Is it chaos and instability in Iraq the real plan?

[Emillereid]

Is everything in Iraq really taking shape as the neocons planned? In light of what's going on in Iraq -- the continued violence and chaos -- and the world's condemnation of the ineptitude and poor preparation of the Bushits -- it may have been part of their plan all along. Consider the following article quoting Ledeen (the neoconservatives' ideologue:

Bush's Axis of Upheaval



By Jim Lobe, AlterNet
March 18, 2003

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Despite the stirring rhetoric, however, there is evidence that democracy may not be an essential part of the neoconservative grand vision for the Middle East. The breakdown of national states and the chaos that could result may be just as acceptable an alternative for the some in the Bush administration and the men who are shaping its foreign policy.




"Whenever I hear policymakers talk about the wonders of 'stability,' I get the heebie-jeebies," wrote Michael Ledeen, a "scholar" at the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute (AEI) in early 2000. "That is for tired old Europeans and nervous Asians, not for us."


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"As soon as we land in Iraq, we're going to face the whole terrorist network," he told Robert Dreyfuss in the latest edition of The American Prospect. By that he meant not only al-Qaeda, Lebanon's Hezbollah, the Palestinian Hamas and Islamic Jihad, but also Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia, nations that he calls "the terror masters".




"I think we're going to be obliged to fight a regional war, whether we want to or not," Ledeen added. "It may turn out to be a war to remake the world."
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But the prospect of chaos may not be unattractive to neo-conservatives like Perle, Ledeen, Wolfowitz and his deputy, Douglas Feith. ...more...

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15413

It makes this claim by Hizb Allah all the more telling:

The United States and Israel had the most to gain from the killing of a top Shia cleric in Iraq last week, said Hizb Allah Secretary General Sayyid Hasan Nasr Allah.

Muhammad Baqir al-Hakim was killed in a car bomb last Friday in Najaf. At least 80 other people also died in the blast

Speaking to about 3,000 Shias who gathered to mourn al-Hakim in the Beirut’s southern suburbs, Nasr Allah said: “The Americans do not want a state in Iraq, they want a splintered Iraq and the Israelis want to crush Iraq.”

"For more than one reason it is in Israel's interests and part of its plan to kill the leaders that present or even might present a danger to Israel," Nasr Allah said.

But the cleric stopped short of blaming either the US or Israel for al-Hakim’s killing.

http://english.aljazeera.net/Articles/News/ArabWorld/Hizb+Allah+slams+US+Israel+over+Iraq.htm
 






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[grasswire]

1. outstanding...thanks

The more chaos, the more money they make. The wider the war, the more land to control.

[mmm]

2. A war for the evil cause of zionism

what it has been about since square one

[ComerPerro]

3. Yes

Thats the plan.

Its risky to break up Iraq into separate factions.

So the neo-cons want the Iraqis to kill each other, now that they are "free".

And if American soldiers die, what do they care? They will bring them home in time for the election.

[teryang]

4. Ledeen is a fascist

Pure and simple.