ブッシュ政権はイラク攻撃を政権発足時に、すでに検討していたの です。 Ｆより ９８年１月、クリントン大統領あてにイラク政策を批判した手紙で 「短期的には軍事行動に着手する意図を持ち、長期的にはフセイン 大統領を権力から排除するべきだ」と要求する内容。この英文を ＹＳさんが発見してくれました。 署名者のリストを見て驚いた。ラムズフェルド国防長官、ウオルフ ォウイッツ国防副長官、アーミテージ国務副長官。ボルトン国務次 官、ゼーリック大統領補佐官らが並ぶのです。 ここで分かるのは、共和党保守派の人々はイラク攻撃で一致してい ることです。 このため、現時点での政権内部の対立は「レーガン流国際主義」対 「パウエル流国際主義」の対立。 パウエル・ドクトリンは、１．決定的な戦力を用意し、２．明確な 戦争目的があり、３．国民の支持がある場合にのみ戦争を始めると いうこと。 保守派の人は米国のリーダーシップを発揮して、世界を率いるのだ という単純な論理である。今回はチェイニー副大統領がパウエルの サイドについたとのこと。 ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ イラク攻撃政権だったんですね ＹＳ 2001/10/18 00:21 ■情報源 週刊エコノミスト２００１年１０月２３日号 「対イスラム強硬派とパウエル氏の対立 中井良則」 これを更に深く突っ込んでみました。 まずはこれを見よう。 http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm January 26, 1998 The Honorable William J. Clinton President of the United States Washington, DC Dear Mr. President: We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world.That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor. The policy of containment of Saddam Hussein has been steadily eroding over the past several months.As recent events have demonstrated, we can no longer depend on our partners in the Gulf War coalition to continue to uphold the sanctions or to punish Saddam when he blocks or evades UN inspections. Our ability to ensure that Saddam Hussein is not producing weapons of mass destruction, therefore, has substantially diminished.Even if full inspections were eventually to resume, which now seems highly unlikely, experience has shown that it is difficult if not impossible to monitor Iraq's chemical and biological weapons production.The lengthy period during which the inspectors will have been unable to enter many Iraqi facilities has made it even less likely that they will be able to uncover all of Saddamﾕs secrets.ﾊ As a result, in the not-too-distant future we will be unable to determine with any reasonable level of confidence whether Iraq does or does not possess such weapons. Such uncertainty will, by itself, have a seriously destabilizing effect on the entire Middle East.ﾊ It hardly needs to be added that if Saddam does acquire the capability to deliver weapons of mass destruction, as he is almost certain to do if we continue along the present course, the safety of American troops in the region, of our friends and allies like Israel and the moderate Arab states, and a significant portion of the worldﾕs supply of oil will all be put at hazard. As you have rightly declared, Mr. President, the security of the world in the first part of the 21st century will be determined largely by how we handle this threat. Given the magnitude of the threat, the current policy, which depends for its success upon the steadfastness of our coalition partners and upon the cooperation of Saddam Hussein, is dangerously inadequate. The only acceptable strategy is one that eliminates the possibility that Iraq will be able to use or threaten to use weapons of mass destruction. In the near term, this means a willingness to undertake military action as diplomacy is clearly failing. In the long term, it means removing Saddam Hussein and his regime from power. That now needs to become the aim of American foreign policy. We urge you to articulate this aim, and to turn your Administration's attention to implementing a strategy for removing Saddam's regime from power. This will require a full complement of diplomatic, political and military efforts. Although we are fully aware of the dangers and difficulties in implementing this policy, we believe the dangers of failing to do so are far greater. We believe the U.S. has the authority under existing UN resolutions to take the necessary steps, including military steps, to protect our vital interests in the Gulf.In any case, American policy cannot continue to be crippled by a misguided insistence on unanimity in the UN Security Council. We urge you to act decisively.If you act now to end the threat of weapons of mass destruction against the U.S. or its allies, you will be acting in the most fundamental national security interests of the country. If we accept a course of weakness and drift, we put our interests and our future at risk. 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 ／ Robert B. Zoellick （引用終わり-一部文字化けあり） このメンバーはどーゆーことかなあ。現在の国防長官、国防副長官、 国務副長官、通商代表等がずらりと勢揃い。 なんだなんだイラク攻撃を目的とした政権だったんだ。 他にも情報多数。 IRAQ/MIDDLE EAST http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqmiddleeast.htm Project for the New American Century http://www.newamericancentury.org/ http://www.newamericancentury.org/williamkristolbio.htm 発行誌 The Weekly Standard http://www.weeklystandard.com/ About Us http://www.weeklystandard.com/aboutus/default.asp