Bush planned Iraq 'regime change' before becoming
President
By Neil Mackay
The Sunday Herald (UK)
15 September 2002

A secret blueprint for US global domination reveals
that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a
premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change'
even before he took power in January 2001.

The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the
creation of a 'global Pax Americana', was drawn up for
Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld
(defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's
deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis
Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document,
entitled "Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies,
Forces And Resources For A New Century", was written
in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank
Project for the New American Century (PNAC).

The plan shows Bush's cabinet intended to take
military control of the Gulf region whether or not
Saddam Hussein was in power. It 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.'

The PNAC document supports 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'.

This 'American grand strategy' must be advanced for
'as far into the future as possible', the report says.
It also calls for the US to 'fight and decisively win
multiple, simultaneous major theatre wars' as a 'core
mission'.

The report describes American armed forces abroad as
'the cavalry on the new American frontier'. The PNAC
blueprint supports an earlier document written by
Wolfowitz and Libby that said the US must 'discourage
advanced industrial nations from challenging our
leadership or even aspiring to a larger regional or
global role'.

The PNAC report also:

* refers to key allies such as the UK as 'the most
effective and efficient means of exercising American
global leadership';

* describes peace-keeping missions as 'demanding
American political leadership rather than that of the
United Nations';

* reveals worries in the administration that Europe
could rival the USA;

* says 'even should Saddam pass from the scene' bases
in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait will remain permanently --
despite domestic opposition in the Gulf regimes to the
stationing of US troops -- as 'Iran may well prove as
large a threat to US interests as Iraq has';

* spotlights China for 'regime change' saying 'it is
time to increase the presence of American forces in
southeast Asia'. This, it says, may lead to 'American
and allied power providing the spur to the process of
democratisation in China';

* calls for the creation of 'US Space Forces', to
dominate space, and the total control of cyberspace to
prevent 'enemies' using the internet against the US;

* hints that, despite threatening war against Iraq for
developing weapons of mass destruction, the US may
consider developing biological weapons -- which the
nation has banned -- in decades to come. It says: 'New
methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal',
biological -- will be more widely available ... combat
likely will take place in new dimensions, in space,
cyberspace, and perhaps the world of microbes ...
advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target'
specific genotypes may transform biological warfare
from the realm of terror to a politically useful
tool';

* and pinpoints North Korea, Libya, Syria and Iran as
dangerous regimes and says their existence justifies
the creation of a 'world-wide command-and-control
system'.

Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP, father of the House of
Commons and one of the leading rebel voices against
war with Iraq, said: 'This is garbage from right-wing
think-tanks stuffed with chicken-hawks -- men who have
never seen the horror of war but are in love with the
idea of war. Men like Cheney, who were draft-dodgers
in the Vietnam war.

'This is a blueprint for US world domination -- a new
world order of their making. These are the thought
processes of fantasist Americans who want to control
the world. I am appalled that a British Labour Prime
Minister should have got into bed with a crew which
has this moral standing.'