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Bush planned Iraq regime change before election
The Sunday Herald | 9-15-02 | Neil Mackay

Posted on 09/15/2002 12:25:03 PM PDT by eagles

Sunday Herald - 15 September 2002 Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President By Neil Mackay

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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:

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.'


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; iraq; paranoia; regimechange; thinktank; year2000
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To: eagles
http://www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf

Unfortunately, their site appears to be down.

41 posted on 09/15/2002 1:38:38 PM PDT by Lessismore
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To: deport
He looks to me like he just cut the cheese...
42 posted on 09/15/2002 1:40:16 PM PDT by Humidston
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To: Miss Marple
Shhhhhhhhhh!
43 posted on 09/15/2002 1:43:35 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: eagles
Actually, I wish would would do a few of these things. Nukes are becoming common. If someone (we...who else?) doesn't do something to put a crimp on crazy regimes, we are all going end up glowing.
44 posted on 09/15/2002 1:44:39 PM PDT by StolarStorm
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To: Miss Marple
You think that's sneaky, you should see what job India the cat was assigned.

You notice how deftly the CIA arranged for India to leave the limelight? No one's been on her tail since India went under cover.

The job is done already...

India engineered the regime change of Socks the Cat's spouse by revealing to Hillary that Socks saw what happened to Vince Foster when he was out cattin' around; Hillary then neutered Socks... now there are no heirs to the throne.

India had the whole genitalia thing covered up in a Washingtom park. So long as Barney doesn't dig it up again by mistake they never will be found.

Now I hear there's trouble at Saddam Hussein's gazelle farm.

45 posted on 09/15/2002 1:47:27 PM PDT by piasa
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To: SES1066
Glasgow Scotland and for sale also
46 posted on 09/15/2002 1:58:22 PM PDT by deport
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To: Timm
You forget that Dick Cheney was also tied-up with the search for a VP. [smirk]
47 posted on 09/15/2002 2:43:55 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: eagles
A Pax Americana? After the horrors of 9-11 its just the Rx the doctor called for. And we're the doctor and the world's a sick place. We can't wait for it to heal on its own. Its boils have to be lanced before they infect us and we become terminally ill. We must see to it another 9-11 never happens here. As the President rightly pledged last week, that's a sacred promise the USA means to keep whether the world goes along with it or not. God Bless The USA!!!
48 posted on 09/15/2002 2:52:11 PM PDT by goldstategop
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To: dirtboy
Fun to see liberal twits trip over their tongues, isn't it...
49 posted on 09/15/2002 3:55:24 PM PDT by Acela
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To: dirtboy
"Yeah! Space Rangers!"

Not necessarily as far out as you think:

Bush Approves Plan to Merge U.S. Commands Over Military's Space, Nuclear Forces (Associated Press)
President George W. Bush has approved plans to merge the military's commands over its space and nuclear forces, a lawmaker says.

Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld could announce the decision as early as Wednesday, defense officials said.

The new command, which is yet to be named, would combine the U.S. Space Command and the U.S. Strategic Command. It almost certainly will be based at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, where Strategic Command is based now, according to Nebraska's two senators, Republican Chuck Hagel and Democrat Ben Nelson. Hagel said Bush had approved the plan.

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50 posted on 09/16/2002 7:11:30 AM PDT by sheltonmac
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To: eagles
HOGWASH!
51 posted on 09/16/2002 8:22:28 AM PDT by lonestar
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To: eagles
A Pax Americana, huh ? FOFLOL. Heck, Mr McKay ought to see some of my plans for when I'm president. FOFLOL.

I wish the libs would make up their minds about President Bush, he is either a shallow frat boy or the ultimate power grabbing, war mongering conspirator.

52 posted on 09/16/2002 8:26:36 AM PDT by Darlin'
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To: eagles; All
As another poster indicated, the document this article refers to really does exist, although it is not "secret" since it's a think-tank publication available on the web. The paper runs 90 pages and is located as a .pdf file here.

I don't approve of the idea of the U.S. ruling the world. That's not the kind of country this is supposed to be. Our forefathers fought for independence from an empire, and now we presume to govern others from a distance. It's amazing, the U.S. for decades now has supposedly been fighting other regimes that they claim sought to "rule the world"--the Nazis, the Russians, and so on. Now we find out that all along, it's been a small group of elites in the U.S. who have been scheming to do the very thing that they've accused other countries of attempting. I don't want to be a part of it. I'm only one American, so I can't do much, and this is just an opinion I'm offering on an Internet board, but there has to be a way to stop the United States.

And no, before the namecalling starts, I'm not a liberal at all. I just oppose globalism, whether it be the UN's version or the US's version.

53 posted on 09/20/2002 6:20:34 PM PDT by Hoppean
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To: Hoppean
I must say, the report is a rather interesting read.
54 posted on 04/21/2003 10:03:42 PM PDT by ET(end tyranny) ( Deut.32:18-Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, and hast forgotten God that formed thee.)
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