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Coping with Crumbling States:
A Western and Israeli Balance of Power Strategy for the Levant
—Wurmser (www.israeleconomy.org/strat2.htm)
A second report from IASPS, December, 1996.

One of the crumbling states is Iraq, and the problem is not that Saddam is a threat, but
rather that Iraq is so weak that Iran or Syria (enemies of Israel) might take over.

This report by Wurmser, who became Cheney's Mid-East Adviser, focuses entirely on
removing Hussein and on the post-Saddam situation but in 30 pages does not once
mention WMD or terrorist threats to the U.S. It is just concerned with Syria and Iran
taking over Iraq. This is the real reason why the neocons wanted the U.S. to remove
Saddam.

From the Report. "The Levant [Mid-East] now resembles Europe of 1914: crumbling
states, like Syria, locked in bitter rivalries over a collapsing entity (Iraq). ... Iraq, a
nation of 18 million, occupies some of the most strategically important and
well-endowed territories of the Middle East. ... Thus, whoever inherits Iraq
dominates the entire Levant strategically.

Dec. 1996 Podhoretz explains the Iraqi threat to Israel

Podhoretz explains in Commentary why Iraq is a threat to Israel: "with the missiles
available to Iraq and Syria that could easily reach Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa,
many civilians would die." "Yet surely for Syria, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia--and for
Iran as well--the opportunity to dispose of Israel once and for all would be more
than enough to make them temporarily set their mutual hatreds aside and unite in a
final jihad."

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