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Bush planned Iraq regime change before election
The Sunday Herald | 9-15-02 | Neil Mackay

Posted on 09/15/2002 12:25:03 PM PDT by eagles

Sunday Herald - 15 September 2002 Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming President By Neil Mackay

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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.'


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bush; iraq; paranoia; regimechange; thinktank; year2000
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A liberal friend sent me this. Would be interested in the opinion of fellow freepers.
1 posted on 09/15/2002 12:25:03 PM PDT by eagles
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To: eagles
Your first post in almost four years and you chose to post this?
2 posted on 09/15/2002 12:26:54 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: eagles
Scooter Libby in on the planning? HAR-DE-HAR-HAR!
3 posted on 09/15/2002 12:27:00 PM PDT by Miss Marple
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To: eagles
My opinion? The aspiring fiction writer who penned this crap shouldn't quit his day job:

calls for the creation of 'US Space Forces', to dominate space

Yeah! Space Rangers!

4 posted on 09/15/2002 12:28:35 PM PDT by dirtboy
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To: eagles
Glad to see the loony left's black-helicopter crowd is so much lamer than ours.
5 posted on 09/15/2002 12:29:16 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: M. Thatcher
spotlights China for 'regime change'

LOL.

6 posted on 09/15/2002 12:33:29 PM PDT by Howlin
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To: eagles
is your bong full?
7 posted on 09/15/2002 12:35:21 PM PDT by glock rocks
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To: eagles
This piece is really quite hilarious. It states this:

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'.

And then two sentences later states this:

refers to key allies such as the UK as 'the most effective and efficient means of exercising American global leadership';

They can't even keep their lies consistent...

8 posted on 09/15/2002 12:35:57 PM PDT by dirtboy
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...combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes...

"The World Of Microbes" - Tues. night at ten eastern - only on The Discovery Channel.

9 posted on 09/15/2002 12:36:05 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: eagles
Oh please . . what tripe. Regime change inside Iraq has been the official position of the United States since 1999.

Bush hasn't changed a thing.

10 posted on 09/15/2002 12:36:47 PM PDT by ChadGore
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To: eagles
Yeah. I think Bat-Boy leaked this secret report in the October, 2000 National Enquirer. That's why he chose to support gore.
11 posted on 09/15/2002 12:37:13 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness
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'American and allied power providing the spur to the process of democratisation in China'

Maggie - is it not proper to exactly reproduce a phrase when quoting it? Or are these guys in the Administration merely Anglophobes?

12 posted on 09/15/2002 12:41:40 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: eagles
Your liberal friend is a loony.
13 posted on 09/15/2002 12:41:50 PM PDT by Rocko
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To: Senator Pardek
Er - I mean Anglophiles....
14 posted on 09/15/2002 12:42:40 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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To: Senator Pardek
...combat likely will take place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes...

Thinking...thinking...Okay! I just picked my branch of service. I choose Interdimensional Combat.

(Microbes creep me out up close)

15 posted on 09/15/2002 12:45:43 PM PDT by hellinahandcart
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To: eagles
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.' [emphasis added]

Shows what, again?

16 posted on 09/15/2002 12:46:56 PM PDT by 1rudeboy
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To: eagles
Actually, I hope the administrator decides to get this piece of crap out of here...no offense.
17 posted on 09/15/2002 12:48:46 PM PDT by Wait4Truth
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To: eagles; dighton
Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP, father of the House of Commons and one of the leading rebel voices against war with Iraq, said:

"Where are your rebel friends NOW?"

18 posted on 09/15/2002 12:50:23 PM PDT by Thinkin' Gal
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To: eagles
I'd remind Neil Mackay (the article's author) of an American phrase:
"Timing Is Everything"

Note these two passages:
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).


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reveals worries in the administration that Europe could rival the USA;

The Dubya administration didn't start until a day late in January 2001.

Maybe this article is subtly telling us that Dubya was already assured the
Presidency in September 2000...even before the election.

Wow...what a cool conspiracy theory...
19 posted on 09/15/2002 12:50:32 PM PDT by VOA
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To: hellinahandcart; Physicist
Is it not true that if hellinahandcart were transformed into a 4 dimensional soldier, HIAHC could be positioned to shoot a weapon whose ammo would appear out of nowhere, from the enemy's point of view?
20 posted on 09/15/2002 12:52:37 PM PDT by Senator Pardek
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