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 [Guardian.co.uk] Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Cheney is still paid by ...: Halliburton, the Texas company which has been awarded the Pentagon's contract to put out potential oil-field fires in Iraq and which is bidding for postwar construction contracts, is still making annual payments to its former chief executive, the vice-president Dick Cheney.

[Juancole.com] Informed Comment : 08/01/2004 - 08/31/2004: The members of the alleged military campaign included both Iraq and Iran and was, according to the documents, being orchestrated through the Nigerien [note: that's not the same as Nigerian] Embassy in Rome, which all struck the analyst as "completely implausible." Because the stamp on this document matched the stamp on the uranium document [the stamp was supposed to establish the documents bona fides], the analyst thought that all of the documents were likely suspect. The analyst was unaware at the time of any formatting problems with the documents or inconsistencies with the names or dates.

 [Afterdowningstreet.org] AfterDowningStreet.org | Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!: Army Major General John Batiste sounded like a big fan of Donald Rumsfeld's when the Pentagon chief dropped by the 1st Infantry Division in Tikrit on Christmas Eve 2004. "This is a man with the courage and the conviction to win the war on terrorism," Batiste told a gathering of 250 G.I.s.

[Justinlogan.com] JustinLogan.com: What Is the Plan If There's Another 9/11?: They are not going to touch Iran.They have just handed the future of Iraq over to proxies of Iran - thus dooming that country to decades more of suffering - and they knew what they were doing.Although they may not have guessed how horribly their invasion would turn out, they have read Bernard Lewis, they have long boosted Ambassador William H Sullivan's pro-Shi'ite Islamist assessment of 1979, they knew about the Iranian connections of their darling Ahmed Chalabi and most of their other favorites.There may have been those in the Bush administration who would have liked to try to impose a plan on Iraq which would have respected Iraq's modern history and preserved its integrity and secular government, but the realists and the neocons must have known that the US was opening Pandora's box, and under those circumstances only the more primitive political movements centered around religious seperatism, especially that controlled by the Shi'ite clerical hierarchy, would thrive.

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