Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming Preside

[DaveSZ]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1221.htm

Lets Not Forget: Bush Planned Iraq 'Regime Change' Before Becoming President

By Neil Mackay
15 September 2002: 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'.

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[Stephanie]

1. Want to learn more about PNAC?

PNAC Links Archive

[Stephanie]

2. I know that article is old, but why do they call it secret?

They posted that document on the web for all the world to see. Not secret.

[cspiguy]

3. ahem - our own WJC signed the Iraq Liberation Act

calling for the same thing.

[Stephanie]

4. At the insistence of PNAC

That resolution was written by PNAC. And PNAC would have liked Clinton to invade Iraq but he did not - he worked with the UN to contain him.

All the neo-cons of BushCO (Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby, etc.) have been waiting impatiently for years for their chance to stage this invasion.