Reply #444: who cares if he is - the question is, did Jews push for the Iraq War?

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Jews didn't support the Iraq War any more than any other ethnic or religious group prior to the invasion. Moreover, Jews voted overwhelmingly against George Bush in the 2000 election. It's doubtful that Al Gore would've invaded Iraq.

That said, The Office of Special Plans in the Pentagon was instrumental in making the case for war, prior to invasion, the truth be damned, and the OSP was founded and spearheaded by committed Zionist Jews (and Likud allies) Paul Wolfowitz and Douglas Feith.

In an interview with the Scottish Sunday Herald, former CIA officer Larry C. Johnson said the OSP was "dangerous for US national security and a threat to world peace. lied and manipulated intelligence to further its agenda of removing Saddam. It's a group of ideologues with pre-determined notions of truth and reality. They take bits of intelligence to support their agenda and ignore anything contrary. They should be eliminated." (source: Wikipedia)

Also intrumental to the buildup to war was PNAC, the Project for the New American Century. Over one-third of PNAC's founding members were Jewish. If PNAC reflected the actual makeup of the United States, just over 2 percent of PNAC's founding members would have been Jewish.

So it's a mixed bag for the Jewish people. Certainly the overall populations of Jews in the US has voted in such a way that would have made the war in Iraq unlikely. But there definitely *is* is hardcore group of right-wing Zionist Jews in positions of power allied with the Likud in the U.S. that must share responsibility for what has happened these past dark, long six years.

The Jewish people must stare truth in the eye on this one. Truth is the friend of most Jewish people in the US. But definitely the enemy of some.