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Confinned Retired Mili tary Analysts:Colonel Ca rl Kenneth Allard (USA, Retired)Lieutenant General Frank (Ted) B. Campbell(USAF, Retired)Lieutenant Colonel Bill Cowan (USMC, Retired)MI. Jed BabbinMajorDana R. Dillon (USA,h i r ed )Colonel John Garrcti (USMC, Retired)Command Sereeant Maior StevenGreer N SA . Retired)Admiral avid^. Jeremiah (USN, ~ e ti re d )Lieutenant Colonel Robert L Maginnis (USA , Retired)Colonel Jeff McCausland, (USA, Retm d)Major F Andy Messing. Ji. (USAR.Mired)Caplain Chuck Nash (USN, Retired)Gcnnal William L Nasb IUSA. Retired!Wayne Simmons

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From: ICIVASD-PAsuit Ylesdame 14 20056:43 AMTo:Subject &cW CASE-PAEmbin (AmericanSpectator)TheAmerican SpectatorNot Missing: MovedBy Jed BabbinPublished 6/13/2005 12:07:43 AMFor those of us who are occasional argets of the Soros-funded propaganda machineit's encouraging to discover a useful purpose that they can serve. The hyperlibmachinery, and the reactions t commands, are as accurate a gauge as I can find tomeasure the import of the key points of the liberal dogma. As demonstrated by thereaction they manufactured to some comments I made on MSNBC last week, thevolume of hate mail the organized hyperlibs generate is directly proportional o theimportance they assign to an issue and the weakness of their position.At issue was the so-called "Downing Street memo," a top-secret Brit documentmemorializing a meeting in July 2002. The document says that the decision to takemilitary action against Sadaam had already been made two months before we took thcase of iraa to the U.N. Secuntv Council. It is as sianificant historicallv as Nick Nolte'sDUI record,and ar less accurate. After Ron ~ e & n pressed me to admit our casusbe lli was a tissue of lies. I old him that the fact we haven't found Saddam's WMDproved precisely nothing. That's so, I aid, because while we fiddled and diddled in thU.N. for six months before military action began, Saddam almost certainly moved allhis WMD and scrubbed away all the evidence of it.When Reagan pressed me further, contending that none o f the commissionsinvestigating he m issing WMD said they had been moved, I cited the report of CharleDuelfer's iraq Survey Group, which spent many months searching for WMD in Iraq.That report, I said, showed the substantial body of evidence that a lot of people,money, and materials, possibly including WMD, were smuggled out o f iraq in themonths before March 2003. The destination of these cargoes was Syria. Ihad touchea nerve: by the time I got home, the "Media Matters for America" blog had accused mof lying, and dozens of nearly identical e-mails (on the intellectual plane of, "liar, liar,pants on fire") were pouring in. Iquickly stopped reading them and just hit "delete"when I saw them.Ihadn't merely touched a hyperlib nerve. I had challenged the basis for the hyperiibs'existence: to discredit George Bush and the war at any cost. But the problem, for

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them, is that Ihad stuck to the facts. Which are very uncomfortable hings, if you'reSoros or Howard Dean. Or any of their M ichael Mooron drones. Having demonstratethat Ic an drive them into a fit of apoplectic rage with a 30-second comment ontelevision, the scientific method requires a controlled, repeatable experiment to seehow many can be driven to nervous breakdowns with a more elaborate exposition ofthe facts. In thein terest of science, let us proceed.WHAT ISAID ON MSNBC was, of course, just what the Duelfefs ISG report said, anwhat Duelfer has said personally and repeatedly in Congressional estimony. You canlook it up. On November 17,2004,Duelfer old the House International RelationsCommittee that a lot was moved bySaddam's people from Iraq nto Syria and no oneknows whether or not the WMD were among the shipments to Syria: "Icant confirmanything one way or the other. What we do know is that a lot of stuff was crossing theborder before the war. Trucks, but you don? knowwhat was in them. So thafs -- youknow, Iwould like to be able to state definitively one way or the other an answer tothat. I'm not sure I'm going to be able to." On October6, 2004, Duelfer told theSenatArmed Services Committee, "...But what I an tell you that I elieve we know is a lot omaterials eft Iraq and went to Syria. Therewas certainly a lot of traffic across theborder points. We've got a lot of data to support that, including people discussing it.But whether in fact in any of these trucks therewas WMD-related materials, Icannotsay."Duelfer's report also said that Saddam's Iraq i Intelligence Service "operated a series laboratories n the Baghdad area" (up to five in that area alone) and that one of them,a clandestine lab in the Baghdad Central Public Health Laboratory, was "emptied of aequipment and documents in December 2002,"and that other labs were also found inthe scrubbed-clean-of-evidencecondition.The only reasonable conclusion anyone can draw from the Duelfer report- even if weignore the other m ountains of evidenceabout Saddam's WMD - s that Saddam hadWMD and in the six monthswe spent trying to convince Kofi, Dominique, and theirpals to act, Saddam's regime moved the WMD, cleaned out the evidence, and did thebest to conceal what they had done. That they did so with the active participation ofAssad's Syria is also terribly clear.It is a pity that the embittered hypeilibs cant accept facts or use them to assemble thelogical, and inevitable, conclusionstowhich they lead. When any o f them -Soros,Moore, Dean, Franken, or any o f them - all a conservativea liar, it must create arebuttable presumption that it is the lib who is falsifying. Not tha t they care.JedBabbin, a contributing editor of TheAmerican Spectator, was a deputyundersecretary of defense in the first Bush administration, and now often appears astalking warhead on MSNBC.

