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[Finance Blog] Asked if he turned the conversation inside the administration to Iraq in the wake of 9/11, Rumsfeld said “absolutely not.”

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[zero hedge - on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero] Rumsfeld Lies About Iraq and the War on Terror ... Again | zero hedge: "Whereas the efforts of international weapons inspectors, United States intelligence agencies, and Iraqi defectors led to the discovery that Iraq had large stockpiles of chemical weapons and a large scale biological weapons program, and that Iraq had an advanced nuclear weapons development program that was much closer to producing a nuclear weapon than intelligence reporting had previously indicated."  [Emphasis added.]

[naked capitalism] Guest Post: Rumsfeld Lies About Iraq and the War on Terror ”¦ Again ...: Allowing the likes of Saddam, or his even more psychopathic sons Uday or Qusay, or whomever was adept enough in the Iraqi high command to overthrow them, to control such wealth and have the power that it brings was something that no hegemonic state like the US was likely to tolerate. Especially with sanctions failing and the moment of global peak oil approaching (recall that in 1999 Cheney had forecast that peak oil would arrive in 2008).

[Equity Help Desk - Published news] Rumsfeld Lies About Iraq and the War on Terror ... Again | Equity ...: Feith's book, War and Decision, released last month, provides excerpts of the paper Rumsfeld sent to President George W Bush on September 30, 2001, calling

[Exposing & Fighting Against Global Anti-Semitism & Anti-Jewish Racism] Rumsfeld Lies About Iraq and the War on Terror ”¦ Again | zero ...: and instability in Iraq , Iran, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Lebanon; the goal was never really to destroy Al Qaeda.

[Bullfax.com - Market News & Analysis] Rumsfeld's View of the White House | www.bullfax.com: Former top US diplomat Condoleezza Rice voiced regret on Friday at the bloody aftermath of the 2003 invasion of Iraq but said the Bush administration had in the end "got it right" in the country.Rice, who served as national security advisor during the Iraq invasion and later as secretary of state, was unrepentant about the ouster of Saddam Hussein."I would many times over liberate Iraq again from Saddam Hussein. I think he's a danger to the Middle East," she said in a speech at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, when asked what she thought she had got wrong.

[Signs of the Times] Rumsfeld: Bush ordered invasion of Iraq war just 15 days after 9 ...: In his autobiography scheduled to be released on February 8, Rumsfeld writes that 15 ."Two weeks after the worst terror attacks in our nation's history, those of us in the Department of Defense were full occupied," but Bush called for a "creative" option for invading Iraq, The Huffington Post reported on Thursday.

[SodaHead - MAMMY51 "In God We Trust"'s Answers & Comments] Should Donald Rumsfeld Apologize for the Iraq War?: Considering Rumsfeld was IN Iraq for talks with Saddam when chemical weapons were first deployed during the Iran/Iraq war, I thought it would be interesting to put up THIS link to an excerpt from former US Army Weapons Inspecter Dave Debatto's ....

[Guernica / Blog] Guernica / Tom Engelhardt: Pox Americana: Driving Through the ...: As a start, from Pakistan to North Africa, the Bush administration’s Global War on Terror, along with its support for thuggish rule in the name of fighting al-Qaeda, helped radicalize the region. (Remember, for instance, that while Washington was pouring billions of dollars into the American-equipped Egyptian Army and the American-trained Egyptian officer corps, Bush administration officials were delighted to enlist the Mubarak regime as War on Terror warriors, using Egypt’s jails as places to torture terror suspects rendered off any streets anywhere.)

[War in Context] Tom Engelhardt: Pox Americana ”” War in Context: “All who oppose a dictator are terrorists and terrorist supporters.” A dictator runs a police state with over 1.5 million security personnel for a population of about 80 million, while he enriches himself and his cronies with tens of billions dollars all with the financial help of the US. Mubarak calls any major opposition such as the Muslim Brotherhood “terrorists” to the lauded applause of the US and Israel.

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