As Dirty Harry would say: go ahead Democrat punks, make my day!

Seriously, Republicans would like nothing better than this. Can you say political hari-kiri? How do you think Democrat-leaning Hispanic voters would react to such a move?

fred T, brit, bill and torrie towed the wh talking points this morning. they make me shudder. as they put it, “There’s nothing to the libby story.” So that’s why we’re talking about it.

This morning one of Tim Russert’s guests was –
Zalmay M. Khalilzad — one of the signatories of The Project for a New American Century…..which said — in 2000 that we needed “a new Pearl Harbor” ……so “they” could take over the world.

No one ever alludes to….or remembers…..or discusses….THE PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY. You’d think they might ….before W nukes Iran:

January 26, 1998
The Project for the New American Century (PNAC), an influential neoconservative think tank, publishes a letter to President Clinton urging war against Iraq and the removal of Saddam Hussein because he is a “hazard” to “a significant portion of the world’s supply of oil.” In a foretaste of what eventually happens, the letter calls for the US to go to war alone, attacks the United Nations, and says the US should not be “crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council.”

The letter is signed by many who will later lead the 2003 Iraq war. 10 of the 18 signatories later join the Bush Administration, including (future) Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Assistant Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Assistant Secretary of State Richard ARMITAGE, Undersecretaries of State John Bolton and Paula Dobriansky, presidential adviser for the Middle East Elliott Abrams, and Bush’s special Iraq envoy ZALMAY KHALILZAD. [Project for the New American Century, 1/26/1998;
Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 3/16/2003] Clinton does heavily bomb Iraq in late 1998, but the bombing doesn’t last long and its long term effect is the break off of United Nations weapons inspections. [New York Times, 3/23/2003]

Entity Tags: William Kristol, Richard Perle, ZALMAY M. KHALILZAD, Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, William Schneider Jr., Vin Weber, Donald Rumsfeld, Peter Rodman, Elliott Abrams, Paula J. Dobriansky, Jeffrey T. Bergner, Richard ARMITAGE, John R. Bolton, James Woolsey, Robert B. Zoellick, Paul Wolfowitz, William J. Bennett, William Jefferson (”Bill”) Clinton
Timeline Tags: Events Leading to Iraq Invasion

September 11, 1998: PNAC Calls on Clinton To Take ‘Decisive Action’ Against Milosevic
The Project for a New American Century publishes an open letter to President Clinton urging him put an end to diplomatic efforts attempting to resolve the situation in the Balkans. Instead, they argue, he should take “decisive action” against the Serbs. The US must “distance itself from Milosevic and actively support in every way possible his replacement by a democratic government committed to ending ethnic violence,” the group writes. [Century, 9/11/1998]
Entity Tags: Zalmay M. KHALILZAD, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Robert Kagan, Paula J. Dobriansky, Bruce Jackson, William Kristol, Mark P. Lagon, Peter Rodman, Dov S. Zakheim, William Howard Taft IV, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Solarz, Gary Schmitt, David Epstein, John R. Bolton, Jeffrey T. Bergner, Richard ARMITAGE, Nina Bang-Jensen, Elliott Abrams, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, Richard Perle, Morton I. Abramowitz, William Pfaff, Seth Cropsey, Lane Kirkland, James R. Hooper, John Heffernan, Morton H. Halperin, Dennis DeConcini, Peter Kovler, William Pfaff, Ed Turner, George Biddle, Wayne Owens, Frank Carlucci
Timeline Tags: Western Support for Islamic Militancy

September 2000: PNAC Report Recommends Policies That NEED A NEW PEARL HARBOR for Quick Implementation
People involved in the 2000 PNAC report (from top left): Vice President Cheney, Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Cheney Chief of Staff I. Lewis LIBBY, Undersecretary of State John Bolton, Undersecretary of Defense Dov Zakheim, and author Eliot Cohen. [Source: Public domain]PNAC drafts a strategy document, “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategies, Forces and Resources for a New Century,” for George W. Bush’s team before the 2000 Presidential election.

The document was commissioned by future Vice President Cheney, future Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, future Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Florida Governor Jeb Bush (Bush’s brother), and future Vice President Cheney’s Chief of Staff Lewis Libby. [Project for the New American Century, 9/2000 ]
The document outlines a “blueprint for maintaining global US preeminence, precluding the rise of a great power rival, and shaping the international security order in line with American principles and interests.”
PNAC states further: “The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.”

PNAC calls for the control of space through a new “US Space Forces,” the political control of the Internet, and the subversion of any growth in political power of even close allies, and advocates “regime change” in China, North Korea, Libya, Syria, Iran, and other countries.
It also mentions that “advanced forms of biological warfare that can ‘target’ specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.”
However, PNAC complains that these changes are likely to take a long time, “absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event—

like a new Pearl Harbor.”

