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The media can impose a blackout, but the speaker says “the truth eventually will come to light.” They argue that many people know what is being done is wrong and illegal, that they were lied to, and that they “have to stop lying to ourselves.” They state their “only obligation” is to end the occupation, bring the troops home “as IVAW calls for,” take care of them when they return, and pay reparations to the Iraqi people. They argue the first step is ending the occupation, getting the troops away from the Iraqi people, who they say “inevitably pay the highest price” for continued occupation.
Oded Yannan is identified as an Israeli scholar who put forward the paper “A Strategy for Israel” in the 1980s. The paper is described as a plan to divide the Arab world and Iran “into smaller states,” because smaller states are said to be weaker and “easier to dominate and control.” The goal is described as “divide and conquer,” where pitting people against each other diverts attention so an empire power can take resources and subjugate populations, leading to colonialism.
The transcript then connects this to later proposals said to parallel the “spirit” of Yannan’s strategy. It describes “A Clean Break” as written by Richard Pearl, Douglas Feith, and David Wurmser, who the speaker says had high-ranking positions in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government in 1996. The “Clean Break” paper is described as calling for three major objectives in 1996: cutting off peace talks with Yasser Arafat, launching military assaults on the occupied territories of Palestine, and deposing Saddam Hussein. The transcript claims that the first two objectives “ended up happening.”
In 2002, the speaker says Pearl, Feith, and Wurmser were high-ranking members of the Bush administration. Richard Perle is described as head of the Defense Policy Board, and the speaker says “a third of its members had ties” to companies that received billions of dollars in contracts when the war decision was made, calling it a conflict of interest. The transcript also says Perle was a “big cheerleader for attacking Iraq.”
The speaker frames questions about loyalty and who benefits, asking whether sending troops, including the National Guard, eight thousand miles away serves American national security or instead defends “someone a little bit closer in that neighborhood in the Gulf.” They cite Hurricane Katrina in 2005, stating 6,800 Louisiana and Mississippi National Guard members were in Iraq, and that they asked Michael Chertoff why they weren’t brought home. The transcript says administration members replied they would only bring them home if it were an emergency.
The transcript also states Douglas Feith resigned from a Pentagon position, was investigated by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the FBI, and that “top secret” U.S. information on Iran’s nuclear program was leaked to the Israeli government through his office. It adds that there were issues about ties to AIPAC.
Politically, the speaker cites Philip Zelikow, named nine-eleven commissioner, saying at the University of Virginia in September 2002: “Why would Iraq make nuclear weapons and attack us with nuclear weapons?… the real reason is… it’s to protect Israel.” The transcript then returns to claims that after September 11th, the country was pressured by fear, that Americans were lied to about Saddam Hussein and nuclear weapons within “forty five minutes,” and that there were worldwide demonstrations against the invasion.