Meet the Press, ixx, 276
Mejia, Camilo, 223, 238, 376
Mello, Vieira de, 14
Mercer, Ilana, 796
Mesopotamia, 20
“messianic vision” of Bush, 45, 75
Metz, Thomas, 723
Mexico, petro-dollar loans in, 403
Meyer, Christopher, 2
Meyer, Frank, 176
Microsoft Corporation, 189, 191
Middle East: American hegemony ideology concerning, 184, 392–397; “apocalyptic” vision of, 126; Bush administration ignorance of, 252–253; Bush policies in, 30–35, 319–321, 650–651; democracy in, 45; electoral politics in, 764–766; hatred of U.S.
in, 118–119; neoconservatives' view of, 84–109, 113–117; nuclear weapons in, 650–651; United States relations with, 30–31; U.S. military bases in, 203–207
Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), 260
Middle East Policy Journal, 248
Milbank, Dana, 104, 112
Military Assistance Overseas Program (MAOP), 219–220
Military commissions, for civilian detainees, 477–482
Military desertion from Iraq war, 223–224
Military equipment, impact of Iraqi resistance movement on, 741
Military operation other than war (MOOTW), war on terror as, 313–314
Military Order on the Detention, Treatment, and Trial of Certain Non-Citizens in the War Against Terrorism, 477–482
Military personnel (U.S.). See also Joint Chiefs of Staff; Veterans of Iraq war: civilian detention policies and, 445–446; disrespect of Iraqi army by, 693n.1; education reform of, 208; injury and death statistics for, 199, 727n.3, 742–743; Iraqi resistance attacks on, 726–734; limitations in Iraq of, 390–397; moral responsibilities of, 208–220; opposition to Iraq war among, 257; recruiting declines linked to Iraqi resistance movement, 737–741; role in Iraqi invasion of, 202–207; statistics on troop levels in Iraq, 737; war on terror and, 313–314
Military uniforms from U.S., alleged Iraqi acquisition of, 622–623
Miller, Arthur, 374
Miller, Geoffrey D., 508, 517, 526, 531–545
Miller, Judith, 490, 500–507
Milosevic, Slobodan, 115
Mitchell, Greg, 777–779
Mobile Iraqi biological weapons labs, bogus claims of, 269–271
Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh, 698–699
Moisy, Claude, 593–594
Monstersfrom the Id, 176–177
Mooney, Mark, 718
Moral theory. See also Ethics: civilian detentions and, 451–453, 511; ideology of American Empire and, 64–79; just-war doctrine and, 132–134; military responsibility and, 208–220
Morris, Roger, 346–351
Mossad (Israeli secret service), 655
Motassadeq, Mounir El, 699
Mother Jones, 157
Moussaoui, Zacarias, 697–699
Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 265, 272
MSNBC television, 590, 594, 596–597
Mubanga, Martin, 487
Mubarak, Omeid (Dr.), 665–666
Multilateral partnerships, American hegemony and, 388
Multinational corporations: euro-dollar conflicts and, 400; Iraq profiteering by, 189–190
Munro, Charles, 20–21
Muravchik, Joshua, 73
Murdoch, Rupert, 584, 589
Murphy, Bill, 398
Myers, Richard, 232, 240, 601–602, 615–616, 746
My Lai massacre, 44
Mylroie, Laurie, 269
Nasr, Muhammad abu, 727n.3, 775n.1
Nasser, Gamal Abdel, 30–31, 654
Nation, The, 123, 186
National Christian Leadership Conference for Israel, 152n.4
National Defense University, 217–218
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), 768–770
National Dialogue Council, 757n.2
National Endowment for Democracy (NED), 115, 768–770
National-greatness conservatism, 67
National Guard (U.S.), recruiting difficulties of, 737–741
National Intelligence Estimate (NIE): bogus WMD case based on, xvi-xvii, 267–269, 281, 286; manipulation of, 269–275, 278, 292–294, 299
Nationalism: after September 11, 2001, 63–64; American Empire ideology and, 67–68; in media coverage, 688–713
National Review: Catholic columnists at, 171–172, 174, 177; CIA ties to, 174–176; Defense Department talking points in, 202; editorial policies of, 113, 115, 121, 177–178; Kwiatkowski attacked by, 198; paleoconservatives attacked by, 175, 179; support of Israel in, 112
National Security Council, 15–16; buildup to Iraq war and, 257, 280; intelligence failures of, 251, 272; Office of Special Plans and, 262–263
National Security Strategy, 53, 76–77, 338
National Strategy for Combating Terrorism, 312–313, 316
National Strategy to Combat Weapons of Mass Destruction, 322–323
National Union Party, 155
