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Nancy,
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
here is a link to the main PNAC web page and here is one toned down version of their obcessions to take over Iraq and their attempts to use the "WMD"
ploy to justify there goal.
Notice how long ago this was being suggested and
note all the people that signed the Letter and remember where they are now and were on 9/11.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing you because we are convinced that current American
policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a
threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since
the end of the Cold War._ In your upcoming State of the Union
Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined
course for meeting this threat._ We urge you to seize that
opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the
interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world._ That
strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Husseins
regime from power._ We stand ready to offer our full support in this
difficult but necessary endeavor.
The policy of containment of Saddam Hussein has been steadily
eroding over the past several months._ As recent events have
demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf
War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam
when he blocks or evades UN inspections._ Our ability to ensure that
Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction,
therefore, has substantially diminished._ Even if full inspections were
eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has
shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraqs chemical
and biological weapons production._ The lengthy period during which
the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has
made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of
Saddams secrets._ As a result, in the not-too-distant future we will
be unable to determine with any reasonable level of confidence whether
Iraq does or does not possess such weapons.
Such uncertainty will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on
the entire Middle East._ It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam
does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as
he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the
safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like
Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the
worlds supply of oil will all be put at hazard._ As you have rightly
declared, Mr. President, the security of the world in the first part of
the 21st century will be determined largely by how we handle this
threat.
Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends
for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and
upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate.
The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that
Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass
destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake
military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means
removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now
needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.
We urge you to articulate this aim, and to turn your Administration's
attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam's regime
from power. This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political
and military efforts. Although we are fully aware of the dangers and
difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing
to do so are far greater. We believe the U.S. has the authority under
existing UN resolutions to take the necessary steps, including military
steps, to protect our vital interests in the Gulf. In any case, American
policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on
unanimity in the UN Security Council.
We urge you to act decisively. If you act now to end the threat of
weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or its allies, you will be
acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the
country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our
interests and our future at risk.
Sincerely,
Elliott Abrams __ Richard L. Armitage __ William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner __ John Bolton __ Paula Dobriansky
Francis ***uyama __ Robert Kagan __ Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol __ Richard Perle __ Peter W. Rodman
Donald Rumsfeld __ William Schneider, Jr. __ Vin Weber
Paul Wolfowitz __ R. James Woolsey __ Robert B. Zoellick
http://www.newamericancentury.org/
here is a link to the main PNAC web page and here is one toned down version of their obcessions to take over Iraq and their attempts to use the "WMD"
ploy to justify there goal.
Notice how long ago this was being suggested and
note all the people that signed the Letter and remember where they are now and were on 9/11.
http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm
The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC
Dear Mr. President:
We are writing you because we are convinced that current American
policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a
threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since
the end of the Cold War._ In your upcoming State of the Union
Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined
course for meeting this threat._ We urge you to seize that
opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the
interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world._ That
strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Husseins
regime from power._ We stand ready to offer our full support in this
difficult but necessary endeavor.
The policy of containment of Saddam Hussein has been steadily
eroding over the past several months._ As recent events have
demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf
War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam
when he blocks or evades UN inspections._ Our ability to ensure that
Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction,
therefore, has substantially diminished._ Even if full inspections were
eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has
shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraqs chemical
and biological weapons production._ The lengthy period during which
the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has
made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of
Saddams secrets._ As a result, in the not-too-distant future we will
be unable to determine with any reasonable level of confidence whether
Iraq does or does not possess such weapons.
Such uncertainty will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on
the entire Middle East._ It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam
does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as
he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the
safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like
Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the
worlds supply of oil will all be put at hazard._ As you have rightly
declared, Mr. President, the security of the world in the first part of
the 21st century will be determined largely by how we handle this
threat.
Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends
for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and
upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate.
The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that
Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass
destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake
military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means
removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now
needs to become the aim of American foreign policy.
We urge you to articulate this aim, and to turn your Administration's
attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam's regime
from power. This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political
and military efforts. Although we are fully aware of the dangers and
difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing
to do so are far greater. We believe the U.S. has the authority under
existing UN resolutions to take the necessary steps, including military
steps, to protect our vital interests in the Gulf. In any case, American
policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on
unanimity in the UN Security Council.
We urge you to act decisively. If you act now to end the threat of
weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or its allies, you will be
acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the
country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our
interests and our future at risk.
Sincerely,
Elliott Abrams __ Richard L. Armitage __ William J. Bennett
Jeffrey Bergner __ John Bolton __ Paula Dobriansky
Francis ***uyama __ Robert Kagan __ Zalmay Khalilzad
William Kristol __ Richard Perle __ Peter W. Rodman
Donald Rumsfeld __ William Schneider, Jr. __ Vin Weber
Paul Wolfowitz __ R. James Woolsey __ Robert B. Zoellick
