In the process of searching for news from Cuba, I came across an article in the Free Press you might be interested in reading. It's an interview with Norman Birnbaum, a man with quite a resume, including service as an advisor to JFK's Presidential Campaign. Frankly, I'm so angry I am barely able to type.

This is the offending paragraph, emphasis are mine.

KZ: Why are we in Iraq?

NB: To answer that question, one would have to begin with the Seventeenth Century settlement of eastern North America from the UK---I do not think you have allocated me quite enough space. There is an inertial force to empire, we have the armed forces, an ideology of global mission, we need oil, lots of it and we need bases to guarantee that we control the oil going to others, as well as to get access to our new bases in central Asia between our superpower rivals China and Russia.

Quite apart from these geopolitical considerations there is the fact that successful defiance of the US for any period of time leads to retribution. (We have not attacked Castro because of mutual assured deterrence, his air force could attack nuclear power plants and make much of the US southeast uninhabitable so despite the truly repellent Miami Cubans of the older generation and their gallant allies, the Israel lobby, Castro hangs on). I do not think that the war was caused entirely or primarily by the Israel lobby but certainly Feith, who used to practice law in Jerusalem and may have had or have dual citizenship, Wolfowitz, Libby et al. helped as did the institutes in Washington fronting for Israel with their carefully crafted "analysis." The Israel lobby was effective but it successfully instrumentalized American imperialism: but that imperialism would be there in any case.

In fact, much of the interview is offensive, you can read it here.