One more dot to connect.

[Disturbed]

No WMDS. No link to 911 from Saddam. No al Q. link and Saddam.

Connect the Bush lies to The Office of Special Plans. Destroys the lie that the CIA intel was faulty.

Bush Admin. perpetrated a fraud. Illegal invasion of sovereign country of Iraq. US Admin. guilty of War Crimes.

[mmonk]

1. yes

the "lie factory".

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. It isn't enough just to vote them out of office.

Wouldn't it be way cool if B*sh and Darth Cheney and Rumsferatu ended up sharing a cell with Slobodan Milosevic while they await their war crimes trials? Don't drop the soap, guys.

[JohnyCanuck]

3. The Spies Who Pushed for War

The Spies Who Pushed for War.


The agency, called the Office of Special Plans (OSP), was set up by the defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to second-guess CIA information and operated under the patronage of hardline conservatives in the top rungs of the administration, the Pentagon and at the White House, including Vice-President Dick Cheney.

The ideologically driven network functioned like a shadow government, much of it off the official payroll and beyond congressional oversight. But it proved powerful enough to prevail in a struggle with the State Department and the CIA by establishing a justification for war.

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The OSP was an open and largely unfiltered conduit to the White House not only for the Iraqi opposition. It also forged close ties to a parallel, ad hoc intelligence operation inside Ariel Sharon's office in Israel specifically to bypass Mossad and provide the Bush administration with more alarmist reports on Saddam's Iraq than Mossad was prepared to authorise.

"None of the Israelis who came were cleared into the Pentagon through normal channels," said one source familiar with the visits. Instead, they were waved in on Mr Feith's authority without having to fill in the usual forms.

www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html

[Disturbed]

4. Mislead by faulty intell?

This is the lie that the Bush admin. has been repeating.
I believe that there is proof that it is another lie by the Bush Admin.VP Cheney went to the CIA numerous times to pressure the CIA to come up with intell that would bolster the false reason for the Iraq invasion. Someone in the rank and file of the CIA should leak those VP meetings to the press. Maybe there is even video of the VP at the CIA pressuring the agents to give bogus intell to him. This is the dot that would bring the Neo Fascists down and provide proof of their fraud.

[JohnyCanuck]

5. I pretty much agree with your assessment.

The OSP was only necessary to provide the bogus intelligence necessary to fool the gullible American media whore toadies along with the Fox News viewers (and perhaps Dimson himself)into going along with the necessity to go to war with Iraq. The rest of them (Cheney, Rummy, Colin etc)knew the WMD issue was mostly horseshit. They might have expected (hoped) that the inspection teams would find a few live chemical warheads stuck in a warehouse somewhere, just so they could say, "We told you so." For the most part, however, they knew it was a hoax from the get go.

[Disturbed]

6. The silver bullet for Kerry.

If Kerry can nail this down in a simple way I feel that it would be the death shot in the Neo Fascists' putrid hearts.