More evidence that Iraq was on the agenda before 9/11

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In fact, it was on the agenda before Bush became president.

This letter available for all on our favorite neoconservative think tank (PNAC)'s website.

May 29, 1998

The Honorable Newt Gingrich
Speaker of the House
U.S. House of Representatives
H-232 Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20515-6501

The Honorable Trent Lott
Senate Majority Leader
United States Senate
S-208 Capitol Building
Washington, DC 20510-7010

Dear Mr. Speaker and Senator Lott:

On January 26, we sent a letter to President Clinton expressing our concern that the U.S. policy of "containment" of Saddam Hussein was failing. The result, we argued, would be that the vital interests of the United States and its allies in the Middle East would soon be facing a threat as severe as any we had known since the end of the Cold War. We recommended a substantial change in the direction of U.S. policy: Instead of further, futile efforts to "contain" Saddam, we argued that the only way to protect the United States and its allies from the threat of weapons of mass destruction was to put in place policies that would lead to the removal of Saddam and his regime from power. The administration has not only rejected this advice but, as we warned, has begun to abandon its own policy of containment...

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqletter1998.htm

Now considering the fact that Rummy, Wolfie, and Chenney were all members of PNAC it's pretty apparent Bush's foreign policy must be largely run under the ideals of this think-tank. I'm going to point this out to anybody who still thinks Iraq was a response to 9/11.