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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 report’s plan for US global domination included:
"… a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure ‘regime change.’"
This report was compiled in the main by Donald Kagan, Gary Schmitt and Thomas Donnelly for: Dick Cheney; Donald Rumsfeld; Paul Wolfowitz; Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida and Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.
People who attended meetings or contributed papers in preparation of the report:
Roger Barnett, U.S. Naval War College; Alvin Bernstein, National Defense University; Stephen Cambone, National Defense University, head of the Office of Program, Analysis and Evaluation at the Defense Department; Eliot Cohen, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Defence Policy Board; Devon Gaffney Cross; Thomas Donnelly, Project for the New American Century; David Epstein, Office of Secretary of Defence; David Fautua, Lt. Col., U.S. Army; Dan Goure, Centre for Strategic and International Studies; Donald Kagan, Yale University; Fred Kagan, US Military Academy at West Point; Robert Kagan, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Robert Killebrew; William Kristol, "The Weekly Standard;" Mark Lagon, Senate Foreign Relations Committee; James Lasswell; Lewis Libby, Vice President's chief of staff; Robert Martinage, Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment; Phil Meilinger, US Naval War College, Mackubin Owens, US Naval War College; Steve Rosen, Harvard University; Gary Schmitt, Project for the New American Century; Abram Shulsky, The RAND Corporation; Michael Vickers, Centre for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment; Barry Watts, Northrop Grumman Corporation; Paul Wolfowitz Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, Deputy Secretary of Defence; Dov Zakheim, Undersecretary of Defence and Chief Financial Officer for the Pentagon.
2001
US ADMINISTRATION OFFICIALS. "The Observer." October 14th 2001.
"We see this war as one against the virus of terrorism. If you have bone marrow cancer, it's not enough to just cut off the patient's foot. You have to do the complete course of chemotherapy. And if that means embarking on the next Hundred Years' War, that's what we're doing."
The "Observer" described the above Aministration Officials as being:
"Close to the Defence Policy Advisory Board."
THE OBSERVER. October 14th 2001.
"The hawks winning the ear of President Bush are assembled around Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, his deputy Paul Wolfowitz, and a think tank, the Defence Policy Advisory Board, dubbed the 'Wolfowitz cabal'.
PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY. A letter to George W. Bush. September 20th 2001. The letter of 41. (There were 41 signatories to this letter.) http://www.newamericancentury.org/Bushletter.htm
"Dear Mr. President,
We write to endorse your admirable commitment to ‘lead the world to victory’ in the war against terrorism. We fully support your call for ‘a broad and sustained campaign’ against the ‘terrorist organizations and those who harbor and support them.’ We agree with Secretary of State Powell that the United States must find and punish the perpetrators of the horrific attack of September 11, and we must, as he said, ‘go after terrorism wherever we find it in the world’ and ‘get it by its branch and root.’ We agree with the Secretary of State that US policy must aim not only at finding the people responsible for this incident, but must also target those ‘other groups out there that mean us no good’ and ‘that have conducted attacks previously against US personnel, US interests and our allies.’
In order to carry out this ‘first war of the 21st century’ successfully, and in order, as you have said, to do future ‘generations a favor by coming together and whipping terrorism,’ we believe the following steps are necessary parts of a comprehensive strategy.
We agree that a key goal, but by no means the only goal, of the current war on terrorism should be to capture or kill Osama bin Laden, and to destroy his network of associates. To this end, we support the necessary military action in Afghanistan and the provision of substantial financial and military assistance to the anti-Taliban forces in that country.
We agree with Secretary of State Powell’s recent statement that Saddam Hussein ‘is one of the leading terrorists on the face of the Earth.’
It may be that the Iraqi government provided assistance in some form to the recent attack on the United States. But even if evidence does not link Iraq directly to the attack, any strategy aiming at the eradication of terrorism and its sponsors must include a determined effort to remove Saddam Hussein from power in Iraq. Failure to undertake such an effort will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism. The United States must therefore provide full military and financial support to the Iraqi opposition. American military force should be used to provide a ‘safe zone’ in Iraq from which the opposition can operate. And American forces must be prepared to back up our commitment to the Iraqi opposition by all necessary means.
