a very good diversion.. increasing numbers of people thing so.. Is this administration trying to cover up what we knew about 9/11 and we let it happen? Who are the real enemies? ....Cheney strongly opposes the idea of any independent bodyâs poking into the White Houseâs conduct. He has repeatedly objected to efforts by a separate joint-intelligence-committee inquiry to obtain documents and interview key witnesses, including an FBI informant who lived with two of the 9-11 hijackers.... http://www.msnbc.com/news/820666.asp?cp1=1 ....The class-action suit names ten defendants, among whom are George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld and Norman Mineta. .. ...Mr. Hilton, by filing his lawsuit, has joined the ranks of an ever-increasing body of Americans who subscribe to what they call the LIHOP Theory. LIHOP stands for Let It Happen On Purpose... ...Bush himself was briefed of these warnings weeks before they happened. Instead of responding vigorously to these warnings, the Bush administration and its security apparatus did nothing. ... ...The German intelligence service BND told US and Israeli intelligence that Middle East terrorists were "planning to hijack commercial aircraft to use as weapons to attack important symbols of American and Israeli culture." The BND's information came through Echelon, the American-controlled network of 120 satellites that monitors all worldwide electronic communications. ... ...The Washington Post has reported that the NSA intercepted two messages on September 10, 2001, warning that something was going to happen the next day. "Tomorrow is zero hour," was one of the messages... ... Attorney General John Ashcroft stopped flying on commercial aircraft in the weeks before 9/11, something he had commonly done since his entry into the administration. Why?... ... In it, they allege that the Bush administration put energy policy before national security concerns. According to Brisard and Dasquie, a foundering pipeline project aimed at exploiting natural gas reserves along the Caspian Sea in Turkmenistan was revived by the Bush administration when it arrived in Washington in January of 2001. ... ...American intelligence services were flooded with warnings of an impending attack upon American targets by bin Laden and Al Qaida. The decision was made - let the attack come, and in the ensuing outrage American forces can carve out the guts of the Taliban government like a ripe gourd, replacing them with a 'legitimate' regime more receptive to the pipeline plan. ... ... Bush enjoyed stratospheric approval ratings that persist to this day, and American citizens were given new enemies to hate. The Defense Department, and the weapons contractors who cater to them, received billions from the federal budget to do with as they pleased in order to address the objects of that hate... http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/06.21A.pitt.watchtower.htm The plot thickens or does it become more clear for more people? Josh
I am not surprised... All the fluff said about Iraq was more to hide the real incompetence of this governement... Hopefully, The UN had the courage to say NO to an immediate strike and even many people demonstrated all over Europe saying they were against this unjustified war.. God bless Humanity
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon and the CIA are waging a bitter feud over secret intelligence that is being used to shape U.S. policy toward Iraq, according to current and former U.S. officials. A major source of contention is the Pentagon's heavy reliance on data supplied by the Iraqi National Congress. The INC, the largest group within the divided Iraqi opposition, has a mixed reputation in Washington and a huge stake in whether President Bush makes good on his threat to oust Iraqi dictator Saddam by force. Its leader, Ahmed Chalabi, sees himself as a potential successor. For their part, career intelligence officials accuse the Pentagon group of politicizing an intelligence process that is supposed to be unbiased and nonpartisan. "The entire intelligence community hates this," said one former intelligence official who, like most others interviewed, requested anonymity. It is not clear whether the Pentagon solicits the views of the U.S. intelligence community on the material it collects directly from the Iraqi opposition. A senior U.S. military official, speaking on condition of anonymity, expressed grave fears that civilian officials in the Pentagon may be blindly accepting assertions by Chalabi and his aides that a U.S. invasion would trigger mass defections of Iraqi troops and a quick collapse of Iraqi resistance. "Our guys working this area for a living all believe Chalabi and all those guys in their Bond Street suits are charlatans. To take them for a source of anything except a fantasy trip would be a real stretch," one official said. "But it's an article of faith among those with no military experience that the Iraqi military is low-hanging fruit." A CIA spokesman refused to comment on the dispute with the Pentagon. The small Pentagon intelligence unit that Wolfowitz created last year is in the office of Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Douglas Feith, regarded as the third-highest ranking policymaker in the Pentagon Tenet is resisting pressure to skew the agency's analyses, and has instructed his analysts to do likewise, current and former officials said. But the Pentagon office is forcing CIA analysts to constantly defend not using pieces of intelligence with minimal value, the former intelligence official said. There is a "fixation on pieces of intelligence that are garbage," he said. http://www.bayarea.com/mld/bayarea/news/nation/4361708.htm Josh
What are you people insane? What injust war and illegal? Screw Sadam and Iraq with nukes! America has been pussified for too long. Take some action!
....The leader of the London-based Iraqi National Congress, Ahmed Chalabi, has met executives of three US oil multinationals to negotiate the carve-up of Iraq's massive oil reserves post-Saddam.... ...Although Russia, France and China have existing deals with Iraq, Chalabi has made clear that he would reward the US for removing Saddam with lucrative oil contracts, telling the Washington Post recently: 'American companies will have a big shot at Iraqi oil.'... ..Indeed, the issue of who gets their hands on the world's second largest oil reserves has been a major factor driving splits in the Security Council over a new resolution on Iraq... If true, it is hardly surprising, given the size of the potential deals. As of last month, Iraq had reportedly signed several multi-billion-dollar deals with foreign oil companies, mainly from China, France and Russia. ...A model for the carve-up of Iraq's oil industry was presented in September by Ariel Cohen of the right-wing Heritage ... http://www.observer.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,825105,00.html It seems war on Iraq maybe getting closer.. Josh
Wow, even the freakin U.N. has come around. All you freaks that were so against the U.S. and so in favor of defending good old Sadam, where are you now ?
I've been reading all the pros and cons and can i make a suggestion to Josh, VVV and some of the other posters??? Stop putting these long links to articles written in various papers and magazines....Just because it is in writing doesn't make it right/wrong or correct.....Let's be realistic, im pretty sure the Limbaugh letter is going to be a little more to the right...Just an observation...I love the arguments but you should argue yourself, not pull up somebody elses argument and say " yeah"