(Iraq) Invasion ordered weeks after 9/11, says Rumsfeld

[kpete]

Source: Irish Times

The Irish Times - Friday, February 4, 2011
Invasion ordered weeks after 9/11, says Rumsfeld


LARA MARLOWE in Washington

FORMER US president George Bush asked his defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, to draw up plans for the invasion of Iraq just two weeks after the atrocities of September 11th, 2001, Rumsfeld reveals in Known and Unknown: A Memoir , which will be released on February 8th.

The Bush administration’s false claim that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks was believed by nearly 70 per cent of Americans.

Rumsfeld took his title from his own allegation that Iraq intended to provide weapons of mass destruction (WMD) to terrorists: “There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones we don’t know we don’t know,” Rumsfeld told a press conference in 2002.

Mr Rumsfeld now says he regrets saying “We know where they are” regarding Saddam’s alleged WMD. None were ever found. And Mr Rumsfeld is sorry he dismissed the European allies who opposed the invasion of Iraq as “old Europe” and “the chocolate-making countries”.

Read more: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/0204/1224288987673.html

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/03/donald-rumsfeld-autobiography-john-mccain

[niyad]

1. tell us something we DON'T know, rummy. (this idiot wrote a book???)

and most of us know that the invasion of iraq was planned long before 9/11--we all read the pnac letter.

[PoliticAverse]

2. Indeed. It was planned before 9/11... n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. He forgot that Tony Bliar and Bush met to discuss the Iraq invasion long before 9/11

Rumsfeld should be behind bars.

[pasto76]

4. so like, lying to congress is still a federal crime?

cause they lied to them about a bazillion times.

[defendandprotect]

5. And Blair was planning for an attack on Iraq two years before it happened?

Wasn't that it -- ?

There was a report the other day, as well, I haven't seen here?

[defendandprotect]

6. And Rummy still loves the whole idea of TORTURE ... !!

[jljamison]

7. Im no rumsfeld defender

But seriously, planning for an attack is not the same thing as ordering one.

We have plans for nuclear strikes on Russia and China. It doesn't mean
we are going to unless something else happens.

[8826markb]

8. Illegality not confronted

...but history records that on 17/18 March 2003 the US together with the UK did invade Iraq

1 - Not in self defence &

2 - With no authorising UN Resolution mandated

If Karadzic & Taylor are to be charged for THEIR breaches of international law it will be iniquitous & possibly terminal to the credibility of the International Criminal Court if others who make similar breaches are not indicted in the same way...My cousin was Flt Lt David Stead RIP - RAF pilot of Hercules XV179 killed in action above Baghdad, Iraq on January 30th 2005 together with 8 fellow RAF crew & 1 soldier...David's girls have since grown without their father & their mother has raised them without her husband. To allow the behaviour of those who instigated ther 2003 invasion to go unchecked it is submitted would be to grant carte blanche to any future despot - whether elected or otherwise - to behave in a similar way with the result that many future wives & husbands will potentially endure the same as that experienced in my family - If this is to be allowed in the now full knowledge that it IS happening then I contest that human civilsation is beginning to reverse towards the jungle as that will be then be the natural direction consequential to the ditching of the rule of law that separates man from beast.

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[PatSeg]

11. Welcome to DU

:hi: :hi: :hi:

[24601]

12. I'm sorry for your loss - but put the blame where it REALLY belongs

The first time Iraq engaged (1990s) any NATO aircraft in ONW or OSW, they broke the Desert Storm cease fire. They should have been removed at that time; however, our leadership at the time was clueless & gutless. If we had demonstrated the will to remove assholes in the 90's, the Taliban might not have been to willing to accept & protect Al Qaeda.

[SpiralHawk]

9. 70 percent of Americans suckered by BushCo (R) lies

Now there's the legacy of the George AWOL Bush years...

[egressingsparrowdrop]

10. Reporters don't write their own headlines.....which is an ongoing problem

ordering plans is not ordering the invasion.

Truth and accuracy is such a cheap commodity these days.

[dkofos]

13. This is old news. Why bring it up again if nothing will be done about it??

[spanone]

14. old rummy 'regrets' and he's 'sorry'....tell that to the dead, don

[rgbecker]

15. the chocolate-making countries...like Pennsylvania?

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