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agenda and rsvp'i:

Confinned Retired Military Analysts:

Colonel Carl Kenneth Allard (USA, Retired)
Lieutenant General Frank (Ted) B. Campbell(USAF, Retired)
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cowan (USMC, Retired)
MI. Jed Babbin
Major Dana R. Dillon (USA, hired)
Colonel John Garrcti (USMC, Retired)
Command Sereeant Maior Steven Greer NSA. Retired)
Admiral avid^. Jeremiah (USN, ~etired)
Lieutenant Colonel Robert L Maginnis (USA, Retired)
Colonel Jeff McCausland, (USA, Retmd)
Major F Andy Messing. Ji. (USAR. Mired)
Caplain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired)
Gcnnal William L Nasb IUSA. Retired!
Wayne Simmons

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The American Spectator

Not Missing: Moved

By Jed Babbin
Published 6/13/2005 12:07:43 AM

For those of us who are occasionaltargets of the Soros-funded propaganda machines,

it's encouraging to discover a useful purpose that they can serve. The hyperlib
machinery, and the reactions it commands, are as accurate a gauge as I can find to
measure the import of the key points of the liberal dogma. As demonstrated by the
reaction they manufactured to some comments I made on MSNBC last week, the
volume of hate mail the organized hyperlibs generate is directly proportionalto the
importance they assign to an issue and the weakness of their position.

At issue was the so-called "Downing Street memo," a top-secret Brit document
memorializing a meeting in July 2002. The document says that the decision to take
military action against Sadaam had already been made two months before we took the
case of iraa to the U.N. Secuntv Council. It is as sianificant historicallv as Nick Nolte's
DUI record,andfar less accurate. After Ron ~ e & n pressed me to admit our casus
belli was a tissue of lies. Itold him that the fact we haven't found Saddam's WMD
proved precisely nothing. That's so, Isaid, because while we fiddled and diddled in the
U.N. for six months before military action began, Saddam almost certainly moved all
his WMD and scrubbed away all the evidence of it.

When Reagan pressed me further, contending that none of the commissions

investigatingthe missing WMD said they had been moved, I cited the report of Charles
Duelfer's iraq Survey Group, which spent many months searching for WMD in Iraq.
That report, I said, showed the substantial body of evidence that a lot of people,
money, and materials, possibly including WMD, were smuggled out of iraq in the
months before March 2003. The destination of these cargoes was Syria. I had touched
a nerve: by the time I got home, the "Media Matters for America" blog had accused me
of lying, and dozens of nearly identical e-mails (on the intellectual plane of, "liar, liar,
pants on fire") were pouring in. I quickly stopped reading them and just hit "delete"
when I saw them.

I hadn't merely touched a hyperlib nerve. I had challenged the basis for the hyperiibs'
existence: to discredit George Bush and the war at any cost. But the problem, for

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them, is that I had stuck to the facts. Which are very uncomfortablethings, if you're
Soros or Howard Dean. Or any of their MichaelMooron drones. Having demonstrated
that Ican drive them into a fit of apoplectic rage with a 30-second comment on
television, the scientific method requires a controlled, repeatableexperiment to see
how many can be driven to nervous breakdowns with a more elaborate exposition of
the facts. In theinterest of science, let us proceed.

WHAT I SAID ON MSNBC was, of course, just what the Duelfefs ISG report said, and
what Duelfer has said personally and repeatedly in Congressionaltestimony. You can
look it up. On November 17,2004, Duelfertold the House International Relations
Committee that a lot was moved by Saddam's people from Iraq into Syria and no one
knows whether or not the WMD were among the shipments to Syria: "Icant confirm
anything one way or the other. What we do know is that a lot of stuff was crossing the
border before the war. Trucks, but you don? know what was in them. So thafs you --
know, Iwould like to be able to state definitively one way or the other an answer to
that. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to." On October 6, 2004, Duelfer told the Senate
Armed Services Committee, "...But what Ican tell you that Ibelieve we know is a lot of
materials left Iraq and went to Syria. There was certainly a lot of traffic across the
border points. We've got a lot of data to support that, including people discussing it.
But whether in fact in any of these trucks there was WMD-related materials, I cannot
say."

