So? Merely because he said it doesn't make him intelligent
To be appointed such a director means he has been given the intelligence seal of approval.
This is the stupidest thing I've read in ages. It completely fails to deal with the rise of Iran and its increase in power over essentially vassal states. What that dumb plan fails to realize is that without Iraq there holding down Iran, Iran's power grows substantially.
Call it what you like. But that's been the plan all along. There can be no denying that.
I do not believe that Mossad is stupid and thus wouldn't have foreseen this. Furthermore, Iraq after Desert Storm was a joke of a state. Its military was in shambles, economy in ruins and Saddam was of no threat to anyone but his own people.
You expect me to buy a theory that requires Mossad to be full of idiots?
Mossad is a part of Israel's intelligence service. Here's what General Shlomo Brom, a former senior Israeli military intelligence officer and a brigadier general in the Israel army reserves, and a senior researcher at a major Israeli think tank, reported to the Israeli government: that Israel was a ‘full partner’ in American and British intelligence failures that described Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. The Israelis actually had a secret unit attached directly to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s office which fed disinfo directly to Feith’s Office of Special Plans. Israeli intelligence agencies, he said, "badly overestimated the Iraqi threat to Israel and reinforced the American and British belief that the weapons [of mass destruction] existed."
- L. King, "Ex-General Says Israel Inflated Iraqi Threat," Los Angeles Times, Dec. 5, 2003
Also:
..."the US depends heavily on Mossad, Israeli intelligence, for assessments of threats in the Middle East. As Benny Morris has shown in Israel’s Secret Wars, however, Mossad can be stupid or self-interested just like any other organization. UPI reported on June 28, 2002: “Israel also has “clear indications” that Iraq resumed efforts to produce fissile materials, Mossad leader Ephraim Halevy said while addressing a closed session of the council Wednesday in Brussels. The Israeli Yediot Aharonot newspaper published the full text of the speech Friday.” "
Us Intelligence Failures On Iraq Wmd | Informed Comment
And:
Norman Podhoretz is a prominent Jewish writer and an ardent supporter of Israel and was for years editor of Commentary, the influential Zionist monthly. In the Sept. 2002 issue he wrote:
"The regimes that richly deserve to be overthrown and replaced are not confined to the three singled-out members of the axis of evil [Iraq, Iran, North Korea]. At a minimum, the axis should extend to Syria and Lebanon and Libya, as well as ‘friends' of America like the Saudi royal family and Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, along with the Palestinian Authority, whether headed by Arafat or one of his henchmen."
And:
Senator Ernest Hollings wrote in the Charleston daily Post and Courier, May 6, 2004: "With Iraq no threat, why invade a sovereign country? The answer: President Bush's policy to secure Israel. Led by [Paul] Wolfowitz, Richard Perle and Charles Krauthammer, for years there had been a domino school of thought that the way to guarantee Israel's security is to spread democracy in the area."
"That is not a conspiracy. That is the policy. I didn't like to keep it a secret, maybe; but I can tell you now, I will challenge any one of the other 99 Senators to tell us why we are in Iraq, other than what this policy is here. It is an adopted policy, a domino theory of The [Zionist] Project For The New American Century. Everybody knows it [is] because we want to secure our friend, Israe l... Let's realize we are in real trouble. Saudi Arabia is in trouble. Israel is in trouble. The United States is in trouble. I am going to state what I believe to be the fact. In fact, I believe it very strongly. They just are whistling by on account of the pressures that we get politically. Nobody is willing to stand up and say what is going on."
- Ernest F. Hollings, Congressional Record - Senate, May 20, 2004, pages S5921-S5925.
You should see Stephen J. Sniegoski’s informative article
The Israeli origins of Bush II's war:
The Last Ditch -- THE ISRAELI ORIGINS OF BUSH II'S WAR: A CLOSER LOOK by Stephen J. Sniegoski
"Oded Yinon's "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980s," ... appeared in the World Zionist Organization's periodical Kivunim (Directions) in February 1982. Yinon had been attached to the Foreign Ministry, and his article undoubtedly reflected high-level thinking in the Israeli military and intelligence establishment. According to Peleg, "The Yinon article was an authentic mirror of the thinking mode of the Israeli Right at the height of Begin's rule; it reflected a sense of unlimited and unrestrained power.... There can be no question that the hard-core Neo-Revisionist camp as a whole subscribed ... to ideas similar to those of Yinon."