Blogger’s FOIA request reveals new insight into Iraq War.

[Blue State Bandit]

On February 10th, a blogger at outragedmoderates.org received the notes from meetings held by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in the hours after the attacks on 9/11. The note, penned by DoD staffer Steven Cambone and obtained thru a Freedom of Information request, verifies Bob Woodward’s assertions in his book, “Plan of Attack”. Contrary to Bush administration claims that they were not pre-disposed with Iraq before 9/11, these newly obtained documents prove that the attacks of 9/11 were used as a pre-text to invade Iraq.

These notes, referred to, but not quoted in the 9/11 Commission Report are in direct conflict with the commission’s assertions that Wolfowitz alone, and not Rumsfeld or Bush, was the one pre-occupied with using 9/11 as a reason to invade Iraq in the hours and days following the attacks. (Commission Report pgs. 334-336)

As it was sparsely reported in the media before and after the invasion of Iraq, and in Woodward “Plan of Attack”, published in April of 2004, the plans for Iraq were well under way well before the attacks of 9/11. Varying accounts are available as to why the Neo-Cons and the Bush administration were fixated on invading Iraq, and I will not pretend to know the particulars of exactly why this pre-disposition existed in the first place, but these documents confirm that more members of the Bush administration had “Iraq on the brain” than they would like to admit.


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http://pleonexiabeyondhubris.blogspot.com/2006/02/bloggers-foia-request-reveals-new.html

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1. the 9/11 Ommission Report

the truth will come out one day

[Blue State Bandit]

2. That's a tough book to get a hold of.