From: "Petter Taulan P" <petter_pinulung@bca.co.id> 
Date: Thu Mar 20, 2003 4:59 am
Subject: TheNewAmericanCentury2

see how they proposed saddam's power removal and soon other power ...FROM
1997-1998!!!(look at the date..)
tis iz an extravagant idea such find the way...

look at the donald rumsfeld and wolfowitz membership....
so there would be no doubt facing this shocking fact.....see the last two
paragraphs below...

luv-
ptP

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's secrets. 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. 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'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.

Sincerely,

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