From: gerald_a_levy (gerald_a_levy@msn.com)
Date: Tue Sep 17 2002 - 07:34:39 EDT
> Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President > > By Neil Mackay, > The Scottish Sunday Herald, Sunday 15th September 2002 > http://www.sundayherald.com/27735 > > A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush > > and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure > 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001. > > The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a > 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- > president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz > (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis > Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding > America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, > > was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank > Project for the New American Century (PNAC). > > The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control of the > Gulf region whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. It says: 'The > United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in > Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq > provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial > American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime > of Saddam Hussein.' > > The PNAC document supports a 'blueprint for maintaining global US > pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping > the international security order in line with American principles and > interests'. > > This 'American grand strategy' must be advanced for 'as far into the > future as possible', the report says. It also calls for the US to > 'fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars' as > > a 'core mission'. > > The report describes American armed forces abroad as 'the cavalry on > the new American frontier'. The PNAC blueprint supports an earlier > document written by Wolfowitz and Libby that said the US must > 'discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership > or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role'. > > The PNAC report also: > > -refers to key allies such as the UK as 'the most effective and > efficient means of exercising American global leadership'; > > -describes peace-keeping missions as 'demanding American political > leadership rather than that of the United Nations'; > > -reveals worries in the administration that Europe could rival the USA; > > -says 'even should Saddam pass from the scene' bases in Saudi Arabia > and Kuwait will remain permanently -- despite domestic opposition in > the Gulf regimes to the stationing of US troops -- as 'Iran may well > prove as large a threat to US interests as Iraq has'; > > -spotlights China for 'regime change' saying 'it is time to increase > the presence of American forces in southeast Asia'. This, it says, may > lead to 'American and allied power providing the spur to the process of > democratisation in China'; > > -calls for the creation of 'US Space Forces', to dominate space, and > the total control of cyberspace to prevent 'enemies' using the internet > > against the US; > > -hints that, despite threatening war against Iraq for developing > weapons of mass destruction, the US may consider developing biological > weapons -- which the nation has banned -- in decades to come. It says: > 'New methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal', biological -- will > be more widely available ... combat likely will take place in new > dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ... > advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific > genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a > > politically useful tool'; > > -and pinpoints North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran as dangerous regimes > and says their existence justifies the creation of a 'world-wide > command-and-control system'. > > Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP, father of the House of Commons and one of > the leading rebel voices against war with Iraq, said: 'This is garbage > from right-wing think-tanks stuffed with chicken-hawks -men who have > never seen the horror of war but are in love with the idea of war. Men > like Cheney, who were draft-dodgers in the Vietnam war. > > 'This is a blueprint for US world domination -a new world order of > their making. These are the thought processes of fantasist Americans > who want to control the world. I am appalled that a British Labour > Prime Minister should have got into bed with a crew which has this > moral standing.'
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