Another article that predicted what we now have as a result of Bush

[bobthedrummer]

Cheney and the universalist fascist neo-con zealot traitors is from The American Prospect of April 2003. The author is Robert Dreyfuss. The sequence of events that were speculated on THEN has pretty much come about. There are now a growing number of these once discounted as paranoid extremist wild fantasy predictive warnings concerning the PNAC crew that have become reality since they were published.

Here is the article.
"Just The Beginning: Is Iraq the opening salvo in a war to remake the world?"
http://www.prospect.org/print/V14/4/dreyfuss-r.html

We ran out of coincidences in December 2000 when this traitorous universalist fascist (Straussian) dominated administration was installed. The Ledeens, the Wurmsers, Feith, Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz, Bolton, Rice, Cambone, Negroponte, Gingrich, DeLay, Frist are criminals-add your own names to the list or post an article from YEARS ago that has come to describe the increasingly terrible state of world relations as a result of "staying the course" of universal fascists. :rant:

[pazuzu]

1. Albert Gore, Jr. tried to warn Americans what Bushworld

would be like. No one listened, no one cared.

[bobthedrummer]

2. The millions of people that voted for him, and saw their victory stolen

cared. They are now bolstered by many more people that have had their lives profoundly changed by the criminal policies and actions of the "war president" and his inner circle-dominated by universal fascists.

[pazuzu]

3. In 2002, Florida voters rewarded Jeb Bush with a 2nd term

despite his role in stealing the election from Gore. And I thought angry Gore voters would comes out in droves to defeat him.

[yurbud]

4. how would you know if that election was clean? Were polls even close?

[ima_sinnic]

5. William Rivers Pitts' "Blood Money" is classic & validated

This was the article that first yanked me out of my nice little complacent world. Everything up to that point--little bits here and there buried in the newspapers, rumblings from the 1980s--it all came together in my horrified mind when I read this, and as we all knew then, it has more than proven to be true:

Blood Money
by William Rivers Pitt
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Thursday 27 February 2003

. . . The Project for the New American Century seeks to establish what they call 'Pax Americana' across the globe. Essentially, their goal is to transform America, the sole remaining superpower, into a planetary empire by force of arms. A report released by PNAC in September of 2000 entitled 'Rebuilding America's Defenses' codifies this plan, which requires a massive increase in defense spending and the fighting of several major theater wars in order to establish American dominance. The first has been achieved in Bush's new budget plan, which calls for the exact dollar amount to be spent on defense that was requested by PNAC in 2000. Arrangements are underway for the fighting of the wars.

The men from PNAC are in a perfect position to see their foreign policy schemes, hatched in 1997, brought into reality. They control the White House, the Pentagon and Defense Department, by way of this the armed forces and intelligence communities, and have at their feet a Republican-dominated Congress that will rubber-stamp virtually everything on their wish list.

The first step towards the establishment of this Pax Americana is, and has always been, the removal of Saddam Hussein and the establishment of an American protectorate in Iraq. The purpose of this is threefold: 1) To acquire control of the oilheads so as to fund the entire enterprise; 2) To fire a warning shot across the bows of every leader in the Middle East; 3) To establish in Iraq a military staging area for the eventual invasion and overthrow of several Middle Eastern regimes, including some that are allies of the United States.

. . . Weapons of mass destruction are a smokescreen. Paeans to the idea of Iraqi liberation and democratization are cynical in their inception. At the end of the day, this is not even about oil. The drive behind this war is ideological in nature, a crusade to 'reform' the religion of Islam as it exists in both government and society within the Middle East. Once this is accomplished, the road to empire will be open, ten lanes wide and steppin' out over the line.

. . . In October of 1995, the same month Cheney was made CEO of Halliburton, that company announced a deal that would put it first in line should war break out in Iraq. Their job: To take control of burning oil wells, put out the fires, and prepare them for service.

. . . If anyone should wonder why the administration has not offered an exit strategy to the Iraq war plans, the presence of Brown & Root should answer them succinctly. We do not plan on exiting. In all likelihood, Brown & Root is in Iraq to build permanent bases there, from which attacks upon other Middle Eastern nations can be staged and managed.

. . . The Bush administration has claimed all along that this war with Iraq is about Saddam Hussein's connections to terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, though through it all they have roundly failed to establish any basis for either accusation. On Wednesday, Bush went further to claim that the war is about liberating the Iraqi people and bringing democracy to the Middle East. This ignores cultural realities on the ground in Iraq and throughout the region that, salted with decades of deep mistrust for American motives, make such a democracy movement brought at the point of the sword utterly impossible to achieve.

This movement, cloaked in democracy, is in fact a PNAC-inspired push for an American global empire. It behooves Americans to understand that there is a great difference between being the citizen of a constitutional democracy and being a citizen of an empire. The establishment of an empire requires some significant sacrifices.

Essential social, medical, educational and retirement services will have to be gutted so that those funds can be directed towards a necessary military buildup. Actions taken abroad to establish the preeminence of American power, most specifically in the Middle East, will bring a torrent of terrorist attacks to the home front. Such attacks will bring about the final suspension of constitutional rights and the rule of habeas corpus, as we will find ourselves under martial law. In the end, however, this may be inevitable. An empire cannot function with the slow, cumbersome machine of a constitutional democracy on its back. . . .
http://www.truthout.org/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi?archive=1&num=53{/div]