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PNAC Links Archive. There you'll find tons of reporting on the real reason for the Iraq invasion: American hegemony, enduring bases, and a swell game of dominos.
Tonight Bush is going to tell us what we at DU knew all along. They did not plan an exit strategy for Iraq because they did not plan on ever leaving Iraq. Now George is going to break the news to us? Yawn.
Here's just one of dozens of articles in the PNAC Archive >
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article2319.htmThe Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 9/29/02
The president's real goal in Iraq By JAY BOOKMAN
The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that the Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to believe that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war based on such flimsy evidence.
The pieces just didn't fit. Something else had to be going on; something was missing.
In recent days, those missing pieces have finally begun to fall into place. As it turns out, this is not really about Iraq. It is not about weapons of mass destruction, or terrorism, or Saddam, or U.N. resolutions.
This war, should it come, is intended to mark the official emergence of the United States as a full-fledged global empire, seizing sole responsibility and authority as planetary policeman. It would be the culmination of a plan 10 years or more in the making, carried out by those who believe the United States must seize the opportunity for global domination, even if it means becoming the "American imperialists" that our enemies always claimed we were.
Once that is understood, other mysteries solve themselves. For example, why does the administration seem unconcerned about an exit strategy from Iraq once Saddam is toppled?
Because we won't be leaving. Having conquered Iraq, the United States will create permanent military bases in that country from which to dominate the Middle East, including neighboring Iran. ?