Reply #57: I think your point about Cheney being so adament about Iraq having WMD

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that he keeps blabbing it whenever he has an opportunity does go deeper than just trying to keep the Repug base inline and he is risking looking very foolish or a liar to the rest of us.

So, there has to be something deeper going on here. It's also possible that he's keeping the "story alive" to cover Blair's butt while Blair continues to say British Intelligence has other evidence supportin Niger purchase.

Josh Marshall and Sy Hersh have called into question who forged the original Niger documents. Hersh said there was a "rumor" being shopped around by what he called a reliable CIA source that the CIA forged the documents themselves to trap the PNAC'ers before the beginning of the Invasion. However Hersh seems to feel that this rumor may not be the truth of it.

Josh Marshall has also said we should question who forged the documents and why. So, it rests alot on what the British Intel documents are and why they wont release them. Is it to "cover" Blair that Cheney keeps talking about this, or are there some other papers that if the source is revealed will either show who the forger is or show that there really was evidence Iraq was trying to buy the yellow cake.

It sounds more likely that Josh and Hersh know something, but can't talk about it yet.

Your theory of Halliburton and other companies constantly selling arms and Chemical/Bio supplies to counties on the sly then creating circumstances to invade and then rebuild is interesting. But, if we're that desperate to enrich our WMD Corpororations I would have thought some whistleblowers would have stepped forward somewhere along the way.

It could be the Globilization finatics, combined with the "multi-nationals" doing this endless circle of "supply and destroy" but it would be so massive I can't see how it could be covered up for so long.

:shrug: I agree with you, that it's a nightmare scenario. Whatever folks have come up with on these threads could be the truth. Parts of it and all of it. This administration is covering up something big and has alot of help. We do know that. And, it's worse than anything that has gone on before in other administrations...or perhaps it's the culmination of all that's gone on before, now bearing the ugly fruit, but only now there is a vast communications network of information which is allowing the pieces to be exposed one by one. They never counted on that, I think. They were naive about the digital cameras in Iraq which could document the abuse. There may be other things they've overlooked in their massive plan that will be the fatal flaw or Achilles heel that in the end exposes them.

I'm still waiting for Josh Marshall's "shift of the tectonic plates" to occurr. Maybe it's already here it's just going slowly. Drip by Drip.