National Unity Coalition for Israel, 152n.4
Nation-building, Bush opposition to, 92
Nazi war crimes, 43–44
NBC News, Iraq war coverage by, 598, 602
Neal, Richard I., 826–827
Negroponte, John: intelligence reforms and, 296–299; as Iraqi ambassador, 45, 47, 53; Rumsfeld and, 301
Neill & Co., 832–833
“Neoconservative Persuasion, The,” 211
Neoconservatives: American conservatism used by, 83; American hegemony ideology of, 181–184, 336–337, 386–397; anti-Soviet policy of, 82; Bush Administration and, 91–92, 94, 112; Catholic Church and, 171–179, 354; during Cold War, 115; Congressional manipulation by, 272–275; “conspiracy theory” concerning, 110; criticisms of, 112; currency conflicts and, 404–405; definition of, 81–82, 117–118, 121–122; domestic policy of, 114; dominance by, 112; euro-dollar conflict and, 412–413; foreign policy of, 106–109, 114–115; global hegemony goals of, 181; globalist outlook of, 113; history of, 81–82; individuals classified as, 139; Iraqi resistance fighters and plans of, 711–712; Iraqi War policy of, 9, 87, 101–102, 111–124; Iraq war buildup and, 86–87, 255–257; Israel and, 80–109, 116; Jewish ties with, 110–124; McCain support from, 93; media manipulation by, 174–176, 584–603; Middle East policies of, 84, 203–207; misuse of intelligence by, 271–305; nuclear weapons policies and, 338–343; oil industry and, 653–654; political correctness of, 122; Powell's rejection of, 96; Project for a New American Century, 88; in Reagan Administration, 116; Saddam Hussein targeting by, 115–116; September 11, 2001, attacks as catalyst for, 101–109, 116; yellowcake uranium controversy and, 495–504; Zionism and, 139–140, 161
Neo-Jacobins, 65–66, 78
Netanyahu, Benjamin, 7, 88, 98, 158–159, 161, 259–260
Neturei-Karta organization, 139n.3
New American Militarism, The, 240
New Citizenship Project, 88
New Covenant, Catholic Church and Christian Zionism and, 161–163
New Humanism, 70
New Left Review, 13
New Oxford Review, 179
New Republic magazine, 47, 93
Newsday, 730–731
New Standard magazine, 580
Newsweek magazine: bogus WMD stories in, 291; on Iraqi resistance fighters, 724; “Oil-for-Food” Program coverage in, 413–414
New World Order, 72
New Yorker: Abu Ghraib stories in, 537, 542; Halabja massacre article in, 330; on interrogation techniques, 519; nuclear bomb myth concerning Saddam in, 267; Salman Pak training facility allegations and, 618–619; war on terror coverage in, 697–698
New York Observer, 505
New York Post, 172–173, 589
New York Press, 178
New York Times: Abu Ghraib prison scandal in, 529, 532, 538; Allawi coverage in, 581–582; anonymous sourcing rules at, 569–573, 642; anti-French allegations by Bush administration in, 624–626; Bolton intelligence manipulations on, 288; Clinton op-ed in,
136; on conservative manipulation of media, 588, 590; Council for National Policy covered in, 156–157; Defense Department talking points in, 202; Defense Planning Guidance document in, 338; detention stories in, 442, 508, 518–519; elections in Iraq coverage of, 778–779, 783–784; Iraqi Army and Police statistics in, 746, 748, 750–751; Islamist website sources and, 702n.1; Jessica Lynch story in, 615–616; massacres by Saddam Hussein in, 796; Miller's reporting in, 490, 500–507; Moussaoui trial and, 698; neoconservative voices in, 117; Pentagon draft documents in, 73; profiteering in Iraq reported by, 186; propaganda as news in, 565–573; resistance movement in Iraq and, 707–708, 716–717, 719n.1, 720–721, 728; terminology and language used in war coverage of, 573–581; Terrorism Information Awareness Program and, 608; Wilson op-ed in, 498–499, 502
“Next-friend” principle, habeas corpus and, 444n.1
Nicaragua, 47, 57–58
Niger, yellowcake uranium controversy involving, 267–269, 274–275, 283, 490–504
9/11 Commission, 298–299
Nitze, Paul, 254
Nixon, Richard M., dollar-gold reserve float of, 405–406
No-fly zones, description of, 2
Non-proliferation agreements. See also Nuclear deterrence;
Nuclear weapons: as anti-terrorism tool, 324–327; history of, 339–345
Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 321–324, 329, 340
Norms: anticipatory self-defense and, 58; description of, 43
North, Oliver, 506, 602