Duelfer's report also said that Saddam's Iraqi IntelligenceService "operated a series of
laboratories in the Baghdad area" (up to five in that area alone) and that one of them,
a clandestine lab in the Baghdad Central Public Health Laboratory, was "emptied of all
equipment and documents in December 2002,"and that other labs were also found in
the scrubbed-clean-of-evidence condition.

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The only reasonableconclusion anyone can draw from the Duelfer report even if we
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ignore the other mountainsof evidence about Saddam's WMD is that Saddam had
WMD and in the six months we spent trying to convince Kofi, Dominique, and their
pals to act, Saddam's regime moved the WMD, cleaned out the evidence, and did their
best to conceal what they had done. That they did so with the active participation of
Assad's Syria is also terribly clear.

It is a pity that the embittered hypeilibs cant accept facts or use them to assemble the
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logical, and inevitable, conclusionsto which they lead. When any of them Soros,
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Moore, Dean, Franken, or any of them call a conservativea liar, it must create a
rebuttable presumption that it is the lib who is falsifying. Not that they care.

Jed Babbin, a contributing editor of The American Spectator, was a deputy

undersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration, and now often appears as a
talking warhead on MSNBC.
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I love it when we get the libs enraged. Like I did last week on MessNBC. Saddam's WMD were there, until
they were moved and the places scrubbed clean of evidence. We haven't looked in the right places Yet.
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11:45 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Ms. Allison Barber (scheduled)

11:46 a.m. Update on GWOTIIraq Operations

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for International SecurityAffairs Peter Floiy

(scheduled)

12:15 p.m. Update on Global Operations

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffGeneral Richard B. Myers (not scheduled)

1245 p.m. Update on Dthince Operations

Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England (tentatively scheduled)

1:15 p.m. Discussion and Questions with Secretary of Defense Donald H.Rnmfeld (scheduled)

1:45 p.m. Meeting Concludes

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From: Allison Barber

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Internal Communication
and Public Liaison

Date: June 9.2005

Meeting with Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld invites you to attend a meeting Thursdav.June 16,2605,in his private conference
mom at the Pentagon.

The briefing with the Secretary and other senior DoD officials will start promptly at 11:45 am and is expected
to conclude at 1145 p.m. Invited speakers include Douglas Feith, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy,
Gordon England, Acting Deputy Secretaryof Defense, and General Richard B. Myers. Chairman, Joint Chiefs
of Staff.

Consistent with Pentagon security procedures, it will be necessary for you to arrive at the Pentagon by 11:15
a.m. on June 16" with two forms of1.D.. one with a picture.

Instructionsconcerning transportation logistics will be provided as soon as we hear back from you regarding
your participation.

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Can you guys respond? Thanks.

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Mr. Waxman:

Professor Wedgewoodat Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced InternationalStudies suggested I contact you
about a segment we're putting together for this weekend's broadcast. I work on Chris Wallace's program -Fox News
Sunday. L a s t w k we interviewedWMam Schuk, the Execinhe D m of Amnesty InternationalUSA That InteN'taÑ
garnereda fair amount of attentiontowards the weakness of Al's accusations.

As calls for GTMO's closure continue, we're interestedin fdlowng up on last week's interviewwith a fair and balanced
dimcussionon the U.Ss detainee policiesm Guantanamo Bay and other facilities. We're wondering if you could
recommend anyone who works with the Pentagon on detainee Issues, or a former member of the militarywho could

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good morning
one of our military analysts will be doing radio media this evening. he is lookingfor the name of tt?e
100 acre Iraqi (acuity discovered in march TO - one of the first bunkers discovered d ~ dnder
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ground that was stripped of ad eqJipment. (the article he wrote which mentions this is linked WOW

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Here's what Iwrote 3-25-03,so the facility would have been discovered the prior week. Profuse thanks
for your help. Best, Jed.

The Amencan Spectator

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s there someone one of our military analysts can spew to this morning about the article pasted
be cW he will be on msnbc tooay and wants the latest thannsl

May 01,2005

The secret Downing Street memo

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SECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL UK EYES ONLY -

DAVID MANNING
From: Matthew Rycroft
Date: 23 J U I ~2002
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cc Defence Secretary. Foreign Secretary,Attorney-General S r Richard Wilson, John Scanett.

