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HOW DID BUSH GET US INTO THIS MESS?
By Peter Fredson
Several friends asked me this week about the divided nation, the War in Iraq, and how this recent mess evolved.
Before George W. Bush took office in January of 2001, he and a few neoconservatives had planned a preemptive attack on Iraq, supposedly to effect “regime change”
Plans to create a “global Pax Americana” were made by people like Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz, Jeb Bush, Lewis Libby (Chief of Staff for Cheney) and Karl Rove. Their plan was called: REBUILDING AMERICA’S DEFENCES: STRATEGIES, FORCES AND RESOURCES FOR A NEW CENTURY, written in September 2000 by the aggressive war-mongering Far Right PROJECT FOR THE NEW AMERICAN CENTURY (PNAC).
These people are now called “Chicken Hawks” for their reluctance to actively serve in the military, and for their avid and bloodthirsty desire to establish hegemony and domination of the U.S. over the rest of the world, with themselves in charge, with their corporate sponsors taking over the profits of warmongering, invasion, and preemptive strikes on other people’s national resources for fun and profit.
The Bush administration planned to seize military control of Middle Eastern countries whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power. Their plan stated: ’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.’
The PNAC plan is a ’blueprint for maintaining global US pre-eminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests’.
The neoconservatives intend to rule the world, and to destroy any opposition to their rule. They intend to ’fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars’ as a ’core mission’.
The PNAC plan supports a previous document written by Wolfowitz and Libby saying that the US must ’discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role’.
The conspirators were worried that Europe could prevent the U.S. from establishing world control. They also decided to bypass the United Nations as a moderator, in order to use their political, economic and military might at will.
They unabashedly declared they would change the regime of Saddam Hussein by preemptive military force, and they intended to remain in the Gulf area permanently.
They thought Iran too would become a threat to U.S. interests and planned to take it over by finding some pretext for invasion.
They arrogantly decided to control the space of the universe, and to adopt weapons which would allow them to destroy any opposition by Star Wars technology in preemptive attacks.
They decided to continue development of biological, chemical and nuclear weaponry to ensure the dominance of the U.S. (and their sponsors.)
They called Iran, Syria, Libya and North Korea “EVIL regimes” and decided that they had to control all nuclear production in the world (except for their friends in Israel, and the too-dangerous Russians.)
All plans for world hegemony called for a NEW WORLD ORDER under Chicken Hawk control. All of this took place long before the September 11th tragedy gave the Hawks the pretext they were looking for to invade Iraq (which had nothing to do with September 11th.)
The Chicken Hawks combined forces with the Christian far-right organizations to become politically activists. This meant that the many thousands of preachers and televangelists would tell their flocks whom to vote for.
In exchange they could post their Commandments, recite their Pledges, have national Days of Prayer, National Read-your-Bible weeks, harass gays, restrict scientific endeavors, impose sexual and verbal censorship on the media, prevent the “f” word from circulating, make sure nipples were taboo for viewing, and similar religious exigencies could become national policy.
They fully intended to tear down the Wall of Separation between Church and State.
These forces took over the entire Republican party, with their votes, cash and active support. They intend to dominate the Judicial system and impose their religious dogmas on the nation. In effect they now totally control the legislative, judicial and executive branches of our nation, and can prevent any contrariness from evolving into serious opposition.
No legislation proposed by the executive branch, no matter how stupid or deleterious, has ever been the subject of serious investigation.
Few Republicans have ever criticized any of the President’s plans, but instead he is excessively lauded, applauded, and saluted as some sort of imperial or divine figure.
For some reason a cowardly draft-dodger, alcoholic, coke-sniffer, womanizer, who has never done anything courageous in his entire life, has emerged as a sort of Julius Caesar, to be hailed as a hero and excused for all his lies, misinformation, stupidities, and incompetence.
And that’s how the modern application of preemption and hegemony was developed and carried to successful installation. Aggression and deception has paid handsomely.
Billions of dollars are missing while corrupt corporation executives are delighted with the apparent unconcern of the administration. After all, the Bush justice system was able to catch and imprison dangerous felon Martha Steward who lied under oath.
And all is right with the world.
Forum posts
29 May 2005, 21:15
Is it too late to get our country back?
I listen to the sheeple that still support these madmen and I wonder.
I really don’t think we will get through the next three years without other countries banding together against us.
We need to impeach Bush now and we must have a full investigation of his whole administration!
29 May 2005, 21:55
AGREE 400% WITHOUT DELAY, TODAY the WHEELS MUST START TO ROLL TOWARDS HIS IMPEACHMENT AND INVESTIGATION INTO THE LIES AND TREASON HE HAS DONE TO the American People, and Iraq people.
The world has been mislead by two countries, Britian, America
BUSH - blair
NO MORE LIVES LOST IN IRAQ, BRING OUR TROOPS HOME AND LET THE IRAQ PEOPLE TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR OWN COUNTRY WITHOUT BUSH NOSE AND HIS
BULLY AGENDA.
