Ch 3

Question 1

Name the countries on the infamous “seven countries” Pentagon memo as reported by General Wesley Clark

Answer 1

Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran

Question 2

According to Horton, what role did oil really play in the GWB admin’s decision to invade Iraq?

Answer 2

The neoconservative consensus was that the US should invade Iraq and privatize its oil concerns as quickly as possible with the goal of depressing prices and destroying OPEC.

Question 3

Who did David Wurmser say was Israel’s primary adversary in the region? (faction, not state)

Answer 3

Hezbollah

Question 4

When was Hezbollah founded? By whom, and in response to what?

Answer 4

“Founded in 1982 by Lebanese Shiites in response to Israel’s occupation of Lebanon, where they sought to expel the PLO”
Ch 3, Sec 2

Question 5

Wurmser stated in “A Clean Break” that Israel should seek regime change in which country in order to counter the threat of Hezbollah?

Answer 5

Iraq

Question 6

Who did Wurmser suggest as a replacement for Sadaam Hussein in Iraq? Why?

Answer 6

Hashemite Jordanian King, Hussein bin Talaal

Because he wrongly believed that the Shiites would revere and obey him, as he was supposed to have been a direct descendent of the prophet Muhammad, and Israel would control the middle east through him.

After bin Talaal died, the neocons settled on Ahmad Chalabi for the role.