Bush planned Iraq invasion before 9/11.

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Bush planned Iraq invasion before 9/11.
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Sun, 01-11-2004 - 11:31am
In new book, ex-Treasury secretary criticizes administration.

>"The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes."<


CBS already has the complete discussion on their 60 Minutes site..............


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/01/09/60minutes/main592330.shtml


 >"O'Neill, who served nearly two years in Bush's Cabinet, was asked to resign by the White House in December 2002 over differences he had with the president's tax cuts. O'Neill was the main source for "The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill," by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind."<


>"Suskind cited a Pentagon document titled "Foreign Suitors For Iraqi Oilfield Contracts," which, he said, outlines areas of oil exploration. "It talks about contractors around the world from ... 30, 40 countries and which ones have what intentions on oil in Iraq.""<


>"O'Neill also said in the book that President Bush "was like a blind man in a roomful of deaf people" during Cabinet meetings.


One-on-one meetings were no different, O'Neill told the network.


Describing his first such meeting with Bush, O'Neill said, "I went in with a long list of things to talk about and, I thought, to engage on. ... I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening. It was mostly a monologue.""<


Quotes are from article at the link below..............


 http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/index.html


Very interesting!

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Registered: 04-16-2003
Tue, 01-27-2004 - 11:11am
I really don't know what Bush's intentions were toward Iraq prior to 9/11. However, he aligned himself with the neo-cons and placed them in a position to carry out their plans. Thus, even though Iraq wasn't directly linked to 9/11 Bush wasted little time in directing his attentions toward Iraq--urged on by Chenney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz.

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 01-27-2004 - 11:21am
Iraq gave him good reason to take notice.

They had been in violation of at least 20 UN resolutions for over a decade.

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Registered: 04-16-2003
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 10:44am
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True, but who put the US in charge of enforcing UN resolutions. By the way, given recent discoveries the restrictions were working. Iraq was not a threat to America.


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 1:58pm
If you read some of the resolutions, the wording of the resolutions did just that.

Some of the more strict ones give any member state the use of whatever means necessary to enfore the resolution. I think that wording (I dont have the actual text, but it is the same point) actually appears in resolution 1441.

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Registered: 07-25-2003
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 2:34pm
Actually, David Kay said that Iraq was more dangerous then we ever supposed. You really shouldn't just rely on headlines for your news.

Renee

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Registered: 07-25-2003
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 2:34pm
You're right. It's always been up to individual states to act on UN resolutions like the US has always done in the past.

Renee

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 4:07pm
I've read that statement by Kay, but either he doesn't elaborate or the press didn't carry his explanation.

"I must say I actually think Iraq -- what we learned during the inspections -- made Iraq a more dangerous place potentially than in fact we thought it was even before the war," Kay added. "

http://www.salon.com/news/wire/2004/01/25/kay/

I'm not buying it. The only thing that's potentially more dangerous is that our attack has knocked some materials loose, so to speak, and now they could be anywhere. If that's what he's refering to, then the war actually made the situation more dangerous.

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Registered: 07-25-2003
Wed, 01-28-2004 - 6:18pm
Here is his full statement (which you, no doubt will not 'buy' either):

Dr. Kay said he believed that Iraq was a danger to the world, but not the same threat that the Bush administration publicly detailed.

"We know that terrorists were passing through Iraq," he said. "And now we know that there was little control over Iraq's weapons capabilities. I think it shows that Iraq was a very dangerous place. The country had the technology, the ability to produce, and there were terrorist groups passing through the country — and no central control.

Dr. Kay said the C.I.A. missed the significance of the chaos in the leadership and had no idea how badly that chaos had corrupted Iraq's weapons capabilities or the threat it raised of loose scientific knowledge being handed over to terrorists. "The system became so corrupt, and we missed that," he said."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/26/international/middleeast/26KAY.html?pagewanted=2&hp

Renee

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Thu, 01-29-2004 - 10:12am
Thanks for posting the elaboration.

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