Trump’s “Crazies” Are Rekindling Hillary Clinton’s Green Revolution

These are the show notes for a video I am making this morning. Something locked up my computer so I have to restart it and I wanted to put these references all in one place without having to go back to them and getting whatever it is that is screwing me back on my system.

Once the video is published, I will post it here and the notes will be below the fold.

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Neocons believe in unrivaled U.S. world domination through aggressive use of military force to conquer and police resisting countries. They also believe in eliminating social safety net programs like Social Security, unemployment insurance and Medicare. They have long advocated unwavering support for Israel, disbanding multi-national agreements and the U.N., and eliminating the progressive tax structure.

Bush Sr. called them “the crazies in the basement” but they now control power and policy in the Bush Jr. administration. Names like Cheney, Libby, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Abrams, Perle, Feith, Kagan, Chalabi, Khalilzad are signatories to a long string of documents and articles from neocon think tanks, journals, and even government departments.

In 1992, Wolfowitz and Libby wrote a Defense Policy Guideline for their boss, Secretary of Defense Cheney, that was so imperialistic it caused an uproar when leaked to the press and had to be rewritten. Today it/s Bush/s 2002 National Security Strategy.

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“IF BARACK Obama ever had a shot at earning the trust of the Israeli people, it may have been extinguished as early as June 4, 2009, in Cairo.

After calling on Israel, from the largest city in the Arab world, to end its settlement activity and the “dislocation” of Palestinians, Obama chose not to fly on from Egypt to Jerusalem. On his first trip to the Middle East as president, he intentionally skipped the Jewish state in the belief that creating distance between himself and Israel would earn him credit with Arab states.” The coming shift: Hillary Clinton’s plans for Israel and Iran, Jerusalem Post, Oct. 2016

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PJMEDIA article on Hillary Clinton talking about regime change operation in Iran in 2009 https://pjmedia.com/blog/hillary-clinton-u-s-was-too-restrained-in-our-support-of-the-2009-green-revolution/

Zero Hedge https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-05-10/leaked-doc-reveals-white-house-planning-regime-change-iran

Just a few days after the former NYC mayor and latest member of President Trump’s unexpectedly let it slip that “we got a president who is tough, who does not listen to the people who are naysayers, and a president who is committed to regime change [in Iran]”, the Washington Free Beacon has obtained a three-page white paper being circulated among National Security Council officials with drafted plans to spark regime change in Iran, following the US exit from the Obama-era nuclear deal and the re-imposition of tough sanctions aimed at toppling the Iranian regime.

The plan, authored by the Security Studies Group, or SSG, a national security think-tank that has close ties to senior White House national security officials, including – who else – National Security Adviser John Bolton, seeks to reshape longstanding American foreign policy toward Iran by emphasizing an explicit policy of regime change, something the Obama administration opposed when popular protests gripped Iran in 2009, writes the Free Beacon, which obtained a leaked copy of the circulating plans.

The regime change plan seeks to fundamentally shift U.S. policy towards Iran and has found a receptive audience in the Trump administration, which has been moving in this direction since Bolton—a longtime and vocal supporter of regime change—entered the White House.

It deemphasizes U.S military intervention, instead focusing on a series of moves to embolden an Iranian population that has increasingly grown angry at the ruling regime for its heavy investments in military adventurism across the region. –Free Beacon

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https://securitystudies.org/

Jim Hansen, Oct. 2017 (Jim served in US Army Special Forces and conducted Counter-Terrorism, Counter-Insurgency as well as Diplomatic, Intelligence and Humanitarian operations in more than a dozen countries.)

I wrote a piece for the Federalist arguing that both regime change and a military option should be back on the table regarding Iran’s nuclear program. These steps are necessary both to give a greater chance of success for the soft power negotiations, but also in recognition of the fact we must stop Iran from possessing nuclear weapons, period.

What Trump should do

The first is the return of regime change as official U.S. policy…

The Kurdish independence referendum on September 25 was overwhelmingly in favor of self-determination. This has repercussions for Iran, which has a large and restive Kurdish population and many Azeris and others, around 30 percent of its population, who are not fans of the mullahs. A little U.S. support for them could go a long way toward keeping the Iranian government mindful of its internal issues. It could also make them more amenable to negotiation or potentially lead to their removal by their own people…

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It is time for a new birth of liberty in Iran, as the protests in Iran seem to indicate that many Iranians have come to realize. While America is not interested in starting a war there, and should not stage any sort of invasion, we should stand ready to support the Iranian people in any native attempt to throw off their shackles and pursue better guarantees of their future security.” SSG, May 8, 2018 https://securitystudies.org/america-iran-iran-deal/

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