Most of the recommendations the Iraq Study Group (ISG) have come up with are the same that Islamists, Baathists and anti-Americans were calling for: leave Iraq; consult those Arab and Muslim states who have openly been accusing the U.S. of invading Iraq for the sole objective of controlling the region’s oil resources and empowering the state of Israel; engage Iran and Syria, the two fascist states of the region who have left no stone unturned in trying to undermine the U.S. interests; solve the Arab-Israeli dispute by abandoning Israel in favor of Palestinians who are committed to the destruction of the Jewish state; and bring back in power the same people in Iraq who are basically responsible for the chaos there.

The Iraq Study Group has concluded that the United States should engage adversaries Iran and Syria without preconditions, because those nations have influence in Iraq and share some of the same goals as the United States there. It recommends that the United States should begin a renewed quest for peace between Israel and the Palestinians. The panel also says the United States should lead a regional effort to address Iraq and other festering Mideast problems simultaneously. The problem, however, is that all of these recommendations are against the U.S. security interests.

In recommending a sure recipe for our defeat in this war on Islamist fascism, the panel chaired by two Washington elders, former Secretary of State James A. Baker III and former Rep. Lee Hamilton, D-Ind., ignored a very vital fact that the war on Islamist terror is basically a war of the wills, and the U.S. cannot seek help from Iran and Syria without first conceding that the Americans have lost their will to defeat Islamist terrorism. The ISG has missed the basic premise of invading Iraq – we invaded Iraq to secure our freedoms and nothing else. And that the ISG recommendations, if implemented, will go a long way in weakening the United States of America as a bulwark of freedoms.

The report has ignored history in asserting that “The United States will not be able to achieve its goals in the Middle East unless the United States deals directly with the Arab-Israeli conflict.” The rampant ignorance and lack of freedoms in the Muslim lands, wide-spread hatred of non-Muslims and the Islamist terrorism that encourages homicide bombings in the Middle East has nothing to do with Arab-Israel conflict. It is a product of the centuries-old Islamist education system. The Wahhabi - Saudi terrorists who used our civilian aircrafts as missiles to bring down our symbols of progress and prosperity had no connection with Israel. They were the product of Islamist fascist indoctrination.

The rise of Mullahs in Iran, the development of the Taliban phenomenon in Afghanistan, the perpetuation of dictatorial regimes in the Muslim world, evolution of a closed mind and the sectarian wars in Pakistan, Sudan, Iraq and other parts of the Muslim world are not caused by Arab-Israeli conflict but have been a direct result of following an Arab Bedouin ideology. It is Islamism that is threatening the very foundations of our civilized existence, not Israel.

The chaos that remains the hallmark of the Muslim societies has no connection with Israel. When Sunnis kill Shiites, when the Arab Muslims massacre, rape and plunder African Muslims in Darfur, when Christians are murdered in Nigeria, when women are treated as chattel in Iran and Saudi Arabia and when basic human rights are denied in the Muslim world, it is not because of the Arab-Israeli conflict. It is because of a medieval dark mind that has been kept alive by Mullahs with the help of a corrupted version of Islam.

The truth is that the United States of America will not be able to achieve its goals in the Middle East so long as there are “thinking heads” like Mr. Baker and Mr. Hamilton, who refuse to see the realities on the ground and insist on pursuing the policies of appeasement of wrongdoers.

The report has already done a lot of damage to the cause of justice and fair play. It has vindicated the likes of Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the eyes of Islamists who have always been trying to convince the Muslim world that this war on terror is in fact a war against their faith – Islam. A Saudi Arab columnist was so encouraged by the recommendations that he wrote, “You (U.S.) cannot ride over to people’s backyard promising loud and clear: I’m going to change your world forever. Iraq first, Syria and Iran next, then the rest of the Arab world, and expect all to wait in the slaughter line peacefully. You cannot let yourself be led by Zionists, spilling rivers of blood, yours included, to make the world a better place for Israel, and expect Arabs and Muslims to be cooperative. You cannot divide a united nation, taking sides, and letting one party prevail over the other, getting away with theft and murder, then blame the oppressed losers for fighting back. [ref 1]

The Saudi Arabian columnist had no problem in agreeing with the ISG recommendations and he wrote, “Since America, with the powerful Israeli lobby in control of its Mideast policies, cannot play the honest broker, the way out is what the Baker-Hamilton report advised: An international conference that includes every stake holder in the region plus Russians, Chinese, Japanese, Koreans, Europeans and the United Nations. The same goes for Iraq and Iran — the multinational, multilateral approach is the one and only way to go.”

The report confirms the view that the Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Egypt and Jordan have won in their campaign to force the U.S. to accept defeat in Iraq. They have also succeeded in making the old wise-men of the Hill to acknowledge the “importance and vitality” of including Iran and Syria in any process that will be needed to calm down Iraq. And the most important victory that these anti-Semites have scored is in forcing the thinking heads on the panel to declare that the U.S. cannot hope to gain any ground in the Middle East or for that matter anywhere in the world without destroying the Jewish state by conceding to the Arabs everything that they have been demanding – A Palestinian state that will stretch from River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea.

