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URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 How will the white house be held accountable for its dishonesty? The elites are so elite that they are omitted from court appearances, local and international. Not getting elected again is bullshit and not enough. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004
I would like to point out that like Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld was also caught on camera lying to the USA people.

In an interview with “Meet the Press” Rumsfeld said that “...you + a few other critics are the only people I’ve heard use the phrase ‘immediate threat’,

I didn’t, the president didn’t… + it’s become kind of folklore that that’s what happened”.

He was then confronted with his own words: “No terror state poses a greater or more ‘immediate threat’ to the security of our people + the stability of our world than the regime of Sadam Hussein in Iraq”. To see the video go to: https://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/ |URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 Uh...great article but, am I missing something here or was the following quote just a typo? Wasn’t WWII. Rommel the “Desert Fox” + Bush [BGHW948] adventure in imperialism in Iraq “Desert Storm?”

And, why does the left continually, + quite correctly, berate the Bush [BGW968] regime for obvious pathological lies regarding it’s twisted excuses for a totally unwarranted invasion of a soveriegn country and yet seems to buy it’s equally, if not more so, false explanation for 11.Sep.2001?  True or false:  did or did not one of Bush [BGW968]’s evil cronies say after they cooked up the Project for a New American Century, but well before Bush [BGW968]league II stole power, “what we need is another Pearl Harbor?” Uh, duh...wouldn’t you say?  Complacency in 11.Sep.2001?  How about creation?  The Bush [BGW968] regime from top to bottom are low life traitors...the writer of the following may not be clairvoyant or a prophet, however, you surely remember, loosely paraphrasing, “...it doesn’t take a weatherman to know which way the wind blows...”

We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programs.” URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 You’ve performed an invaluable service in bringing all this data together in one place.

At the time all these things were happening, I was dismayed that the press was not taking take greater notice of “clues” that the administration was fudging. 

All the data was right there on the Internet.  But unfortunately the press, like many others, were blinded by fear.

I’ll pass along a note about your report to the peace e-mail networks I subscribe to. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004
READ MORE TRUTH HERE
07.Aug.2004 Someone needs to print this article out, drop it on every Bush [BGW968] Administration desk + say “Spin THIS.”

Nobody wants to believe that their president + his handlers (which, in the case of a real presidency are called advisers) could so blatantly betray the people’s trust.

But the truth is the truth + no matter how ugly it gets, it cannot be changed. We must, as a nation, deal with the lies accordingly + send the liars packing in 02.Nov.2004

The longer we wait to take our country back, the harder it will be to do. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 All this points very well to the fact that the President and his supporters are playing on a different field and listening to a different drummer.  I can’t escape the intuition that the drumbeat is the fantasy world of the “Left Behind” series, which plays “good” against “great evil” in “Babylon,” whose historical location is 50 miles from Baghdad. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 Actually, Bush [BGW968] buddie Richard Perle basically confessed on the Charlie Rose show way back in 00.Jan.2004 (?) He said that they never wanted to include WMD in the argument because they knew it was a lame claim, but that the lawyers “made” them do it, to secure legal legitimacy to the case. I was flabergasted to hear it + watched and recorded the shows later re-play just to make sure I had heard it right. I was surprised no one picked up on it. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 Of course they knew. Anyone with just an average degree of awareness in the 18 months before 23.Mar.2003 knows very well that the current
“administration” was determined to effect regime change in Iraq irrespective of terrorism or WMD + that the latter was simply a flimsy pretext that insults the intelligence of any thinking American. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 There’s even a House, Committee On Governmental Reform, sponsored publication that consolidates sumarizes all the misstatements that prove unequivocably that the White House was NOT misled by bad intelligence.
https://www.house.gov/reform/min/pdfs_108_2/pdfs_inves/p pdf_admin_iraq_on_the_record_rep.pdf
07.Aug.2004 This article proves our assertion that the web of deception + scandalous manipulation has gotten so complicated that it’s made it impossible for any of them individually to be brought into focus on the nightly news + the nightly talking-head fests. 

