THE EMPIRE STRIKES FIRST
Maureen Dowd, New York Times, 1/29/03
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/01/29/opinion/29DOWD.html
The Bush team thinks the way to galvanize the public is with fear, by
coupling Saddam to 9/11 and building him up into a Hitler who could
threaten the world, as the White House chief of staff, Andy Card, told Tim
Russert last Sunday, "with a holocaust."
But their reasons for war predate 9/11. The conservatives have wanted
Saddam's head for a dozen years.
Dick Cheney; his chief of staff, Scooter Libby; and the Pentagon official
Paul Wolfowitz also think Saddam is the perfect lab rat on which to test
their new pre-emptive "empire strikes first" national security strategy,
which Mr. Wolfowitz and Mr. Libby first drafted back in 1992, during the
Bush 41 administration, when Mr. Cheney was defense secretary…
After removing the super-rat, Mr. Wolfowitz, Mr. Libby and their fellow
hawk Richard Perle can turn his country into a laboratory for democracy in
the Arab world ' creating a domino effect to give Israel more security.
Once they have planted Athenian democracy on Mesopotamian soil, they
envision orchestrating more freedom throughout the Middle East ' as long as
the region plays ball with the new sheriff. They'll put pressure on Syria
and Iran to abandon their support for terrorism. And then, with an American
spigot, the oil will flow free ' except to the French, who will pay
dearly...
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