{"article":{"id":30454,"heading":"In the ass of Trojan horse (by Latuff)","author":"Latuff","created":"2003-02-20 17:36:49","modified":"2005-08-15 01:12:20","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:12:20","article":"<p>Excerpt from Robert Fisk (London Independent) article(2\/15\/03)  <br><br> \"The men driving Bush to war are mostly former or still active pro-Israeli  <br>  <br> lobbyists. For years, they have advocated destroying the most powerful Arab  <br>  <br> nation. Richard Perle, one of Bush's most influential advisers, Douglas  <br>  <br> Feith, Paul Wolfowitz, John Bolton and Donald Rumsfeld were all campaigning  <br>  <br> for the overthrow of Iraq long before George W Bush was elected--if he was  <br>  <br> elected--US President. And they weren't doing so for the benefit of  <br>  <br> Americans or Britons. A 1996 report, A Clean Break: A New Strategy for  <br>  <br> Securing the Realm ( <a href=\"http:\/\/www.israeleconomy.org\/strat1.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.israeleconomy.org\/strat1.htm<\/a> ) called for  <br>  <br> war on Iraq. It was written not for the US but for the incoming Israeli  <br>  <br> Likud prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu and produced by a group headed  <br>  <br> by--yes, Richard Perle. The destruction of Iraq will, of course, protect  <br>  <br> Israel's monopoly of nuclear weapons and allow it to defeat the Palestinians  <br>  <br> and impose whatever colonial settlement Sharon has in store.\"  <br>  <br> Complete article by Robert Fisk  <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.counterpunch.com\/fisk02152003.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.counterpunch.com\/fisk02152003.html<\/a>  <br><br> Visit Atlanta Palestine Solidarity web site:  <br>  <br> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlanta4palestine.org\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.atlanta4palestine.org<\/a><\/p>\n","contact":"latuff@uninet.com.br","link":"http:\/\/www.atlanta4palestine.org","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"image\/gif","summary":"Copyright-free artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed Israeli terror.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2003\/02\/horse.gif","filesize":"37.9 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2003\/02\/30454.php","image":{"original":"\/uploads\/2003\/02\/horse.gif"}},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}