@leyonhjelm @SuperDicq @Moon
>before 9/11 there was a neocon think tank plan for the USA to invade several countries and those plans did not hinge on a particular party becoming president.

Yup, this is true. General Wesley Clark described it publicly:

>In Clark's book Winning Modern Wars, published in 2003, he describes his conversation with a military officer in the Pentagon shortly after 9/11 regarding a plan to attack seven countries in five years: "As I went back through the Pentagon in November 2001, one of the senior military staff officers had time for a chat. Yes, we were still on track for going against Iraq, he said. But there was more. This was being discussed as part of a five-year campaign plan, he said, and there were a total of seven countries, beginning with Iraq, then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and finishing off Iran." Clark regards the 2003 invasion of Iraq as "a huge mistake".

I wish more people knew this.