19 September 2010By Keith Johnson
Admirers of
George W. Bush will soon have an opportunity to
get inside the head of their dearly beloved
neo-conservative icon. His much-hyped memoir,
‘Decision Points’ is due out in bookstores on November
9th.
We’re told that ‘The
Decider’ has, “spent almost every day”
writing what his publishing house calls, “a
strikingly personal and candid account revealing how
and why he made the defining decisions in his
consequential presidency and personal life.”
Oh—the romantic visions this must conjure up in the
minds of so many adoring fans. Can’t you just imagine
all of those sleepless nights Ol’Dubyah must have
spent burning the midnight oil? I can just see him
now…instructing his house staff that, “I must not
be disturbed” before locking the doors to his
study and sinking into a big leather chair. There he
sits, alone and reflective, preferring to log his
thoughts on paper instead of using a computer
because—after all—he’s an old fashioned kind of guy.
Occasionally he will rise from his desk to step out
onto the terrace. There…he breathes in the cool night
air and gazes up at the stars. He asks the good Lord
to help him find the strength to confront his demons,
and the courage to share with his fellow countrymen
just how often he struggled with doubts before being
forced to make tough and painful decisions.
Blah…blah…blah…
Well, if entertaining that fantasy is what helps
you get through the book—more power to ya.’
However, I prefer to entertain a more likely
scenario. Mine has a staff of ghostwriters chasing
Ol’Dubyah around the golf course in a vain attempt to
pin him down long enough to do some fact checking.
Can’t you just see him…shooting rubber bands at their
head as he makes off-color remarks about how poorly
they fit into their clothes? Yeah, that’s more
Ol’Dubyah’s style.
But, according to a press release by Crown
Publishers, we’re promised a more demure and
accessible Bush, one who will be honest and direct in
his writing as he reveals “intimate” and
“unprecedented” details of his personal life.
We’ll learn what went into his decision to quit
drinking, how he decided to give his life over to God
(whatever God that might be), and about his
relationship with members of his family. Oh, how
sickingly sweet.
The forthcoming book also promises to bring “readers
inside the Texas Governor’s Mansion on the night of
the hotly contested 2000 election; aboard
Air
Force One on 9/11 in the gripping hours after
America’s most devastating attack since
Pearl
Harbor; inside the
Situation Room in the moments before launching
the war
in Iraq; and behind the
Oval
Office desk for his historic and controversial
decisions on the financial crisis,
Hurricane Katrina,
Afghanistan,
Iran,
and other issues that have shaped the first decade of
the
21st century.
Wow, that sounds like some ride, which is exactly
what readers will be taken for if they choose to plop
down $35 (plus tax) for this steaming loaf of bovine
excrement. I’m sure there are many who are waiting to
do just that. This book will certainly find its way
to the New York Times bestsellers list, and you’re
bound to find copies of this opus prominently
displayed on the bookshelves of Burger King franchise
owners; Wells Fargo branch managers; small town police
chiefs, and all manner of suburban dwelling
professionals who consider themselves to be upwardly
mobile members of the elite.
However, there is one morsel of truth that can be
found in the aforementioned teaser. These
“issues” certainly “have shaped the first
decade of the 21st century.” But,
come on, do they really expect me us believe that it
was George W. Bush who made all of those
“controversial decisions”? That will require some
spin, especially in light of the fact that every move
Bush made was in accordance with plans that were
written out for him well in advance of his
Presidency.
In 1997, an assorted cast of villains created a
Washington based think tank called ‘The Project for
the New American Century’ (PNAC). This group
was—in large part—the brainchild of
Paul Wolfowitz, who would later become the U.S.
Deputy
Secretary of Defense under Bush and the
architect of his Iraq policy. Among some of the
founding members—who would later be given key
positions in the
Bush
administration—were
Dick Cheney (future V.P.),
Donald Rumsfeld (future Defense Secretary), and
Richard
Perle (future Defense Policy Board chairman).
Other members would go on to become highly influential
leaders of the neo-conservative movement—like
William Kristol—famed conservative writer for
the
Weekly Standard, owned by Ruppert Murdoch, who
also owns international media giant
Fox
News.
The goal of this group was to establish America’s
hegemony throughout the world and maintain global
dominance through military force. The way they
planned to carry this out was outlined in a white
paper entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses:
Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century."
In it, they identified four “Core Missions” for the
United
States military:
1.) Defend the American Homeland
2.) Fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous
major theatre wars
3.) Perform the ‘constabulary’ duties
associated with shaping the security environment in
critical regions
4.) Transform U.S. forces to exploit the
“revolution in military affairs”
All of these objectives had been in the planning
stages for years, long before Bush Jr. came onto the
scene. While he was still busy making
failures out of every company he was
involved with in the private sector, it was Cheney and
his gang of criminals who were busy making the
“controversial decisions” that W. would later
take credit for.
As early as 1992, plans for military adventurism,
into and beyond
Iraq, were well underway. At that time, Cheney
was
President Bush Sr.’s Secretary of Defense.
Following ‘Operation
Desert Storm,’ Cheney collaborated with two of
his top aides, Paul Wolfowitz and
Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby, in drafting up a
post-cold war American defense strategy. They came up
with a document entitled, ‘Defense Planning Guidance.’
It maintained that the U.S. must assert pre-emptive
military supremacy to "discourage advanced
industrial nations from challenging our leadership or
even aspiring to a larger regional or global role”
and to safeguard "access to vital
raw material, primarily
Persian
Gulf oil.” To this end, it was essential
that the U.S. maintain a permanent military presence
in the
Middle East and to “keep all peacekeeping
and rebuilding missions within the power of American
political leadership rather than that of the
United
Nations.”
This would become the ideological blueprint for
PNAC and the foreign policy objectives of a future
administration they planned to control through an
installed, puppet President.
This is where our
boy
George emerges onto the scene. Cheney needed
someone he and his cohorts could trust and control.
George’s younger brother, Jeb, was already a key
player in PNAC as a signatory to the "Rebuilding
America's Defenses” document. Jeb was considered
far more intelligent than George, but lacked the
political experience and public recognition that his
older brother enjoyed.
Cheney put his full support behind W.’s
presidential campaign and even headed his
vice-presidential search committee. After reviewing
the committee’s findings, Bush concluded that Cheney
was the man he wanted as his running mate. Go figure.
Everything the PNAC group had invested in, hinged
on the victory of George W. Bush over
Al Gore in the 2000 Presidential elections.
George had to win by any means necessary. So it was
up to his brother Jeb—a devout PNAC operative and
then-Governor of
Florida—to
tip the scales in his avor by illegally removing
57,700 Florida voters from the rolls. And the rest—as
they say—is history.
Once the PNAC President was installed, all that was
needed was a ‘catalyst’ to put their plan into
motion. A reference to this scheme was revealed in
Section V of Rebuilding America’s Defenses, entitled
"Creating Tomorrow's Dominant Force", which includes
the sentence: "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"
On September 11, 2001, they got their Pearl
Harbor. The decision to invade Iraq and Afghanistan
was not one that was pondered upon in the mind of the
idiot Bush. This had been the plan all along. In
1998, fifteen PNAC members were signatories on a
letter to then-President Clinton, urging him to
“undertake military action” to eliminate “the
possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten
to use
weapons of mass destruction.” The PNAC
NeoCons had been salivating over Iraq and Afghanistan
for years, and seized upon the 9/11 events to move
their plan forward.
So just keep these “points” in perspective
as you sit down to read how the “Decider”
“decided” all of those “decisions” that
have “decisively” flushed this nation into a
despotic death spiral.
Part II of this essay is on its way.
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