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Guidance to America and the World in a Time of Trouble

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    Forty-four years ago, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me,
    "Brother Farrakhan, you cannot fathom the depth of Satan." Those of
    us who can't think like that would never believe that a human being
    was capable of planning the deaths of innocent people to further a
    political and an economic objective. ...Now, they are saying that
    President George W. Bush is the greatest friend that Israel has had
    of any president in this country. Well, if George W. Bush is their
    greatest friend, then how can he be an honest broker in a search for
    peace? 

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Minister Louis Farrakhan
Guidance to America and the World in a Time of Trouble
By the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan
Updated Jun 22, 2004, 12:01 pm

[Editor's note: The following text is taken from an address delivered by 
the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan during a world press conference 
held May 3, 2004 at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.]

In The Name of Allah, The Beneficent, The Merciful.

In 1997, a special interest group called The Project for a New American 
Century was formed. I have four letters in our possession, which you can 
get on the web site, that state the aim and the principle of this 
Project for the New American Century. The signers of this project were 
men and women who are now known as neo-conservatives.

A letter was sent to President William Clinton on January 26, 1998 from 
this Project for the New American Century. In this letter, these 
neo-conservatives were telling President Clinton that he must attack 
Iraq and remove Saddam Hussein. The letter outlines exactly what was 
offered to President Clinton, which he rejected.

Who are the signers of the letter? Elliott Abrams, Richard Armitage, 
William Bennett, Jeffrey Bergner, John Bolton, Paula Dobriansky, Francis 
Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, William Kristol, Richard 
Perle, Peter Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, William Schneider, Vin Weber, Paul 
Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey and Robert B. Zoellick. In the original 
statement of aim by this group, Jeb Bush was a signer. These are called 
the "neo-cons" or the neo-conservatives.

After President Clinton rejected this offer, these neo-conservatives 
sent a letter to Newt Gingrich, who was then the Speaker of the House, 
and to Senator Trent Lott. But in this, they criticized President 
Clinton for failing to adhere to their counsel. If you read this letter, 
you will see that what they said to the congressional leaders ultimately 
became the policy of President George W. Bush.

After 9/11, they wrote a letter to President Bush, but before he entered 
the office of the presidency of the United States, George W. Bush was 
committed to regime change in Iraq.

The objective of this group of neo-conservatives was to reshape American 
foreign policy. From their own statement of their principles, it reads: 
"Conservatives have not confidently advanced a strategic vision of 
America's role in the world. They have not set forth guiding principles 
for American foreign policy. We aim to change this." Dick Cheney signed 
it. Jeb Bush signed it. Donald Rumsfeld signed it. Paul Wolfowitz signed 
it, Elliott Abrams signed it. Gary Bauer, Elliot Cohen, Aaron Friedberg, 
Steve Forbes, Dan Quayle, Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz, Peter Rodman, 
Stephen Rosen, Henry Rowen, Vin Weber and George Weigel signed it.

Some of these people were not in government at that time. They were on 
the outside looking in during President Clinton's administration. Some 
of them were, however, with the father Bush, Herbert Walker Bush.

Now, when George W. Bush became the president, many of these people came 
into government. Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States; 
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense; Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary 
of Defense; Douglas Feith, Undersecretary of Defense for Policy; Richard 
Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State; John Bolton, Undersecretary of 
State for Arms Control and Security; Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Chief of 
Staff and national security adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney; 
Richard Perle, former chairman of the Defense Policy Board at the 
Pentagon--and it's interesting that he had a nickname, titled "The 
Prince of Darkness."

These neo-conservatives had in mind the destruction of Iraq. They 
thought that their idea was the right idea for the time, but every idea 
needs a vessel that will bring that idea to fruition. So, the 
neo-conservatives were shopping around for the right vessel--and they 
found that vessel in George W. Bush.

When you read the book, "The Price of Loyalty" written about Paul 
O'Neill (former Treasury Secretary in the Bush administration), that 
book was correct, when he said President Bush came into office with a 
predisposition to remove Saddam Hussein. I said it to the president 
first, in my letters of warning. Now, out of his administration, are 
coming witness-bearers of the rightness of what I wrote to him.

