THE WHOLE LOT, IRAQ, SYRIA, IRAN

Although Iraq, Syria and Iran had nothing to do with 9/11, but are targets in the A Clean Break/Rebuilding America's Defenses agenda, Dick Cheney would have "worked through" them and their surrogates such as Hezbollah and Hamas.

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From http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/blairs-book-reveals-background-to-war/story-e6frg6nf-1225913014715

Blair's book reveals background to war

While lashing out at his successor, Gordon Brown, he praises his wartime ally George W. Bush as intelligent and principled, although he reveals that others in the Bush administration had a hankering for invading Middle Eastern countries beyond Iraq.

In a chilling insight into the mood of the Bush White House, Blair says vice-president Dick Cheney "would have worked through the whole lot, Iraq, Syria, Iran, dealing with all their surrogates in the course of it -- Hezbollah, Hamas, etc.

"In other words, he thought the world had to be made anew and that after September 11, it had to be done by force and with urgency.

"He was for hard, hard power. No ifs, no buts, no maybes. We're coming after you so change or be changed."

Blair thought Cheney "had one central insight which was at least worth taking seriously" -- the view that the West's enemies were linked by a common ideology -- but he disagreed with Cheney's view that the battle could be won "by a hard-power strategy alone".