Taken individually, any one of these deceptions could be grounds for the type of media focus and legal scrutiny that accompanied a lie about private adult sexual activity in the previous administration.  But the noise created by trying to give each one of them the coverage it deserves serves to drown out any attempt at significant, easy-to-follow reporting on any one of them individually.  It’s much easier for the average hard-working busy family to follow a story about “sex” than, say, a story about undermining national security by treasonously exposing the identity of an undercover CIA employee, thus endangering the lives of people working to make the USA Safer.

https://www.worse-than-watergate.com
07.Aug.2004 I knew he was a liar, but he more the facts are there to back it up (+ throw light on every gruesome detail) the better.

This entire situation and the people behind it sicken me. How can people be so slimy and false? Our pres manages to make Saddam look like a victim more than anything.

How was this able to happen? Why didn’t somebody stand up and expose them? Lots of people knew…
So many people all over the world are hurting because of what this administration has done, isn’t doing + is rightly afraid will happen if Bush [BGW968] stays in office...

I dont’ know, maybe this will teach us a lesson...vote, challenge the government, don’t be intimidated by fear tactics + propoganda...no, that’s bs, we shouldn’t have to babysit our government...but we do! They apparently can’t be trusted. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004
https://www.sass.caltech.edu/events/ritter.shtml has a copy online of a good talk at Cal Tech, with questions answers, given by an ex UN Inspector that was an ex USA Marine + is an ex Bush [BGW968] voter a Christian + Republican.

This was the most clear headed description, of the long term Iraq conflict, that I have heard or seen, so far. 

13.Nov.2002 He predicted on- that Bush [BGW968] would go to war, no matter what.

It would be wise for people, that really want to know, what has actually been happening, to listen to what he said then, or to find a printed copy.

It would be wise for people, that really want to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution, from enemies both foreign + domestic, to hold our leaders accountable, for not leading with very much wisdom.

00.Mar.2003 -Then in- Ritter predicted that they would find no WMD’s. check it out: https://www.dangerouscitizen.com/downloads/418.aspx audio recording of “war on iraq: how did we get here?”
presentation by scott ritter, former un weapons inspector, 18.Mar.2003 , chapman university, orange, ca.”

the truth about the wmd’s. really neat talk on our constitution + how to do inspections in spite of iraq, un + us, + how ignorant Bush [BGW968] was about wmd’s.

all they had to do is ask scott + or his technical team.

it was an accounting problem, not a clear + present threat. us had unilateral policy of regime change that was not un sanctioned.

us did not cooperate with inspectors because the president did not really want disarmament. israel did want disarmament.

he straight out said that there were no wmd’s + why there were no wmd’s! no wonder blix thought he could finish up in 90 days!
listening to scott, this thought came to me: even if, there really were tons of wmd’s, Bush [BGW968] made it even more risky for us citizens because:
1. it was not risky in the first place because osama + saddam were enemies + saddam would never have let any loose + have them used on himself.
2. if tons of wmd’s were left unguarded in the chaos of war, some could have been stolen + sold to osama’s troops.
3. “Bush [BGW968] light” on his troops attack without the recommended troop level to provide order after the main battles created chaos + the risk of letting those tons of wmd’s loose. we are still destroying their conventional weapons. they are still using rpg’s and explosives from shells.
4. Bush [BGW968] was creating more enemies, that want to use wmd’s on us. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 Thank you for a great article—I’m sending it to everyone of voting age that I know. 

I am amazed that there are citizens that will actually vote for Bush [BGW968] in 02.Nov.2004

If he is re-elected, I am afraid of what the next 4 years would bring + the effects that Bush [BGW968] policy will have for years to come, both nationally + internationally. 

I am not a wealthy person but I am sending every extra dollar I have to Kerry + the DNC.  For the future of my sons and for the future of this country.

URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 These bastards should be impeached + put into jail.

If the Dems had won the Senate in 00.000.2002 Bush [BGW968] + Cheney + Rumsfield + Rice would be in the process of being impeached.

The harm these arrogant fools have done to this country goes beyond belief. Let’s hope that Bush goes away on 02.Nov.2004 .

