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AMERICA 'PEARL HARBORED'

Fanatical Warhawks Drafted Blueprint for Bloody U.S. World Domination
Years Ago


The cabal of war fanatics advising the White House secretly planned a
“transformation” of defense policy years ago, calling for war against
Iraq and huge increases in military spending. A “catalyzing event —
like a new Pearl Harbor”—was seen as necessary to bring this about.

By Christopher Bollyn

The huge increases in U.S. military spending that have occurred since
the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were planned before President
George W. Bush was elected by the same men who are pushing the
administration’s “war on terrorism” and the invasion and occupation of
Iraq.

Billions of dollars in additional defense spending are but the first
step in the group’s long-term plan to transform the U.S. military into
a global army enforcing a terroristic and bloody Pax Americana around
the world.

A neo-conservative Washington-based organization known as the Project
for the New American Century (PNAC), funded by three foundations
closely tied to Persian Gulf oil and weapons and defense industries,
drafted the war plan for U.S. global domination through military
power.

One of the organization’s do***ents clearly shows that Bush and his
most senior cabinet members had already planned an attack on Iraq
before he took power in January 2001.

The PNAC was founded in the spring of 1997 by the well-known Zionist
neo-conservatives Robert Kagan and William Kristol of The Weekly
Standard.

The PNAC is part of the New Citizenship Project, whose chairman is
also William Kristol, and is described as “a non-profit, educational
organization whose goal is to promote American global leadership.”

**** Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Jeb Bush, and Paul Wolfowitz signed a
Statement of Principles of the PNAC on June 3, 1997, along with many
of the other current members of Bush’s “war cabinet.”

Wolfowitz was one of the directors of PNAC until he joined the Bush
administration.

The group’s essential demand was for hefty increases in defense
spending. “We need to increase defense spending significantly if we
are to carry out our global responsibilities today and modernize our
armed forces for the future,” the statement’s first principle reads.

The increase in defense spending is to bring about two of the other
principles: “to challenge regimes hostile to our interests and values”
and “to accept responsibility for America’s unique role in preserving
and extending an international order friendly to our security, our
prosperity, and our principles.”

A subsequent PNAC plan entitled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses:
Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century,” reveals that the
current members of Bush’s cabinet had already planned, before the 2000
presidential election, to take military control of the Gulf region
whether Saddam Hussein is in power or not.

The 90-page PNAC do***ent from September 2000 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.”

“Even should Saddam pass from the scene,” the plan says U.S. military
bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will remain, despite domestic
opposition in the Gulf states to the permanent stationing of U.S.
troops. Iran, it says, “may well prove as large a threat to U.S.
interests as Iraq has.”

A “core mission” for the transformed U.S. military is to “fight and
decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars,” according
to the PNAC.

The strategic “transformation” of the U.S. military into an
imperialistic force of global domination would require a huge increase
in defense spending to “a minimum level of 3.5 to 3.8 percent of gross
domestic product, adding $15 billion to $20 billion to total defense
spending annually,” the PNAC plan said.

“The process of transformation,” the plan said, “is likely to be a
long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new
Pearl Harbor.”

American Free Press asked Christopher Maletz, assistant director of
the PNAC about what was meant by the need for “a new Pearl Harbor.”

“They needed more money to up the defense budget for raises, new arms,
and future capabilities,” Maletz said. “Without some disaster or
catastrophic event” neither the politicians nor the military would
have approved, Maletz said.

The “new Pearl Harbor,” in the form of the terror attacks of Sept. 11,
provided the necessary catalyst to put the global war plan into
effect. Congress quickly allocated $40 billion to fund the “war on
terrorism” shortly after 9-11.

A Pentagon spokesman told AFP that $17.5 billion of that initial
allocation went to defense.

The U.S. defense budget for 2002, including a $14.5 billion
supplement, came to $345.7 billion, a nearly 12 percent increase over
the 2001 defense budget.

Similar significant increases in defense spending are planned for 2003
(to $365 billion) and 2004 (to at least $378 billion) in line with the
PNAC plan.

advising Reagan, and when he spoke about ‘total war,’ I mistakenly
dismissed him as mad,” Pilger wrote. “He recently used the term again
in describing America’s ‘war on terror.’ ‘No stages,’ he said. ‘This
is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of
them out there. All this talk about first we are going to do
Afghanistan, then we will do Iraq . . . this is entirely the wrong way
to go about it. If we just let our vision of the world go forth, and
we embrace it entirely and we don’t try to piece together clever
diplomacy, but just wage a total war . . . our children will sing
great songs about us years from now.’ ”

“This is a blueprint for U.S. world domination—a new world order of
their making,” Tam Dalyell, British parliamentarian and critic of the
war policy from the Labor Party said. “These are the thought processes
of fantasist Americans who want to control the world.

“This is garbage from think-tanks stuffed with chicken-hawks,” Dalyell
said, “men who have never seen the horror of war but are in love with
the idea of war.

http://www.americanfreepress.net/12_24_02/America_Pearl_Harbored/america_pearl_harbored.html

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Otis <otis_p_driftwood@hotmail.com> wrote:


Poor otis does that whenever crooks get our troops hurt and killed.