From: Samantha Atkins (samantha@objectent.com)
Date: Mon Sep 16 2002 - 15:28:33 MDT
The below article is interesting. More to the point and as
background for the contentions check out the Project for a New
American Century (PNAC) site:
http://www.newamericancentury.org
- samantha
BUSH PLANNED IRAQ 'REGIME CHANGE'
BEFORE BECOMING PRESIDENT
By Neil Mackay
[Sunday Herald - 15 September 2002]: 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.'
- Sunday Herald (Scotland).
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