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To: TigerPaw who wrote (4654)	9/20/2002 6:59:01 AM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (8) \| Respond to of 15516

Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President sundayherald.com By Neil Mackay 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.' sundayherald.com

To: TigerPaw who wrote (4654)	9/20/2002 7:09:35 AM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 15516

Standing up to Bush's warmongering Posted on Thu, Sep. 19, 2002 From: Greg Coleridge American Friends Service Committee Akron ohio.com The Bush administration's pretext for an invasion of Iraq is as phony as the Florida vote count that made George W. president. A secret blueprint for U.S. global domination, just uncovered by the Scottish newspaper Sunday Herald, details a plan prepared by a right-wing think tank in September 2000 for incoming Bush administration Cabinet members to take control of the Persian Gulf region regardless of whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. The secret blueprint refers to unresolved issues with Saddam and Iraq being merely a pretext for a U.S. attack. According to the Herald, the report is a ``blueprint for maintaining global U.S. pre-eminence,'' and calls for the United States to ``fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars'' as a ``core mission.'' Such news should come as no shock to any citizen who follows our nation's history. The U.S. military has invaded other nations scores of times, often on bogus pretexts. It currently has more bases, troops and weapons positioned offshore than any other country on the planet. Does this not make the United States a military empire? George W. Bush says that the United Nations must ``show some backbone'' in dealing with Iraq and Saddam, and that he is prepared to act unilaterally if necessary. He's right. The United Nations does need to stand up -- against U.S. military unilateralism. Congress needs to show some backbone by demanding detailed evidence of Iraqi threats to the world and by demanding an explanation of the secret Bush administration blueprint. The U.S. mainstream news media should ``show some backbone'' by becoming less administrative mouthpieces and blind cheerleaders for invasions and more sources of investigative reports. Finally, we, the people, need to show some backbone by piercing through the mainstream media hoopla, seeking alternative sources of information, joining with others in our community to educate our fellow citizens and pressuring public officials to oppose war, an escalation of military spending and reduction of Bill of Rights protections. A functioning democracy must have actively engaged and informed citizens. Only then can we, the people, have any hope of being in charge of our lives, governments and corporations and choose not to buy the war that Bush & Co. are desperately trying to sell. Greg Coleridge American Friends Service Committee Akron