Francis Richards CDS. C. Jonathan Powel. Salty Morgan. Alasmir Campbel

IRAQ: PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING, 23 JULY

Copy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss Iraq

This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. I t should be shown only
to those with a genuine need to know Its contents.

John Scartensummarised the intelligenceand latest JIC assessment. Saddam's regime was tough
and based on extreme fear. The only way to Overthrow it was likely to be by massive military action.
Saddam was worried and expected an attack, probably by air and land, but he was not convinced
that it would be immediateor overwhelming. His regime expected their neighbours to line up with the
US. Saddam knew that regular army moralewas poor. Real support for Saddam among the public
was probablynarrowly based.

C rewrted on his recent talks in Washinaton. There was a Demtible shift in attitude. Military action
wasnow seen as inevitable. Bush wanted to run& saddam,through military action, justified by the
conjunctionof terrorism and WMD. But the intelligenceand facts were being fixed around the policy
The NSC had no patience with the UN route. and noenthusiasmfor ~ublishinomaterialon the I001
regime's record. There was littlediscussion In Washington of the aftermath after military action.

CDS said that military plannerswould brief CENTCOM on 1-2 August, Rumsfeldon 3 August and
Bush on 4 August.

The two broad US options were:

(a) Generated Start. A slow build-up of 250,000 US troops, a short (72 hour) air campaign, then a
move up to Baghdad from the south. Lead time of QO days (30 days preparation plus 60 days
deploymentto Kuwait).

(b) Running Start. Use forces already in theatre (3 x 6,000), continuous air campaign, initiated by an
Iraqi caws belli. Total lead time of 60 days with the air campaign beginning even eariier. A
hazardous option.

The US saw the UK (and Kuwait) as essential, with basing in Diego Garcia and Cyprus critical fix
either option. Turkey and other Gulf states were also important, but less vital. The three main options
for UK involvement were:

(i) Basing in DiegoGarciaand Cyprus, plus three SF squadrons.

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The secret Downine Street memo - Sundav Times - Times Online

Who's the resident expert on this? Best, Jcd.

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when they do to themselveswhat they usually do to us.

The American Spectator

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between fttie state's] polltvand decisions [on the one hand] and what reaches the alien's [awarenesson me other].
m e conmiuena of this [ d m 1 is manliest h the m y Içisate] milmil h the MMJe East and with our iflitioiis
with the US. Despite the strategic chotat negating these two tesues ~ uthe t country has openly adopted for the past thirty years,
there Is still a trend In the country that adheresto viewsof the past.

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entire region on the basis of Freedomand equaUty. and h order mchange and awoken societiesthat deserve a better life. What Is
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that leads us m Jointhe policy lines of our strongestally -politically, economicany, and socially -for the sake of a society that Is
free In evw sense of the word.
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attained without Egypt playing an active rote as mediatorandas an actor helpingtheother actor* reacha save haven." .

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languageofone who is mu* to developand to maintaina dialoguewith intellectuals werid-Me.'

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others, who Is Interested In acquiring an education and In modernization, and who Is not afraid of the West. but whoinfluences and
Is influenced by It.

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Iran

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Iran Hard-Liners Act to Require Nuke Technology

Saiurtay. May 28.2005

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WTO OKs Iran to Begin Membership Talks

U.K. Official:Iran Reassures on Nukes

Iran OKs Two Reformists Candidates

Iran Leader: Include Reformers i n Elections

Most Reformists Reiected From Iran Election

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TEHRAN, lran l h d s hd41ne Guadlan Council on Saturday appvved a law that pu+n pmssure on the
governmentto develop nucleartechnology that could be need to build atomk weapon*, state run radio reported.

Patilment had passedthe bill on May 15 and sent ilto the Guardian Counc.1for approval. The council must vet all bills
before they become law.

The passingof the law does not force the governnwit to resumeuranium enrichment lmmediatolybut encourages it to
pursue nuclear gals in spite of internationalpressureon Tehran over Its nuclear program.