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I love it when we get the ibs enraged. Like I did last week onMessNBC. Saddam'sWMD ere there,untilthey were moved and the places scrubbed clean of evidence. We haven't looked in the right places Yet.The American Snectator

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Secretary Donald H. umsfeldM e e t i u with Military Defense A na ln tsT hu rsd ay , ~ n n e6,2005 -Chairman o f the Jo in t Chiefs of Staff Conferetce ~ o o m m .he PentagonAGENDA

11:45 a.m. Welcome and Introduction

. eputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Ms. Allison Barber (sched11:46 a.m. Update on GWOTIIraq OperationsPrincipalDeputyAssistant Secretary for International SecurityAffairs Peter Floiy(scheduled)12:15 p.m. Update on Global Operations

Chairman of the Jo int Chiefs of StaffGeneral Richard B. Myers (not scheduled)1 2 4 5 p.m. Update on DthinceOperations

Acting Deputy Secretary of DefenseGordon England (tentatively scheduled)1:15 p.m. Discussion and Questions with Secretary of Defense Donald H.R nm fe ld (schedule

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MEMORANDUMRetired Military AnalystsAllison BarberDeputy Assistant Secre tary of Defense for Internal Comm unicationand Public LiaisonJune 9.2005Meetingwith Secretary Donald Rumsfeld

Secretary Donald Rumsfeld invites you to attend a meeting Thursdav.June 16,2605, n his private conferencmom at the Pentagon.The briefing with the Secretary and other senior DoD officials will start promptly at 11:45am and is expecteto conclude at 1145 p.m. Invited speakers include Douglas Feith, Under S ecreta ry of Defense for Policy,Gordon England, Acting Deputy Sec retary of Defense, and General Richard B. Myers. Chairman, Joint Chiefsof Staff.Consistent with Pentagon security procedures, it will be necessary for you to arrive at the Pentagon by 11:15a.m. on June 16" w ith two forms of1.D.. one with a picture.Instructionsconcerning transportation logistics will be provided as soon as we hear back from you regardingyour participation.please RS.V~ . her aWe hope you arc able to participate.

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From:Sent:To: :[i$%ZmRuff,Eric,SES, OASO-PASubject: FW: Fox News Sundaycan we offer upBEHRf l o r wood? or the sgL malrout n seaUk71 let's discuss asap p le a se ~ th a n ks .~ O rig ln a Message-:IICdr, 0-PASenh Friday, June 10,2005 9 5 7 AMTo' CIV, OASD-PAci-av, m-mumSubject Fox News Sunday

Can you recommend any milltary analysts whom we could recommend and provide nformation o?God b lm ,-ieutenantCommander, US. NavyWestern Hemisphere Press OfficerOffice of theAssistantSKretaiy of defense PublicAffairs)~ek- Fax: f @ @E-mail: -owww.dod.mIl- original Message-From: Waxman, Matthew. CIV. OSO-FUUCYSent! mursday; June 09,2005 5 3 8 PMTo:-V m m u m , m r , WDPASubject: fw: Fox NewsSunday GuidanceCan you guys respond? Thanks.mew--Original Message--FIUIX -~MSene Thursday, June 09,2005 11:32 AMTo: Matthew.waxmanaflIHRHsubject:Fox ~ e w sunday Guidance

