[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:8921] Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before 9-

[Al Kagan]

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>Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming
>President
>By Neil Mackay
>
>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).
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>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:
>
>l refers to key allies such as the UK as 'the most effective
>and efficient means of exercising American global
>leadership';
>
>l describes peace-keeping missions as 'demanding American
>political leadership rather than that of the United Nations';
>
>l reveals worries in the administration that Europe could rival
>the USA;
>
>l 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';
>
>l 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';
>
>l 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;
>
>l 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';
>
>l 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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Al Kagan
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