The law calls on the government to develop a nuclear fuel cycle,which would Include resuming the process of enriching
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could be used in developingatomic weapons.
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Iran suspended enrichment last November under International pressureled by the United States. Iran maintainsts
program is peaceful and only aimed at generating electricity

The legislation was viewed as strengthening thegovernment'shand in negotiationswith EuropeanUnion representatives.

allowingit to demonstrate domestic pressureto pursue its nudear program as talks have deadlocked.

lran(magfeed W e d d a y to meet4th b-n Unlm ( wmgol&m fa a new mmd of tatb in the

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France, Britain and Germany, acting on bçhaHot~ 25-nalion EuropeanUnion, want Tehran to abandon Its enrichment
activitiesin exchangetor economic aid, technical support and backingfor Iran'seffortsto Jointhe World Trade
OrganbUon (

The EuropeanUnion has threatened to take Iran to the U.N. Security Councilfor possible sanctions If it again starts
uranium reprocessing. Tehran says it wont give up its treaty rights toenrichment but k prepared to offerguarantees that
its nudear programwon't be divertedto build weapons

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thanks, kiddo.

resp'y,
bill

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Subject: RE: Hello

Thanks for writing. Betw you and me, lips sealed please, the SecDef is going to
address the group. It should be a good time. Iwill be watchin for ya. Be careful on
the bike and have fun. Next time you are in the building, just stop by and say hello.

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Subject: RE: Helb

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was In the Pentagonlast week and almost called. then ithought, "naw. she has work to dot"

will do lots of Fox this weekend, got them to buy Into a Rolling Thunder piece on Sunday. I'll
be down them on my bike, In my leathers and 'stuff', being Interviewed by Brian Wilson.
should be REAL fun!

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hope all Is well with you too. you are one great gall

bill

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Hey Bill:
Just checking in to say hello. Haven'ttalked with you in a while. I hope this email
finds you well and that everything is going good for you. Keep up the good fight. Love
the commentary on Fox.

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Bedtime for Bashar

BY MR&Dh
Published 5/23/200512:07:25 AM

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It is the gravest of mistakes to think of Iraq -or any other nation in isolation. And it is willfully ignorant to
ask when Iraais will be able to defeat the insurgency, when Americans will withdraw, or when the violence in
Iraq will abate. Would you measure the safety ofone family's home without examiningthe neighborhood its in?
The security of every nauon depends on the actions of Its neighbors, and Iraq sits in one ofthe world's worst
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neiuhborhoods. It can't be stable and democraticunless and until its neighbors Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran -
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endtheir interference Uniess we abandon Iraq. Americans will continue to die as direct result of these
nations' actions until they are compelled to behave.

On that terrible morning of September 1 1,2001, there was no way to get out of Washington. Sitting in my oftice
about two blocks from the White House and seeing nothing more constructiveto do such as run through a
subway tunnel, i sat down at my computer and wroteabout how we should respond to the most deadly attack on
our soil since Pearl Harbor. The article was published in the Washington Times the following day.

The article made two points. First, that we couldn't allow ourselvesto be weakened by empty rhetoric urging a
"~mwrtionalreswnsc." Our resvonse to the 9-1 1 attacks had to be decisive. and to be so our counterattack had
to be in to our strength and not the enemy's relative size or weakness. Second, that no matter who the
enemy was. and no matter where he chose to seek refuge, we could allow him no sanctuw. We would have had
to attack the a1 Oaeds stronffholdwherever it was. Had it not been Kabul but Damascus.Tehran. Beiiina.
Pyongyangor ~oscowour&ion would have had to be the same If we had learned anything from Vietnam it
was that to allow sanctuary is to hand the means ofvictory to the enemy

President Bush took much this same wsition in his touzh speech to Congress a week later. Nations had to
choose, he said then, to be with us orwith the terroristsT~iicethen something has been lost. Syria has chosen to
be with the terrorists, and we have done nothing decisive about the regime of Bashar Assad. We are paying too
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high a price in the lives of our soldiers - for this to continue one moment longer.

