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New orders from Fortress Israel

By Michael J. Smith on Monday December 5, 2005 12:48 PM

Been reading Seymour Hersh's fine recent New Yorker piece on the upcoming Phase II of the Iraq war. To my delight and amusement, I find that the Israel lobby has already laid out the line for the new approach -- in characteristically arrogant terms. Hersh quotes Patrick Clawson, of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy:
“We’'re not planning to diminish the war.... We just want to change the mix of the forces doing the fighting .... We’'re in the middle of a seven-year slog in Iraq....”
"We are not planning," Patrick? Who is this "we"? Are you and your WINEP colleagues in the chain of command now? I suppose you might be forgiven for thinking so.


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