LETS NOT FORGET: BUSH
PLANNED IRAQ 'REGIME CHANGE' BEFORE BECOMING PRESIDENT
By Neil Mackay 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[1]:
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.'
©2002 smg sunday newspapers ltd
Links:
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http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/pdf/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf
