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Posted on 05/12/2004 10:52:43 PM PDT by kattracks
He stated five reasons for invading Iraq, but never said Iraq had WMD at that time. One of the reasons was Iraq's failure to comply with UN resolutions requiring Iraq to say what happened to the WMD that they previously had.
Bush might not have tried very hard to correct the media's war drum beating that focused almost exclusively on WMD stockpiles, but Bush himself never said that stockpiles existed or that the reason for our invasion was to destroy those stockpiles.
I have my own opinion as to the primary reasons we invaded, starting with the need to demonstrate to other nations that there was a new sheriff in town who wouldn't hesitate to change regimes. Libya got the message.
FBI did not inform Freeh of Kindred Spirit for two years (unless we look at Freeh's denial as CYA). Even then, it did not pursue investigation of Chinese espionage so as to not offend PRC at the time Freeh was trying to establish legat in Beijing.
CIA and FBI have not been merely inept, but stunningly, breathtakingly inept--even criminally inept.
See also the lengthy Colleen Rowley letter in the Bill Gertz Breakdown appendix: mistakes were made, and for calling us on them, we will crush you.
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Dulles is connected to so many plays involving Corporate interest..American and non American.
The play still running into the Reagen Admin in regards to Central America.
The play has Congress going in several directions....sanctioning monies.....then Dec 18, 1986 CIA Director William Casey, operated on for a `` brain tumor '' and lost the power of speech.
President Reagen has trouble with the CIA....residuals left over from President Carter and his CIA Director, Stansfield Turner?
Almost in mirror now...President Bush has trouble with the CIA and FBI..residuals from the Days of Emperor Clintonius.
Have read some essays on Allan Dulles...they paint him a dark figure yes..but..He would not allow America to be compromised on many levels of power and Geostrategic projection.
Certainly what went down in Carters admin and Clintons would not have been received well by Allan Dulles.
President Reagen rescued Americas economy....Emperor Clinton rides on these fortunes....
The fact that sophisticated American Military technology is now being brokered overseas in his Presidency.....with little players getting caught with their hand in the kitty hints at CIA/FBI assistance....hints that U.S. State Dept is not as dumb to event occurances as spin managers breif Congress and Senate in hearings.
Today..trouble for President Bush on many levels...
Wolfowitz..who can't keep his mouth shut..aka."Wolfowitz Admits War Was About Oil"...Wolfowitz: "Iraq Swims in a Sea of Oil"...Wolfowitz: "WMDs Were Only a Bureaucratic Reason for War"...
Richard Perle and Persian wonderboy..Ahmed Chalabi.
This is the damage at the top end...
Clearly President bush is a gracious leader....these have let him down.....down the garden path.
The Casey thing as strange as the Colby canoe trip.
I credit Dulles with the Bay of Pigs plan--which JFK caused to fail by not allowing the final B-26 raid on the three T-33s.
And I credit Dulles with helping JFK to meet Allah.
My take on Tenet has been: boot, ass; rinse, repeat.
I'd like to see Woolsey brought back, Woolsey who had the vision to see Ramzi Yousef as an Iraqi agent, as did Laurie Mylroie.
Deutch bragged his intent at the outset was to "f--k them".
Which he did, with the compromise of 17,000 files (kind of an Ames to the tenth power).
And Deutch tried to pull the walk-in W-88 story by claiming the walk-in was under PRC control.
Fold into the mix the out and out pricks like Joseph Clymer Wilson and his wife the infamous Valerie Plame and it cries out for a Clorox hose-down.
Turner fired 820 case officers October 31, 1977, and Tenet says it will take five years to rebuild CIA.
That's if the Churches and Torricellis and Kerrys are kept in plastic handcuffs with women's underwear on their heads.
And we can sell that video to help defray the increased CIA budget. It'll be our and Victoria's Secret.
Yes they are, especially dirty bombs. And I've no doubt Iraq had them (not dirty bombs) and would have slipped them into the terrorist network if they thought it would serve their purpose.
But WMD in my opinion were far down the list of reasons to invade Iraq. Our WAR is Against Terrorist who don't recognize national borders (most of which were arbitrarily drawn by infidels anyway) and neither should we. Our enemy is radical Islamofacists of all stripes and wherever they stays.
In my opinion, the real reasons we invaded Iraq could not have been publicly stated but were:
1. We had to demonstrate to Muslim governments that we have the will to take out any regime that accommodates (appeases) terrorists. These regimes need to fear us more than they fear the terrorists. We showed them what we would do to Saddam, who probably accommodated terrorists less than they did, to make them realize how precarious their position is.
