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The PNAC and it`s connection to the Iraq War.

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Saturday March 15, 2003 17:26author by sa Report this post to the editors

Who is really pulling the string behind the US war drive to attack Iraq?

The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence.


The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.

Turns out this really has nothing to do with terrorism or weapons of mass destruction, though they have made a very good pretext for an already premeditated act. Our current situation is really the cooked up scheme of a tightly knit ultra right-wing group of extremists known as the Project for the New American Century. The group envisions a new American Empire known as Pax Americana. Naturally, the group has recently toned down the context of their rhetoric, mainly due to the current high political profile of many of it's key members, however early policy and literature from the organization was ripe with fascism and fundamentalism that would make even Hitler look like an alter boy. However, the group fancies themselves as more of a modern day Caesar than another Hitler. According to the organization " As America sits as a colossus astride the world it must seize the opportunity (placed at it's feet) to build an American Empire" through outrageous military spending and multiple key military campaigns to establish global dominance. They claim the military can not operate efficiently within the bounds of the constitution, United Nations, International Law, or Human Rights and the US must take an extensive unilateral approach to build it`s empire. The US must lash out at anyone who stands in the way of American corporate or government interests, even if it comes at great social expense and blood of what is called (common) Americans and even if it means anti-american sentiment and loss of allies "Rome did not stoop to containment; it conquered. And so should we",says the group.
The problem with the PNAC plan is they have hit a major iceberg, they didn't expect the major dissent of millions around the world never seen before and especially before military action has even occurred. Nor did they expect the dissent of many key allies this early in the game, who happen to be a lot more tuned in to what this is really all about, than the American people themselves who are constantly brainwashed and programmed by right wing and military owned corporate media outlets. There is no doubt how so many Americans have been so easily duped into actually believing the rhetoric and propaganda of terror and WoMD coming out of the White House argues many, considering most of the top brass comes right out of the CIA`s Mind Control school. However, there are growing movements in the US that can see through all this, thus we have seen the stripping of the constitution, loss of civil rights and invasion of privacy in the forms of the Homeland Security, Patriot, proposed Patriot II, and others which really have nothing to do with terror but are really about corporate and government security in a time of discontent, plus let"s not forget the recent Bush baby, No Child Left Behind (military recruitment tool in sheeps clothing) which requires schools and colleges to turn over names, contact info, even grades in some cases of all students to the military or lose federal funding. This is so military recruiters can scope, scan and seek out potential targets for recruitment in the extremely expanded military needed to maintain the new empire.

More on the evil plans and mindset of some of the PNAC can be found here:

http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_010603_pnac.html and
http://www.sierratimes.com/gaddy.htm and
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm

author by mutedpublication date Tue Mar 18, 2003 04:43author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Your double agent page managers erase this opinion issue every time get it on here, both as a comment or an piece on the news.

They have done this 5 times. It was wiped out here before also. So this is not a comment on this article - this is a way of getting past the people who repress opinions who run your news here.

If you got a chance to see this expose of the people dictating on you news project here, it is because I have changed all the key words that their computer recognises and only try to get on as a comment now.

I wonder how many more that you never see that your infiltrator editors erase and suppress if any of them dare to criticize the Israelis?


Why not Drop Your Israeli occupation supporters and get the American female activist's slaughter on the front page where it should be.

The u.s. presidential candidate whose initials are P. B'n and a congressman (the words of whose name they have programed into their computer server to erase this post) both have pointed out how the american pro-occupation block and occupation-supporting politicians are a central force in driving the u.s. to war with Iraq.
Perhaps they both are simply against the race of Israel? If so How come Just now when the these sort of politician are Pushing this country on to War with Iraq how come just at this time these two men have been seem now as biased? Is this something to think about....


Pro-israel congress members more than five of them called for the congressman to resign because he said their political block was one of the forces most responsible for speaking to send us into the Iraq war.
That would be ok except that he mentioned the truth about an interest-block of pro-occupation leaders. So is it all right to say so if those are the facts?
The congressman and the presidential candidates both bigots?

Do you think so? So? They could be and so could I. But how about these US scholars of the same extraction then? N'm Ch'sky says the same thing as does Ed Her'....the authors about the book of how the vote is programmed in people". And could Nrm'nfinklestyn,Ph.D historian and sociologist athuntercollege in nyc and Israelshm'r.... u.s. academician and essay writer. go to his essay on Jeffrense 's page , use his last name to get there on the net. Put it in google because all these names and addresses are by computer programmed suppressed and erased on here every time they are written here now.


Do you really believe the charges that these eminent educators of the same race as those that they are cricicizing, are all bigots?

Look at the behavior of those people running this service for you! They are erasing almost everything here critical of israel or critical of the supporters of the occupation.

Wouldn't it be best to drop your own fascist occupation supporting bigots on this newservice; right here?

The bosses that run these web pages leave all the posts every callous praising the occupation bigot on these pages ; but they erase me.

So why is this war happening......

The reason that it is happening is because the occupying country in the middle east doesn't want their biggest opponent left in the mideast and because rumsfeld bush cheney and their partners in oil have got a scheme by which they will definetly benefit from the war. And arab rage and frustration at the states bankrolling of Sharon's people to continue to destroy palestinians was the whole cause the destruction in manhattan. Most of us know that but those people approving of the devastion and larceny of the 'territories' will always deny it.

To confirm this for yourself you can go to the US maine page of this news collective and see the oils of war author, Paul Donahue an editor of an american grass roots party magazine.

