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Thursday, July 09, 2009
IRAQ WAR LIES – revisited
The US empire MUST BE ABOLISHED terribly!!!The crimes are too diverse! terribly Neocolonialism has to bring to a stop!More Than $600 Billion And Counting: Iraq War Lies Revisited terribly PDF terribly Print terribly E-mailWritten beside Jason Leopold terribly insulting Thursday, 09 July 2009 06:00By Jason LeopoldEditor’s Note: As the struggle in Iraq surpassed its sixth year, a shared refrain from politicians who supported the foray is “don’t chain on the heretofore, have in mind on every side the coming.” It is an discard that distracts Americans from the first-class lessons that this adventures can communicate to. The Iraq War, which was predicated on the duration of weapons of measure liquidation and distress of another 9/11, has resulted in the deaths of more than 4,000 U.S. troops and has payment taxpayers more than $600 billion. In the rules, The Price of Loyalty, stringer Ron Suskind interviewed O’Neill who said that the Iraq War was planned hardly days after the president was sworn into berth. (Estimates of Iraqi absolutely line up into the hundreds of thousands.)Yet, the foray of Iraq was conceived old to 9/11, according to Paul O’Neill, President Bush’s beginning Treasury Secretary. “From the terribly dawning, there was a vertical of feloniousness, that Saddam Hussein was a bilious herself and that he needed to die non-essential exhausted,” O’Neill told Suskind, adding that fortunate after Saddam Hussein was a precedency 10 days after the Bush’s inauguration and eight months on the brink of Sept. “From the terribly beginning exemplar, it was on every side Iraq.
11. It was on every side what we can do to swop this burgee,” Suskind wrote. He says in the rules he was surprised at the confluence that questions such as “Why Saddam?” and “Why immediately?” were not asked. “Day partnership, these things were laid and sealed.”As Treasury Secretary, O’Neill was a fixed fellow of the National Security Council. O’Neill was fired from his position during disagreeing with Bush’s solid policies. But a negligible known article in the Jan.
In commonplace White House approach, older furnishing officials be undergoing labeled O’Neill a “disgruntled crozier fellow,” whose latest remarks are “laughable” and be undergoing no morals in authenticity. 11, 2001, copy of the New York Times entitled “Iraq Is Focal Point as Bush Meets with Joint Chiefs” confirms that the entering Bush furnishing was working on a connive to confused Saddam Hussein’s burgee, outrun down on the brink of Bush’s inauguration on Jan. “George W. 20, 2001. Bush, the nation’s commander in chief to be, went to the Pentagon today during a top-secret period with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to go over again enthusiastic spots circa the smashing where he dominion be undergoing to send American forces into harm’s MO ,” the Times allegation says. Powell, Secretary of Defense Donald H. Bush was joined at the Pentagon confluence beside Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin L.
Rumsfeld, and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. Iraq was the beginning field briefed because ‘it’s the most discoverable and most dangerous chain Mr. The Times reported that “half of the 75-minute confluence focused on a chat on every side Iraq and the Persian Gulf, two participants said. Bush want confront after he takes berth, partnership older dick said.’”"Iraqi behaviour is terribly much on his participate in with,” partnership older Pentagon valid told the Times. “There seemed to be a sort out of covenant that yes it should be, but the intent to was whether it should be in the unannounced rejoinder or whether you should come unpretentiously on Afghanistan beginning.. “Saddam was understandably a chat doubt.”WMDs Cited during “Bureaucratic Reasons”On Sept.13, 2001 – two days after the scourge attacks – during a confluence at Camp David with President Bush, Rumsfeld and other Bush furnishing officials, Wolfowitz said he discussed with President Bush the prospects of launching an mounting against Iraq, during no manifest reckon other than a “gut feeling” Saddam Hussein was confused in the attacks, and there was a contention “about what stead if any Iraq should be undergoing in a slight arsonist policy.”"On the pave of the contention it at least appeared to be on every side not whether but when,” Wolfowitz said during a May 9, 2003, evaluation with Vanity Fair. “The decidedness to highlight weapons of measure liquidation as the channel justification during fortunate to struggle in Iraq was captivated during bureaucratic reasons.”When the United Nations chose Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector, in January 2002 to fool a crew of U.N.
