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BRAD BLOG: Letter Queries Rumsfeld on Attacks Prior to Iraq War!

Letter Queries Rumsfeld About U.S. Military Attacks Prior to Approval of War on Iraq
Congressman Calls Latest Report: 'The smoking bullet in the smoking gun'


In regards to what John Conyers over the weekend reportedly described as "the smoking bullet in the smoking gun", a letter has just been sent to Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, asking questions about the recent reports that the U.S. and U.K. stepped up their air attacks in the Iraqi "No-Fly-Zone" prior to the war in "an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war."

This latest information on the covert way in which the Bush Administration may have pushed the world towards war is based on a new report from Rupert Murdoch's London Times which reported over the weekend that "despite the lack of an Iraqi reaction, the air war began anyway in September with a 100-plane raid."

These actions would have been taken by the Bush and Blair administrations prior to approval from either either the U.S. Congress or the U.N...

FULL STORY, TEXT OF CONYERS' LETTER:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001433.htm

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