The calamity of disregard (British warned Tenet about invading Iraq)

[grytpype]

Source: Guardian Unlimited

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Now comes fresh evidence that senior British officials tried to persuade the Bush administration to keep off Iraq and concentrate on Afghanistan, the real source of terrorist violence inspired by al-Qaida. On the Brink, the newly published memoirs of Tyler Drumheller - the CIA's chief of clandestine operations in Europe until 2005 - tells of a meeting on September 12 2001. The day after al-Qaida's attacks on America, George Tenet, then CIA director, met three British guests - Sir David Manning, then Tony Blair's foreign policy adviser; Richard Dearlove, then head of MI6; and Eliza Manningham-Buller, then head of MI5. "I hope we can all agree that we should concentrate on Afghanistan and not be tempted to launch any attacks on Iraq," Drumheller quotes the leader of the British delegation as telling Tenet.

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Powers says the appeal not to attack Iraq came from Manning. Drumheller does not dispute that. In his book he says Tenet responded to Manning by saying: "Absolutely, we all agree on that. Some might want to link the issues, but none of us wants to go that route."

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A few days later, a group of diplomats and MI6 officers met their American counterparts at a lunch at the British embassy in Washington. Again MI6 expressed concern that the Bush administration had Iraq in its sights. A senior official (Drumheller, obeying instructions, does not identify the official or his nationality) went further, inquiring what the CIA was going to do once the US had "hit the mercury with the hammer in Afghanistan and the al-Qaida cadre has spread all over the world". The official asked: "Aren't you concerned about the potential destabilising effect on Middle Eastern countries?"

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Nothing could stop the Neocons once they stole the 2000 election and the White House.

[GreenTea]

1. This will get about as far as the "Downing St. Memos". The republican owned media will ignore it...

Like it never happened.

Bush/Rove have succeeded (again) in changing all the real issue stories this weekend...by setting up the stories they want the talking heads talking about, the Dems and the budget and the Dems and the eavesdropping bill...

BushCo has changed the talking points as usual for the corporate media to follow this weekend...Instead of Gonzales and his lies, Tillman's murder, and this Guardian Unlimited story and the many other Bush scandals & hearings and his bullshit use of "executive privilege"... Only Bush's bullshit smokescreens stories will be what the MSM talks about!!

[Stella_Artois]

2. They didn't even follow their own advice

Its no suprise that Bush ignored it too.

[TheLastMohican]

3. You are being too harsh on the British

I mean what can one expect from the "Yo, Blair" seriously?

[Peace Patriot]

4. I think we should bring a great deal of skepticism to anything these rat bastards

say, at this point.

I'm convinced they killed David Kelly, or permitted him to be killed, not so much for what he said to the BBC (that they'd "sexed up" the prewar intel on WMDs) but for something else he knew, and they knew he knew--a good guess being a U.S./Brit plot to PLANT nukes in Iraq, as followup to the Niger/Iraq nuke forgeries. We KNOW they were in collusion with the Bush Junta to tout those forgeries as the "slam-dunk" argument (the impending "mushroom cloud") against Iraq. And it's quite plausible that they had a Part 2 of that plan--not just to lie to the public, but to make the lie come true. Kelly was in a good position to have learned of such a plot. He was already whistleblowing and "off the reservation." They interrogated him at a "safe house," outed him to the press, and sent him home without protection, and apparently without surveillance. He was found dead with one slit wrist (minor artery), having supposedly bled to death all night outdoors in the rain, under a tree near his home, four days after Valerie Plame was outed. (Kelly was a scientist and a UN weapons inspector! Would he choose such a half-assed method of killing himself? And where were his watchers?) His office and computers were searched. And, four days after that, Novak ADDITIONALLY mentioned her front company, Brewster-Jennings, in his column, so that, if the bad guys in foreign governments hadn't connected the dots by then, they were GUIDED to covert CIA agents/contacts within their governments who were helping with WMD counter-proliferation efforts.

Where was M-15 and M-16 when David Kelly was bleeding to death ALL NIGHT, in this improbable suicide? (July 17, 2003--found the next day, July 18.)

Frankly, I think this is bullshit that they warned Tenet. They were in COLLUSION with the Bushites to slaughter a half a million people in Iraq to get their oil. They colluded every step of the way--very likely including the murder of their own scientist because of what he knew.

The Bushites had warnings from every quarter on earth EXCEPT British intelligence, who LAUNDERED the Niger/Iraq nuke forgeries for Bush's use in his State of the Union address!

Why did they DO that, if they were trying to stop the war?

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