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.'