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): American hegemony ideology and, 390; Kosovo bombings, 55–56; neoconservative opposition to, 117; Serbian bombings and, 53–54
Northern Ireland, armed conflict in, 432n.1
North Korea: Bush administration policy towards, 299, 322–324; deterrence and non-proliferation treaties with, 324–325, 335–336, 344–345
North Korea Human Rights Act, 344
Novak, Michael, 69, 357
Novak, Robert, 92; military recruiting declines reported by, 740; Plamegate and, 491, 499–500, 502–504
Nuclear deterrence: American hegemony and, 388–389; as antiterrorism tool, 324–327
Nuclear weapons: in Iraq, 266–269, 276, 292–294; in Israel, 32–33; in Middle East, 650–651; neoconservatives' goals concerning, 336–337; preemptive war and proliferation of, 335–345; rogue states and terrorism and, 321–324
Nunn, Sam, 337
“Nunn-Lugar” Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991, 337–339
Nuremberg Tribunal, 43–44, 235, 822–823; UN Charter and, 365–371
Nye, Joseph S., 323
O'Connor, Sandra Day, 461–462
Odom, William, 241, 295–296
O'Dwyers PR Services, 833–834
Office of Special Plans (Defense Department): bogus WMD claims and, 269, 271–272; manipulation of intelligence and, 283–285; neoconservative dominance of, 262–266; postwar Iraq reconstruction and, 200–207
O'Hanlon, Michael, 734
“Oil-for-Food” Program: currency issues in, 406–407, 413–414; in Gulf War I, 820; legal issues concerning, 824–829; UN role in, 14
Oil industry: Bush administration links to, xx-xxii; China oil imports and, 414–416; dollar fiat money agreement and, 405–408; euro-dollar conflicts and, 400–417; Hussein's pricing policies and, 34; Iraqi electoral politics and, 761–762; Iraq War and, ixx-xxiii, 15–16, 357, 651–653; neoconservative links to, 116; U.S. Middle East policy and, 32, 203–207; war on terror and, 378–381
Okrent, Daniel, 571
Old Covenant, Catholic Church and Christian Zionism and, 161–163
Oliver, Revilo, 175–176
Olson (Solicitor General), 456
O'Neill, Paul, 15–16, 251, 280, 305
Operation Desert Fox, 257
Operation Desert Storm, 254, 257; media coverage of, 595, 599–600
Operation Horseshoe, 56
Operation Iraqi Freedom: George H. W. Bush's views on, 9–10; goals of, 46; looting during, 10; military veterans' criticism of, 225–231; as part of strategic influence campaign, 613; reasons for, 9; war on terror linked to, 309–327
“Operation Iraqi Freedom Strategic Lessons Learned,” 293
Operation Lightning, 728
Operation TELIC, 617–618
Operation Wheeler Wallawa, 44
O'Reilly, Bill, 373, 585–588
O'Reilly Factor, The, 585–588
Organisation for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC): dollar fiat money and, 405–408, 415–416, 656–657; Europe relationship with, 34; petro-dollar recycling and, 402–403; U.S. foreign debt and, 408–409
O'Rourke, William, 186, 194–195
Osman, Hiwa, 717–718
Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), 190–192
Owens-Kirkpatrick, Barbara, 494
Pace, Peter, 628–629
Padilla, Jose, 434, 461
Padilla v. Bush, 461–462
Paine, Katie Delahaye, 602
Pakistan: autocracy in, 321; decline in U.S. hegemony and, 393–397; nuclear weapons in, 340–341
Paleoconservatives: National Review attack against, 175, 179; neoconservatives and, 113
Palestine-Eretz Israel, 167
Palestinian Authority, U.S. relations with, 393–394
“Palestinian hanging” interrogation technique, 517–518
Palestinians: anti-Zionism and support for, 164–167; Armageddon and, 148–149; Christians as, 649–650; history of, 167; Iraq and, 649–650; Israeli targeted killings of, 435n.2; Israel's policy towards, 98–99, 120, 148, 160–161; just-war theory and fate of, 133–134; loss of land of, 164; terrorism among, 317; word origin of, 167
Palmer Raids, 452
Pan-Arabism, 654
Panorama magazine, 497
Papal authority. See also Catholic Church: American rejection of, 171, 174, 177–179, 233; opposition to Iraq war and, 355–359, 663–672
Pappas, Thomas, 528, 539
Paredes, Pablo, 232–239
Patriot, The, 692–693
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, 704, 769
Patriotism, terrorism and, 318–319, 325–327
Paul, Ron (Cong.), 755–756, 770
Paul VI (Pope), 355
Pax Americana plan, 73–77
Pax Israelica, 85–86
Peace dividend, 115
Peace Pipeline, 331
Pearlstein, Norm, 505
Pelletière, Stephen C., 328–331
Penn, Sean, 592
Pentagon. See Defense Department (U.S.)
