PNAC Points
by Deanna Spingola
November 19, 2016
PNAC, promoters of American
imperialism and “Full-spectrum” dominance, was funded by the Sarah Scaife
Foundation, the John M. Olin Foundation and the Bradley Foundation.
A major PNAC focus was
PNAC supports
On
Paul Wolfowitz said the
anti-terrorism campaign has to be broad and sustained. “It's not going to stop
if a few criminals are taken care of.”
[3] Those few alleged criminals have greatly
multiplied. Actually acts of terror have increased as a result of Bush’s “war on
terror.”
Richard Perle said, “This
is total war. We are fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out
there. All this talk about first we are going to do
In 1997, Israël Shahak
wrote, “Since the spring of 1992, public opinion in Israel is being prepared for
the prospect of a war with Iran, to be fought to bring about Iran’s total
military and political defeat. In one version, Israel would attack Iran alone;
in another it would ‘persuade’ the West to do the job.”
[6]
On January 26, 1998, the
PNAC war hawks, in a letter to President Clinton, urged him to invade Iraq to
depose Saddam Hussein. This letter was signed by Elliott Abrams, Richard L.
Armitage, William J. Bennett, Jeffrey Bergner, John Bolton
Paula Dobriansky, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Zalmay Khalilzad,
William Kristol, Richard Perle, Peter W. Rodman, Donald Rumsfeld, William
Schneider, Jr., Vin Weber, Paul Wolfowitz, R. James Woolsey and Robert B.
Zoellick.
[1] Perle: Bush Will Attack Iran If
Necessary,
http://www.informationliberation.com/?id=19688; last viewed
11/18/2016
[2]
Wolfowitz says Military Retaliation To Be Sustained,
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/6571/us-promises-%22sustained%22-military-campaign-(sept.-14).html;
last viewed 11/18/2016
[3]
How Wide a War?, PBS, September 26,
2001, http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/terrorism/july-dec01/wide_war.html
[4] A New Pearl Harbor,
http://www.ifamericansknew.org/us_ints/nc-pilger.html
[5] How 6 million People Were killed
in CIA secret wars against third world countries, Information Clearing
House,
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4068.htm; last
viewed 11/18/2016
[6] Israël Shahak, Open Secrets:
Israeli Foreign and Nuclear Policies, Pluto Press, London, Chicago,
Illinois, 1997, p. 54