In ancient times, those vanquished in a war were killed, often along with their armies and their people. The vanquished would be usually beheaded or cut into pieces. When the world progressed, the vanquished were executed by means of the French guillotine or by firing squad. And when the world progressed further, the vanquished were tried and executed, as happened in the case of the Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg. Today, I am with those who oppose the death penalty (with the exception of cases of child rape or child murder). But I find that the vanquished, whose defeat is supposed to qualify them for death, have instead remained in their positions, promoting the same criminal policies without being held to account by anyone. I am talking specifically about the George W. Bush administration, or the two war cabals within it: The seekers of an American empire that rules the world, led by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, and the neocons, who work on behalf of Israel even if the whole world is to be destroyed in the process, such as Paul Wolfowitz, Douglas Feith, Elliott Abrams and John Bolton in the administration, in addition to a thousand fascist Likudniks outside it. In the bygone days, such people would be killed. They conspired and falsified the premises for the Iraq War, and killed more than one million Arabs and Muslims so far (in addition to the death of half a million Iraqi children in the former criminal embargo). If they lived a thousand or two thousand years ago, they would have been crucified and displayed on the gates of Baghdad, if there were enough of these. However, we are in the twenty-first century. I thus do not nominate the war criminals for punishment by beheading, crucifixion or guillotine, but instead suggest that each and every one of them be placed in a cell at Guantanamo, and that the cells' keys be thrown into the sea, letting the prison camp be run by its current detainees. All the names are well-known, sparing me the need to repeat them here. The same applies for the think-tanks and publications that they used to spew their venoms, and the internet is an easily accessible source for one to learn more details. The topic is encyclopedic. In this journalistic haste, I can only be brief and give one or two examples. There were many names to pick from. Should I talk about William Kristol, the son of Irving, or his father's son in terms of their Likudnik extremism? Or should I talk about Norman Podhoretz, or Frank Gaffney, or Robert Kagan, or Kenneth Adelman, who claimed that the invasion of Iraq will be a cakewalk, and who cried in Dick Cheney's arms when the war started? Or should I talk about David Horowitz, who made attacking Islam and Muslims his daily job, to the extent of writing a book against American university professors who dared oppose his extremism? I almost chose Daniel Pipes, after George W. Bush selected him for the membership of the U.S. Institute of Peace, which was like appointing a fox to protect the chicken coop. Pipes is a Likudnik to the bone and a despicable racist, who once said, “All immigrants bring exotic customs and attitudes, but Muslim customs are more troublesome than most. Western European societies are unprepared for the massive immigration of brown-skinned peoples cooking strange foods and not exactly maintaining Germanic standards of hygiene”. This is a Nazi discourse. The Nazis had accused Jews of being filthy, and now the extremists like Pipes exploit the Holocaust every day then act like neo-Nazis, from the Netanyahu government to the Israel lobby in the United States. The last thing I read by him was a denial of the accusation that the Zionists have stolen Palestine from its native inhabitants, which means the accusation is correct so long that this extremist denies it. In the end, I moved past Pipes and chose a blatant example of the war criminals who are yet to be punished: It was Michael Ledeen, who bounced among several extremist think-tanks and publications, inciting against Iraq. He has the blood of children on his hands. A few weeks after the invasion, he called for attacking Iran, ‘the mother of modern terrorism'. But I say here that Israel is both the mother and father of terrorism. Its very name is synonymous with terrorism. Ledeen then called for attacking Syria and Lebanon as well, and spoke of creative destruction (echoing the creative chaos called for by the Likudnik historian Bernard Lewis), i.e. the killing of Arabs and Muslims, and America's youths along with them, for Israel's sake. All the above is enough to see Ledeen crucified a thousand years ago, or to put him away for life as I demand today. However, there is a more sinister aspect of his track record, which is the reason why I chose him as an example of all the extremist advocates of Israeli terrorism. Ledeen worked in 1979 and 1980 as an adviser on terrorism to the Italian military intelligence (SISMI), and had ties with the Masonic lodge P2. He also dealt with the Israeli spy David Kimche and the Iranian arms dealer Manouchehr Ghorbanifar. His background in Italy makes him the primary suspect in the forgery of the documents that claimed Iraq had attempted to acquire uranium from Niger (the yellow cake scandal). But these documents were exposed by Dr. ElBaradei and the IAEA as being forgeries, and yet, they were invoked by the Bush administration in the course of justifying the war on Iraq. For every reader who can, I urge him to research the subject online and to read what former American officials and experts on terrorism said about this racist Likudnik. I wish I had the means to hire lawyers and private investigators to expose Ledeen's role, if he had any, in forging the Niger documents, as this alone is enough to lock him away in a small cell, and throw its key in the sea. [email protected]