Commencing weeks before American forces slashed into Iraq in March 2003, our reconnaissanceforces saw a
steady flow of cars and trucks going into Syria along the Baghdad-Damascus highway. About ten days into the
fiahtina. there was an intense ficht near the border citv of al-Oaim where our snecial forces took on a sizeable
~ r i qforce
i moving through al-Qaim into Syria he fi~rcenessofthefight the; -
as intense as any other before
Baghdad fell iold us that the Iraqis were moi ing somethingthey thought was of tremendousvalue Was 11
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money, weapons or people the Iraqis moved then? It matters not. What matters is that Syria chose to provide
first a sanctuary for members of Saddam's regime and its assets and then comprehensive suppon forthe Sunni
insurgentswho fight only 10 prevent Iraq from becoming stable and free. and kill as many Americans as they can
in the process
We know that the maioritv ofthe suicide bombers killine ~eoplein I m w m e from Saudi Arabia to Syria where
they are helped into Iraq. We know that money and weapons flow from Syria to the insurgents in Iraq.
We know sufficientdetails about where the insurgents meet and train in Syria to target those places for attack.
the
"Operation Matador," the week-long fight along Syrian border that ended on May 14, disrupted the
insurgents' ability to cross into Iraq. At the cost of at least nine Marine lives, we stopped them but only for a
while.
The President has too much on his mind. and his advisers are divided. The CIA and the State Department win1
to the small amount of cooperation we have been getting from Syna, and insist that we can corn& them to do
more without t a k i i firm action. The Defense Dcoartmtnt is less tolerant. It w i t s to act. but apparently hasn't
even been allowedio ask the Iraqis for to mount in attack into Syria. Our failure totake d-ive
action costs too much. The time has come to act.

First, either Vice President Cheoey or the President himself needs to knock heads together, because no one else
can.CIA, State, and Defense have to be brought into line and resolved to action. Then State should delivera
final ultimatum to Assad. If he fails to end his regime's support for terrorism forthwith - and that means not
onlv the I m i insurgents. but Habollah and all the othersthat have onerated from Damascus for decades he -
-
m&t be toldwe will end it for him. The Iraqi government should be consulted, but its reluctance if it has any
- to across-border attack must be dimelled a wlitdy ienoicd. As soon as ft is. sixcial opeadom fortts should
cross into Syria wvenly, to lead a wmbinedairand (roundattackagaiiul the ten&Is and whatever Syrian
assets ire supportingthem,from Qaim to Damascus.Whatever it lakes, that is what we must do.

Syria is the immediate problem regarding Iraq. (Iran is no less immediate; but because of its nuclear program,
not its present involvement in Iraq.) Saudi Arabia is a differentkind ofpmblem.

The Saudis have, perhaps too late to save themselves,come to realize the dangers of terrorism. But because the
Saudis an Wahabis, and because the Wahabi version of Islam is insecure, violent, and hostile, they still don't
take sufficientsteps to stop the export of terroristsand terrorism. We can't disregard the power Saudi oil gives
them over our economy. But we can't be afraid of it either. Their insecurity is our handiest weapon.
Our cadre of evil geniusescan think of many ways to motivate Saudi behavior, and we should he using them all.
For example, cautious people thai we are, the Pentagon should commissiona secret study of how we might
intervene to restore order in the former Saudi Arabia after some massive terrorist attack annihilates the Saudi
royals, taking some ofthe oil infrasiniciure up with them. When that study is leaked (to Bob No& ofcoune,
not ibe New York Times} how much more uneasy will rest the heads on which the Saudi crowns lie? Enough.
perhaps, to make some greaxereffortagainst tho& Saudis whose business it is to exhort and export t&?

The Saudis are crude in their manipulatiohof us. We should compel them 10 wnclude that Machiavelli was a
wimp.
The American Socctawr
Jed Bibbin

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 Classification: YNCLASSIFIEQ
Caveats: NONE

This is a great article, and all too true, Ithink.

