PNAC, You've Come a
Long Way, Baby
May 19, 2005
By Tj Templeton |
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Spring 1997 |
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The Project for the
New American Century (PNAC) is founded by Robert Kagan and William Kristol
and funded by three foundations closely tied to Persian Gulf oil and weapons and
defense industries. |
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January 1998
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The
PNAC delivers a letter to President Bill Clinton calling for the invasion of
Iraq.
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October 1999
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Pro golfer Payne Stewart’s incapacitated Learjet misses a turn, heading north
instead of west to Texas, F-16
interceptors are dispatched in 20 minutes.
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September 2000
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90 page Rebuilding
America's Defences: Strategies, Forces And Resources For A New Century,
is written by the Project for the New American Century. It calls for
unprecedented hikes in military spending, American military bases in Central
Asia and Middle East, toppling of non-complying regimes, abrogation of
international treaties, control of the world's energy sources, militarization of
outer space, total control of cyberspace, and the willingness to use nuclear
weapons to achieve "American" goals. (Source)
"The process of transformation," the plan said, "is likely to
be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl
Harbor." American
Free Press asked Christopher Maletz, asst. director of the PNAC about what was
meant by the "need for a new Pearl Harbor": "They needed more
money to up the defense budget for raises, new arms, and future
capabilities," Maletz said. "Without some disaster or catastrophic
event," neither the politicians nor the military would have approved.
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End of fiscal year 2000
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Marvin P Bush, the presidents
brother, leaves the board of directors of Sterling, Va based Stratesec after 7
years. Stratesec had provided electronic security for the World Trade Center,
Dulles International Airport and United Airlines. The company had a ``completion
contract" to handle some of the security at the World Trade Center ``up to
the day the buildings fell down." Marvin Bush's last year on the board at Stratesec coincides
with his first year on the board of HCC Insurance, formerly Houston Casualty
Co., one of the insurance carriers for the WTC. He leaves the HCC board in
November 2002. (link) |
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January 2001
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Bush is appointed to the US Presidency and appoints
leadership of PNAC to highest levels of Executive branch and Pentagon after
a disputed election centering in the state under his brothers governorship. Jeb
Bush is also a member of the PNAC.
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| January 25, 2001 |
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penned by Richard Clarke to Condoleeza Rice clearly states "We
urgently need such a principals-level review on the al-Qaeda network". |
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February 2001
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Colin
Powell tells the world that Iraq poses no threat. Condoleezza Rice agrees.
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April to September 10, 2001
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FTAA receives 52 warnings mentioning Osama Bin Laden, terror
cells inside US borders and the threat of suicide high-jackings. Also, in the
summer of 2001 the FAA sent a CD-ROM alert to airports mentioning the
possibility of suicide hijackings.
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September 2001
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PNAC
gets their "new pearl harbor." 83 minutes elapsed between the time
that Flight 11 veered off course and the Pentagon was hit, and 112 minutes
elapsed between the time that contact was lost with Flight 11 and Flight 93
crashed. Interceptors were not scrambled until 8 minutes after Flight 11 hit the
North Tower, and just 9 minutes before Flight 175 hit the South Tower.
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November 2001
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Kabul,
the capital of Afghanistan falls and a US friendly regime is installed.
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| July 23, 2002 |
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Prime Minister's meeting is held discussing, among other things, that
Bush's invasion of Iraq was inevitable, although justification was thin,
and that the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy. |
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February 2003
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Colin
Powell addresses UN outlining justification for invasion of Iraq, citing
false and later discredited evidence including an aerial photograph of an
alleged chemical
weapons factory that later turned out to be a bakery.
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April 2003
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Baghdad,
the capital of Iraq falls and a US friendly regime is installed.
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May 2003
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Bush declares "Mission
Accomplished."
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March 2004 ( March 22, 2004)
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Condoleeza Rice writes in
a column in The Washington Post that "No al-Qaeda threat was turned over
to the new administration."
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April 2004
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Condoleeza Rice lies to the 9-11
commission: "...no one could have imagined planes being used a
weapons..." and describes the Aug 6 Presidential Daily Bulletin
as "...a historical memo, that it was -- it was not based on new
threat information." She also elaborates: "I don't
remember the al Qaeda cells as being something that we were told we needed
to do something about." (Scroll
to page 12)
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August 2004 |
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The 911 commission publishes a report
regarding the 52 FTAA warnings. The report is suppressed from the public
until after the 2004 election. The warnings specifically describe Al-qaeda
high jacking domestic flights and using them in suicide missions. |
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February 2005 |
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Condoleeza Rice is promoted to Secretary of State. PNAC member
Elliott Abrams is appointed to the office of the Deputy Secretary of State. |
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