Here is how they accomplished their mission of overwhelming the “Great Satan” and misguiding the Americans to believe that the conditions in Iraq are deteriorating and nothing can be done until the U.S. involves itself in the Arab- Israel conflict.

1. Saudi Arabia, from the very first day has backed and fed the Sunni insurgency on the one hand and kept the pressure on the U.S. to include the Baathists – the only sector of Iraqi population that is still loyal to Saddam Hussein and has a genuine reason to hate the U.S. for toppling their leader and benefactor – in any future political arrangement in Iraq.

Concerned about the rising tide of democracy, the Saudi royal family has been doing everything to derail the process of democratization in Iraq; it chose to look the other way while the Saudis are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles.

Several truck drivers interviewed by The Associated Press described carrying boxes of cash from Saudi Arabia into Iraq. Money they said was headed for insurgents. Two high-ranking Iraqi officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the issue's sensitivity, told the AP most of the Saudi money comes from private donations, called zakat (charity), collected for Islamic causes. Some Saudis appear to know the money is headed to Iraq's insurgents, but others merely give it to clerics who channel it to anti-coalition forces, the officials said.

According to the Iraqi officials, some funding goes to Iraq's Sunni Arab political leadership, who then disburse it. Other money, they said, is funneled directly to insurgents. The distribution network includes Iraqi truck and bus drivers. Several drivers interviewed by the AP in Middle East capitals said Saudis have been using religious events, like the hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and a smaller pilgrimage, as cover for illicit money transfers. Some money, they said, is carried into Iraq on buses with returning pilgrims. "They sent boxes full of dollars and asked me to deliver them to certain addresses in Iraq," said one driver, who gave his name only as Hussein, out of fear of reprisal. "I know it is being sent to the resistance, and if I don't take it with me, they will kill me." He was told what was in the boxes, he said, to ensure he hid the money from authorities at the border. [Ref 2]

2. Iran from the beginning used its proxies in Iraq to keep the fires of sectarianism burning.

It is a common knowledge that Iraq occupies a very important place in the Iranian strategy of establishing itself as a dominant regional power. Removal of Saddam Hussein and the chaos that followed provided a God-given opportunity to Tehran to deepen its imprint on the political and social fabric of Iraq. At the time of Saddam Hussein’s removal Iran already had intelligence-gathering networks in place and organizations to funnel money and guns to Shi'ite militant groups which it immediately upgraded and has since been using to invest millions of dollars to have influence in the Iraqi government and civilian sectors.

Iran’s investment is already showing its results. In parts of southern Iraq, fundamentalist Shi'ite militias have imposed restrictions on the daily lives of Iraqis, banning alcohol and curbing the rights of women. Iraq's Shi'ite leaders have tried to forge a strategic alliance with Tehran, even seeking to have Iranians recognized as a minority group under Iraq's proposed constitution. "We have to think anything we tell or share with the Iraqi government ends up in Tehran," says a Western diplomat.

The official says the U.S. believes that Iran has brokered a partnership between Iraqi Shi'ite militants and Hezbollah and facilitated the import of sophisticated weapons that are killing and wounding U.S. and British troops. According to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, “It is true that weapons clearly, unambiguously, from Iran have been found in Iraq." http://www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1093747,00.html

3. Syria right from the outset has provided bases to finance and supply the insurgency in Iraq.

According to knowledgeable quarters, Baathists have found a safe heaven in Syria and are operating from there, providing the much needed financial and logistical support to the insurgents in Iraq. Syrian behavior, according to Rumsfeld, would help determine the future of U.S. deployment in Iraq. Brig. Gen. Douglas Raaberg, deputy director of operations for U.S. Central Command, told a briefing in Qatar on Feb. 3, 2005 that Syria was continuing to allow insurgents to enter Iraq. "We clearly see former regime elements and insurgents from Syria coming to Iraq." Raaberg said. "The desert is vast. They don't just travel by the asphalt road."

4. Egypt and Jordan had their own reasons to support the Sunni insurgency in Iraq. They couldn’t care less for the U.S. interests. Whereas it is in the U.S. interest that a viable democratic system is established in Iraq, Cairo and Amman do not find it profitable. Because of the historical hatred for Shiites they still want the Sunni minority to dominate there – a sure recipe for continuing chaos in the region.

Ignoring the greater good of the region, they continued to pressure Washington to accommodate and rehabilitate the pro-Saddam Sunnis in any future political arrangement in Baghdad. Their acts assured the anti-American Sunnis that they will not be left alone and in the worst case scenario, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan will not hesitate from intervening militarily in Iraq to prevent Shiites from acquiring an absolute control. There support for Sunni insurgents has been a very critical factor in sustaining the insurgency and creating difficulties for the U.S. in the region.

It is clear that in order to achieve their goals, all these Arab players did everything to prevent peace and stability from returning to the land of the two rivers, making it more than obvious that there is a concerted effort on the part of some quarters to create an environment in the U.S. in which it will become difficult for the U.S. to continue its support for Israel in its existential struggle against the Islamist fascist who now control every facet of the Middle Eastern socio-political landscape. If they succeed it will be a very sad day for the U.S., as the present war on Islamist terror is a war to secure the U.S.A., and any effort to weaken the Jewish state is basically a move to weaken the U.S.A. itself.

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