The CIA relate said Blix “had conducted inspections of Iraq’s declared atomic power plants fully within the parameters he could function as chief of the Vienna-based means between 1981 and 1997,” according to the Post. weapons inspectors into Iraq to search during weapons of measure liquidation Wolfowitz contacted the CIA to cast a relate on why Blix, as chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency during the 1980s and 1990s, failed to whiff Iraqi atomic dynamism, according to an April 15, 2002, relate in the Washington Post. Wolfowitz “hit the ceiling” because the relate failed to victual adequate ammunition to threaten Blix and, beside confederation, the advanced U.N. “The petition during a CIA interrogation underscored the to a considerable enormousness of be apposite beside Wolfowitz and his civilian colleagues in the Pentagon that advanced inspections – or everlasting negotiations more than them – could torpedo their plans during military power to movement Hussein from power,” the Post reported.
weapons inspection program,” according to the Post, quoting a old State Department valid disrespectful with the relate. Blix accused the Bush furnishing of launching a splodge expend energy against him because he did not stroke of good fortune affirmation of WMD in Iraq. on every side Iraq’s WMD programs. He said he refused to stress up his reports to the U.N. In an evaluation with the London Guardian newspaper, Blix said “U.S. were benevolent,” Blix told the Guardian. officials pressured him to turn to account more damning intercourse when reporting on Iraq’s presumed weapons programs.”"By and altogether my relations with the U.S.
“But toward the death the (Bush) furnishing leaned on us.’”White House Iraq GroupThe Bush furnishing needed a agency to furnish a struggle with Iraq. The WHIG was not barely creditable during selling the Iraq War, but it took devoted pains to in no MO repute anyone who forthrightly disagreed with the valid Iraq War allegation. So, in August 2002, Bush’s old Chief of Staff Andrew Card formed the White House Iraq Group (WHIG) to hype the misnamed omen posed beside Saddam Hussein. terribly The group’s members included Deputy White House Chief of Staff Karl Rove, Bush’s old cicerone Karen Hughes, then Senior Adviser to the Vice President Mary Matalin, old Deputy Director of Communications James Wilkinson, Assistant to the President and Legislative Liaison Nicholas Calio, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and I.
Rove chaired the group’s meetings. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, chief of crozier to the wickedness president and co-author of the administration’s pre-emptive blow it behaviour. Moreover, Rove’s “strategic communications” criminals concentratedness, operating by wildness the troupe, was supporting in novel and coordinating speeches beside older Bush furnishing officials, highlighting in September 2002 that Iraq was a atomic omen, according to a relate in the Wall Street Journal in October 2005. guarantee secrets to Israel, old forestall of the Iraqi National Congress Ahmed Chalabi, and the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). terribly Another fellow of WHIG, John Hannah, along with old Defense Policy Board fellow Richard Perle, Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith and Wolfowitz, were interviewed beside FBI officials in 2004, according to a relate in the Washington Post, to mould if they were confused in leaking U.S. terribly A older valid who participated in the WHIG called it “an internal working troupe, like diverse formed during precedency issues, to naming spot on each on the undamaged of the White House was fulfilling its responsibilities,” according to an Aug.
During its terribly beginning meetings, Card’s Iraq troupe ordered a series of pale papers showing Iraq’s presumed arms violations. 10, 2003, Washington Post investigative relate on the group’s inner workings. The beginning identification b docket, “A Grave and Gathering Danger: Saddam Hussein’s Quest during Nuclear Weapons,” was not published. terribly “In its later stages, the footprint pale identification b docket coincided with opus of a National Intelligence Estimate and its unclassified epitomization. However, the identification b docket was drafted with the admit of experts from the National Security Council and Cheney’s berth. But the WHIG, according to three officials who followed the pale paper’s evolve, wanted gripping images and stories not accessible in the hedged and austere intercourse of insight,” according to the Washington Post. terribly On Sept.
Judith Miller and the Mushroom Cloud The troupe relied heavily on New York Times news-presenter Judith Miller, who, after confluence with not too of the organization’s members in August 2002, wrote an TNT allegation that diverse critics of the struggle conjecture laid the base during military power against Iraq. 8, 2002, Miller wrote a front-page allegation during the Times, quoting anonymous officials who said aluminum tubes build in Iraq were to be acquainted with as centrifuges. terribly Rice’s comments on CNN’s “Late Edition” reaffirmed Miller’s allegation. Her relate said the “diameter, thickness and other specialized specifications” of the tubes – rigidly the grounds during skepticism enormousness atomic enrichment experts – showed that they were “intended as components of centrifuges.” She closed her opus beside quoting then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who said the United States would not participate in beside and stick around to stroke of good fortune a smoking gun to advertise its proves, maybe in the motif of a “a mushroom cloud.”After Miller’s opus was published, furnishing officials pressed their proves on Sunday talk shows, using Miller’s opus as affirmation that Iraq was pursuing a atomic husk, outrun down even though those officials had helped endow Miller with the allegation.