30 May 2005, 04:03
This article is basically a rehash of stuff that was posted a few months ago.
American is not to lose; Other countries are not going to impose on America; No one will challenage America. Most of all Americans will never see the true cost in Iraqi lives taken. Most, if any, are only concerned of the 1600 or so Americans and even that is not truly felt by the average American.
Americans hate all those who do not look like them (that’s read "Iraqis"); a few hundred thousand killed is no biggie.
This blog, like many others, are just places for some to vent.
More death is sure to follow.
31 May 2005, 22:59
Bush didn’t get us into this mess, Israel and loyalists to Israel did. Bush is just another in a long line of zionist patsies and this article is another piece of disinformation to keep the real perpetrators secret. "chicken hawks", "neoconservatives", "global Pax Americana", these are all fancy words to keep you from realizing the truth. America has had no greater enemy and threat to her longevity and health than the rogue racist "state" of Israel. I wouldn’t dream of trying to convince anyone of this in this small message, but maybe I can motivate one person to look into the greatest hoax since "God" - our "friend" Israel. There is alot of information on this open secret on the internet and I suggest you re-educate yourself before the internet is censored.
1 June 2005, 05:21
You say "this mess" as if the world were not a mess prior to the Iraq War.
Was it not a mess on 9/11? Was it a mess when the USSR and the US were poised for decades on the brink of nuclear annihilation? Was it a mess when families and villages were being raped, slaughtered, gassed in Rwanda, East Timor, Cambodia, Darfur, Halabja, Hama, and countless other sites of massacre, genocide, mass rape, and human slavery? Are not even now 200 million people, mostly women and children, trafficked as sex slaves and illegal laborers?
The world is a messy place, it has always been a mess, and always will be. The reason why the Left has so little credibility left is that it knows no language other than demogoguery, simple minded half truths and a naive, monchromatic view of the world and of history. No other perspectives are invited, tolerated, or given any credence.
Shiites free to practice their religion in Iraq? Insignificant. Elections? Only pawns of the Americans could possibly have voted. Freedom for the the Khurds? Nonsense. Mass demonstrations in Lebanon leading the removal of Syrian troops after thirty years. Unrelated. The Marsh Arabs, one of the oldest cultures on Earth saved from extinction at the hands of Saddam? He didn’t really mean to kill them all. Good friend Saddam. Legitimate ruler of Iraq, lawful hand which filled Iraqs mass graves with hundreds of thousands of bodies, legal invader of Iran and Kuwait, righteous bearer of nerve gas and chemical weapons against rebellious Khurdish traitor women and children.
I question whether Liberals actually believe in anything. If Bush is bad, why are Liberals good? Because they sit around and congratulate themselves on their superior humanity every time there are unspeakable campaigns of brutality and murder. Where is your alternative vision of the world? How can you pretend that none of this ever happens? I would say that even if Bush and the neo-cons were insincere hypocrites, action against evil is better that virtuous complicity. Good people stand around and do nothing again and again. You have no alternative, only venom, and will remain in the political wilderness until you grow a spine.
1 June 2005, 08:54
What tripe. Actions against evil....ha, what this administration and the righties are IS evil, and activly participate in evil at the same time that they try to pass themselves off as being so moral, puke. The righties think they have some credibility. Too bad for them that the rest of the world and more than half of the US disagree and sees them as the problem over and over in their multiplying messes everywhere they go for the insatiable greed that is at their core belief system. Then they wrap themselves in their phony religions and the flag and pretend that they have a copyright on morals, what a joke, the truth is that they have none.
For example, Switzerland, a tiny country with a real democracy where the people have plebicite and actually vote on the issues facing their country in unrigged elections with a free press has not been involved in any war for more than 400 years, they have enough mental capacity to know that that is nothing to base their entire economy on and that war is not good for anything except misery and war profiteering for people who have NO morals.
So wake up you righty stupid bastard and realize that everyone except you and your fascist leaders have the ability and the desire to follow Switzerlands pattern and model, it is workable and proven and we should adopt it and throw out the garbage that passes for government here and that would benefit humanity unlike the warmongering religious right that thinks they are on a crusade. We need a real democracy not this phony bullshit passed out by phony moralists like you. So how is that for a solution you stupid shithead?
2 September 2005, 18:16
Wow I cannot believe the ignorance and childish name-calling from this last post. This is a site for people to openly state their opinions and while I have no problem with you challenging their opinions and ideas there is something wrong with attacking them personally and calling them uncalled for names simply because you don’t agree with them. And one another thing Rwanda was mentioned earlier and then other posts go on to mention how the Right is to blame for all the evil in the World. I would just like to remind some people that the Rwandan Genocide took place in 1994 which would have been Clinton’s administration. Also the entire world was to blame for this grievous mistake of inaction. Where was your precious Switzerland then? They may not have been involved in war in the last 400 years but they have also sat idly by and watched hundreds of thousands of innocent people be murdered. I am not saying that the either side is right or wrong I am simply reminding that neither side has been without fault.