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Rumsfeld's Master Plan

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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Beginning in earnest with the end of the current regime, historians will document just how duplicitous the Bush-Cheney administration has been regarding the war in Iraq. Here's one littel-known item: "Three weeks after the 9/11 terror attacks, former U.S. Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld established an official military objective of not only removing the Saddam Hussein regime by force but overturning the regime in Iran, as well

as in Syria and four other countries in the Middle East, according to a document quoted extensively in the Undersecretary of Defence for Policy Douglas Feith's recently published account of the Iraq war decisions. . . . Feith's account further indicates that this aggressive aim of remaking the map of the Middle East by military force and the threat of force was supported explicitly by the country's top military leaders. . . . Feith's book, 'War and Decision', released last month, provides excerpts of the paper Rumsfeld sent to President George W. Bush on Sep. 30, 2001 calling for the administration to focus not on taking down Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network but on the aim of establishing 'new regimes' in a series of states by 'aiding local peoples to rid themselves of terrorists and to free themselves of regimes that support terrorism.'" Continue reading here. If you believe Watergate permanently damaged this nation, it pales in comparison to the past seven years.

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Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on May 14, 2008 (boomark / email).