Wrong Is Right!
More adventures in the land of the dim!
Ever since the final report on WMD was released last week, the administrations "talking points" have been this:
It doesn't matter. We are right. The war is necessary. Intent is enough. Thoughts are enough. Bad man + Bad thoughts = potential harm.
Now I intend to make a lot of money some day in my life - which will give me more room to maneuver - though just because I intend to do it, does not mean I will.
What the Dems are not pointing out, and they should, is that the Bush team had their beady red eyes focused on Iraq way before 9-11. It was a fat slab of under-cooked meat on their gilded plate and they were going to get at it one way or another. 9-11 (which took ALL of us off-guard, except for a few analysts whose memos went unheeded) was tailor made to their grand plan. Want to take a look at this grand plan, well check this letter out, dated 1998 to Clinton from the Iraq obsessed war ghouls over at the PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY. (This is the NeoCon Think-tank where most of the shit we've been forced to swallow over the last three years came from)
Read it carefully and look who signed it: If some of these names are very familiar, it's because they are now on the GOVT. Payroll, working at the highest levels of your government and have been doggedly at work crafting a radical, neo-con agenda.
LETTER TO CLINTON
This New American Century crowd is made up of the remnants of the first failed Bush presidency who were forced to sit and chew their inner lips for 8 years while a DEMOCRAT ruled the roost, the world was at peace and people were better off. They hated it. They are ruled by a need for Chaos and the subsequent establishing of a very Conservative leaning state of Order. I could go on for days on this and I know a lot of you know about these guys, but I thought, that as we move toward the election, it might be a good idea to REMIND ourselves of just who it is we are voting FOR and AGAINST on November 2.
Ever since the final report on WMD was released last week, the administrations "talking points" have been this:
It doesn't matter. We are right. The war is necessary. Intent is enough. Thoughts are enough. Bad man + Bad thoughts = potential harm.
Now I intend to make a lot of money some day in my life - which will give me more room to maneuver - though just because I intend to do it, does not mean I will.
What the Dems are not pointing out, and they should, is that the Bush team had their beady red eyes focused on Iraq way before 9-11. It was a fat slab of under-cooked meat on their gilded plate and they were going to get at it one way or another. 9-11 (which took ALL of us off-guard, except for a few analysts whose memos went unheeded) was tailor made to their grand plan. Want to take a look at this grand plan, well check this letter out, dated 1998 to Clinton from the Iraq obsessed war ghouls over at the PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY. (This is the NeoCon Think-tank where most of the shit we've been forced to swallow over the last three years came from)
Read it carefully and look who signed it: If some of these names are very familiar, it's because they are now on the GOVT. Payroll, working at the highest levels of your government and have been doggedly at work crafting a radical, neo-con agenda.
LETTER TO CLINTON
This New American Century crowd is made up of the remnants of the first failed Bush presidency who were forced to sit and chew their inner lips for 8 years while a DEMOCRAT ruled the roost, the world was at peace and people were better off. They hated it. They are ruled by a need for Chaos and the subsequent establishing of a very Conservative leaning state of Order. I could go on for days on this and I know a lot of you know about these guys, but I thought, that as we move toward the election, it might be a good idea to REMIND ourselves of just who it is we are voting FOR and AGAINST on November 2.
posted by Unknown at 10/13/2004 01:54:00 PM
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During the Clinton years, the the members of the PNAC were an obscure bunch - almost a sect. Then they were all elevated to power - again: most had worked for Ronald Reagan and Bush senior. Now they have pushed America - and the world - to war because they want it. Period. This is no conspiracy theory: it's all about the implementation of a project.
The lexicon of the Bush doctrine of unilateral world domination is laid out in detail by the Project for a New American Century (PNAC), founded in Washington in 1997. The ideological, political, economic and military fundamentals of American foreign policy - and uncontested world hegemony - for the 21st century are there for all to see.
PNAC's credo is officially to muster "the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests". PNAC states that the US must be sure of "deterring any potential competitors from even aspiring to a larger regional or global role" - without ever mentioning these competitors, the European Union, Russia or China, by name. The UN is predictably dismissed as "a forum for leftists, anti-Zionists and anti-imperialists". The UN is only as good as it supports American policy.
The PNAC mixes a peculiar brand of messianic internationalism with realpolitik founded over a stark analysis of American oil interests. Its key document, dated June 1997, reads like a manifesto. Horrified by the "debased" Bill Clinton, PNAC exponents lavishly praise "the essential elements of the Reagan administration's success: a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities". These exponents include Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, chairman of the Defense Policy Board, an advisory panel to the Pentagon made up of leading figures in national security and defense, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Reagan-era White House adviser Elliott Abrahms.
Already in 1997, the PNAC wanted to "increase defense spending significantly" to "challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values" and "to accept responsibility for America's unique role in preserving and extending an international order friendly to our security, our prosperity, and our principles". The deceptively bland language admitted "such a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity may not be fashionable today. But it is necessary if the United States is to build on the successes of this past century and to ensure our security and our greatness in the next".
The signatories of this 1997 document read like a who's who of Washington power today: among them, in addition to those mentioned above, Eliot Cohen, Steve Forbes, Francis Fukuyama, Frank Gaffney, William Bennett, Donald Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad, Lewis Libby, Norman Podhoretz and Dan Quayle.
The PNAC, now actively exercising power, fulfilled its dream of invading Iraq. In the PNAC's vision of Iraq, the only vector that matters is US strategic interest. Nobody really cares about Saddam Hussein's "brutal dictatorship", nor his extensive catalogue of human rights violations, nor "the suffering of the Iraqi people", nor his US-supplied weapons of mass destruction, nor his alleged connection to terrorism.
Iraq counts only as the first strike in a high-tech replay of the domino theory: the next dominoes will be Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia. The idea is to carve up Syria; let Turkey invade northern Iraq; overthrow the Saudi royal family; restore the Hashemites to the Hijaz in Arabia. And dismember Iraq altogether and annex it to Jordan as a vassal kingdom to the US: after all, Jordan's King Abdullah is a cousin of former Iraqi King Faisal, deposed in 1958. This would be one solution for the nagging question of who would have any legitimacy to be in power in Baghdad after Saddam.
If I recall correctly, the last time a group of power-mad reactionaries got the idea to reshape the world in their image we had a world war on our hands, and the whole mess ended up in disaster. Wake up America, this is not a test. It is not my own biased opinion influenced by my overtly liberal viewpoints. These are facts which are undeniable. There is no spin here.
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