The Final Move Beyond Iraq: The Final Solution While the World Sleeps

by mike Evans

  I interviewed Putin in Russia when we had just gone to war in Iraq, and he said, “Why Iraq?” He said, “Iran is the real danger.” Well, we’re going to find out whether Russia supports us, and for a long time they were in a very ambiguous position. I think they finally realized how dangerous this is for them.

  China, I think, also understands it—but the only forum in which we can make progress in these areas, unfortunately, is the United Nations—and the United Nations gives all these countries vetoes. We must get them to join us, and that’s just a basic fact of life.

  Appendix J

  A 21-DAYS TUDY OF IRAN (PERSIA), IRAQ (BABYLON),

  AND ISRAEL IN BIBLICAL PROPHECY

  Notes

  INTRODUCTION

  1. CNN.com, “Giuliani Rejects $10 Million From Saudi Prince,” October 12, 2001, http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/10/11/rec.giuliani.prince/index.html (accessed January 22, 2007).

  2. George W. Bush, “Address to the Nation,” January 10, 2007, as quoted by the New York Times, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/world/middleeast/10cnd-ptext.html?ex=1169701200&en=9e8ad4c46b84713e&ei =5070 (accessed January 23, 2007).

  3. We will look at this again in chapter three, where the exact quote appears.

  4. Joseph Farah, “U.S., Israel to Attack Iran Nukes ‘Before April,’” G2 Bulletin at WorldNetDaily.com, January 23, 2006, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48430 (accessed January 21, 2007).

  5. Daniel Pipes, “How the West Could Lose,” Jerusalem Post, December 27, 2006, http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1164881991915&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull (accessed January 23, 2007).

  6. Winston Churchill, “We Shall Fight on the Beaches” speech before the House of Commons, June 4, 1940, as quoted by the Churchill Centre, http://www.winstonchurchill.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=393 (accessed January 22, 2007).

  7. Winston Churchill, “The Years the Locusts Have Eaten,” in The Second World War, vol. 1, as quoted in a speech by Newt Gingrich, printed in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, as posted on the Newt.org e-Community forum “How to Deal With Iran?” http://www.newt.org/forum/topic.asp?fi=20000001&catId=30000001&ti=400000369 (accessed January 23, 2007).

  8. Abraham Lincoln, “Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day,” March 30, 1863, as quoted by Abraham Lincoln Online, “Speeches and Writings,” http://showcase.netins.net/web/creative/lincoln/speeches/fast.htm (accessed January 21, 2007).

  CHAPTER ONE: A PROPHETIC STORM GATHERS

  1. Walid Shoebat, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 26, 2006.

  2. Iran Chamber Society, “Cyrus the Great,” Historic Personalities, http://www.iranchamber.com/history/cyrus/cyrus.php (accessed January 23, 2007).

  3. The Encyclopedia Britannica, vol. 6 (1958), 940; as quoted by Wayne Jackson, “Cyrus the Great in Biblical Prophecy,” ChristianCourier.com, September 28, 2000, http://www.christiancourier.com/articles/read/cyrus _the_great_in_biblical_prophecy (accessed December 19, 2006).

  4. Wikipedia.org, s.v. “History of Iran,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iran (accessed December 8, 2006); and Ehsan Yarshater, “Persia or Iran,” Iranian Studies, vol. 12, no. 1 (1989), as excerpted by the Circle of Ancient Iranian Studies in “Persia or Iran? When ‘Persia’ Became ‘Iran,’” trans. Abbas Ferzamfar, 1998, http://www.cais-soas.com/CAIS/Iran/persia_or_iran.htm (accessed December 8, 2006).

  CHAPTER TWO: RECALIBRATING AMERICA’S MORAL COMPASS

  1. Alan Dershowitz, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 18, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix H.

  2. Wikiquote.org, s.v. “Golda Meir,” http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Golda_Meir (accessed January 23, 007).

  3. George Washington, farewell address, as quoted by the Avalon Project, “Washington’s Farewell Address 1796,” http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/washing.htm (accessed February 2, 2007).

  4. John Adams, letter to the officers of the First Brigade of the Third Division of the militia of Massachusetts, October 11, 1798, as quoted by Wikiquote.org, http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Adams (accessed January 23, 2007).

  5. Natan Sharansky, The Case for Democracy: The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror (New York: PublicAffairs, 2004), 40–41.

  6. See Proverbs 27:10.

  7. Stephen Goode, “Bush Brings Faith Into Full View,” Insight on the News, May 11, 2004, http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_2004_ May_11/ai_n6145022 (accessed January 23, 2007).

