Re: After "diplomacy" with Iran, now what?

On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 10:23:32 GMT, Christian Williamson wrote:

> EggBert wrote:
>> I find it amazing that you still actually trust your moron of a president
>> after what he has done in iraq.
>
> The American voter trusts Bush. And they'll continue to trust presidents
> like him who are willing to fight terrorists and rogue nations.
>
> Now talk to me about your trust in Iran the way the previous two
> leftists have.

The plans to invade Iran have been in the making since the 1990's.

Check the PNAC site.

The policy:

* The U.S. must take military control of the Gulf region whether or not
Saddam Hussein is in power: "While the unresolved conflict with Iraq
provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American
force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam
Hussein."
* The U.S. must "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major
theatre wars" as a "core mission"
* The U.S. forces are "the cavalry on the new American frontier"
* The report builds upon the 1992 draft document " Defense Planning
Guidance," which claimed that the U.S. must "discourage advanced industrial
nations from challenging our leadership or even aspiring to a larger
regional or global role"
* Permanent U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, whether or not
Saddam Hussein is in power
* Increasing military pressure on China: "it is time to increase the
presence of American forces in southeast Asia" which will lead to "American
and allied power providing the spur to the process of democratisation in
China"
* "the creation of 'US Space Forces', to dominate space, and the total
control of cyberspace to prevent 'enemies' using the internet against the
US"
* The report contains ambivalent language toward bioterrorism and
genetic warfare: "New methods of attack -- electronic, 'non-lethal',
biological -- will be more widely available ... combat likely will take
place in new dimensions, in space, cyberspace, and perhaps the world of
microbes ... advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target'
specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of
terror to a politically useful tool"
* Development of "world-wide command-and-control system" to contain
dangerous regimes of North Korea, Libya, Syria, and Iran.

Who are the members of PNAC?

Here you go:

Name Department Title Remarks
Elliott Abrams National Security Council Representative for Middle
Eastern Affairs President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center

Richard Armitage Department of State (2001-2005) Deputy Secretary of
State

John R. Bolton Department of State U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
Previously served as Undersecretary for Arms Control and International
Security Affairs in the first administration of GWB.

Richard Cheney Bush Administration Vice President PNAC founder

Seth Cropsey Voice of America Director of the International Broadcasting
Bureau

Paula Dobriansky Department of State Undersecretary of State for Global
Affairs

Francis Fukuyama President's Council on Bioethics Council Member
Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University

Bruce Jackson U.S. Committee on NATO President

Zalmay Khalilzad U.S. Embassy Baghdad, Iraq U.S.Ambassador to Iraq
Previously served as U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan from November 2003 to
June 2005

Lewis Libby Bush Administration Chief of Staff for the Vice President
Indicted by Grand Jury on charges of Obstruction of Justice, False
Statements and Perjury and resigned October 28, 2005.

Peter W. Rodman Department of Defense Assistant Secretary of Defense for
International Security

Donald Rumsfeld Department of Defense Secretary of Defense PNAC founder
and previously Chairman of the Board of Gilead Sciences Developer of
Tamiflu

Randy Scheunemann U.S. Committee on NATO, Project on Transitional
Democracies, International Republican Institute Member Founded the
Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.

Paul Wolfowitz World Bank President Deputy Secretary of Defense,
2001-2005

Dov S. Zakheim Department of Defense Comptroller

Robert B. Zoellick Department of State Deputy Secretary of State Office
of the United States Trade Representative (2001-2005);
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* Gary Bauer, former presidential candidate, president of American
Values
* William J. Bennett, former Secretary of Education and Drug Czar,
co-founder of Empower America, author of the Book of Virtues
* Ellen Bork, deputy director of PNAC, and wife of failed Reagan
Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork
* Rudy Boschwitz, former US Senator from Minnesota
* Jeb Bush, governor of Florida
* Eliot A. Cohen, professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins
University
* Thomas Donnelly, director of communications, Lockheed Martin
* Steve Forbes, multi-billionaire publisher of Forbes Magazine, former
presidential candidate
* Aaron Friedberg, director of the Center of International Studies
* Frank Gaffney, columnist, founder of Center for Security Policy
* Reuel Marc Gerecht, director of the Middle East Initiative
* Fred Ikle, Center for Strategic and International Studies
* Donald Kagan, Yale University professor, conservative columnist with
various State Department ties
* Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador
* Charles Krauthammer
* William Kristol, a PNAC founder and chairman, editor of the Weekly
Standard
* Christopher Maletz
* Daniel McKivergan
* Richard Perle, a PNAC founder, formerly of the Defense Policy Board
* Norman Podhoretz, Hudson Institute
* Dan Quayle, former vice-president
* Stephen Rosen, Beton Michael Kaneb Professor of National Security and
Military Affairs, Harvard University
* Henry Rowen, former president of Rand Corporation
* Gary Schmitt
* George Weigel, political commentator
* R. James Woolsey, former director of the CIA for Bill Clinton,
vice-president at Booz Allen & Hamilton

Recognize any names?
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