Renewed furor erupted among Labor when the Sunday Herald, a Scottish newspaper, unveiled a study written for Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and other Bush handlers before the Republicans captured the White House. Prepared by the Project for the New American Century, a Rightwing think tank, the September 2000 report presages the administration's current game plan:
The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Labour parliamentarian Tam Dalyell spoke for many in his party. "This is a blueprint for U.S. world domination - a new world order of their making. These are the thought processes of fantasist Americans who want to control the world. I am appalled that a British Labour Prime Minister should have got into bed with a crew which has this moral standing," he said.
When lawmakers from the world's once-greatest empire are appalled, something earth-shaking is occurring.
The United States has for decades sought to play a more permanent role in Gulf regional security. While the unresolved conflict with Iraq provides the immediate justification, the need for a substantial American force presence in the Gulf transcends the issue of the regime of Saddam Hussein.
Labour parliamentarian Tam Dalyell spoke for many in his party. "This is a blueprint for U.S. world domination - a new world order of their making. These are the thought processes of fantasist Americans who want to control the world. I am appalled that a British Labour Prime Minister should have got into bed with a crew which has this moral standing," he said.
When lawmakers from the world's once-greatest empire are appalled, something earth-shaking is occurring.