  8. Scott Stearns, “Bush Calls for Greater Religious Tolerance in U.S.,” Voice of America, February 7, 2002, http://www.voanews.com/english/archive/2002-02/a-2002-02-07-1-Bush.cfm (accessed December 21, 2006).

  9. Debbie Daniel, “Life Is Just One Grand Sweet Song, So Start the Music!” American Daily, June 10, 2004, http://www.americandaily.com/article/779 (accessed January 23, 2007).

  10. Ronald Reagan, inaugural address, January 20, 1981, as quoted in Ronald Reagan Presidential Archives, University of Texas, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1981/12081a.htm (accessed December 21, 2006).

  11. Dinesh D’Souza, “Purpose: What It Was All About,” National Review Online, June 8, 2004, http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/dsouza200406080824.asp (accessed January 24, 2007).

  12. Whittaker Chambers, “Letter to My Children,” foreword to Witness, as quoted by University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hiss/chambersletter.html (accessed December 21, 2006).

  13. Ibid.

  14. Ibid.

  15. Ronald Reagan, “The Evil Empire,” remarks at the annual convention of the National Association of Evangelicals, March 8, 1983, as quoted by American Rhetoric, http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/ronaldreaganevilempire.htm (accessed December 21, 2006).

  16. Ariel Sharon, personal interview with Mike Evans.

  17. Ronald Reagan, remarks at an ecumenical prayer breakfast in Dallas, Texas, August 23, 1984, as quoted in Ronald Reagan Presidential Archives, University of Texas, http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1984/82384a.htm (accessed January 24, 2007).

  18. The White House, “State of the Union Address of the President to the Joint Session of Congress,” news release, January 29, 2002, http://www.c-span.org/executive/transcript.asp?cat=current_event&code=bush_admin&year=2002 (accessed November 13, 2006).

  19. Joseph Goebbels, “The Jews Are Guilty!” Das Reich, November 16, 1941, as quoted by Calvin College, German Propaganda Archive, http://www.calvin.edu/academiccas/gpa/goeb1.htm (accessed January 24, 2007).

  20. Alexander Solzhenitsyn, “A World Split Apart,” address at Harvard Class Day afternoon exercises, June 8, 1978, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html (accessed December 21, 2006).

  21. Lee Edwards, “The Reagan Doctrine,” the Heritage Foundation, http://www.heritage.org/Research/reagan_edwards13.cfm (accessed December 28, 2006).

  22. George W. Bush, remarks at the swearing-in ceremony for Tom Ridge as director of the Office of Homeland Security, October 8, 2001, as quoted in the American Presidency Project, ttp://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/print.php?pid=62592 (accessed December 21, 2006).

  CHAPTER THREE: WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS

  1. The White House, “President Discusses War on Terrorism,” news release, November 8, 2001, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/11/20011108-13.html (accessed December 20, 2006).

  2. The White House, “Press Briefing by Tony Snow,” news release, October 19, 2006, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061019-1.html (accessed January 24, 2007).

  3. James A. Baker III and Lee H. Hamilton, et al., The Iraq Study Group Report, December 6, 2006, http://www.usip.org/isg/iraq_study_group_report/report/1206/iraq_study_group_report.pdf (accessed January 24, 2007).

  4. Aaron Klein, “Terrorists Rejoicing Over New Iraq ‘Plan,’” WorldNetDaily.com, December 6, 2006, http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53269 (accessed December 13, 2006).

&
nbsp; 5. Ibid.

  6. Ibid.

  7. Brietbart.com, “Ahmadinejad: Britain, Israel, US to ‘Vanish Like the Pharaohs,’” December 20, 2006, http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/20/061220094102.ixs3bo81.html (accessed December 26, 2006).

  8. InsightMag.com, “Baker Wants Israel Excluded From Regional Conference,” December 5, 2006, http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/Baker_1.htm (accessed December 13, 2006).

  9. Ibid.

  10. Peter W. Galbraith, The End of Iraq (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2006), 206–207.

  11. Numbers on these distributions vary with the source but stay in roughly this range. See, for example, Wikipedia.org, s.v. “Iraq,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq (accessed November 9, 2006); David Gritten, “Long Path to Iraq’s Sectarian Split,” BBC News, February 25, 2006, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4750320.stm#su (accessed November 10, 2006); and Central Intelligence Agency, “The World Fact Book: Iraq,” https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/iz.html (accessed November 10, 2006).