Mr.Waxman:Professor Wedgewood at Johns Hopkins UniversitySchool of Advanced InternationalStudies suggested Icontactyouabout a segmentwe're putting together for this weekend's broadcast. Iwork on Chris Wallace's program -Fox NewsSunday. L a s t w k we interviewedWMam Schuk, theExecinheD m f Amnesty InternationalUSA That InteN'tagarnereda fair amount of attention owards the weakness of Al's accusations.As calls for GTMO's closure continue, we're interested n fdlowng up on ast week's interviewwith a fair and balanceddimcussion on the U.Ss detainee policiesm Guantanamo Bay and other facilities. We're wondering if you couldrecommend anyone who works with the Pentagon on detainee Issues,or a former member of the militarywho could

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Anyguidanceyou au ld offerwouldbemost appreciated. I can be reachedaThank you inadvance.Rkk DibllaFox News Sundayw

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Fmm:smTo:cc:subfct: . . ,- .- - - -FW TASgood morningone of our militaryanalysts will be doing radio media this evening. he is looking or the nameof tt?e100acre Iraqi (acuity discovered n marchTO one of the first bunkers discovered d ~ gnder theground that was stripped of ad eqJipment. (the article he wrote which mentions this is linked WOWhe also wants talking points on the duelfer report- specifically where dueifer refers to things beingshipped to syria.any help?

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Here's what Iwrote 3-25-03,so the facilitywould havebeen discovered the prior week. Profuse thanksfor your help. Best, Jed.The Amencan SpectatorJed Babbm (home office)(home fax)(mobile)

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Cc:Ruff, Eric, SES,OASD-PA; &tman, Bryan, SES, OASD-PA;Lawrence, Dallas, OASD-PA;- L tcOASD-PASubject: FW: Downingst memogentlemens there someone one of our military analysts can spew to this morning about the article pastedbecW he will be on msnbc tooay and wants the latest thannsl

May 01,2005The secret Downing Street memohn~.//imaqes,thetimes.w.uk/imaaes/trans.aifSECRET AND STRICTLY PERSONAL - UK EYES ONLYDAVID MANNINGFrom: Matthew RycroftDate: 23 JU I ~002S 195 102cc Defence Secretary. Foreign Secretary, Attorney-General S r Richard Wilson, John Scanett.Francis Richards CDS. C. Jonathan Powel. Salty Morgan. Alasmir CampbelIRAQ: PRIME MINISTER'S MEETING, 23 JULYCopy addressees and you met the Prime Minister on 23 July to discuss IraqThis record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should bemade. I t should be shown onto those with a genuine need to know Its contents.John Scarten summarised the intelligence and latest JIC assessment. Saddam's regime was tough

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and based on extreme fear. The only way toOverthrow it was likely to bebymassive military actionSaddam was worried and expected an attack, probablybyair and land,but he was not convincedthat it would be immediate or overwhelming. His regimeexpected theirneighboursto line up with thUS. Saddam knew that regular army moralewas poor. Real support for Saddam among the publicwas probably narrowly based.C rewrted on his recent talks in Washinaton. Therewas a Demtible shift in attitude. Military actiowasnow seen as inevitable. Bushwanted to run& saddam, through military action, ustified by thconjunction of terrorismand WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policyThe NSC had no patiencewith the UN route. and noenthusiasm or ~ublishinomaterial on the I001regime's record. Therewas littlediscussion In Washington of the aftermath after military action.CDS said that military planners would briefCENTCOMon 1-2 August, Rumsfeld on 3 August andBush on4 August.Thetwo broadUS optionswere:(a) Generated Start. A slow build-up of 250,000 US troops, a short (72 hour) air campaign, then amove up to Baghdad from the south. Lead time of QO days (30 days preparation plus60 daysdeployment o Kuwait).(b) Running Start. Use orces already in theatre (3x 6,000), continuous air campaign, initiatedby anIraqicaws belli. Total lead time of 60 dayswith theair campaign beginning eveneariier.Ahazardous option.The US saw the UK (and Kuwait)as essential,with basing in DiegoGarcia andCyprus critical fixeither option. Turkey and other Gulf stateswere also important, but lessvital. The three main optionfor UK involvementwere:(i) Basing in DiegoGarcia and Cyprus, plus three SF squadrons.