Richard Clarke, in his book "Against All Enemies," wrote: "President 
Bush was preoccupied with Iraq and was not focused on the war on 
terror." Thus, it becomes clear why Pres. Bush asked after 9/11, "Was 
there a tie between Iraq and al-Qaeda?" Even though the best information 
from the intelligence community said there was no link, according to 
Richard Clarke, President Bush continued to urge them to find a link.

Why find a link? Because the aim was to destroy the regime of Saddam 
Hussein. Early on in the President's administration, he said, "My 
administration is committed to regime change in Iraq."

I believe that President Bush did not know of 9/11 in advance. However, 
had he not been so preoccupied with the neo-conservative idea on Iraq, 
he might have been able to connect the dots of the many warnings that 
were coming to America from her friends around the world, and avoid the 
tragedy of 9/11. He might have been able to direct the FBI and the CIA 
to bring him whatever intelligence they had that would have allowed his 
administration to connect the dots.

I believe that even though he didn't know, somebody knew. And those who 
knew, knew that if this happened, it would put President Bush and the 
administration in the position that would allow them to fulfill the aim 
of the neo-conservatives.

You may not agree. You may ask, "Minister Farrakhan, do you think that 
anyone would be so wicked as to allow the deaths of 3,000 American and 
non-American citizens to pursue a political and economic objective?"

Forty-four years ago, the Honorable Elijah Muhammad said to me, "Brother 
Farrakhan, you cannot fathom the depth of Satan." Those of us who can't 
think like that would never believe that a human being was capable of 
planning the deaths of innocent people to further a political and an 
economic objective.

This happened during the Kennedy administration when John Fitzgerald 
Kennedy was fixed on Cuba, Fidel Castro and a communist regime 90 miles 
from the American shore. It is written that some of his generals came to 
him suggesting that an American ship should be bombed in Guantanamo Bay 
and blamed on Cuba, so that the American press could whip up the 
American people into a fervor for war and it would justify America in a 
war against Fidel Castro, in order to remove that regime.

President Kennedy rejected that advice.

Do you remember the USS Maine? The Maine was a ship in the harbor of 
Havana. When someone wanted a war with Spain, the Maine was bombed in 
the Havana Harbor, killing those on board. The press whipped the story 
up as something that the Spanish did, thus the Spanish-American War was 
launched. Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines then came under the 
power and rule of the United States of America.

Do you remember the Gulf of Tonkin? Another ship, which was supposedly 
involved in an altercation with a gunboat from North Vietnam. This was 
whipped up by the American press, and President Lyndon Baines Johnson 
deceived the American Congress and the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was 
signed, committing 500,000 American soldiers to that area of the world.

A political objective was won. And now, America is on a course that will 
be difficult for her to change. An economic objective was again won. The 
treasury of the people of America was raped. Over $100 billion gone and 
more to come, so that Halliburton and Bechtel and the war machine of 
America can profit from the suffering of soldiers, sailors and Iraqi 
people.

Iraq has been occupied for over one year, yet we have not discovered any 
weapons of mass destruction.

They cannot, with truth, tie al-Qaeda to Saddam Hussein. If you know 
anything about Osama bin Laden, he is what you would call "a religious 
zealot," who saw Saddam Hussein as a hypocrite who went away from Islam 
to follow the path of socialism. So there's no way that Osama would have 
been connected to Saddam.

But the neo-conservatives wanted to make a case for war, and they did. 
The grief of the American people was manipulated, so that you would back 
your president in this evil misadventure.

And now everything that I warned them would come to pass is now coming 
to pass. The coalition is falling apart. Every day, American soldiers 
are dying. Dying for what? No weapons of mass destruction, no tie or 
link to terrorism. "But he was a brutal dictator who killed his own 
people," they maintain. Well, that's a justification then to go to war 
with China or to go to war with any country on the earth, because there 
is no country, no leader who has not at some time killed some members of 
his own country. America killed some of her own citizens at Waco. Is 
that a predicate for war?

Ari Shavit, a writer for the Daily Haaretz in Israel, had an interview 
with some of the neo-conservatives. He interviewed William Kristol and 
Charles Krauthammer.

Mr. Shavit wrote: "The war in Iraq was conceived by 25 neo-conservative 
intellectuals, most of them Jewish, who are pushing President Bush to 
change the course of history. Two of the journalists, William Kristol 
and Charles Krauthammer say it's principle. But another journalist, 
Thomas Friedman, not part of the group, is skeptical."

