Politics: In the Club
This is tough to follow, but important. The Guardian is reporting that several officials have been named as part of a U.S. provisional government in a post-war Iraq. One of those officials is a character called Michael Mobbs. Mobbs is the special assistant to the undersecretary of defense in charge of writing a few words on a piece of paper and permanently removing the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens like Jose Padilla and Yasser Esam Hamdi. (Another potential official for post-war Iraq in the item is former DCI James Woolsey.)
Mobbs has been in charge of certifying through his poisonous "Mobbs Declaration" that the government doesn't believe the Constitution actually applies to everybody, and that judicial review of this absurdist notion isn't worth poo. Here's the hard part: Mobbs worked in the Reagan administration at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he became good friends with Richard Perle, who was an assistant SecDef. After leaving the Reagan administration, Mobbs joined Douglas Feith's lawfirm. Feith is now Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, and did an excellent job of pushing Perle's vision of a war in Iraq. Feith and Perle worked together in 1996 preparing a strategy document for Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu called "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." The authors and architects of the document joined with Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to launch the "Project for a New American Century"
Then came 9/11, and almost all of these players were in power in the United States. And here we are.
This is tough to follow, but important. The Guardian is reporting that several officials have been named as part of a U.S. provisional government in a post-war Iraq. One of those officials is a character called Michael Mobbs. Mobbs is the special assistant to the undersecretary of defense in charge of writing a few words on a piece of paper and permanently removing the constitutional rights of U.S. citizens like Jose Padilla and Yasser Esam Hamdi. (Another potential official for post-war Iraq in the item is former DCI James Woolsey.)
Mobbs has been in charge of certifying through his poisonous "Mobbs Declaration" that the government doesn't believe the Constitution actually applies to everybody, and that judicial review of this absurdist notion isn't worth poo. Here's the hard part: Mobbs worked in the Reagan administration at the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he became good friends with Richard Perle, who was an assistant SecDef. After leaving the Reagan administration, Mobbs joined Douglas Feith's lawfirm. Feith is now Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, and did an excellent job of pushing Perle's vision of a war in Iraq. Feith and Perle worked together in 1996 preparing a strategy document for Israeli PM Bibi Netanyahu called "A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm." The authors and architects of the document joined with Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz to launch the "Project for a New American Century"
In open letters to Clinton and GOP congressional leaders the next year, the group called for "the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power" and a shift toward a more assertive U.S. policy in the Middle East, including the use of force if necessary to unseat Saddam.
And in a report just before the 2000 election that would bring Bush to power, the group predicted that the shift would come about slowly, unless there were "some catastrophic and catalyzing event, like a new Pearl Harbor."
Then came 9/11, and almost all of these players were in power in the United States. And here we are.
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