[Los Angeles Times, 1/12/2003] Notably, while Cheney commissioned this plan (along with other future key leaders of the Bush administration), he defends Bush’s position of maintaining Clinton’s policy not to attack Iraq during an NBC interview in the midst of the 2000 presidential campaign, asserting that the US should not act as though “we were an imperialist power, willy-nilly moving into capitals in that part of the world, taking down governments.” [Washington Post, 1/12/2002] A British member of Parliament will later say of the report:

“This is a blueprint for US world domination—a new world order of their making. These are the thought processes of fantasist Americans who want to control the world.”

[Sunday Herald (Glasgow), 9/7/2002] Both PNAC and its strategy plan for Bush are almost virtually ignored by the media until a few weeks before the start of the Iraq war (see February-March 20, 2003).
Entity Tags: Lybia, Syria, United States, Saddam Hussein, China, Iraq, North Korea, Steve Rosen, John Ellis (”Jeb”) Bush, Hasam Amin, Elliott Abrams, Steve Forbes, Aaron Friedberg, Richard (”Dick”) Cheney, Lewis (”Scooter”) Libby, Project for the New American Century, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Peter Rodman, Frank Gaffney, Paula J. Dobriansky, Dan Quayle, ZALMAY M. KHALIZAD, Fred C. Ikle, Donald Kagan, Eliot A. Cohen, William J. Bennett, Vin Weber, Francis Fukuyama, Henry S. Rowen, Norman Podhoretz, George Weigel, Midge Decter
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, Events Leading to Iraq Invasion

May 23, 2001: Former Unocal Employee Becomes Bush’s Special Assistant to Middle East and Central Asia
ZALMAY KHALILZAD. [Source: US Embassy, Iraq] ZALMAY KHALILZAD is appointed Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Gulf, Southwest Asia and Other Regional Issues on the National Security Council. Khalilzad was an official in the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations. During the Clinton years, he worked for UNOCAL. After 9/11, he will be appointed as special envoy to Afghanistan. [US Department of State, 2001; Independent, 1/10/2002] He previously worked under Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and helped him write a controversial 1992 plan for US world domination.(see March 8, 1992) [New York Times, 3/23/2003] He was a member of the NEOCONSERVATIVE THINK TANK PROJECT FOR A NEW AMERICAN CENTURY. The Asia Times notes, “It was KHALIZAD—when he was a huge TALIBAN fan—who conducted the risk analysis for Unocal (Union Oil Company of California) for the infamous proposed $2 billion, 1,500 kilometer-long Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan [TAP] gas pipeline.” [Asia Times, 12/25/2003] After 9/11, he will be appointed as special envoy to Afghanistan and become what some call the “real president” of that country (see January 1, 2002).
Entity Tags: Taliban, Paul Wolfowitz, Project for the New American Century, Unocal, National Security Council, Zalmay M. Khalilzad
Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline

” Later, in 1979, he received a Ph.D. in government, also from Harvard. During his first year of graduate school, Kristol was fellow conservative and also government doctoral candidate Alan Keyes’ roommate. Many years later, in 1988, Kristol would run Keyes’ unsuccessful U.S. Senate campaign “

from wikipedia

“This drug can cause dizziness, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, temporary paralysis or blindness but if anything really serious happens come back and see me.”

That was pretty much what the doc in Vietnam told his patients with amoebic dysentery, which was very common when I was there. It was almost as easy to spot the zombies with dysentery as the green men on synthetic quinine to prevent malaria.

Soldiers and sailors are subjected to experimental drugs that cannot be refused on pain of court martial.

Undoubtedly the advance of medical technology is today keeping many alive that would have died in earlier wars and maybe not so coincidentally getting them back to the front faster.

Jim Webb oddly repeated a grammatical error on This Week he has made often in the past. Someone should tell him.

“I am a product of military medicine,” said the senator. That, of course, should be: “I am a survivor of military medicine.”

Best, Terry

And thanks cbl! I’ll bookmark those pages immediately. When it comes to a genealogy chart I know just who to ask for some help and I happen to have a blank genealogy form file already. This will be veeddddy interesting.

dipper @ 154

I’ll never forget Dole saying in a TV interview regarding Kerry’s Purple Hearts, “I never saw any blood”. I’ve hated him ever since. How could a man like him belittle anyone’s medals?

Bob Dole is a bad man.

Send the ***** to Iraq, now, so he can witness and notarize all injuries that may result in purple hearts, oh yeah, and Liddy can go along to help with the workload. The idea that any blood this idiot didn’t see is somehow maybe not “actual blood” is just too absurd.

I’ll never forget Dole saying in a TV interview regarding Kerry’s Purple Hearts, “I never saw any blood”. I’ve hated him ever since. How could a man like him belittle anyone’s medals?

Bob Dole is a bad man.