--original MessageFrom: ~ed&lcbioeC[ro'lto.Serif Fi'oat. lune 03.2005 401 PMTO . .Subiect: cownng w. memoThe ecretDownineStreetmemo - SundavTimes- Times OnlineWhos the residentexpert on this? Best,Jcd.Jed Bibbin

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- .Ug lna l Message-FmIm-mt:Tuesday.Mw 31. ZOOS 9:17 AMSubject;~oday'specko or: The EU Follies1 won't apologize for the fact that my schadenfreude at the misfortunes of France knows no bounds. I love itwhen they do to themselveswhat they usually do to us.The American SpectatorJed Bibbin

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From: Paul Vallely IpaulvflllelyiailRRlHISent; Saturday.May 28.2005 9:20 AMTo: Paul E VallelySUMMU Egyptian Reforms

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m e onmiuenaof this [ d m 1 s manliesth the m y i ate] milmil h the MMJeEast andwith our iflitiowith the US. Despite the strategic chotat negating these wo tesues~ u the country has openly adopted or the past thirty yeathere Is still a trend In the country that adheresto viewsof the past.

Yeswe are [theUS.%]allies, and thu does not constitutea betrayal of any principle.Ttris Is anaillance aimedat reshapingthentireregionon the basis of Freedomand equaUty. andh ordermchangeand awoken societiesthat deservea betterlife. Whatwrongwithpresentingthis-toudandclear?Yes,mearefttieus's]affies andthisalllancegrowswitheverycrisislnregion. This #lance isbasedon prindpteswhich pemnitnose to interferewith& affairs. It isour policy and ow reformalonthat leadsusm Jointhepolicy linesof our strongestally -politically, economicany, and socially -for the sake of a society thatfree Inevw senseof theword.T n addition, we hdeed constitute a major factorh theMiddleEastpeace [process]. Peace [h the Middle East] w l l never beattainedwithout Egypt playing an activerote asmediatorandas an actor helpingtheotheractor* reacha save haven."

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From: PaulV a W paulvalSent; Saturday, May 2 8 ,210: Paul EValtolvIran

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Iran Hard-Liners Act to Require NukeTechnologySaiurtay. May 28.2005

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BACKGROUND

WTO OKs Iran to Begin Membership Talks

U.K. Official: ran Reassures on Nukes

Iran OKs Two Reformists Candidates

Iran Leader: Include Reformers i n Elections

Most Reformists Reiected From Iran Election

TEHRAN, lran- h d s hd41ne Guadlan Council on Saturday appvved a law that pu+n pmssureon tgovernmenttodevelopnuclear echnology thatcould beneed to buildatomkweapon*, state run radio reportePatilment had passed he bill on May 15 and sent ilto the GuardianCounc.1 or approval. The council mustvetall billsbefore they become law.The passingof the law does notforce the governnwit to resumeuranium enrichment lmmediatolybut encourages it topursue nuclear ga ls in spite of internationalpressureon Tehran over Its nuclear program.The law calls on the government to develop a nuclear fuel cycle,whichwould Include resuming the processof enrichinguranium- prospec4 mat has drawn c ~ t m mm the U n W SWes acdEumw (& tamuse the lechnoiogycould beused indevelopingatomic weapons.Iran suspended enrichment last November under Internationalpressure edby the United States. Iranmaintains sprogram is peaceful and only aimed at generating electricityThe legislation was viewed as strengthening thegovernment'shand in negotiationswith European Union representativeallowing t to demonstrate domestic pressure o pursue its nudearprogram as talks have deadlocked.

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France, Britainand Germany, actingon bhaHo ~ 5-nalion European Union,want Tehran to abandon Itsenrichmenactivitiesn exchange tor economic aid, technicalsupportand backingfor Iran'sefforts o JointheWorld TradeOrganbUon (The European Union has threatened to take Iran to the U.N. Security Councilfor possible sanctions If it againstartsuraniumreprocessing. Tehran says it wont give up its treaty rights toenrichment butk prepared to offer guarantees thaitsnudear program won'tbe diverted to build weapons

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From:sent.To:Subject: RE: Helbthanks, kiddo.resp'y,bill

.. . .Subject: RE: HelloThanks for writing. Betw you and me, lips sealed please, the SecDef is going toaddress the group. It should bea good time. Iwill be watchin for ya. Be careful onthe bike and have fun. Next time you are in the building, just stop by and say hello.

