On Morning Of 9/11 Attacks, McCain Immediately Began Making The Case For Iraq War»

[burythehatchet]

(from Think Progress)

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/11/mccain-iraq-911/

"To be honest with you, Dan, I never thought that an operation of this sophistication and size would take place. I just never did. But I don’t think there’s any doubt that there are countries — Iraq, Iran, Libya, North Korea and others — who we know engage in proliferation of — of capabilities and, from time to time, involve themselves in state-sponsored terrorism. But never did we imagine on a scale such as this."

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PAULA ZAHN: And as you know, Senator, the U.S. and Great Britain notified the U.N. Security Council yesterday that they reserve the right to strike against other countries in this campaign. What countries are we looking at?

MCCAIN: Well, I think very obviously Iraq is the first country, but there are others — Syria, Iran, the Sudan, who have continued to harbor terrorist organizations and actually assist them.

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While pushing to take on Saddam Hussein, Mr. McCain also made arguments and statements that he may no longer wish to recall. He lauded the war planners he would later criticize, including Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney. (Mr. McCain even volunteered that he would have given the same job to Mr. Cheney.) He urged support for the later-discredited Iraqi exile Ahmad Chalabi’s opposition group, the Iraqi National Congress, and echoed some of its suspect accusations in the national media. And he advanced misleading assertions not only about Mr. Hussein’s supposed weapons programs but also about his possible ties to international terrorists, Al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. McCain was making the case for Iraq LONG before 9/11

[alsame]

2. PNAC. n/t

[HughBeaumont]

3. This is made clear in "The Terror Timeline".

These assholes were looking to forge a link . . . ANYthing . . . between Saddam and 9/11 hours after it happened.

Bewsh was going to get his presidency and then his war come hell or high water. The fix was in with the media and the corporations driving the getaway car.

In the immortal words of one Al Jourgensen: "Push the Button Connect the Goddamned DOTS!!"