When George W. Bush launched America’s first global war on terrorism, I wonder if he knew it would cost the American taxpayers over a trillion dollars. For the first time in American history, the United States adopted the policy of preventive war. A study from Center for Public Integrity revealed that President Bush and top administration officials lied a total of 935 times about Iraq’s alleged national security threat.
During the Cold War, the neocons spent most of their time hyping the Soviet threat. They produced documentaries, publications, and provided guests for national talk shows and news reports, all designed to spread fear and encourage increases in defense spending. They even advacated a nuclear first strike against the Soviet Union.
As the Cold War was coming to an end, and the Soviet “threat” was deminishing, the neocons needed a new boogieman. In the late 80′s, Donald Rumsfeld met with Saddam Hussein to sell him weapons.
The neocon think tank called Project for the New American Century (PNAC) wrote a “blueprint” for the “creation of a global Pax Americana”. The document, titled Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century lays out their plan for world domination.
The report calls itself a “blueprint for maintaining global US preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests.”
PNAC called for war in the middle east, control of space through a new “US Space Forces,” the political control of the internet, the subversion of any growth in political power of even close allies, and advocates “regime change” in China, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Iran and other countries. It also mentions that “advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool”
The neocons knew their imperial aggressive foreign policy would not sit well with the American people or the world. PNAC went on to say their agenda would take a long time “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—like a new Pearl Harbor.” On September 11, 2001, the neocons got what they wanted.
Former National Security Advisor to Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama, Zbigniew Brzezinski, said similar things in his book, “The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and It’s Geo-stragetic Imperatives”. Just like the neocons said in PNAC, Brzezinski calls for the US to become the world’s only superpower and invade the middle east for control of oil. Brzezinski concludes that the realization of such an agenda will only be accomplished with the aid of “a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat,”
Former governer of Pennsylvania and former Security of Homeland Security, Tom Ridge, claims that top-level Bush advisors told him to raise the terror alert level days before the 2004 presidential election. Isn’t that one of the definitions of terrorism, spreading fear and terrorizing people for political purposes?
In 2008, Vincent Bugliosi, who is best known for prosecuting Charles Manson, wrote a book entitled “The Prosecution Of George W. Bush for Murder”. The book argues that George W. Bush took the United States into the invasion of Iraq under false pretenses and should be tried for murder for the deaths of American soldiers in Iraq, as well as more than 100,000 Iraqis who have died in Iraq since the American-led invasion of that country. Bugliosi testified at a House Judiciary Committee meeting on July 25 2008, at which he urged impeachment proceedings for Bush.
After eight years of neocon policies, the American people demanded that Bush and Cheney be held accountable for their crimes. But when Congressman Dennis Kuninich introduced 30 articles of impeachment, of course the congress did nothing, letting W’s crimes fade away into history. Maybe its because the Democrats were just as guilty as Bush and Cheney when it came to the war. They voted to keep the war going. In 2008, Bush endorced John McCain for President, which was probley the reason he lost the election. During his campaign, McCain was saying stuff like he wanted to stay in Iraq for a hundred years, and bomb bomb Iran. Obama ran against Bush’s policies, so he won. But did the neocon policies leave with Bush and Cheney?
“Several of the individuals at the center of Obama’s transition and emerging foreign policy teams were top players in creating and implementing foreign policies that would pave the way for projects eventually carried out under the Bush/Cheney administration. With their assistance, Obama has already charted out several hawkish stances.” writes Jeremy Scahill, author of Blackwater, The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army
In 1999, Joe Biden cosponsored a resolution with John McCain and Joe Lieberman to use ground troops in Serbia, coinciding with the wishes of PNAC. He also voted for the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Hillary Clinton also voted for the wars. In 2009, President Barack Obama escalated the war in Afghanistan. On August 31, 2010, President Obama announced he was ending the Iraq war, but leaving 50,000 troops in the country to provide support for the Iraqi military. It became Operation New Dawn, no longer Operation Iraqi freedom. That was the neocons plan for Iraq from the beginning. Barack Obama gave the neocons what they wanted. A permenant occupation of Iraq. Bush’s war on terror has also made its way to other parts of the Globe. Obama sends predator drones to Pakistan and Yemen almost daily to kill people and terrorize the population.
In part two, I’ll go over in more detail how Barack Obama continued the neocon agenda.
President Barack Obama is the first U.S. president to authorize the U.S. military to kill an American citizen. On September 30, 2011, U.S. predator drones killed anwar al-awlaki, a man the U.S. government claims was more dangerous that osama bin laden. The MSM propaganda is in high gear after the Obama-approved killing of the American born terrorist, with headlines like “How Anwar Al-Awlaki Inspired Terror From Across the Globe”(ABC), and “With al-Awlaki dead, al-Qaida lacks Western voice”(CBS). The telepromter readers on Fox News, CNN and MSNBC are all applauding the President.