Hezbollah is one of the leading terrorist organizations in the world. It is suspected of having been involved in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Africa, and implicated in the bombing of the US Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983. Hezbollah clearly falls in the category cited by Secretary Powell of groups ‘that mean us no good’ and ‘that have conducted attacks previously against US personnel, US interests and our allies.’ Therefore, any war against terrorism must target Hezbollah. We believe the administration should demand that Iran and Syria immediately cease all military, financial, and political support for Hezbollah and its operations.
Should Iran and Syria refuse to comply, the administration should consider appropriate measures of retaliation against these known state sponsors of terrorism.
Israel has been and remains America’s staunchest ally against international terrorism, especially in the Middle East. The United States should fully support our fellow democracy in its fight against terrorism. We should insist that the Palestinian Authority put a stop to terrorism emanating from territories under its control and imprison those planning terrorist attacks against Israel. Until the Palestinian Authority moves against terror, the United States should provide it no further assistance.
A serious and victorious war on terrorism will require a large increase in defence spending.
Fighting this war may well require the United States to engage a well-armed foe, and will also require that we remain capable of defending our interests elsewhere in the world. We urge that there be no hesitation in requesting whatever funds for defence are needed to allow us to win this war…
Diplomatic efforts will be required to enlist other nations’ aid in this war on terrorism. Economic and financial tools at our disposal will have to be used. There are other actions of a military nature that may well be needed. However, in our judgement the steps outlined above constitute the minimum necessary if this war is to be fought effectively and brought to a successful conclusion. Our purpose in writing is to assure you of our support as you do what must be done to lead the nation to victory in this fight."
Sincerely, William Kristol; Richard V. Allen; Gary Bauer; Jeffrey Bell; William J. Bennett; Rudy Boshwitz; Jeffrey Bergner; Eliot Cohen; Seth Cropsey; Midge Decter; Thomas Donnelly; Nicholas Eberstadt; Hillel Fradkin; Aaron Friedberg; Francis Fukuyama; Frank Gaffney; Jeffrey Gedmin; Reuel Marc Gerecht; Charles Hill; Bruce P. Jackson; Eli S. Jacobs; Michael Joyce; Donald Kagan; Robert Kagan; Jeane Kirkpatrick; Charles Krauthammer; John Lehman; Clifford May; Martin Peretz; Richard Perle; Norman Podhoretz; Stephen P. Rosen; Randy Scheunemann; Gary Schmitt; William Schneider, Jr.; Richard H. Shultz; Henry Sokolski; Stephen J. Solarz; Vin Weber; Leon Wieseltier; Marshall Wittmann.
PAT BUCHANAN.
"The war Netanyahu and the neocons want, with the United States and Israel fighting all of the radical Islamic states, is the war bin Laden wants, the war his murderers hoped to ignite when they sent those airliners into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon."
"USA Today." 26th September, 2001.
"Whose war is this?"
"In his resolve to hunt down and kill the Osama bin Laden terrorists he says committed the Sept. 11 massacres, President Bush has behind him a nation more unified than it has been since Pearl Harbor. But now Bush has been put on notice that this war cannot end with the head of bin Laden and the overthrow of the Taliban.
The shot across Bush's bow came in an "Open Letter" co-signed by 41 foreign-policy scholars, including William Bennett, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the publisher of The Weekly Standard and the editor in chief of The New
Republic — essentially, the entire neoconservative establishment.
What must Bush do to retain their support? Target Hezbollah for destruction and retaliate against Syria and Iran if they refuse to cut all ties to Hezbollah and move militarily to overthrow Iraq's Saddam Hussein. Failure to attack Iraq, the neocons warn Bush, "will constitute an early and perhaps decisive surrender in the war on international terrorism."
"Our purpose in writing is to assure you of our support as you do what must be done to lead the nation to victory in this fight," the letter ends.
Implied is a threat to end support if Bush does not widen the war to include all of Israel's enemies, or if he pursues the U.S.-Arab-Muslim coalition of Secretary of State Colin Powell. |