2. We needed to demonstrate that national borders were as meaningless to us as they are to the terrorists. We couldn't just run al Qaeda out of Afghanistan to have then regroup in Syria or Iran. We have to cut off all their routs of retreat. We had to make the other Muslim nations take up the welcome mat. By attacking Iraq we have made Osama too hot for any nation to give him sanctuary. He's cowering in the caves of Pakistan where he's even unwelcomed instead of living in luxury in Iran.
3. Iraq was our geographical battlefield of choice. Incrementally suited to initiate our "dominoes"/"staging ground" long range anti-terrorist strategy. Easy access from our allies in the region and closer bomber support bases in Europe. Ideally suited terrain for our ground based Army vehicles. Already saturated by spy satellites and on-the-ground info from UN inspectors and Israeli intelligence.
4. Iraq was our political battlefield of choice.Saddam had no support from any other Muslim nation (except France). They all secretly wanted us to take him out and only made perfunctory protests to our invasion. We had the UN resolutions to hang our hat on, making our invasion legal under international law. Saddam had little internal support. He was a Christian until the 80s and put his own political ambitions to be the next Arab prophet above the welfare of his people.
5. Invading Iraq gave notice to our "allies" (France, Germany & Russia) that we weren't going to let them cuckold us when it came to our security. And also put Muslim nations on notice that our European or other allies can't protect them from our preemption policy.
6. Oil Iraq has the second largest reserve in the world. We had to replace Saddam in order to get those reserves into the international stream. Eventually lower oil prices will more than pay for our cost of the war.
This doesn't mean that WMD aren't important. Except for dirty bombs, I just don't think that they are that much of a threat. I fear freighters and trucks carrying fertilizer much more than poisonous gasses, anthrax, long range scuds etc... Remember the WMD of 9/11? box-cutters.
CIA..Pentagon and Ahmed Chalabi....also known as a..WTF?
Former Crown Prince Hassan of Jordan, who appointed Chalabi, then 32 years old, as one of the founding fathers of a bank called the Petra Bank, which expanded rapidly to emerge as the second largest commercial bank of Jordan.
In August,1989, Chalabi fell foul of the late King Hussein of Jordan, who had him sacked after the bank had incurred huge liabilities and was on the verge of collapse. This, however, did not affect his personal friendship with Prince Hassan, who allegedly helped him to escape from Jordan before the Police, on the orders of King Hussein, could arrest him for investigation into the alleged mismanagement of the affairs of the bank. It was alleged that during his association with the bank he had embezzled nearly US $ 70 million and spirited it away in secret Swiss bank accounts. He was tried in absentia by a Jordanian court and reportedly sentenced to imprisonment on a charge of embezzlement.
Shift:
In the beginning of 1995, Woolsey had to resign as the Director of the CIA after he came in for strong criticism in the Congress for his alleged mismanagement of the investigation into the penetration of the KGB, the Soviet intelligence agency, and its sueccessor Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, into the CIA, through Aldrich Ames, a senior CIA officer, who was subsequently found guilty and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.
Question..why did things go south so quickly for Woolsey?
Did Chalabi betray Woolsey?... Clinton had Woolsey dead to rights on Chalabi..Like a gift on a platter.
There were allegations of Chalabi failing to submit the details of the expenditure incurred by him out of the huge amounts given to him by the CIA when Woolsey was its chief.
And this was given to Clinton by **The Pentagon!!!
Chalabi's still in..Woolsey gone..WTF! Despite this, the Clinton Administration made the CIA fund a 1996 foray by the INC and other ant-Saddam groups into Northern Iraq which ended in a fiasco. Chalabi's forecasts that the Iraqi troops deployed in Northern Iraq would desert en masse and join the INC proved wrong. Saddam managed to win over the Kurdistan Democratic Party, which made a separate peace with him Differences between the INC and the Iraqi National Accord, a group of CIA-backed former Iraqi Army officers, led to their killing each other. Gen. Anthony Zinni, who was the Commanding Officer of the US Central Command, under Clinton, used to describe this as the Iraqi Bay of Pigs and sarcastically refer to Chalabi as " that silk-suited, Rolex-wearing guy from London."
Another great column. And thanks for the pic.
Well said. But we need to learn how to fight just as dirty. One individual liberal can cause so much damage. Fox News at times interviews a DJ called "Mad Cow", yesterday he was relating how one individual keeps trying to remove him from the air by filing repeatedly with the FCC, and the guy is winning evidently.
This fellow needs to be named and exposed, his business shunned, his life made as uncomfortable as possible, or, better still, we need to file with the FCC to have the alphabet soup news media removed from the air due to flagrant communist propaganda. As individuals we need to get more involved and give as bad as we get. This is war. A different kind of war but war none the less.
Who has called their congressman demanding the Supreme Court justices be impeached for abuse of power, or failing to uphold their office by using euro-law rather than the constitution to decide cases?
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