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:

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

# describes peace-keeping missions as 'demanding American political 
leadership rather than that of the United Nations';  

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

# 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';  

# 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';  

# 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;  

# 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';  

# 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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Source: Sunday Herald - http://www.sundayherald.com/27735

"Project For The New American Century" -
www.newamericancentury.org/index.html

Cheers, Steve..

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