Paul O'Neil wrote a damn book on Bush IRAQ attack plans...8.5 mos b4 911

[cthrumatrix]

what the hell else does America need to know....

they laid out Iraq maps (with oil fields marked off) 8.5 months

before 911 in thier first Cabinet Meeting.

This is written in Paul O'Neils book last year:
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Bush planned Iraqi invasion pre-Sept. 11 - report
Reuters, 01.10.04, 12:56 PM ET


NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill charges in a new book that President Bush entered office in January 2001 intent on invading Iraq and was in search of a way to go about it.

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The former treasury secretary and other White House insiders gave Suskind documents that in the first three months of 2001 revealed the Bush administration was examining military options for removing Saddam Hussein, CBS said.

"There are memos," Suskind told CBS. "One of them marked 'secret' says 'Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq."'

Another Pentagon document entitled "Foreign suitors for Iraqi Oil Field Contracts" talks about contractors from 40 countries and which ones have interest in Iraq, Suskind said.



BENT ON WAR

O'Neill was also quoted in the book as saying the president was determined to find a reason to go to war and he was surprised nobody on the National Security Council questioned why Iraq should be invaded.

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http://www.forbes.com/home_europe/newswire/2004/01/10/rtr1205827.html


What else does "ANYONE" need to know?

[BlueEyedSon]

1. I believe Richard Clarke said the same thing in his book....?

[cthrumatrix]

2. all this crap was before the DSM ... and the media fails to draw

any previously DOCUMENTED meetings to show Bush intent before 911...amazing

[mediaman007]

3. No one cares...

They got a tax cut...They are getting a Gay Marriage Amendment...They are getting rid of Social Security and Medicare...The war is being fought by mercenaries and foreigners.

Nothing to see...move on now!

[cthrumatrix]

4. you forgot flag burning amendment and run away bride movie to come

[CrispyQ]

5. Evidently the secret memo titled

"Plan for Post-Saddam Iraq" was blank.

[cthrumatrix]

9. everything they do has a reason.... why the reason for no post war plan?

[H2O Man]

6. I posted a thread two days ago

on Bolton, that highlighted this. In fact, we know that the neocons had sent President Clinton a letter in 1998, demanding that the US military remove Saddam.

I think that people on the democratic left need to continue the grassroots level activities that clarify this for the general public. We cannot assume that: they don't care; or that they remember all of the things that DUers do.

Everyone should be writing a LTTE of a local/regional newspaper on this topic. It's far more important that there be LTTE in small-town American newspapers at this time, than in the WP or NYT.

[Nihil]

7. The only way you're going to reach "the American public" ...

... is by buying a couple of top sports teams and putting your message
in words of one syllable on their kit. Even then you'll have to put
a cartoon in each advert to explain the longer words.

No-one reads books.

No-one reads anything other than the front page, the TV pages and the
sport pages.

You are not just fighting against the PNAC strategy, you are fighting
against the overwhelming stupidity, ignorance and apathy of the people.

[cthrumatrix]

8. well ...this is why we have TWO parties for checks and balances

the democracts better start "checking and balancing". The data is

there... Kerry had access to this info during the campaign.

[cthrumatrix]

10. special thanks to Paul O'Neil for exposing Bush

[Johonny]

11. You want me to READ?

Damn it man I only read 1 book a year and I got this Hillary book with Lesbians in it to read first. You'll just have to wait.

[NYCGirl]

12. Even BOB WOODWARD said the same thing in one of his books! NT