Does anyone know why Paul Wolfowitz was planning on invading Iraq 3 years before 9/11?

Question

Wasn't about terrorists or WMDs at that time. Saddam and his military were all but paralyzed by US military no fly zones/sanctions at that time. So why was one of the top 5 Foreign Policy officials (who had family members that were victims of the Holocaust) in the Bush adminstration planning the invasion of Iraq years before 9/11? What country would the son of Holocaust victims want to protect more than anything in the world?

Let me ask you this, how did Israel react to Hezbollah firing mostly crude rockets at them? How do you think Israel felt when Saddam fired WMD capable carrying Missiles at them during the 1st Gulf war & the US wouldn't allow them to fight back? Israel lost over 6 million of their own people to WMDs (poison gas) in WW II. But Israel's military wasn't large enough to invade Iraq and take out Saddam? What Super power could easily take out Saddam and is Israel's biggest ally? Is there anything wrong with the US military saving Israel from Saddam?

Answer 1

they figure out the agenda years, decades, centuries, and arguably, millenia in advance.

Answer 2

The information has been out there all along, for anyone who wanted to look. In fact, Wolfowitz wrote his thesis on it, and later refined and polished it, so I believe the plan goes back more than three years before 9/11. And Holocaust or not, it was never about Israel. It was always about mideast oil. It's all in his bio, which anyone can Google. Don't just take my word for it.

This "war" has been years in the making, and the fact that it will establish our hegemony in the Middle East is evidenced by the size of the embassy we're building there.

EDIT: Andrew is hardly begging the question; the seeds of Wolfowitz's Mideast strategy were evolving as early as 1972 when he wrote his doctoral thesis. In a report written for the Defense Department in 1977, he said, “We and our major industrialized allies have a vital and growing stake in the Persian Gulf region because of our need for Persian Gulf oil and because events in the Persian Gulf affect the Arab-Israeli conflict." He added that “Iraq has become the militarily pre-eminent in the Persian Gulf,” which was “a worrisome development” because of its:

* Radical-Arab stance
* Anti-Western attitudes
* Dependence on Soviet arms sales
* Willingness to foment trouble in other local nations

Dennis Ross, a Soviet specialist from the University of California who worked with Wolfowitz on this report, claimed that “The whole thrust of the study was to say that [the U.S.] had a big problem, that it would take us a long time to get any significant military force into the area.” Please note the date of this report. Again after the first Gulf War, Wolfowitz regretted that we did not push on to remove Saddam and began calling for "preemption" and "unilateraism" in Iraq. He was the major architect of the plan that is in place as we speak.

Answer 3

Well the military has a plan to invade every solitary country there is and few that aren't. It's all part of the learning process of command strategy. The how would you deal with mountains here, or rivers there or the valleys there etc... War games are conducted with these things in mind all the time. They just give it a different name so no countries are offended if that noisy reporter reported that US had war game of US vs France everybody would go nuts.

Answer 4

And yet we've been fighting off Iraqis since the Gulf War.

Answer 5

It was about stability of the oil supply. He thought (thinks?) the US should use it's military power to protect the economy. Read what he said.

Answer 6

I doubt that very much, the only think Clinton wanted io invade was Monica

Answer 7

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/02/17/transcripts/clinton.iraq/

It was about WMD's at the time. Check that out.

EDIT: To Whoever gave me the thumbs down: Keep hiding from the truth, I guess if it helps you to sleep at night then go ahead.

Answer 8

because countries run by crazed wackos like saddam MUST have regime change

Answer 9

Why can't you ask an honest question rather than resort to petitio principii?

Answer 10

oil