  12. Joshua Holland, “Bush’s Petro-Cartel Almost Has Iraq’s Oil,” AlterNet, October 16, 2006, http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/43045/ (accessed November 12, 2006).

  13. Charles Nash, interview with Mike Evans, August 16, 2006. For more excerpts from this interview, see Appendix F.

  14. Daniel Pipes, “In Iraq, Stay the Course—But Change It,” New York Sun, October 24, 2006, http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4066 (accessed November 11, 2006).

  15. The White House, “Press Conference by the President,” news release, October 25, 2006, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/10/20061025.html (accessed November 11, 2006).

  16. WashingtonPost.com, “Ahmadinejad’s Letter to Bush,” May 9, 2006, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/09/AR2006050900878_pf.html (accessed January 24, 2007). For the complete letter, see Appendix A.

  17. The Online NewsHour, “Plan Floated to Divide Iraq Along Ethnic Lines,” October 24, 2006, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec06/iraq_10-24.html (accessed November 12, 2006).

  18. Christopher Bodeen, “Al Qaeda in Iraq Claims It’s Winning War,” Associated Press, November 10, 2006, http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/11/10/D8LAC4OG1.html (accessed November 12, 2006).

  CHAPTER FOUR: THE CENTERS OF GRAVITY

  1. Moshe Ya’alon, keynote speech in Dallas, Texas, June 28, 2006.

  2. Charles Nash, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 16, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix F.

  3. The White House, “President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended,” news release, May 1, 2003, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/05/20030501-15.html (accessed January 25, 2007).

  4. Con Coughlin, “How the 45-Minute Claim Got From Baghdad to No. 10,” Telegraph, July 12, 2003, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/12/07/wirq107.xml (accessed January 25, 2007).

  5. Ibid.

  6. Thomas McInerney and Paul Vallely, Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror (Washington DC: Regnery Publishing, Inc., 2004), 41.

  7. Wikipedia.org, “Iraq Resolution,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Resolution_to_Authorize_the_Use_of_United_States_Armed_Forces_Against_Iraq (accessed December 2, 2006).

  8. Wikipedia.org, “American Popular Opinion on Invasion of Iraq,” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_popular_opinion_on_invasion_of_Iraq (accessed January 25, 2007).

  9. Ayman El-Amir, “Ensnaring Saddam,” Al-Ahram Weekly Online, July 11, 2002, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2002/594/op2.htm (accessed December 3, 2006).

  10. Robert Marquand and Peter Ford, “A New Doctrine and a Scud Bust,” Christian Science Monitor, December 12, 2002, http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/1212/p01s03-woap.html (accessed December 3, 2006).

  11. Alan Dershowitz, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 18, 2006. For more excerpts of this interview, see Appendix H.

  12. CBSNews.com, “Hezbollah: ‘A-Team of Terrorists,’” April 18, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/18/60minutes/printable550000.shtml (accessed December 3, 2006).

  13. Ibid.

  14. Israel Defense Forces/Military Intelligence, “Iran and Syria as Strategic Support for Palestinian Terrorism,” September 30, 2002, http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2002/9/Iran%20and%20Syria%20as%20 Strategic%20Support%20for%20Palestinia (accessed December 3, 2006).

  15. DEBKAfile, “Tehran Plots Second Anti-U.S. War Front Deploying Syria, Hizballah, Palestinians,” September 3, 2002, http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=167 (accessed December 3, 2006).

  16. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs, “Hizbullah Attacks Along Israel’s Northern Border May 2000–June 2006,” July 12, 2006, http://www.mfa.gov.il/NR/exeres/9EE216D7-82EF-4274-B80D-6BBD1803E8A7,frameless.htm?NRMODE=Published (accessed December 3, 2006).

  17. Guy Dinmore, “Iraqi Opposition Leaders Meet in Tehran,” IranReporter.com, December 9, 2002, http://www.iranreporter.com/story.asp?id=407 (accessed December 3, 2006).

  18. Yossef Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War (New York: Regan Books, 2004), 142.

  19. Ibid.

  20. Mark Hosenball, “Intelligence: A Double Game,” Newsweek, May 10, 2006, http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4881157/ (accessed December 3, 2006).

  21. John Diamond, “Israel Reportedly Helping With U.S. War Preparation,” USA Today, November 3, 2002, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2002-11-03-israel-usat_x.htm (accessed December 2006).

  22. DEBKAfile, “Arafat’s New Terror Weapon: Exploding Toy Planes,” January 14, 2003, http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=239 (accessed December 3, 2006).

