weaponization of space, pre-emptive war policy, a doctrinal position that no country would be allowed to challenge the military might of the US. It hasn't all been a bed of roses for Bush attempting to implement this but this plan existed among his chief foreign policy advisors, some of whom advise him to this day. This same group urged Clinton to invade Iraq, and remove Saddam Hussein in 1998. It said in this report that the changes it proposed would be difficult to implement absent a galvanizing event, an event it termed "a new Pearl Harbor." One year later, after a year of multiple warnings that a major terrorist attack was about to occur, the new Pearl Harbor event DID occur. Co-incidence? Maybe, but maybe not. Especially when you start looking at the specificity of some of the warnings, and the actions that were taken at the time of those warnings. Around 1962, in the midst of the communist scare and communist Cuba 90 miles from the US coast, the Joint Chiefs of Staff formulated a plan called Operation Northwoods. It envisioned terror attacks in Miami and DC, with possible injuries or deaths, blowing up a US ship in Guantanamo Bay, shooting down an aircraft... all blamed on Castro, with the intention of gaining support for military action against Cuba. This is documented history. Pres. Kennedy declined. Governments do this. It is possible, even likely the Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal which Lawrence Wilkerson, Collin Powell's former chief of staff, so aptly described,