They called for a new Pearl Harbor event, a domestic terror attack in the U.S. that would kill 3,000 people. It says in the report, it would kill a comparable number is the quote.
They called for a new Pearl Harbor event, a domestic terror attack in the U.S. that would kill 3,000 people. It says in the report, it would kill a comparable number is the quote.
We have them all in dozens and dozens and dozens. There's several hundred PNAC reports, and I've probably read or scanned through about 60 or 70 of them. I've spent many hours reading PNAC documents. Every time I find some new indescribable horror, we'll post a link to the PNAC document from PNAC's own website, Project for New American Century, and then we'll watch it in the next few days and weeks develop into major news stories.
And in Rebuilding America's Defenses, written by Cheney and Rumsfeld, different documents on the PNAC website are collaborative efforts by different members of this administration and surrounding think tanks, phony neocon think tanks. And they say, word for word, Saddam is not a threat, but he is a convenient pretext to get the oil and to use Iraq as a new military base of operations to go into Syria and Iraq.
This was a 1998 open letter that the Project for the New American Century sent to then-President Clinton, urging him to pursue regime change in Iraq. The letter begins, quote, 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 United States and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim above all at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power.
A couple months after that letter was sent, the group followed up with another letter to Newt Gingrich, then the Speaker of the House, and Trent Lott, the then-Senate Majority Leader. The letter was basically them reporting that they tried to get Clinton to work on getting Saddam out of power, but he wasn't biting. They reiterated that it was their belief that policies of containment that had been in place regarding Saddam weren't working, and that if left unchecked, he posed a very severe threat, perhaps the worst since the Cold War.
Red, have you heard about the PNAC documents where Bush and Cheney wrote public documents? Before 9-1-1 that they needed a terrorist attack to invade Iraq and other countries and that they talked about imperial mobilization and a new world order?
Now, larger picture, the words Imperial Mobilization don't appear anywhere in the PNAC document. They don't appear together, and each word doesn't even appear in the text on its own.