If Bush [BGW968] doesn’t, I fear for the future of USA. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 I would like to see Saddam Hussein’s offer to go into exile included in the timeline

Bob Woodward in “Plan of Attack” indicates that the Bush [BGW968] Administration (I think Bush [BGW968] himself) was called by Pres Hosne Mubarak of Egypt to negotiate this very deal.  There were no weapons to capture + they new that, so why not? 

Wouldn’t that have got them the holy grail?  A peaceful transition to democracy- or any new peaceful government--rather than trying to reconstruct bombed out infrastructure + overcoming the massive civilian casualties that would surely result from the bombing, invasion + occupation of an Arab country.  Nevermind the PROPAGANDA fallout, both there + worldwide. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 Actually part of the Czech government took back it’s contrition that the meeting never happened.

I heard there was even a correction published in the NY Times following an article they did pointing out their denial.

Someone once told me that last bit was found by way of a Lexis Nexus search for the article, sorry I can’t remember the date. I don’t have LN so I can’t confirm it.

see Slate below https://slate.msn.com/id/2070410/

07.Aug.2004 https://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn200304 407.shtml

The real reason for attacking the Iraqi regime always has been disconnected from its public rationale.

00.000.2002 -On the day after the USA launched the military strike that quickly liberated Afghanistan from the Taliban, my column identified Iraq as the second target in President Bush [BGW968]’s war against terrorism.

I did not write one word about weapons of mass destruction because not one such word was mentioned to me in many interviews with Bush [BGW968] policymakers.
The subsequent debate over WMD ensued when Secretary of State Colin Powell, over Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s objections, talked the president into seeking UN sanction for military action.

Pre-emptive elimination of Hussein would not win over the UN Security Council, which had to be convinced the Iraqi dictator was a present danger.

URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004
that the paleocons have been pointing out that these guys were lying for months now.

Here’s the former editor of the Washington Times, Arnaud de Borchgrave: https://washingtontimes.com/commentary/20040209-090308-2 2252r.htm

There is still time to remind ourselves WMDs were not the principal reason for going to war against Saddam Hussein’s Iraq; they were the pretext.

And that’s why irrefutable evidence was not the standard. Axis of evil regime change was the lodestar.
When this writer first heard from prominent neoconservatives in 00.Apr.2002 that war was no longer a question of “if” but “when,” the casus belli had little to do with WMDs. The Bush [BGW968] administration, they explained, starkly + simply, had decided to redraw the geopolitical map of the Middle East....
The liberation of Iraq, in the neocon scenario, would be followed by a democratic Iraq that would quickly recognize Israel.

This, in turn, would “snowball” — the analogy only works in the Cedar Mountains of Lebanon — through the region, bringing democracy from Syria to Egypt + to the sheikhdoms + emirates + monarchies of the Gulf.
All these new democracies would then embrace Israel + hitch their backward economies to the Jewish state’s advanced technology.

And Israel could at long last lower its guard and look forward to a generation of peace. That was the vision. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 The truth eventually comes out, but who pays for the errors? URL: 
https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 The great thing about this article is about how it has resources for the readers to view if they are skeptic + is very thorough on its information than other Bush [BGW968] pre war articles which ridicule him on the basis of their opinion; not facts. I knew this from the beginnign + im glad that it’s published.

URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 The article is great, but isn’t this just kicking a dead horse?

Bush [BGW968] said in his terrornews conference yesterday that, he would have attacked Iraq, even knowing what he knows today.

So he has indeed made a mea culpa that he was hell bent on invading Iraq, no matter what the CIA or NSA told him early in 00.000.2003 .
All of the wmd talk was just that, talk for the masses + the history books.

07.Aug.2004 Now the situation is so grave in Iraq, that the press hardly ever gives a true picture of events.
It is worse than VietNam, because if we tried to retreat back to the Kuwaiti frontier, we would be ambushed from all sides.
I for one believe that we are on the verge of a total defeat in Iraq. It isn’t over, by far.
The worst is yet to come. We have 6 million Shia’s between Bagdad, + Kuwait. If we start a pull out, would they not draw as much blood as they could? Think about it.

URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004
Josh Marshall (
https://www.talkingpointsmemo.com) today matched what Bush [BGW968] is really saying about the commission’s plan + what he really plans to do if such a post is created, + discovers that in fact, Bush [BGW968]’s plan would create an essentially powerless post with no budgetary authority. 

If Josh, who is a trusted journalist who writes for a number of respected publications, can discover this in less than 24 hours, why can’t the brains at the NY Times do likewise?

+ has also been noted, someone should clearly have called Bush [BGW968] on his claim that he wants the post to be OUTSIDE the White House “so it won’t be subject to undue influence.”

Given the clear evidence of how the Bush [BGW968] Administration badgered + circumvented USA traditional intelligence channels with its own Special Office on Intelligence in the Pentagon + then went around the CIA to present its patently flawed (+ now proven false) claims of WMD directly to the President, one should begin laughing out loud if it weren’t so tragic. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 It saddens me that we are so far ahead (at least I believed that) + that at this time and day it is still possible for someone like Bush [BGW968] to be President.

To think that Clinton almost got impeached for a Cuban Cigar + yet Bush [BGW968] has lied, openly lied to a Nation + he is on the ballot for 02.Nov.2004

URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 This article contains much pertinent information that should be broadcast across USA.  I would love to show this to my conservative friend, but I know she wouldn’t even read it.  Or she would just think that I don’t get it.  How can we get through to them? If the media reported the truth, they wouldn’t be able to escape it. I am not against republicans or conservatives (in theory), but I am against losing our democracy.  It’s like a certain portion of Americans have forgotten what our veterans have died for + for what our troops are fighting (and dying) for + what our founding fathers’ vision of our country was.  It’s inspiring to know that there is a growing majority of people who can see through the corporate fog-and who will hopefully vote accordingly. Thank you. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 I agree with Charles.The calculated use of deception + falsehood” is the single most dangerous weapon a government can wield against it's people.URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 As a side question, what really is going on with mainstream media? Tens of millions of people are unaware that they are constantly lied to.

They come home to a sofa + a cold beer + suck this misinformation in.

Part of the problem is their lack of curiosity, yet most Americans have been taught to have faith in this system.

What we are witnessing is a collapse of the 4th Branch of government. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004
It is this calculated use of deception + falsehood that we should fear, more even than the wrongheaded policy. 

When our leaders cease to know the difference between the truth and a lie, the nation is headed for disaster. 

If I may shamelessly flog two articles on this topic:  https://www.americanpolitics.com/20020405Utwater.html |https://www.americanpolitics.com/20020426Utwater.html
07.Aug.2004 But now, instead of contrition, Republicans are insisting the White House’s uranium charge was accurate.

Indeed, these apologists have no option but to try to distract public attention from the simple truth that not a shred of solid evidence exists to substantiate this key charge that fueled the push for war. They knew there was no hard evidence of chemical or biological weapons URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004
In recent weeks, right-wing pundits have pointed to new evidence showing the Iraq uranium charge may have flirted with the truth at some point in the distant past. These White House hatchet men say the administration did not manipulate or cherry-pick intelligence.

They also tout the recent UK report (a.k.a. The Butler Report) as defending the president’s uranium claim. Yet, if the White House did not cherry-pick or manipulate intelligence, why did the president trumpet USA intelligence from a foreign government while ignoring explicit warnings not to do so from his own? The record shows USA intelligence officials explicitly warned the White House that “the Brits have exaggerated this issue.” Yet, the administration refused to listen. Even The Butler Report itself acknowledges the evidence is cloudy. As nonproliferation expert Joseph Cirincione of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace recently pointed out, “The claim appears shaky at best—hardly the stuff that should make up presidential decisions.” URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.Mar.2003 IAEA Director Mohammed El Baradei said there was no proof Iraq had nuclear weapons and added “documents which formed the basis for [the White House’s assertion] of recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger are in fact
not authentic.” But when Cheney was asked about this a week later, he said, “Mr. El Baradei frankly is wrong.”

Bush [BGW968] + Rice both tried to blame the CIA for the failure, saying the assertion “was cleared by the intelligence services.”

