[badsector]

The neocons are the new evil the World has to live with. They have nothing to do with true conservativism. They are a group of extremely powerful and dangerous individuals and their mission is World domination. They don't care what they have to do to achieve their goals. Destroying economies, causing mass unemployment and poverty, wiping out countries, causing war and mass murder are all fine and dandy to them. If they can make a dime by killing their mothers, they go for it. A cancer to the World, the sooner they meet their demise, the better for everyone else.

[Spanky]

Isn't it just a little bit strange that you hardly ever hear mention in the lamestream corporate media about the neocon think tank <b>Project for a New American Century </b>PNAC (considering it is the PNACers in the Bush administration that are the ones yanking the strings on the coke-addled, pretzeldental puppet).<br /> <br /> If you were to ask 100 people at random in downtown New York or Toronto tomorrow morning if they knew what PNAC was or ask them to name two prominent members of PNAC, I'd be shocked if more than 5 had a clue what you were talking about. <br /> <br /> <b>The Project for the New American Century.</b><br /> <br /> <i>The People versus the Powerful is the oldest story in human history. At no<br /> point in history have the Powerful wielded so much control. At no point in<br /> history has the active and informed involvement of the People, all of them,<br /> been more absolutely required.</i><br /> <br /> William Rivers Pitt: 02/25/03<br /> <br /> The Project for the New American Century, or PNAC, is a Washington-based<br /> think tank created in 1997. Above all else, PNAC desires and demands one<br /> thing: The establishment of a global American empire to bend the will of<br /> all nations. They chafe at the idea that the United States, the last<br /> remaining superpower, does not do more by way of economic and military<br /> force to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new<br /> socio-economic Pax Americana.<br /> <br /> The fundamental essence of PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper<br /> produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses:<br /> Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century." In it, PNAC outlines<br /> what is required of America to create the global empire they envision.<br /> According to PNAC, America must:<br /> <br /> * Reposition permanently based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia<br /> and the Middle East;<br /> * Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft,<br /> submarine and surface fleet capabilities;<br /> * Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a<br /> strategic dominance of space;<br /> * Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;<br /> * Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic<br /> product, up from the 3 percent currently spent.<br /> <br /> Most ominously, this PNAC document described four "Core Missions" for the<br /> American military. The two central requirements are for American forces to<br /> "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars," and<br /> to "perform the 'constabulary' duties associated with shaping the security<br /> environment in critical regions." Note well that PNAC does not want America<br /> to be prepared to fight simultaneous major wars. That is old school. In<br /> order to bring this plan to fruition, the military must fight these wars<br /> one way or the other to establish American dominance for all to see.<br /> <br /> Why is this important? After all, wacky think tanks are a cottage industry<br /> in Washington, DC. They are a dime a dozen. In what way does PNAC stand<br /> above the other groups that would set American foreign policy if they could?<br /> Two events brought PNAC into the mainstream of American government: the<br /> disputed election of George W. Bush, and the attacks of September 11th.<br /> When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the<br /> imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense<br /> Department and the White House. When the Towers came down, these men saw,<br /> at long last, their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive<br /> policy.<br /> <br /> Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense<br /> Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle.<br /> Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the<br /> group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for<br /> Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position<br /> with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.<br /> <br /> PNAC is staffed by men who previously served with groups like Friends of<br /> the Democratic Center in Central America, which supported America's bloody<br /> gamesmanship in Nicaragua and El Salvador, and with groups like The<br /> Committee for the Present Danger, which spent years advocating that a<br /> nuclear war with the Soviet Union was "winnable."<br /> <br /> Article continues at:<br /> <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm">PNAC</a><br /> <br /> See also<br /> <a href="http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/pnac.html">PNAC links</a><br /> <br /> and <br /> <a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=2137401">PNAC 101</a>