Paul Wolfowitz: The Engine Behind The Power

While digging for stuff about 9/11, I recall a name that always jumped out at me. Paul Wolfowitz. He's been described as the engine behind the Bush administration. The brains.
He left a job teaching at Johns Hopkins University in 1973 to join the Nixon administration. He's a member of the PNAC, He was the Deputy Secretary of Defense under Rumsfeld. He was a military analyst for Reagan and later he was a leading member in the PNAC.
It's interesting that they were pushing new policy that basically said they wanted to push preemptive strikes on any country that was potentially aggressive, they dismissed containment. Sound familiar? It should.
I just described the Iraq war. These are the people we have running our country. Scary isn't it?
In an article by Time Magazine it is said that:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101030127-409546,00.html
"On Sept. 15, 2001, President Bush summoned his top national-security advisers to Camp David to plot America's retaliation for the terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington. As the group began to hammer out a strategy for war against the Taliban, Paul Wolfowitz, the 57-year-old Deputy Defense Secretary, took a different tack. An Afghan war in his view had the makings of a quagmire. The larger threat to American security was sitting not in a cave in Afghanistan but in a Baghdad bunker. And so, just four days after Sept. 11, Wolfowitz urged Bush to go to war against Iraq.
"Wolfowitz's presentation didn't persuade his colleagues. But he made a lasting impression on Bush. After telling aides that the first phase of the war would be limited to removing the Taliban, the President privately encouraged Wolfowitz--"Wolfie," as Bush calls him — to keep pressing his case. "When he speaks, his intellect is moving so fast that sometimes he's editing as he goes along," says a senior Administration official. "But you always want to listen carefully to what he's saying."
And that Wolfie spent the months following 9/11 laying out a plan to explain why they went to war in Iraq instead of Afghanistan. Considering the fact that he has close ties to Rumsfeld and Cheney, it's not hard to see why..check this link.
Another quote from Time had Scooter Libby praising his name:
Though often caricatured as Washington's most menacing hawk, Wolfowitz is popular for his self-deprecating humor. "Bad pennies keep turning up," Wolfowitz said in an interview with TIME this month, mocking his own lengthy resume. A trained mathematician who speaks four languages, Wolfowitz is at ease discussing anything from Civil War battles to how he performs Eskimo rolls in his kayak. "Paul is one of the smartest guys I've ever known," says I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff. Says a senior official who has worked with Wolfowitz in both Bush administrations: "He's had an intellectually coherent set of views he's pursued over a long time. On Iraq, on the Soviet Union — those ideas have stood the test of time."
So, who is Paul Wolfowitz? He was Time's Person Of The Year in 2003, and he's also the guy that said:
"I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not."
What a guy that Wolfie!!

Everybody Wants To Rule The World.

I'm a child of the 80's, what can I say.



Okay, has anyone else done any research on the PNAC (People for the New American Century)? This is some really, really scary stuff. We're talking world domination here. They want to set up permanent bases around the world (including Iraq) so that if/when the time comes, we can invade several countries at once.

In an article about Pres. Bush, TVnewslies.org said that this administration doesn't care about the real imminent dangers that the American people are faced with:
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/imminent_threat.html


3. Threats to our basic Constitutional freedoms: Using 9/11 as a cover for the most virulent attack on our civil liberties in history, we now live with the following:
The Patriot Act that has all but eliminated the protections provided to us by the US Constitution. (This act was actually in the planning long before 9/11.)

The public no longer has the right to know what the government is doing! Secrecy protects Bush from divulging information about 9/11, the Cheney energy meetings, the Iraq intelligence fiasco, and the archives of the first Pres. Bush.

Media consolidation threatens the public's ability to access diverse and complete information and opinion. Misled and coerced by accusations of being un-American, the Congress abdicated its exclusive responsibility for declaring war. By voting war powers to George W. Bush, the Constitution, once again, has been rendered meaningless.

4. Threats from an insane foreign policy. This administration has made this country feared and hated around the world. This is the result of:
An illegal and immoral war and occupation that are fueling extremist violence and inciting global terror and more acts of terror on our own soil.
Initiating a new nuclear arms race by showing that we do not invade countries with active nuclear programs.

A policy that declares that the US and its chosen allies have the exclusive right to develop weapons of mass destruction. Consider that approximately 3,500 people died within the US as a direct result of terrorism (in Oklahoma City and on 9/11)..

