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[Flopping Aces] Media Awash in Reports That Pres Bush did NOT Lie About Threat ...: budgets had been scrapped after the fall of the Soviet Union, and their leadership replaced by political appointees and bureaucrats. Democrats and Republicans, Bush Administration officials, and former Clinton Administration officals, the Executive branch and Congress all believed that while there was dissent (as there always is) regarding the limited intelligence on Saddam’s regime the preponderance of intel demonstrated a threat, and Saddam’s refusal to fully, immediately, and unconditionally comply with the UN after 12yrs made the matter due for resolution. Lastly, the threat posed by Saddam’s regime and its history of working with Al Queda groups made the question of “unaccounted for weapons of mass destruction” far too dangerous to continue addressing with a foreign policy of national denial, procrastination, and/or laissez faire.
[tpmmuckraker] Senate Report Shows Intel Debunked Al Qaeda-Iraq Link Before ...: But any actual legal decisions arrived at in terms of holding these rogues accountable will be dumped into the bin of Bush hypocrisy like Scooter Libby'c conviction. Once Bush no longer has the power to pardon, then it will be time to drop the ahammer down, and anyone who suggests the 111th should forget the misdeeds of this lawless administration, or wtries it off as "revenge politics" should themselves be considered guilty.
[Flopping Aces] The Zimmerman Telegram and the Captured Saddam Documents: Prior to the discovery of the German effort to give away American territory in exchange for an alliance with Mexico, there had been other incidents that by themselves were not sufficient to warrant a declaration of war, but with the Zimmerman Telegram…the sum of the threats and offenses combined to equal a casus belli. One can blame the war on the Lusitania, the sinking of US freighters by German submarines, interdiction of trade, human rights violations by Germany and her allies, or a host of other reasons, but this decoded piece of paper was the last straw.
[Son of Bill Brasky] Sean Hannity is a LIAR: HANNITY: “[After 9-11], liberal Democrats at first showed little interest in the investigation of the roots of this massive intelligence failure…[Bush and his team] made it clear that determining the causes of America’s security failures and finding and remedying its weak points would be central to their mission.” (Let Freedom Ring, by Sean Hannity)
[International Military Forums] Afghanistan Attacks Rise, US Says: Los Angeles Times June 25, 2008 Pg. 1 Additional troops needed to combat insurgents would have to come from Iraq, officials note.
[Flopping Aces] I have to say, I’m floored”¦.literally floored that an editor of ...: Dare to imagine the unthinkable…Kossacks, Huffpos, DUmmies, and CodePinkerdoodles…all supporting a President who continues the war in Iraq with a plan identical to the Republican nominee’s, as well as President Bush’s? ‘Course, none of the above would dare admit it or face that reality, but boys and girls…it’s about to happen.
[Impeach Bush For Peace] McClatchy Voices Senate Intel Committee's Findings More Strongly ...: In the days following the tragic events of September 11, the Bush administration opportunistically portrayed Saddam Hussein as having ties to al-Qaeda and as "seeking to produce unsafeguarded nuclear material and to acquire nuclear weapons." In speeches utilizing the imagery of the "smoking gun as a mushroom cloud," Bush, Condoleezza Rice and others repeatedly warned a vulnerable and fearful nation that given the Iraqi leader's hatred of America and his willingness to use weapons of mass destruction in the past, it was highly likely that the threat of nuclear conflagration was significant and imminent unless preemptive action were taken sooner rather than later. In his now famous "either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists" speech, President Bush served noticed to the American people and to the world that our response to these heinous attacks would involve "far more than instant retaliation and isolated strikes" against terrorist groups like al-Qaeda.
[Flopping Aces] KEY POINTS Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Phase II ...: The intelligence community assessed both before and after the NIE that Iraq had a chemical weapons production capability, not just that Saddam wanted one. (See the CIA SEM Dec 2001 - “Iraq in the past several years has rebuilt a covert chemical weapons production capability by reconstructing dual-use industrial facilities and developing new chemical plants ….”) Most of the assessments which judged that actual production was ongoing were contemporaneous with the NIE or slightly prior (see Tenet’s testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee and SSCI below and the unclassified White Paper), but not all of them.
[Dans Blog] Open Source "INTEL" Report on Terrorism: On 30 May 2008, CIA Director Michael Hayden was quoted as portraying the Al-Qaeda movement as “essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.” These powerful declarations prompted a series of reactions and debates both in political and counterterrorism circles, causing loud media discussions. The main but simple question of interest to the public, and subsequently to voters in the United States and other democracies, is this: Is Al-Qaeda being defeated?
[Compenetration Weblog] “The Correction For That”¦Is An Attack” (Rumsfeld): Feith’s book, War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism, released in April, provides excerpts of a paper that Rumsfeld sent to President George W. Bush on September 30, 2001, calling for the administration to focus not on taking down Osama bin Laden’s al Qaeda network, but rather on the aim of establishing “new regimes”
[Joejolly's Weblog] Senate Panel Accuses Bush of Iraq Exaggerations: “The president and his advisers undertook a relentless public campaign in the aftermath of the attacks to use the war against Al Qaeda as a justification for overthrowing Saddam Hussein,” Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV, the committee’s ...
[SWJ Blog] 15 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blog, and Events Roundup: What has been learned about such conflicts from operations in Iraq and Afghanistan may to some degree be transferable to conflicts in other regions. Assuming that the international community may well face future operations characterized by regional, borderless “wars among the people”, the centres at Queen’s University and their partners propose convening a distinguished group of approximately 200 experts from academic, military, governmental, and international institutions to examine how best to prepare commanders, military units and governments to plan for and conduct complex, multi-dimensional stability campaigns in this new environment.
[erindanet Blog] No, Iraq is not like Vietnam-Yes, Iraq is like Vietnam: Iraq- Islamofascists slowly increased worldwide terrorist attacks against the US and other western governments. After 9/11 President Bush justified a full-scale war based on Iraqi support of al-Qaeda and Iraqi possession and historic use of weapons of mass destruction.
[SWJ Blog] 12 June SWJ News, Op-Ed, Blog, and Events Roundup: An internal UN investigation has sharply criticized the head of the organization's "good governance" division, finding he has diverted funds donated by the Greek government to improperly pay contractors and mismanaged a $2.8 million trust fund meant to foster transparency and accountability. The report by the Procurement Task Force of the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) suggests that Guido Bertucci, director of the UN Division for Public Administration and Development Management (DPADM), personally reimburse the trust fund for misused funds and be reprimanded for favoritism and other violations in hiring consultants.
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