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fl ^Bwas In the Pentagon ast week and almost called. then i hought, "naw. she has work to dot"will do lots of Fox this weekend, got them to buy Into a Rolling Thunder piece on Sunday. I'lbe down them on my bike, In my leathers and 'stuff', being Interviewed by Brian Wilson.should be REAL fun!

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hope all Is well with you too. you are one great gall

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Hey Bill:Just checking in to say hello. Haven'ttalked with you in a while. I hope this emailfinds you well and that everything is going good for you. Keep up the good fight. Lovthe commentary on Fox.

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Bedtimefor BasharBYMR&DhPublished 5/23/2005 12:07:25 AM

It is the gravest of mistakes to think of Iraq -or any other nation - n isolation. And it i s willfully ignorant toask when Iraais will be able to defeat the insurgency, when Americans will withdraw, or when the violence inIraq will abate. Would you measure the safety ofon e family's home without examiningthe neighborhood it s The security of every nauon depends on the act ions of Its neighbors, and Iraq sits in one ofthe world's worstneiuhborhoods. It can't be stable and democratic unless and until its neighbors - Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iranendtheir interference Uniess we abandon Iraq. Americans will continue to die as a direct result of thesenations' actions until they are compelled to behave.On that terrible morning of September 1 1,2001, there was no way to get out of W ashington. Sitting in my oftabout two blocks from the White House and seeing nothing more constructive o do such as run through asubway tunnel, i sat down at my com puter and wroteabout how we should respond to the most deadly attack our soil since Pearl Harbor. The article was published in the WashingtonTimes the follow ing day.The article made two poin ts. Firs t, that we couldn't allow ourselves o be weakened by empty rhetoric urging " ~mw r t iona leswnsc." Our resvonse to the 9-1 1 attacks had to be decisive. and to be so our counterattack hato be in to our strength and not the enemy's relative size or weakness. Second, that no matter who tenemy was. and no matter where he chose to seek refuge, we could allow him no sanct uw . We would have hto attack the a1 Oaeds stronffholdwherever it was. Had it not been Kabul but Damascus.Tehran. Beiiina.Pyongyangor ~ osc ow our& io n would have had to be the same If we had learned anything from Vietnam itwas that to allow sanctuary is to hand the means ofvic tory to the enemyPresident Bush took much this samewsition in his touzh speech to Congress a week later. Nations had tochoose, he said then, to be with us orwith the terroristsT~iicehen something has been lost. Syria has chosenbe with the terrorists, and we have done nothing decisive about the regime of Bashar Assad. We are paying tohigh a price - in the lives of our soldiers - for this to continue one moment longer.Commencing weeks before American forces slashed into Iraq in March 2003, our reconnaissance orces saw asteady flow of cars and trucks going into Syria along the Baghdad-Damascus highway. About ten days into thfiahtina. there was an intense ficht near the border citv of al-Oaim where ou r snecial forces took on a sizeable~ r i q iorce moving through al-Qaim into Syria he fi~rcenessoftheight the; - s intense as any other befoBaghdad fell - iold us that the Iraqis were moi ing som ething hey thought was of tremendous value Was 11money, weapons or people the Iraqis moved then? It matters not. What m atters is that Syria chose to providefirst a sanctuary for members of Saddam's regime and i ts assetsand then com prehensive suppon forthe Sunninsurgents who fight only 10 prevent Iraq from becoming stable and free. and kill as many Americans as they cin the process