  23. WorldTribune.com, “Israel Gets the Word: Won’t Fight in Iraq War,” December 22, 2002, http://www.worldtribune.com/worldtribune/WTARC/2002/ss_israel_12_20.html (accessed December 3, 2006).

  24. David Rudge, “North on Alert After Car Bomb, Hizbullah Attack,” Jerusalem Post, January 22, 2003, http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/jpost/access/279406881.html?dids=279406881:279406881&FMT=FT&FMTS=ABS: FT&date=Jan+22%2C+2003&author=DAVID+RUDGE&pub=Jerusalem+ Post&desc=North+on+alert+after+car+bomb%2C+Hizbullah+attack.

  25. Milton Viorst, “The Wisdom of Imagining the Worst-Case Scenario,” New York Times, September 12, 2002, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50C1FF739550C718DDDA00894DA404482 (accessed December 3, 2006).

  26. Associated Press, “Text of Bush Speech on Iraq: President Gives Saddam Hussein a 48-Hour Deadline,” CBS News Online, March 17, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/17/iraq/main544377.shtml (accessed: October 31, 2006).

  CHAPTER FIVE: THE REAL BATTLE FOR IRAQ BEGINS

  1. Chris Hamilton, personal interview with Mike Evans, August 16, 2006.

  2. Dani Yatom, personal interview with Mike Evans, July 23, 2006.

  3. World Tribune, “Hussein Given Safe Haven in Belarus?” April 25, 2003, as quoted by Truth Seeker, http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?id=729 (accessed December 3, 2006).

  4. The Online NewsHour, “Officials Investigate Shooting Attack on Russian Convoy,” April 7, 2003, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/convoy.html (accessed December 3, 2006).

  5. Air Force Association special report, “Gulf War II: Air and Space Power Led the Way,” (Arlington, VA: Aerospace Education Foundation, 2003), 20, viewed at http://www.afa.org/media/reports/GulfWar.pdf (accessed February 22, 2007).

  6. Steven Stalinsky, “Leading Egyptian Islamic Clerics on Jihad Against U.S. Troops in Iraq: March–August 2003,” Middle East Media Research Institute, Inquiry and Analysis series, August 14, 2003, no. 145, http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&Area=ia&ID=IA14503 (accessed December 6, 2006).

  7. Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War, 250.

  8. Nazila Fathi, “Aftereffects: Tehran; Iran Opposes U.S. Accord With Fighters Based in Iraq,” New York Times, May 2, 2003, http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F50D14FF3C580C718CDDAC0894DB404482.

  9. Glenn Kessler and Dana Priest,
“U.S. Planners Surprised by Strength of Iraqi Shiites,” Washington Post, April 23, 2003, http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A17886-2003Apr22?language=printer (accessed January 26, 2007).

  10. WashingtonPost.com, “Administration Comments on Saddam Hussein and the Sept.11 Attacks,” May 1, 2003, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/9-11_saddam_quotes.html (accessed December 6, 2006).

  11. Kathy Gannon, “Alleged Bin Laden Tape Calls for Jihad,” CBS News, April 8, 2003, http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/02/11/attack/main540168.shtml (accessed December 6, 2006).

  12. Douglas Farah and Dana Priest, “Bin Laden Son Plays Key Role in Al Qaeda,” Washington Post, October 14, 2003, A1.

  13. IslamistWatch.org, “Al Qaeda Communique,” attributed to Ayman al-Zawahiri, on or about May 20, 2003, http://www.islamistwatch.org/texts/comms/zawahiri05-20-03.html/ (accessed March 1, 2007).

  14. Washington Post, “U.S. Soldiers, Civilians Held Overnight by Iranians,” June 3, 2003, A18.

  15. Donald H. Rumsfeld, “Core Principles for a Free Iraq,” Opinion Journal, from Wall Street Journal editorial page, May 27, 2003, http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110003545 (accessed January 29, 2007).

  16. The White House, “President Bush, Prime Minister Blair Hold Press Availability,” news release, March 27, 2003, http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030327-3.html (accessed December 6, 2006).

  17. Ibid.

  18. Uzi Landau, “A Map to National Disaster,” Ha’aretz, April 11, 2003, as quoted by Tom Gross, “The Road Map Is a Huge Prize for Terror,” Mideast Dispatch Archive, April 24, 2003, http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000611.html (accessed December 6, 2006).

  19. Harry de Quetteville, “Will Iraqis Stand By and Watch Their Country Be Hijacked, Too?” Telegraph (UK), online version, December 31, 2003, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2003/12/31/do3101.xml (accessed December 17, 2006).