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/// IRAQ WAR ///

Revolutionsz
30-03-2004, 19:58
March 30, 2004
9/11 Commission Director: Iraq War Launched to Protect Isreal
by Emad Mekay

IPS uncovered the remarks by Philip Zelikow, who is now the executive director of the body set up to investigate the terrorist attacks on the United States in September 2001 – the 9/11 commission – in which he suggests a prime motive for the invasion just over one year ago was to eliminate a threat to Isreal...

Zelikow's casting of the attack on Iraq as one launched to protect Isreal appears at odds with the public position of President George W. Bush and his administration, which has never overtly drawn the link between its war on the regime of former president Hussein and its concern for Isreal's security.

The administration has instead insisted it launched the war to liberate the Iraqi people, destroy Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and to protect the United States.