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We know that themaioritv of the suicide bombers killine ~ e o p l en I m w m e from Saudi Arabia to Syria whethey are helped into Iraq. We know that money and weapons flow from Syria to the insurgents in IraqWe know sufficient details about where the nsurgents meet and train in Syria to arget thoseplaces for attack"Operation Matador," the week-long fight along theSyrian border thatended on May 14,disrupted theinsurgents' ability to cross nto Iraq. At the costof at least nineMarine ives, we stopped them but only for awhile.The President has too much on his mind. and his advisersaredivided. The CIAand the State Department winto thesmall amount of cooperationwe have beengetting from Syna, and insist that we can corn& them t o domore without t a k i i firm action. The Defense Dcoartmtnt is less tolerant. It w i t s to act. but apparently hasn'even been allowedioask he Iraqis for to mountin attack into Syria. Our failu re to take d-iveaction costs too much. The time has come to act.First, either Vice President Cheoey or the President himselfneeds to knock heads together, because no one elscan.CIA, State, and Defense have to be brought into lineand resolved to action. Then State should deliverafinal ultimatum to Assad. If he fails to end his regime's support for terrorism forthwith- nd hat means notonlv the I m i insurgents. but Ha bo lla h and all theothersthat have onerated from Damascus or decades- em&t be toldwe will end it for him. The Iraqi government should be consulted, but its reluctance- f it has an- to across-border attack must be dimelledaw lit dy ienoicd. As soon as ft is. sixcial opea do m forttsshoucross into Syriawvenly, to lead a wmbinedairand (roundattackagaiiul the en&Is and whatever Syrianassets ire supportingthem, rom Qaim to Damascus.Whatever it lakes, that is what we must do.Syria is the immediate problem regardingIraq. (Iran is no less immediate; but because of its nuclear program,not its present involvement in Iraq.) Saudi Arabia is a differentkind ofpmblem.The Saudis have, perhaps too late to save themselves,come o realizethedangers of terrorism.But because thSaudisanWahabis,and becausethe Wahabi version of Islam is insecure, violent, and hostile, they still don'ttake sufficient steps to stop the export of terroristsand errorism.We an't disregardthepower Saudi oil givesthem over our economy.But we can't beafraid of it either.Their insecurityis ou r handiest weapon.Our cadreof evilgeniusescan think of many ways tomotivate Saudi behavior, and we should he using them aFor exam ple, cautious people thai we are, he Pentagon should comm ission a secretstudy of howwemightintervene to restoreorder in the former Saudi Arabia aftersomemassive terrorist attack annihilatesthe Saudiroyals, taking some of the oil infrasiniciureup with them. When hat study is leaked (to Bob No& of co un e,not ibeNew York Times} how much m ore uneasy will rest the heads on which the Saudi crowns lie? Enough.perhaps, to make some greaxereffortagainsttho&Saudiswhose business it is to exhort and export t&?The Saudisare crude n their manipulatiohof us. We should compel them 0 wn clu de that Machiavelli was awimp.

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Classification: YNCLASSIFIEQCaveats:NONEThis is a great article, and all too true, I hink.

2 Monday, May 23,2005 4 2 3 PMTo; OVOASD-PA~ u ~ ~ o d a y spectator (BabMn)

Bedtime f o r BasharBy HYPERLINK ' r n a l l t o j l ~ b t oPubshedYWIVIOS 12:07.25 AHIt is the gravestof mistakes to think of Im -or anyother nation -in isolation.And It is wlllfullvignorant to ask when Iraqis will be able to defeat the ifisurgency, when Americans will withdraw,orWen the violence in Iraqwin abate. Would you measure the safetyof o m amily'shomewttioutexamining theneighborhood t's in?The security of everynation depends on the actionsof 'tsneighbors, and Iraa sits in one of the wcild'sw+.t neiahbortioods.It can'l be stable and democraticunless and until its.mighbors - Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran- end their interference Unlesswe

abandon Iraq. Americans win continuetodieas a direct result of these nations' actions until they arecompelled to behaveOn that tenihic morninnof SiKitemhiir 11.2001. therewas no wav to oat outof Washinolon. Sillinain my officeabouttwo blocksfrom the While Houseandseeing nothingmore constructik to do &has run through a subway tunnel. 1sat down at my computer and wrote about lmw we should responto the most deadly attack on oursol since PearlHarbor.The article was ~ubtshedn the Washinotorimes the foilowingday.The article madetwopoints. First, thatwe couldn'tallowourselvesto beweakenedby empty rhetor