2 Monday, May 23,2005 4 2 3 PM

To; OVOASD-PA
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a y s (BabMn)

Bedtime f o r Bashar
By HYPERLINK ' r n a l l t o j l ~ b t o
PublishedYWIVIOS 12:07.25 AH

It is the gravest of mistakes to think of Im-or any other nation -in isolation. And It is wlllfullv
ignorant to ask when Iraqiswill be able to defeat the ifisurgency, when Americans will withdraw, or
Wen the violence in Iraq win abate. Would you measure the safety of o m family's home wttiout
examining the neighborhoodit's in?The security of every nation depends on the actions of 'ts
neighbors, and Iraa sits in one of the wcild'sw+.t neiahbortioods.It can'l be stable and democratic
- -
unless and until its.mighbors Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran end their interference Unless we
abandon Iraq. Americans win continue to die as a direct result of these nations' actions until they are
I compelled to behave

1 On that tenihic morninnof SiKitemhiir 11.2001. there was no wav to oat out of Washinolon. Sillina
in my office about two blocks from the While House and seeing nothing more constructik to do &h
as run through a subway tunnel. 1sat down at my computer and wrote about lmw we should respond
to the most deadly attack on our sol since Pearl Harbor. The article was ~ubtshed
in the Washinoton
rimes the foilowing day.
The article made two points. First, that we couldn't allow ourselvesto be weakened by empty rhetoric
27
urging a "proportional response." Our response to the 9-11 attacks had to be decisive, and to be so
our counterattack had to be in nronortlon to our strenath and not the enemv's relative size or
weakness Second, that no matte; who the enemy was, and no matter where he chose to seek
refuge we could allow him no sanctuary We would have had to attack the a1 Oaeaa stronghold
wherever it was. Had it not been Kabul but Damascus, Tehran. Beljing, Pyongyangor Moscowour
action would have had to be the same. If we had learned anything from Vietnam it was that to allow
sanctuary is to hand the means of victory to the enemy.
President Bush took much this same position In his tough speech to Congress a week later. Nations
had to choose, he said then. to be with us or with the terrorists. Since then somathino has been lost.
Syria has chosen to be with the terrorists, ana we have done nothing decisive about the regimeof
Bashar Assad We are paying too nigh -
- a once -in the lues of our so~diers for this to continue one
moment longer.
Commencing weeks before American forces slashed into Iraq in March 2003. our reconnaissance
forces saw a steady flow of cars and trucks going i n n Syria along the Baghdad-Damascus highway.
an
About ten davs lnto the fmhtina. there was intensefiaht near the border citv of al-Qaim where our
s p e w forces took on a Sizeable Iraq force moving through al-Qaim into syria The fierceness of the
-
fight there as intense as any other before Bagndad fell - t o l d us that the Iraqis were moving
something they thought was of tremendousvalue. Was It monev. weamns or people the lraais
moveo thin? limatters not What matters is that Syna chose to'provide first asanctuary for memoers
of Saodem's regime an0 in assets and men comprehenawesupport for the Sunnl Insurgents who
fight only to prevent Iraq from becoming staole and free. and kill as many Americans as they can in
the promss

We know that the majority of the suicide bombers killing people in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia to
Syria where they are helped to cross into Iraq. We know that money and weapons flow from Syria to
the insuraents in h a . We know sufficient details about where the insuroents meet and train insvria
to target ihose places for attack "Operation Matador." the week-long fight along the Syrianoordir
that ended on May 14 disrupted the insurgents' ability 10 cross Into Iraq At the cost of at least nine
Marine lives, we stopped them but only fora while.

The President nas too much on nis mina, an0 his aausers are divideo. The CIA and the State
Depanment point to the small amount of cooperation we have b w n getting from Syria, and insist that
we can compel them to do more without taking firm action The Defense Department ts less tolerant.
It wants to act, but apparently hasnl even been allowed to ask the Iraqis for permissionto mount an
attack into Syrla. Our failure to take decisive action costs too much. The time has come to act.
First. either Vice President Cneney or me Pres dent himself needs lo knock neads together. b e c a m
no one e se can CIA. State, and Defense nave to be brougnt into line and resolved to action. Then
State should deliver a final ultimatum to Assad. If he fails t i end his realme's sumort for terrorism
forthwitn - and that means not only the Iraq, insurgents, but ~ezbo1lan"andall the others that have
operated from Damascusfor decades - he must be tola we win end it for him The Iraqi government
- -
should be consulted, but its reluctance if it has anv to a cross-border attack must bedk~elledor
pOlitely ignorea As soon as It is, special operations forces mould cross lnto Syria covertly, to leaa a
combined air and ground attack against tne terrorists and whatever Syrian assets are supporting
them. from Qaim to Damascus. Whatever it takes, that is what we m ~ sdo. t

Syrla is the immediate problem regarding Iraq. (Iran is no less immediate; but because ofits nuclear
program, not Its present involvementin Iraq.) Saudi Arabia Is a different kind of problem.

