the “secrret document” I mentioned earlier, via The Ashville Global Report
‘Pax Americana’
A secret document, uncovered by the British Sunday Herald, calling for a “global Pax Americana” presents motivations radically different for US involvement in Iraq, and around the world, than the Bush administration’s oft stated concern for human rights, democracy, and the rule of law.
The document, which the Herald calls a “blueprint for US global domination” reveals Bush and his cabinet had plans to attack Iraq and secure a “regime change” even before Bush had taken office in Jan. 2001.
The document is titled “Rebuilding Americas Defences” and was drawn up in Sept. of 2000 by the neo-conservative think tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC) for Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, Bush’s brother Jeb, and Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis Libby.
When I first heard of this docuement last year, the link given was a us government site (so it wasn’t such a secret, until it became a topic of conversation among bloggers, because when I tried to visit the link when I read about it, the page was no longer available.
humor from War, Bush, Iraq and Pax America – Understanding Current American Goals– aslo, check out the name of the subdirectory inthe URL…
From NEWS YOU WON’T FIND ON CNN
: 01/12/04: (ICH) CBS’s “60 Minutes” featured former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill in an exclusive interview with CBS News Correspondent Lesley Stahl, which aired Sunday, January 11th. The interview confirms what those who primarily rely on the Internet for up-to-date, accurate and to-the-point news coverage have known for almost over a year: the Bush administration had planned the illegal, unconstitutional and unnecessary invasion of Iraq completely independent of any retaliatory or preventive military considerations relating to 9-11. In fact, this interview, motivated to launch a new book authored by Ron Suskind, a former Wall Street Journal reporter, not only confirms the heavy evidence concerning the administration’s underlying intentions with regard to Iraq, but raises some scary new ones as well.
That is, the claim has been that the National Security document came out of the need to respond to the threats that September 11 had posed. However, in 2000 a report from a neo-conservative organization, New American Century, called Rebuilding America’s Defenses, outlines the ideas behind global dominance and empire in the form of a global Pax Americana. (from globalissues.org … also includes the document, complete with it’s formatting and emphasis on certain sections)
I found these , among 10 pages of hits on Google, with this search (using the words: Bush administration intentions document Iraq pax)
other links (via a paper, An Orwellian Nightmare:
Critical Reflections on the Bush Administration
by Douglas Kellner :
Bush Watch (http://www.bushwatch.com/)
MIsleader (http://www.misleader.org/daily_mislead/Read.asp?fn=df01292004.html)
I’m sure you’ve already found The Document, but here’s Frontline’s info from the program they aired a year ago on Feb. 20, 2003:
> http://www.pbs.org/frontline/
>
> – This Week: “The War Behind Closed Doors,”
> Thursday, Feb. 20 at 9pm on PBS (check local
> listings)
> – Live Discussion: Chat with the producer on Fri. at
> 11 a.m. ET
> – Frontline “Classics” on the Web
>
>
> + This Week …
>
> On Sept. 15, 2001, four days after the attacks on
> New York and the
> Pentagon, President Bush and his Cabinet held a war
> council at Camp
> David. Everyone in the room wanted to go after Osama
> bin Laden. But
> there were some — a group of close advisers who had
> served three
> Republican presidents over the course of two decades
> — who had another,
> more immediate, target in mind: Saddam Hussein.
>
> “From the first moments after Sept. 11, there was a
> group of people,
> both inside the administration and out, who believed
> that the war on
> terrorism should target Iraq. In fact, should target
> Iraq first,”
> Kenneth Pollack, who served on the National Security
> Council in the
> Clinton administration, tells FRONTLINE.
>
> In “The War Behind Closed Doors,” this Thursday,
> Feb. 20 at 9pm on PBS
> (check local listings),
> FRONTLINE traces the inside story of how that group
> of advisers — call
> them “neo-Reaganites,” “neo-conservatives,” or
> simply “hawks” — set out
> to achieve the most dramatic change in American
> foreign policy in half a
> century: a grand strategy, increasingly known as the
> “Bush Doctrine,”
> based on preemption rather than containment and
> calling for the bold
> assertion of American power and influence around the
> world. Through
> interviews with key administration insiders, foreign
> policy analysts,
> and longtime White House observers, the report
> reveals how we got to the
> brink of war with Iraq — and how a war and its
> aftermath will put these
> advisers’ big idea to the test.
>
> Following the broadcast, our website will feature
> extended interviews
> with William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard;
> Richard Perle,
> chairman of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board;
> Dennis Ross, former
> State Dept. official and Middle East envoy;
> historian John Lewis Gaddis
> of Yale; Kenneth Pollack, author of “The Threatening
> Storm: The Case for
> Invading Iraq”; and others. This and more, including
> a chance for you to
> join the discussion, will be found at:
> http://www.pbs.org/frontline/
>
> We hope you’ll join us on Thursday night.
>
> Wen Stephenson
> Website Managing Editor
> FRONTLINE
>
>
>
> —
>
> + Live Online Discussion on Washingtonpost.com …
>
> Join producer Michael Kirk this Friday, Feb. 21, at
> 11 a.m. ET, for a
> live online discussion about “The War Behind Closed
> Doors.”
>
> For details, see:
>
http://discuss.washingtonpost.com/zforum/03/r_tv_frontline022103.htm
>