Pax Americana
A global "Pax Americana" was a dream held by many members of the Bush Administration. This dream was first articulated in the Defense Planning Guidance of 1992, drafted by Paul Wolfowitz on behalf of then Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, a document that has been called "a blueprint for permanent American global hegemony"[158] and has been echoed in the writings of the neoconservatives. Achieving the goal of American global hegemony would require four things:
1. One of these was getting control of the world's oil, especially in Central Asia and the Middle East, and the Bush-Cheney administration came to power with plans already made to attack Afghanistan and Iraq.
2. A second requirement was a technological transformation of the military, in which fighting from space would become central.
3. A third requirement was an enormous increase in military spending, to pay for these new wars and for weaponizing space.
4. A fourth need was to modify the doctrine of pre-emptive attack, so that America would be able to attack other countries even if they posed no imminent threat.
These four elements would, moreover, require a fifth:
5. An event that would make the American people ready to accept these imperialistic policies.
Some of the most widely cited writings of the neoconservatives come from the think-tank the "Project for a New American Century". This group contained numerous members of the Bush Administration including Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Paul Wolfowitz and Jeb Bush. A document published in 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses" called for increased spending in order to transform the military. It goes on to say:
"This process of transformation... is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor."
In his book "The Grand Chessboard" (1997), geostrategist Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Advisor in the Carter Administration, sets out to formulate "a comprehensive and integrated Eurasian geostrategy... it is imperative that no Eurasian challenger emerges, capable of dominating Eurasia and thus of also challenging America." Later in the book he states that:
"As America becomes an increasingly multicultural society, it may find it more difficult to fashion a consensus on foreign policy issues, except in the circumstances of a truly massive and widely perceived direct external threat."
The War on Terror is the pretext for achieving the goals of the neoconservatives. They sought to create a "perpetual threat", terrorism, to function in a similar way to communism during the Cold War. As reported by the Washington Post, Dick Cheney says of the War on Terror: "It may never end. At least, not in our lifetime."
Since 9/11, the US government have introduced numerous acts of congress which are invasions of civil liberties and are in direct contradiction with the US constitution. The PATRIOT Act, the Homeland Security Bill, the militarisation of the police force, the nullification of the Posse Comitatus Act, the repeal of Habeus Corpus, and the changes in laws relating to rights of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
The New World Order
The perpetrators of the attacks are sometimes described as a "shadow government" controlling the White House, both major U.S. political parties, certain foreign governments, global corporations and the mainstream news media. These people are referred to as the "New World Order". Some of the individuals believed to be working for this group are sometimes said to be members of such groups as the Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission and the Bilderberg Group. The term itself gained popularity following its use in the early 1990s, first by President George H W Bush when he referred to his "dream of a New World Order" in his speech to congress on September 11, 1990, and second by David Rockefeller in a Statement to the United Nations Business Council in September 1994:
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
The concept of this shadow government pre-dates 1990 and sometimes they are accused of being the same group of people who, among other things, created the Federal Reserve Act (1913), supported the Bolshevik Revolution (1917), and supported the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany, all for their own agenda. Indeed, the domestic agenda of the Bush Administration since 9/11 has been compared to that of the Nazi Party following the Reichstag Fire of 1933. The World Bank and national central banks are sometimes said to be the tools of the New World Order; war generates massive profits for central banks, as government spending (hence borrowing at interest from the central banks) increases dramatically in times of war.
Oil and corporate profits
Michael Ruppert, a former narcotics officer, is the creator of the alternative news organization "From the Wilderness", which reports primarily on the "Peak Oil" crisis. In his lecture "The Truth and Lies of 9/11" he asserts that the primary motive for 9/11 and subsequent wars was the need for a pretext to launch a war for the last remaining sources of oil. He also highlights the importance and value of the drug trafficking industry to the global economy, estimating it to be worth almost $600 billion to Wall Street and U.S. banks which launder the money generated by the industry. Ruppert speculates that the Afghanistan opium industry, which the Taliban had practically eliminated in 2000-2001, may have been a reason that country was chosen as the starting point for "oil wars" in the Middle East.
The War on Terror, particularly the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq, generates massive profits for the oil, security, weapons, insurance and defense contracting industries. Military, intelligence and security budgets have soared since 9/11. Additionally, it is alleged that drug traffickers and money launderers have benefited greatly from the invasion of Afghanistan and its opium fields. It is thought that all these factors may be significant in explaining the success of the operation and its continued cover-up.
It has also been suggested that Larry Silverstein, the owner of the World Trade Center, may have benefited from the insurance payouts. Silverstein purchased a 99-year lease on the complex in July 2001. Following the attacks, he sought a $7.1billion payout, claiming that the two plane impacts were two separate attacks.[174][175] The World Trade Center also contained a large amount of asbestos that was required to be removed; some claim that the cost of carrying out this task would have been in excess of $1 billion. It has also been claimed that the office space within the building was unprofitable and the area was in need of urban renewal.
Plans for invasions
The 2001 invasion of Afghanistan was being planned before 9/11. On June 26, 2001, the Indian public affairs magazine News Insight revealed plans for a joint US-Russian invasion of Afghanistan to remove the Taleban government. It reported that India and Iran would 'facilitate' the invasion. The BBC reported on September 18, 2001 that Niaz Naik, a former Pakistani Foreign Secretary, was told by senior American officials in mid-July that military action against Afghanistan would go ahead by the middle of October. MSNBC reported on May 16, 2002 that President Bush received plans to begin a worldwide war on al-Qaeda on September 9, 2001, two days before the 9/11 attacks.
This planned war was to be justified directly by 9/11. Tony Blair said to the Commons Liaison Committee in July 2002 that "To be truthful about it, there was no way we could have got the public consent to have suddenly launched a campaign on Afghanistan but for what happened on September 11"
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was on President Bush's 'to-do' list from the time he was elected into office and even before. Although the pretext for the war was that Saddam was in possession of 'weapons of mass destruction,' 9/11 was part of a plan to create a 'climate of fear' to win support for an invasion, followed by a long period of occupation. Paul O'Neill, George Bush's first Treasury Secretary, reported that in a meeting in January 2001, the president discussed an invasion and occupation of Iraq. "It was all about finding a way to do it. That was the tone of it. The president saying ‘Go find me a way to do this,’" O'Neill told CBS.
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