"The New American Century" Documentary 2009

Although this is not an excerpt or video from Ron Paul, I believe it is critical that everyone watch this.

Here is a description of the movie.  Please note that the first 10 or so minutes talk about the events that unfolded on 9/11.  This is NOT a documentary discussing the "conspiracy" theory of 9/11 so please do not let the first several minutes of this movie to deter you from watching the entire thing.  I personally will never be the same after watching this.

This film is astonishing, it goes in detail through the untold history of The Project for the New American Century with tons of archival footage and connects it right into the present.

This film exposes how every major war in US history was based on a complete fraud with video of insiders themselves admitting it.

This film shows how the first film theaters in the US were used over a hundred years ago to broadcast propaganda to rile the American people into the Spanish-American War.

This film shows the white papers of the oil company Unocal which called for the creation of a pipeline through Afghanistan and how their exact needs were fulfilled through the US invasion of Afghanistan.

This film shows how Halliburton under their “cost plus” exclusive contract with the US Government went on a mad dash spending spree akin to something out of the movie Brewster’s Millions, yet instead of blowing $30 million they blew through BILLIONS by literally burning millions of dollars worth of hundred thousand dollar cars and trucks if they had so much as a flat tire.

I have seen a ton of films, this film contains a massive amount of incredible footage I have never seen before anywhere, it is an historical documentary which exposes all the lies of the past so that you can understand the present.

This film is a must see. “A stunning film. It should be seen as widely as possible, in cinemas, bars, clubs, at meetings and, of course, through the internet.

I’m sure the film will continue to be a source of debate and political education for many years. Maybe until the war criminals have been brought to trial.” – Ken Loach

“In the White House, they weren’t thinking of 9/11 as an attack, but as a gift!” – Robert Steele, former CIA agent

While Massimo Mazzucco’s first political documentary, Global Deceit (2006), focused on the long list of inconsistencies in the official version of the 9/11 attacks, The New American Century explores the historical, philosophical and economic background that suggests a matrix for such events that is much closer to home than the so-called “Islamic terrorism”.

The film provides solid evidence for the true reasons behind the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, whose unfolding is described in chilling detail in a document called
“Project for the New American Century”, published in the year 2,000, that seems to have served as the actual blueprint for such dramatic events.

"In spite of its complete lack of constitutional foundation..."

"In spite of its complete lack of constitutional foundation, this belief that the president may take the country to war on his own authority, without consulting anyone, has become the conventional wisdom in both major parties, although there has been a modest backlash against it since the Iraq war.  Neoconservatives have been particularly eager to promote this deviation from the Constitution.  This, it seems, is their version of the "living" Constitution." -Page 52 of The Revolution, A Manifesto

"James Bamford observes that the leadership of al Qaeda...."

"James Bamford observes that the leadership of al Qaeda hoped to lure us into a "desert Vietnam," an enormously expensive war that would deplete our resources and help their own recruitment by stirring up the locals against us.  And that is just what happened.  The war's ultimate cost is being estimated in the trillions.  The dollar is collapsing.  And more terrorists are being created.  According to a study by the Global Research in International Affairs Center in Herzliya, Israel, the vast bulk of the foreign fighters in Iraq are people who had never been involved in terrorist activity before but have been radicalized by the U.S. presence in Iraq - the second holiest place in Islam. 

The terrorist, in short, have played us like a fiddle.  With the unnecessary and unprovoked attack on Iraq, our government gave them just what they wanted.

Americans have the right to defend themselves against attack; that is not at issue.  But that is very different from launching a preemptive war against a country that had not attacked us and could not attack us, that lacked a navy and an air force, and whose military budget was a fraction of a percent of our own.  A policy of overthrowing or destabilizing every regime our government dislikes is no strategy at all, unless our goal is international chaos and domestic impoverishment. 

It is time for us to consider a strategic reassessment of our policy of foreign interventionism, occupation, and nation building.  It is in our own national interest to do so and in the interest of world peace.  This is a message that resonates not only with the American people at large but also with U.S. military personnel:  in the second quarter of 2007 our campaign raised more money from active duty and retired military than did any other Republican candidate in either party.  Then in the fourth quarter we received more money in our military donations than all Republicans put together.  This message is popular, and it is based on American security, fiscal sanity, and common sense."  Pages 38 & 39 of The Revolution, A Manifesto

"... where is the exposure for those who favor a noninterventionist foreign policy?"

"... where is the exposure for those who favor a noninterventionist foreign policy?  These individuals would have avoided the Iraq fiasco altogether.  America would be trillions richer over the long term, Iraqi society would not be in shambles, and countless Americans and Iraqis alike would still be alive.  Noninterventionists have been entirely vindicated.  And yet they do not enjoy the places of prominence that the establishment has bestowed on those who have been consistently wrong, and responsible for carnage and destruction that have destroyed our good name around the world and isolated us more than ever in our history.  In fact, they are scarcely to be found at all."  -Page 29 of The Revolution, A Manifesto

"... it is essential not to lose sight of the moral dimension of war..."

"... it is essential not to lose sight of the moral dimension of war, and the lengths to which Christian and later secular thinkers have gone over the centuries to limit and restrict the waging of war.  For well over a thousand years there has been a doctrine and Christian definition of what constitutes a just war.  This just-war tradition developed in the fourth century with Ambrose and Augustine but grew to maturity with Thomas Aquinas and such Late Scholastics as Francisco de Vitoria and Francisco Suarez.  The requirements for a just war varied to some extent from commentator to commentator, but those who wrote on the subject share some basic principles.  The war in Iraq did not even come close to satisfying them. 

First, there has to be an initial act of aggression, in response to which a just war may be waged.  But there was no act of aggression against the United States.  We are 6,000 miles from Iraq.  The phony stories we were told about unmanned drones coming to get us were, to say the least, not especially plausible. 

Second, diplomatic solutions had not been exhausted. They had hardly been tried.

Traditional just-war criteria also demand that the initiation of war be undertaken by the proper authority.  Under the U.S. Constitution, the proper authority is neither the president nor the United Nations.  It is Congress - but Congress unconstitutionally delegated its decision-making power over war to the president." -Pages 22 & 23 of The Revolution, A Manifesto

"The war in Iraq was one of the most ill-considered...."

"The war in Iraq was one of the most ill-considered, poorly planned, and just plain unnecessary military conflicts in American history, and I opposed it from the beginning."  -Page 21 of The Revolution, A Manifesto