[Matchett-PI]

This commentary just arrived in my email from Laurie Myroie publisher of Iraq News newsletter.

[RightWhale]

Dr. Mylroie received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard. I have heard her commentary several times over the past couple years and never heard that. She has credentials.

[EllaMinnow]

Big PING, bump, and bookmark.

[Prince Charles]

Bttt.

[prairiebreeze]

Perhaps tellingly, Suskind doesn't claim that those discussions continued beyond February.

OK. I've read this three times and can't figure out the significance that Mylorie seems to be referring to. Anybody have any ideas?

Prairie

[freekitty]

It sounds like O'Neil thinks he should be President.

[PhilDragoo]

Not only was Bush planning the Iraq War before 9/11,
his tax cuts haven't done a thing to improve the economy.

[go star go]

the washington post has a story about o'neal and the book. the really interesting part of the article is the last paragraph as follows:

The Treasury Department issued a statement saying officials there had not provided any classified documents to O'Neill. Administration officials expect to conduct investigations.

[TenthAmendmentChampion]

BTTT

[Fledermaus]

Suskind claimed he has documents showing that preparations for the Iraq war were well underway before 9-11.

That is actually true. And those preparations were made by the CLINTON ADMINISTRATION who made regime change in Iraq U.S. policy in 1998!

Suskind is a moron.

[DrDeb]

A thanks for posting this BUMP!

[DoctorMichael]

Bump.

[Arkinsaw]

The whole point of this, I think, is to give Democrats in Congress a public relations club to start calling for Congressional investigations and start browbeating Republicans down the path to subpoenas.

This is what the Rockefeller memo was all about. They plan on running on "Bush is a creepy, sneaky, liar" based on made-up stuff like this. It doesn't matter if their "evidence" is transparent because the public will just hear it on the news each night and distrust this administration.

[sauropod]

Is O'Neill now connected with MoveOn.org?

[kayak]

pinging to spread the word ....

[aculeus]

This should be in breaking news. Keep it bumped!!!

Done!

[lasereye]

Suskind claimed he has documents showing that preparations for the Iraq war were well underway before 9-11.

Even if this was true, (which this document obviously doesn't prove), what would that mean? The justification given by Bush for going into Iraq was

1. WMD's and their violation of UN resolutions requiring them to disarm.
2. Their links to terrorism, which are undeniable.

Since those were true before 9/11, why is it a scandal that Bush was planning an invasion before 9/11?

[Waco]

Daficits don't matter, the RATS said this for years. So what's the bitching for now?

[sultan88]

Good post bump!

[Finalapproach29er]

BTTT

[Tunehead54]

Bookmark ping to related post: "Confessions of a White House Insider"

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Thanks! ;-)