The influence and role of PNAC (Bush's Administration {scumbags}), page 1
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Topic started on 3-10-2004 @ 11:27 AM by TrueLies
Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld or Paul Wolfowitz....

Back in 1997, those three out-of-office Politicians and several other like-minded, mostly conservatives, were frustrated with American foreign policy.So they formed this new organization... Today, a 76-page paper written by the organization reads like a blueprint for the policy being carried out largely by Vice President thingy Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz. Is this a case of democracy in action? Influential thinkers who became policy makers? Or is it, as some international critics of the White House's policy on Iraq have argued, a secretive organization pulling the strings of the President, with an imperialistic goal of dominating the world? Are these criticisms legitimate?


Trailer for 'The President's Men'
ABC News, 5 March 2003



"After 9/11, [this Cheney-Rumsfeld-Wolfowitz led group] was able to benefit from the gigantic eruption of political capital, combined with the supply of military preponderance in the hands of the President. And this small group, therefore, was able to gain direct contact and even control, now, of the White House."

Professor Ian Lustick of the University of Pennsylvania
ABC News Nightline, 5 March 2003


"On the morning of 12 September 2001, without any evidence of who the hijackers were, Rumsfeld demanded that the US attack Iraq. According to Woodward, Rumsfeld told a cabinet meeting that Iraq should be 'a principal target of the first round in the war against terrorism'. Iraq was temporarily spared only because Colin Powell, the secretary of state, persuaded Bush that 'public opinion has to be prepared before a move against Iraq is possible'..."
Why Bush lies about Iraq
John Pilger, ITV.com, 12 Dec 2002

more: www.btinternet.com...
www.bushpresident2004.com...

PNAC's vision is detailed in its September 2000 report entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." Among other suggestions, this report calls for the United States to:

* Withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, stop the reduction of nuclear missiles, develop new nuclear weapons, and deploy a national missile defense system.
* Increase defense spending to a minimum 3.8 percent of gross domestic product (up from the 3 percent spent at the time of the report).
* "Fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars" as a "core mission."
* Warns that "we cannot allow North Korea, Iran, Iraq or similar states to undermine American leadership," and American military preeminence rests on the ability to "[remove] a dangerous and hostile regime when necessary."
* Keep all peacekeeping and rebuilding missions within the power of American political leadership rather than that of the United Nations.
* Use key allies, such as the U.K., as the "most effective and efficient means of exercising American global leadership."
* Take military control of the Persian Gulf region through the establishment of permanent bases.
* Take control of cyberspace, otherwise "[America] will find it difficult to exert global political leadership."

In this 2000 report, PNAC predicted this more assertive defense policy would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."


Here's many goodle searches on the PNAC group
www.google.com... x&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8


(Remember I said earlier, it's not the president you have to be worried about, it's the 1,300 or so people he brings with him to Washington)

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