Iraq Pullout Bad for Israel (says WH aide Stephen Hadley)

[No Exit]

Iraq Pullout Bad for Israel: Bush’s Aide


“The spread of democracy will make the Middle East a safer neighborhood for Israel,” said Hadley.


CAIRO, November 1, 2005 (IslamOnline.net) - US President George W. Bush's national security adviser has warned that a hasty US withdrawal from Iraq would embolden what he termed "extremists" who seek "the eventual destruction of Israel."

"The spread of democracy will make the Middle East a safer neighborhood for Israel. An American retreat from Iraq, on the other hand, would only strengthen the terrorists who seek the enslavement of Iraq and the eventual destruction of Israel," said Stephen Hadley in remarks released by the White House.

The remarks were prepared for delivery via satellite to the annual American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) summit in Los Angeles on October 30-31.

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"If freedom prevails in Iraq, others in the region -- including Syria and Iran -- will be under greater pressure to open up their repressive political systems. And that is good news for Israel," said Hadley.

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http://www.islam-online.net/English/News/2005-11/01/article01.shtml

[MN ChimpH8R]

1. What country is this goon working for?

Whose payroll is he on? Obviously not ours. I am flabbergasted and disgusted.

[HereSince1628]

7. NeoCon/AIPAC/Likud believe US security apparatus is Israeli territory

Go ahead turn on the flames.

But THEY got the wording embedded in the IWR. The Likud IS the unnamed "friends" in the region that terrorists have attacked just as much as Rove is Official A

[MN ChimpH8R]

9. True enougn

AIPAC is something that should be extirpated root and branch from American politics. What other country has its own congressional lobby, much less one with such enormous and unaccountable power.

[Jacobin]

8. Three guesses. and the first two don't count

:-)

[afdip]

2. haven't AIPAC staffers already been indicted??? if we were

dedicated to making the middle east safer for israel, we should have invaded arab countries decades ago.

[ceile]

3. Funny....

I don't see how forced "democracy" on one country is going to make its neighbors all of a sudden go "Doh! What have we been thinking?"
But maybe it's just me...

[Lasher]

4. This is classic neocon philosophy in action

They put Israel's interests above American interests. That's one of the many evil things they do. Scary thing is, they are in charge.

[Lexingtonian]

5. this is a major priority?

Hmmm.

If Mr. Hadley had bothered with Ancient History, he would have discovered that Greece's low grade democracies were much more prone to go to war than the tyrants and militarists (e.g. Sparta). Athens was notorious for declaring war on minor grounds, Sparta famous for being slow and unwilling to go to war. The difference in followthrough was also great....

[Catrina]

6. So this is the latest reason for our troops dying

in Iraq? I wonder if that had been told to the American people, instead of the lies about WMD (which Wolfowitz admitted was just the reason they chose because it was most likely to sell) how much support for a war there would have been? This is an outrage. We go from WMDs, to liberating the Iraqi people, to Regime change, and now this.

Every soldier I have spoken to who supported the war in Iraq, including those who were there, supported it because they thought they were protecting this country. Hadley needs to tell them they are not (which many of them know now anyway) they are there for Israel. It would have nice to tell them that in the first place. The deception that has been perpetrated on the American people by this administration is appalling.

Let's hope the hearings on the pre-war intelligence clarify exactly what this disastrous war was for. We have a right to know that!

[BeHereNow]

10. Memo to Stephen: I DON'T GIVE A FLYING FUCK!

Dear Stephen,
I pay taxes to improve MY country, not Israel.
The education, medical and ALL social systems
in my country are crumbling to dust daily, so you see
Stephen, I don't give a rat's ass about Israel.
Sincerely,
BHN

[Trish1168]

11. They should fight their own damned wars !!!

Why are we spilling American blood for them? I have nothing against Israel, and sympathize with them for having their government stolen from them (the way ours has from us). But, I object to our fighting on behalf of the likudniks.

On antiwar.com, Justin said that the ultimate objective was to have civil war between the shia and sunni's spill over into Saudi Arabia, so the huge jump in fuel prices would force us to send in troops.

Sounds like sick, twisted, neocon-likudnik thinking to me.

:nuke: