Reply #91: He is looking at three documents, A Clean Break, the PNAC

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document and "The U.S. National Security Strategy” (2002) for policy objectives, and their origination, of the Bush administration.

Also it easier to dismiss the influence one document has on our foreign policy, it is harder when you see three documents that might be working in harmony, especially when some of the same players are involved. There is one member of congress, not Kucinich, that has talked about members of these groups and the think tanks/ media on the house floor in an effort to shed light on the behind the scenes players of our foreign policy.

Are these all just conspiracies???

Here is the transcript from the talk he gave last summer...
http://www.thejerusalemfund.org/images/fortherecord.php?ID=281

Originally posted in this thread re the initial language on the IWR...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=26983&mesg_id=28666


"...To put the “Clean Break” plan in a bigger framework, I think it’s interesting to look at it in the context of other documents. Back in 2003, when we first started producing research that looks at the policy formulation process here in Washington, DC, we began to cast about for the documents which seemed to be the core policy documents with the most influence on Bush administration officials, and we centered on three particular documents. The “Clean Break” plan is interesting because by far it’s the most specific. It’s essentially a laundry list of policy objectives that’s extremely specific and extremely detailed, although it’s only a few pages long. But there are two other documents that I think anyone who really wants to understand the core policy formulation process and really wants to understand what’s behind U.S. policy need to understand are two other documents.

“Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” which was published by the Project for the New American Century in September of 2000, it’s important to read that document for the clues it provides about pre-positioning U.S. military assets in the region in the name of securing power projection over petroleum resources as well as securing Israeli interests in the region. It’s important to understand that important PNAC members include Paul Wolfowitz, Bill Kristol, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Elliott Abrams, John Bolton, among other people who entered the administration or remained on the outside as key advisors. It’s important to read these documents because the suggestions that they made are part of their DNA. They brought that with them into the administration. And finally “The U.S. National Security Strategy,” not the one that just came out, but the one that came out in 2002 which went to great lengths justifying pre-emption as a strategy for the United States for the very first time, legitimizing pre-emption. This is thought to be largely the work of Paul Wolfowitz who had tried in other circumstances to legitimize pre-emption as an American strategy. Again of the three documents, the “Clean Break” plan is by far the most specific and therefore the most interesting. But if we use another analogy this time of a personal computer, if this neoconservative influence policy making were a personal computer, clearly the hardware is “The National Security Strategy of the U.S.A.,” the operating system, pre-positioning assets in the region, is “Rebuilding America’s Defenses,” and the program rather the specific instruction set is the “Clean Break” plan..."


http://www.irmep.org/default_continued_2006.asp

8/29/2006 12:30-2:00 p.m Public Forum - The Palestine Center

"The Clean Break Plan: A Conspiracy of Theories?

After being elected as Israel’s Prime Minister in 1996, Binyamin Netanyahu called on a group of policy advisors in the United States to outline policy recommendations and future strategies Israel can adopt in dealing with the U.S., the Palestinians and the Arab countries. The group, which included Richard Perle, Douglas Feith and David Wurmser, produced a document called, “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm.” The document, which has been made public and analyzed by Smith and the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, is being re-examined because many of the recommendations, mainly toppling the government of Iraq, moving away from the land for peace formula with the Palestinians and the destabilization of “regional challengers” such as Syria, Iraq and Lebanon, are in full implementation."


Link for the A clean Break document...
http://www.iasps.org/strat1.htm