Reply #18: That is what we are implying

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Consider, if it was 1989, and Saddam had a map showing how to divvy up Missouri, with names of his buddies and supporters assigned to places like Monsanto, Busch brewery, Forest Park, and the Gateway Arch, we would have gone straight to the UN, right after nuking Iraq.

What we have here looks a lot like a plan ala P.N.A.C. (google it) for splitting up the resources of a soverign nation, well before the attack on the WTC and pentagon gave them any sort of reason at all to attack Iraq (which was, if you have been following the Niger story what they were desperately searching for) This map goes a long way toward explaining exactly why this all happened in the name of 'national security'.

And this, rather than a sensible policy, is what Bush and Cheney had in mind. Remember the price gougeing for gas that preceeded it.
It was a cheap, transparent setup job, coordinted with an attack on California's energy system and economy. All it relies on is for this map never to be seen by the public, and a shit load of distraction.

As such, it is not just a smoking gun, it is Cheney's prints all over the knife used to stab Iraq, still quivvering in the corpse, with Dick sneering over the body.



Does that make sense?