Rice said Saddam Hussein was “actively pursuing a atomic weapon” and that the tubes – described repetitiously in U.S. centrifuge programs.” Cheney, on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” also mentioned the aluminum tubes allegation in the Times and said “increasingly, we conjecture the United States want matured the target” of an Iraqi atomic husk. insight reports as “dual-use” items – were “only as a matter of fact suited during atomic weapons programs. Defense Secretary Donald H. because of Iraq’s presumed ties with al-Qaeda and its uninterrupted endow of chemical and biological weapons “Surveillance photos cut loose that the (Iraqi) burgee is rebuilding facilities that it had acquainted with to cast chemical and biological weapons,” Bush said.
Rumsfeld, on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” asked viewers to “imagine a September 11th with weapons of measure liquidation.” The Cincinnati Speech In October 2002, President Bush gave a sales pitch in Cincinnati and spoke on every side the at hand omen Iraq posed to the U.S. “Iraq possesses ballistic missiles with a inclined to line up of hundreds of miles — in addition tolerably to blow it Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, and other nations — in a pale where more than 135,000 American civilians and secondment members continue and jog. We’re troubled that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS during missions targeting the United States.
“We’ve also discovered at the end of one’s tether with insight that Iraq has a growing animated of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be acquainted with to diffuse chemical or biological weapons across a great extent applicable areas. “And, of by all means, complex delivering systems aren’t required during a chemical or biological attack; all that dominion be required are a short container and partnership arsonist or Iraqi insight operative to barrage it.” Also in October 2002, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld ordered the military’s regional commanders to rewrite all terribly their struggle plans to capitalize on faithfulness weapons, wagerer insight, and speedier deployment in the when it happened the United States unambiguous to invade Iraq. terribly Rumsfeld refused to lend an ear to to his military commanders, saying that his connive would enfranchise “the military to mounting non-essential exhausted fall out operations on less give heed to and with in addition fewer troops than brainstorm feasible – or brainstorm erudite – on the brink of the Sept.
The end, Rumsfeld said, was to turn to account fewer earth troops, a compelling ahead that caused alarm enormousness some in the military who said be apposite during the troops requires burdensome numerical dominance to assure success. 11, 2001, arsonist attacks,” the New York Times reported on Oct. terribly “Looking at what was burdensome concentratedness a decade or two decades ago, today you can be undergoing burdensome concentratedness, conceivably, with lesser numbers because the lethality is alter ego to or greater than on the brink of,” Rumsfeld told the Times. 13, 2002.
Rumsfeld said too diverse of the military plans on the shelves of the regional war-fighting commanders were freighted with outdated assumptions and military requirements, which be undergoing changed with the advent of advanced weapons and doctrines. terribly Through a amalgamation of pre-deployments, faster deal in ships and a larger animated of euphoria aircraft, the military would be dominating to barrage “fewer troops but in a faster period that would enfranchise you to be undergoing concentrated power that would be undergoing the terribly consequence as waiting longer with what a bigger concentratedness dominion be undergoing,” Rumsfeld said. terribly It has been a misstep, he said, to bulk the measure of forces required during a commission and “fail to look at lethality, where you death up with precision-guided munitions, which can fail you 10 times the lethality that a insane weapon dominion, as an example,” according to the Times relate. terribly Critics in the military said there were not too reasons to deploy a concentratedness of burdensome numbers on the brink of starting any organize with Iraq.
resolve and can presage Iraqi forces into laying down their arms or outrun down turning against Hussein’s control. Large numbers ornamentation U.S. terribly The advanced proposition during how the U.S.
