Thursday, September 07, 2006

58 - Critically Important But Largely Unreported Aspects Of The Iraq War, Part I: The Right-Wing "Project For A New American Century" (PNAC)

Today we're going to present Part I of what will be at least a 3-part series, Critically Important But Largely Unreported Aspects of the Iraq War. The first subject we'll address is, the neocon organization called Project for a New American Century, known as PNAC. This will make your hair stand on end.

A major issue in the midterm elections, just about 2 months away, will of course be Iraq.

One of the progressive understandings that often gets short shrift in the media, is that the Iraq War is not a noble effort based on unfortunately faulty intelligence, or a good mission poorly executed.

No, progressives understand that the Iraq War was something lusted after for years before 9/11 by the neocons, and in order to lay the appropriate level of blame and, yes, criminal responsibility where it belongs, this needs to be understood.

In short: these brazen PNAC neocons announced their goal to maintain US global domination, lobbied for that goal years before 9/11, and then when they took power in Washington, actually implemented the invasion and occupation of Iraq as the first step towards achieving that goal.

But whenever the charge is leveled that the Iraq War was one planned long before 9/11 and that 9/11 just served as an excuse, right-wingers always claim there is no evidence of that.

Wrong. There's dispositive evidence. PNAC provides the foundation to prove that 9/11 was consciously used by the Bush administration as an excuse to invade Iraq -- Iraq was not a misguided or misdirected result of 9/11.

With the Fall elections in mind, one of the linchpins of proving that Bush hyped and even lied about the intelligence, is to provide this motive: that he was just looking for an excuse to execute a decision made long before -- to go to war against Iraq, to invade and occupy that nation.

The words and actions of the group PNAC could well push fence-sitting centrists over the line, into full appreciation of the real reasons behind the Iraq War.

Jack Clark 6:20 PM [+]   6 comments
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