by Bernard Weiner
Recently, I was the guest on a radio talk-show hosted by a
thoroughly decent far-right Republican. I got verbally battered, but
returned fire and, I think, held my own. Toward the end of the hour,
I mentioned that the National Security Strategy -- promulgated by
the Bush Administration in September 2002 -- now included attacking
possible future competitors first, assuming regional hegemony by
force of arms, controlling energy resources around the globe,
maintaining a permanent-war strategy, etc.
"I'm not making up this stuff," I said. "It's all talked about
openly by the neo-conservatives of the Project for the New American
Century -- who now are in charge of America's military and foreign
policy -- and published as official U.S. doctrine in the National
Security Strategy of the United States of America."
The talk-show host seemed to gulp, and then replied: "If you really
can demonstrate all that, you probably can deny George Bush a second
term in 2004."
. . . Mere hours after the 9/11 terrorist mass-murders, PNACer
Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld ordered his aides to begin planning
for an attack on Iraq, even though his intelligence officials told
him it was an al-Qaida operation and there was no connection between
Iraq and the attacks. "Go massive," the aides' notes quote him as
saying. "Sweep it all up. Things related and not." Rumsfeld leaned
heavily on the FBI and CIA to find any shred of evidence linking the
Iraq government to 9/11, but they weren't able to. So he set up his
own fact-finding group in the Pentagon that would provide him with
whatever shaky connections it could find or surmise.
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Andrew Gumbel, "Growing Evidence of Deception
by Washington ," Indpendent (UK), April 20, 2003
E. J. Dionne Jr., "Inevitably, The
Politics Of Terror," Washington Post, May 25, 2003
Patrick Seale, "A
Costly Friendship," The Nation, July 2, 2003
George Monbiot, "America
is a religion," Guardian, July 29, 2003
