I suggest Jeb or anyone else that thinks we’re in Iraq to “liberate” Iraqi’s might want to investigate the group “Project for a New American Century”.
This IS for real folks and they are presently in control of our government. The quote at the bottom of this post is directly from their 93 pg report and you can download it right from their web site. They flat out say they want to dominate the world, including space and cyberspace…can you say “Mein Kampf”.
Before you vote for Bush I suggest you do some more research and see why some people are down right scared of this administration…Republicans and Democrats.
An obscure, ominous-sounding right-wing policy group called -Project for the New American Century, or PNAC - affiliated with Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld’s top deputy Paul Wolfowitz and Bush’s brother Jeb - even urged then-President Clinton to invade Iraq back in January 1998.
Why does the Bush administration seem hell-bent on war in the Middle East when key world powers and U.S. allies - such as France, Germany, Russia and China - don’t support it right now? Or when most Americans say they don’t want war, either, as long as the United Nations won’t endorse one?
Why the rush, and why now, when Saddam seems weakened by a decade of economic sanctions?
The answers are complicated, but most arise from the concept - endorsed by many of the key players in the Bush administration - that America, as the world’s lone superpower, should be putting that power to use.
Ian Lustick, a University of Pennsylvania political science professor and Middle East expert, calls the Cheney-Rumsfeld group “a cabal” - a band of conservative ideologues whose grand notions of American unilateral military might are out of touch and dangerous.
“What happened was 9/11, which had nothing to do with Iraq but produced an enormous amount of political capital which allowed the government to do anything it wanted as long as they could relate it to national security and the Middle East,” Lustick said.
The neo-conservative ideas about Iraq began to come together around the time that PNAC was formed, in spring 1997. Although the group’s overriding goal was expanding the U.S. military and American influence around the globe, the group placed a strong early emphasis on Iraq.
In addition to Clinton, the group lobbied GOP leaders in Congress to push for Saddam’s removal - by force if necessary.
“We should establish and maintain a strong U.S. military presence in the region, and be prepared to use that force to protect our vital interests in the Gulf - and, if necessary, to help remove Saddam from power,” the group wrote to Rep. Newt Gingrich and Sen. Trent Lott in May 1998.
Many of the best-known supporters have ties to the oil industry - most notably Cheney, who at the time was CEO of Halliburton, which makes oil-field equipment and would likely profit from the need to rebuild Iraq’s infrastructure.
Both supporters and opponents of a war in Iraq agree on one thing: That the events of Sept. 11 were the trigger that finally put the theory in action.
–Philadelphia Daily News (Jan. 27, 2003)
“Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor.”
–“Rebuilding America’s Defenses” (PNAC report Sept 2000)
BTW, of the 18 signers of this report, 10 are in the Bush administration…