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urging a "proportional response." Our response to the 9-11attacks had to be decisive, and to be soour counterattack had to be in nronortlon to our strenath and not the enemv's relative size orweakness Second, that no matte; who the enemy was, and no matter where he chose to seekrefuge we could allow him no sanctuary We would have had to attack the a1 Oaeaa strongholdwherever itwas. Had it not been Kabul but Damascus, Tehran. Beljing, Pyongyangor Moscowouraction would have had to be the same. I f we had learned anything from Vietnam itwas that to allowsanctuary s to hand the means of victory to the enemy.President Bush took much this same position In his tough speech to Congress a week ater. Nationhad to choose, he said then. to be with us or with the terrorists. Since then somathino has been losSyria has chosen to be with the terrorists, ana we have done nothing decisive about the regim eofBashar Assad We are paying too nigh a once - in the lues of our so~d iers or this to continue onemoment longer.Commencing weeks before American forces slashed into Iraq in March 2003. our reconnaissanceforces saw a steady flow of cars and trucks going i n n Syria along the Baghdad-Damascus highwayAbout ten davs lnto the fmhtina. there was an intense iaht near the border citv of al-Qaim where ous p e w forces took on a Sizeable Iraq force moving through al-Qaim into sy ria The fierceness of thfight there - as intense as any other before Bagndad fell - t o l d us that the Iraqis were movingsomething they thought was of tremendous value. Was It monev. weamns or people the lraaismoveo thin ? limatters not What matters s that Syna chose to'provide first asanctuary for memoeof Saodem's regime an0 in assets and men comprehenawe support for the Sunnl Insurgents whofight only to prevent Iraq from becoming staole and free. and k ill as many Americans as they can inthe promssWe know that the majority of the suicide bombers killing people in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia toSyria where they are helped to cross into Iraq. We know that money and weapons flow from Syria tothe insuraents in h a . We know sufficient details about where the insuroents meet and train insvriato target hose places for attack "Operation Matador." the week-long fight along the Syrian oordirthat ended on May 14 disrupted the insurgents' ability 10 cross Into Iraq At the cost of at least nineMarine lives, we stopped them but only fo ra while.The President nas too much on nis mina, an0 his aausers are divideo. The CIA and the StateDepanment point to the small amount of cooperation we have b w n getting from Syria, and insist thawe can compel them to do more without taking firm action The Defense Department ts less tolerantIt wants to act, but apparently hasnl even been allowed to ask the Iraqis for permission o mount anattack into Syrla. Our failure to take decisive action costs too much. The time has come to act.First. either Vice President Cneney or me Pres dent himself needs lo knock neads together. b e c amno one e se can CIA. State, and Defense nave to bebrougnt into line and resolved to action. ThenState should deliver a fina l ultimatum o Assad. I f he fails t i end his realme's sumort for terrorismforthwitn - and that means not only the Iraq, insurgents, bu t ~ezbo1lan"and ll the others that haveoperated from Damascus or decades - he must be tola we win end it for him The Iraqi governmenshould be consulted, but its reluctance- f it has anv- o a cross-border attack must b e dk~ e ll ed pOlitely ignorea As soon as It is, special operations forces mould cross lnto Syria covertly, to leaa acombined air and ground attack against tne terrorists and whatever Syrian assets are supportingthem. from Qaim to Damascus. Whatever it takes, that is what we m ~ s to.Syrla is the immediate problem regarding Iraq. (Iran is no less immediate; but because ofi ts nucleaprogram, not Itspresent involvement n Iraq.) Saudi Arabia Is a different k ind of problem.The Saudis have, perhaps too late to save themselves, come to realize the dangers of terrorism. Bu

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because he Saudis am W ahabis, and because the Wahabi version of Islam is insecure, violent, anhostile, thev still don'l take sufficient stem to ston the exoort of terrorists and terrorism. We can'tdisregard the power Saudi oil gives them over our economy. But we can't be afraid of it either. Theirinsecurity isour handiest weapon.Our cadre of evil geniuses can think of many ways to motivate Saudi behavior, and we shou d beusing them all For exa mpb, cautious people that we am. tne Pentagon should commission a secrestudy of how we might intervene to restore order in the former Saudi Arabia after some massiveterrorist attack annihilates the Saudi royals. taking some of the oil infrastructure up with them. Whenthat studv is leaked (to BobNovak. of course. not the N ew Yo& Times) how much more uneasv willrest the headson wnich the ~ e u o irowns he? Enough, perhaps, to &ke some greater effort againthose Saudis whose business it is to exhort and export terrorism?The Saudis are crude in their manipulation of us. We should compel them to conclude thatMachlavelliwas a wimp.

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Yeah -but who isn't

Hecalmand said his publishersareVERY ih@resud him atlandlng. No needtodlback.