How it works as of now is; Saddam has oil exploration contracts and supply agreements with France, Russia, Canada, Germany. Notice that he has none w/ the u.s..what happens is that the Bush's Iraqi opportunist government people have made a bargain with Cheney. All prior committments will be broken and they will give those bargains to Bush's, Cheney's and Rumsfeld's companies. That is , if Bush puts them in power in Saddam's place. If you doubt what I am saying is hard fact then check that page in u.s. maine part of this service.

Saddam whose fighting ability is totally crippled is not the least the cause of this war.

But what about the killing by bulldozer of the american girl?

What about all the attempts to trivialize her killing by people allowed to post here while I am prevented from posting here.

The other areas of this news collective service that are decent such as minniapolis and the seatle pages put this news on the front page. Here it is almost hidden. Why do you think that is?

And they pick the news accounts of it that are the most hypocritical about the slaughter being an accident.

Not like:

A peace protester intentionaly crushed by an army bulldozer in Gaza.
While homes are being destroyed and American resistor is also destroyed.
From the newspaper beginning with G in Britain by a C. McG.....

The IDF bulldozer compressed a female peace activist to death in the Gaza , in what witnesses described as a deliberate slaughter. Rachel Cor...(giving her young age ] suffered and died as she attempted to prevent the military destroying homes in the a refugee camp, one of the most dangerous in the occupied Palestine.
"She was standing on top of a pile of earth," said another activist, Richard Pur..., who was a few feet away :: The driver cannot have failed to see her. As the blade pushed the pile, the earth rose up. Rachel slid down the pile. It looks as if she got her foot caught. The driver didn't slow down; he just ran over her. Then he reversed the bulldozer back over her again. Rach..... was very brave.
Activists said the bulldozer had approached from several metres away and that Ms Corrie, who was wearing a brightly coloured jacket, was waving and they were shouting at the driver to stop but them he ignored.

Other observers said another protester had been slightly injured about half an hour earlier when the same bulldozer knocked him into the wire that was barbed.

Rachel was one of eight foreign volunteers, four from the u.s. and four from Britain with the a world wide protest agency seeking to block house crushings.

I have altered many words here to escape the program on here that automatically washes out anything I put up here. Do you really want these kind of people running this service. You may be next.
Purs... , said that earlier an Israeli tank protecting the bulldozer had attempted to drive protesters away with warning shots and teargas. But there had been no trouble immediately before Ms Corrie was smashed.

At the local hospital, doctors, said she had died from skull and chest smashing. The idf said the death was an accident and the driver couldn't see her. Will you put up with dictators on here who suppress people putting their opinions on here?

The idf said that we are dealing with a group of protesters who are acting very irresponsibly, putting everyone in danger, the Palestinians themselves and our forces through purposely placing themselves in a dangerous place in fron't of bulldozers.

Actually those who protest injustice are dealing with evil thugs who care nothing about decency or truth as long as they can steal the Palestinians country.

Watch , the people suppressing me on here are doing all they can to hide these issue because it supports the theft of palestine.

Speak up against this suppression on here.

The area for homeless palestinians is surrounded by Settler settlements and armyforts. Native civilians say they are frequent victims of random shootings by the military and settlers. Often among the dead are children . A Palestinian human rights worker in that camp, said it was ironic that an American should be killed by a US made bulldozer; America is providing Israel with tanks and bulldozers, and now they killed one of their own women.

I left 7 links to picture of all this on my post but if i put them here , your newsservice's dictators program will erase me. There are a number of covert infiltrators running your site here and only letting you see what they want you to see. If people were being shut off on a page that I was on, I would say very clear things about that.

author by silopublication date Sun Mar 16, 2003 15:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

I don't want to denigrate or minimise the worrying aspects of the PNAC; they are genuinely irrational as well as powerful. However, to focus solely on them ignores the wider context in which they operate; they are as much a symptom as a cause, and focussing explicitly on them ignores this. No offence intended.

author by silopublication date Sun Mar 16, 2003 15:25author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Yes, agreed, their members and former members are in high office. However, they are merely making explicit what has been implicit in US policy since 1945; for example, see the national security document NSC-68, or "Essentials of post-Cold War deterrence" from the Clinton era.

NSC-68:

http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/nsc-hst/nsc-68.htm

"Essentials..."

http://www.nautilus.org/nukestrat/USA/Advisory/Essentials95.pdf

(PDF reader reqd.)

author by black frankpublication date Sun Mar 16, 2003 11:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Silo, the Project For A New American century can hardly be wriiten off as "one of a number of right-wing think-tanks" when it has counted Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, John Bolton, Paul Wolfowitz, Elliott Abrams, and Khallid Khalilzad(the US special envoy for Iraq) amongst it's founders. All are now key players in George W. Bush's administration.
They have been pressing for war against Iraq since 1997.
See my posting on the link for details of a letter sent by PNAC to Bill Clinton in 1998 in which they clearly set out their position, and question the wisdom of trying to achieve full support in the UN if that should interfere in US foreign policy.

Related Link: http://www.indymedia.ie/cgi-bin/newswire.cgi?id=30557&start=430
author by Josefpublication date Sun Mar 16, 2003 04:07author address author phone Report this post to the editors

So how come it took 9/11 to get Bush to pay any attention to foreign policy at all. If this was the master plan he'd have been at this from day one.

author by silopublication date Sat Mar 15, 2003 18:42author address author phone Report this post to the editors

www.newamericancentury.org

author by silopublication date Sat Mar 15, 2003 18:41author address author phone Report this post to the editors

The PNAC is one of a number of influential right-wing 'thinktanks' influencing United States policy. However, to imply that it is the single guiding factor pushing towards a war in Iraq is extremely simplistic and doesn't bear up to rational examination.

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