Mr. Shavit asked Mr. Kristol the question: "What is this war about?" 
This interview was published on May 4, a few days after President Bush's 
landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln saying, "Mission Accomplished."

Mr. Kristol replied that, "At one level, it is the war that George Bush 
is talking about--a war against a brutal regime that has in its 
possession weapons of mass destruction. But at a deeper level, it is a 
greater war for the shaping of a new Middle East. It is a war that is 
intended to change the political culture of the entire region."

Now, is that what your children are going to be asked to fight for? 
Because the neo-conservatives are now advancing a war with Syria, a war 
with Iran, and soon Sudan. I'm hoping that Muammar Ghadafi, though he 
has gotten rid of weapons of mass destruction and is on a course of 
rapprochement with America, I'm hoping that Colonel Ghadafi won't think 
that these neo-conservatives intend to be at peace with him. As long as 
that man lives, what is in his mind, they will consider a threat and 
they will ultimately work to remove him from power.

Pakistan must be careful because Pakistan already has weapons of mass 
destruction. Now, Pakistan is an ally of the United States of America, 
but America has said that, if a radical regime comes to power in 
Pakistan, America will swoop down on Pakistan and remove all of her 
nuclear weapons. In reality, they do not want any Muslim nation to have 
weapons of mass destruction.

Syrian President Bashir al Assad said recently, "I will get rid of mine 
when Israel gets rid of hers."

Resolution 687 of the UN Security Council said, "No weapons of mass 
destruction should be in the Middle East." So no Arab nation has it, but 
Israel has enough weapons to destroy the whole Arab world. This is why 
there's no real movement in the peace process, because weapons of mass 
destruction on both sides in the Cold War produced detente. People have 
to sit down and talk when they both have the power of mutual 
annihilation. As long as one has that power and the other doesn't, then 
you'll get peace, but on the terms of the one with the greatest amount 
of arms. That's why there's no peace in the Middle East and there will 
not be any.

But of even deeper concern to Muslims is another article by Mr. Jim Lobe 
called, "U.S. from Nation Building in Iraq to Religion Building." What 
does he mean, "religion building?" Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary 
of defense, says: "We need an Islamic reformation." Daniel Pipes, who 
was appointed by President Bush to the board of directors of the U.S. 
Institute for Peace, said that the ultimate goal of the war on terrorism 
had to be Islam's modernization.

What America is seeking is actually to change Islam, to make Islam 
suitable and non-threatening to Western hegemony over the entire world.

So, the war is not just against brutal dictators; the war, at the root, 
is against Islam. The government will not admit to that, but I see 
signs. In Iraq, when the Shiites asked for a popular election, knowing 
that they are 60 percent of the population of Iraq, they said they 
wanted an Islamic government. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld said, "We 
will not have any of that." If they want an Islamic government that's 
not democratic, America will not tolerate that.

In the neo-conservative idea, America must reshape the world in 
America's image or be shaped in the image of the world. That's at the 
root of the war, and that war will rage on. But I say to you that 
there's no way that I, as a Muslim, could countenance my children or 
grandchildren fighting a war against fellow believers in any part of the 
world. Once the American people understand the agenda of the 
neo-conservatives, you would be foolish to send your children to die for 
that which is against the best interest of America, but in the best 
interest of Israel.

All of the agenda of the neo-conservatives was to bring President Bush 
in line with Israel and use the power of the American military to 
destroy the real and perceived enemies of Israel. Iraq never threatened 
America; could not threaten America. But as long as Saddam Hussein was 
alive, in their minds he was a threat to Israel. Syria is a threat to 
Israel. Iran is a threat to Israel. Anyone that does not believe in 
their justification of the State of Israel on Palestinian lands is an 
enemy that must be destroyed.

Do you want your children to die for this? The former Israeli Prime 
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, before the war in Iraq, was patrolling the 
halls of Congress, lobbying American senators to send our children to 
die, really for Israel. Since Israel's existence, American taxpayer 
dollars have contributed over a $100 billion to maintain that state, and 
the neo-conservative idea was to bring President Bush totally in line 
with the ideas, the thinking, the policies of the Likud Party in Israel. 
Now, they are saying that President George W. Bush is the greatest 
friend that Israel has had of any president in this country.

Well, if George W. Bush is their greatest friend, then how can he be an 
honest broker in a search for peace?


2004 FCN Publishing, FinalCall.com

http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_1480.shtml


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