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From: Norman Thyer <nthyer_-at-_uniserve.com>
To: no_to_nato_-at-_flora.org
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2004 20:58:58 -0700
This list [see below] has much in common with the signatories to the
Statement of Principles of the Project for the New American Century.
[www.newamericancentury.org/statementofprinciples.htm]
That is the same organization that wrote the following in its report of
September 2000, "Rebuilding America's Defenses"
[www.newamericancentury.org/RebuildingAmericasDefenses.pdf]:
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary
change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing
event - like a new Pearl Harbor. Domestic politics and industrial policy
will shape the pace and content of transformation as much as the
requirements of current missions."
[Rebuilding America's Defenses - p51 - p63 of pdf file]
Well they got a "catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl
Harbor" a year later. Be careful what you wish for - you may get it!
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At 08:27 PM 9/12/04 -0400, you wrote:
>FROM THE GUARDIAN (UK): "[I]n the US, the leading group which pleads the
Chechen cause is the American Committee for Peace in Chechnya (ACPC). The
list of the self-styled "distinguished Americans" who are its members is a
rollcall of the most prominent neoconservatives who so enthusastically
support the "war on terror". They include Richard Perle, the notorious
Pentagon
>adviser; Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra fame; Kenneth
>Adelman, the former US ambassador to the UN who egged
>on the invasion of Iraq by predicting it would be "a
>cakewalk"; Midge Decter, biographer of Donald Rumsfeld
>and a director of the rightwing Heritage Foundation;
>Frank Gaffney of the militarist Center for Security
>Policy; Bruce Jackson, former US military intelligence
>officer and one-time vice-president of Lockheed Martin,
>now president of the US Committee on NATO; Michael
>Ledeen of the American Enterprise Institute, a former
>admirer of Italian fascism and now a leading proponent
>of regime change in Iran; and R James Woolsey, the
>former CIA director who is one of the leading
>cheerleaders behind George Bush's plans to re-model the
>Muslim world along pro-US lines."
Norman Thyer
Nelson, B.C., Canada