The First Piece of the Puzzle

''The goal is not just a new regime in Iraq. The goal is a new Middle East,'' said Raad Alkadiri, an Iraq analyst with PFC, a Washington-based energy consulting organization. ''The goal has been and remains one of the main driving factors of preemptive action against Iraq.''

*"Iraq War Hawks Have Plans to Reshape Entire Mideast," by John Donnelly and Anthony Shadid