"A SECRET blueprint for US global domination reveals that President Bush and his cabinet were planning a premeditated attack on Iraq to secure 'regime change' even before he took power in January 2001.

The blueprint, uncovered by the Sunday Herald, for the creation of a 'global Pax Americana' was drawn up for Dick Cheney (now vice- president), Donald Rumsfeld (defence secretary), Paul Wolfowitz (Rumsfeld's deputy), George W Bush's younger brother Jeb and Lewis Libby (Cheney's chief of staff). The document, entitled Rebuilding America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century, was written in September 2000 by the neo-conservative think-tank Project for the New American Century (PNAC)."

I smell something interesting here, and I'm going to delve a bit deeper.  Oddly enough however, the website for New American Century (and home to the mentioned document) is inaccesible.  I'll be following up on this, provided I can ever see the actual document. 

I doubt this story will make it much furthur than Glasgow's paper, but Counterpunch has noticed. 

Bush frightens me. (obDickQuote)

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"Nobody could justifiably accuse the Bush administration of wanting to wage war on Iraq solely as a favour to its friends in the oil business and the military-industrial complex. But many of the companies that stand to gain most from a war enjoy remarkably close ties to senior figures in the administration. And some of the President's closest confidants have shown extraordinary elasticity down the years in their attitudes to President Saddam, America's on-again, off-again public enemy number one."

If its good for the oil companies, it must be good for America.  Oh yeah, and it'll stop those darn terrorists too.

[via Smirking Chimp]

""When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson

A few years ago there was quite a stink about a Clinton policy that basically said "we won't ask and you won't have to tell" about your personal life. With all of the fuss surrounding this policy, it was amazing that the sky just did not cave in. Today we have an administration that has a similar policy with much more far reaching effects. It's called "Don't Ask because We Tell Nothing." If you have the audacity to ask, you will be labeled as unpatriotic and they don't have to tell anything about any subject because they have their magic shield of "executive privilege.""

Granted, the source seems to be a bit lefty, but this article does have some good questions that have yet to be answered.  I know I've wondered about the answers to some of them.

[via Smirking Chimp]

"Although senior Bush administration officials say they have not begun to focus on the issues involving oil and Iraq, American and foreign oil companies have already begun maneuvering for a stake in the country's huge proven reserves of 112 billion barrels of crude oil, the largest in the world outside Saudi Arabia."

*cough*

Senior Bush Administration Official: "oh, Iraq has Oil?"

"The big lie was a key element in the Nazi's rise to power. Joseph Goebbels developed the Nazi campaign against the Jews by blaming them for Germany's failure to recover after World War 1. His famous political insight was that if you tell a lie often enough from a position of power it becomes accepted truth. Goebbels lie laid the foundations for the Holocaust.

Bush is telling the Big Lie about Iraq. He has no evidence that Iraq is a threat to the U.S., so he is using the Big Lie to go to war against a country that is not a threat and has not attacked us."