Pentagon Papers, 505
Peres, Shimon, 52
Perkins, John, 186, 406n.1
Perle, Richard: Chalabi and, 255; Congressional ties to, 272; Defense Policy Board and, 258, 339; on destruction of internationalism, 106; euro-dollar conflict and, 412; Iraq war build-up and, 254, 257, 259–261; as Jewish luminary, 110; Kucinich debate with, ixx; Lebanon occupation and, 200; non-proliferation treaties and, 339; oil as motive for Iraqi war and, ixx-xxiii;
Plamegate and, 500; profiteering in Iraq war and, 193; Project for a New American Century and, 89–90, 102; “Vulcans” group and, 251, 257; Washington influence of, 7, 86–88, 91, 102, 192–193; Zionism and, 139, 161
Perry, William, 286
Peters, Lawrence, 737n.2
Petra Bank, 254
Petro-dollars, recycling of, 402–403
Pew Research Center, 153
Phelps, Timothy, 730–731
Philbin, Patrick, 420, 454–457, 460n.1
Philippines, U.S. occupation of, 200
Philips, Kevin, 177
Phillips, David, 756
Physicians for Human Rights, 522
Pictet, Jean, 421, 432n.3
Pilger, John, 31, 706–707
Pincus, Walter, 285
Pinsker, Leo, 138
Piper, Michael Collins, 147
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 121
Plame, Valerie, 16, 490–507
Plan of Attack, 96, 122, 18
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Platt Amendment, 455n.1, 456
Pluchinsky, Dennis, 589
Plymouth Bretheren, 144, 152
Podesta, John, 375
Podhoretz, Norman, 102, 105, 412
Pohl, James L., 543
Poindexter, William, 607
Poison factories in Iraq, allegations concerning, 618
“Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation Group,” 259–260, 264–265, 271n.2
“Political risk” insurance, 189–190
Pollard, Jonathan, 499
Pontifical Council for the Laity, 355
Porter, John, 836
Potemra, Michael, 176
Powell, Colin: bogus mobile biological weapons labs claims by, 269–271; bogus WMD claims of, xx, 274–275, 281, 287, 290; buildup to Iraq war and, 257–261; Bush and, 349–350; description of, 87; neoconservatives and, 96–97, 100; on ricin poison factory allegations, 618; Scud missiles in Iraq claimed by, 623; UN briefings by, 363–364, 369; unmanned airborne vehicles in Iraq, bogus claims of, 270–271; yellowcake uranium controversy and, 502–504
“Power of Nightmares, The,” 696–697
POWs: alleged executions of, 627–628; extra-judicial detention of, 435–438; Geneva Convention status of, 432–440; Guantánamo detainees status as, 458–459; interrogation guidelines for, 438–439; Speicher case and, 620
Prather, Gordon, 334–345
Premillennial dispensationalism, 145–148, 153
Presidential authority: Guantánamo detention center issue and, 412–413, 457–463, 474–482; legal issues concerning, 374–382; prisoner abuse scandal and, 604
Presidential Power, 374
President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, 280
Preventive war doctrine, UN Charter and, 365–371
Price of Loyalty, The, 251
Prisoner abuse scandal: investigations into, 520–529; testimony concerning, 379
“Private contractors” (U.S.), statistics in Iraq on, 737n.2
Private security companies (PSCs), statistics in Iraq on, 737n.2
Professional Soldier, The, 210
Profiteering in Iraq war, 188–195
Project for a New American Century (PNAC): American hegemony ideology and, 389–397; Congressional ties to, 272; establishment of, 7–8; euro-dollar conflict and, 412–413; Lebanon occupation and, 200; letters to Bush from, 102, 154; letters to Clinton and Gingrich, 88–90; neoconservative roots of, 94, 265–266; report issued by, 90; war on terrorism supported by, 102
Project for the Old American Century, 224
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