A doctrine that declares that the US has the right to launch pre-emptive, and if necessary, nuclear attacks on nations we suspect are hostile to us. Playing diplomatic games with N. Korea's nuclear threat, while refusing diplomatic solutions in Iraq.

An arrogant, self-righteous display of moral superiority that tells the world we can go it alone, without alliances and international agreements..

The abandonment of the war on terror, and the pursuit of domination of the Middle East and its oil.

The undue and self-indulgent influence of neoconservatives on foreign policy.

The intrusion of right wing religious doctrine as an integral part of American policy.

The undermining of the United Nations as a vital peace-keeping organ.

Insistence on American exemption from prosecution for war crimes in the World Court.

Check out this site for some interesting tid-bits on the PNAC:
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/pnac_timeline.htm

Pay close attention to this statement Condoleeza Rice gave to the 9/11 commission:
April 2004

Condoleeza Rice lies to the 9/11 commission: "...no one could have imagined planes being used as weapons..."

Now, check this site for proof she lied: http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/9_11_facts.html

"On the morning of September 11th, 2001, Dick Cheney was running several war games in the north eastern portion of the United States. These drills included many hijacking scenarios, where commercial jets were hijacked and flown into buildings. At the same time Cheney had arranged for a drill involving a bio attack on NY. This resulted in FEMA setting up a command post on pier 29 in New York on September 10th."

Does that look like no one could have imagined planes being used as weapons??

There's so much lying going on, it's tough to sort the truth from the fiction. So, tell me your opinions..and see if you can spot the lies.

Al Qaeda Declares War On Hamas and Fatah

http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=3922
This is the entire article...though I haven't found it on any other website except Digg.com. Be your own judge.

As Palestinian and Israeli leaders, Mahmoud Abbas and Ehud Olmert finished discussing the Gaza Strip's fate Sunday, March 11, three events showed how little they and Hamas are in control.
Al Qaeda's No. 2, Ayman Zawahri issued a declaration of war on the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in a videotape aired by the Arabic TV Al Jazeera.
An hour later, the Islamic Brotherhood of Justice (another name for al Qaeda's operational branch in the Gaza Strip) announced the launching of its Operation White Land, targeting the political and military leaders of Fatah and Hamas.
DEBKAfile's military sources also reveal that a rebellion has sprung up against the top Hamas leadership.
Olmert and Abbas nonetheless continue to act out a Pan-Arab diplomatic process at Washington's behest (see separate item on this page), which has as much chance of getting off the ground in Gaza as Fatah's Abbas' assurance that the kidnapped Israeli soldier, Gilead Shalit, would be freed very soon.
The Zuwahri statement assailed the legitimacy Saudi Arabia extended to moves for a Palestinian unity government at the Mecca peace conference as recently as Feb. 8. Negotiations between the two factions are bogged down anyway.
"The leadership of Hamas government has committed an aggression against the rights of the Islamic nation by respecting international agreements," thundered Ayman Zawahri Sunday. "I am sorry to have to offer the Islamic nation my condolences for the Hamas leadership as it has fallen into the quagmire of surrender."
The Gaza al Qaeda cell then defined the four missions of Operation White Land:
1. Targeting the most senior figures of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas leaders.
2. Focusing on group abductions rather than individuals, especially symbols of political corruption.
3. Beheading is ordained for members of these groups. Their executions and confessions will be videotaped and aired as they are in Iraq.
4. Blowing up Internet cafes and businesses selling alcohol; putting prostitutes to death to cleanse the streets of Gaza of prostitution.
Announcing these missions have won the sanction of Palestinian religious scholars, the communiqué ends with the words: "Operation White Land has begun."
As for the revolt in Hamas, its Executive Force chief Jemal Jarah and his deputy, Yusouf a-Zahar (brother of Hamas foreign minister Mahmoud a-Zahar), accuse prime minister Ismail Haniyeh of being too soft with Abbas and Fatah and failing to follow through to victory on the battles they fought for weeks against Fatah. Determined to finish the job, Hamas rebels were back on the streets of Gaza this week, shooting and abducting their rivals, the Mecca Reconciliation Accords already a dead letter.
DEBKAfile adds: Shalit, who was abducted in June 2006 has become a counter in internecine Palestinian rivalries. He is guarded by two of the groups which kidnapped him, including members of al Qaeda. With the control of affairs in the Gaza Strip slipping out of the hands of prime minister Haniyeh, it is hard to see how any progress can be achieved towards gaining his freedom.