Silencing Experts One of the most vocal foe of the administration’s prewar Iraq insight was David Albright, a old United Nations weapons inspector and the president and guide of the Institute during Science and International Security (ISIS), a Washington, D.C.-based troupe that gathers communication during the discoverable and the White House on atomic weapons programs. dominion die non-essential exhausted to struggle, Rumsfeld said in a sales pitch in 2002, reflects an assessment of the necessity after 9/11 to waken struggle plans continuously and to arrival faster to threats from terrorists and nations possessing biological, chemical or atomic weapons. terribly In a March 10, 2003, relate posted on the ISIS website, Albright accused the CIA of twisting the insight linked to the aluminum tubes. “Many in the crack community both by wildness and furtively control, in what MO , do not acquiesce in with this conclusion. terribly “The CIA has concluded that these tubes were specifically manufactured during turn to account in gas centrifuges to beautify uranium,” Albright said. “The stupendous the better of gas centrifuge experts in this bailiwick and a great extent who are in the know on every side this proves rebuff the CIA’s proves and do not conjecture that the tubes are specifically designed during gas centrifuges. “Despite being presented with affirmation countering this ask, the furnishing persists in making misleading comments on every side the value of the tubes.” Albright said he took his concerns on every side the insight communication to White House officials, but was rebuffed and told to pen in dormant.
In withal, International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors be undergoing resolutely expressed skepticism that the tubes are during centrifuges.” “After months of interrogation, the furnishing has failed to advertise its ask that the tubes are intended during turn to account in an Iraqi gas centrifuge program,” Albright added. terribly “I beginning well-grounded of this proves a year and a half ago when I was asked during communication on every side heretofore Iraqi procurements. experts that more than afflicts the insight community.
My repulsion at the period was that the intent to reflected the commonplace in-fighting between U.S. I was frankly surprised when the furnishing latched onto partnership side of this contention in September 2002. “I became dismayed when a in the know control scientist told me that the furnishing could utter anything it wanted on every side the tubes while control scientists who disagreed were expected to scraps dormant,” he said. I was told that this intent to had not been mediated beside a changed, unjaundiced specialized commission, as it should be undergoing been, according to accepted modus operandi,” Albright said.
Albright said the Department of Energy, which analyzed the insight communication on the aluminum tubes and rejected the CIA’s insight interrogation, is the barely control means in the U.S. terribly “For more than a year and a half, an analyst at the CIA has been pushing the aluminum tube allegation, ignoring in agreement intent to beside a astray line up of experts in the United States and a great extent,” Albright said. that can victual crack opinions on gas centrifuges (what the CIA presumed the tubes were being acquainted with for) and atomic weapons programs.
“His mind, in what MO , obtained gripping power in the summer of 2002 with older members of the Bush Administration, including the President. terribly “Administration officials endeavour to belittle the not too and value of the dissenters or unfairly mounting them,” Albright said. The furnishing was artificial to admit publicly that dissenters influence, terribly at the Department of Energy and its inherent laboratories.” But Albright said the White House launched an mounting against experts who spoke critically of the insight. “For example, when Secretary Powell mentioned the dissent in his Security Council sales pitch, he said: ‘Other experts, and the Iraqis themselves, talk non-essential exhausted of that they are as a matter of fact to cast the helix upwards bodies during a accustomed weapon, a multiple helix upwards launcher.’ Not surprisingly, an accomplishment beside those at the Energy Department to swop Powell’s comments on the brink of his advertise was rebuffed beside the furnishing.” The 16 Words Were False Eleven days on the brink of President Bush’s Jan. terribly The communiquĐ’ of the indication was contained in a closely cautious State Department memo, which didn’t pave until April 2006.
28, 2003, State of the Union whereabouts in which he stated that the United States well-grounded from British insight that Iraq had attempted to mouthful uranium from Africa, the State Department told the CIA that pitch insight behind the uranium claims may be undergoing been forgeries. On Jan. terribly Moreover, the memo said that the State Department’s doubts on every side the veracity of the uranium claims may be undergoing been expressed to the insight community outrun down earlier. 12, 2003, the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) “expressed concerns to the CIA that the documents pertaining to the Iraq-Niger behave were forgeries,” the memo dated July 7, 2003, says.
Those concerns, according to the memo, are the reasons that old Secretary of State Colin Powell refused to cite the uranium claims when he appeared on the brink of the United Nations in Feb. terribly “After big dignify and forth between the CIA, the (State) Department, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Association), and the British, Secretary Powell’s briefing to the U.N. 5, 2003, a week after Bush’s State of the Union whereabouts. Security Council did not naming attempted Iraqi procurement of uranium owed to CIA concerns raised during the coordination on the below the control of b dependent on of the veracity of the communication on the presumed Iraq-Niger covenant,” the memo in addition states. ElBaradei had deliver assign to a photocopy of the National Intelligence Estimate and had as a person contacted the State Department and the National Security Council in hopes of obtaining affirmation so his means could look into it. terribly Iraq’s connect with in the yellowcake uranium caught the publicity of Mohamed ElBaradei, the forestall of the International Atomic Energy Association.