When the intelligence agency produced the memos it had sent to the White House on the subject, Rice didn’t miss a beat, telling Meet The Press “it is quite possible that I didn’t” read the memos at all—as if they were “optional” reading for the nation’s top national security official on the eve of war.

At about this time, some high-level administration official or officials leaked to the press that Ambassador Joseph Wilson’s wife was an undercover CIA agent—

a move widely seen as an attempt by the administration to punish Wilson for his 06.Jul.2003 New York Times op-ed that stated he had found no evidence of an Iraqi effort to purchase uranium from Niger. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.000.
2002 -In the fall of- the CIA told administration officials not to include this uranium assertion in presidential speeches.

Specifically, the agency sent two memos to the White House + Tenet personally called top national security officials imploring them not to use the claim.

While the warnings forced the White House to remove a uranium reference from an 00.Oct.2002 presidential address, they did not stop the charge from being included in the 00.000.2003 State of the Union. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.000.2003 in his State of the Union address,
In one of the most famous statements about Iraq’s supposed nuclear arsenals, Bush [BGW968] said

The UK government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

The careful phrasing of this statement highlights how dishonest it was.

By attributing the claim to an allied government, the White House made a powerful charge yet protected itself against any consequences should it be proved false.

In fact, the president invoked the UK because his own intelligence experts had earlier warned the White House not to make the claim at all. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 Today, experts agree the administration’s aluminum tube claims were wholly without merit.

They knew the Iraq-uranium claims were not supported. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.
Jul.2003 Rice claimed that “
the consensus viewin the intelligence community was that the tubes “were suitable for use in centrifuges to spin material for nuclear weapons.”

URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.Mar.2003
warnings were soon validated by the IAEA.

00.Mar.2003 USA State Department s director stated, “Iraq’s efforts to import these aluminum tubes were not likely to be relatedto nuclear weapons deployment.

Yet, this evidence did not stop the White House either. Pretending the administration never received any warnings at all, URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.Oct.2002 -
But, in-, well before these + other administration officials made this claim, two key agencies told the White House exactly the opposite.

The State Department affirmed reports from Energy Department experts who concluded those tubes were ill-suited for any kind of uranium enrichment.

And according to memos released by the Senate Intelligence Committee, the State Department also warned Powell not to use the aluminum tubes hypothesis in the days before his 00.Feb.2003 UN speech. He refused and used the aluminum tubes claim anyway. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.000.
2003 Similarly, in his State of the Union address, Bush [BGW968] said Iraq “has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes
suitable for nuclear weapons production.” URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.
Dec.2002 Powell said, “
Iraq has tried to obtain high-strength aluminum tubes which can be used to enrich uranium in centrifuges for a nuclear weapons program.”

URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.
Jul.2003 Condoleezza Rice told PBS’s Gwen Ifill that the administration’s nuclear assertions were “
absolutely supportable.”

00.Jul.2003 -That same month- White House spokesman Scott McClellan insisted: “There’s a lot of evidence showing that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.” They knew the aluminum tubes were not for nuclear weapons URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.
Mar.2003 Cheney went on national television days before the war + claimed Iraq “
has reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

He was echoed by State Department spokesman Richard Boucher, who told reporters of supposedly grave “concerns about Iraq’s potential nuclear programs.”

Even after the invasion, when troops failed to uncover any evidence of nuclear weapons, the White House refused to admit the truth.URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.000.200-
Ten months before the president’s speech, an intelligence review by CIA Director George Tenet contained not a single mention of an imminent nuclear threat—or capability—from Iraq.

The CIA was backed up by Bush [BGW968]’s own State Department: Around the time Bush [BGW968] gave his speech, the department’s intelligence bureau said that evidence did not “add up to a compelling case that Iraq is currently pursuing what [we] consider to be an integrated and comprehensive approach to acquiring nuclear weapons.”

