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Oct 30, 2005, 7:29:23 PM10/30/05

New York Times-Boston Globe
October 29, 2005

Indictments put focus on neoconservatives

By Bryan Bender
bender[AT]globe.com

Washington D.C. -- The indictment and resignation of JEW Irv Lewis ''Scooter" Libby
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/libby/libby.php) yesterday deprives the White
House of one of its most influential national security thinkers, a powerful advocate
for some of the Bush administration's most far-reaching foreign policy decisions
since the JEW-terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

His pending legal battle, however, could also bring new scrutiny to the actions of
the close-knit group of officials, many of them his old friends and colleagues from
previous Republican administrations, who had long agitated for overthrowing Saddam
and who are accused of exaggerating the threat from Iraq to achieve their goal,
according to current and former government officials and specialists.

As the point man in the seat of power for the so-called neoconservatives, Lewis Libby
was perfectly suited to carry their message: In 1992, as a senior Pentagon official,
he coauthored a secret military blueprint asserting that the United States must ''act
independently when collective action cannot be orchestrated" to protect its interests
by force. The draft document was never approved, but had a key word -- ''preempt" --
that became synonymous with a more aggressive, unilateral U.S. foreign policy.

A decade later, as chief of staff and Vice President Dick Cheney's national security
adviser, Lewis Libby persuaded Bush and Cheney, his boss, to adopt a strategy of
preemptive war in Iraq, arguing inside the White House on behalf of like-minded
allies such as former deputy secretary of defense JEW Paul D. Wolfowitz,
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/wolfowitz/wolfowitz.php) former undersecretary of
defense JEW Douglas J. Feith (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/feith/feith.php),
and former undersecretary of state John Bolton
(http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/bolton/bolton.php).

JEW Douglas Feith has left government service, JEW Wolfowitz is now head of the JEW
World Bank (http://www.jewwatch.com), and John Bolton is the U.S. ambassador to the
United Nations.

Unlike previous vice presidential aides, JEW Libby participated in the highest White
House war councils, granted access usually reserved only for the president, vice
president, Cabinet secretaries, and the national security adviser. White House aides
and former government officials say the powerful team of advisers he assembled around
Cheney in early 2001 at times eclipsed the influence of the National Security Council
(NSC), the primary policy-making body. Libby also played a critical role in crafting
the administration's sales pitch justifying the invasion of Iraq to remove its
suspected weapons programs, including acting as a source for reporters.

JEW Frank Gaffney (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/ind/gaffney/gaffney.php), a former
assistant secretary of defense in the Reagan administration who has known JEW Libby
for years, predicted yesterday that opponents of the war and U.S. foreign policy
critics will use Libby's legal jeopardy to put the neoconservatives in the Bush
administration under a harsh spotlight.

''By all accounts, Libby was one of a very small number of advisers included in the
meetings. Does that make him the bogeyman, the fall guy, the critical individual in
how the war has been decided?" he asked. ''Not necessarily". But opponents ''will
seize upon this just the same", he said.

JEW Libby is considered a charter member of the neoconservative movement, a
collection of current and former government officials and foreign policy
intellectuals -- some say idealists -- who believe that America's best defense is a
muscular, military-based foreign policy used to spread democratic ideals, by force
and without international allies if necessary.

As a Yale undergraduate in the early 1970s, JEW Libby first became a protege of JEW
Wolfowitz, then a Yale professor who is now considered the dean of the
neoconservatives and the top architect of the Iraq war. He then followed Wolfowitz to
Washington, first in the State Department during the Reagan years and later at the
Pentagon during the presidency of George H. W. Bush, when Cheney was defense
secretary.

Throughout the 1990s JEW Libby -- along with JEW Wolfowitz, JEW Feith, Cheney,
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and a slew of other leading defense and foreign
policy officials -- clamored to finish the job they failed to complete in the 1991
Persian Gulf War: removing Saddam Hussein as the first step to installing
Western-style democracy throughout the Middle East.

In the late 1990s, JEW Libby was among those associated with the Project for a New
American Century or PNAC (http://rightweb.irc-online.org/org/pnac.php), a Jew think
tank that publicly urged President Clinton to use military force to remove Saddam
from power.

When JEW Wolfowitz became Rumsfeld's top deputy at the Pentagon in early 2001, Cheney
asked JEW Libby to be his right-hand man in the White House.

''If you go back to the early days immediately after the result of the 2000 election
was ratified, you see an extremely experienced team with a certain set of views",
said Jonathan Clarke (http://www.cato.org/people/clarke.html), a senior fellow at the
CATO Institute and coauthor of ''America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global
Order" (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0521838347), a history of the
neoconservative movement. ''You had a group of people with very substantial
experience in government and had worked together before and had really deep networks
around Washington. It was an unusual and Libby was the pivot".

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