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Suit: Monday, May 23,20054:23 PMm: -CIV OASWPASubject Today's Spectator (Babbin)

Bedtime for BasharBY k d Biibl-nPublished S/Z3/Z005 12.07 25 AMIt is the gravest of mistakes to think of Iraq - or any other nation - in isolation. And it is willfullyignorant to ask when Ira& will be able to defeat the insuraencv. when Americans will withdraw, or

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moved then? It matters n o t What matters is that Syria chose to prov ide frst a sanctuaryf a membersof Saddam's regime and itsassetsand then comprehensive upport for the Sunni insurgents who fightonly to preven t Iraq from becoming stable and free, and kill asmany Am ericans as they can in theprocess.We know tha t the m ajority of the suicide bombers killing people in Iraq come from Sau di Arabia toSyria where they are helped to cross into Iraq. We know that money and weapons flow from Syria othe nsurgents in Iraq . We kno w sufficientdetailsabout where the insurgents meet and rain in Syriato target those places for attack."Operation Matador," the week-long figh t along the Syrian borderthat ended on May 14, disrupted the insurgents' ability to cross into Iraq. At the cost o f at least nineMarine lives, we stopped them bu t only fa r a while.The President has too much on his mind, and his advisers are divided.The CIA and the S m eDepartment point to the small amount ofcoope ration we have been gctltng from Syn a, and nsist matwe can compel them to do more without bki& firm action. The ~efense epartm ent is less tolerant.It wants to kt,but apparently hasn't even be& allowed to ask the Iraqis for &m ission to mount anattack into Syria. Our failure to take decisive action costs toomuch The ime has come to act.First, either Vice R esiden t Cheney or thePresident himself need s to knock heads together, becauseno one else can. CIA. State, and Defense have to be bmucht into line and resolved to action. ThenState should deliver a final ultimatum to Assad. If he fai lsto end h is regime's suppon for terrorismforthwith- nd hat means not only the Iraqi insmgents. but Hezbollah and all the oihe is that haveoperated from Damascus for decades - he must be told we will end it for him The Iraqi govenunenlshould be consu lted, but its reluctance- f it has any- o a cross-border attack must be dispelled orpolitely ignored. As soon as it is, special operalionsforces should cross into Syria covertly,to lead acombined air and ground attack agains t the terrorists and whatever Syrian assets are supporting them,from Qaim to Damascus. Whatever it takes, that is what we must do.Syria is the imm ediateproblem regarding Iraq. (Iran is no less immediate; but because of i ts nuclearprogram, not its present invo lvem ent n Iraq.) Saudi Arabia is a d ifferent kind of problem.The Saud is have, perhaps too late to save themselves, come to realize the dangers of terrorism. Butbecause the Saudis are Wahabis, and because the Wahabi version of Islam is insecure,violent, andhostile, they still don't take sufficientsteps o s top the export of terrorists and te rrorism. We can'tdisregard the power Saudi oil gives them over our economy. But we can't be afraid of it either. Theirinsecurity is our handiest weapon.Our cadre of evil geniuses can think o f many ways to motivate Saudibehavior, and we should beusing them all. For example , cautious people that we are, he Pentagon should commission a secretstudy of how we m ight intervene to restoreorder in the former Saudi Arabia after some massivet e r r o h attack annihila tes the Saudi royals. taking some ofthe oil in frastructure up with them Whenthat study is leaked (to Bob N o d , of course, not the New York Times)how much more uneasy willrest the heads on which the S audi crowns lie9Enough,perhaps, to make some greatcreffon againstthose Saudis whose bus iness it is to exhort and expo> &ri&?The Saudisare crude in their manipulation of us. We should com pel them to conclude thatMachiavelli was a wimp.

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Some one should remind W that in 1986 without much outsiae help besides the UKwe sentGhaddafi a "stronger message follows "th at causec h im to cull in nis thugs dramatically Tom knohow that was done betterthan anv of us. I se every ormodunitv I have on Fox to make the samecase, except now it couia be done wlinout anyone's ~ ~ m is s io n ,' u n ~ e s se have to ask the minoritywing of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee or the UN for overflight rights to cross theMediterranean n a 6-2 or Global Predator.Regards-- O ri g in a l Message--From: JedBabbinTO tmc&m&- aulvallei c nashct-. Gbnstrae77.BURM41516. WSSInter, roberthscaem -Sent Mon 23 Ma' It AM Eastern Davloh t TimeSubject: ~ o d a ~ ' spectatorSyria, not the Senate,should be on our minds today.The AmericanSuec tm.-a rn-L,.,-ahome office)(home fax)(mobile) '

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Syria,not the Senate,shouldbe on ourminds today.The AmericanSmtator

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