“Iraq Was Invaded ‘to Protect Israel’ – U.S. Official,” Asia Times.

The U.S. official whom Emad Mekay refers to in his Asia Times article is none other than Philip Zelikow, who spoke of Iraq as a perceived “threat” to Israel, and thusly called Iraq “the threat that dare not speak its name.” By way of explanation, Zelikow says in this report that “the American government doesn’t want to lean too hard on it [the Iraq as ‘threat to Israel’ idea] rhetorically, because it is not a popular sell.”

Beyond the investigative reporting on the crumbling of the myths of Saddam’s vast caches of “weapons of mass destruction” and his nuclear warheads ready to hit the coast of California within 45 minutes – if a news commentator on any major network spoke about Iraq’s perceived threat to Israel’s “security needs” – one of the world’s best equipped military powers – as being one of the prime reasons behind the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and that the pressure to do so came from the Israel Lobby, that reporter would be roundly shouted down with cries of “anti-Semite,” “hate speech,” and would be promptly escorted out of the building and their career. Nonetheless, the very fact of this matter was revealed to be a part of the plan all along. And in this Asia Times article, the one who reveals it is Philip Zelikow, the very same author of the cleverly produced mythic narrative known as The 9/11 Commission Report.

This Asia Times article is cited in David Ray Griffin, “The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions.” Northampton: Olive Branch Press, 2005. p. 297, F. 17.