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