Dear Editors of World Peace Herald,
This morning I read with a considerable degree of incredulity Arnaud de Borchgrave’s commentary, “Al-Qaida’s camp followers,” on your web site. Of course, considering the World Peace Herald is owned by News World Communications Inc., and NWC is a “newspaper publishing company owned by the Unification Church,” according to a Yahoo Finance company profile, and Arnaud de Borchgrave is the editor of the Washington Times, another Moonie operation, and is connected to the Unification Church, incredulity is probably not appropriate.
Regardless of de Borchgrave’s connections to the Moonie cult and its leader, Sun Myung Moon, who believes he is a Christian deity, I must write to protest Arnaud de Borchgrave’s commentary, primarily because it is not only riddled with inaccuracies, but serves as obvious propaganda for the Bush neoconservatives, a “cult,” as Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh correctly notes, currently engaged in planning yet another invasion of a sovereign nation, namely Iran.
Arnaud de Borchgrave is connected to Benador Associates, a right-wing “public relations firm” created by Eleana Benador, a Peruvian-born publicist for Richard Perle, James Woolsey, Michael Ledeen, Frank Gaffney, and a dozen other prominent neoconservatives connected to the Bush administration and its less than secret plan to wage perpetual war against Islam in the Middle East. Thus I must assume Arnaud de Borchgrave opinions, most notably his assertion that thousands of people attending the World Social Forum, held in Porto Allegre, are al-Qaeda “groupies” is a sentiment shared by the neocon luminaries mentioned above.
Arnaud de Borchgrave’s transparent attempt to connect Hugo Chavez, the democratically elected leader of Venezuela, to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda is not only scurrilous, it is a paranoid and hateful delusion, all too common among the people who currently run U.S. foreign policy. Popular social and political movements in South America, so threatening to de Borchgrave and the neocons, have absolutely nothing to do with the mostly illusory al-Qaeda, an organization that is literally a godsend for de Borchgrave and the neocons, otherwise they would have no excuse to invade Afghanistan, Iraq, and, soon enough, Iran and Syria, or rather convince Bush to do so.
Finally, it is interesting de Borchgrave would mention Ward Churchill in his paranoid screed, the University of Colorado professor currently under attack by de Borchgrave’s fellow travelers for the crime of expressing his constitutionally guaranteed right of free speech, especially pertinent since Churchill is an employee of a public institution. Obviously, Arnaud de Borchgrave and his ilk have a problem with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, a document they have consistently attempted to undermine, most notably with the PATRIOT Act, since September 11, 2001.
Fortunately, history will ultimately judge Arnaud de Borchgrave, a water carrier and propagandist for the neocons, as a war criminal, as Nuremberg war crimes tribunal attempted to do with Hans Fritzsche, one of the individuals chiefly responsible for Nazi newspaper and radio propaganda. Although Fritzsche was found not guilty and released, he was re-arrested and found guilty of a variety of crimes by the German courts and sentenced to nine years hard labor. Arnaud de Borchgrave may suffer a likewise fate, that is if he lives long enough, since he is getting along in his years. In the meantime, I wait expectantly for our own Nuremberg war crimes tribunal to pass sentence on the neocon “cult” that has hijacked our republic and is in the process of rendering it into a tyrannical war machine.
Sincerely,
Kurt Nimmo
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