[Peace-discuss] Fw: NIGHTLINE: CONSPIRACY THEORY: Blueprint for War

[Lisa Chason]

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> Subject: NIGHTLINE: CONSPIRACY THEORY: Blueprint for War
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> TONIGHT'S FOCUS: Several years ago, when President Clinton was still in
> the
> White House, and 9/11 was still not even a nightmare in anyone's mind, a
> group of mostly Republicans wrote a letter outlining a foreign policy
> strategy that involved regime change in Iraq, by force if necessary.
> Now
> that several of those Republicans are in key positions in the
> Administration, some critics of the White House's current Iraq policy
> smell
> something fishy.
> 
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> 
> The Project for the New American Century.  Never heard of it?  Well,
> don't
> feel bad.  Few have.  But have you heard of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld
> or
> Paul Wolfowitz?  Back in 1997, those three out-of-office politicians and
> several other like-minded, mostly conservatives, were frustrated with
> American foreign policy.  So they formed this new organization and a
> year
> later wrote a letter to then-President Bill Clinton calling for a
> "comprehensive political and military strategy for bringing down Saddam
> and
> his regime."
> 
> Today, a 76-page paper written by the organization reads like a
> blueprint
> for the policy being carried out largely by Vice President Dick Cheney,
> Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul
> Wolfowitz.  In fact, of the 40 people who signed that letter, 10 are
> currently in the Administration.
> 
> Is this a case of democracy in action?  Influential thinkers who became
> policy makers?  Or is it, as some international critics of the White
> House's
> policy on Iraq have argued, a secretive organization pulling the strings
> of
> the President, with an imperialistic goal of dominating the world?  Are
> these criticisms legitimate?
> 
> Tonight ABC News correspondent Jackie Judd will explore this conspiracy
> theory, and the influence and role of the Project for the New American
> Century.  Ted Koppel will then speak with the Project's founder and
> chairman, Bill Kristol, who served in both the first Bush and the Reagan
> Administrations.
> 
> Also tonight we'll have another report from correspondent Mike Cerre
> with
> Marine Company Fox 2/5 in Kuwait.  After 19 days in the desert, they got
> a
> shower and a hot meal.  But more importantly, they also received their
> plans
> for their role in an invasion, if and when one is ordered.  After months
> of
> training for war, they now know just what they're going to do.
> 
> And finally, Nightline's Chris Bury is in Kuwait this evening, the main
> staging area for the American invasion should it come.  He'll give us
> the
> latest news of the military's preparations.
> 
> We hope you'll join us.
> 
> 
> Sara Just and the Nightline staff
> Senior Producer
> ABC News NIGHTLINE
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