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THE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY: BLUEPRINT FOR GLOBAL EMPIRE
On September 20, 2002, the Bush Administration issued its
blueprint for global domination and ceaseless military
interventions, in its comprehensive policy statement
entitled "The National Security Strategy of the United
States."
The National Security Strategy sets forth the U.S.
military-industrial complex's ambition for the U.S. to
remain the world's superpower with global political,
economic and military dominance. The stated policy of the
U.S. is "dissuading military competition" (See source I)
and preventing any other world entity or union of states
"from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing,
or equaling, the power of the United States." (See source
II)
The strategic plan elevates free trade and free markets to
be "a moral principle . . . real freedom" (See source III)
and endorses a comprehensive global conquest strategy
utilizing the World Trade Organization, the Free Trade Act
of the Americas, the International Monetary Fund, the
World Bank, among other mechanisms.
The Washington Post reports that the National Security
Strategy gives the United States "a nearly messianic role"
in its quest for global dominance. (See source IV)
The National Security Strategy confirms and elaborates
what was reflected in the January 2002 Nuclear Posture
Review, that the Bush Administration maintains a policy of
preemptive warfare contemplating the use of
non-conventional weapons of mass destruction as a first
strike measure. (See source V)
TURNING LOGIC ON ITS HEAD
Bush's preemptive war policy is a war without just cause.
Under international law and centuries of common legal
usage, a preemptive war may be justified as an act of self
defense only where there exists a genuine and imminent
threat of physical attack.
Bush's preemptive war against Iraq doesn't even purport to
preempt a physical attack. It purports to preempt a threat
that is neither issued nor posed. Iraq is not issuing
threats of attack against the United States. It is only
the United States which threatens war.
It is not a war for disarmament. It is the U.S. which has
stockpiled nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. It is
the U.S. which is directly threatening to use these
weapons against another country. It is the U.S. which has
bombed Iraq relentlessly for more than ten years, killing
scores of innocent civilians.
The Bush Administration turns logic on its head, twisting
reality in order to create the pretext for its war of
aggression. The Administration claims that the necessary
prerequisite of an imminent threat of attack can be found
in the fact that there is no evidence of an imminent
threat, and therefore the threat is even more sinister as
a hidden threat. The lack of a threat becomes the threat,
which becomes cause for war.
By the U.S. Government's own claims, it destroyed 80% of
Iraq's weapons capability in the earlier Gulf War, and
subsequently destroyed 90% of the remaining capacity
through the weapons inspections process. There has been no
evidence that Iraq is capable of an attack on the U.S.,
let alone possessing the intention of carrying out such an
attack. |
