Ex-CIA agent: US invents its own enemies

[Joepublic2]

Out of curiosity, can you show a few examples of this Zionist meddling you mentioned?

Yeah, the entirety of the AIPAC and the fact that no acting president or congress really goes against their wishes.

 

[cybrsage]

That means nothing...show something AIPAC has done which is considered to be zionist meddling.

 

[Joepublic2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Israel_Public_Affairs_Committee

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee was incorporated on January 2, 1963 by Isaiah L. "Si" Kenen. Kenen originally ran the American Zionist Committee for Public Affairs as a lobbying division of the American Zionist Council.

In 2005, a Pentagon analyst pled guilty to charges of passing US government secrets to two AIPAC staffers in what is known as the AIPAC espionage scandal. Both staffers were later fired by AIPAC.[7] In 2009 all charges against the former AIPAC employees were dropped.[8]

In 1984 the FBI investigated after Israeli Minister of Economics Dan Halpern passed US government classified documents to AIPAC outlining commercial trade information on major US industries lobbying against the US-Israel Free Trade Area.[9] No charges were ever filed.[10]

AIPAC's official position on Iran is to encourage a strong diplomatic and economic response coordinated among the United States government, its European allies, Russia, and China.[14] AIPAC has demanded "crippling" sanctions against Iran.

In March 2009, AIPAC executive director Howard Kohr appeared before the House Committee on Appropriations' Foreign Operations subcommittee to testify about the importance of US aid to Israel. Kohr stated that "American assistance to Israel serves vital U.S. national security interests and advances critical U.S. foreign policy goals" and requested that Israel receive $2.775 billion in military aid in fiscal year 2010, as called for in the 2007 Memorandum of Understanding between the US and Israel that allocates $30 billion in aid for the Jewish state over 10 years. Kohr stated that the military hardware Israel must purchase to face the increased threat of terrorism and Islamist radicalism is increasingly expensive due to the recent spike in petroleum prices which have enabled countries such as Iran to augment their military budgets. However, he added that Israel will also increase its defense spending as part of this effort.[19]

AIPAC also lobbies for financial aid from the United States to Israel, helping to procure up to three billion in aid yearly, making Israel "the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II."[26] Additionally, the result of AIPAC's efforts include numerous exceptional provisions that are not available to other American allies.

The New York Times described AIPAC on July 6, 1987 as "a major force in shaping United States policy in the Middle East."[29] In 1997, Fortune magazine named AIPAC the second-most powerful influence group in Washington, D.C.[30]

In 2006, Representative Betty McCollum (DFL) of Minnesota demanded an apology from AIPAC, claiming an AIPAC representative had described her vote against the Palestinian Anti-Terrorism Act of 2006 as "support for terrorists." McCollum stated that AIPAC representatives would not be allowed in her office until she received a written apology for the comment.[33] AIPAC disputed McCollum's claim, and McCollum has since declared the incident over.[34]

In 1992, AIPAC president David Steiner was forced to resign after he was recorded boasting about his political influence in obtaining aid for Israel. Steiner also claimed that he had met with (then Bush U.S. Secretary of State) Jim Baker and I cut a deal with him. I got, besides the $3 billion, you know they're looking for the Jewish votes, and I'll tell him whatever he wants to hear ... Besides the $10 billion in loan guarantees which was a fabulous thing, $3 billion in foreign, in military aid, and I got almost a billion dollars in other goodies that people don't even know about.[35]

In April 2005, AIPAC policy director Steven Rosen and AIPAC senior Iran analyst Keith Weissman were fired by AIPAC amid an FBI investigation into whether they passed classified U.S. information received from Franklin on to the government of Israel. They were later indicted for illegally conspiring to gather and disclose classified national security information to Israel.[37][38] AIPAC agreed to pay the legal fees for Weissman's defense through appeal if necessary,[39] but charges were subsequently dropped.[40]
In May 2005, the Justice Department announced that Lawrence Anthony Franklin, a U.S. Air Force Reserves colonel working as a Department of Defense analyst at the Pentagon in the office of Douglas Feith, had been arrested and charged by the FBI with providing classified national defense information to Israel. The six-count criminal complaint identified AIPAC by name and described a luncheon meeting in which, allegedly, Franklin disclosed top-secret information to two AIPAC officials.[41][42]
Franklin pleaded guilty to passing government secrets to Rosen and Weissman and revealed for the first time that he also gave classified information directly to an Israeli government official in Washington. On January 20, 2006, he was sentenced to 151 months (almost 13 years) in prison and fined $10,000. As part of the plea agreement, Franklin agreed to cooperate in the larger federal investigation.[43][44] All charges against the former AIPAC employees were dropped in 2009.

It just goes on and on and on and this is just the wiki article.

 

[kylebisme]

It just goes on and on and on and this is just the wiki article.

This new video from the Obama campaign really sums up the situation though.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

I am sorry, I could not understand what you were typing through the logical fallacy you presented.

Then go to the UNMOVIC website, and read the UN weapoin's inspector report where it states quite clearly that NO WMD were found.

Perhaps that is at too high a reading level for you? It's all there in black and white, yet you choose to ignore it. I wonder why?

 

[cybrsage]

..blah blah blah..

I already showed you the WMDs his team found. You are just too cowardsly to write him and ask why he lied about it later. I realize it is less frightening for you to troll me anonymously on an Internet forum, but you do not make your family proud with your cowardace.

 

[kylebisme]

I already showed you the WMDs his team found.

Link to where you did that?

 

[PingviN]

Then go to the UNMOVIC website, and read the UN weapoin's inspector report where it states quite clearly that NO WMD were found.

Perhaps that is at too high a reading level for you? It's all there in black and white, yet you choose to ignore it. I wonder why?

Ignore him. He's done grasping for straws; he's now trying to grasp for the idea of straws.

 

[cybrsage]

Link to where you did that?

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32853425&postcount=80

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32823938&postcount=35


Cue the people who say "WMDs can only be fully assembled items...and they must be really scary...and there have to be hundreds of them for them to count at all".

Then cue the people who say "you are a liar because you are quoting Hans Blix and he said something else unofficially in other places".

 

[kylebisme]

Hum, I see where said he found shells and such designed to deliver chemical agents, but empty or filled with water. I don't see any mention of him finding actual chemical agents to fill those munitions with though, which agrees with his other statements of having found no WMDs. If I'm missing something, please quote it here.

 

[GarfieldtheCat]

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32853425&postcount=80

http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=32823938&postcount=35


Cue the people who say "WMDs can only be fully assembled items...and they must be really scary...and there have to be hundreds of them for them to count at all".

Then cue the people who say "you are a liar because you are quoting Hans Blix and he said something else unofficially in other places".

Still can't accept the OFFICIAL UN REPORT that says the exact opposite, can you? It does take a certain amount of insanity to argue the wrong thing on three separate forums and get owned in all three. What happened to three strikes and you are out? Because you would be out.

20-year old inoperable shells aren't WMD. Here is a hint: just because you think something, doesn't make it true. Blix and the entire rest of the world all understand this, and disagree with you publicly and officially. Pity you refuse to understand the facts. You do live up to your cybrtroll name though.