In 1997 Dick Cheney, set up & write the "Mission Statement" for Project for a New American Century (PNAC).
In 1998 Donald Rumsfeld, and 17 other GOPers, used Project for a New American Century letterhead & wrote President Clinton a letter begging him to:
- Invade Iraq claiming Saddam had WMDs.
- Overthrow & Remove Saddam Hussein from power.
- Ignore the United Nations and invade Iraq anyway.
- Promised to support Clinton under condition he (Clinton) overthrow Saddam.
Who were Donald Rumsfeld's companions who begged Clinton to overthrow Saddam & invade Iraq?
Answer:
Elliott Abrams Richard L. Armitage William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner John Bolton Paula Dobriansky
Francis Fukuyama Robert Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol Richard Perle Peter W. Rodman
Donald Rumsfeld William Schneider, Jr. Vin Weber
Paul Wolfowitz R. James Woolsey Robert B. Zoellick
Guess how many were IN Bush & Cheney Administration Warmonger Machine?
This letter PROVES they wanted to steal oil by overthrowing Saddam as early as 1998.
January 26, 1998
The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor.
The policy of "containment" of Saddam Hussein has been steadily eroding over the past several months. As recent events have demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections. Our ability to ensure that Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction, therefore, has substantially diminished. Even if full inspections were eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraq’s chemical and biological weapons production. The lengthy period during which the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of Saddam’s secrets. As a result, in the not-too-distant future we will be unable to determine with any reasonable level of confidence whether Iraq does or does not possess such weapons.
Such uncertainty will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on the entire Middle East. It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil will all be put at hazard. As you have rightly declared, Mr. President, the security of the world in the first part of the 21st century will be determined largely by how we handle this threat.
Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate. The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.
We urge you to articulate this aim, and to turn your Administration's attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power. This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts. Although we are fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing to do so are far greater. We believe the U.S. has the authority under existing UN resolutions to take the necessary steps, including military steps, to protect our vital interests in the Gulf. In any case, American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council.
We urge you to act decisively. If you act now to end the threat of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or its allies, you will be acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our interests and our future at risk.
Sincerely,
Elliott Abrams Richard L. Armitage William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner John Bolton Paula Dobriansky
Francis Fukuyama Robert Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol Richard Perle Peter W. Rodman
Donald Rumsfeld William Schneider, Jr. Vin Weber
Paul Wolfowitz R. James Woolsey Robert B. Zoellick
This 1998 letter PROVES, beyond any doubt that the GOP were hell-bent on overthrowing Saddam Hussein with FALSE claims of WMD's way, WAY before 9-11-2001, WAY before Joe Wilson's 2002 trip to Niger to investigate allegations that Saddam Hussein was attempting to purchase yellowcake uranium; WAY before Valerie Plame was outted by Dick Cheney's goons ... and WAY before the FALSIFIED INTEL that Bush & Cheney & Kristol & Kraphammer spouted about.
In 2000 The Project for a New American Century completed a 76 page pdf blueprint for the future of American foreign policy for the Bush administration.
This Bush/Cheney foreign policy blueprint titled: Rebuilding America's Defenses 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."
Excerpts from the 76 page blueprint:
Kim Jong Il and Saddam Hussein each could begin a war – perhaps even while employing chemical, biological or even nuclear weapons – and the United States would make no effort to unseat militarily either ruler. In both cases,past Pentagon wargames have given little or no consideration to the force requirements necessary not only to defeat an attack but to remove these regimes from power and conduct post-combat stability operations. (Page 10)
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... (page 14)
From an American perspective, the value of such bases would endure even should Saddam pass from the scene. Over the long term, Iran may well prove as large a threat to U.S. interests in the Gulf as Iraq has. And even should U.S.-Iranian relations improve, retaining forward-based forces in the region would still be an essential element in U.S. security strategy given the longstanding American interests in the region.
I urge everyone to click on the pdf Rebuilding America's Defenses blueprint and see the names of people who "Project Participants" - you'll find familiar names like Scooter Libby, FOX Contributor William Kristol, among other Bush Cheney Cabinet members.
UN-EFFING-BELIEVABLE Wolfowitz and Libby, two members of the Bush cabinet, drafted a blueprint that state that the US must, "discourage advanced industrial nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or global role."
It cannot be any more plain that their (GOP) vision of US strategy for the 21st century should be global domination and that of a global dictator.
Dick Cheney's role: In 1997 Dick Cheney, along with 24 other's helped set up & write the Statement of Principles for Project for a New American Century (PNAC).
Here is the list of those who signed PNAC's Statement of Principles
Elliott Abrams Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeb Bush
Dick Cheney Eliot A. Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes
Aaron Friedberg Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Fred C. Ikle
Donald Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad I. Lewis Libby Norman Podhoretz
Dan Quayle Peter W. Rodman Stephen P. Rosen Henry S. Rowen
Donald Rumsfeld Vin Weber George Weigel Paul Wolfowitz
The 1998 letter, alone, PROVES, beyond any doubt that that there was a plan to go to war with Iraq, as early as 1998, regardless of what happened on September 11th 2001 and regardless of what the "intel" said.
George Bush and Dick Cheney were dishonest from the very start about the most serious subject in the world, war. Whether you agree with the war or not there is no way to deny that fact.
The intel was not "wrong" - the intel was intentionally propagandized with FALSE fearmongering and was spouted by FOX's Kristol and Kraphammer & radio DJ William Bennett (who all helped write PNAC's Mission Statement)
SHIT! Talk about having your own warmongering, fearmongering Microphone! Bennett, Kristol, Kraphammer.
The 1998 letter proves their BS "WMD" mantra & fearmongering campaign started THREE LONG YEARS before 9/11/2001 and FIVE long years before we sent US troops into to Iraq without the proper body armor and other life-saving equipment.
Not one single person who signed that letter are patriotic. Bush NOR Cheney are patriotic. They ALL caused US military personnel to die - to secure oil & steal oil money.
Google 2005 BILLIONS of Iraq Oil Money MISSING under Bush Cheney watch. That money, and more, is STILL missing.