Permanent war is the PNAC plan

[Vincardog]

Edwards can score big in the debate when he gets Cheney to admit that the Quagmire in Iraq is the permanent war the NeoCons wished for. This is demonstrated by the fact the administration has :mad: no plan for the conflict to end. The question has to be asked How long does the Bu$hCo plan to have America's children dieing in Iraq? Forever. The difference between George Custer and George Bush is that George Custer actually lead the troops he ordered to death.

[cheshire]

1. Rummy wassaying this morn. how the cold war was 50 yrs. so we can expect

the same thing. I'm just amazed at how they think this is a good thing.

[Vincardog]

2. War is good for war profiteers

[Triana]

3. Next on the list: Iran and Syria...

...it all goes according to the plan!

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. The war against Europe and the Euro began even before 911

and the Bush Administration was trying to court Eastern European countries and drive a wedge between them and Western Europe. An example is the scandalous sale of jet fighters to Poland constituting a virtual gift at the expense of the American taxpayer and preventing Western European aircraft manufacturers from competing.

[Stephanie]

5. New Salon article by anonymous State Dept official

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2004/10/04/foggybottom/index1.html

<excerpt> But Bush the Crusader is off to a rocky start in Iraq. The ongoing meltdown is awakening Americans to the reality of the neocon agenda. But is it too late? Neocons are not dissuaded by the problems in Iraq; on the contrary, they are arguing that the problem is "Bremerism" -- the U.S. has not gone far enough. In their view, we need to take out the Palestinians, Syria and Iran now.

The neocons, working in tandem with a similar staff in the office of Prime Minister Sharon of Israel, have a three-part agenda for the first part of Bush's second term: first, oust Yasser Arafat; second, overthrow the secular Baathist al-Assad dictatorship in Syria; and, third, eliminate, one way or another, Iran's nuclear facilities.

Nowhere has support for the neocon Middle East crusade resonated more than in the constituency of Rep. Tom DeLay, who is the top Christian Zionist handler in the Republican Party and poised to strike GOP gold with his gerrymandering of Texas congressional districts.

For the neocons, Sept. 11 and Israel's security policy under Sharon have morphed into a single concept, the kind of thinking typified by Secretary Rumsfeld's recent lapses mixing Saddam Hussein with 9/11 and Osama bin Laden with Iraq.

Working with direct input from Israeli intelligence, Feith's Pentagon office coordinated with Libby and Wurmser in the vice president's office to spread the story that the missing WMD are to be found hidden in Syria. Israeli agents have worked overtime to neutralize and undo Syrian cooperation with the CIA against al-Qaida. This comes on the heels of a similar highly successful destruction of CIA inroads with the Palestinian Authority. We are now light-years beyond the two-state solution focus of Middle East policy. Instead of chasing Laden, the neocons plan to put the U.S. on the road to Damascus -- and Tehran. The groundwork is laid.

[oasis]

6. Rummy's going to need a draft to supply PNAC with armies of occupation.

[gohawks]

7. Worth reading: PNAC Primer

http://www.crisispapers.org/Editorials/PNAC-Primer.htm

How We Got Into This Imperial Pickle: A PNAC Primer
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"the National Security Strategy -- promulgated by the Bush Administration in September 2002 -- now included attacking possible future competitors first, assuming regional hegemony by force of arms, controlling energy resources around the globe, maintaining a permanent-war strategy"
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In the early-1990s, there was a group of ideologues and power-politicians on the fringe of the Republican Party's far-right. The members of this group in 1997 would found The Project for the New American Century (PNAC); their aim was to prepare for the day when the Republicans regained control of the White House -- and, it was hoped, the other two branches of government as well -- so that their vision of how the U.S. should move in the world would be in place and ready to go, straight off-the-shelf into official policy.
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This PNAC group was led by such heavy hitters as Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, James Woolsey, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle, Bill Kristol, James Bolton, Zalmay M. Khalilzad, William Bennett, Dan Quayle, Jeb Bush, most of whom were movers-and-shakers in previous Administrations, then in power-exile, as it were, while Clinton was in the White House. But even given their reputations and clout, the views of this group were regarded as too extreme to be taken seriously by the mainstream conservatives that controlled the Republican Party.
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Setting Up PNAC
To prepare the ground for the PNAC-like ideas that were circulating in the HardRight, various wealthy individuals and corporations helped set up far-right think-tanks, and bought up various media outlets -- newspapers, magazines, TV networks, radio talk shows, cable channels, etc. -- in support of that day when all the political tumblers would click into place and the PNAC cabal and their supporters could assume control.

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