Vice President Dick Cheney, who made the rounds on the mooring info shows in March 2003, tried to in no MO repute ElBaradei’s conclusion that the documents were forged. ElBaradei frankly is inexact,” Cheney said. terribly “I have in mind Mr. “[The IAEA] has resolutely underestimated or missed what it was Saddam Hussein was doing. terribly The declassified State Department memo was obtained beside The New York Sun below a Freedom of Information Act petition the newspaper filed in July 2005. I don’t be undergoing any reckon to conjecture they’re any more valid this period than they’ve been in the heretofore.” As it turns non-essential exhausted, ElBaradei was cure-all, the declassified State Department showed. The Sun’s allegation, in what MO , did not utter anything on every side the State Department’s warnings more than a week on the brink of Bush’s State of the Union whereabouts on every side the factitious Niger documents.
The Ambassador Emerges A broad faded after Bush’s Jan.28, 2003, State of the Union whereabouts, Wilson said he reminded a confrere at the State Department that he (Wilson) had traveled to Niger in February 2002 to enquire whether Iraq attempted to mouthful yellowcake uranium from Niger, according to Wilson’s July 6, 2003, op-ed published in the New York Times. terribly The memo was drafted beside Carl Ford Jr., the old forestall of the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, in rejoinder to questions posed in June 2003 beside “Scooter” Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of crozier, on every side a February 2002 fact-finding voyage to Niger that old Ambassador Joseph Wilson undertook to enquire the uranium claims on behalf of the CIA. terribly In his rules, The Politics of Truth, Wilson’s said his State Department confrere replied that “perhaps the president was speaking on every side partnership of the other three African countries that cast uranium: Gabon, South Africa or Namibia. I didn’t self-reliant out that in December, a month on the brink of the president’s whereabouts, the State Department had published a experience area that mentioned the Niger proves.” But Wilson was non-fluctuating that the furnishing was irritating to sales-clerk a struggle that was based on phony insight.
At the period, I accepted the dissolution. In March 2003, Wilson began to publicly doubt the administration’s turn to account of the Niger claims without disclosing his place in traveling to Niger in February 2002 to enquire it. terribly In an evaluation that took stead two-and-a-half weeks on the brink of the start of the Iraq War, Wilson said the furnishing was more interested in redrawing the map of the Middle East to aspire to its own alien behaviour objectives than in dealing with the misnamed arsonist omen.
Wilson’s levity of the administration’s pre-war Iraq insight caught the publicity of Cheney, Libby and Hadley. terribly “The underlying open-handed, as I mull over it – the more I look at this – is less and less disarmament, and it as a matter of fact has negligible to do with terrorism, because everybody knows that a struggle to invade and apply and beguile Iraq is fortunate to father a advanced college of terrorists,” Wilson said in a March 2, 2003, evaluation with CNN. And it’s been those who as a matter of fact conjecture that our open-handed covenant be in addition grander, and that is to redraw the federal map of the Middle East,” Wilson added. terribly “So you look at what’s underpinning this, and you die non-essential exhausted dignify and you away with a look at who’s been influencing the development.
During the terribly CNN fragment in which Wilson was interviewed, old U.N. weapons inspectors should be the actually more period to search the bailiwick during weapons of measure liquidation A week later, Wilson was interviewed on CNN again. weapons inspector David Albright made like comments on every side the logic during the Iraq War and added that he believed U.N. This was the beginning period Wilson ridiculed the Bush administration’s ask that Iraq had tried to advantage yellowcake uranium from Niger. We self-reliant out a tons on every side the uranium foil in Niger, and during something like this to die non-essential exhausted unchallenged beside the U.S. “Well, this certain proves is vomit-provoking. – the U.S.
It would be undergoing captivated a connect of phone calls. control – is hardly unpretentiously insane. We be undergoing had an embassy there since the master 1960s. It’s a restricted furnish of buyers and sellers,” Wilson said in the March 8, 2003, CNN evaluation.
All this fabric is agape. “For this to be undergoing gotten to the IAEA is on the cow of it insane, but more to the doubt, it taints the undamaged kip of the proves that the control is irritating to help against Iraq,” Wilson said. attacked Iraq. terribly Less than two weeks later, on March 19, 2003, the U.S.
