Pnac

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PNAC (Project for the New American Century) is a neoCon thinktank, who scripted a regime change of Saddam Hussein already in 2000 and before George Bush was elected as president of the United States. The same "crew" wrote a "letter of 41" on Sep20th, 2001 to George Bush, urging him to start a war against Saddam Hussein. Among them Pentagon advisor Richard Perle, one of the strongest supporter of the war against Iraq.

The full list of PNAC: http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm

Elliott Abrams Gary Bauer William J. Bennett Jeb Bush(->) Dick Cheney (->) Eliot A. Cohen Midge Decter Paula Dobriansky Steve Forbes Aaron Friedberg Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Fred C. Ikle Donald Kagan Zalmay Khalilzad (->) I. Lewis Libby Norman Podhoretz Dan Quayle Peter W. Rodman Stephen P. Rosen Henry S. Rowen Donald Rumsfeld Vin Weber George Weigel Paul Wolfowitz Members of this list, who are working within the current Bush-administration: Richard B. Cheney, Lewis Libby, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Dundes, Peter W. Rodman, John Bolton, Richard Armitage, Richard Perle, William Kristol, Zalmay Khalilzad. Robert Zoellick, not officially PNAC, signed the 1998 letter on Iraq.

Articles on PNAC: Bush cabinet planned Iraq April 2001 http://www.sundayherald.com/28285 "...President Bush's Cabinet agreed in April 2001 that 'Iraq remains a destabilising influence to the flow of oil to international markets from the Middle East' and because this is an unacceptable risk to the US 'military intervention' is necessary..." http://24.104.35.12/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/040pvmoi.asp http://www.newamericancentury.org/lettersstatements.htm "...On September 4th, 2002, CBS reported, "that barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq -- even though there was no evidence linking Saddam Hussein to the attacks..." Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/september11/main520830.shtml

Compare: Project for the New American Century (PNAC): Cheney's Monstrous Scheme "In September 2000, the PNAC updated and refined Cheney's original version into a new report entitled: "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategies, Forces, and Resources for a New Century" calling for unprecedented hikes in military spending, American military bases in Central Asia and Middle East, toppling of non-complying regimes, abrogation of international treaties, control of the world's energy sources, militarization of outer space, total control of cyberspace, and the willingness to use nuclear weapons to achieve "American" goals. This plan by the neo-conservative or neo-con think tank, PNAC, shows Bush's cabinet intended to take military control whether or not Saddam Hussein was in power and says the U.S. for decades has sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security, revealing that a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure a regime change was planned even before Bush took power in January, 2001. The lengthy blueprint for U.S. global domination can be accessed at http://cryptome.org/rad.htm. ..." Source: http://www.prisonplanet.com/analysis_louise_010603_pnac.html

Info on the PNAC: http://www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm http://www.newamericancentury.org/garyschmittbio.htm PNAC members, who signed the "letter of 41" on September 20th, 2001: William Kristol Gary Bauer Jeffrey Bell William J. Bennett Jeffrey Bergner Eliot Cohen Seth Cropsey Midge Decter Thomas Donnelly Aaron Friedberg Hillel Fradkin Francis Fukuyama Frank Gaffney Jeffrey Gedmin Reuel Marc Gerecht Charles Hill Bruce P. Jackson Eli S. Jacobs Michael Joyce Donald Kagan Robert Kagan Jeane Kirkpatrick Charles Krauthammer John Lehman Clifford May Richard Perle Martin Peretz Norman Podhoretz Randy Scheunemann Gary Schmitt William Schneider, Jr. Richard H. Shultz Henry Sokolski Stephen J. Solarz Vin Weber Leon Wieseltier Marshall Wittmann Source: http://24.104.35.12/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/040pvmoi.asp

Another supporter of this letter was Charles Krauthammer, who once did psychiatric research for the Carter Administration. Compare: Jason Leopold (->) on PNAC http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0302/S00204.htm IASPS (-> Feith, Douglas J.)