The Saudis have, perhaps too late to save themselves, come to realize the dangers of terrorism. But
26 -
becausethe Saudis am Wahabis, and because the Wahabi version of Islam is insecure, violent, and
hostile, thev still don'l take sufficient stem to ston the exoort of terrorists and terrorism. We can't
disregard the power Saudi oil gives them over our economy. But we can't be afraid of it either. Their
insecurity is our handiest weapon.

Our cadre of evil geniuses can think of many ways to motivate Saudi behavior, and we shou d be
using them all For exampb, cautious people that we am. tne Pentagon should commission a secret
study of how we might intervene to restore order in the former Saudi Arabia after some massive
terrorist attack annihilates the Saudi royals. taking some of the oil infrastructure up with them. When
that studv is leaked (to Bob Novak. of course. notthe New Yo& Times) how much more uneasv will
rest the heads on wnich the ~ e u ocrowns
i he? Enough, perhaps, to &ke some greater effort against
those Saudis whose business it is to exhort and export terrorism?

The Saudis are crude in their manipulationof us. We should compel them to conclude that
Machlavelliwas a wimp.

HYPERLTNK "http://www.specta1or.org/dspanicle.asp?anid=Sl9S"~e
American S~ectaior
Jed Bibbin
clas*~~~lm:
Caveats: NONE
Yeah -but who isn't

He calm and said his publishersare VERY ih@resudh him atlandlng. No needto d
l back.

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Suit: Monday,May 23,2005 4:23 PM

m: -CIV OASWPA
Subject Today's Spectator(Babbin)

Bedtime for Bashar

BY k d BBiibl-n
Published S/Z3/Z00512.07 25 AM

-
It is the gravest of mistakes to think of Iraq or any other nation -in isolation. And it is willfully
ignorant to ask when Ira& will be able to defeat the insuraencv. when Americans will withdraw, or
<hen the violence in 1 r 4will abate. Would you measure the safety of one family s home without
examining the neighborhood it's in? The security of evuy nation depends on the actions of its
neighbors, and Iraq sits in one ofthe world's worst neighborhoods It can't bestable and democratic
unless and until its neiehbors - Syria. Saudi Arabia and Iran - e n d their interference. Unless we
abandon Iraq, ~ m e r i & s will continue to die as a direct result of these nations' actions until they are
compelled to behave.

On that teniblo morning of Sentember 11.2001. there was no way to act out of Washington. Sitting
in mv office about twoblocks from the White House and seeine nothik more construdve to do -
sucias run through a subway tunnel, I aai down at my computkand wrote about how we should
respond to the most deadly arack on our soil since Pearl Harbor The article nas published in the
Washington Times the following day.

The article made two points. First, that we couldn't allow ourselves to be weakened by empty rhetoric
urging a "proportionalresponse." Our response to the 9-1 1 attacks had to be decisive. and to be so
our counterattack had to be in proportion to our strength and not the enemy's relative size or
weakness. Second, that no matter who the enemy was, and no matter where he chose to seek refuge,
we could allow him no sanctuary. We would have had to attack the al Qaeda stronghold wherever it
was. Had it not been Kabul but Damascus, Tehran, Beijing, Pyongyang or Moscow our action would
have had to be the same. If we had learned anything from Vietnam it was that to allow sanctuary is to
hand the means of victory to the enemy,

President Bush took much this same position in his tough speech to Congress a week later. Nations
had to choose, he said then. to be with us or with the terrorists. Since then somethine has been lost
Syria has chosen w be with the morists. and we have done nothing decisive about the regime of
--
Bashar Assad We are paying too high a price - in the lives of our soldiers for this to continue one
moment longer.

