LAT artikel om neokonservativa Rickard Perle och hans kontakter med diverse oppostionsfigurer från Syrien och Iran alla sponsrade som lämpliga kandidater att ta över sina länder av USA. Naturligtvis som en del av det amerikanska programet att för ett demokratiskt mellanöstern. Demokrati i mellanöstern byggs förstås bäst upp med washington baserade organisationer. Perl och Wurmser har med sina kopplingar till den Israeliska högern är som en del kanske vet några av de pådrivande att invadera Irak.
Grooming the next Ahmad Chalabi – Los Angeles Times
The exiting guest was Farid Ghadry, an exiled Syrian dissident who,
like Perle, believes it’s past time to replace Syrian dictator Bashar
Assad. Ghadry, who heads a Washington-based group called the Syrian
Reform Party, hopes to be the man in charge one day in Damascus. When I
met him, he had already been granted audiences with David Wurmser, Vice
President Dick Cheney’s top Middle East advisor and Perle protege, and
with Cheney’s daughter, Elizabeth, who headed the State Department’s
Iran-Syria desk from 2005 until last June. I asked Wurmser about
Ghadry. Was he another Ahmad Chalabi, the checkered Iraqi exile whom
the United States backed as a Saddam Hussein replacement in Iraq?”He’s not asking for money, and we’re not advocating money for him,” Wurmser
told me. ”As for him wanting power, sure, he probably has an agenda.
But it doesn’t matter. This is where you go back to the Soviet Union,
because it’s the same question that we always work with, from Lech
Walesa to Vaclav Havel: ’Did they have an understanding of the malady
and danger posed by the totalitarian regime in their country?’ ”The scenario of the U.S. backing exiles to aid in ”democratizing” Middle
Eastern countries is so appealing to Perle, Wurmser and their
like-minded friends that they continue to pursue it despite past
failures. Perle, of course, was the most prominent and aggressive
advocate of Chalabi, dubbed the ”Jay Gatsby of Iraq” for his social
life and financial scandals, as the leader of a new Iraq. That effort
collapsed when the Iraqi people, finally given a chance to vote in
January 2005, did not award Chalabi’s party a single seat in the new
parliament.Perle insists that his man, who has a new job with
the Baghdad government, was the victim of a smear campaign led by the
State Department and the CIA. The Chalabi experience has not muted
Perle’s unabashed affection for dissidents. ”I think the best way to
bring about regime change,” he told me, ”is to help decent people who
are powerless without outside help.”
People such as 32-year-old Amir Abbas Fakhravar, an Iranian dissident now living in exile in the United States. In a 2006 Washington Post Op-Ed article, Perle promoted
Fakhravar as a heroic and inspirational figure around whom oppressed
Iranians could rally, if only he were given America’s support.
Fakhravar is president of the Iran Enterprise Institute, which takes
its name and some of its financial support from the neoconservative
American Enterprise Institute, of which Perle is a resident fellow. In
the coming weeks, Fakhravar will be speaking at a conference in Palm
Beach, Fla., on the subject of regime change in Tehran, addressing the
Heritage Foundation in Washington and then heading to Rome to deliver a
lecture on ”Democracy in the Islamic World.” Just recently, he was the
honored guest at DePaul University’s ”Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week,”
where he was introduced as ”the hero of our age.”