller, David I think, is in a similar position with respect to the government of the U.S.
The following article explains much better, more truthfully than Blair has done for what the wars are really about. The piece is not long or exhaustive in detail, but it provides a very good summary of what the wars are really about, including the historical political build-up to the launching of these wars.
"Empire, Energy and Al-Qaeda: The Anglo-American Terror Network
The Imperial Anatomy of al-Qaeda, Part II"
by Andrew Gavin Marshall, Sept. 8, 2010
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=20944
Maybe Blair can't psychologically handle the real truth about these supreme international crimes that he's unquestionably complicit in, deeply so; and if this is the case, then he perhaps wants to believe everything quoted from his memoir in Robert Parry's article. But if that is not the reason for Blair not having been truthful about the real reason for the war on Iraq, then he's deliberately and wittingly lying. It was neither for Israel nor for spreading democracy.
The U.S. leadership is the greatest enemy of democracy, and the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, et cetera, on Earth and this leadership knows this. If they didn't know it, then they wouldn't deliberately have appointed Bush president in 2000; they would've seen that it was Constitutionally necessary for a real recount of the votes and would have demanded that this be done, instead. They wouldn't falsify elections with the various schemes or methods that they use. But they do all of these things and they know it, as well as knowing that the present wars and the war on Kosovo and Yugoslavia in 1999 are all wars of aggression. They knew that before the wars were launched, albeit some, perhaps even many, didn't realize this about the war on Afghanistan before it was launched. If they didn't realize it prior to the launch of that war, however, then they're awfully dumb for power elites; because Bush had actually made it clear that the war was not be commanded legally. Bush didn't say "the war is unjustifiable, but I'm going to command it anyway", but he nonetheless left it clear that the war was not justifiable when he said that the Taliban had had nothing to do with 9/11. And he made it clearly criminal when he acted against the resolutions of the UN Security Council.
The top ruling and lower-ranked elites of war-making and profiteering kind are stupid, but not because they don't realize the difference between criminal and good actions. If they couldn't tell the difference between the two, then they'd likely kill more evil allies and fewer innocent people; but they kill and genocide hundreds of millions of the latter and use the former as proxies, as well as knowingly committing major scales of destruction.
They're not ignorant. They are witting war makers and profiteers, as well as economic racketeers when the military is not being used.
When Bush Jr said the U.S. and it's so-called "coalition of the willing" was going to bring democracy, peace, and justice to Iraq with the war to get rid of Saddam Hussein, the U.S. leadership [knew] that this was a lie. They knew that they had no plans to do any good for Iraqis or anyone other than themselves and western corporations.
People need to cease believing that lies are truths just because both are stated by people.