Key Officials Used 9/11 As Pretext for Iraq War

[tinnypriv]

Key Officials Used 9/11 As Pretext for Iraq War
Inter Press Service, July 16 2003

WASHINGTON - With demands for a full-scale investigation of the manipulation of intelligence by the administration of Pres. George W. Bush mounting steadily, it appears increasingly clear that key officials and their allies outside the administration intended to use the Sep. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks as a pretext for going to war against Iraq within hours of the attacks themselves.

Within the administration, the principals appear to have included Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, and his national security adviser, I. Lewis Libby, among others in key posts in the National Security Council and the State Department.

Outside the administration, key figures included close friends of both Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld, including Richard Perle, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief James Woolsey -- both members of Rumsfeld's Defense Policy Board (DPB); Frank Gaffney, head of the arms-industry-funded Center for Security Policy; and William Kristol, editor of Rupert Murdoch-owned Weekly Standard and chairman of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), among others.

PNAC, which is based on the fifth floor of American Enterprise Institute (AEI) building, in downtown Washington, was founded in 1997 with the signing of a statement of principles calling for ”a Reaganite policy of military strength and moral clarity”, signed by 25 prominent neo-conservatives and right-wingers, including, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney and Libby, as well as several other senior Bush administration officials.

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It was the same people who, on behalf of their friends in the Pentagon, also mounted an almost constant campaign against the CIA, the State Department, and anyone else who tried to slow the drive to war or question the administration's assertions about Hussein's links with al Qaeda or the threat he posed to U.S. security.

Their success is beyond question. By last October, just before the House of Representatives was to vote on giving Bush authority to go to war, a survey by the Pew Research Center found that two-thirds of adult respondents believed that ”Saddam Hussein helped the terrorists in the Sep. 11 attacks.

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http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=19255

[grasswire]

1. they forgot Woolsey

He also fueled the juggernaut.

[tinnypriv]

3. Er

It mentions Woosley. A lot :)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

2. Yep.

eom

[AntiCoup2K4]

4. Within hours of the attack??

Uhh... no.

The treasonous PNAC criminals planned to invade Iraq years before Junior became the Court Appointed pResident. They tried to sell Bush Sr their agenda. They tried again with Clinton. Both of whom wisely turned them down.

[JoFerret]

9. It's all laid out on the PNAC website.

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[bobthedrummer]

5. The cabal and OSP

The cabal
http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?030512fa_fact

the OSP
http://www.prospect.org/print/V13/22/dreyfuss-r.html

[DODI]

6. Wesley CLark

He has been trying to out them on this in the "mainstream media" for months now! They called him on the 12th and asked he make the connection between SH & Bin Laden. He wouldn't do it. Never saw the connection even when privy to intel info.

[Frances]

7. Call your senators and representative

and refer them to this link. Also ask for an investigation. I am so scared about the loss of our democracy that I was very quiet when I talked (usually when I'm upset I tend to get loud). If the Bush administration gets away with this, we have lost our government!

[soleft]

8. This information first came out months ago

Only now might it get the attention it deserves

[DoveTurnedHawk]

10. Dupe

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=17662&mesg_id=17662&page=

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