Everyone knew that Iraq didn’t have weapons of mass destruction.
Indeed, Secretary of State Colin Powell’s chief of staff – Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson – just said that Powell knew that there were no WMDs:
I wonder what will happen when we put 500,000 troops into Iraq and comb the country from one end to the other and find nothing
(starting at 6:43 into video).
But war is sold just like soda or toothpaste … and so a false justification also needs to be concocted. George W. Bush, John McCain, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer, Alan Greenspan and others all say that the Iraq war was reallyabout oil.
It has been extensively documented that the White House decided to invade Iraq before 9/11:
- Former CIA director George Tenet said that the White House wanted to invade Iraq long before 9/11, and inserted “crap” in its justifications for invading Iraq. Former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill – who sat on the National Security Council – also says that Bush planned the Iraq war before 9/11. Top British officials say that the U.S. discussed Iraq regime change even before Bush took office. And in 2000, Cheney said a Bush administration might “have to take military action to forcibly remove Saddam from power.” And see this.
- Cheney made Iraqi’s oil fields a national security priority before 9/11. And the Sunday Herald reported: “Five months before September 11, the US advocated using force against Iraq … to secure control of its oil.” (remember that Alan Greenspan, John McCain, George W. Bush, Sarah Palin, a high-level National Security Council officer and others all say that the Iraq war was really about oil.)
Indeed, neoconservatives planned regime change in Iraq – and throughout the Middle East and North Africa – 20 years ago.
The government tried to falsely blame the anthrax attacks on Iraq as a justification for war:
When Congress was originally asked to pass the Patriot Act in late 2001, the anthrax attacks which occurred only weeks earlier were falsely blamed on spooky Arabs as a way to scare Congress members into approving the bill. Specifically:
- The FBI was actually told to blame Anthrax scare on Al Qaeda by White House officials
And:
George Bush throughout 2002 routinely featured “anthrax” as one of Saddam’s scary weapons.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, President Bush and VP Cheney all falsely linked Iraq with 9/11 … and the entire torture program was aimed at establishing such a false linkage.
A new book by NBC News and Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff adds details, including a memo written by Rumsfeld in November 2001 – a year and a quarter before the start of the Iraq war – asking how to start a war against Iraq, and suggesting as one potential “justification” for war:
- How start?
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US discovers Saddam connection to Sept. 11 attack or to anthrax?
The Bush administration launched the Iraq war under false pretenses … unfortunately, Obama is no better.
Isakoff and NBC? Not really much integrity there.
I hated the idea of Little Georgie playing in that sandbox more than you, but Isakoff and NBC have zero credibility too.
"ISAKOFF NOT MUCH INTEGRITY"
compared to who?
FOX or Ailes or O'Reilly....please - Cheney murdered 5,000 kids for no reason other than his own profit and secondarily - ego ---there was NO WMD, NO yellowcake, NO Hussien support of Al Qaeda
trillions for squat - are you a cheney whore or merely ignorant?
"One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our bottom line."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 4, 1998
"If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program."
--President Bill Clinton, Feb. 17, 1998
"Iraq is a long way from [here], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risks that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face."
--Madeline Albright, Feb 18, 1998
"He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983."
--Sandy Berger, Clinton National Security Adviser, Feb, 18, 1998
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by:
-- Democratic Senators Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others, Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
-Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
Hey dummy, Fox=MSNBC, and all the idiot liberals that you like, voted for the war too.
Fox=MSNBC = doctrine of false equivalency
"all" did not vote for the scam only those who could make a profit on both sides
supporting cheney is the same as supporting benedict arnold
I did not say all liberals, just the ones he likes, Schumer, Reid, Feinstein, a serious portion of the liberals in the US Senate voted for that war.
Hold on to your lefty beliefs, you are about to get it right between the eyes, same goes for the right. There is another side called the truth.
Sadly, there is no longer any truth - only endless ... subjective interpretations of selective facts
cheney is a war criminal nothing about this period from six months before 9-11 to today is real - all fabrication for justification
see the comments of Colin Powell and his aide - he said he made a mistake....... just like McNamara post Vietnam
shocking.
I've been betrayed.
I'll never trust that lying psychopathic organization called government ever again.
Govts are like gangs. They shake you down for money- taxes and IRS in order to provide you with security. The govt is nothing short of a crime syndicate, draped in a flag and glorified with a national anthem.
The real reason for seizing control of Iraq and murdering its leader is already 100% clear: Sadaam was selling oil for Euros under the UN Oil for Food program. This threatened US dollar hegemony and the banking cartel.
The same reason was behind the war in Libya. Qadaffi announced his plan to sell oil in a new GOLD BACKED currency: The African gold Dinar. He was swiftly murdered, and the rebels (a bunch of peasants with guns) magically set up their own central bank before doing anything else. Qadaffi's tons of gold are still "missing".
All wars are bankers' wars.
Look at the date of this article and everything else is crystal clear: http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/meast/10/30/iraq.un.euro.reut/
And Libya's backstory: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GuqZfaj34nc
memo is missing a few lines
* steal pallets of cash and shrug shoulders when caught
*put pinky finger to mouth and produce evil laugh
*start infectious disease scare in china which will rapidly spread around world killing only a few
but hold patent to only known antidote_ Bwaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaa haaaaaa (evil laugh)
*steal more pallets of cash from other countries buying antidote