[Peace-discuss] Fwd: [SRRTAC-L:10368] Fwd: Rumsfeld Urged Clinton to Attack Iraq in 1998

[Alfred Kagan]

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>Published on Sunday, March 16, 2003 by the Sunday Herald
>(Scotland)
>Rumsfeld Urged Clinton to Attack Iraq
>by Neil Mackay
>
>DONALD Rumsfeld, the US defense secretary, and his deputy
>Paul Wolfowitz wrote to President Bill Clinton in 1998
>urging war against Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein
>because he is a 'hazard' to 'a significant portion of the
>world's supply of oil'.
>
>In the letter, Rumsfeld also calls for America to go to war
>alone, attacks the United Nations and says the US should
>not be 'crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in
>the UN Security Council'.
>
>Those who signed the letter, dated January 26, 1998,
>include Bush's current Pentagon adviser, Richard Perle;
>Richard Armitage, the number two at the State Department;
>John Bolton and Paula Dobriansky, under-secretaries of
>state; Elliott Abrams, the presidential adviser for the
>Middle East and a member of the National Security Council;
>and Peter W Rodman, assistant secretary of defense for
>international security affairs.
>
>It reads: ' We urge you to seize [the] opportunity and to
>enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of
>the US and our friends and allies around the world.
>
>'That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of
>Saddam Hussein's regime from power.'
>
>' We can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf war
>coalition to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when
>he blocks or evades the UN inspections.
>
>'If Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons
>of mass destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we
>continue along the present course, the safety of American
>troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel
>and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of
>the world's supply of oil, will all be put at hazard.'
>
>Bush's current advisers spell out their solution to the
>Iraqi problem: 'The only acceptable strategy is one that
>eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or
>threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near
>term, this means a willingness to undertake military action
>as diplomacy is clearly failing. That now needs to become
>the aim of American foreign policy.
>
>'We believe the US has the authority under existing UN
>resolutions to take the necessary steps, including military
>steps, to protect our vital interests in the Gulf. In any
>case, American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a
>misguided insistence on unanimity in the Security Council.'
>
>The letter -- also signed by Zalmay Khalilzad, Bush's
>special envoy to the Iraqi opposition; ex-director James
>Woolsey and Robert B Zoelick, the US trade representative
>-- was written by the signatories on behalf of the Project
>for the New American Century (PNAC), a right-wing
>think-tank, to which they all belong.
>
>Other founding members of PNAC include Dick Cheney, the
>vice-president.
>
>©2002 smg sunday newspapers ltd
>
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>
>http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0316-03.htm
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