Nonetheless, the administration continued to push forward. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.
Feb.2001 USA CIA delivered a report to the White House that said: “
We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programs.” The report was so definitive that Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a subsequent press conference, Saddam Hussein “has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction.” URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.000.1997 report by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—the agency whose purpose is to prevent nuclear proliferation—stated there was
no indication Iraq ever achieved nuclear capability or had any physical capacity for producing weapons-grade nuclear material in the near future.URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
00.Oct.2002
In his first major address on the “Iraqi threat” in, President Bush [BGW968] invoked fiery images of mushroom clouds + mayhem, saying, “
Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.”
Yet, before that speech, the White House had intelligence calling this assertion into question. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
11.Sep.2001 00-00 -within hours of the attacks-
the White House was focused on Iraq. There is no doubt even though there was no proof of Iraq’s complicity, As
CBS News reported, “barely five hours after American Airlines Flight 77 plowed into the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was telling his aides to come up with plans for striking Iraq.” Former Bush [BGW968] counterterrorism czar Richard Clarke recounted vividly how, just after the attack, President Bush [BGW968] pressured him to find an Iraqi connection. In many ways, this was no surprise—as former Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill + another administration official confirmed, the White House was actually looking for a way to invade Iraq well before the terrorist attacks.

But such an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign country required a public rationale. And so the Bush [BGW968] administration struck fear into the hearts of Americans about Saddam Hussein’s supposed WMD, starting with nuclear arms. URL: https://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/they_knew_0802/
07.Aug.2004 If desperation is ugly, then Washington, D.C. today is downright hideous.

07.Aug.2004 -recently- As the 11.Sep.2001 Commission reported, there was “no credible evidenceof a collaborative relationship between Iraq + al Qaeda.

Similarly, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. With USA casualties mounting in an election year, the White House is grasping at straws to avoid being held accountable for its dishonesty.

00.Jul.2004 The whitewash already has started: Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee released a controversial report blaming the CIA for the mess.

The panel conveniently refuses to evaluate what the White House did with the information it was given or how the White House set up its own special team of Pentagon political appointees (called the Office of Special Plans) to circumvent well-established intelligence channels. And Vice President Dick Cheney continues to say without a shred of proof that there is “overwhelming evidencejustifying the administration’s pre-war charges.

But as author Flannery O’Conner noted, “Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” That means no matter how much defensive spin spews from the White House, the Bush [BGW968] administration cannot escape the documented fact that it was clearly warned before the war that its rationale for invading Iraq was weak.

URL: https://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/index.htm
04.Aug.2004-04.Aug.1964 Forty years ago today, President Johnson + top USA officials chose to believe that North Vietnam had just attacked USA destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin, even though the highly classified signals intercepts they cited to each other actually described a naval clash two days earlier (a battle prompted by covert USA attacks on North Vietnam), according to the declassified intercepts, Johnson White House tapes + related documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

Compiled by Archive senior fellow + Vietnam expert John Prados, today's 40th anniversary electronic briefing book includes Dr. Prados's detailed analysis of the intercepts - only declassified in 2003 - together with audio files + transcripts of the key Tonkin Gulf conversations between President Johnson + Defense Secretary Robert McNamara.

The latter are excerpted from Dr. Prados's book, The White House Tapes (New York: The New Press, 2003). The posting also contains photographs and charts from the Tonkin Gulf incident courtesy of the USA Naval Historical Center, a detailed documentary chronology compiled by the State Department's Office of the Historian for the Foreign Relations of the USA series, a CIA Special National Intelligence Estimate on possible North Vietnamese responses to USA actions from 00.May 1964 (just declassified in 00.Jun.2004 ) + links to previous and upcoming Archive publications on Vietnam. URL: https://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB132/index.htm
04.Aug.2004-04.Aug.1964 The Gulf of Tonkin Incident, 40 Years Later Flawed Intelligence + the Decision for War in Vietnam Signals Intercepts, Cited at Time, Prove Only 02.Aug.1964 Battle, Not 04.Aug.1964 ;
Purported Second Attack Prompted Congressional Blank Check for War

Johnson-McNamara Tapes Show Readiness to Escalate, Even on Suspect Intel;
Top Aides Knew of Mistaken Signals, but Welcomed Justification for Vote

National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 132

Edited by John Prados

04.Aug.2004 Posted

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