Reply #27: All the PNAC links brought together, by paul thompson

[Stephanie]

thanks to paulthompson, reposting his entire post:

Hi,

I'm interested in this issue of reporting on PNAC, so using Lexis-Nexus and Google News, I collected them all and made a new entry for my 9/11 timeline:

February-March 20, 2003: With war against Iraq imminent, numerous media outlets finally begin reporting on the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) think tank and its role in influencing Iraq policy and US foreign policy generally. PNAC's plans for global domination had been noted before 9/11 (see for instance, Washington Post, 8/21/01), and PNAC's 2000 report recommending the conquest of Iraq even if Saddam Hussein is not in power was first reported on in September 2002 (see September 2000 and (Sunday Herald, 9/7/02)), but there were few follow up mentions until February (only: (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 9/29/02, Bangor Daily News, 10/18/02, New Statesman, 12/16/02, Los Angeles Times, 1/12/03)). Many of these articles use PNAC to suggest that global and regional domination is the real reason for the Iraq war. Coverage increases as war gets nearer, but many media outlets still have not done any reporting on this, and some of the reporting that has been done not prominently placed (for instance, a New York Times article on the topic is buried in the Arts section! See (New York Times, 3/11/03)). ABC is the only major US network to bring up the topic in prime time television (see (ABC, 3/10/03)). One Newsweek editorial notes that "not until the last few days" before war have many reasons against the war been brought up. It calls this "too little, too late" to make an impact (Newsweek, 3/18/03) (articles that discuss PNAC: (Philadelphia Daily News, 1/27/03, New York Times, 2/1/03, PBS Frontline, 2/20/03, Observer, 2/23/03, Bergen Record, 2/23/03, Guardian, 2/26/03, Mother Jones, 3/03, BBC, 3/2/03, Observer, 3/2/03, Der Spiegel, 3/4/03, ABC, 3/5/03 (B), Salon, 3/5/03, Independent, 3/8/03, Toronto Star, 3/9/03, ABC, 3/10/03, Australian Broadcasting Corp., 3/10/03, CNN, 3/10/03, Guardian 3/11/03, New York Times, 3/11/03, American Prospect, 3/12/03, Chicago Tribune, 3/12/03, Globe and Mail, 3/14/03, Japan Times, 3/14/03, Sydney Morning Herald, 3/15/03, Salt Lake Tribune, 3/15/03, Minneapolis Star Tribune, 3/16/03, Observer, 3/16/03, Sunday Herald, 3/16/03, Toronto Star, 3/16/03, Canadian Broadcasting Corp., 3/17/03, Globe and Mail, 3/19/03, Asia Times, 3/20/03, The Age, 3/20/03)).

You can also find it here, where you'll be able to click on all the links, and see a pic of Janeane Garafolo as well. Go to the very bottom of the page:

http://www.unansweredquestions.net/timeline/main/timelinecomplete2.html

Note that there are some new ones there, from the Age, Globe and Mail and Asia Times.

http://www.globeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030319.cosimp0319/BNStory/National

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/EC20Ak07.html

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/19/1047749824415.html