"The nexus of the Bush war party seems to be Rumsfeld's Deputy Sec. of Defense Paul Wolfowitz. Pat Buchanan in his book 'A Republic, Not an Empire' finds Wolfowitz, and a 46 page memorandum he wrote while in the Pentagon under the first Bush, at the center of Republican foreign policy. As his book's title suggests, Buchanan's apprehensions are based on the agenda explicitly laid out by Wolfowitz - that America should dominate the world, in every sense, that the planet shall serve as our empire; that we should militarily prevent any country or consortium of countries from controlling the resources that would allow them toescape their dependence and subservience: which is how we now find ourselves building a string of military bases in Central Asia,
to control Caspian Sea oil reserves not for America's use, but to control China and India who will. "
--Kent Southard, for Bush Watch (www.bushwatch.com)
Southard is right about Wolfowitz, I believe. Sunday, March 3, Leslie Stahl,
from 60 Minutes, interviewed Iraqi people who wanted to overthrow Saddam. They compare themselves
to the Northern Alliance (that should tell us they are
trouble). They call themselves the INC or Iraqi National Conference. They have been meeting with
Wolfowitz. They have encouraged him to push Bush to attack Iraq. I believe we already have troops
operating in Iraq. I came across something about it last week. I wasn't able to jot down the name of
the man Stahl spoke with. She's outspoken though. She told him that many people consider him to
be an opportunist who wears a Rollex. Anyway, this group has been lobbying people in Congress
as well. |