Commencing weeks before American forces slashed into I m in March 2003. our reconnaissance
forces saw asteady flon ofcars and trucks going into %riadong the Baghdad-Damascushighway
About ten days into the fighting, there was an intense fight near the border city ofal-Qatm where our
special forces look on a sizeable Iraqi force moving through at-Qaim into Syria The fierceness of the
-
fight there as intense as anv other before Bnehdad fell told us that the h a i s were m o n m
something they thought was of tremendous vaiue. Was it money, weapons or people the 1raqis

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moved then? It matters not What matters is that Syria chose to provide frst a sanctuary f a members
I
of Saddam's regime and its assets and then comprehensivesupport for the Sunni insurgents who fight
only to prevent Iraq from becoming stable and free, and kill as many Americans as they can in the
1
process. I
We know that the majority of the suicide bombers killing people in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia to
Syria where they are helped to cross into Iraq. We know that money and weapons flow from Syriato
the insurgents in Iraq. We know sufficientdetails about where the insurgents meet and train in Syria
to target those places for attack. "Operation Matador," the week-long fight along the Syrian border
that ended on May 14, disrupted the insurgents' ability to cross into Iraq. At the cost of at least nine
Marine lives, we stopped them but only far a while.

The President has too much on his mind, and his advisers are divided. The CIA and the Sme
Department point to the small amount ofcooperation we have been gctltng from Syna, and insist mat
we can compel them to do more without bki& firm action. The ~efense
Department is less tolerant.
It wants to kt,but apparently hasn't even be&allowed to ask the Iraqis for &mission to mount an
attack into Syria. Our failure to take decisive action costs too much The time has come to act.

First, either Vice Resident Cheney or the President himself needs to knock heads together, because
no one else can. CIA. State, and Defense have to be bmucht into line and resolved to action. Then
State should deliver a final ultimatum to Assad. If he failsto end his regime's suppon for terrorism
forthwith- and that means not only the Iraqi insmgents. but Hezbollah and all the oiheis that have
-
operated from Damascus for decades he must be told we will end it for him The Iraqi govenunenl
- -
should be consulted, but its reluctance if it has any to a cross-border attack must be dispelled or
politely ignored. As soon as it is, special operalionsforces should cross into Syria covertly,to lead a
combined air and ground attack against the terrorists and whatever Syrian assets are supporting them,
from Qaim to Damascus. Whatever it takes, that is what we must do.

Syria is the immediateproblem regarding Iraq. (Iran is no less immediate; but because of its nuclear
program, not its present involvementin Iraq.) Saudi Arabia is a different kind of problem.

The Saudis have, perhaps too late to save themselves, come to realize the dangers of terrorism. But
because the Saudis are Wahabis, and because the Wahabi version of Islam is insecure, violent,and
hostile, they still don't take sufficient steps to stop the export of terrorists and terrorism. We can't
disregard the power Saudi oil gives them over our economy. But we can't be afraid of it either. Their
insecurity is our handiest weapon.

Our cadre of evil geniuses can think of many ways to motivate Saudi behavior, and we should be
using them all. For example, cautious people that we are, the Pentagon should commission a secret
study of how we might intervene to restore order in the former Saudi Arabia after some massive
t e r r o h attack annihilates the Saudi royals. taking some ofthe oil infrastructure up with them When
that study is leaked (to Bob N o d , of course, not the New York Times) how much more uneasy will
rest the heads on which the Saudi crowns lie9 Enough, perhaps, to make some greatcreffon against
those Saudis whose business it is to exhort and expo> &ri&?

The Saudis are crude in their manipulation of us. We should compel them to conclude that
Machiavelli was a wimp.
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Researcher
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And the Iranians aren't going to do a damned thing. Not until they have nukes, and then the
whole world changes.

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Subject Re: Today's Spectator

Some one should remind W that in 1986 without much outsiae help besides the UK we sent
Ghaddafi a "stronger message follows "that causec him to cull in nis thugs dramatically Tom knows
how that was done betterthan anv of us. Iuse every ormodunitv I have on Fox to make the same
case, except now it couia be done wlinout anyone's ~~mission,'un~ess we have to ask the minority
wing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee or the UN for overflight rights to cross the
Mediterraneanin a 6-2 or Global Predator.

Regards

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Syria, not the Senate, should be on our minds today.

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