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To: Mannie who wrote (23348)	7/26/2003 1:54:24 AM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) of 89467

Moving long term military bases out of Saudi Arabia into Iraq ... negating the oil contracts of the French ... revenge. Saddam attempted to kill W's Poppa Agreed. IMO all part of the "convergence". But a "regime change" was contemplated long before many of these "ancilary" reasons existed. The neo-cons envision world domination. From the 1992 "Defense Planning Guidance" "Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power. These regions include Western Europe, East Asia, the territory of the former Soviet Union, and Southwest Asia. "There are three additional aspects to this objective: First the U.S must show the leadership necessary to establish and protect a new order that holds the promise of convincing potential competitors that they need not aspire to a greater role or pursue a more aggressive posture to protect their legitimate interests. Second, in the non-defense areas, we must account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our leadership or seeking to overturn the established political and economic order. Finally, we must maintain the mechanisms for deterring potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role." From the neo-cons perspective, Iraq is merely a step in a journey. Neo-conservative writers began to urge regime change as part of a larger strategy for remaking the Middle East. from ceip.org All, JMO lurqer

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