Think the Iraq war was a direct response to 9/11? Note this letter to Newt in 1998, especially the signatures.
The whole site is "interesting". The New American Century. Note the founders.
John,
PNAC has been the topic of extensive posting on the thread. If you are interested, I can send you lineage information that shows the origins of PNAC, its members, connections, foundership dogma, etc... Essentially, it is a collection of hawks and war profiteers with strong ties to Israel who have hijacked American foreign policy to promote their "ideology". They convinced this unthinking president to start a war exactly on the basis of the letter in the foreground of your post and, each of its tenets has been proven to be untrue.
On January 26, we sent a letter to President Clinton expressing our concern that the U.S. policy of "containment" of Saddam Hussein was failing....
Edit: Untrue, as we know today of course.
-- Although the Clinton Administration's handling of the crisis with Iraq has left Saddam Hussein in a stronger position that when the crisis began...
Edit: He was so strong that we took the country in three weeks (with Clinton's military no less. Remember bush's campaign comments about Clinton's military?)
-- We will have suffered an incalculable blow to American leadership and credibility; -- We will have sustained a significant defeat in our worldwide efforts to limit the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Other nations seeking to arm themselves with such weapons will have learned that the U.S. lacks the resolve to resist their efforts;
Edit: The US has never been more isolated and unpopular in the world. The policy is having exactly the opposite effect in NK, and I believe that Europe will come together as a military power more rapidly as a result of the isolationist careless approach taken by the bush administration.
-- The administration will have unnecessarily put at risk U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf, who will be vulnerable to attack by biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons under Saddam Hussein's control; -- Our friends and allies in the Middle East and Europe will soon be subject to forms of intimidation by an Iraqi government bent on dominating the Middle East and its oil reserves;
Edit: No WMDs. No nuclear, no bio, only proof that bush and these people lied to us.
-- As a consequence of the administration's failure, those nations living under the threat of Saddam's weapons of mass destruction can be expected to adopt policies of accommodation toward Saddam. This could well make Saddam the driving force of Middle East politics, including on such important matters as the Middle East peace process.
Edit: It's interesting that none of the nations they claim would come under Saddam's rule supported the war that was, at least in part, presumably for their protection (save for Israel of course, but then Israel could more than defend itself against saddam).
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